Nunes memo is garbage

[angrychair]

It’s full of unsubstantiated gibberish and completely hangs on the Steele dossier.
Unfortunately for Devin and his staff, if they had done any actual research they would have known it has long been established that the FBI was aware of Carter Page connections to Russian agents long before the Dossier was put together.

Link: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/4365340/Read-the-GOP-memo.pdf

https://www.axios.com/former-trump-adviser-carter-page-met-with-russian-spy-1513301363-79198f56-3248-4cf0-b226-9d4ddbf59bf0.html

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. And that is all trump needs to fire everybody and he will

WE NEED to understand FACTS dont matter

[Lindsay]

2. Yep.

It's all about the narrative.

[asiliveandbreathe]

4. It's garbage..easily refuted..if intent to obstruct justice...bye bye - eom

[angrychair]

9. I agree

It will be interesting to watch the fallout from this as this memo is garbage and says nothing that rightwing trolls haven’t been trolling for months with no traction or evidence. That hasn’t changed.

[ProudLib72]

15. Reading the memo, it would seem that the corruption was all HER fault

because none of this goes back further than when SHE took over the Fusion contract.

Look at where SHE is mentioned in the memo -- at the very top. The intention is to make us believe that everything that followed was fallout from HER initial partisanship (which, should be read as "corruption" because the GOP would never try to be partisan ).

That returns us to the the "Lock her up" meme that is so easy for the base to understand.

[JawJaw]

3. I just read the whole thing

...with mounting incredulity..

Burst out laughing at the stupid "insurance policy" reference in the last sentence!


Is THIS is, Devin?

Really? LOL.

[asiliveandbreathe]

5. Exactly - LMAO - eom

[OliverQ]

6. It really is. Trump supporters think it's a massive scandal

But it's so blatantly biased.

[regnaD kciN]

11. Problem is, their opinion (or Trump's) is the only one that matters...

The memo, bogus as it may be, is only needed as a pretext to allow Trump to shut down the investigation. Think he's going to refrain from doing so just because anyone outside the Republicans in Congress find it unconvincing?

[asiliveandbreathe]

7. Thank you angry chair..this is old news..intent?? Obstruct Justice??

Oh, my, as George Takei would say -

[Gothmog]

8. Only stupid people (i.e., fox viewers) will believe this memo

Link to tweet

[herding cats]

10. That's who this is marketed toward.

Those who take what they're told at face value and never question.

What impact it has remains to be seen, but without some serious pretzel work by the media, it's a lot of meh.

[Gothmog]

13. For this thread

Link to tweet

[herding cats]

14. Oh! I love that!

Stealing the image and sharing the tweet.

[Gothmog]

12. WH Counsel-These are only opinions of GOP staffers

Link to tweet