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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(108,035 posts)
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 05:57 PM Mar 2018

Nunes justifies ending Russia probe with talking point that was debunked 8 months ago

During an interview on Tuesday’s edition of Fox & Friends, House Intelligence Committee Chair Devin Nunes (R-CA) justified the decision made by Republicans on the committee to end its probe into the Trump campaign for possible collusion with Russia with a Trump talking point that was debunked eight months ago.

“If you look at the one example of which was I think bad judgement which is where they met with a Russian lawyer, but it had to do with Russian adoptions,” Nunes said, after he was asked to explain how the House Intelligence Committee arrived at its conclusion that there was no collusion.

Nunes was referring to a June 2016 Trump Tower between Trump’s top campaign aides and a Kremlin-connected lawyer who promised to give them dirt on Hillary Clinton. When the New York Times broke news of the meeting last summer, Donald Trump Jr. released a statement claiming they “primarily discussed a program about the adoption of Russian children that was active and popular with American families years ago and was since ended by the Russian government.”

But within days, that statement — which we later learned was dictated by President Trump aboard Air Force One — was revealed to be a lie.

Trump Jr. eventually released the email correspondence that set up the meeting, and the word “adoption” does not appear a single time. Instead, the Russia-connected publicist who helped set up the meeting wrote to the president’s eldest son and said, “The crown prosecutor of Russia met with his father Aras this morning and in their meeting offered to provide the Trump campaign with some official documents and information that would incriminate Hillary and her dealings with Russia and would be very useful to your father… This is obviously very high level and sensitive information but is part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump.”

https://thinkprogress.org/devin-nunes-house-intel-russia-probe-trump-tower-meeting-adoptions-29e45e8dbfc5/

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Nunes justifies ending Russia probe with talking point that was debunked 8 months ago (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Mar 2018 OP
He could have said "we know there is no collusion here because a space alien landed in my Eliot Rosewater Mar 2018 #1
Breaking (projected) news: Nunes to leave Senate.... SayItLoud Mar 2018 #2
Nunes Is In The House SoCalMusicLover Mar 2018 #4
I'm sure your right BUT i was hoping bluestarone Mar 2018 #5
Has he been living under a rock or does OldHippieChick Mar 2018 #3

Eliot Rosewater

(31,112 posts)
1. He could have said "we know there is no collusion here because a space alien landed in my
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 06:13 PM
Mar 2018

backyard and told me so"

That would be enough for Fox & Friends and SIXTY MILLION deplorable assholes.

SayItLoud

(1,702 posts)
2. Breaking (projected) news: Nunes to leave Senate....
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 06:21 PM
Mar 2018

And go work in the Oral Office of the White House.

(Just a matter of time)

 

SoCalMusicLover

(3,194 posts)
4. Nunes Is In The House
Tue Mar 13, 2018, 06:34 PM
Mar 2018

And he's not going anywhere. Given how conservative his district is, he might even win another term. Hopefully not.

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