Devin Nunes tries to rescue Trump -- and may have made the deepening scandal worse
THURSDAY, MAR 23, 2017 08:05 AM EDT
Devin Nunes tries to rescue Trump — and may have made the deepening scandal worse
House Intelligence chair rushes to White House with supposed bombshell — that definitely doesn't help Team Trump
HEATHER DIGBY PARTON
One of the more unusual characteristics of Donald Trump and his closest associates is the extent to which they seem to have psychic powers. Recall that back on Aug. 21 of last year, conservative operative and longtime Trump associate Roger Stone tweeted gleefully, “it will soon be Podesta’s time in the barrel,” referring to Clinton campaign chairman John Podesta. Lo and behold, on Oct. 7 WikiLeaks released its trove of Podesta’s emails.
It wasn’t long after that that Trump’s close ally, former New York mayor Rudy Giuliani, exhibited a similar eerie prescience. Days before James Comey announced that the FBI would examine Clinton emails found on a computer used by Anthony Weiner, Giuliani told Fox News, “I think he’s (Trump) got a surprise or two that you’re going to hear about in the next few days … I’m talking about some pretty big surprises … We got a couple of things up our sleeve that should turn this around.” Was he ever right.
Then, on March 15, in the wake of the president’s manic early-morning tweet-storm accusing Barack Obama of having him wiretapped, Trump demonstrated his own awe-inspiring clairvoyance. He told Tucker Carlson that despite all the denials from every institution and person in a position to know, “I think you’re going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks.”
Wouldn’t you know it? On Wednesday, House Intelligence Committee chair Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., was shown some documents by a “source” that had him so up in arms he couldn’t even take the time to alert the other committee members before he ran to the White House to show the president. When asked if he felt vindicated by this alleged bombshell, Trump replied:
I somewhat do. I must tell you I somewhat do. I very much appreciated the fact that they found what they found, I somewhat do.
It’s amazing how Trump and his people are able to see into the future this way, isn’t it?
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