Adam Schiff on Trump Accusing Him of Mortgage Fraud: It’s Their New ‘Weapon’ to Go After Their Critics

RUSH TRANSCRIPT:
WELKER: “President’s and the administration is targeting you of what they allege is mortgage fraud. I want to read a little bit of what President Trump posted on social media. He writes, quote. Adam Schiff has engaged in a sustained pattern of possible mortgage fraud. Adam Schiff that his primary residence was in Maryland to get a cheaper mortgage and rip off America when he must live in cafornli because he was a — fannie mae says you engaged on misrepresentation of occupancy. Are these allegations true? How do you respond to them?”

Schiff: “They’re patently false and the president knows it and the housing agency president’s person pulte knows it. He’s doing the president’s bidding against me. Against Letitia James, against this person on the Federal Reserve. Mortgage is their new weapon to go after their critics, but I’ve been very open about my residency both in California and in Maryland with my constituents and with the lenders so there’s no there there, but the common denominator is they will manufacture anything to go after their critics, after members of Congress to try to silence them. After John Bolton, after people on the Federal Reserve, after generals, after former presidents. They’re investigating Comey and Clapper, the obamas, the clintons, basically, it’s free rein with a corrupt leadership of the Justice Department.”