A spokesman for Rep. Adam Schiff said the nation’s top intelligence official is twisting the California Democrat’s words to validate President Trump and his allies’ attacks on Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

After Schiff, chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, suggested the revelations found in emails allegedly belonging to Hunter Biden were a “smear” from the Kremlin, Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe accused him of trying to use those in the intelligence community to leverage some kind of political narrative.