Rep. Adam Schiff’s un-American effort to silence critics on Twitter

• by Susan Shelley
• PUBLISHED: January 10, 2023 at 2:44 p.m. | UPDATED: January 12, 2023 at 4:30 p.m.

Rep. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., speaks as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol holds a hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Oct. 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

Rep. Adam Schiff, local congressman and national media darling, has surfaced in the Twitter Files. Independent journalist Matt Taibbi found internal company correspondence documenting that Schiff’s office pressured the social media giant to ban a journalist from the platform.

Separately, Speaker Kevin McCarthy confirmed that Schiff will be removed from his longtime perch on the Intelligence Committee. McCarthy told Fox News in November that Schiff has “lied to the American public time and again.”

And that’s true. For example, in March 2017, Schiff declared that he had seen “more than circumstantial…