Mueller Probes an Event With Nunes, Flynn, and Foreign Officials at Trump's D.C. Hotel

[MelissaB]

Mueller Probes an Event With Nunes, Flynn, and Foreign Officials at Trump’s D.C. Hotel

[b]Devin Nunes has been a pitbull for the president, growling at the prosecutors investigating Trumpworld. Now an event that Nunes himself attended is under Mueller’s microscope.

The Special Counsel’s Office and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are scrutinizing a meeting involving former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, one-time National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and dozens of foreign officials, according to three sources familiar with the investigations.

The breakfast event, which was first reported by The Daily Sabah, a pro-government Turkish paper, took place at 8:30 a.m. at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 18, 2017—days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration. About 60 people were invited, including diplomats from governments around the world, according to those same sources.

The breakfast has come under scrutiny by federal prosecutors in Manhattan as part of their probe into whether the Trump inaugural committee misspent funds and if donors tried to buy influence in the White House. The existence of that probe was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The Special Counsel’s Office is also looking at the breakfast as part of its investigation into whether foreigners contributed money to the Trump inaugural fund and PAC by possibly using American intermediaries, as first reported by The New York Times. Robert Mueller’s team has asked Flynn about the event, according to two sources familiar with the Special Counsel’s Office questioning.

Nunes, who has not been accused of any wrongdoing, has been perhaps Trump’s most important congressional ally over the last two years. After serving on Trump’s transition team, Nunes became a vigorous defender of the president against federal and congressional inquiries. The California Republican pushed a misleading memo alleging misconduct in the FBI investigation of Trump’s associates that the bureau said contained “material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.”

More: https://www.thedailybeast.com/mueller-probes-an-event-with-nunes-flynn-and-foreign-officials-at-trumps-dc-hotel?via=twitter_page

[manor321]

1. NICE! Go get him Mueller!

[empedocles]

3. Big drips

[calimary]

24. Well, Nunes certainly qualifies as one.

[empedocles]

25. If the pols get rolled in this conspiracy, Nunes is my nominee to be the first to go.

[MelissaB]

4. Words can't express how happy this makes me.

I've been waiting for this asshat to be pulled in.

[triron]

5. The shit is piled deep.

[MelissaB]

6. "So, they wouldn't be investigating it if they weren't following the money."

“If you’re a prosecutor all of the right players are there,” said former federal prosecutor Paul Pelletier, referring to the breakfast. “In a lot of ways breakfasts like this are totally normal. It happens all the time in Washington. So, they wouldn’t be investigating it if they weren’t following the money. The big question would be who is paying for it? It’s got to be part of the broader scheme of who is trying to use money to influence the White House.”

[Pepsidog]

16. So true. Carl Bernstein agrees with you.

[MelissaB]

7. Another snip

“The fact that the prosecutors are looking at this is part of the whole question of the Trump way of doing business—how it may have given all kinds of foreign powers inroads into the White House,” said Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. “These cases are important because they involve possible elements of corruption and could tell us more about the special physics of Trumpworld influence which looks more like what you get in a banana republic.”

And within Trumpworld, there are few players better known for their willingness to “throw themselves on grenade, after grenade, after grenade” in the defense of Trump than Nunes, according to a former senior White House official.

The bromance goes both ways. Late last year, President Trump even went as far as to bizarrely state that Nunes deserves the Medal of Honor for “bravery” in his blocking-and-tackling against the Trump-Russia investigations, only to subsequently correct himself to say Nunes should get the Medal of Freedom instead. (The Medal of Honor is a military decoration.)

Read the article. All of it. Really!

[MelissaB]

8. Buried lede: dark $$ from foreign countries being investigated as flowing through American citizen

cutouts to the GOP and Trump

[Hassler]

9. It's easier to spell dunce when you have Nunes.

[Fuzzpope]

10. Nunes, McConnell, Nunes, McConnell..

God, I can't decide which one I want to see behind bars more.

Oh well, guess it's a tie.

#lockupbowfaadozemotherfuckers

[TomSlick]

11. Please, God.

In your infinite mercy, please allow the bastard be indicted.

[Achilleaze]

12. republican traitors deserve justice

charge, try, convict, lock them up

[UTUSN]

13. Devin is "a pitbull"!1 - hardly.

[tblue37]

20. A nervous, yippy, snapping Chihuahua. nt

[UTUSN]

23. He's Portuguese (heritage)

[Ilsa]

14. Rick Wilson's take on it:

Link to tweet

?s=19

I told you from the start that Devin Nunes was going to stick his dick in a toaster at some point.

[Elwood P Dowd]

17. Toaster Boy must be sweating.

Wonder how much Nunes dirt Flynn and the others have given Mueller?

[cstanleytech]

15. I for one would be happy if Mueller found evidence that led to Nunes serving a few decades in jail.

[Scurrilous]

18. K&R

[paleotn]

19. Would love to see Nunes behind bars.

Like permanently.

[lindysalsagal]

21. Wish we had a better verb than probe

For referring to these asholes

[Sunsky]

22. This made my night nt

[duforsure]

26. Nunes will

Be going to prison , and others who also believed they would get away with everything they were doing will too. Mueller will have everything on him before he comes in, and have him dead to rights on all his criminal acts before he even enters the room.

[JI7]

27. fucking Nunes . i kind of want him to go down even more than Flynn and many of the others

[Vinca]

28. Nunes is neck deep in this. That's why he's been acting like wallpaper lately.

Lock him up!