“There has to be accountability, because it’s all lies,” Trump said to a crowd booing the mention of Schiff’s name. “And they know it’s lies — they know it.”

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Together, the attacks leveled in the week since special counsel Robert S. Mueller III delivered his findings represent an unusually coordinated assault against the leading Democratic voice questioning whether Trump and his associates conspired with Russia to throw the 2016 election in his favor.

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Mueller had been Trump’s villain for nearly two years, with the president lashing out at the “conflicted prosecutor” and his “angry Dems” investigators engaged in a “phony witch hunt.”

Now, with Attorney General William P. Barr’s four-page summary of Mueller’s report indicating no conclusion of a criminal conspiracy, Trump and Republicans have a new target for their vitriol.

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The Trump campaign circulated a memo to TV producers Monday questioning Schiff’s credibility, citing a string of pronouncements that it claimed had been rebutted by Mueller. Trump on Thursday called for Schiff to resign his House seat, accusing him of “knowingly and unlawfully lying and leaking,” and the nine GOP members of the Intelligence panel signed a letter demanding he step down as chairman, questioning whether he was abusing his position and damaging the panel’s integrity.

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Schiff has stood resolute amid the attacks, maintaining that there is public evidence of collusion — such as Trump’s public July 2016 plea to Russia to hack Democratic opponent Hillary Clinton’s emails — even if Mueller determined that evidence doesn’t amount to a crime. When Republicans confronted Schiff at an Intelligence Committee hearing Thursday, he struck back.

“You might think that’s okay — I don’t,” Schiff said repeatedly as he recounted a litany of interactions between Trump associates and Russia. “I think it’s immoral. I think it’s unethical. I think it’s unpatriotic. And, yes, I think it’s corrupt and evidence of collusion.”

He has won uniform backing from House Democratic leaders, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi (Calif.), who called Republicans “scaredy-cats” for attacking Schiff before the Mueller report is publicly released.

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“What is the president afraid of? Is he afraid of the truth, that he would go after a member . . . a respected chairman of a committee in the Congress?” she asked. “They just don’t know what to do, so they have to make an attack.”

The GOP’s outsize attention on Schiff reflects his two years of omnipresence on Sunday talk shows and weekday cable news programs. The congressman who represents Hollywood has long been ribbed by Republicans — and privately, even by some Democrats — for his frequent appearances.

When Democrats were the minority party in the House, that tactic was intentional. Television was a “tool,” Schiff said last year, for “exposing what the majority’s doing and often exposing what the majority’s not doing.”

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Since taking over as chairman, he has scaled back his appearances, but he has not pulled any punches when it comes to voicing his belief that Trump subordinates’ contacts with Russians, their clandestine finances, and the lies they told to lawmakers and federal law enforcement are evidence of likely wrongdoing, even if they do not rise to the level of a crime.

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That caught Trump’s attention, making him a target of presidential derision with jeering nicknames like “liddle,” “sleazy,” and “Adam Schitt.”In recent days, the president tried out the “pencil neck” insult at a White House meeting with House Republicans before using it at Thursday’s rally, according to a White House official who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations.

“He’s got the smallest, thinnest neck I’ve ever seen,” Trump said. “He is not a long-ball hitter.”

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The official Trump campaign on Friday rolled out a T-shirt with an image of Schiff with a pencil for a neck and a red ball on his nose.

For Republicans, the attacks on Schiff are at least partial payback for months of Democratic attacks on the previous committee chairman, Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), who oversaw a circumscribed probe of Russian ties to the Trump campaign and instead focused on Obama administration decisions that prompted the Justice Department probe.

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“Important context is what happened to Devin Nunes,” Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) said this week, pointing to Democratic pressure in 2017 after lawmakers found out that Nunes made a late-night visit to the Trump White House to view classified materials pertaining to the Russia investigation.

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When Nunes publicly alleged that Trump’s affiliates may have been picked up in a federal wiretap, that prompted allegations that Nunes had disclosed secret surveillance reports, spurring an Ethics Committee investigation that ultimately cleared him. But as the cloud grew, Nunes said in April 2017 that he would recuse himself from the committee’s Trump-Russia probe.

Later, Democrats accused Nunes of destroying the credibility of the Intelligence panel and trying to use his subpoena power to undermine federal law enforcement as he sought to publicize the origins of the Trump-Russia probe.

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Schiff said this week it was imperative that lawmakers be able to determine whether Mueller weighed all the evidence they are looking into, especially regarding money laundering and Trump’s plans to build a tower in Moscow during his presidential campaign.

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But for the GOP, the matter is settled — and what goes around comes around.

“Here you have Mr. Schiff, who essentially spent 22 months lying to the country,” Gaetz said. “I don’t know how he’s going to have credibility with the intelligence community.”

Nunes himself has been largely quiet about Schiff, but his fellow Republicans have not been shy about raising the Democratic attacks on Nunes.

“Didn’t the Mueller report justify exactly what Chairman Nunes has said?” McCarthy asked Thursday amid his attacks on Schiff. “I think Chairman Nunes comes out on top. The concerns that he had with what was being said, what was being done was just proven correct.”

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He added, referring to Schiff and Nunes respectively, “One member lied to the American public; one member told the truth and was attacked for it.”

Schiff knows as well as anyone the political perils of assuming a role as a presidential inquisitor: He won his seat in 2000 by ousting Rep. James Rogan (R), who was among the House managers of President Bill Clinton’s 1999 impeachment trial. Schiff capitalized on Democratic outrage to raise millions of dollars from donors across the country eager to exact revenge.

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.), speaking in a Fox News interview this week, compared Schiff to Jim Garrison, the New Orleans prosecutor who spent decades pursuing an unproven conspiracy to assassinate President John F. Kennedy.

“Adam Schiff has got to make a decision about his political future,” he said. “Does he want to be the guy that won’t let it go when the authority of the investigation, Mr. Mueller, has concluded there was no collusion?”

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But there is no indication Schiff’s pursuit of Trump has caused him any political trouble in a district that preferred Hillary Clinton by 50 percentage points in 2016 and reelected him to a 10th term last year with 78 percent of the vote. Schiff, in fact, has emerged as one of the Democratic Party’s most talented fundraisers, with $4.7 million in his campaign account — more than any other sitting House member. This week, he was named a national finance chair for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, aimed at holding the party’s new majority.

House Democrats are not in full agreement about how forcefully they want to continue to pursue the Russia matter now that Mueller has completed his report. But they are unanimous in their defense of Schiff and their insistence that Trump isn’t in the clear until they can see the full extent of the special counsel’s findings.

As Scalise pressed Democrats to remove Schiff — a decision under the sole control of Pelosi — Hoyer made clear Thursday he was not going anywhere.