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Trump’s Vile, Corrupt Attack on Adam Schiff Is Already Backfiring [1]

['Greg Sargent', 'Edith Olmsted', 'Robert Mccoy', 'Timothy Noah']

Date: 2025-07-17

This framing makes it a story about Schiff’s conduct. But the real story here is Trump’s conduct. It’s how this allegation came to be in the first place. It’s the role that Trump and/or the White House played in getting the federal bureaucracy to arrange events to the point where the president of the United States could pronounce a sitting U.S. senator and political enemy a target for potential prosecution. Understood this way, the story is likely a dry run for much more like this to come.

The unnerving outlines of that story are already visible. The allegations, in a nutshell, are that Schiff falsely designated his Maryland home in the suburbs of Washington D.C. a primary residence even as his real primary home is in California. This allegedly secured Schiff a cheaper mortgage.

Fannie Mae referred this to DOJ, and Trump followed up with this, an apparent message to DOJ that it should prosecute:

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