Schiff Gets His Rear End Handed To Him – Viral Video…b See more

Adam Schiff walked into a Senate confirmation hearing on Wednesday, thinking he had a trap set for former Attorney General John Ashcroft. He was wrong. He is almost always wrong. And at 84 years old, John Ashcroft is still sharp enough to spring the trap right back on the man who set it.

Schiff opened with his favorite gambit — the loaded question designed to produce a soundbite rather than an answer. “Mr. Blanche has said he believes the President has both the right and the duty to use the Justice Department to go after his enemies. Do you subscribe to that view?”

Ashcroft’s response was so clean and so complete that it deserves to be read in every civics class in America:

“I believe that the Attorney General of the United States has the right and responsibility to enforce the law uniformly, and if the law has been broken by the President’s ‘enemies,’ he has a duty. They do not become exempt from following the law merely by their enmity to the president of the United States. The people who break the law are in enmity with the people of the United States. We used to call people who break the law ‘public enemies.’”