Boomerang effect Schiff follows in Menendez’s footsteps

Lately, times have been tough for pro-Armenian senators and congressmen in the United States. Some of them have already faced formal charges and been brought to justice. But let’s take it step by step.

Let’s begin with Democrat Adam Schiff, who gained wide notoriety for his openly anti-Azerbaijani stance—and not only that. Recently, President Donald Trump offered a very apt description of this associate of global Armenian interests, calling him a sick man.

“Adam Schiff is one of the lowest forms of scum I've ever dealt with in politics. He's a horrible human being, very dishonest person…I think he’s actually a sick person,” said the head of the White House, commenting on the latest news about the investigation into this senator.

It should be recalled that a grand jury in Maryland is reviewing criminal charges against Schiff in connection with alleged mortgage, bank, and mail fraud, as well as false statements made to financial institutions. These violations were uncovered by the Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA), which claims that the senator simultaneously listed both a property in Maryland and a condominium in California as his primary residence for tax and mortgage purposes.

This is not the first time Donald Trump has spoken so sharply about the Democrat. In February 2024, in a post on his Truth Social account, he launched a fierce attack on Schiff, calling him a “slimeball” and a “lowlife.” Earlier, in September 2019, he accused Schiff of treason after the latter’s speech in the U.S. House of Representatives, in which Schiff presented a distorted version of the July 2019 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy. The White House chief said the congressman had deliberately misrepresented his words.

Schiff accused the American leader of “collusion with Russia” and, as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, was the first to reveal that U.S. intelligence services were investigating a whistleblower complaint related to Trump’s phone call with Zelenskyy.

In response, Trump wrote on Twitter (now X) that Schiff had fabricated a “fake and terrible” statement during a congressional hearing and presented it as if it were the U.S. president’s own words in the call with the Ukrainian leader.

“It bore no relationship to what I said on the call. Arrest for treason?” the US president emphasised in his post, calling on Schiff to resign from Congress.

Subsequently, the conflict between Trump and Schiff took on a long-term character. In July 2025, Donald Trump called the pro-Armenian senator a thief and accused him of tax fraud.

“Adam Schiff is a thief!” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform. “He should be prosecuted, just like they [the Democrats] tried to prosecute me, and everyone else — The only difference is, we were totally innocent, it was all a giant hoax!

Adam Schiff is a thief! He should be held accountable just as they [the Democrats] tried to hold me and everyone else accountable. The only difference is that we were completely innocent — it was all a massive hoax,” Trump wrote on Truth Social, sharing a tax document on the platform as evidence of his claims.

In addition, Trump published another post accusing Schiff of falsifying documents to obtain a loan, stressing that he should face prison time for his fraudulent schemes. Earlier, he had already called Schiff a “con artist” over his alleged mortgage scam.

Taken together, all these facts suggest that the Oval Office’s occupant possesses ample evidence against this pro-Armenian senator — and that Adam Schiff may face the same fate as his anti-Azerbaijani counterpart, Bob Menendez, who has a long track record of lobbying Armenian interests in the U.S. Congress.

For over 20 years, Menendez repeatedly made anti-Azerbaijani and anti-Turkish statements and initiated hearings aimed at discrediting the country. It was he who authored the bipartisan bill proposing sanctions against Baku and titled “Supporting Armenians Against Azerbaijani Aggression,” which he attempted to push forward during his tenure as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

Then, in September 2023, Menendez was charged with corruption after he and his wife, Nadine Arslanian—of Lebanese Armenian descent—were accused of engaging in corrupt dealings with three businessmen from New Jersey and receiving hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes. In 2024, a New York court found him guilty of extortion, obstruction of justice, and accepting bribes in exchange for political favours to businessmen linked to Egypt and Qatar. During an FBI search of his home, agents discovered about half a million dollars in cash, gold bars worth around $150,000, and a luxury Mercedes-Benz convertible.

At the beginning of this year, the New York Post reported that the now-former Democratic senator had been sentenced to 11 years in prison — a verdict that came into effect in June. Menendez’s wife also received a prison sentence of four and a half years. The investigation determined that she played a key role in the corruption scheme, in which her husband, as chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, had used his official position to benefit third parties.

A special place among this cohort of servants of global Armenian interests in Congress should be reserved for Democrat Frank Pallone. His “achievements” in serving the Armenian lobby could easily fill several pages. They include accusing Azerbaijan of conducting “ethnic cleansing” in Karabakh, persistently calling for sanctions against Baku, initiating a resolution to “recognise the independence” of the separatist entity known as the “Nagorno Karabakh Republic,” and, of course, launching a smear campaign ahead of COP29, when he vehemently urged the international community to boycott the climate conference in Azerbaijan’s capital.

However, as the saying goes, the law of the boomerang has never been repealed. Today, Menendez and Schiff — these self-proclaimed defenders of global Armenian interests, generously financed as they were — are getting what they deserve. This reflects the objectivity and firm course of the head of the White House and inspires hope that those who still manage to hide behind the money of the Armenian lobby will not remain unpunished for long.