U.S. Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) - the man who infamously pushed the Trump-Russia Collusion Hoax - took aim at the U.S. Supreme Court over the weekend.
Schiff did so, according to The Hill, during an appearance Sunday on CNN's State of the Union.
There, Schiff appeared to take exception to the court's handling of the so-called election interference case that Special Counsel Jack Smith has brought against former President Donald Trump.
During the interview, Anchor Dana Bash asked Schiff, "It seems as though the Trump strategy to delay these cases is paying off. Do you think there’s a chance that he might not stand trial in any of these cases before election day?"
What Bash is getting at, here, is that Smith has made it clear that he wants a criminal conviction of Trump before the 2024 general election for the obvious reason that it would be easier for President Joe Biden to campaign against a convicted criminal.
But, thanks to the Supreme Court's decision to hear Trump's appeal regarding his presidential immunity defense, there is a good chance that Smith will not get his wish, which would be a significant victory for Trump.
Schiff replied to Bash, saying, "There is a chance that [Trump] could evade justice by delaying justice. This is a tried-and-true tactic of Trump throughout his career, and I hope that the courts are aware of exactly what he’s doing and his incentive in trying to prolong this."
The congressman continued, "I hope they will go along with that strategy in New York. I hope that they will look at the facts in terms of what caused the late release of this discovery if it was driven by the Trump defense team not requesting it earlier, they should not postpone the trial any further."
What Schiff was referring to, here, is the recent delay that the New York courts granted in the criminal case that Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg (D) has brought against Trump - the so-called hush-money case.
Schiff went on to claim that his "greatest concern" is regarding Smith's "election interference" case. It is here that Schiff went after the Supreme Court.
"The Supreme Court moved with great speed when it came to ruling that Trump could appear on the ballot. The question is, will it also move at great speed in rejecting this bogus immunity claim? If it doesn’t, it’s making a deliberate decision essentially to push the trial past the election, and I think that would be a terrible decision both for the interest of justice," Shiff said.
He added, "It’ll be a terrible decision in depriving American voters of the information they would learn during the course of that trial, but it would also just further discredit this partisan and reactionary court."
Trump, himself, responded to Schiff's interview on Monday.
Trump wrote, "Can you imagine Adam Shifty Schiff talking about me “EVADING JUSTICE,” WHEN HE IS THE MOST OUTRAGEOUSLY CROOKED POLITICIAN OUT THERE, WITH THE POSSIBLE EXCEPTION OF CROOKED JOE BIDEN, THE WORST PRESIDENT, BY FAR, IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES???"
