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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNunes memo is garbage
Its full of unsubstantiated gibberish and completely hangs on the Steele dossier.
Unfortunately for Devin and his staff, if they had done any actual research they would have known it has long been established that the FBI was aware of Carter Page connections to Russian agents long before the Dossier was put together.
Link: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4365340/Read-the-GOP-memo.pdf
https://www.axios.com/former-trump-adviser-carter-page-met-with-russian-spy-1513301363-79198f56-3248-4cf0-b226-9d4ddbf59bf0.html
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)WE NEED to understand FACTS dont matter
Lindsay
(3,276 posts)It's all about the narrative.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)angrychair
(8,699 posts)It will be interesting to watch the fallout from this as this memo is garbage and says nothing that rightwing trolls havent been trolling for months with no traction or evidence. That hasnt changed.
ProudLib72
(17,984 posts)because none of this goes back further than when SHE took over the Fusion contract.
Look at where SHE is mentioned in the memo -- at the very top. The intention is to make us believe that everything that followed was fallout from HER initial partisanship (which, should be read as "corruption" because the GOP would never try to be partisan ).
That returns us to the the "Lock her up" meme that is so easy for the base to understand.
JawJaw
(722 posts)...with mounting incredulity..
Burst out laughing at the stupid "insurance policy" reference in the last sentence!
Is THIS is, Devin?
Really? LOL.
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)OliverQ
(3,363 posts)But it's so blatantly biased.
regnaD kciN
(26,044 posts)The memo, bogus as it may be, is only needed as a pretext to allow Trump to shut down the investigation. Think he's going to refrain from doing so just because anyone outside the Republicans in Congress find it unconvincing?
asiliveandbreathe
(8,203 posts)Oh, my, as George Takei would say -
Gothmog
(145,243 posts)herding cats
(19,564 posts)Those who take what they're told at face value and never question.
What impact it has remains to be seen, but without some serious pretzel work by the media, it's a lot of meh.
Gothmog
(145,243 posts)herding cats
(19,564 posts)Stealing the image and sharing the tweet.