Adam Schiff tells 'The View' GOP is going after him to 'follow their master Donald Trump'
There were numerous members of the House that came together to run the first impeachment of Donald Trump, but the former president has always fixated on Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA). On Wednesday night, Republicans moved to censure Schiff, which has only happened a few times in the past century. After the vote, Democrats chanted "shame, shame" to the GOP on the floor.
Speaking to "The View" on Thursday, Schiff described the action as purely political.
"They go after people that are effective. They think they are standing up to them and, more importantly, that they are standing up to their master Donald Trump," Schiff told Whoopi Goldberg. "He threatened many of the Republicans that, if they didn't support this, with primary challenges, and they fell in line. They don't bother with people. They don't think they are a threat to essentially move the country in this authoritarian direction. The danger will intimidate others into standing and defending our Constitution. It's not going to have that effect on me, but I think they hope they can silence others, and that's where the kind of danger in this lies."
He went on to mention Franklin D. Roosevelt's famous statement that you can tell a lot about a person by the enemies he makes.
"I think we're in that kind of a time and I think I'm doing pretty damn well," said Schiff.
Joy Behar mentioned the rarity of the censure and explained that they're typically reserved for people who "lie about their entire resume" – like George Santos.
"Well, the crazies are running the House of Representatives now," Schiff replied. "Kevin has no control over his members, and so the speakers yesterday -- first all, there are very few of them on the Republican side, but the ones that were there were the Marjorie Taylor Greens (R-GA) the Lauren Boeberts (R-CO) and the Lunas."
He said that it "tears down" what the House stands for.
"We'll get past this. I have every confidence this shall pass," Schiff reassured the co-hosts. "I think that if we beat them next year, and God help us if we don't, they may just decide to abandon Trump. Not because he's a liar, they're fine with that. Not because he's immoral. They can live with that too. Not even because he's a danger to our national security, but they just might abandon him for the reason you mentioned, which is he's a loser."
Republican former White House staffer Alyssa Farah Griffin said that she spoke privately with some Republicans on Capitol Hill that were frustrated by the House focusing on things like this instead of actual issues. Some even told her that it was nothing more than an in-kind donation to Schiff's U.S. Senate campaign in California to replace Dianne Feinstein.
"So, I'm not sure what's happening in the House," she confessed.
They went on to discuss Hunter Biden. Schiff said it's curious that the Republican Party would try to destroy a president by attacking his son, "who is clearly dealing with addiction."
He also agreed with Sunny Hostin that a compelling question about Donald Trump's document theft is what possible reason he had for taking them and what use he had for them.
See the clip of the interview below or at the link here.