Rep. Adam Schiff, in his closing arguments to the U.S. Senate today, said that if President Trump is not convicted on the charges brought by the House Democrats, the president could give Alaska to the Russians in exchange for helping him win the next election.
The passage is in this 41-second clip from CSPAN:
It’s essentially an idea lifted from New York Times partisan columnist Nicholas Kristof, offered in a January 22 column, in which Kristof asked, rhetorically perhaps:
“Note to Alaska senators Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan: Your thoughts, comrades?”
“Do we really think that there should be no checks on a rogue president as he handed Alaska over to Putin — or Florida to Spain, while we’re at it — or even as he pardoned streams of Republican bank robbers? Must we tolerate an out-of control ruler who engages, in the words of the Declaration of Independence, in ‘a long train of abuses and usurpations‘?”
