Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents

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As a California congressman, Adam Schiff was the lead supervisor throughout the primary impeachment proceedings in opposition to Donald Trump. He later served on the January sixth committee. Trump has castigated him as “Shifty Schiff” and demanded that the Justice Division examine him. In a dialog with David Remnick, Schiff discusses the present inquiry into his mortgage by federal authorities, the Supreme Court docket’s major function in enabling this Administration, and why he thinks the rule of regulation in America is “hanging by a thread.” Not like some Democrats, Schiff just isn’t sanguine that the discharge of the Epstein recordsdata will harm Trump politically. “If there are ruinous issues within the recordsdata . . . Bondi and firm will ensure they by no means attain the general public eye,” Schiff says. But additionally, “I believe he’s virtually impervious to grime.”

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