Nancy Pelosi on Thursday rushed to defend Adam Schiff after President Trump and other top republicans called for the resignation of the House Intelligence Committee chairman or resign from Congress altogether.

Pelosi said that the attacks from the GOP against Schiff is just a distraction from the facts surrounding Trump’s dealings with Russians both during and since the 2016 campaign, a Conspiracy Schiff and committee Democrats continue to waste funds trying to fabricate.

Pelosi said during a press briefing in the Capitol.

“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,” “It’s their own insecurity, their own fear of the truth, their fear of the facts, and their fear of an effective patriotic leader, in his measured way, who’s going to make sure the American people know the truth,” she added.

Throughout the course of Mueller investigation, Schiff was always on cable news programs, where he claimed there was already enough evidence to conclude that Trump had “colluded” with Moscow to help his presidential victory — a message he reiterated this week.

he told CNN on Monday. “There was a big difference between whether there was evidence of collusion — and I think that evidence is in plain sight — and whether you can establish proof beyond a reasonable doubt of a criminal conspiracy.”

All nine Republican members of the Intelligence Committee delivered a letter to Adam Schiff on Thursday urging him to relinquish his gavel.

“We have no faith in your ability to discharge your duties in a manner consistent with your constitutional responsibility and urge your immediate resignation as chairman of this committee,” said Rep. Mike Conaway (Texas), a top Republican on the panel.

Trump, tweeted some hours later.

“Congressman Adam Schiff, who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from Congress!”

Congressman Adam Schiff, who spent two years knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking, should be forced to resign from Congress! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 28, 2019

Pelosi, a few hours later, came to Schiff defense, calling the criticisms “shameful, sad [and] irresponsible,” while going after Schiff’s predecessor atop the committee — Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) — for what she characterized as “almost criminal behavior.”

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