Analysis by WorldTribune Staff, January 5, 2025 Real World News
For years, then-Rep. Adam Schiff pushed the fake dossier in a relentless effort to remove President Donald Trump from office.
As he moves on to the Senate, the California Democrat appears to believe he can just say “my bad” and move on.
Schiff, who was sworn in weeks before the new Congress convened on Jan. 3 to fill the seat of the late Sen. Dianne Feinstein, told The Associated Press he wants to be known for “bipartisanship” in the Senate.
Feinstein “was able to do a couple things simultaneously, which I’m going to need to try to do as well, and that is work with others to deliver for the state, work across party lines to get things done, and at the same time, stand up and defend people’s rights and their freedom and their values when those things are threatened,” Schiff said.
He says those priorities will frequently be at odds in the era of Trump, “and so I’ll have to try to do both.”
Sounds like that preemptive pardon isn’t coming for the dude Trump referred to as “Pencil Neck.”
Schiff claims he got the sense in his introductions to fellow senators that some Republicans “were a bit surprised that I wasn’t this caricature,” and also that the Senate is a more collegial place than the House.
“I don’t think it was a hurtful introduction,” he said.
Schiff wasn’t very “collegial” last month when he posted on X that FBI director nominee Kash Patel, a former GOP staffer on the House intelligence panel who uncovered many of the lies Schiff was peddling during the first Trump term, is “more suited as internet troll than FBI Director” and the “Senate must reject him.”
Revolver News noted: “In the end, Schiff needs to be held accountable for the damaging and divisive lies he spread on behalf of his political masters. These phony ‘olive branches’ just aren’t going to cut it.”
Schiff indicated he wants folks to get a different impression of him than conservative media’s coverage as he challenged Trump in his first term: “I think being there and letting folks get to know me, kick the tires a bit, helps overcome some of the sort of Fox News stereotypes.”
So, is Pencil Neck turning over a new leaf?
Here’s what he told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday:
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