Adam Schiff: New report 'confirms what I have been concerned about' in DOJ Trump probes

Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) on Monday reacted with alarm to a new report in the Washington Post showing that the Department of Justice and the FBI dragged their feet for more than a year in launching an investigation into former President Donald Trump's role in inciting the January 6th Capitol riots.

Writing on Twitter, Schiff, who was a member of the House Select Committee investigating the riots, said that the report had validated his fears about slow-walking probes of the former president.

"This Washington Post investigation confirms what I have been concerned about for almost two years: While the DOJ moved quickly to investigate the foot soldiers of the Jan 6 attack, it waited far too long to investigate leaders of the effort to overturn the election," said Schiff.

Schiff is not the only prominent Trump critic to slam the DOJ for not being quicker to probe Trump's efforts to illegally remain in power after losing the 2020 election to President Joe Biden.

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Andrew Weissmann, a former prosecutor who worked under special counsel Robert Mueller, delivered a scathing assessment of the DOJ's inaction on his Twitter account.

"The extent of the delay by DOJ was inexcusable," he wrote. "Not appearing political is not a reason to fail to do one’s job."