Fresno, CA’s daily newspaper the Fresno Bee on Friday ripped into House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) for “doing the dirty work” on behalf of Donald Trump’s White House.
In a scathing editorial, the Fresno Bee charged Nunes with failing to represent his constituents in California by “waving around a secret memo attacking the FBI” instead of focusing on “health care, jobs” and Dreamers.
“Instead, he’s doing dirty work for House Republican leaders trying to protect President Donald Trump in the Russia investigation,” the Fresno Bee wrote.
The editorial noted the timing of Nunes’ secret memo, which coincided with reports special counsel Robert Mueller is honing in on possible obstruction of justice by the president, having interviewed former FBI Director James Comey and Attorney General Jeff Session last week.
“Nunes of Tulare is sheltered in a relatively safe Republican district, and may believe he will pay no political price for unfairly attacking law enforcement and protecting Trump,” the Fresno Bee wrote. “But his performance as chairman of the highly sensitive House Intelligence Committee has been nothing short of embarrassing.”
Nunes has a strong Democratic challenger for this next election in the form of a Fresno County Deputy District Attorney, so Nunes may have sacrificed his political career in a desperate attempt to defend the Kremlin's puppet in the White House.
Kind of makes you wonder why, doesn't it?
He is of the same dung that want to remove California from the union. They are the radical nutso righties. They protect rapist, predators, riggers, liars and cheats. They light fires and start wars for profit like cowards. They enable crooks.
ReplyDeleteThe citizen united money and nra mob own him.
Is he and issa invested in the Russian gas stations in Los Angeles?
Delete@7:41 $OIL!"John McCain, Arizona Republican, declared on Sunday that Russia is
Delete"a gas station masquerading as a country"
and that the United States should be providing military and energy assistance to Ukraine and imposing economic sanctions on Russia mid the fast-moving situation in the region. 3/16/14 next
CRIMEA!
"Putin has admitted for the first time that the plan to annex CRIMEa was ordered weeks before the referendum on self-determination. CRIMEa was formally absorbed into Russia on 18 March, to international condemnation, after unidentified gunmen took over the peninsula." $OIL!
https://news.vice.com/en_us/article/8xm3za/russia-oil-rosneft-infrastructure
Sorry, but you don't have your facts right.
DeleteThe RWNJs in California don't want to secede, they want to split off the northeastern section to form a 51st state. It's nothing more than an attempt to gerrymand the Senate, since it would give RWNJs another pair of senators, not to mention more Electoral College votes.
Fresno is in central CA, not in the "State of Jefferson" area.
House Intelligence Committee is an oxymoron.
ReplyDeleteLooks like corruption runs far and deep.
ReplyDeleteBREAKING: Putin had Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny arrested today, helping ensure that he wins re-election. This comes as Trump continues to demand that his political opponents are investigated and jailed. This isn't a coincidence. It's how dictators work
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Nunes is a disgusting toady. If that fuckwit manages to lose his seat this year I'm sure Trumpy would keep the pathetic deep throated sycophant close by with some cabinet appointment. GAWD I HATE NUNES!
ReplyDeleteIt is #SundayMorning. That means we all need to ask again: Why does Jared Kushner still have a security clearance?
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/tedlieu/status/957632892464705541
Last march when Nunes started his skullduggery I started reading up on him. He has a winery that has Russian ties.Also he was part of twitler's transition team. Remember there was a FISA warrant out for Flynn etc and I wonder if he wasn't caught doing something very illegal in league with the Russians. There is a hysteria to him now that makes me think he is far beyond protecting trump and moved on to covering his own ass .
ReplyDeleteI agree.He is up to his oxters in Russian skulldugery.
DeleteThis one really needs to be in jail. It amazes me they think no one will notice how far out of the ordinary they go to cever this stuff up.
DeleteSeptember 8, 2016: Sessions has a secret meeting with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak in which the two men discuss the dropping of U.S. sanctions on Russia.
ReplyDeleteSeptember 9, 2016: Russian bots begin a 60-day campaign of retweeting Donald Trump 500,000 times.
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/957537773300396032
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ReplyDeletehttps://www.rawstory.com/2018/01/former-national-security-council-member-trump-still-likely-tool-russians/
"“I think it’s really important to remember that this story isn’t about Donald Trump,” she elaborated. “In fact, Donald Trump was a tool and may continue to still be a tool for Russia’s larger mission to sow divisions and create confusion and undermine U.S. democracy and leadership around the world.”"
Sean Hannity has officially cornered the Russian propaganda market: Content on Hannity[.]com currently occupies 3 of the top 10 trending URL's shared by Russian-linked influence accounts, per @SecureDemocracy's Hamilton 68 dashboard.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/RVAwonk/status/956952728605024256
Any criminal defense attorney who's ever represented a client *so* guilty that the phrase "dead to rights" is richly applicable (which is all of us) can answer this question without difficulty. Why is Mr. Trump so afraid of the truth? Because the truth impeaches and convicts him.
https://twitter.com/nytopinion/status/957293130709176320
Trump getting coaching from legal team for Mueller interview - they even hired a "fake Mueller." Trump won't let him work, though - keeps walking out when tough Q's get asked.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/RogueSNRadvisor/status/957437209170272256
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/28/trumpgets-even-criminal-order-use-secret-memo-excuse-fire-robert-mueller.html
ReplyDelete"The Collins flip is strong indication that if a bill to protect the Special Counsel was brought to the Senate floor for a vote, it stands a good chance of passing. The Tillis/Coons bill would allow the Special Counsel only to be fired by the most senior non-recused Justice Department official. The Graham/Booker bill is stronger in that it requires the attorney general to go before a three-judge panel, and the special counsel can only be removed if the panel finds, “misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest or other good cause.”
ReplyDeleteBoth of these bills would make it much more difficult for Trump to fire Mueller, and it probable that steps are going to need to be taken to prevent the President from firing the special counsel that is investigating him and plunging the country into a constitutional crisis.
The Collins shift is a red flag for this White House."
force the resignation/impeachment.
DeleteSource?
Delete"Trump did, in fact, order McGahn to fire Mueller, a directive first reported Thursday by the New York Times. But McGahn told West Wing staff — though not the president — that he would quit before carrying out Trump’s directive, and the president ultimately backed down, people familiar with the events said.
ReplyDeleteThis seems like a minor detail. But at least based on my understanding it is a quite different version of the story than the one reported by the Times last week. The entirety of that account, certainly the sense of drama and confrontation, was based on McGahn telling Trump no and backing his no up with a threat to resign. Trump backed down."
" This account says McGahn told fellow West Wing staffers, though not the President. It sounds much more like a general statement than an ultimatum: ‘I’d resign before I’d do that.’"
"If he didn’t tell Trump, what happened exactly? It’s not clear."
"This makes it sound much more like McGahn just pocket vetoed Trump’s directive. It also raises the possibility that McGahn or his allies floated the Times version of the story and included a deceptively aggressive (and exculpating) version of events." WORDS MATTER!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/this-is-a-very-big-difference
https://www.apnews.com/0b5effc246c142a0a838a6de9af4c2ae/Police-raid-Russian-opposition-leader's-HQ-as-protests-arise
ReplyDelete'Many of the crowds that turned out in generally frigid weather skewed sharply young, apparently reflecting growing discontent among Russians who have lived most or all of their lives under President Vladimir Putin, who came to power on New Year’s Eve 1999.' <THAT!
https://crooksandliars.com/2018/01/cnns-brian-stelter-pro-trump-media
ReplyDelete'Turn on Hannity, Laura Ingraham, Rush Limbaugh or Alex Jones at any point and within minutes, you will be inundated with the most insane rants you have ever heard.'
"The pro-Trump media is escalating its WAR on Robert Mueller. One of their weapons is confusion. "
"you see what's happening here? The more we talk about texts and jokes and memos, the further we get from Trump dishonesty, his unstable behavior, and his attempts to undermine the Russia probes. This is what it means to have two different universes of information."
Nunes isn’t safe.
ReplyDeleteIssa has already decided not to run again because he knows he’ll lose this time.
Hell, yeah, Republicans can stop assuming they’ll automatically get elected. Even their own will turn on them when they stop representing the people and only shill for Corporations and their own wealthy elites. Tables turned.
Maybe the uneducated Deplorables in the south will continue to vote against their own best interests but there are Republicans that just can’t take the hypocrisy any more and will vote independent or even, horrors, for a Democrat before they’ll continue to support these lying bastards. Witness Alabama and Senator Jones.
http://www.politicususa.com/2018/01/28/rep-eric-swalwell-just-blew-the-lid-off-the-gop-secret-brainwashing-memo.html
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BREAKING: All indications are that Trump—via agents in Congress—has forced the retirement of a key witness against him in an Obstruction case that could lead to impeachment. Worse, it's part of a coordinated, illegal effort to intimidate, punish, and discredit adverse witnesses.
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https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/958047997790687232
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/958074534212657152
Here's a *really* scary possibility: McCabe's ouster is part of a GOP effort to discredit the Flynn plea—as implied by this June 2017 story in the far-right Washington Times (often used as a media mouthpiece for Trump allies who need to get a message out).
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/958063886581805057
Trump fired Comey. Trump tried to fire Mueller. Trump says he wants to fire Rosenstein. Trump faced possible testimony from FBI lawyer James Baker—so Baker got reassigned. Trump tweeted invective at McCabe—McCabe was forced to retire.
When do we *wake up* and see the *pattern*?
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson
PS5/ The NEW YORK TIMES is now confirming that, with FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe out of the way, the next Obstruction witness that Trump and his stooges in Congress plan to terrorize and discredit is Acting Attorney General Rod Rosenstein:
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/958057699647918080
BREAKING: All indications are that Trump—via agents in Congress—has forced the retirement of a key witness against him in an Obstruction case that could lead to impeachment. Worse, it's part of a coordinated, illegal effort to intimidate, punish, and discredit adverse witnesses.
ReplyDeletehttps://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/958047997790687232