Nunes: Democrats Made Russians 'Successful' By Pursuing Dossier

[DonViejo]

Source: Talking Points Memo




By MATT SHUHAM Published OCTOBER 26, 2017 5:56 PM

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-CA) on Thursday blamed Democrats for what he called “successful” Russian interference in the 2016 election, saying that the “commotion” created by Democrats over a dossier of information about President Donald Trump had played into the Russians’ hands.

“What has allowed them to be successful in this sabotage of an election is that they’re trying to change public opinion,” Nunes told Fox News’ Neil Cavuto, referring to Russia.

Nunes attempted to argue that revelations that Hillary Clinton and the DNC partly funded the research on Trump by former MI6 official Michael Steele could have biased the Congress and the intelligence community’s potential use of that information. (Republicans previously funded research about Trump.)

“With all of this commotion, and with all of the nonsense that was put out, don’t you think it would have been important for the Congress to know back in January, when we were first briefed on this Trump dossier, that it was actually paid for by the opposition party?” Nunes asked.

Read more: http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/nunes-democrats-made-russians-successful

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. I cant take anymore of this treason.

[Kablooie]

43. Oh yes you will. You will take lots and lots more before they are done.

[Iliyah]

2. Lord give me strenght

Something must be coming forth that has the GOP scared because they are pooping all over themselves.

[Maeve]

3. Two questions--what difference to the truth of the report does this make?

After all, many of the details have been proven true and NONE proven false...and secondly, why, if Clinton and the DNC knew what the dossier said, didn't they USE it in October 2016?

Third question...just who has what part of you in what kind of a vice to make you act this way, Nunes?

[WinkyDink]

25. Trump is claiming that HRC paid for FICTION-WRITING.

[Maeve]

36. And the Trumpanzee knows fiction!

He spouts little else....so, projection, again.

And if she paid for it, why didn't she use it? The only answer that makes any sense is that she didn't know about the dossier before the election.

[lagomorph777]

39. The DNC should loudly boast about vetting Dotard J. Turd.

We and our enemies would respect them more.

Devin Nutcase always spews nonsense that sounds like he's meth-addled. I can never trace the "logic" in it. I guess that's why deplorables are sucking it right up.

[bluestarone]

4. Nunes would be

1st snake kicked out of snake nest

[Scarsdale]

5. How did HE make it on to

the Intelligence Committee? Were all the other stupid people already on other committees??

[blueinredohio]

6. I have never but I think I'll donate to anyone who runs against Nunes D OR R

[YOHABLO]

7. Nunes is nothing but a shady fuck head. What garbage.

[Botany]

8. So the democrats made Russia hack our elections so they would lose the elections?

Sadly a % of the American people buy this crap.


https://www.democraticunderground.com/10029751674

[underpants]

13. I did some digging and at least found this - our old friend Ari

Link to tweet

In other words, someone hired by someone hired by someone hired by the Clinton campaign talked to sources in Russia and got dirt that the campaign didn’t use that could have undermined the Kremlin’s goal of electing Mr. Trump, ergo, Hillary colluded with Mr. Putin. For that, Mr. Fleischer earns undisputed Alternative Fact of the Week honors.

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/editorial/bs-ed-1027-alt-fact-russia-dossier-20171025-story.html

[Botany]

15. Gas lighting and or The Big Lie

Gas Lighting

Gaslighting is a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt in a targeted individual or in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the target and delegitimize the target's belief.


Joseph Goebbels:

“If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it.

*****

BTW don't forget Ari's work on the Iraq war.

We know for a fact that there are weapons there.

Ari Fleischer
Press Briefing
January 9, 2003

[sprinkleeninow]

21. And he's still at it. Poxy. eom

[Beartracks]

31. Wow. The balls. Even uses "collude" to defang Trump investigation.

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[Dawson Leery]

9. The entire GOP is corrupt.

[WinkyDink]

26. Dang, I love me some nutshell goodness!

[Honeycombe8]

10. This is nonsense. But they shouldn't have been handed this ammunition.

It doesn't look good.

[bettyellen]

33. It's not ammo. They know that the GOP originally hired them and Don Jr met w Russians ....

Everyone knows this is bulkshit.

[Honeycombe8]

37. Apparently not.

The law firm for the Hillary Clinton's campaign and the Democratic National Committee has acknowledged its clients' role in paying a company called Fusion GPS for opposition research on Trump. Some of that research became the dossier of allegations about the now-President and Russia.
This matters because:
Fusion GPS is the research group that hired as a subcontractor the former British intelligence officer Christopher Steele. And it was Steele, working for Fusion GPS sometime after it hooked up with the Democrats, who compiled the now-famous dossier.

but also....

(Steele's) investigations related to Mr. Trump were initially funded by groups and donors supporting Republican opponents of Mr. Trump during the GOP primaries, multiple sources confirmed to CNN. Those sources also said that once Mr. Trump became the nominee, further investigation was funded by groups and donors supporting Hillary Clinton.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/26/politics/trump-clinton-podesta-steele-dossier-fusion-gps/index.html

We gain nothing by not acknowledging facts. So the HRC campaign did fund it, but they didn't START the funding by that research group. That was apparently started by REPUBLICANS.

[bettyellen]

38. It's not ammo because collision with reps of a foreign state is different.

It's different than standard oppo research.

[BumRushDaShow]

11. OMG that's a pretzel-twisted vat of logic right there.

Democrats were "successful" in enabling Russia to have Drumpf win the election.

[Mr. Ected]

12. The real question is, how will the dossier implicate Nunes

And who will be his lucky cellmate?

[IthinkThereforeIAM]

14. Michael Steele?

... surely, they jest. Or is it Christopher? Or is it Shirley?

[kimbutgar]

16. I so wish he could lose in November 2018

Unfortunately that part of California is filled with low information chemicallly poisoned people that affected their brain cells. I drove though that area last year and it smelled so rancid. The chemical smells were overwhelming.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

17. Give it up, Nunes. You can't even fake talking points. Sheesh. What a sucker. Must be ensnared. . nt

[NBachers]

18. Jesus Christ this fucking hemorrhoid just shits diarrhea right out of his fucking mouth, doesn't he?

Projectile-vomiting of shit-drenched lies.

[C Moon]

19. That's the best ya got, GOP?

The GOP trying their typical spin-doctoring. Next, they'll repeat it again, and again, and again, and again, and again.

[BigmanPigman]

20. I would pray for Mueller to nail Nunes but

I am an Atheist...I will just wish really hard instead.

[sprinkleeninow]

22. That's okay. We possess a 'spirit' and it attunes itself to all things good.

It works kinda mysteriously. I can't even explain properly.

I believe when one generates positive and beneficent hopeful 'thoughts', they translate into a kind of 'prayerful' substance.

I don't want to offend by these words of mine.
Please forgive me if I have.

[BigmanPigman]

23. If hoping that Nunes gets nailed with the rest of them

is a positive and beneficial hopeful thought then I am sure I can do that. I will wish my head off for such an outcome.

[sprinkleeninow]

24. Good deal! Meet and right and proper resolution as

a stepping stone in saving our nation and we the people.

[machoneman]

35. Me too! I think Nunes...

is once gain going all in to protect Trump since he has nothing to lose.

I thought after the last kerfuffle (singularly issuing subpoenas w/o any knowledge by the rest of the bi-partisan committee) we might have heard the last from this dunce. Ah, but since then news has appeared of a Mueller or FBI investigation into his corrupt acts. I venture that now he feels that he has nothing to lose and may earn a pardon from Trumpenfuehrer for his efforts here.

[WinkyDink]

27. The brain explodes in trying to find the language to describe these....things in human skin.

[Beartracks]

28. Dumb, twisted, illogical argument. The GOP base will most certainly believe it.

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[WinkyDink]

29. Yes, because it's "the real collusion with Russia," according to FOX.

[OnDoutside]

30. Isn't ANYONE digging up information on Nunes ???

He's clearly not the smartest villain in the GOP, and is likely to have left a trail. So how come no one is coming out with stuff on him ?

[Demtexan]

32. He has something to do with a winery.

Mostly likely cleaning up some dirty money.

He is in this neck deep.

[Pachamama]

34. Huh???

There is no logic in their reasoning and arguments
I don't give a rats ass who paid for this dossier and how much or even why...

What is relevant is it exists and we all acknowledge the dossier exists. And the contents of this dossier whether having been used (or not!) by any of the parties prior to the election or after - is accurate and tells the truth about Donald Trump, his campaign and the players involved in his election and why!

Who the fuck cares who paid and why etc....

What's relevant is what the dossier contains.....

THE TRUTH!!!!

[Nac Mac Feegle]

40. The way these scumbags torture logic

Would offend the worst offenders at Abu Gharib.

[Skittles]

41. LOL

he thinks everyone is as stupid as Trump fans

[Hugin]

42. Here's where the Pubes try to discredit the Russian Investigation by discrediting a single Dossier.

They are attempting to try this thing in the court of public opinion. Working the refs, as they always do.

The Prosecution needs to keep strongly and repeatedly emphasizing that the Steele Dossier was a small part of a much wider investigation on a scandal which was recognized by at least seventeen domestic intelligence agencies and several allied foreign governments.

In fact, the only role for the Steele Dossier so far, was that the Special Prosecutor was confirming the information it contained. Which, apparently the investigators have been successfully doing.

Oh, and for you lurkers reading this... Even if the Russian Collusion is somehow discredited. There is ALWAYS the whole Obstruction issue.

[coolsandy]

44. Nunez ought to go to jail for obstruction of justice.