{"id":40960,"date":"2020-01-28T01:20:04","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T01:20:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40960"},"modified":"2020-01-28T01:20:04","modified_gmt":"2020-01-28T01:20:04","slug":"what-do-you-mean-mr-potus-about-schiff-paying-a-price","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40960","title":{"rendered":"What do you mean, Mr. POTUS, about Schiff paying ‘a price’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald John Trump’s Twitter digits are working overtime. Indeed, they have been doing so for, oh, the past three-plus years!<\/p>\n

Now he says U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who is serving as lead manager in the Senate impeachment trial of Trump, will “pay a price” for damaging the country.<\/p>\n

Many folks are concerned<\/a> about the chilling implication. “Pay a price?” What does that mean, Mr. President?<\/p>\n

I guess he means voters in Schiff’s California congressional district will boot him out of office later this year. But he didn’t say what he meant specifically.<\/p>\n

Others have suggested a potential “death threat.” Trump’s allies are defending him, saying no one should ascribe such dire consequence in something the president fires off on Twitter.<\/p>\n

I am just one American who wishes — but long ago quit expecting — Donald Trump to cease the Twitter tantrums\/tirades\/tempests.<\/p>\n

He is on trial in the Senate on allegations that he abused his power and obstructed Congress’s effort to get to the bottom of his abuse of power. It’s all about the Ukraine thing, asking that government for a political favor and withholding military aid until it delivered on the favor, which was an investigation into Joe Biden, a potential 2020 foe of Trump.<\/p>\n

Schiff’s committee took the lead in investigating the allegation. Now he is leading the House managers in prosecuting that case in the Senate.<\/p>\n

It’s all being done constitutionally, legally, according to custom.<\/p>\n

However, Donald Trump is issuing a veiled threat? Via Twitter?<\/p>\n

Knock \u2026 it \u2026 off!<\/p>\n\n

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Donald John Trump’s Twitter digits are working overtime. Indeed, they have been doing so for, oh, the past three-plus years! Now he says U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, who is serving as lead manager in the Senate impeachment trial of Trump, will “pay a price” for damaging the country. Many folks are concerned … Continue reading What do you mean, Mr. POTUS, about Schiff paying ‘a price’?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[7014,1424,2253,8655,4932],"class_list":["post-40960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-adam-schiff","tag-donald-trump","tag-impeachment","tag-senate-trial","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40960"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40962,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40960\/revisions\/40962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}