House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Devin Nunes (R-CA) used the majority of his public witness-grilling time during the past two weeks’ impeachment hearings to air conspiracy theories about the Ukrainian government, the Democratic National Committee and the 2016 election. Most wrote it off as nothing more than another poorly coordinated Trump-ally attempt to distract from the meat of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.
Nunes is an unhinged liar! He knows he met with Shokin in Vienna. This sounds like the midnight visit to the White House to try and prove a lie against Obama. Remember that? Parnas is going to out Nunes. Impeachment proceedings will reveal him and his lies.
According to CNBC, when the aides became aware they’d have to inform Schiff, they opted to cancel the trip and take the meetings over the phone and via Skype.
It would be interesting to know if some of the A/V material Parnas has turned over relates to these calls. And thank goodness we have the House, otherwise…
According to CNBC, when the aides became aware they’d have to inform Schiff, they opted to cancel the trip and take the meetings over the phone and via Skype.
So that means Microsoft has recordings of their discussions.
If Michael Tracy is any indication, just think of the whupass Aunty Maxine has Planned for Devin.
Also, posted in another thread, but very interesting as the plot thickens. Schiff and his committee never got into the corrupt DoJ’s role in all of this.
On his July 25 call with the President of Ukraine and elsewhere, Trump has repeatedly pointed to a theory advanced by Shokin and Lutsenko, and later touted in U.S. media by Giuliani.
Wow. I hope things get really sticky for Nunes really fast. All this behind-the-scenes nonsense is starting to look less and less different from what these GOP guys say to the cameras and in their hearings, and I include Graham’s investigations in this pattern, too. They are doing dirty work out in the open that previously was conducted off screen (and abroad): I think there are more members of Congress who got themselves mixed into a lot of Russian propaganda. It’s the easiest way to explain their demented and self-defeating loyalty to Trump.
(Remember their weird trip to Russia a couple years ago? And Nunes’s midnight trip to White House? And the rumors about the SoCal rep who was defeated being on Putin’s payroll? And whatever the deal is with Gaetz? And whatever is going on with Graham?)
It’s either the Russians have them or there are incriminating photos.
Or both.
I realize I sound like a conspiracy theorist.
I hope Dems can pursue these leads swiftly and reveal the sordid underbelly of the whole party, whether it runs under the House, through the DoJ, into the VP’s office, to State - wherever! This kind of corruption cannot be allowed to stand!!
And if voters are fine with it in 2020, I guess that is the country we have created.
I saw last night that each flight was over $14,000 round trip. And that’s about right – if he was travelling first class.
Business class would have cost about half that “Premium economy” would have been about $2.6K round trip (including the only non-stop service on Austrian Airlines).
Steerage (i.e. regular economy) would have cost as little as just under $1000 – on Turkish Airways.
They are probably required to fly only on a US airline, but your lowly senator flies coach (there was a picture recently of Sanders and Warren crammed in together on a plane).
It’s all so confusing. How could this be? Then it dawned on me. If you accept the one fact that Nunes is dumb as rock it’s all so easy to grasp. My Grandmother’s boyfriend Mr. Occam used to tell me about folks like Devin.
Does anyone know enough about congressional procedure to know whether nunes is subject to discipline simply for having sat on the committee while knowing these claims were pending, let alone for having done the crimes?
In theory, Congress can expel any member (w/ 2/3rds majority) or censure them (simple majority) that they want to for any reason they want to, since they get to make their own rules.
We need to proceed cautiously since Parnas isn’t an impartial actor in all this and he could just be blowing smoke like Shokin and Lutsenko were doing for Giuliani and co. But he does seem to have the goods, given all the documents he’s handing over. He seems to be happy playing the role of the drug dealer from The Fugitive, getting himself leniency by selling out a bigger fish to the authorities.
