
<p class="wp-block-paragraph">On a recent appearance on low-rated cable news outlet MSNBC, Adam “Shifty” Schiff called members of the GOP, “negative, bile-filled performance artists” and part of the Republican “crackpot caucus.”</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">His scathing comments were in response to host Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell’s question about what Schiff thought about Senator Lindsey Graham&#8217;s (R-South Carolina) disturbing prediction that there would be &#8220;riots in the streets&#8221; if former President Donald Trump is criminally indicted.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8220;I think with Lindsey Graham, you see some signs of conscience flare up from time to time that are quickly extinguished,&#8221; Schiff quipped to host Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Schiff, who currently chairs the House Intelligence Committee and serves on the House Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th attacks on the Capitol, also condemned right-wing lawmakers who have “tethered themselves” to Trump&#8217;s brand of grievance politics.</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">&#8220;Others,&#8221; such as Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia), Schiff continued, fall into his &#8220;category&#8221; of &#8220;kind of negative, bile-filled performance artists.&#8221;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Schiff noted that &#8220;happily at the moment, those are small in number in Congress.&#8221; But he stressed to O’Donnell that &#8220;there are a lot more where she came from who are running, who have won Republican primaries in very red districts, and who appeared to be poised to join the Congress.&#8221;</p>



<p class="wp-block-paragraph">Schiff then lamented, &#8220;you know, it&#8217;s just a staggering turn of events in the country, but also when you take the long view and think about some of the giants who once served in the Congress – people of principle like John Lewis and so many others – and now you see sort of the crackpot caucus growing within the GOP conference. What a terrible turn of events it is for the country.&#8221;</p>

Adam Schiff Calls Lindsey Graham the Leader of the GOP’s “Crackpot Caucus”
