'Stooges and sycophants': Adam Schiff skewers Republicans still following felon Trump

After a bruising hearing where Attorney General Merrick Garland faced a barrage of GOP-led accusations that the Justice Department had been supposedly weaponized against former President Donald Trump, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) shredded Republicans whom he said were doing Trump's dirty work.

"I watched this spectacle on [sic] the GOP side, that in the beginning there were a few people who stood up to [Trump] in some way, shape, or form," Schiff, a candidate for Senate, said during an appearance on MSNBC's "The Last Word" with Lawrence O'Donnell. "They are all going or gone and all we are left with is the stooges and sycophants. That is what you saw on the committee today: there is no level below which they will not sink to defend Donald Trump, which underscores again why we cannot allow that convicted felon in the Oval Office because there will be no restraint on him by any of his own party in that kind of a racketeering administration or in Congress."

Garland was hammered for not releasing tapes of President Joe Biden's interview conducted by special counsel Robert Hur.

“Many Americans believe there’s now a double standard in our justice system," Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said during the hearing.

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However, Schiff left the hearing feeling hopeful that if Trump fails to become the 47th president, then the mindset of the Republican Party can shift away from MAGA.

"I think when Donald Trump leaves the stage for good — and I hope and pray it is in November — I think the Republican party decides to move on," he said. "That they lost with him over and over and over again and if not for the sake of our country, then for the sake of their own party they need to move on."

He predicts there will be "Trump imitators" who will rise in his place, but he said none of them "will have his gift at grift."

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