The war to “get” Donald Trump didn’t just start with the Russia hoax—it began in a closed-door meeting led by then-Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA), according to a Democrat whistleblower who worked alongside him for years on the House Intelligence Committee.
This career intelligence officer—himself a registered Democrat and longtime friend of Schiff—says that a panicked Schiff held a meeting after the 2016 election where he revealed his intention to nefariously smear the newly elected President Trump with the hopes of ultimately getting him indicted.
“In this meeting, Schiff stated the group would leak classified information which was derogatory to president of the United States Donald J. Trump. Schiff stated the information would be used to indict President Trump,” the FBI memo said.
It continued, “[Redacted] stated this would be illegal and, upon hearing his concerns, unnamed members of the meeting reassured [redacted] that they would not be caught leaking classified information.”
When the whistleblower warned this would be illegal, others reassured him they “would not be caught leaking classified information.”
The source says Schiff had a personal motive that went beyond wanting to hurt the opposing side—he’d been promised the post of CIA Director if Hillary Clinton had won. Trump’s victory cost him that dream job.
The whistleblower took his concerns to the FBI in 2017, but had no idea the bureau had already been cooking up a scheme in conjunction with Hillary Clinton to spin the Russiagate hoax against Trump. Obviously, the intelligence agency had zero interest in exposing the illegal anti-Trump plot Rep. Schiff was carrying out at the time. Instead, they took the whistleblowers claims and buried the evidence he gave them away in a dark corner of the building.
The evidence of what Schiff was doing would have stayed buried to this day if it weren’t for Donald Trump winning reelection and putting Kash Patel in charge of the FBI. Director Kash Patel declassified the hidden memos.
We found it. We declassified it.
Now Congress can see how classified info was leaked to shape political narratives – and decide if our institutions were weaponized against the American people. pic.twitter.com/PCpLFLuPmI
— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) August 12, 2025
In an August 2017 interview, the whistleblower told the FBI that Democrats on the committee “believed” Russia had hijacked the election and the U.S. was in a constitutional crisis. Leaking classified intel to the press, they thought, was “one way to topple the administration and fix the constitutional crisis.”
In one case, a sensitive document viewed by only a few members of the committee appeared in the news almost verbatim within 24 hours. The whistleblower suspected Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA), who “had a reputation for leaking classified information.” Swalwell, of course, is infamous for falling for the Chinese honeypot scheme involving a spy aptly named “Fang Fang.”
The memos suggest Schiff’s obsession with removing Trump wasn’t political strategy—it was personal vengeance, backed by an FBI that didn’t just look away, but helped keep it in the dark.
It’s bad enough that Schiff helped orchestrate one of the dirtiest political takedowns in modern history. But the real kicker? He failed upward. Schiff now sits in the U.S. Senate, armed with even more power, influence, and taxpayer-funded resources to carry out his political vendettas. And if history is any guide, his number-one target will remain President Trump — not because Trump did anything wrong, but because exposing Schiff’s role in the Russia Hoax would unravel his entire career.
This isn’t just about an old smear campaign. It’s about a man who built his political brand on deception, escaped accountability, and is now positioned to do it all over again — this time with the full weight of the Senate behind him. Schiff isn’t just a partisan hack. He’s the kind of operator who will burn the truth to the ground if it gets in the way of his ambition. And now, he’s got more matches than ever.