When Americans tune in to the afternoon House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence Committee’s probe of special prosecutor Robert Mueller’s report on Russian interference in the 2016 election, there will be one face they should be very familiar with: Chairman Adam Schiff.
Since President Trump moved into the White House, the California lawmaker has been a mainstay on TV, especially left-leaning cable shows, decrying the president and making allegations of Russian meddling on behalf of the Republican.
The Mueller report reveals a Trump campaign eager to get help from a hostile foreign power in a close race, and systemic efforts to cover it up.
Mueller has the opportunity to bring his report to life. Who better to lay out the facts than the man who did the work himself? pic.twitter.com/CK6QIGMhyb
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 21, 2019
According to a Republican National Committee count, Schiff has been on TV talking Trump down practically every other day.
Whether the President warns Putin against interference in our next election is not a private matter between Trump and Putin.
It is a national security imperative and critical to deterring further Russian meddling.
That is, without question, the business of the American people. pic.twitter.com/i7OAPyVAVL
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) June 27, 2019
Since three days after Inauguration Day, Schiff has done 419 TV interviews totaling almost 50 hours (49:39:42 to be exact) “pushing the Russia hoax,” said an RNC official.
When the Russians offered dirt on Clinton in 2016, the Trump campaign enthusiastically accepted.
Today, the President made it clear he would do it all over again, saying everyone does it.
No, they don’t.
Trump does nothing if not project his own lack of ethics onto others. pic.twitter.com/T8uZIBkuIK
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) June 13, 2019
Trump and Schiff have spent two-and-a-half-years firing volleys at each other.
Robert Mueller has one last service to perform, and that is to answer questions for the Congress and American people.
There are any number of questions that we have every right, and the American people have every need, to have answered about his investigation and what he found. pic.twitter.com/HyonnrQLwW
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) June 2, 2019
Most recently, Schiff was on Sunday’s Face The Nation on CBS and suggested Trump should be indicted after leaving office. He said:
“I mean, it’s been clear, you know, from Bob Mueller that he felt and the Justice Department feels bound by this Office of Legal Counsel opinion that you can’t indict a sitting president. But he is a — essentially unindicted co-conspirator. He’s been identified as an Individual One, as the person who directed Michael Cohen to commit this fraudulent campaign scheme. And I assume that all this means, in terms of the Southern District of New York, is that the case will be reopened when he leaves office, providing the statute of limitations has not run, and the Justice Department will have to weigh whether to indict the former president. From my point of view, if the evidence supports that, he should be indicted.”
I would like to thank the Democrats for holding this morning’s hearing. Now, after 3 hours, Robert Mueller has to subject himself to #ShiftySchiff – an Embarrassment to our Country!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 24, 2019
