Ben Shapiro


As always, two things can be true at once.


Adam Schiff has been censured by the House of Representatives. That is one thing that can be true. The other thing that can be true is that because the Republicans just did this, it likely elevates Schiff in his senatorial primary race in California to replace Senator Dianne Feinstein.


Republicans were correct to censure Schiff in the House of Representatives. He is a liar; he has been lying for years on end about Donald Trump and supposed collusion with Russia. He claimed he had access to special information that would blow the cover off the entire scandal. He kept throwing gasoline on the flames in that particular non-scandal.


But as Schiff stood to hear Speaker Kevin McCarthy announce the finding, fellow Democrats jammed the aisles shouting shame and disgrace at the GOP majority while cheering Schiff and patting him on the back.


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That’s because the way that this works in Democratland is, the more lies you tell about Republicans, the more you are treasured among Democrats. The Democrats chanted “shame” at Republicans. And then Schiff came through and was patted on the back by the Democrats.


There was controversy on the Republican side of the aisle a week ago; some representatives on the Republican side voted against censure, not because they didn’t want to censure Adam Schiff, but because the original form of the censure was actually unconstitutional.


The initial version required Schiff to pay a $16 million fine. Thomas Massie, a great congressman from Kentucky, pointed out that we don’t want to have this precedent where the House is simply removing wealth from its members over political disagreements because Democrats will undoubtedly use it on the other side. A lot of people were very angry at Thomas Massie at the time, but Massie was right, and the people who were angry at him were wrong.


So a better form of the resolution passed with all Republicans voting for it and all Democrats voting against it. The resolution argued that Schiff abused his power as the ranking member and chair of the panel and falsely spread allegations about Trump’s supposed campaign collusion with Russia.

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Schiff called himself a truth-teller.


He needs to grow a third arm so he can pat himself on the back a little more.


“You honor me with your enmity. You flatter me with this falsehood,” Schiff boasted. “You, who are the authors of a big lie about the last election, must condemn the truth-tellers, and I stand proudly before you. Your words tell me that I have been effective in the defense of our democracy, and I am grateful.”


Representative Tom McClintock said that the resolution was not punishing Schiff for the things that he was saying, rather, it was more about specific acts, “most particularly the abuse of his position as Intelligence Chairman by implying he had access to classified information that did not exist and his placement into the Congressional Record of the Steele dossier that he knew, or should have known, was false.”


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Schiff, of course, has been fundraising off of all of this. He sent out an email on Tuesday night saying, “These political smear tactics divert the resources of the House away from the pressing priorities that Congress should be addressing.”


Pressing priorities? Congress has never had a pressing priority. They’re a useless legislative body that achieves relatively little on a daily basis.


The truth is that censures very rarely have any material effect. They have a symbolic impact when you censure somebody who’s in the House, but it’s not as though you’re kicking them out; you’re not impeaching them. It has no real impact on anything that they are doing in their lives.


Real impact would be to strip Schiff of his committee assignments.


Here’s the thing about the censure, even though it has no material effect: Everyone goes home happy.


Schiff benefits and the people who are attacking him benefit.


**Ben Shapiro**

Editor Emeritus,

The Daily Wire

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