Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) on Thursday rushed to the defense of Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) amid a fusillade of attacks from President Trump and other top Republicans demanding that the House Intelligence Committee chairman vacate his seat on the panel — or resign from Congress altogether.
Pelosi said Schiff's GOP critics are launching desperate attacks to distract from the facts surrounding Trump's dealings with Russian figures both during and since the 2016 campaign — an issue Schiff and committee Democrats continue to investigate.
"What is the president afraid of? Is he afraid of the truth, that he would go after … a respected chairman of a committee in the Congress? I think they're just scaredy cats; they just don't know what to do. So they have to make an attack," Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol.
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