Nunes's Monday testimony was coordinated w/ WH because top WH official told me, "Watch the predicate

[MelissaB]

I know that Nunes's Monday testimony was coordinated with WH because top WH official told me, "Watch the predicate that is set" by Nunes.

Link to tweet

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[PhilosopherKing]

1. What does this mean?

?

[L. Coyote]

3. Well, predicate is the part of a sentence ....

So it means next to nothing.

SCHIFF: Trump's "slanderous accusation" "was just pure nonsense" "there is no evidence"

[MelissaB]

8. predicate act for RICO

A plaintiff or prosecutor has no chance of proving the “greater” CRIME, i.e., the RICO violation, unless they can first establish a “lesser” crime, i.e., an act of racketeering (sometimes called a predicate act). ... The RICO Act refers to such criminal activity as racketeering activity.

[eleny]

11. I started reading about predicates since I didn't know what he meant, either, in that tweet

I've concluded that since predicates tell us was the subject of a sentence actually does - Lizza might be advising us to look at what he's doing not just what he's saying.

[dixiegrrrrl]

15. When something is predicated upon something else

In this case, meaning that what Nunes did was to be the basis for future actions/events/results.

Bannon has used that term in the past, which gives us a clue about who is involved.
trump most certainly would not use the word or even understand it.

[C_U_L8R]

2. Predicate???

Apparently, Trump is eager to get back to dangling participles in Moscow hotel suites

[HipChick]

6. language used by Bannon...

[MelissaB]

7. Thread discussion says: Predicate act for RICO

A plaintiff or prosecutor has no chance of proving the “greater” CRIME, i.e., the RICO violation, unless they can first establish a “lesser” crime, i.e., an act of racketeering (sometimes called a predicate act). ... The RICO Act refers to such criminal activity as racketeering activity.

[matt819]

4. Probably means precedent

Which suggests that the WH source was der drumpfenfuhrer, whose vocabulary is limited.

I guess the precedent it sets is that the republican-controlled congress is no longer the third leg in American democracy but rather joined at the hip with the WH.

How does Schiff proceed from here? Shadow hearings with Dems only? Criminal and civil lawsuits all over the place?

[riversedge]

14. I caught that odd word in the sentence also....

pred·i·cate
nounGrammar
noun: predicate; plural noun: predicates
ˈpredəkət/

1.
the part of a sentence or clause containing a verb and stating something about the subject (e.g., went home in John went home ).
"predicate adjective"
Logic
something that is affirmed or denied concerning an argument of a proposition.

verb
verb: predicate; 3rd person present: predicates; past tense: predicated; past participle: predicated; gerund or present participle: predicating
ˈpredəˌkāt/

1.
GrammarLogic
state, affirm, or assert (something) about the subject of a sentence or an argument of proposition.
"a word that predicates something about its subject"
2.
found or base something on.
"the theory of structure on which later chemistry was predicated"
synonyms: base, be dependent, found, establish, rest, ground, premise
"expansion of the group is predicated on further research"

Origin

[Snarkoleptic]

5. As the saying goes...

"It's not the crime, it's the cover-up."*

*Treasonous activity by a few, whitewashed.by many.
It is going to be an avalanche!

[wordpix]

10. we are indeed in the cover-up phase of the investigatn

Watch out, Nunes, you're acting guilty as hell

[MelissaB]

9. Predicate act for RICO

A plaintiff or prosecutor has no chance of proving the “greater” CRIME, i.e., the RICO violation, unless they can first establish a “lesser” crime, i.e., an act of racketeering (sometimes called a predicate act). ... The RICO Act refers to such criminal activity as racketeering activity.

This makes sense, right?

[gibraltar72]

12. Well I'm

shocked!

[riversedge]

13. Have the courage to STEP DOWN Mr. NUNES