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California Democrat Rep. Adam Schiff tweeted last week that a “conservative city council” had “banned” the LQBTQ flag from Huntington Beach government property. A few days later, Twitter provided a swift fact check to the tweet correcting the record.
Twitter, which is owned by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, provided a Community Notes label to Schiff’s tweet to provide more context.
“The city council voted to ONLY fly municipal/state/federal flags as well as the POW/MIA flag. No religious flags, no special interest group flags, etc,” the fact check said on Schiff’s tweet, which also included a link to a report from CBS Los Angeles.
“Huntington Beach reconsidered its display of the Pride Flag with a proposed city ordinance limiting which flags would fly on the staff outside City Hall. The Huntington Beach City Council voted to move forward with limiting flags — under the ordinance, only government flags and the POW/MIA Flag are allowed to fly outside Huntington Beach City Hall — meaning the Pride Flag won’t be flown anymore during Pride Month in June. The Tuesday night vote was 4 to 3,” the outlet added.
Below is a screenshot of Schiff’s tweet and the Community Note.
Schiff, who announced recently that he’s running for the U.S. Senate, is still facing blowback after he spent years pushing uncorroborated Trump-Russia collusion theories.
Fox News host Tucker Carlson recently reminded everyone about Schiff pushing the “elaborate and intentional” Russia hoax that alleged that President Donald Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia to help him win the 2016 presidential election.
Carlson said that Schiff should resign, especially given he claimed he had seen evidence proving Trump colluded with Russia.
“Schiff knew there was nothing substantial at the core of the Russian collusion story. At the very center, it was hollow, it was a sham. But Schiff never suggested this in public. Instead, he did the opposite. He spent years on television telling you it was totally real, shut up. Every single time was a lie. If you were following this closely at the time, you might have suspected this. Schiff never produced any of this so-called evidence. He just asserted its existence,” Carlson said.
“Adam Schiff is a sociopath. He will do or say anything to achieve power. He is unfit to hold office. He should resign,” Carlson said.
WATCH:
Schiff was also recently grilled by a CNN host over past remarks he made regarding former President Donald Trump and allegations that he misused intelligence information for political gain.
Schiff, a California Democrat who recently was removed from the House Intelligence Committee by Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.), spoke to Dana Bash, host of the network’s “State of the Union” program about losing his committee seat.
“You said that there was direct evidence of the fact that Donald Trump colluded with Russia back in 2016. Special counsel Robert Mueller said in his report — quote — ‘The investigation did not establish that members of the Trump campaign conspired or coordinated with the Russian government,’” Bash said. “Republicans argue that’s proof that you used your position on the Intelligence Committee to intentionally mislead Americans, which is why you should not be on that committee.”
Schiff countered that Mueller’s report did not actually say that — it did — adding that Trump’s 2016 campaign manager shared internal polling information with a Russian agent. “To most Americans, that is collusion,” said Schiff. “Now, whether it’s proof beyond a reasonable doubt of the crime of conspiracy — that’s what Bob Mueller was talking about — I have always distinguished between the two.”
Bash then turned to another example used by GOP lawmakers when they talk about the issues they have with Schiff remaining on the Select Committee on Intelligence.
“Ahead of the first Trump impeachment, you said the committee had not spoken to a whistleblower,” Bash said. “In fact, that turned out not to be true.”
“When I was asked the question, I thought they were referring to whether we had brought the whistleblower in,” Schiff claimed. “And I should have been more clear in my answer.”
The host then noted that The Washington Post’s fact-checking team said that his claim about a whistleblower was false.
Democrat Adam Schiff triples down on the Russian collusion hoax. pic.twitter.com/T4HmvT1QVe
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 29, 2023
"Ahead of the first Trump impeachment, you said the committee had not spoken to a whistleblower. In fact, that turned out not to be true."
ADAM SCHIFF: "I should've been more clear." pic.twitter.com/6qZsQbTwdE
— RNC Research (@RNCResearch) January 29, 2023
