Rep. Scott Perry delivered a blistering response to a whistleblower’s claim that Sen. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., then a congressman, instructed staff members to leak classified information in 2017 as part of an effort to undermine President Donald Trump during his first term.

In an interview with Newsmax on Wednesday, the Pennsylvania Republican called the revelations “outrageous” and said they validated public mistrust of both government institutions and the intelligence community.

Perry joined Newsmax’s “Wake Up America” to react to documents obtained by Newsmax on Tuesday that revealed a Democrat whistleblower told the FBI that Schiff, as a House member, approved leaking classified information in order to discredit Trump over the since-debunked Russia collusion scandal.

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