Democrat California Sen. Adam Schiff had a meltdown on video railing against President Donald Trump and Elon Musk.
The senator lamented the fact that they call him a “criminal” and said that the Democrats need to “fight” and be “courageous.”
“We need to speak out. We need to be courageous. They come after me all the time. Elon Musk and Donald Trump, they call me a criminal, they call me a traitor. Their MAGA minions online come after me to try to intimidate me, to create fear,” the senator said in a video posted to Musk’s X platform.
Schiff then got vulgar and compared his fight with the president and Musk to members of the military who engage in actual combat.
“I’ll tell you my response. My response to that is ‘screw you and the horse you rode in on.’ I hope that is your response, too. We must not give in to this climate of fear. We are Americans. If our troops can face the bullets and the missiles and the dangers of combat, then sure enough, we can be courageous at home,” he said.
What the senator did not mention was the reason that the president and Musk, among others, refer to him as a criminal.
Conservatives are ramping up their calls for the California Democrat to be held legally accountable for his role in pushing a now well-debunked claim that Trump was a dupe for Russian President Vladimir Putin during his first term.
The so-called “Russian collusion” narrative, which Schiff and many others in the media pushed for years during Trump’s first term, was the subject of multiple investigations by the House and by independent prosecutors, including John Durham, a former U.S. attorney, and Robert Mueller, a former FBI director.
But all of them concluded that there was zero evidence supporting the claim, while other investigators discovered that a plot to saddle Trump with the false claim in order to hamper his presidency and his ability to carry out his foreign policy vision for the country.
“REMINDER: Adam Schiff was ONLY pardoned for J6 committee-related offenses NOT the Russia hoax. Not election interference. Nothing else. Kash is going to take this criminal down. Watch. The Hammer of Justice is coming, Pencil Neck Schiff,” conservative influencer Nick Sorter noted on his X account Monday.
In addition, former conservative broadcaster and Secret Service agent Dan Bongino, whom Trump has picked to serve as the FBI deputy director, had a cryptic message for Schiff during one of his last broadcasts ahead of the president’s announcement.
“Why is Adam Schiff so worried? I strongly encourage you to go back and take another look today at the Russia collusion hoax,” Bongino began during a segment late last month.
After noting that the story is now several years old, Bongino added: “I’m gonna be straight with you. I don’t wanna move on.”
Continuing, he said, “We had the FBI in conjunction with the Department of Justice, officials in Congress, foreign governments and intel people fabricate a story, invent a story that could have caused and done serious long-term harm to international relations with a nuclear-powered foe. It’s kind of a big freakin’ deal.”
“Listen to me — this is gonna be very important in the coming days,” he went on, perhaps dropping a hint that he was about to be appointed to the FBI. “I’m not letting this go. I wanna find out what happened because it can never happen again. Not to a Democrat. Not a Republican. Not to a Libertarian. Not to any United States citizen,” Bongino said.
“You do not get to alter or try to change the course of electoral politics by fabricating a story hijacking the justice system then to give the patina of truth to a fake story,” he continued. “You don’t get to do that. Why do I bring that up now? Because who was the ringmaster of that circus? Yes, Adam Schiff, and no, I’m not letting it go,” he added.