The GOP doesn’t need another problem. They need to focus on helping Americans.
But now the White House is scrambling after a devastating report hit Trump’s desk.
Freshman Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) is facing sharp backlash after lecturing Americans at the Texas Tribune Festival that politicians must never try to make a president or opposing party “unsuccessful” just because it’s “good politics”—a remark critics swiftly branded as peak hypocrisy from the former lead Trump-Russia hoax promoter and impeachment manager.
The newly minted senator, who rode the 2024 wave into Dianne Feinstein’s old seat after 24 years in the House, insisted the nation must abandon the “ruinous idea” of partisan sabotage.
“That attitude that you can make a president or a party unsuccessful, no matter what damage it might do to the country, because it’s good politics — we have to get past that ruinous idea,” Schiff declared.
“We have to figure out a way to stop viewing each other as our enemy.”
He blamed social media “advertising behemoths” for dividing the country and urged voters to become “better consumers of information.”
Critics unload: “Pot meet kettle”
The remarks detonated online, with conservatives resurfacing Schiff’s own track record of doing precisely what he now condemns.
“Dilbert” creator Scott Adams quipped: “Schiff’s entire game depends on people not remembering what he said yesterday.”
Another prominent reply: “Says the guy who from 2017 through 2019 was seemingly on cable news every day saying he had seen ‘direct evidence of Russia collusion.’”
Rapid-response operative Steve Guest summed it up in three words: “Pot meet kettle.”
From 2016 to 2020, Schiff repeatedly told CNN, MSNBC, and other networks that he had seen “more than circumstantial evidence” of Trump-Russia collusion—claims the Mueller report and subsequent investigations found baseless.
He later served as House Democrats’ lead manager during Trump’s 2019 impeachment over a Ukraine phone call, a prosecution so aggressively one-sided that even liberal constitutional scholar Jonathan Turley warned on the Senate floor:
“If you make a high crime and misdemeanor out of going to the courts, it is an abuse of power — it’s your abuse of power,” Turley testified. “Fast and narrow is not a good recipe for impeachment.”
Schiff’s office did not respond to requests for comment on the criticism.
