In his remarks, Schiff tied Donald Trump around Kevin McCarthy's neck and yanked the strings tighter. He said that while McCarthy’s rationale for removing him from the committee keeps shifting, "The cardinal sin appears to be that I led the impeachment of his master in Mar-a-Lago for withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid for Ukraine, a nation that was even then at war with Russia, in order to extort that country into helping Donald Trump’s re-election campaign." The impeachment accusations were not “a hoax,” as McCarthy claimed, Schiff continued.