President Trump on Friday called on Rep. Adam Schiff to resign, accusing the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee of lying by reading to Congress a phony version of his call with the Ukrainian president.

“Rep. Adam Schiff fraudulently read to Congress, with millions of people watching, a version of my conversation with the President of Ukraine that doesn’t exist,” Trump wrote in a series of tweets.

“He was supposedly reading the exact transcribed version of the call, but he completely changed the words to make it sound horrible, and me sound guilty. HE WAS DESPERATE AND HE GOT CAUGHT.

“Adam Schiff therefore lied to Congress and attempted to defraud the American Public. He has been doing this for two years. I am calling for him to immediately resign from Congress based on this fraud!” Trump continued.

Trump returned his tirade an hour later, renewing his claim that his July 25 chat with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was “perfect” and calling for Schiff to be investigated for his alleged lies.

“He has been doing this for two years. He is a sick man!” Trump wrote of Schiff.

Trump was referring to Schiff’s remarks at the start of Thursday’s congressional hearing with acting Director of National Intelligence Joseph Maguire, when the California lawmaker described Trump as saying on the call that he would tell Zelensky “seven times” to “make up dirt on my political opponent.”

Schiff strayed far from the language in the rough transcript released by the White House while declaring it the “essence” of what Trump told Zelensky.

“We’ve been very good to your country. Very good. No other country has done as much as we have. But you know what? I don’t see much reciprocity here,” Schiff said in interpreting Trump’s remarks.

“I hear what you want. I have a favor I want from you, though, and I’m gonna say this only seven times, so you better listen good. I want you to make up dirt on my political opponent, understand? Lots of it — on this and on that.

“I’m gonna put you in touch with people and not just any people. I’m gonna put you in touch with the attorney general of the United States, my attorney general, Bill Barr. He’s got the whole weight of the American law enforcement behind him and I’m gonna put you in touch with Rudy [Giuliani].”

Schiff later claimed his comments were meant “to be, at least in part, parody.”

On Friday, Schiff accused Trump over Twitter of engaging in “a shakedown to get election dirt from a foreign country” and trying to cover it up.

At Thursday’s hearing, he and other Democrats played up the urgency of the whistleblower complaint about Trump’s phone conversation and allegations that Maguire delayed the complaint by going first to the White House and Justice Department before handing it over to Congress.

Republicans stressed that the whistleblower’s account was based on secondhand information and have dismissed Democrats’ concerns as conspiracy theories.

“Sounding more and more like the so-called Whistleblower isn’t a Whistleblower at all,” Trump tweeted Friday. “In addition, all second hand information that proved to be so inaccurate that there may not have even been somebody else, a leaker or spy, feeding it to him or her? A partisan operative?”

Maguire testified Thursday that he believed the whistleblower acted “in good faith throughout.”

The whistleblower alleged the transcript of the call was kept in a system for highly classified information to restrict who could see it.

But a former national security official in the Trump administration asserted on Friday that the classified manner in which the transcript was stored was not unusual.

“As executive secretary of the NSC [National Security Council], I edited and processed transcripts of presidential phone calls with foreign leaders, and there’s a very secure area of the computer system where these are placed,” said Fred Fleitz, who served as deputy assistant to Trump and to the chief of staff of the National Security Council and had held various other government positions dealing with national security.

“The allegation was, to protect this stuff, they were putting it into an intelligence computer system controlled by the CIA. That doesn’t make any sense. Why would the White House store something sensitive in a CIA computer system?” Fleitz told Breitbart News.