Adam Schiff’s knee-jerk opposition to all things President Trump landed Schiff in big trouble.

Schif wanted to go on offense against Trump.

But Adam Schiff fell for one Trump trap that turned into his worst nightmare.

Real Time host Bill Maher exposed the Democrats’ opposition to President Trump’s decision to go to war with Iran as nothing more than mindless partisanship.

Democrats like Schiff slammed Trump for launching a war with Iran before Congress voted.

Schiff co-sponsored a War Powers Act resolution to end the Iran War, calling Trump’s actions “illegal.”

Maher read Schiff an administration statement defending the President’s decision to go to war without a vote from Congress, citing the Commander-in-Chief’s Article II authority.

“So, this statement from the administration, ‘The President had the constitutional authority to direct the use of military force…because he could reasonably determine that such use of force was in the national interest.’ That’s too vague for you?” Maher asked Schiff.

Schiff fell for it hook, line, and sinker.

“Totally vague,” Schiff replied.

That’s when Maher sprung the trap.

“Okay, because that’s from Obama about Libya,” Maher said, citing Obama’s disastrous regime change war in Libya that resulted in human slavery markets operating in the middle of cities.

Schiff was so discombobulated that he got Obama’s failed regime change wars mixed up and began prattling on about Obama’s decision to take America to war in Syria as opposed to the Libya war Maher referenced.

“Well, Obama made the argument, initially, that he could go into Syria without authorization. I, and many others, pushed back on that argument. Ultimately, he did not go forward with going after Assad, even though Assad was gassing his own people, because he thought he might lose the vote in Congress,” Schiff began.

Schiff then tried to parse the definition of a war, claiming America is at war now, and Obama’s wars didn’t count.

“But I respect the fact that that was important to him, and the fact that he did not have the support of Congress meant that we weren’t going to go forward. We are unquestionably at war now. The founders made an extraordinary decision at the time, which was not to give that power to the president, but to give it to the Congress, because they worried, I think, as Hamilton said, that a president would grow too fond of making war,” Schiff added.

Schiff then tried to lump in Trump’s successful operations to capture Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and destroy Iran’s nuclear program under one umbrella to set the ground to impeach Trump, supposedly being a lawless warmonger.

“After Venezuela, after the earlier Iran conflict, after bombing Nigeria and Iraq and Syria, he’s grown too fond of this. And Congress…needs to step up, assert its role, or it’s going to be gone for good. And then, any time a president, for any reason, anywhere in the world, for any length of time, will feel free to make war, and that would be hugely dangerous for the country,” Schiff concluded.

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