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Adam Schiff

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Adam Bennett Schiff is an American lawyer and politician currently serving as the U.S. Representative for California's 28th congressional district, a position he has held since January 3, 2001. A member of the Democratic Party, Schiff has played a significant role in various legislative efforts and is known for his work on national security and intelligence issues. He served as the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, where he was involved in high-profile investigations and oversight of intelligence agencies.

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Jul 6, 2024

I think they both should be willing to take a test. I think, frankly, a test would show Donald Trump has serious illness of one kind or another. But, ultimately, the decision is going to come down to what Joe Biden thinks is best. And if…

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Jul 6, 2024

Given the Supreme Court decision now essentially making any future Trump dictator and a king, it's all the more important.

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Jul 6, 2024

He has been an extraordinary president. He has created millions and millions of jobs. He has expanded and strengthened our NATO alliances.

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Jun 25, 2024

I'm a proud cosponsor of the American Music Fairness Act and a strong supporter of what this bill at its core and what it stands for, and what it means to the creators.

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Jun 12, 2024

I want to begin by quoting the jury in the Manhattan hush money payment trial. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty. Guilty.

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Jun 12, 2024

Donald Trump represents the most grave danger to this country at least since the end of Jim Crow.

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Jun 12, 2024

Have we ever seen one party or the other so completely abandon oath to the Constitution?

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Jun 12, 2024

What is the animating idea of a Trump Presidency? It is dictatorship.

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Jun 12, 2024

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Jun 3, 2024

It is just a whole another order of magnitude of deterioration.

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Jun 3, 2024

They want to somehow obscure the fact that their about-to-be nominee is now a convicted felon.

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Jun 3, 2024

It is crazy and they know better and they continue to push all these conspiracy theories.

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Jun 3, 2024

You're about to nominate a convicted felon and they don't know how to cope with that.

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Jun 3, 2024

Do you know what else is unprecedented? The fact that so many leaders of that party are perfectly fine with all of that.

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Jun 3, 2024

You are damn right it is unprecedented. We have never had a President of the United States who was making hush money payments to a porn star.

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Jun 3, 2024

This was 12 ordinary New Yorkers who weighed the evidence and found Donald Trump guilty of 34 felonies.

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Jun 3, 2024

They care more about this convicted felon than they do the country.

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Jun 3, 2024

Of course, the Chair's real problem is that justice remains no respecter of persons, that you can be the former President of the United States, but if you commit crimes, you will be held responsible.

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Mar 19, 2024

I hereby remove my name as cosponsor of H. Res. 1068. The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaMalfa). The gentleman's request is granted. ____________________

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Mar 11, 2024

You could have written your report with his -- with comments about his specific recollection as to documents or a set of documents, but you chose a general pejorative reference to the president.

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Mar 11, 2024

What you did write was deeply prejudicial to the interests of the President.

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Mar 11, 2024

It was your obligation to follow that policy in this report, was it not?

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Mar 11, 2024

You understood how they would be manipulated by my colleagues here on the GOP side of the aisle and by President Trump?

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Mar 11, 2024

You understood that, didn't you, when you wrote those words?

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