Friday on MSNBC, Rep. Adam Schiff claimed that 50,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus because the Senate failed to remove President Trump from office.
“There is one thing that, really, I have to say haunts me from the trial and it was before that snippet you showed where we knew we had to answer the question to the senators, okay, essentially, ‘House managers, you’ve proved him guilty, does he really need to be removed after all? We have an election in nine months. How much damage could he really do?’…
“And we answered it by saying he could do an awful lot of damage…” Schiff added. “There are 50,000 Americans now who are dead, in significant part because of his incompetence, because of his inability to think beyond himself and put the country first. I don’t think we would have ever anticipated that his brand of narcissism and his brand of incompetence would be so fatal to the American people.”
Contrary to Schiff’s lie, it was the sham, partisan impeachment that distracted the Trump administration from trying to focus on the budding pandemic.