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Why Trump’s Lawyers Keep Attacking Adam Schiff

Instead of mounting a defense of their client, the president’s lawyers homed in on remarks delivered by the House Democrat back in September.
Source: Alexander Drago / Reuters

Never in the field of political conflict has so much been made by so many out of so little.

Because the topic here is caricatured speeches, I hasten to add: Winston Churchill didn’t say that. As the Senate’s impeachment trial of Donald Trump begins, one of the more curious, and less enlightening, elements has been the focus by the president’s legal team on an old speech by Representative Adam Schiff, the leading House impeachment manager.

During a September 26 hearing of the House Intelligence Committee, which he chairs, Schiff delivered an ill-advised

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