Sen. Adam Schiff creates legal defense fund amid Trump-spurred inquiries

[BumRushDaShow]

Source: USA Today

Aug. 20, 2025, 10:58 a.m. ET


WASHINGTON – Sen. Adam Schiff, a longtime political adversary of President Donald Trump, is bracing for continued legal battles and "baseless smears" from the administration by setting up a legal defense fund.

Trump has called Schiff “shifty” and a “scam artist” who should be arrested for treason after leading the first impeachment during the president’s first term. The Justice Department is investigating potential mortgage fraud, which Schiff has denied.

Schiff created a tax-exempt fund Aug. 15 called the “Senator Schiff Legal Defense Fund.” It’s not clear how much the fund raised initially.

“It’s clear that Donald Trump and his MAGA allies will continue weaponizing the justice process to attack Senator Schiff for holding this corrupt administration accountable," said Marisol Samayoa, a Schiff spokesperson. "This fund will ensure he can fight back against these baseless smears while continuing to do his job."

Read more: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/20/sen-adam-schiff-legal-defense-trump-accusations/85738895007/

[Bayard]

1. At some point,

He'll go after all of the Jan. 6 Committee. He seriously wants to make it illegal to investigate him.

[ancianita]

2. He knows there'll be no point at which he'll win back public opinion, though. So he'll cheat to win, the

beta test being the midterms.

[riversedge]

4. I think the RNC or Repugs will Pay Trump a pretty penny to stay out of the 2028 race and install

Vance. But if Trump has serious charges against him--or even the threat of charges, he will run again--IMHO

[ancianita]

6. A likely scenario, but it will not be an improvement.

Remember, too, that he's got Big Money on his side since Project 2025's Big (Koch) Money won't have established a privatized country; nor will techbros Thiel & Musk have established an AI deepfake autocorrect government and media by then.

To put Vance in is just to let the behind-the-scenes oligarchs solidify their hold on government.

Predicting will be more solid after blue/red state gerrymanders & the midterns.

[FakeNoose]

5. Worst President ever in US history - TV screen from 2024 - this was before he got re-elected

If NBC shows this again, Chump will be ranked #45 and #46

[BumRushDaShow]

3. Biden gave the Committee members pardons

Biden pardons Fauci, Milley and members of Jan. 6 panel

So nothing 45 can do (at least from that aspect), although they are going after other alleged "infractions" (the "mortgage" thing as an example for Schiff, NY AG Tish James, and Fed Governor Lisa Cook).

[bmichaelh]

7. Malicious Prosecution

I wonder if charges are ever brought, whether he and NY AG James can sue Martin and others for malicious prosecution.