<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), Trump critic and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, knew about Trump&#8217;s phone call to Ukraine before the original complaint was filed. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Here’s what happened:</span></strong></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">This summer, President Trump phoned the Ukrainian President and suggested </span><span class="s1">he “look into” the Bidens. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">Democrats accused Trump of soliciting Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 election and used the phone call to launch an impeachment probe (a great fundraiser for Trump!). </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">In September, a CIA officer who heard about the call (secondhand) approached a House aide for advice. </span><span class="s1">The aide urged the whistleblower to hire a lawyer and file the complaint through the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. The aide also spoke with Mr. Schiff. </span></p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">“This is a stunning indictment of this impeachment charade,” argues RNC Chairwoman Ronna Romney McDaniel. &#8220;[Schiff] got a heads up on all this. His team then advised the ‘whistleblower’ how to proceed, like getting a Clinton/Schumer lawyer who donated to Biden. Who’s colluding now?”</span></p>
<p class="p1"><strong><span class="s1">Schiff claims he never spoke “directly” with the whistleblower and knew only the “broad outlines” of the allegations against Trump. </span></strong></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">“I think it’s a scandal that he knew before,” said Trump. “I’d go a step further &#8211; I think he probably helped write it.”</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">It’s possible that House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also had prior knowledge of the allegations. Speaking Sunday during a televised interview, she accidentally admitted to knowing the details of Trump&#8217;s phone call: </span><span class="s1">“I know what was in the call,” she said. “I mean, uh, it was in the public domain.”</span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1"><strong>This is more than suspicious, considering a verbatim account of the phone call has not been published.</strong> </span></p>
<p>Last Thursday, Schiff further angered Trump by <span class="s1">mocking the phone call during his opening statement to Congress.</span></p>
<p><span class="s1">“Congressmen Adam Schiff should resign for the crime of, after reading a transcript of my conversation with the President of Ukraine (it was perfect), fraudulently fabricating a statement of the President of the United States and reading it to Congress, as though mine!” tweeted Trump. “He is sick!” </span></p>
<p class="p4"><em><span class="s1">Schiff said the speech was intended as parody. </span></em></p>
<p class="p4"><strong><span class="s1">Author’s Note: </span></strong><span class="s1">This story is bad news for the Democrats. Even if Schiff didn’t know the details, the fact remains: the whistleblower had help (at least advice) from the Democrats. </span></p>
<p class="p4"><span class="s1">That means the attack on Trump was planned, prepared, and orchestrated by Democrats &#8211; a genuine coup attempted by elected officials. Can’t they just wait until next November? </span></p>