President Trump calls on Adam Schiff to resign, accuses him of 'knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking'
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}President Trump has called on House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff to resign in a fiery early morning tweet.
The president sent out his missive Thursday morning, accusing the California Democrat of “knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking”.
Trump’s tweet read: “Congressman Adam Schiff, who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from Congress!”
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}The president made similar comments during an exclusive interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity on Wednesday night.
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“He should be forced out of office,” Trump told the host.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“He is a disgrace to our country.”
“In one way you could say it’s a crime what he did," Trump said of the California Democrat, "because … he was making horrible statements that he knew were false.
"He would go on, night after night, talking about collusion -- the collusion delusion," Trump said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}SCHIFF FACES MOUNTING GOP CALLS FOR RESIGNATION OVER COLLUSION CLAIMS
Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report on Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election found no evidence of a Trump-Russia conspiracy after a nearly two-year-long investigation that resulted in 37 indictments.
Schiff, a vocal critic of the president, has doubled down on his claim that Trump and his administration colluded with foreign powers despite Mueller’s findings.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“Undoubtedly, there is collusion,” Schiff told the Washington Post after Attorney General William Barr's four-page summary of Mueller's investigation was released Sunday. He told the paper that the question of whether Trump or the people around him were compromised by a hostile foreign power was not in any part of Mueller’s report.
In addition to Trump saying Schiff should leave office, other Republicans – including House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. -- called for Schiff to step down from his leadership of the intelligence committee.
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}“I’ll tell you one thing about Russia,” Trump continued. “If they had anything on me, it would have come out a long time ago.”
Mueller’s report will be made public – with some parts redacted – in the coming weeks, according to Attorney General William Barr.