{"id":1389492,"date":"2022-03-19T08:18:57","date_gmt":"2022-03-19T12:18:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389492"},"modified":"2022-03-19T08:46:51","modified_gmt":"2022-03-19T12:46:51","slug":"kevin-mccarthy-vows-to-remove-adam-schiff-from-intel-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kevin-mccarthy-vows-to-remove-adam-schiff-from-intel-committee\/","title":{"rendered":"Kevin McCarthy Vows to Remove Adam Schiff From Intel Committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fkevin-mccarthy-vows-to-remove-adam-schiff-from-intel-committee%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1389492&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<\/aside>\n<p>House Minority Leader <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/12\/house-gop-leader-kevin-mccarthy-says-putin-evil-but-biden-weak\/\">Kevin McCarthy<\/a> blasted Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Friday, vowing to remove him from the panel if the GOP takes back the majority in this year\u2019s midterm elections after Schiff wrongly alleged <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/17\/hunter-bidens-infamous-laptop-confirmed-in-new-york-times-report\/\">The Post\u2019s bombshell reporting on Hunter Biden\u2019s laptop<\/a> was a Russian \u201csmear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Democrats have politicized our intelligence committee. You\u2019ve watched it year after year since Adam Schiff has become chair,\u201d McCarthy (R-Calif.) told reporters. \u201cNo, he doesn\u2019t warn us about Ukraine or Afghanistan or what\u2019s happening around the world. He tells you about politics.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-nypost-small-post\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/frontcover19.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"231\" height=\"258\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/frontcover19.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=231\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-21583280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/frontcover19.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=462 462w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/frontcover19.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=346 346w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/frontcover19.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=231 231w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/frontcover19.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=115 115w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/frontcover19.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cBut the worst part of it is, you cannot trust what he tells you, that he lies to us,\u201d he continued. \u201cJust watch what has happened. Two years ago, Schiff stated the emails found from Hunter Biden were all [a] smear on Joe Biden [that] comes from the Kremlin. That\u2019s what the head of the Intel [Committee] said.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>After The Post broke the laptop story in the fall of 2020, Schiff (D-Calif.) went on CNN and <a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/521712-ratcliffe-schiff-battle-over-biden-emails-politicized-intelligence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">declared<\/a>: \u201cWe know that this whole smear on Joe Biden comes from the Kremlin. That\u2019s been clear for well over a year now that they\u2019ve been pushing this false narrative about the vice president and his son.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cClearly, the origins of this whole smear are from the Kremlin, and the president [Donald Trump] is only too happy to have Kremlin help and try to amplify it.\u201d Schiff doubled down in the same interview.<\/p>\n<p>However, then<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/19\/john-ratcliffe-info-on-hunter-biden-laptop-not-russian-disinformation\/\">-Director of National Intelligence John Ratcliffe<\/a> disputed Schiff\u2019s claim at the time, and his assessment was backed by <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/10\/20\/doj-agrees-hunter-biden-emails-are-not-russian-disinformation-report\/\">the Department of Justice.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/03\/17\/hunter-bidens-infamous-laptop-confirmed-in-new-york-times-report\/\">the New York Times confirmed<\/a> the existence of the laptop \u2014 17 whole months after The Post first reported on it. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA)\" class=\"wp-image-21575493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-feat-image.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy said Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff cannot be trusted. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">C-SPAN<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cAdam Schiff lied to us one more time,\u201d the minority leader said Friday. \u201cWhy is he still chair of the committee? And why is he even on the committee? In a new Congress, if it\u2019s a new majority, he will not be. <\/p>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignright\">\n\t<\/aside>\n<p>\u201cYou cannot make this committee political,\u201d McCarthy went on. \u201cYou cannot use it as a position of a chairman to lie, and you should be focused on what the American people want you to be focused on around the world.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The hard drive of the laptop contained a trove of emails, text messages, photos and financial documents related to Hunter Biden, his family and business associates \u2014 detailing how the president\u2019s son used his name and relatives as leverage in his overseas business dealings.<\/p>\n<p>A Delaware computer repair shop owner reported the laptop to the FBI, which seized the device and its hard drive.<\/p>\n<p>McCarthy previously called for Schiff\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2022\/01\/10\/mccarthy-ill-boot-democrats-off-committees-if-gop-wins-house\/\">ouster from the Intel Committee earlier this year,<\/a> while vowing to also remove Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.) over his <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2020\/12\/09\/rep-swalwell-wont-say-if-he-had-sex-with-chinese-spy\/\">reported links to a Chinese intelligence agent<\/a>. <\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-02.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-02.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1024\" alt=\"House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA)\" class=\"wp-image-21575467\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-02.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=2048 2048w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-02.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=1536 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-02.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/mccarthy-schiff-intelligence-committee-02.jpg?quality=90&#038;strip=all&#038;w=512 512w\" \/><\/a><figcaption>House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff went on CNN in the fall of 2020 to discredit The Post\u2019s laptop story.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Anna Moneymaker\/Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>At the time, Schiff spokeswoman Lauren French said \u201cit is always difficult to take Kevin McCarthy seriously.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNevertheless, allowing McCarthy to get anywhere near the speaker\u2019s gavel would be catastrophic \u2014 not just because of his propensity for falsehoods and smears, but because he will exist solely to do Donald Trump\u2019s bidding \u2014 even potentially overturning the 2024 results,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>Schiff had no immediate response to McCarthy Friday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy blasted Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff on Friday, vowing to remove him from the panel if the GOP takes back the majority in<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1389492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1389492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1389492\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1389492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1389492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1389492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}