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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNunes justifies ending Russia probe with talking point that was debunked 8 months ago
During an interview on Tuesdays 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 Trumps 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 presidents 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 governments support for Mr. Trump.
https://thinkprogress.org/devin-nunes-house-intel-russia-probe-trump-tower-meeting-adoptions-29e45e8dbfc5/
Eliot Rosewater
(31,112 posts)backyard and told me so"
That would be enough for Fox & Friends and SIXTY MILLION deplorable assholes.
SayItLoud
(1,702 posts)And go work in the Oral Office of the White House.
(Just a matter of time)
SoCalMusicLover
(3,194 posts)And he's not going anywhere. Given how conservative his district is, he might even win another term. Hopefully not.
bluestarone
(16,976 posts)PRISON????????????????????????????
OldHippieChick
(2,434 posts)he think we have been?