During an appearance on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," Senator-elect Adam Schiff (D-CA) scoffed at Donald Trump's threats to have him prosecuted for investigating the Jan. 6 Capitol assault when he served on a House special committee.
Speaking with host Mika Brzezinski, Schiff was asked about comments made by the president-elect in an NBC interview with Kristen Welker that was aired on Sunday.
Trump accused multiple Democrats on the January 6th committee of destroying documents, which led MSNBC's Brzezinski to ask, "One of the things that he accused the committee of is illegally destroying records, among other things, along with saying that all should go to jail. What's your response? "
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"You know, I've seen him make that allegation before and candidly I don't know what the heck he's talking about," he replied. "Whether this is some crazy conspiracy theory that grew up online or whether it's just something he's making up. But it's completely without merit and just I think another one of his baseless attacks on the work of the committee."
"His real grudge at the end of the day is he was exposed, and some of his own very top people held him mostly accountable, testified against him, and this is really where he's coming from," he added.
"That and his other grievance, which I've heard repeated many, many times is that he's never gotten enough credit for the size of the crowd on January 6th, which you have to live in, I think, a pretty warped world to think that's the most important point about January 6th that people are missing. "
"This is just one of his meritless complaints and I don't want to speculate about where it comes from," he added.