April 2017, Two Russian Pranksters Punk'd Rep. Adam Schiff - Black & Blonde Media

Well, SN Parks, I looked this up. After pages of right-wing websites and blogs making fun of Rep. Schiff, I found an article in the mainstream media dealing with this incident. The Atlantic's Julia Ioffe recently wrote a piece outlining Putin's current efforts to destabilize the western democracies, and laid out some of the details of this incident.

Kuznetsov and Stolyarov, the two Russian pranksters, are described as having cozy ties with state officials. The article relates that they have successfully prank-called 'an extensive list of American victims' including John McCain and Mitch McConnel.

As far as the call to Rep. Schiff, "a spokesman for Schiff said, “Before agreeing to take the call, and immediately following it, the committee informed appropriate law-enforcement and security personnel of the conversation, and of our belief that it was probably bogus.”)"

Your article from Black & Blonde Media doesn't include those details, or the background that lays out Russian efforts to interfere with Western democracies, does it? No. It's aimed simply at trying to discredit Rep. Schiff, and by extension the investigation into Russian interference with the U.S. election last fall.

Please ask yourself, why are conservatives trying to discredit this investigation? Please take the time to read this article from the Atlantic for a better look at how Putin's efforts are playing out:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/01/putins-game/546548/