Rep. Adam Schiff, a top Democrat leading the House Intelligence Committee’s probe into Russian meddling in the elections, was pranked by 2 Russian radio comedians who claimed they had nude photos of President Trump.
President Trump and Schiff lobbed insults at each other on Twitter.com this week, with Trump calling the leading Democrat “Little Adam Schiff.”
Somehow, the two Russian pranksters, Vladimir Kuznetsov and Alexey Stolyarov, got Schiff on the phone in Washington, D.C. and convinced him that they were Ukrainian politician Andriy Parubiy, who had damaging photos of the president taken in Russia during the Miss Universe pageant in 2013.
According to audio of the call, Schiff cautioned the caller that “our Russian friends” could be eavesdropping on the call, and he warned the man to choose his words carefully.
The man went on to tell Schiff he had “pictures of naked Trump” and a female escort in Russia who had a “strange reputation”.
The comedians said the escort traveled to New York and met with Trump and obtained video recordings of Trump.
The prankster added that President Vladimir Putin wanted Trump to know that the damaging photos and videos would never see the light of day.
The prankster told Schiff that Putin promised “all those compromising materials will never be released if Trump will cancel all Russian sanctions.”
Schiff told the man that he would speak to his friends in the FBI to “figure out how we can obtain copies” of the embarrassing photos and videos.
When the photos never materialized after the April 2017 phone call, Schiff later told the Atlantic that he and his office suspected the call was a hoax.
The committee “informed appropriate law-enforcement and security personnel of the conversation, and of our belief that it was probably bogus,” a spokesman for Schiff told the Atlantic.
According to the Daily Mail, a member of Schiff’s office continued emailing the radio pranksters desperately seeking the damaging photos of Trump.
The Russian comedians reportedly assured Schiff’s staffer they would transfer the pictures to Schiff through their contact at the Ukrainian embassy in Washington, D.C.
President Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., was investigated by Congress and Special Counsel Robert Mueller for taking a meeting at Trump Tower with a Russian attorney who claimed she had damaging information on then-candidate Hillary Clinton prior to the 2016 election.
Trump’s supporters note the irony that Schiff was caught doing the same thing Trump Jr.
was investigated for: colluding with the Russians to get dirt on a presidential candidate.
On Monday President Trump sent a tweet accusing Schiff of being “one of the biggest liars and leakers in Washington.”
