Hosts of ABC’s The View said Rep. Adam Schiff, the chairman of House Intelligence Committee, should not have tried to make “jokes” of President Trump’s phone call with the Ukrainian president.
“Sometimes the jokes should be left to the comedians,” host Joy Behar said on the Friday show about Schiff’s attempted “parody” of the transcript before a House hearing.
“I think if you have to clarify that it’s a parody, you’ve done it wrong,” host Meghan McCain added. “This is not a time for parody at all. I can’t stand Adam Schiff. I think he’s the worst kind of partisan in Washington.”
Host Abby Huntsman said Schiff should not be the figurehead for impeachment; rather, Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi should take control of impeachment proceedings.
The California Democrat has attempted to defend his “parody” transcript, which was met with criticism by a lot of Republicans.
“My summary of the president’s call was meant to be at least part in parody,” Schiff said Thursday. “The fact that that’s not clear is a separate problem in and of itself. Of course, the president never said, ‘If you don’t understand me, I’m going to say it seven more times.’ My point is that’s the message that the Ukraine president was receiving, in not so many words.”
The Trump administration released a transcript of a call that the president had with the Ukrainian president. In the call, Trump asked the Ukrainian president to investigate Biden over potential corruption. Schiff and Democrats argued that the president had threatened Ukraine’s military aid if they did not open the investigation.
