Rep. Nunes: Conspiracy Advocate With Poor Questions and Nasty Witness Insults

Nunes Speaks from Conspiracy File Not Much Else

(Now caught in his own spider web)

Ranking member Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) showed lousy questioning skills loaded with plenty of insults of witnesses with few facts (AP report). 

But, first these two major updates on Nunes previously unknown Ukraine antics and this related post.

UPDATE from CNN: Exclusive: Giuliani associate Lev Parnas willing to tell Congress Nunes met with ex-Ukrainian official to get dirt on Bidens  

UPDATE from Washington Post: Top House Democrat says ethics probe of Nunes is likely over alleged meeting with Ukrainian about Bidens

Original Post:

REP. DEVIN NUNES (R-CA): “President Trump had good reason to be wary of Ukrainian election meddling against his campaign.”

THE FACTS: That’s not credible. The theory that Ukrainians interfered in the U.S. election and that Democrats cooperated in that effort is unsubstantiated.

Fiona Hill, who was Trump’s special assistant to Trump on the NSC testified it was a “fictional narrative.”

Trump “was told by his officials that the theory was completely debunked” long before he pressed Ukraine to investigate it – that official was Tom Bossert, Trump’s first homeland security adviser.

Broadly, the theory contends that a hack of the DNC in 2016 was a setup designed to cast blame on Russia but actually was cooked up by or with the help of Ukrainians. But the evidence points conclusively to Russia, not Ukraine.

Plus, S/C Mueller indicted 12 members of Russia's military intelligence agency and concluded that their operation sought to help Trump's candidacy, not Hillary Clinton’s, as the conspiracy theorists and Trump have it.

NUNES: Trump also has good reason to be wary “of widespread corruption in that country.”

THE FACTS: But the hearings have produced bountiful testimony that Trump was singularly focused on making Democrats the target of Ukrainian investigations and the committee is reviewing whether Trump pressed Ukraine for a political “favor” to investigate Democrats in exchange for the aid, as a whistleblower alleges and others have testified.

Plus, Trump had $391 million in congressionally approved assistance withheld from Ukraine from July to September.

Note: DOD certified to congressional committees on May 23 that Ukraine had made enough progress on reducing corruption, and before the July hold on that aid, Trump had approved sending aid to Ukraine nearly 50 times without holding for corruption concerns.

Witnesses testified that Trump did not articulate concerns about Ukraine corruption other than expressing interest into investigations that would benefit him politically.

That was proven by Trump's July 25 call to Ukrainian President Zelenskey as they discussed military aid with Trump concluding: “I would like for you to do us a favor, though. Investigate Joe Biden, his son and Democrats going back to the 2016 U.S. election.”

Trump was citing in part the discredited conspiracy theory involving Ukraine in that election.

My 2 cents: Voters in Nunes’ CA district should seriously think about tossing him out of Congress next election – he is truly a disgrace to them at least in my view.

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