Conservative media figures have engaged in cruel personal attacks against Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), the lead House impeachment manager in President Donald Trump’s Senate trial, since it began on Tuesday. These attacks included questioning his intelligence, calling him “human slime,” and ranting that Schiff is a “lunatic” and “totally unhinged.”

Right-wing media claims have already made it into the Senate trial, where Trump’s defense team repeated talking points that have been on Fox News. Fox has also urged its viewers to ignore the trial, calling it “boring,” and individual hosts even apologized for airing parts of it on their shows or said they shouldn’t show any of it. Conservative media are so desperate to undermine the trial that they have degenerated from lying about the impeachment process to launching ugly personal attacks against Schiff.