Kevin McCarthy thinks Adam Schiff is an extraordinary liar.
The House minority leader made that clear Friday morning in a discussion at the Washington Examiner Political Summit.
McCarthy gave his version of the Democratic leadership’s decision-making process on the impeachment process. In McCarthy’s telling, Speaker Nancy Pelosi has moved impeachment away from the House Judiciary Committee because of Chairman Jerry Nadler’s incompetence and moved it into the Intelligence Committee because of Chairman Schiff’s lack of honesty.
“They took it away from Nadler because they think Nadler’s inept,” McCarthy said. “They gave it to Schiff because he’s more willing to lie, and they put it in Intel so he can hide what’s going on.”
On two other occasions in his talk, McCarthy accused Schiff of lying. McCarthy summed up the findings of the Mueller report as “Schiff lied.” This is an attack Republicans have been making since the full Mueller report failed to produce the evidence of collusion that Schiff repeatedly claimed would be found.
Washington Examiner commentary writer Quin Hillyer, who actually favors impeachment, has argued that Schiff is totally the wrong man for the job — if Democrats actually want an honest impeachment inquiry. David Harsanyi made a similar argument in our magazine’s cover story this week.
