{"id":991306,"date":"2021-11-09T19:28:47","date_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:28:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=991306"},"modified":"2021-11-09T19:28:51","modified_gmt":"2021-11-10T00:28:51","slug":"fmr-trump-official-ortagus-to-schiff-your-credibility-is-diminished-you-spread-russian-disinformation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fmr-trump-official-ortagus-to-schiff-your-credibility-is-diminished-you-spread-russian-disinformation\/","title":{"rendered":"Fmr Trump Official Ortagus to Schiff: \u2018Your Credibility\u2019 Is Diminished &#8212; You Spread Russian Disinformation"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Ffmr-trump-official-ortagus-to-schiff-your-credibility-is-diminished-you-spread-russian-disinformation%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=991306&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/11\/Morgan-Ortagus-640x335-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus challenged&nbsp;Rep. Adam Schiff\u2019s (D-CA) \u201ccredibility\u201d Tuesday on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortagus, appearing as a guest host, asked Schiff, \u201cI want to ask you about something that\u2019s in the news a lot right now. You have been really prolific over the past few years being the head of the Intel Committee. You defended and promoted and even ran into the congressional record of the Steele dossier. We know the main source of the dossier was indicted for 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<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Schiff replied, \u201cFirst of all, whoever lied to the FBI or Christopher Steele should be prosecuted, and they are. And unlike 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 lie to the FBI, they should go to jail.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He continued, \u201cLet\u2019s not forget what we learned in that investigation. We learned that the Trump campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was giving internal polling data \u2014 campaign polling data \u2014 to Russian intelligence while Russian intelligence was helping the Trump campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortagus said, \u201cTo be clear, he was fired halfway through the campaign.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Schiff shot back, \u201cWell, he may have been fired but the effort to get Russian help continued.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortagus interjected, \u201cYou have spread Russian disinformation yourself for years by promoting this. I think that\u2019s what Republicans and people who entrusted you as the Intel Committee chair are so confused about your culpability in all this.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schiff responded, \u201cI completely disagree with your premise. It\u2019s one thing to say allegations should be investigated, and they were. It\u2019s another to say that we should have foreseen in advance that some people were lying to Christopher Steele, which is impossible, of course, to do. But let\u2019s not use that as a smokescreen to somehow shield Donald Trump\u2019s culpability for inviting Russia to help him in the election, which they did; for trying to coerce Ukraine to help him in the next election, which he did; into inciting an insurrection, which he did. None of that is undercut, none of that serious conduct is in any way diminished by the fact that people lied to Christopher Steele.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ortagus said, \u201cNo, I think just your credibility is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Schiff said, \u201cI think the credibility of your question is in doubt.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow Pam Key on Twitter <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pamkeyNEN\">@pamkeyNEN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former State Department spokeswoman Morgan Ortagus challenged\u00a0Rep. Adam Schiff\u2019s (D-CA) \u201ccredibility\u201d Tuesday on ABC\u2019s \u201cThe View.\u201d Ortagus, appearing as a guest host, asked Schiff, \u201cI want to ask you about &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"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-991306","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\/991306","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=991306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/991306\/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=991306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=991306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=991306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}