Adam Schiff has made a career out of dodging inconvenient truths.
The California Senator thinks he can smooth-talk his way out of any corner.
But Adam Schiff got caught red-handed when CNN host asked him one question about crime numbers.
Schiff stumbles when confronted with Trump’s crime-fighting success
Democrats love to bash Trump’s law enforcement surge in Washington, D.C. as some kind of authoritarian power grab.
They’ve spent weeks clutching their pearls about federal agents actually doing their jobs.
But CNN’s Erin Burnett just handed Schiff some numbers that made him squirm like a worm on a hot sidewalk.
"So, when you look at the numbers there, though, this is according to Washington, D.C.’s official database last week," Burnett said, clearly setting up something Schiff didn’t want to hear.
Then she dropped the boom.
"Here they are — a 44% decrease in violent crime in the three weeks since the federal surge, right? Compared to the same period a year ago, that includes a 44% drop in homicides compared to the same time last year."
The crime statistics don’t lie, even if politicians do.
Washington, D.C. went from a war zone to actually safe enough for normal people to walk around – and it happened in just three weeks after Trump deployed federal resources.
"So, if that is the outcome of what he’s doing, is that something to actually celebrate?" Burnett asked.
Watch Schiff dodge and weave when facts get uncomfortable
This is where things got pathetic.
Any honest person would look at a 44% drop in violent crime and say "Yeah, that’s pretty good news for the people who live there."
Instead, Schiff went into full politician mode.
"Well, I don’t think I can analyze what D.C.’s crime numbers were," Schiff stammered.
You read that right.
The guy who spent four years analyzing every Trump tweet suddenly can’t figure out basic crime statistics when they make his political opponent look good.
But Schiff wasn’t done making a fool of himself.
He immediately pivoted to complaining about National Guard deployments in Los Angeles, calling them "completely unnecessary" and whining about how it "squanders the goodwill of the National Guard."
Schiff actually said this with a straight face: "In California, we love the National Guard. We value them for their heroic efforts during times of natural disaster."
Right, because helping secure the border and fight crime isn’t heroic – only fighting fires counts as real work for our military.
Then he really showed his true colors.
"But this really polarizes the public with respect to the guard," Schiff complained.
Translation: How dare Trump make the military popular with conservatives again?
Democrats can’t handle Trump delivering real results
Look, here’s what’s really going on.
For months, Democrats told us that Trump’s law enforcement surge was dangerous, unconstitutional, and wouldn’t work anyway.
Now the numbers are in, and violent crime in Washington, D.C. dropped by nearly half in three weeks.
That’s not just good – that’s spectacular by any measure.
But instead of admitting they were wrong, Democrats like Schiff are pretending they can’t read basic statistics.
Schiff claimed he couldn’t analyze D.C.’s crime numbers, but he sure had plenty of opinions about military deployments in California.
Funny how that works.
When the numbers make Trump look bad, Schiff can cite statistics down to the decimal point.
When the numbers show Trump’s policies working exactly as promised, suddenly math becomes too complicated for a U.S. Senator.
The truth is, Schiff knows exactly what those crime numbers mean.
They mean Trump was right about law enforcement, Democrats were wrong, and their soft-on-crime policies got people killed.
They mean all the pearl-clutching about federal overreach was just political theater.
Most importantly, they mean ordinary Americans are safer when you actually enforce the law instead of making excuses for criminals.
Schiff would rather change the subject than admit any of that.
He’d rather complain about National Guard morale than celebrate fewer murders in America’s capital.
That tells you everything you need to know about where his priorities really are.
¹ Ian Hanchett, "Schiff on if Drop in D.C. Crime After Fed Surge Should Be Celebrated: I Can’t Analyze D.C.’s Numbers, But Guard in L.A. Was Bad," Breitbart, September 3, 2025.
² Ibid.
³ Ibid.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Ibid.
⁶ Ibid.
⁷ Ibid.
