Adam Schiff Destroys Trump For 100 Days Of Crime, Lies, And Failure

Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) marked Trump's first 100 days in office by calling out the president's lies, false promises, and failures.

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Few people have more direct experience investigating Donald Trump as a member of Congress than Sen. Adam Schiff. As chair of the House Intelligence Committee, Schiff led the first impeachment investigation of President Trump. After Trump was impeached the first time, Schiff was the lead House prosecutor to argue the case before the Senate, and he later served on the 1/6 Committee.

Adam Schiff had a lot to say about Trump’s first 100 days while talking to Jen Psaki on MSNBC:

 He's claiming that he had this huge mandate, which of course he didn't have, but more than that, they keep saying that he's just falling through on his promises, but in fact he's not. His main promise was that he was going to improve the economy. He was going to bring prices down.

Of course, everything he is done has been contradictory to that. The tariff wars have just driven inflationary pressures even higher. American families are struggling even more so the really, the central promise he has reneged on and now he's doing all these other things that he never. Promised during the campaign, in fact, to the degree that they were written about during the campaign in Project 2025, he tried to run away and disavow them. So he doesn't have a mandate to do what he's doing, and I think it's reflected in the already enormous voter dissatisfaction in his first a hundred days.

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Yeah, no, people are just starting to feel the tariffs. They're gonna feel them a lot more, which I imagine is going to be worse for him.

Schiff also talked about the purpose of Trump's arresting judges:

I think it is, yeah. In a normal, rational world, you would have immigration authorities work with a courthouse.

And decide, okay, how do we work together? Or how do we at least not interfere with what each other are doing? You wouldn't have the kind of confrontation and arrest that we saw, but the administration relishes this. They relish the opportunity to go after judges. They relish the opportunity to try to intimidate and shock people.

They talk, just gleefully about impeaching judges they disagree with. So it is part of a broader assault on the rule of law, a broader effort to intimidate. They're intimidating. The universities, they're intimidating the law firms. They're intimidating corporations forcing them to come hat in hand, begging for exemptions from tariffs, and now they're trying to intimidate the judiciary as well.

Trump’s first 100 days have been a historic failure, with the majority of Americans turning against him faster than any president in the history of polling. However, as Sen. Schiff pointed out, Democrats cannot rely solely on Trump's failure to regain power.

Democrats also need to devise an agenda that voters will want to support. However, it will probably be enough for Democrats to run on Trump's failure to win back the House.

Republicans have hitched their wagons to a flaming dumpster, and the rest of the country is trying to prevent the blaze from spreading.

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