{"id":990021,"date":"2021-11-09T14:28:44","date_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=990021"},"modified":"2021-11-09T14:28:47","modified_gmt":"2021-11-09T19:28:47","slug":"former-trump-official-confronts-adam-schiff-on-the-view-over-his-promotion-of-steele-dossier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/former-trump-official-confronts-adam-schiff-on-the-view-over-his-promotion-of-steele-dossier\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Trump Official Confronts Adam Schiff On \u2018The View\u2019 Over His Promotion Of Steele Dossier"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fformer-trump-official-confronts-adam-schiff-on-the-view-over-his-promotion-of-steele-dossier%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=990021&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff repeatedly refused to take responsibility for his promotion of the since-debunked Steele Dossier during a Tuesday appearance on \u201cThe View.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Guest co-host Morgan Ortagus, a former State Department spokeswoman, pressed Schiff on his support for the dossier, including his decision to read part of it into the congressional record. Igor Danchenko, former MI6 operative Christopher Steele\u2019s main source for the dossier, was <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/11\/04\/igor-danchenko-arrested-christopher-steele-john-durham-fbi-trump\/\">indicted<\/a> by Special Counsel John Durham on Nov. 4 for allegedly lying to federal officials. <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/04\/22\/adam-schiff-dodge-steele-dossier\/\"><strong>(RELATED: Adam Schiff Is Finally Pressed On The Steele Dossier\u2014He Doesn\u2019t Want To Talk About It)<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Durham also <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/09\/17\/hillary-clinton-lawyer-dnc-michael-sussman-lying-fbi-durham-probe-robert-mueller-trump-russia-collusion\/\">indicted<\/a> a lawyer employed by the Clinton campaign for allegedly lying to an FBI lawyer about the campaign\u2019s role in funding and disseminating the dossier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know the main source for was indicted by the FBI for lying about most of the key claims in that dossier. Do you have any reflections on your role in promoting this to the American people?\u201d Ortagus asked.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhoever lied to the FBI or lied to Christopher Steele should be prosecuted, and they are,\u201d Schiff responded, before pivoting to criticism of the former president.<\/p>\n<p><strong>WATCH:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cUnlike in the Trump administration, if they\u2019re convicted, they should go to jail and not be pardoned. So Donald Trump pardoned Roger Stone for lying. He pardoned Michael Flynn for lying. If people lied to the FBI, they should go to jail, but at the beginning of the Russia investigation, I said that any allegations should be investigated. We couldn\u2019t have known, for example, people were lying to Christopher Steele. So it was proper to investigate them, and let\u2019s not forget what we learned in that investigation. We learned that the Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was giving internal polling data, campaign polling data to Russian intelligence while Russian intelligence was helping the Trump campaign,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe was fired halfway through the campaign,\u201d Ortagus shot back. \u201cYou may have helped spread Russian disinformation yourself for years by promoting this. I think that\u2019s what Republicans and what people who entrusted you as the Intelligence Committee chair are so confused about your culpability in this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his role as House Intelligence Committee chairman, Schiff <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2018\/02\/24\/democrats-dossier-meme-released\/\">released<\/a> a memo defending the FBI\u2019s decision to seek a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court warrant against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, arguing that federal agents received corroborating evidence and did not rely solely on the Steele Dossier for the warrant. Those assertions were <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2019\/12\/10\/devin-nunes-adam-schiff-memos-doj-ig-fisa-report\/\">disproved<\/a> by an inspector general report released in 2019.<\/p>\n<p>Schiff also attempted to interview Steele about the dossier. He <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2017\/08\/06\/adam-schiff-wants-to-meet-with-ex-spy-who-wrote-trump-dossier-video\/\">claimed<\/a> that the ex-spy had \u201cvery relevant information\u201d and offered to speak with him in \u201ca cooperative way.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Democratic California Rep. Adam Schiff repeatedly refused to take responsibility for his promotion of the since-debunked Steele Dossier during a Tuesday appearance on \u201cThe View.\u201dGuest co-host Morgan Ortagus, a former &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-990021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=990021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/990021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=990021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=990021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=990021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}