House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., teased President Trump for breaking the “cardinal rule” of childish insults by changing up nicknames he uses against adversaries, including Schiff himself.
“This is nothing new. We’ve seen these kind of childish nicknames for a year and a half,” Schiff told CNN. “He is violating the cardinal rule of childish nicknames, which is you’ve got to pick one and stick with it.”
Trump has called Schiff a series of names, including “little shifty Schiff” and “little Adam Schitt.” He has also employed the term “little pencil neck Adam Schiff,” a nickname his 2020 campaign has slapped on T-shirts for supporters to purchase.
All of the House Intelligence Committee Republicans called on Schiff to resign as chairman last week because they had “no faith” in his leadership given his repeated assertion there was “more than circumstantial evidence” that Trump colluded with Russia, even after special counsel Robert Mueller concluded there was no conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Kremlin, according to a summary from Attorney General William Barr.
“Despite those findings, you continue to proclaim to the media there is significant evidence of collusion,” Rep. Mike Conaway, R-Texas, said last week.
With the backing of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Schiff has resisted the calls to step down and maintains that the Trump campaign did collude with Russia.
“Undoubtedly, there is collusion,” Schiff recently told the Washington Post. “We will continue to investigate the counterintelligence issues. That is, is the president or people around him compromised in any way by a hostile foreign power?”
“It doesn’t appear that was any part of Mueller’s report,” he said.
