Originally Authored at TheFederalist.com
Visitors in Washington, D.C. should be careful in the hallways between the House and Senate chambers of the U.S. Capitol; there may be a slippery trail of slime as, after more than 20 years in the House, former U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff has already moved to the Senate.
Incredibly, California voters gave the deceptive Democrat a promotion, even after Schiff was censured by the U.S. House in June 2023 for “misleading the American public and for conduct unbecoming of an elected member of the House.” The censure called for an ethics investigation into Schiff’s “falsehoods, misrepresentations, and abuses of sensitive information.”
As noted in the censure resolution, Schiff was on the House Intelligence Committee and had access to “sensitive intelligence unavailable to most Members of Congress.” But Schiff abused his colleagues’ trust, claiming he had evidence that then-President Donald Trump colluded with Russia in the 2016 election. He spoke of this evidence often, on television and in hearings, but reports confirmed it “never existed.”
Schiff nonetheless clung to the Russia Collusion lie even after these reports by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz, and Special Counsel John Durham, debunked the Russia narrative.
In 2019, Schiff mischaracterized a phone call between Donald Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump urged Zelensky to investigate Joe Biden’s role in getting rid of a Ukranian prosecutor looking into a company where Hunter Biden was on payroll.
Schiff claimed Trump’s response to Zelensky’s request for further U.S. aid in Ukraine during the call read “like a classic organized crime shakedown.” Then Schiff delivered a creatively reworded reenactment of the call for the congressional record claiming Trump was asking Zelensky to “make up dirt on my political opponent.”
It is a big fat lie. There were no threats from Trump. We know this because Trump released the transcript of the call. Zelensky even said he was not pressured or blackmailed in the call, according to the Wall Street Journal. But that didn’t stop Schiff from leading an impeachment inquiry into Trump. Meanwhile, Trump recognized actual corruption and tried to investigate it.
From the transcript, it appears Zelensky was also concerned about the Biden family’s activities in Ukraine and indicated that investigations would continue.
Not only was there nothing wrong with the call, but it was the kind of frank conversation you would expect two national leaders to have — the kind of conversation President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris are not capable of leading.
Schiff’s lies did not stop there. In a hearing about the chaos at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, “Schiff claimed to have proof that a member of Congress texted former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows to instruct former Vice President Mike Pence to overturn the 2020 presidential election results,” as The Federalist’s Sean Davis previously reported. Schiff lied about the tenor of the message during the hearing and misrepresented it with a doctored graphic in which some of the text’s content had been cut out.
Schiff also made countless media appearances where he pushed falsehoods based on evidence he did not have, claiming Trump was a traitor, colluded with Russia, and effectively stole the 2016 election. The media amplified his rhetoric, and neither Schiff nor the media has apologized for the damage they did to the U.S. by perpetuating the Russia hoax. Some Americans still believe these lies.
If Schiff hadn’t been so hellbent on bringing down Trump, he might have realized that there ought to be an investigation into the Biden family’s dealings in Ukraine.
America is lessened when leaders ignore corruption.
We can hope Schiff will just sit back, and rake in that sweet Senate paycheck, and leave Trump alone. It is what the voters want. But that is not his MO. He has nothing to contribute but interference.
America will be lessened with Adam Schiff in the Senate.
Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an award-winning investigative journalist with decades of media experience.