House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) suggested Thursday that President Trump played a role in House Republicans’ decision to enter a secure area, known as a SCIF, where impeachment witness depositions are held.
In a CNN interview, Schiff said “the storming of the SCIF and all the other high jinks that the president concocts with them” showed a “lack of seriousness.”
{mosads}Host Chris Cuomo then asked the lawmaker if Trump “knew what they were doing or had a hand in what they did in storming the SCIF.”
“Without a doubt,” Schiff said. “That happened the morning after a meeting with these … Tea Party members who came storming in the next day.”
“Much of the Republican party has become a cult of personality around the president,” he said later.
Updated: 2:28 p.m.