California Senator Adam Schiff spent years positioning himself as the great defender of civility in American politics.
He lectured the nation about dangerous rhetoric and political violence.
And Adam Schiff just got caught red-handed confessing his vulgar fantasy about Trump.
Schiff preached civility while plotting profane attacks
The country is still reeling from the assassination of Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk on September 10th in Utah.
Political violence reached a boiling point in 2025, with two separate assassination attempts against President Donald Trump and Kirk's murder shocking the nation.
Democrats immediately pointed fingers at conservative rhetoric, demanding Republicans tone down their language and stop "inciting violence."
Senator Adam Schiff led that charge.
During a June appearance on NBC's Meet the Press, Schiff delivered a sermon about America's dangerous political climate.¹
"We have seen over the last eight or ten years this proliferation of political violence against members of both parties," Schiff told host Kristen Welker. "And I think one thing that has really contributed to it is the coarsening of the political dialogue, the way that people refer to their political opponents, the ad hominem nature of the attacks, the flirtation with violence."¹
Schiff blamed Trump specifically for encouraging "these reprehensible acts" through his rhetoric.¹
The California Senator positioned himself as the voice of reason, calling on all political figures to "acknowledge on both sides of the aisle the need to bring about a more civil discourse."¹
It was a powerful performance from a man who spent his entire career trying to destroy Donald Trump.
The fantasy Schiff wanted to tweet to Trump
Six months after that lecture on civility, Schiff sat down for an interview with The New Yorker Radio Hour.
What he revealed left jaws on the floor.
Schiff bragged about a vulgar fantasy he entertained during the Russia investigation.²
"I live rent-free in that guy's head, and let me tell you, it's pretty scary in there," Schiff said. "I have a suspicion, which I hesitate to articulate 'cause it's kind of a vain suspicion, but I'll share it anyway."²
The Senator explained that during his deposition of Jared Kushner as part of the Russia Collusion hoax, Trump attacked him on Twitter.
"During the Russian investigation, I'm deposing Jared Kushner. And it is just shortly after Trump has first attacked me on his Twitter account: 'Sleazy Adam Schiff, corrupt this, blah, blah, blah, spends too much time on TV, pushing the hoax,' something like that," Schiff recalled.²
What happened next exposed Schiff's complete hypocrisy.
"And I remember at the time being desperate to respond, I'm being attacked by the president… This was going to tens of millions of people," Schiff explained. "I remember being on the House floor, and Mike Thompson, my colleague from Northern California, grabs my arm and he says, 'Adam, you should tweet back: Mr. President, when they go low, we go high. Go f*** yourself.' And I so wanted to do it."²
Schiff added that if he ever writes a book about tweets he wished he'd sent, "that'll be on the cover."²
This is the same man who just lectured America about the "coarsening of political dialogue" and "ad hominem nature of attacks."
The same Senator who blamed Trump's rhetoric for contributing to political violence now admits he fantasized about telling the President to go f*** himself in front of tens of millions of people.
Schiff's long record of destroying civility
This wasn't a one-time slip of the tongue.
Schiff spent years weaponizing his position to attack Trump with the most incendiary rhetoric imaginable.
As lead manager of Trump's first impeachment in 2020, Schiff delivered closing arguments calling Trump "a man without character" who would "continue trying to cheat" in elections.³
"He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again," Schiff told the Senate. "He has compromised our elections, and he will do so again. You will not change him. You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What's right matters even less, and decency matters not at all."³
Schiff accused Trump of being guilty "as sin" and claimed removing him was necessary because "we cannot be assured that the vote will be fairly won."⁴
That's the opposite of civil discourse.
It's the language of a political operative trying to overturn election results and delegitimize a sitting President.
From 2017 through 2019, Schiff appeared on cable news virtually every day claiming he possessed "direct evidence" of Russian collusion with President Trump.⁵
That evidence mysteriously never materialized.
But Schiff kept making the inflammatory accusations, tearing the country apart with unsubstantiated claims that dominated headlines for years.
He didn't just disagree with Trump's policies, which would be perfectly legitimate.
Schiff actively worked to delegitimize and destroy Trump's presidency through accusations designed to make half the country believe their President was a foreign agent.
That's not the "civil discourse" Schiff suddenly discovered after Charlie Kirk's assassination.
A stunning display of selective amnesia
After spending years leading the most divisive political witch hunt in modern American history, Schiff now claims politicians shouldn't use their power to render presidents "unsuccessful" due to political differences.
At the Texas Tribune Festival in November, Schiff said: "That attitude that you can make a president or a party unsuccessful, no matter what damage it might do to the country, because it's good politics — we have to get past that ruinous idea."⁵
"We have to figure out a way to stop viewing each other as our enemy," Schiff added.⁵
Dilbert creator Scott Adams nailed it: "Schiff's entire game depends on people not remembering what he said yesterday."⁵
The hypocrisy is breathtaking.
This is the same Adam Schiff who led Trump's first impeachment while rushing partisan proceedings through Congress.
The same Schiff who served on the January 6th committee working to criminally prosecute Trump and his allies.
The same Schiff who appeared on every cable news show for years pushing the Russia collusion hoax.
And now he's lecturing Americans about political violence and the "coarsening" of dialogue after admitting he fantasized about telling Trump to go f*** himself.
A majority of Democrats — 54% — agreed that "extreme political rhetoric used by some in the media and by political leaders was an important contributor" to Charlie Kirk's killing, according to an NBC News poll.²
Meanwhile, 73% of Republicans and 53% of independent voters agreed.²
Adam Schiff embodies exactly the kind of hypocritical politician who fuels the division he claims to oppose.
He spent years attacking Trump with the most inflammatory rhetoric imaginable, tried to overturn an election, pushed discredited conspiracy theories, and fantasized about vulgar public insults.
But now that political violence has reached crisis levels, suddenly Schiff wants everyone else to watch their language.
The American people see right through it.
¹ U.S. Senator Adam Schiff, "WATCH: Sen. Schiff Condemns Rise in Political Violence, Calls Out Trump's Misuse of the Military on NBC's Meet the Press," Press Release, June 15, 2025.
² Jason Cohen, "Adam Schiff Decried 'Coarsening' Of Politics — Then Bragged About Wanting To Tell Trump 'Go F*ck Yourself,'" The Daily Caller, December 9, 2025.
³ Adam Sexton, "Schiff's powerful closing speech: 'Is there one among you who will say, Enough!'?," NBC News, February 4, 2020.
⁴ U.S. Senator Ted Cruz, "FACT CHECK // Adam Schiff Admits Impeachment Is About the 2020 Election," Press Release, January 23, 2020.
⁵ Cole Harrison, "Adam Schiff Criticized for Hypocrisy After Condemning Political Attacks on Presidents," PJ Newsletter, November 16, 2025.
