President Donald Trump’s eldest son lashed out Thursday night at Rep. Adam Schiff, the Democratic chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who every Republican on the panel demanded step down hours earlier.
GOP members of Congress have claimed Schiff leaked testimony during closed interviews linked to investigations into alleged links between the 2016 Trump campaign and Russians, unproven ties that Special Counsel Robret Mueller’s probe ruled out in its final report.
Trump Jr. called Schiff ‘the tinfoil hat brigade’ of the Democratic party for his continuing insistence that the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlinm and said he was ‘full of Schiff.’
‘Think about it. Two years of this crap. Funded by Hilary Clinton adn the DNC, perpetrated by, let’s call it, 90 per cent of the mainstream media,’ he vented.
‘Adam Schiff has been peddling so much bullschiff for the last two years, and he’s still doing it!’ Trump Jr. quipped. ‘He really schiffed the bed.’
Donald Trump Jr. eviscerated Democratic Rep. Adam Schiff on Thursday during a speech in Grand Rapids, Michigan before President Donald Trump spoke to a raucous rally crowd
Don Jr. savaged Schiff, the Democratic House Intelligence Committee chairman, as ‘full of schiff’ and said he ‘really schiffed the bed’
Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, is facing calls from every Republican member of the panel to step down because he continues to maintain the Trump campaign colluded with Russians
‘You think that guy should have a security clearance?’ he asked, calling Schiff’s access to state secrets ‘the greatest joke, other than the Russia collusion joke, in modern history.’
Don Jr. also took a shot at Michael Avenatti, the recently arrested former lawyer of Trump antagonist and porn actress Stormy Daniels.
‘This week alone, MAGA stands for something a little different: Michael Avenatti Got Arrested! MAGA!’ he boomed from the podium.
Avenatti has been accused of bank and tax fraud and could face decades in prison.
The president was headed to Michigan Thursday to reboot his political fortunes in the wake of a near-total exoneration by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.
As Democrat after Democrat enters the 2020 primary race, each of the president’s public appearances is seen as a campaign statement – a job interview for a second four-year term in the White House.
As he left the White House, trump had automotive jobs on his mind, looking to catch a second bolt of lightning in a Michigan-shaped bottle. The stage was a campaign-style rally in Grand Rapids, a booming midwestern city of 200,000 in a state he was supposed to lose in 2016.
‘We’re opening up car plants in Michigan again for the first time in decades,’ he told reporters. ‘They’re coming in, really pouring in. Car companies are coming in, Toyota just announced $13.5 billion coming in to our country. And Michigan is booming and Ohio is booming and North Carolina, South Carolina, Florida, a lot of places.’
All of those places are states the president must win if he aims to be a two-term leader.
‘This has been happening pretty much since I’ve been president,’ he claimed.
Red ‘MAGA’ hats were out in force on the streets, with thousands of people lined up beginning at dawn to see a raucous victory lap that put the special counsel probe firmly in Trump’s rear-view mirror.
Unlike the two years of Trump’s protests about witch hunts and partisan FBI agents, he signaled an eagerness Thursday to move on from the Mueller era.
‘There was no collusion at all. There never was. Everybody knew it. I wish you could have got it in one week instead of taking two years but the result was great,’ he said.
Brad Parscale, the president’s charismatic campaign manager, warmed up the crowd by promising ‘free stuff’ – Trump swag signed by the president himself – to fans who joined his ambitious phone-texting database.
Parscale managed to tie together Trump’s relief at Mueller’s benign endgame with his hatred for ‘fake news.’
‘Two years of that nonsense. Collusion delusion, all led by the great people on the stage behind you,’ he mocked, pointing to a platform swarming with TV cameras and broadcasters.
Some of Trump’s supporters said Thursday that Trump has a chance to start the 2020 cycle with a clean slate.
‘The campaign starts today,’ said Mary Warner, a sixty-something mother of two who stood outside the Van Andel Arena in downtown Grand Rapids. ‘We’re done with all this Mueller nonsense, thank God, and now it’s going to be so much easier.’
Greg Aselbekian, a stock trader who came to Michigan from Chicago to see Trump for the 13th time, said that ‘in a way it seems almost like it’s all new, like Trump is wiped clean.’
‘We had huge momentum after election night,’ Aselbekian recalled. ‘Everybody was just gung-ho and happy about him. His supporters were energized.’
‘Right now, this is – that. This is like, they finally ended the hoax.’
Near a stage where a live band played rock-and-roll standards, Trump campaign spokeswoman Kayleigh McEnany told DailyMail.com that they both have it right.
‘That’s a fair characterization,’ she said. ‘This president has been under investigation since before he even became president, since the FBI investigation began in 2015. So we’ve had three years of relentless investigation based on nothing.’
‘Here we are today: No more special counsel, no more investigating, and a president who can govern,’ McEnany said.
The road to 2020 may run through the rust belt, and Trump is likely to visit Michigan over and over in the next 19 months.
‘If there’s a way for Trump to win this time without winning Michigan again, no one has made a good case for it yet,’ a Republican operative there said Thursday.
‘He’ll be back again and again. Grand Rapids is going to look like Grand Central Station in 2020.’
McEnany said the president will be flogging the jobs-heavy message that worked so well in the midwest last time around.
‘President Trump won this state, a state not won by a Republican president since the 1980s,’ she said. ‘And he won it because he promised jobs, he promised reviving manufacturing, he promised to raise wages.’
Outside the arena, midway through a red-hatted line that snaked for blocks, auto worker Joe Williams said he has seen no reason to doubt it.
‘I voted for him and I’ll vote for him again, and we’ll see what happens,’ said Williams, who makes machine parts at a General Motors plant in a nearby suburb.
‘It’s like he says. There was no collusion in this Russia thing, and the jobs are coming back, and Make America Great Again, and let’s build the wall.’
‘He’ll be our president for four more years,’ said Williams, who took the day off to stand in line and see his hero up close. ‘I don’t care what anybody says.’
President Donald Trump will travel Thursday to Grand Rapids, Michigan for his first public campaign rally since Special Counsel Robert Mueller cleared him of allegations he colluded with Russia to steal the 2016 election
Trump made Grand Rapids his final campaign stop in 2016, speaking to a few thousand people at 1 o’clock in the morning before heading home to New York City to await what would be a world-stunning victory
Trump boasted Thursday on Twitter that manufacturing jobs including those in the automotive sector are coming back to the rust belt; Fiat Chrysler said last month that it will create 6,500 new jobs in Michigan as it ramps up Jeep production
Voters in Grand Rapids gave Trump most of his 2016 statewide margin in Michigan
The president brings a 50 per cent approval ratings to Michigan on Thursday, according to Rasmussen Reports, a number 3 points better than Barack Obama’s at the same point in his first term in office
The Van Andel Arena is where Trump will host a rally on Thursday, in downtown Grand Rapids
The president won Kent County, Michigan by about 9,500 votes in 2016, but the same county gave the state’s new Democratic governor a 11,600-vote edge two years later, setting up Michigan as a bellwether for 2020
General Motors committed to investing $1.8 billion at plants in six states and to creating 700 new jobs this month