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Showing Original Post only (View all)Four Biggest Takeaways From Bombshell Leaked Audio Of Rep. Devin Nunes [View all]
By Kate Riga | August 9, 2018 8:03 am
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Here are the four biggest revelations from Nunes speech:
1) Nunes is worried that without the blind and unconditional protection of a Republican majority, the President will be in serious legal jeopardy from Special Counsel Robert Muellers probe.
This puts us in such a tough spot. If Sessions wont unrecuse and Mueller wont clear the President, were the only ones, which is really the danger We have to keep all these seats, we have to keep the majority. We do not keep the majority, all of this goes away.
2) Though their attempts seem to have petered out for now, there is still will from at least some faction of the Republican caucus to impeach Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.
The Senate would have to drop everything theyre doing and start with impeachment on Rosenstein, and then take the risk of not getting Kavanaugh confirmed. So its not a matter that any of us like Rosenstein, its a matter of timing.
3) Nunes stated strongly that a politician disseminating stolen information given to him or her by a foreign entity is a crime (which sounds an awful lot like what the President, his family members and his associates may have done). In his hypothetical, Nunes is using Portugal as the foreign entity and Rodgers as the receiver.
So Cathy was getting secret information from the Portuguesethat may or may not be unusual. But ultimately, lets say that the Portuguese came and brought her some stolen e-mailed and she decided to release those. Okay now we have a problem, right? Because somebody stole the emails, gave them to Cathy, Cathy released them. Well if thats the case, thats criminal.
4) On a less serious note: Even Nunes, one of Trumps most stalwart defenders, sometimes cringes at the Presidents tweets:
you know you have a mixed bag on the tweets right? Sometimes we love the Presidents tweets and sometimes we cringe on the Presidents tweets, but theyre trying to make a politicalthis is all political as to why that story ran the New York Times on the tweets.
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Four Biggest Takeaways From Bombshell Leaked Audio Of Rep. Devin Nunes [View all]
DonViejo
Aug 2018
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Nunes is giving us all a masterclass on what's it's like to be an elected official w/o any integrity
MrScorpio
Aug 2018
#3
Even if the 'Portugese' secret info wasn't stolen, it was still an in kind donation
Mc Mike
Aug 2018
#4
I didn't remember that one, but do remember Pimpy O'Keefe's 'citizen journalist' expose attempt
Mc Mike
Aug 2018
#27
I know! He's going to find some Democrat named Cathy and blame the whole thing
calimary
Aug 2018
#15
I don't know why they're not shitting bricks about the house then? At minimum ...
uponit7771
Aug 2018
#32
I do agree I think some s*** is out about to hit the fan there's no way they're going to let the Dem
uponit7771
Aug 2018
#37
Yeah...a lot of the deplorables seem to gravitate to candidates that can barely speak coherent
Bromwell
Aug 2018
#22
This story is FRONT page above the fold in Spokane's 'The Spokesman Review'.
PearliePoo2
Aug 2018
#26