Senator Adam Schiff complained during a recent interview that former Attorney General Merrick Garland had not done enough to prosecute President Donald Trump, and claimed that the reason was Garland&#8217;s unwillingness to be seen as a partisan actor.
Schiff argued that Garland had intentionally slow-walked efforts made by then-President Joe Biden&#8217;s Justice Department to prosecute Trump — in cases that stretched across multiple jurisdictions — because he was taking precautions to ensure that those prosecutions were not partisan in nature.
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Adam Schiff laments that Trump wasn’t prosecuted fast enough to be put in prison. He blames Garland for being just too darned non-partisan:
“He wanted to restore the reputation of the department for strict non-partisanship. And that made him very reluctant. Too reluctant.&#8221; <a href="https://t.co/jpmVZMLnBj">pic.twitter.com/jpmVZMLnBj</a>
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Schiff, during a lengthy conversation with The New Yorker&#8217;s David Remnick, effectively complained that Garland&#8217;s &#8220;reluctance&#8221; to prosecute Trump had kept him out of prison long enough for him to win reelection.
&#8220;I hear all the time how the Justice Department under Merrick Garland, under that horrible partisan Merrick Garland, was so weaponized against Donald Trump. And that&#8217;s a complete fiction of fabrication,&#8221; Schiff insisted.
&#8220;Do you feel that Merrick Garland moved too slowly, too cautiously?&#8221; Remnick asked.
&#8220;I absolutely do. Yeah. And this is the irony of it, of attacking Merrick Garland, which is they moved with alacrity against the foot soldiers who broke into the Capitol that day,&#8221; Schiff complained. &#8220;They moved not at all for entire year against the higher-ups.&#8221;
&#8220;Why did Merrick Garland move so slowly?&#8221; Remnick pressed. &#8220;What about his character or tactics or strategy led him to behave that way?&#8221;
&#8220;The Justice Department in the first Trump was abused and made partisan, and he wished to restore the Department&#8217;s reputation for independence. Now, what they did in the first Trump Justice Department is peanuts compared to today,&#8221; Schiff insisted. &#8220;But nevertheless, Merrick Garland wanted to restore the reputation of the Department for strict non-partisanship. And that made him very reluctant to pursue an investigation of the President, too reluctant.&#8221;
Schiff then pinned the blame on the Supreme Court, arguing that Garland&#8217;s lack of urgency had given the court time to throw out additional roadblocks. His overall assessment was that Garland may have had the right idea, but that his execution had created a buffer zone around Trump that actually helped him prevail.
&#8220;Ultimately that gave the Supreme Court the time it needed to drag things out further and make the case against Trump go away completely when it could have been brought to fruition,&#8221; he added. &#8220;And we might be in a very different place today, but I think it was that laudable aim that taken too far amounted to a kind of immunity for the President.&#8221;

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Adam Schiff Complains That Merrick Garland Wasn’t Partisan Enough

Adam Schiff Complains Merrick Garland Wasn't Partisan Enough

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Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) ran defense on Sunday morning for the narcoterrorists targeted in a recent military strike, describing them to &#8220;Meet the Press&#8221; host Kristen Welker as &#8220;shipwreck survivors.&#8221;
Schiff joined a wide array of elected Democrats and media talking heads who have continued to push the narrative that President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration — War Secretary Pete Hegseth in particular — had taken illegal actions either in targeting narcoterrorists in the first place or in the recent &#8220;double tap&#8221; (second strike) on a boat that was disabled, but not destroyed by the first hit.
Schiff shared video of the exchange, along with his own caption: &#8220;The killing of shipwrecked survivors at sea is a textbook violation of the laws of war. If Hegseth is so proud of the killing of these survivors, the Pentagon should release the full video, just like they have with other boat strikes. The American people deserve full transparency and accountability.&#8221;
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The killing of shipwrecked survivors at sea is a textbook violation of the laws of war.
If Hegseth is so proud of the killing of these survivors, the Pentagon should release the full video, just like they have with other boat strikes.
The American people deserve full… <a href="https://t.co/ABerq9vNPc">pic.twitter.com/ABerq9vNPc</a>
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Welker began with a simple question about whether or not the boat strikes were legal in the first place — and Schiff said he believed they were not.
&#8220;They&#8217;re unlawful, they&#8217;re unconstitutional, and killing two people who are shipwrecked at sea is also morally repugnant,&#8221; Schiff said, adding that he believed the United States should explore legal avenues to stop the flow of drugs into the country — but he did not believe the current path was legal.
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He called on War Secretary Hegseth to release video of the strike in question, arguing that the people should be able to see what had transpired. &#8220;I can&#8217;t imagine people would be proud of that,&#8221; he added.
Throughout the less-than-two-minute clip, Schiff referred to narcoterrorists as &#8220;shipwrecked survivors&#8221; at least three times, making no move to explain how they had come to be &#8220;shipwrecked&#8221; in the first place — or what they had been doing on a boat that was being used to traffic illegal narcotics.

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Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) claimed that the Department of Justice under former President Joe Biden could not possibly have been “weaponized” because Biden’s Attorney General, Merrick Garland, was not a particularly partisan actor.
Schiff spoke on Saturday at the Texas Tribune Festival, and he mocked his Republican colleagues in Congress — some of whom were actively targeted by Biden’s DOJ — saying that it was “absurd” to believe that Garland would oversee a Justice Department driven by politics.
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Adam Schiff: It’s “absurd&#8221; to say that the Biden DOJ was weaponized, because Merrick Garland wasn’t known as a partisan.
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“I listened in the Judiciary Committee to a lot of my colleagues across the aisle rail with just the most righteous indignation about the horrible weaponization of the Justice Department under that well-known partisan Merrick Garland,” Schiff began, his tone already mocking, prompting laughter around the room.
“And it was so fanciful as to be absurd, but they speak it with what appears to be total conviction,” he claimed, shifting his tone to convey shock. “And I don’t know, maybe they&#8217;re better actors than they used to be, or maybe they&#8217;ve so internalized the talking points that they&#8217;ve persuaded themselves …”
Schiff also raised eyebrows with other comments he made at the Texas Tribune Festival, particularly when he argued that lawmakers should not destroy presidents or make them “<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/adam-schiff-claims-lawmakers-shouldnt-use-politics-to-destroy-presidents">unsuccessful</a>” simply because it was “good politics.”
“That attitude that you can make a president or a party unsuccessful, no matter what damage it might do to the country, because it’s good politics — we have to get past that ruinous idea,” the California senator said. “We have to figure out a way to stop viewing each other as our enemy.”
Critics, of course, quickly pointed out the fact that Schiff had spent a fair amount of his time and energy devoted to doing just that to President Donald Trump.
Schiff spent most of Trump’s first term telling any media personality who would listen that he had proof of Trump’s “collusion” with Russia — proof that he never delivered. He then served as one of the House Managers during President Trump’s first impeachment in 2019, presenting a case that was so one-sided that it provoked an angry response from George Washington University law professor <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/impeachment-witness-professor-jonathan-turley-congress-committing-high-crime-and-misdemeanor-in-impeachment-without-going-to-courts">Jonathan Turley</a>.

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Schiff Claims Biden’s DOJ Couldn’t Have Been ‘Weaponized’ Because Merrick Garland Wasn’t Partisan

Adam Schiff Says Biden's DOJ Couldn't Be 'Weaponized' Because Merrick Garland Was Not Partisan

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Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) had critics firing back over his recent comments at the Texas Tribune Festival — where he claimed that politicians should not use their power to render presidents or political parties &#8220;unsuccessful&#8221; due to their political differences.
Schiff, who was elected to fill the late Senator Dianne Feinstein&#8217;s (D-CA) seat in 2024, spent the previous 24 years in the House of Representatives — argued that it was a &#8220;ruinous idea&#8221; to allow &#8220;good politics&#8221; to stand in the way of doing the right thing for the American people.
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Adam Schiff: We have to get past the “ruinous idea&#8221; of making presidents unsuccessful because of politics and &#8220;stop viewing each other as our enemy.&#8221;
You can’t make this stuff up. <a href="https://t.co/V4aWcl6qvC">pic.twitter.com/V4aWcl6qvC</a>
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&#8220;That attitude that you can make a president or a party unsuccessful, no matter what damage it might do to the country, because it&#8217;s good politics — we have to get past that ruinous idea,&#8221; he said. &#8220;We have to figure out a way to stop viewing each other as our enemy.&#8221;
&#8220;That solution will come when we figure out how to be better consumers of information and how to determine what&#8217;s true and what&#8217;s not true, how to stop rewarding advertising behemoths for dividing us the way they do,&#8221; he claimed.
Critics quickly called out the California senator, pointing to his own dogged efforts to render Trump &#8220;unsuccessful&#8221; or boot him out of office entirely.
&#8220;Dilbert&#8221; creator Scott Adams posted, &#8220;Schiff’s entire game depends on people not remembering what he said yesterday.&#8221;
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Shiff’s and entire game depends on people not remembering what he said yesterday. <a href="https://t.co/Oli9cg4TcZ">https://t.co/Oli9cg4TcZ</a>
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&#8220;Says the guy who from 2017 through 2019 was seemingly on cable news every day saying he had seen &#8216;direct evidence of Russia collusion,'&#8221; another said.
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Says the guy who from 2017 through 2019 was seemingly on cable news every day saying he had seen “direct evidence of Russia collusion.” <a href="https://t.co/2emxeu0LFU">https://t.co/2emxeu0LFU</a>
— IT Guy (@ITGuy1959) <a href="https://twitter.com/ITGuy1959/status/1989829595974254620?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 15, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;Pot meet kettle,&#8221; Steve Guest summed up the situation.
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Pot meet kettle. <a href="https://t.co/kKSLfPuv6g">https://t.co/kKSLfPuv6g</a>
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Schiff spent most of Trump&#8217;s first term telling any media personality who would listen that he had proof of Trump&#8217;s &#8220;collusion&#8221; with Russia — proof that he never delivered. He then served as manager of President Donald Trump&#8217;s first impeachment in 2019, presenting a case that was so one-sided that it provoked an angry response from George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley.
&#8220;If you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power — it’s your abuse of power,&#8221; Turley said at the time. &#8220;Fast and narrow is not a good recipe for impeachment.&#8221;

Adam Schiff Claims Lawmakers Shouldn’t Use Politics To Destroy Presidents

Adam Schiff Claims Lawmakers Shouldn't Use Politics To Destroy Presidents

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FBI Director Kash Patel unloaded on Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) during a Tuesday hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, calling him a &#8220;political buffoon&#8221; and an &#8220;utter coward&#8221; who was fine with lying to the people as long as he could use it to keep the political donations coming in.
Schiff kicked off the heated exchange with a question about convicted sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell, who is serving time for her crimes related to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, asking about the fact that she&#8217;d recently been moved to a minimum-security facility.
Patel said that the Bureau of Prisons had approved the transfer, but Schiff mentioned Maxwell&#8217;s meeting with Deputy Attorney General Todd Blanche and argued that the timing made the move suspect. &#8220;You want the American people to believe that? Do you think they&#8217;re stupid?&#8221;
&#8220;No, I think the American people believe the truth. That I&#8217;m not in the weeds on the everyday movements of inmates,&#8221; Patel replied. &#8220;What I am doing is protecting this country, providing historic reform, and combating the weaponization of intelligence by the likes of you and we have countlessly proven you to be a liar in Russiagate, in January 6. You are the biggest fraud to ever sit in the United States Senate. You are a disgrace to this institution and an utter coward.&#8221;
Schiff attempted to shout Patel down throughout, pointing his finger and repeating, &#8220;This stinks to high heaven.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised —&#8221; Schiff said.
&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised,&#8221; Patel shot back. &#8220;That you continue to lie from your perch and put on a show so you can go raise money for your charade. You are a political buffoon at best.&#8221;
&#8220;I&#8217;m not surprised &#8230; You can take — you can make an internet troll the FBI Director, but he will always be nothing more than an internet troll,&#8221; Schiff insisted, smiling.
&#8220;All you care about is a child sex predator who was prosecuted by a prior administration, and the Obama Justice Department and the Biden Justice Department did squat, and what did President Trump do? Bring new charges, courageously. And what have we done?&#8221; Patel continued. &#8220;Thirty-three thousand pages of information &#8230; Go ahead and run to the cameras, where you want to go now.&#8221;

Kash Patel Just Ended Adam Schiff: ‘Go Ahead And Run To The Cameras’

Kash Patel Just Ended Adam Schiff: 'Go Ahead And Run To The Cameras'

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President Donald Trump posted edited and AI-generated videos on Truth Social Wednesday night, mocking Democrats such as California Governor Gavin Newsom, Illinois Governor JB Pritzker, and California Senator Adam Schiff.
Trump also posted two videos celebrating Cracker Barrel&#8217;s decision to forego changing its logo after backlash from customers and a phone call with the president. Trump&#8217;s social media blast began just after 10:00 p.m. ET Wednesday, when he posted a short clip of Sen. Schiff speaking on NBC&#8217;s &#8220;Meet the Press.&#8221; The video of Schiff, whom Trump calls &#8220;Pencil Neck,&#8221; was edited to make the senator&#8217;s neck extremely long.
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Around 15 minutes later, Trump posted a video of himself dancing while a CNN host talks about <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/leftists-panic-even-nyt-says-democrats-face-voter-registration-crisis">massive losses</a> for Democrats and gains for Republicans with voter registration.
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At 9:20 p.m., the president posted a video showing a pole vaulter with his head superimposed, soaring over a banner featuring the new Cracker Barrel logo. In the video, poll vaulter Trump rips down the new logo to reveal a banner with the traditional &#8220;Uncle Herschel&#8221; Cracker Barrel imagery. Trump also posted a video that had been going around X last week, showing the president dancing to &#8220;Y.M.C.A.&#8221; with Uncle Herschel.
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Trump then ripped into Democrats with multiple posts, including an AI-generated video showing Governor Pritzker sumo wrestling with former New Jersey Republican Governor Chris Christie, set to the &#8220;Chariots of Fire&#8221; theme in the background. Trump and Pritzker have traded barbs over the past week as the president mulls deploying the National Guard to Chicago to address the city&#8217;s violent crime. Trump&#8217;s son, Eric, posted a <a href="https://x.com/EricTrump/status/1963091795472240874">video</a> on X earlier this week that showed him stepping onto the dohyō against a sumo wrestler.
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The president also went after Governor Newsom. In one video, Newsom&#8217;s head is superimposed on a man who&#8217;s slapping and kicking a punching bag with Trump&#8217;s image on it. The AI-image of Newsom lets out girlish yelps that wouldn&#8217;t be out of place at a Jonas Brothers reunion tour as he serves up dainty palm-slaps.
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Another clip mocking Newsom shows the governor saying that he received &#8220;Trump 2028&#8221; hats in the mail. The video was edited to place one of the hats on Newsom&#8217;s head.
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Trump often rages against Democrats, the legacy media, and sometimes fellow Republicans on Truth Social, but Wednesday night was especially active — even for the president. The meme dump attacking Democrats comes as the party attempts to paint Trump as an authoritarian dictator who is seeking to grab more power by using the military to crack down on crime in big cities.
Newsom&#8217;s press office X account, which has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/gavin-newsom-is-embracing-a-new-social-media-strategy-as-2028-rumors-swirl-trump-parodies">focused</a> on posting memes and rants mocking Trump in recent weeks, posted a picture of an overweight Trump shortly after the president&#8217;s meme rampage on Wednesday night.
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Some on the Left have questioned Trump&#8217;s health after he was diagnosed with a condition that causes swelling in his legs. The president has also been pictured with bruising on his hand. Some people even speculated over the weekend that Trump had died or was suffering from a severe illness.
On Wednesday, Trump <a href="https://abc7.com/post/president-donald-trump-addresses-health-rumors-days-public-events/17729308/">responded</a> to the rumors, saying that he was &#8220;very active over the weekend.&#8221;

Trump Goes On Late-Night Meme Rampage Mocking Democrats

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Senator Adam Schiff was the point person as Democrats strategically leaked classified information aimed at damaging President Donald Trump during his first term in the White House, journalist Catherine Herridge reported on Wednesday.
Herridge cited an FBI report from 2017, recently declassified via current FBI Director Kash Patel, and said that while the name of the person being interviewed was redacted, it appeared to be someone who sat on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
&#8220;According to the FBI report known as a ‘302,’ (name redacted) &#8216;noted Swalwell has been the source of a lot of leaked information and had to be counseled to be more careful,'&#8221; Herridge posted on Tuesday, shortly after obtaining the 266 pages of newly-declassified material.
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NEW I have obtained a newly declassified <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> interview summary from 2017 about intelligence leaks from the Russia probes.
While the interview subject’s name is withheld, it appears to be a member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
According to the FBI… <a href="https://t.co/oGPCXzXtdn">pic.twitter.com/oGPCXzXtdn</a>
— Catherine Herridge (@C__Herridge) <a href="https://twitter.com/C__Herridge/status/1955429663473353151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Early on Wednesday, Herridge added that she&#8217;d reached out to Swalwell for comment and he&#8217;d posted his denials via X.
&#8220;This &#8216;whistleblower&#8217; made this bulls*** up when Trump was President. If they had anything, they would have indicted me. Trump would have done anything to destroy me if he could have. They didn’t indict me. Therefore, they had nothing. What’s next?&#8221; he said.
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This “whistleblower” made this bullshit up when Trump was President. If they had anything, they would have indicted me. Trump would have done anything to destroy me if he could have. They didn’t indict me. Therefore, they had nothing. What’s next? <a href="https://t.co/9LzMIduhra">https://t.co/9LzMIduhra</a>
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) <a href="https://twitter.com/RepSwalwell/status/1955632944468647971?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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But Herridge had more to add — also discovered in the declassified 2017 report was the claim that the leaking of classified information had not been &#8220;a one time thing&#8221; so much as a &#8220;systematic process&#8221; — and that Schiff, who at the time was the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, was the linchpin that held the entire operation together.
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&#8220;Notes would be run up to the ranking member, ADAM SCHIFF, after which a decision was made as to who would leak the information,&#8221; an unnamed FBI agent reportedly said after speaking with a GOP House Intelligence Committee staffer.
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This is the one declassified <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@FBI</a> record you should not miss!
The October 2017 FBI report alleges leaking by democrats on the House Intelligence Committee was “not a one-time thing,” there was a “systematic process.”
“&#8230;notes would be run up to the ranking member, ADAM SCHIFF,… <a href="https://t.co/hpEqgzVfAf">https://t.co/hpEqgzVfAf</a> <a href="https://t.co/0XKTETk0aL">pic.twitter.com/0XKTETk0aL</a>
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Schiff, according to Herridge, responded by calling the claims &#8220;absolutely and categorically false.&#8221;
He also lashed out at President Trump, attempting to shift the attention to the president and any still unreleased files pertaining to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein.
Trump responded to the FBI report early on Wednesday, saying, &#8220;Just out, irrefutable proof that Adam Shifty Schiff &#8216;APPROVED PLAN TO LEAK CLASSIFIED INFORMATION TO DAMAGE DONALD TRUMP.'&#8221;
Schiff protested via X: &#8220;Sorry, Donald. Wrong again. Even Barr’s Justice Department rejected that false smear years ago. But while we are the subject of confidential information, how about releasing those Epstein files? We are still waiting &#8230;&#8221;
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Sorry, Donald. Wrong again.
Even Barr’s Justice Department rejected that false smear years ago.
But while we are the subject of confidential information, how about releasing those Epstein files? We are still waiting… <a href="https://t.co/KJ3XAWrDzW">pic.twitter.com/KJ3XAWrDzW</a>
— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1955690538012725316?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 13, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Herridge: Schiff Ran Point In Democrat Efforts To Strategically Leak Classified Info

Herridge: Schiff Repeatedly Farmed Out Classified Docs For Strategic Leaks

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Democrat Senator Adam Schiff directed the leaking of classified documents to target President Donald Trump and influence public opinion, according to whistleblower claims in newly declassified FBI documents.
A whistleblower who worked for the Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee told the FBI that Schiff had pushed for the leaking of classified documents in a meeting after Trump&#8217;s election in 2016, according to a <a href="https://justthenews.com/sites/default/files/2025-08/Democratic%20HPSCI%20Staffer%20-%20FBI%20Interview%20Notes.pdf">summary</a> of the interview <a href="https://justthenews.com/government/congress/exclusive-democrat-whistleblower-told-fbi-schiff-approved-leaking-classified">obtained</a> by Just the News. Schiff was a major proponent of the discredited narrative that Trump schemed with the Russians to get elected in 2016. 
The whistleblower claimed that Schiff orchestrated a plan to hurt Trump by leaking classified documents, according to the interview.
“In this meeting, SCHIFF stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to President of the United States Donald J. TRUMP. SCHIFF stated the information would be used to Indict President TRUMP,” the FBI memo said. “[Redacted] stated this would be illegal and, upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured [Redacted] that they would not be caught leaking classified information.”
The whistleblower believed that this leaking would be &#8220;unethical,&#8221; &#8220;illegal,&#8221; and “treasonous.”  The whistleblower was later “approached about leaking classified information in a separate meeting by unnamed individuals,” the FBI memo says. 
The interview documents were declassified by FBI Director Kash Patel. 
“We found it. We declassified it,” Patel <a href="https://x.com/FBIDirectorKash/status/1955068719815684196">posted</a> on X. “Now Congress can see how classified info was leaked to shape political narratives — and decide if our institutions were weaponized against the American people.”
Over the course of several years, the whistleblower conducted multiple interviews with the FBI which were then summarized by the agent who conducted the interviews in a series of memos.
In one August 2017 interview, the whistleblower said that Democrats on the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence believed that they could bring down Trump with document leaks to the media. 
“Schiff believed Russia hijacked the election, and the United States was in the middle of a constitutional crisis. Classified information began leaking to the media. The Democratic minority leadership of HPSCI was aware of the leaks but was under the impression that leaking the information was one way to topple the administration and fix the constitutional crisis,” the whistleblower told the FBI. 
In another interview from December 5, 2017, the whistleblower reportedly said that Schiff was &#8220;particularly upset” after the election of Trump because he believed that Hillary Clinton would have appointed him CIA director. 
The whistleblower claimed that Schiff told staff to gather information about Trump and Russia that would “be made public through the media in order to compel public opinion.”
In one instance, the whistleblower noticed that a sensitive document viewed in the summer of 2017 by a few members of the committee “appeared in the news almost verbatim” within 24 hours of its review. 
The whistleblower “suspected that [Rep. Eric Swalwell] played a role in the leak and noted that SWALWELL previously had been warned to be careful because he had a reputation for leaking classified information.”
According to the whistleblower, Schiff believed that the strategy of leaking documents was protected by the speech and debate clause that gives lawmakers immunity for what they say during legislative actions. 
A spokesman for Schiff called the whistleblower allegations not credible.
&#8220;Kash Patel’s latest smear against Senator Schiff is absolutely and categorically false, and is just the latest in a series of defamatory attacks from the President and his allies meant to distract from their plummeting poll numbers and the Epstein files scandal,&#8221; the spokesman said. &#8220;These baseless smears are based on allegations that were found to be not reliable, not credible, and unsubstantiated from a disgruntled former staffer who was fired by the House Intelligence Committee for cause in early 2017, including for harassment and potentially compromising activity on official travel for the Committee.&#8221;
Patel has sent the FBI memos over to Congress for review. 
&#8220;For years, certain officials used their positions to selectively leak classified information to shape political narratives,&#8221; Patel told Just the News on Monday. &#8220;It was all done with one purpose: to weaponize intelligence and law enforcement for political gain.”
This story has been updated with comment from Schiff&#8217;s office.

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Adam Schiff Directed Released Of Classified Info To Target Trump: Whistleblower

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CBS will pull the plug on late-night comedian Stephen Colbert’s “The Late Show” next year in a “purely financial decision,” the network announced on Thursday.
Colbert’s late-night comedy news show will air its final episode in May 2026, according to a statement released by CBS. The announcement marked the end of a nearly 11-year run Colbert has had hosting “The Late Show,” which first began in 1993 under former host David Letterman.
The network said that it is scrapping “The Late Show” franchise and will not move on to another host after Colbert.
“We consider Stephen Colbert irreplaceable and will retire ‘THE LATE SHOW’ franchise at that time. We are proud that Stephen called CBS home. He and the broadcast will be remembered in the pantheon of greats that graced late night television,” CBS said in a statement.
“This is purely a financial decision against a challenging backdrop in late night. It is not related in any way to the show’s performance, content or other matters happening at Paramount,” it continued.
Colbert announced the news from his host chair at the top of his Thursday episode.
“I’m not being replaced. This is all just going away,” Colbert said.
Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff of California, who was a guest on Colbert’s program on Thursday night, suggested on social media that the cancelation of “The Late Show” may be about more than purely “financial reasons.”
“Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled. If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better,” Schiff said in a post on X.
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Just finished taping with Stephen Colbert who announced his show was cancelled.
If Paramount and CBS ended the Late Show for political reasons, the public deserves to know. And deserves better.
&mdash; Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) <a href="https://twitter.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1945991349339042169?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">July 17, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The end of “The Late Show” comes as late-night comedy programming has seen a severe decline in recent years. Colbert’s show has seen a significant <a href="https://fortune.com/2024/10/25/late-night-tv-shows-fading-colbert-leading-late-audience-drop-32/">decline</a>.
CBS saluted Colbert in its statement announcing an end to “The Late Show” after more than three decades.
“The show has been #1 in late night for nine straight seasons; Stephen&#8217;s comedy resonates daily across digital and social media; and the broadcast is a staple of the nation’s zeitgeist,” said CBS. “The accomplishments of ‘THE LATE SHOW with STEPHEN COLBERT’ are memorable and significant in performance, quality and stature. With much gratitude, we look forward to honoring Stephen and celebrating the show over the next 10 months alongside its millions of fans and viewers.”

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President Donald Trump blasted Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Tuesday, calling him a &#8220;crook&#8221; who &#8220;needs to be brought to justice&#8221; after a federal agency sent the Department of Justice a criminal referral over the California Democrat&#8217;s Maryland home.
A senior Trump administration official <a href="https://nypost.com/2025/07/15/us-news/trump-says-sen-adam-schiff-must-be-brought-to-justice-for-mortgage-fraud-after-doj-criminal-referral/">told</a> the New York Post that the referral, sent to the DOJ by the Federal Housing Finance Agency, &#8220;is extremely serious and [Schiff] is not taking it seriously.&#8221; The recommendation for prosecution stems from Schiff designating his Maryland home as his primary residence in 2003. In 2009, he bought a condo in Burbank, California, which he also designated as his primary residence.
&#8220;I have always suspected Shifty Adam Schiff was a scam artist. And now I learn that Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff has engaged in a sustained pattern of possible Mortgage Fraud,&#8221; Trump <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/114857687712359546">wrote</a> on Truth Social.
The first-term senator, who previously served 12 terms in the House, was one of the leading voices pushing the debunked Russia collusion conspiracy targeting President Trump during Trump&#8217;s first term. During the 2024 presidential campaign, Schiff also <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/schiff-hopes-trump-faces-trial-before-election?author=Daniel+Chaitin&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Schiff+Hopes+Trump+Faces+Trial+Before+Election">said</a> he wanted Trump to go to trial before the election, arguing that Trump would attempt to &#8220;evade justice by delaying justice.&#8221;
&#8220;Adam Schiff said that his primary residence was in MARYLAND to get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America, when he must LIVE in CALIFORNIA because he was a Congressman from CALIFORNIA. I always knew Adam Schiff was a Crook,&#8221; the president added. &#8220;The FRAUD began with the refinance of his Maryland property on February 6, 2009, and continued through multiple transactions until the Maryland property was correctly designated as a second home on October 13, 2020. Mortgage Fraud is very serious, and CROOKED Adam Schiff (now a Senator) needs to be brought to justice.&#8221;
Suspicion over Schiff&#8217;s homes arose in 2023 while he was running for Senate after CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/02/politics/adam-schiff-primary-residence-maryland-california">reported</a> that he refinanced his mortgage in 2020 to indicate that his Maryland house was his second home, but according to social media posts, the then-congressman appeared to be still living there full time with his family, and records showed that his son was attending school in Maryland.
By making the California condo his primary residence, Schiff got a $7,000 reduction off the state&#8217;s 1% property tax, but he did not take any tax breaks for his home in Maryland, <a href="https://thenationaldesk.com/news/americas-news-now/schiffs-dual-residency-scrutinized-trump-alleges-mortgage-fraud-in-truthsocial-post">according</a> to The National News Desk. Real estate law experts told CNN in 2023 that Schiff was likely &#8220;in the clear&#8221; due to the &#8220;ambiguous language&#8221; in California law.
Schiff <a href="https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1945138127674220706">responded</a> to Trump&#8217;s post on Tuesday, calling it a &#8220;baseless attempt at political retribution.&#8221;
&#8220;Since I led his first impeachment, Trump has repeatedly called for me to be arrested for treason. So in a way, I guess this is a bit of a letdown,&#8221; he wrote on X.  &#8220;And this baseless attempt at political retribution won’t stop me from holding him accountable. Not by a long shot.&#8221;
&#8220;This is just Donald Trump’s latest attempt at political retaliation against his perceived enemies,&#8221; Schiff <a href="https://x.com/SenAdamSchiff/status/1945138129691705411">added</a>. &#8220;So it is not a surprise, only how weak this false allegation turns out to be. And much as Trump may hope, this smear will not distract from his Epstein files problem.&#8221;

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Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), got into heated exchanges with Senate Democrats on Wednesday over his efforts to save taxpayer dollars at the agency.
Zeldin testified in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday and clashed with Democrats on the committee over his efforts to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.
Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse argued with Zeldin about cuts to the agency. Whitehouse along with other Democratic senators accused the administrator of lying about cuts constituting waste, fraud, or abuse.
A frustrated Zeldin eventually told the senator that the Trump administration is “not going to waste dollars just because you insist on EPA lighting taxpayer dollars on fire.”
“The American taxpayers, they put President Trump in office because of people like you. They have Republicans in charge of the House and Senate because of people like you, because you don&#8217;t care about 99% of this story,” Zeldin said. “You don&#8217;t want me to go through the list of all the evidence of waste and abuse. You don’t care about conflicts of interest. You don’t care about unqualified recipients.”
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Nothing exposes the hypocrisy of Congressional Dems like <a href="https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenWhitehouse</a> more than the cold hard truth about why I terminated their Green Slush Fund Scam and how I have unapologetically implemented a ZERO tolerance policy for ANY waste and abuse. <a href="https://t.co/1yQNlWLU7m">pic.twitter.com/1yQNlWLU7m</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/epaleezeldin/status/1925234661409628461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts repeatedly asked Zeldin to provide a list of “waste, fraud, and abuse,” but interrupted the administrator before he could run through a list of what his staff had found.
“Are you willing to admit here today, Mr. Administrator, that you don&#8217;t have any evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse?” Markey asked.
Zeldin repeatedly said he would be “happy to go through the list.” But Zeldin failed to get more than a few words into his list of waste, fraud, and abuse before the Massachusetts Democrat was “reclaiming” time and talking over the administrator.
“You want to declare there&#8217;s no evidence, but you don&#8217;t want me to go through the list,” Zeldin said.
Markey’s time expired before Zeldin could meaningfully discuss the cuts he has made to the Environmental Protection Agency.
“Never anything but malarkey from the mouth of Ed Markey. The American public is DONE with this double talk, dishonest hackery from these Congressional Democrats,” Zeldin posted on X.
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Never anything but malarkey from the mouth of Ed Markey.
The American public is DONE with this double talk, dishonest hackery from these Congressional Democrats. <a href="https://t.co/sdo0gh8c4K">pic.twitter.com/sdo0gh8c4K</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/epaleezeldin/status/1925264793654505800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In a back-and-forth with California Sen. Adam Schiff, Zeldin took issue with the senator’s characterization of his leadership at the EPA and called Schiff “an aspiring fiction writer.”
“With that wind-up, by the way, I understand you&#8217;re an aspiring fiction writer. I see why,” said Zeldin.
Schiff responded: “Well, I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won&#8217;t affect people&#8217;s health or their water or their air. That, to me, is a big fiction, Mr. Zeldin.”
Schiff’s time expired as he continued to lecture Zeldin. The agency administrator shot back at Schiff later on X: “Aspiring fiction writer @SenAdamSchiff got sad today that I called out a bunch more of his lies. The next time he says something truthful will be the first.”
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Aspiring fiction writer <a href="https://twitter.com/SenAdamSchiff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenAdamSchiff</a> got sad today that I called out a bunch more of his lies. The next time he says something truthful will be the first. 
Regardless, the Trump EPA will tirelessly work on issues affecting his constituents like hazardous waste removal in LA… <a href="https://t.co/WKRaWOnPuC">pic.twitter.com/WKRaWOnPuC</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/epaleezeldin/status/1925247823475363893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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President Donald Trump blistered Democrats in Congress in a Monday morning post on X, citing the latest impeachment filing against him as proof that members of the opposition party had &#8220;lost everything, especially their minds!&#8221;
Trump laid out his thoughts in a lengthy post, arguing that those who would attempt to impeach him — again — were &#8220;total LOWLIFES&#8221; who had no interest in making the country better, only in attacking him for &#8220;cleaning up the MESS&#8221; left behind after four years under former President Joe Biden.
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The Democrats are really out of control. They have lost everything, especially their minds! These Radical Left Lunatics are into the “Impeachment thing” again. They have already got two “No Name,” little respected Congressmen, total Whackjobs both, throwing the “Impeachment” of…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1919396921593958754?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 5, 2025</a></blockquote>
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&#8220;The Democrats are really out of control. They have lost everything, especially their minds! These Radical Left Lunatics are into the &#8216;Impeachment thing&#8217; again,&#8221; Trump began, referencing impeachment articles filed by Rep. Shri Thanedar (D-MI). &#8220;They have already got two &#8216;No Name,&#8217; little respected Congressmen, total Whackjobs both, throwing the &#8216;Impeachment&#8217; of DONALD J. TRUMP around, for about the 20th time, even though they have no idea for what I would be Impeached.&#8221;
Thanedar&#8217;s filing, which came just ahead of the president marking his first 100 days in office, accused Trump of obstruction of justice, abuse of power, violation of power, bribery and corruption, citing the deportation of illegal alien gang member Kilmar Abrego-Garcia to his home country of El Salvador and claiming that the Department Of Government Efficiency (DOGE) was usurping congressional authority. Rep. Al Green (D-TX), who was censured for disrupting Trump&#8217;s address before a joint session of Congress, has also promised to introduce impeachment articles.
Trump went on to offer sarcastic suggestions as to possible reasons he might be facing yet another impeachment filing: &#8220;Maybe it should be for cleaning up the MESS that they left us on the Border, or the Highest Inflation in our Country’s History or, perhaps, it should be the incompetent Withdrawal from Afghanistan, or Russia, Russia, Russia/Ukraine, Ukraine, Ukraine, or the Attack of Israel on October 7th that only proceeded because they allowed Iran to regain Great Wealth.&#8221;
&#8220;These Congressmen stated that, they didn’t know why they would Impeach me but, &#8216;We just want to do it,'&#8221; Trump continued, suggesting that it was the Democrats who were actually guilty of crimes worth addressing. &#8220;The Republicans should start to think about expelling them from Congress for all of the crimes that they have committed, especially around Election time(s). These are very dishonest people that won’t let our Country heal! Why do we allow them to continuously use Impeachment as a weapon against the President of the United States who, by all accounts, is working hard to SAVE OUR COUNTRY.&#8221;
&#8220;It’s the same playbook that they used in my First Term, and Republicans are not going to allow them to get away with it again. These are total LOWLIFES, who hate our Country, and everything it stands for,&#8221; Trump concluded, tossing a barb at Senator Adam Schiff (D-CA) and the last-minute blanket pardon he&#8217;d received from former President Biden. &#8220;Perhaps we should start playing this game on them, and expel Democrats for the many crimes that they have committed — And these are REAL crimes. Remember, &#8216;Shifty&#8217; Adam Schiff demanded a Pardon, and they had to use the power of the Auto Pen, and a Full Pardon, for him and the Unselect Committee of Political Thugs, to save them from Expulsion, and probably worse!&#8221;

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Trump Blisters 'Out Of Control' Democrats Over Latest Impeachment Filing: 'Total Whackjobs'

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