House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff, D-Calif., defended hiring officials from the National Security Council to assist in the panel’s oversight of the Trump administration.
“If the president is worried about our hiring any former administration people, maybe he should work on being a better employer,” Schiff said, according to CNN.
Schiff said the committee has a “long tradition of hiring out of the intelligence community, out of the National Security Council.”
An aide clarified that no recent committee hire came directly from the White House.
The Hill reported one of the hires was Abigail Grace, who served on the NSC staff from 2016-2018. It was not clear if she was the only person hired who had worked on the NSC staff during the Trump administration.
Trump fumed about the hires Thursday morning on Twitter, accusing Democratic-led committees of “stealing” people who work at the White House.
“A continuation of Witch Hunt!” he wrote.
At his State of the Union address, Trump told Democrats not to investigate him, saying, “If there is going to peace and legislation, there cannot be war and investigation.”
A day after the comment, Schiff announced the Intelligence Committee would investigate Trump’s finances.
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