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Adam Schiff got a publishing deal with Penguin Random House for his book about Trump’s first impeachment, according to The Western Journal.
The book is titled “Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could.”
Schiff said, “For all his cynicism and shrewdness, Trump could not have come so close to succeeding if his party had stood up to him, if good people hadn’t been silent, or worse, allowed themselves to become complicit.”
“I wanted to relate the private struggles, the triumphs of courage, but more often, the slow surrender of people I worked with and admired to the shameful immorality of a president who could not be trusted.”
“I wanted to explain my journey from prosecutor to congressman with a reputation for bipartisanship, to liberal lightning rod, scourge of the right and archenemy of a president.”
“What it was like leading the impeachment of a president. And why our democracy became endangered.”
I wanted to share some news with you all:
For the last year, I've been writing a book, "Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could."
It's out October 2021:https://t.co/HrWBW3TGxV
It’s not your typical political memoir.
Here's why: pic.twitter.com/vB9J8sUwzk
— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) April 27, 2021
For all his pugilistic shrewdness, Trump could not have come so close to succeeding if his party had stood up to him.
If good people hadn't been silent, or worse, complicit in his destructive immorality.
We came close to losing our democracy, and we aren't out of the woods yet.
— Adam Schiff (@AdamSchiff) April 27, 2021
Schiff ran a uniquely dishonest and non-tranparent impeachment process specifically designed to shut out legitimate questions about Biden family corruption, so this book should be interesting. https://t.co/ME1MKuJBb7 https://t.co/SZTNiCgGxR
— Mark Hemingway (@Heminator) April 27, 2021
From The Western Journal:
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff has landed a deal with Penguin Random House to publish a book about former President Donald Trump’s first impeachment.
The book, titled “Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could,” is set to be published on Oct. 26.
According to a release shared with Politico, the California Democrat’s book will blame the Republican Party for what he describes as Trump’s ” destructive immorality” while in office.
Schiff led the first impeachment of Trump, which stemmed from a whistleblower report about a July 25, 2019, phone call between the president and his Ukraine counterpart, Volodymyr Zelensky.
During the call, Trump allegedly pressured Zelensky to investigate allegations of corruption involving Democrat Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden, who was paid to serve on the board of the energy company Burisma Holdings while his father served as vice president.
— Advertisement — According to a transcript of the call released by the White House, Trump mentioned to Zelensky that the elder Biden had intervened to stop a prosecutor from looking into the matter.
“There’s a lot of talk about Biden’s son, that Biden stopped the prosecution and a lot of people want to find out about that so whatever you can do with the Attorney General would be great,” he said. “Biden went around bragging that he stopped the prosecution so if you can look into it. … It sounds horrible to me.”
In 2018, Joe Biden recounted an official visit he took to Ukraine in March 2016 during which he pressured then-President Petro Poroshenko to fire Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin or not receive $1 billion in U.S. loan guarantees.
Calls for Trump’s impeachment intensified after The Washington Post reported his call was linked to a decision to temporarily withhold about $400 million in aid to Ukraine.
During the impeachment inquiry, connections between Schiff and the whistleblower were threaded through the controversy.
