Adam Schiff BUSTED, Reportedly Met With Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson Last Year…

Well, well, well. What do we have here?

Remember how former AG Jeff Sessions was essentially forced to recuse himself from the Russia investigation because he briefly met with Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak? Surely, Rep. Adam Schiff should hold himself to the same standard.

As it turns out, he met Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson last year.

Sometimes such scrutiny inevitably turns to questions of hypocrisy.

Which bring us to the issue of some photographs taken at the prestigious Aspen security conference last July.

They show Schiff meeting at the event with Fusion GPS Founder Glenn Simpson, one of the key and most controversial figures in the Russia collusion scandal. Both men insisted to me through spokesmen that they met only briefly last July.

At the time of the encounter, Simpson was an important witness in the House Intelligence Committee probe who had given sworn testimony about alleged, but still unproven, collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

Simpson ran the firm hired by Hillary Clinton’s campaign and the Democratic Party to find dirt on Trump in Moscow. He employed retired British intelligence operative Christopher Steele, whose infamous and unverified dossier became the main evidence for the FBI’s probe of the Trump campaign, particularly the surveillance warrant against Trump campaign adviser Carter Page.

I suppose one could say there was a conflict of interest there, no?

“In the summer of 2018, Mr. Simpson attended a media-sponsored social event where he exchanged small talk with Rep. Schiff and many other people who were in attendance,” Fusion GPS told John Solomon in a statement. “The conversation between the two was brief and did not cover anything substantive. There has been no subsequent contact between Mr. Simpson and Rep. Schiff.”

Shifty Schiff’s response?

The congressman’s response was even more vague: “The chairman did not have any pre-planned meeting with Glenn Simpson, and any conversation with him at the Aspen conference would have been brief and social in nature,” Schiff spokesman Patrick Boland said.

I’m willing to bet it wasn’t just a random, innocent encounter. Either way, shouldn’t Schiff apply the same standards to himself and recuse himself from all matters Trump-Russia related?

Translation: This was just a Forrest Gump-like moment in which the Democrats’ chief defender of the dossier and the man whose firm produced it met serendipitously.

There is nothing illegal or technically improper about a congressman meeting, intentionally or unintentionally, with a witness in an investigation. At least not under the law or the House Intelligence Committee’s rules.

But Schiff created a far higher standard two years ago when he demanded that his Republican counterpart on the committee, then-Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), be investigated for having meetings with national security council officials at the Trump White House without telling the committee. Schiff’s attacks led Nunes to temporarily recuse himself from the Russia probe.

Remember? Schiff was all, “I believe the public cannot have the necessary confidence that matters involving the president’s campaign or transition team can be objectively investigated or overseen by the chairman.”

Cool. Now apply the same rules to yourself.

At this point, this is about Schiff’s WONDROUS display of hypocrisy.

President Trump is all over it.

Schiff’s hypocrisy knows no bounds.

h/t The Hill