Maddow Blog-'They have him': Trump escalates campaign against Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff

The president’s highly dubious effort to prosecute one of his Democratic targets keeps getting worse.

‘They have him’: Trump escalates campaign against Democratic Sen. Adam Schiff - MSNBC apple.news/AMY0ArU9mRFa...

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But as ridiculous as Trump’s anti-Obama hysterics were, the Democratic former president wasn’t his only target.
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....Right off the bat, it’s important to emphasize that Schiff has already responded to these allegations; he's insisted that he’s done nothing wrong; and the evidence to the contrary appears difficult to take seriously......

But stepping back, the fact that Trump is peddling dubious claims against one of his favorite targets — all while pretending he’s maintaining a healthy distance from a story he’s obviously directly involved in — isn’t the biggest problem. In fact, what makes this controversy all the more important is how it came to exist in the first place.

The New Republic’s Greg Sargent reported this week that the Fannie Mae Crimes Unit and the Federal Housing Finance Authority (FHFA) referred this to prosecutors as part of a complex process described by experts as “highly irregular,” “extremely unusual” and “extraordinarily unusual.”

It led Sargent to wonder whether Trump is “corrupting the bureaucracy ... by seeding it with loyalists at all levels who are willing to manipulate it to carry out his crazed vendettas.”

I have a hunch we haven’t heard the last of this one.