Trump: Schiff 'has not paid the price, yet’

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President Trump continued to ratchet up his rhetoric against Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., tweeting Sunday that the lawmaker has “not paid the price, yet,” for his actions pushing for Trump’s impeachment and conviction.

“Shifty Adam Schiff is a CORRUPT POLITICIAN, and probably a very sick man. He has not paid the price, yet, for what he has done to our Country!” Trump exclaimed.

Rep. Adam Schiff. (Screenshot: "Meet the Press"/NBC)
Rep. Adam Schiff. (Screenshot: "Meet the Press"/NBC)

Schiff, the lead House impeachment manager, responded to Trump’s tweet later in the morning during an interview on NBC’s “Meet the Press.”

“This is a wrathful and vindictive president. I don’t think there’s any doubt about it,” he said. “And if you think there is, look at the president’s tweets about me today, saying that I should pay a ‘price.’”

“Do you take that as a threat?” moderator Chuck Todd asked.

“I think it’s intended to be,” Schiff replied.

On CNN’s “State of the Union,” Rep. Zoe Lofgren, D-Calif., who’s also a House impeachment manager, responded to the tweet by saying Trump “really ought to get a grip and be a little more presidential.”

Trump has made Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, a lead target of his Twitter broadsides for months. Schiff spearheaded the House investigation of the administration’s freeze of military aid to Ukraine and requests that Kyiv investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.

The House ultimately impeached Trump for abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, and Schiff is leading his chamber’s uphill push for the Republican-controlled Senate to convict the president and remove him from office.

In particular, Trump has fixated on Schiff’s paraphrasing a call between the president and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a request to “make up dirt on my political opponent [Biden.]” Trump has even gone as far as to falsely suggest that Schiff may have committed treason.

“The Impeachment Hoax is a massive election interference the likes of which has never been seen before,” Trump tweeted Sunday before pivoting to another attack on Schiff: “Shifty is now exposed for illegally making up my phone call, & more!”

Schiff told “Meet the Press” he didn’t have any regrets about characterizing Trump’s Ukraine phone call as a blunt request for help in the 2020 election.

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