Sen. Adam Schiff, in an election night livestream interview, says Trump spent taxpayer money on campaign commercials and turned the Justice Department on Democratic candidates, election officials and a Democratic Party lawyer. He recalls Trump pressing top Justice Department officials in December 2020 to call the election corrupt. Schiff says Trump no longer needs to make that call because Todd Blanche is "more than willing" to do it.
The receipt
- Who
- Sen. Adam Schiff
- Where
- interview - election night livestream
- Original footage
- Sen. Adam Schiff · watch the full video from this moment
- Length
- 60 seconds, unedited within the cut
- Plays
- 103 on Instagram
Read the transcript
So no, it's not anything we can rely on. This is somebody who was spending taxpayer money on campaign commercials, somebody who sick the Justice Department, on our candidates, on elections officials, even one of the lawyers of the Democratic Party. This is what he has demonstrated his willingness to do. And sadly, unlike in Trump 1, when there are at least a few people willing to stand up to him. There's nobody in his administration willing to stand up to him. If you look at 2020 and December of that year after the election before the insurrection, Trump was on the phone badgering top justice department officials to just say the election is corrupt and leave the rest to me and the Republican congressman. Well, now he didn't need to make that call. Todd Blanche is more than willing to call things corrupt, open investigations where there's no predicate to do the president's dirty bidding. He had demonstrated that over and over again. So that check is gone.
Machine transcript of the clip's audio; names are checked, small words may differ.