"Little Adam Schiff, who is desperate to run for higher office, is one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington, right up there with Comey, Warner, Brennan and Clapper! Adam leaves closed committee hearings to illegally leak confidential information. Must be stopped!" Trump stated.
The statement was made amid a Twitter scrimmage between them: commenting on the recently released Republican memo on FBI and DOJ, Trump stated that the document indicates that there was no collusion between his election campaign and Russia. Adam Schiff, in his turn, fended off this argument, saying that former Trump adviser George Papadopoulos, not Carter Page, was involved collusion with the Russians.
Quite the opposite, Mr. President. The most important fact disclosed in this otherwise shoddy memo was that FBI investigation began July 2016 with your advisor, Papadopoulos, who was secretly discussing stolen Clinton emails with the Russians. https://t.co/2rGOE1jGg2
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) 3 февраля 2018 г.
Meanwhile, Democratic members of Congress are urging Trump to release a rebuttal memo put together by Schiff and his colleagues on the House Intelligence Committee following Friday's release of a document from the Republicans on alleged abuses at the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and Justice Department).
The House Intelligence Committee is expected to vote during a meeting on Monday on whether to publicly release the Democrats' rebuttal memo.
The memorandum, released by Republicans on February 2, implies that the FBI abused power in Special Counsel Robert Mueller's investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 Presidential election, accusing top officials of political bias in the probe.
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The memo's conclusions have raised questions about the legitimacy and legality of certain interactions between the US Department of Justice and the FBI, revealing the violation of surveillance laws in the investigation into the Trump presidential campaign.
Both sides under the investigation: the Trump administration and the Kremlin, have repeatedly denied all the accusations of collusion. Moscow has rebuffed unsubstantiated claims of meddling with the US vote, saying that such actions contradict the principles of Russia's foreign policy.
