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Schiff ponders life beyond the House as focus shifts from Trump
politico.com ^ | 02/14/2021 | HEATHER CAYGLE and CHRISTOPHER CADELAGO

Posted on 02/15/2021 6:30:58 PM PST by ransomnote

The Democratic face of Donald Trump’s first impeachment trial watched the second trial unfold the same way much of America did — glued to the TV and confined to his home as the pandemic rages.

That’s not to say Rep. Adam Schiff wasn't involved in the past week’s trial, which ended Saturday in acquittal. Schiff had offered one-on-one advice to his party’s new crop of impeachment managers if they asked. And as a surrogate dispatched by the speaker’s office, the Californian frequently appeared on TV to provide commentary, like a former Super Bowl quarterback reflecting on this year’s big game.

“He was on the vanguard in so many ways during the most challenging and darkening periods of the Trump era,” said Rep. Jason Crow (D-Colo.), who grew close to Schiff while both served as impeachment managers last year. Despite vaulting to national prominence over the last few years, Crow said, Schiff is “not somebody that tells people what they should do.”

Which makes Schiff’s current moment of calm amid chaos all the more unexpected. Schiff has clearly started to weigh what he should do next, turning his gaze away from the House to privately lobby for the attorney general spot about to open up in California. Speaker Nancy Pelosi, an ally, has lent some muscle to Schiff’s campaign — personally calling Gov. Gavin Newsom to recommend Schiff.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi meets with President Joe Biden in the Oval Office. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi meets with President Joe Biden. | Stefani Reynolds-Pool/Getty Images

But while Schiff is in the mix of candidates, he’s far from a lock for the job. After leading the charge against Trump as the House Intelligence Committee’s top Democrat and then serving as lead prosecutor for the former president’s first trial, Schiff now finds himself on the sidelines. And his flirtation with returning home to California again raises the inevitable question of whether younger, ambitious House Democrats have a concrete ceiling in a caucus long ruled by the same leadership.

Schiff declined to be interviewed for this story, but there’s hardly a mystery surrounding his play for the attorney general job. He has always telegraphed that he has higher aspirations beyond his current station in the House, as a close confidant to the speaker and chair of a powerful committee. The question no one in Washington can answer: What is Schiff’s endgame?


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Why are Nadler and Schiff in hiding?

I don't believe that Schiff was "glued to the TV and confined to his home as the pandemic rages."

I think they are lying low(er).

1 posted on 02/15/2021 6:30:58 PM PST by ransomnote
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I wonder if Schiff will testify on his buddy Ed Buck’s behalf when he goes on trial for being a serial killer


2 posted on 02/15/2021 6:31:36 PM PST by Sarah Barracuda
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To: ransomnote

I hope it will include a life behind bars.


3 posted on 02/15/2021 6:34:40 PM PST by TribalPrincess2U
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To: ransomnote

Watch him win the recall election in CA.


4 posted on 02/15/2021 6:36:28 PM PST by ScottinVA (Enough. Divide the country.. now. )
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To: ransomnote

Prison seems like an appropriate option for Schiff.


5 posted on 02/15/2021 6:37:03 PM PST by G Larry (Authority is vested in those to whom it applies.)
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To: ransomnote

a billionaire wants the job. owner of golden state warriors


6 posted on 02/15/2021 6:38:04 PM PST by RummyChick (To President Trump: https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/3923111/posts)
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To: ransomnote

A rush effort to help Newsom from recall?


7 posted on 02/15/2021 6:41:06 PM PST by Pikachu_Dad ("the media are selling you a line of soap)
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Why are Nadler and Schiff in hiding?

Why go to work when you can send a hologram?

8 posted on 02/15/2021 6:43:01 PM PST by JonPreston (Q: Never have so many, been so wrong, so often)
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Both Nadler and Schiff have committed so many crimes that the only thing keeping them from indictments is the fact that the DOJ has becme a Democrat Benevolent Society.

Schiff and NAdler both concealed exculpatory evidence which favored Donald Trump, and they aslo abused their offices to ecercise power outside the ambit of their respective authorities.

Both of them belong behind bars.


9 posted on 02/15/2021 6:46:05 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism:http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/05/barack_obama_the_quintessentia_1.html) )
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Schiff should be Ed Buck’s cell mate.


10 posted on 02/15/2021 6:50:48 PM PST by Lurkinanloomin (Natural Born Citizens Are Born Here of Citizen Parents)(Know Islam, No Peace - No Islam, Know Peace)
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They’d both probably relish that.


11 posted on 02/15/2021 6:54:06 PM PST by Jamestown1630 ("A Republic, if you can keep it.")
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To: Candor7

Adam Schiff photo caption.....From last year....

“The dirt on Trump I have seen is really eye opening.”

(Except for the fact it did not exist.)


12 posted on 02/15/2021 6:54:14 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote fraud, harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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To: ransomnote

He should ponder an eternity in Hell, and Repent.


13 posted on 02/15/2021 7:03:26 PM PST by IgnorerOfLiberals
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To: ransomnote

They’ve been lying lower alright. Kinda like a worm.


14 posted on 02/15/2021 7:14:22 PM PST by HighSierra5
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To: ransomnote

Maybe Ticonderoga is hiring.


15 posted on 02/15/2021 8:03:20 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan. )
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To: TribalPrincess2U
I hope it will include a life behind bars.

That would be really NICE.

16 posted on 02/15/2021 9:37:49 PM PST by Mark17 (USAF Retired. Father of a US Air Force commissioned officer, and trained Air Force combat pilot. )
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To: ransomnote

I expect to see him advertising adult diapers.


17 posted on 02/15/2021 10:12:27 PM PST by taxesareforever (Islam is an ideology. It is NOT a religion.)
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Schiff should try becoming an alcoholic as he drifts off into history as a lying megalomaniac.
18 posted on 02/15/2021 10:55:20 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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To: IgnorerOfLiberals

#13. Meanwhile, Happy Dale Sanitarium renewed their offer to house him for free for the rest of his life. He would be their best advertise for their services.

Meanwhile the Malkots of Star Trek want him to come back home!


19 posted on 02/15/2021 11:07:37 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: ransomnote

Some of these Trump crazed rats will be like the Spaniard in The Princess Bride after he kills the 6 fingered man, no purpose in life now that President Trump is gone.


20 posted on 02/16/2021 1:40:06 AM PST by BiglyCommentary
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