Adam Schiff called Tulsi Gabbard a Russian asset on national television.
She just resigned to sit with her husband through bone cancer treatment.
What he posted within hours of that announcement is something Megyn Kelly called two words that say everything.
Schiff Used Gabbard's DNI Resignation to Attack Her While Her Husband Has Bone Cancer
Tulsi Gabbard announced her resignation as Director of National Intelligence citing her husband Abraham's diagnosis with an extremely rare form of bone cancer.
She said she was stepping down effective June 30 to be with him.
Adam Schiff used the tragedy to launch a vile attack on Gabbard.
He opened with condolences.
"My thoughts go out to Tulsi Gabbard and her family, as her husband battles this serious health problem," Schiff wrote. "I hope and pray that he makes a speedy and full recovery."
Then he kept going.
"While the circumstances around her departure are deserving of our sympathy, let's be clear: Tulsi Gabbard's only positive contribution to our nation's national security is her resignation."
He called her tenure "marked by a devotion to the person of the president and not to the security of the country."
Megyn Kelly said it directly: "Omg you are so inappropriate."
White House Deputy Press Secretary Abigail Jackson called it "Absolute ghoul behavior. Disgusting."
Ambassador Mike Huckabee said it was a new low he didn't think Schiff was capable of reaching.
Miranda Devine named him for exactly what he is: "You snake."
Gabbard Declassified Half a Million Pages and Saved Taxpayers 700 Million at DNI
In eighteen months as Director of National Intelligence, Gabbard declassified more than half a million pages of government documents.
Records covering the Trump-Russia investigation, the Obama administration's surveillance of Trump's 2016 campaign, the 2019 impeachment whistleblower complaint, and the JFK and RFK assassinations.
Every page Schiff spent years trying to keep buried.
The ODNI workforce cuts she drove saved taxpayers more than $700 million a year.
She built the Director's Initiative Group from scratch to investigate how the intelligence community was weaponized against American citizens during the Biden years.
The National Counterterrorism Center, under her watch, blocked more than 10,000 individuals with narco-terrorism ties from entering the United States and added over 85,000 to the terror watchlist.
Schiff called that record worthless on the same day her husband got a cancer diagnosis.
Schiff Called Gabbard a Russian Asset on TV and Then Voted Against Her DNI Confirmation
Schiff went on The Rachel Maddow Show in February 2025 to warn that Gabbard was unfit to lead the intelligence community — "zero, nada, zilch" experience, he said, before raising her alleged Kremlin ties.
When she was confirmed anyway, 52-48, he voted no.
Gabbard began declassifying documents that exposed the Russia hoax apparatus Schiff helped construct; he attacked the releases as partisan.
He ran for Senate in California in 2024 as the defender of norms and decency — the adult in the room, the man who cared about institutions.
Gabbard spent the last eighteen months doing one of the hardest jobs in the federal government while her husband's health deteriorated.
When she left, she left with grace.
Adam Schiff just proved he has not changed at all.
A man's wife steps down from a Cabinet post to sit with him through cancer treatment, and the Senator from California reached for his phone to score political points.
That's who he is.
Sources:
- Brooke Singman and Robert Schmad, "Exclusive: Tulsi Gabbard Resigns from Trump Cabinet," Fox News, May 22, 2026.
- "Statement: Senator Schiff Statement on Tulsi Gabbard Resignation," schiff.senate.gov, May 22, 2026.
- justmindy, "The Snake Emerges: Adam Schiff's Heartless Jab at Tulsi Amid Her Husband's Cancer Battle," Twitchy, May 22, 2026.
- Brooke Singman, "Gabbard Establishes New Intelligence Community Task Force to Restore Transparency," Fox News, April 8, 2025.