Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) has been a longtime enemy of Donald Trump, going back to his first term. During the Russia investigation, Schiff was a leading Congressman pushing the story when he was the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee. Since being elected to the Senate, Schiff has even received a preemptive pardon from former President Joe Biden, in the last days of his presidency, in anticipation that the incoming Trump Administration could come after him.
Indeed, CNN reported last month that Trump was “using the full force of the federal government to try to turn the tables on his longtime nemesis.” FBI Director Kash Patel “declassified and released internal FBI interview notes from a former House Intelligence Committee staffer who first accused Schiff in 2017 of directing illegal leaks of classified information about Trump and Russia”- from a time when Patel himself was a staffer for that same committee.
Trump, this week, posted a video to X of Schiff, with the main goal apparently to make fun of the length of Schiff’s neck:
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 4, 2025
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“Anyone who stands up to the president. Anyone who criticizes the president. Anyone who says anything adverse to the president’s interest gets the full weight of the federal government brought down on them,” Schiff had said last month on Meet the Press, in reaction to the recent raid on the home of former National Security Adviser and fellow Trump critic John Bolton. Trump used that message in the video of Schiff with an artificially long neck, which was itself an act of the president coming down on a critic.
Schiff, though, found a creative way to respond, by invoking Trump’s ties to Jeffrey Epstein:
Even from up here I can still see you hiding the Epstein Files, Donald. https://t.co/5USHq6CvD2
— Adam Schiff (@SenAdamSchiff) September 4, 2025
Last month, Schiff had called for Patel and Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about the Epstein files, and the FBI’s announced decision to not release them.
“In July, as recently as just a week or two ago, Trump denied being informed that his name was in those files, even though we have now learned Bondi told him,” Schiff said last month, per The Hill. “We need to bring Bondi and Patel into the Judiciary Committee to testify about this now.”
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