President Donald Trump said on Sunday that Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA) should go to jail because he falsified loan documents, which is a crime.
Trump is understandably angry at Schiff for leading impeachment proceedings against him and for saying that his son would go to jail for defying a supboena in the Russia collusion investigation, which turned out to be a hoax.
“Adam ‘Shifty’ Schiff is in BIG TROUBLE! He falsified Loan Documents. He once said my son would go to prison on a SCAM that Schiff, along with other Crooked Dems, illegally ‘manufactured’ in order to stage an actual coup,” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
“My son did nothing wrong, knew nothing about the fictional story. It was an American Tragedy! Now Shifty should pay the price of prison for a real crime, not one made up by the corrupt accusers!” Trump added.
Trump first brought the DOJ investigation into Schiff's mortgage up on July 15 in another post on Truth Social.
"I have always suspected Shifty Adam Schiff was a scam artist," he wrote. "And now I learn that Fannie Mae’s Financial Crimes Division have concluded that Adam Schiff has engaged in a sustained pattern of possible Mortgage Fraud. Adam Schiff said that his primary residence was in MARYLAND to get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America, when he must LIVE in CALIFORNIA because he was a Congressman from CALIFORNIA. I always knew Adam Schiff was a Crook. The FRAUD began with the refinance of his Maryland property on February 6, 2009, and continued through multiple transactions until the Maryland property was correctly designated as a second home on October 13, 2020. Mortgage Fraud is very serious, and CROOKED Adam Schiff (now a Senator) needs to be brought to justice."
Schiff responded to the initial post by defending himself and saying that the accusations weren't true.
He said they were a "baseless attempt at political retribution."
He also accused Trump of trying to use the accusations against him to avoid the pushback over not releasing the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Schiff hasn't commented on Trump's latest post.
Schiff's offense seems like a relatively minor one and not worthy of sending anyone to jail, let alone a Senator.
If anything ever comes of the investigation, he will probably just have to pay a fine.
Can't really blame Trump for harping on it, though, because the charges he faced were just as specious.
He probably figures what's good for the goose should be good for the gander, and he's right--but does he really want to stoop to Schiff's level? That's the question.
