Senator Adam Schiff on How the Trump Administration Targets Its Opponents
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This is the New Yorker Radio Hour, a co-production of WNYC Studios and The New Yorker. Welcome to the New Yorker Radio Hour. I'm David Remnick. Donald Trump's enemies list is long and it's wide. Journalists, pop stars, late-night hosts, even his own architect, apparently, for the White House ballroom.
And of course Democrats, pretty much all of them at one time or another, But few public figures infuriate Donald Trump more than California Senator Adam Schiff. I would just say Adam Schiff is one of the lowest forms of scum I've ever dealt with in politics. He's a horrible human being, very dishonest person. The administration announced an investigation of Schiff for mortgage fraud not long ago,
And now confusingly, the Justice Department is investigating the handling of that investigation. So what did Adam Schiff do to get that prominent place on the enemies list? When he was a congressman from a district around Los Angeles, Schiff was a leader of the first impeachment proceeding. You remember what that was. That was all about Trump's so called perfect phone call with Ukrainian officials when he asked them to dig up dirt on Hunter Biden.
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