Trump Lashes Out At Adam Schiff, Says He Should Be 'Forced To Resign' From Congress
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President Trump on Thursday slammed Adam Schiff on Twitter.
In the wake of the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's 2016 election meddling, President Trump lashed out at his prominent critic, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.
"Congressman Adam Schiff, who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from Congress!" Trump tweeted Thursday.
Over the weekend, Attorney General William Barr released a summary of the Mueller report, noting "that the special counsel did not establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to sway the election and offered no conclusion on whether the president sought to obstruct justice during the investigation," reports the Washington Post.
Reacting to the summary, Schiff told CNN: "There was a big difference between whether there was evidence of collusion — and I think that evidence is in plain sight — and whether you can establish proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a criminal conspiracy."
On Monday, Trump spoke to reporters about the completion of the Mueller probe.
"It's lasted a long time," Trump said. "We're glad it's over. It's 100 percent the way it should have been. I wish it could have gone a lot sooner, a lot quicker. There are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things. I would say treasonous things against our country."
In the wake of the completion of special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russia's 2016 election meddling, President Trump lashed out at his prominent critic, House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff.
"Congressman Adam Schiff, who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from Congress!" Trump tweeted Thursday.
Over the weekend, Attorney General William Barr released a summary of the Mueller report, noting "that the special counsel did not establish a criminal conspiracy between the Trump campaign and Russia to sway the election and offered no conclusion on whether the president sought to obstruct justice during the investigation," reports the Washington Post.
Reacting to the summary, Schiff told CNN: "There was a big difference between whether there was evidence of collusion — and I think that evidence is in plain sight — and whether you can establish proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a criminal conspiracy."
On Monday, Trump spoke to reporters about the completion of the Mueller probe.
"It's lasted a long time," Trump said. "We're glad it's over. It's 100 percent the way it should have been. I wish it could have gone a lot sooner, a lot quicker. There are a lot of people out there that have done some very, very evil things, very bad things. I would say treasonous things against our country."