After getting ejected from the House Intelligence Committee and taking to TikTok to voice his frustrations, Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., was called out by Fox News’ Tucker Carlson who said the idea that Schiff would be on that committee in the first place is “crazy.”
Carlson joined “The Bottom Line” co-hosts Dagen McDowell and Sean Duffy Thursday evening, reacting to Schiff denouncing Republicans and asking for donations after House Speaker Kevin McCarthy ejected the congressman from the Intelligence Committee Tuesday.
The “Tucker Carlson Tonight” host reminded viewers of the committee’s intended purpose to provide oversight of any “abuses” by intelligence agencies like the FBI, CIA or NSA.
“The whole point is Congress will provide some oversight. Adam Schiff has never provided any oversight of the intel community. He is its pawn, its tool,” Carlson said. “He is working out his political agenda with the help of the intelligence agencies.”
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“You are not allowed to do that as the ranking member on the House Intel Committee,” Carlson continued. “The whole thing’s insane, and nobody ever says that. He’s doing exactly the opposite of what he’s supposed to be doing.”
In Tuesday’s TikTok post, Schiff claimed the reason he got the boot was due to his efforts of “holding Trump accountable and standing up to the extreme MAGA Republicans.”
Many Twitter users pointed out the apparent hypocrisy of complaining about losing access to sensitive national intelligence data on TikTok, an app that at least 30 states have banned from government devices for spyware concerns, according to The Daily Signal.
Schiff has been accused of fabricating a phone call and leaking classified information.
His colleague, Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell, was also removed from the committee by McCarthy and has come under fire for allegations that he had an affair with a Chinese spy named Fang Fang.
“It’s nuts,” Carlson reacted. “The idea that people with no integrity and in Swalwell’s case, a history of intimate contact with foreign spies, would even get in the door at the intel committee is crazy.”
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Carlson recommended for Republicans and the media to “just ignore” the congressmens’ complaints.
“There’s nothing they can do about it,” the Fox News host said. “They don’t run the House of Representatives anymore.”
Fox News’ Jeffrey Clark contributed to this report.