Nunes: Democrats Made Russians ‘Successful’ By Pursuing Dossier

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., listens during the committee’s hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017, on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta)
House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., listens during the committee’s hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017, on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S... House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes, R-Calif., listens during the committee’s hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, Monday, March 20, 2017, on allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta) MORE LESS
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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.

He continued: “So the people that made the Russians successful are the Democrats, and the people who have continued this nonsense over and over and over again, looking for Russians behind every tree. We continue to chase ghosts around and around this place.”

The chairman had said earlier that, if evidence emerged proving that research funded by Democrats served as the basis of investigations pursued by Congress or the intelligence community, “there’s going to be a major problem.”

If that’s the Nunes’ standard, he might have a hard time applying it evenly: Hillary Clinton’s State Department’s role in approving uranium transactions with a Russian company became a fiery talking point during the 2016 election — and now, the subject of a probe by Nunes himself — due in large part to the book “Clinton Cash.”

That book was written by the president of the Government Accountability Institute, a group co-founded by Trump’s former top strategist, Steve Bannon, and bankrolled by Trump’s own deep-pocketed funder, Rebekah Mercer.

Watch Nunes’ comments to Cavuto below:

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  1. Nunes of the oblivious…

  2. Blaming the victim in a Fox News chat. I’m shocked!

  3. Calling Adam Schiff please!

  4. Avatar for cd cd says:

    the STOOOPID burns with this one, Fresno must be a logic free zone or this turd has been chugging hex chrome for WAAY TOOO LOOONG

    be curious to hear an explanation of how russian spies running tRUmp’s campaign from within (Manafort) was a successful Democrat maneuver. Or how a dossier that wasn’t even really publicly acknowledged outside of one largely ignored article until AFTER the election made the russians successful in assisting the tRUmp campaign

    never mind the other insanely obvious logic flaws

    fuck you traitor nunes, may you be crushed by space junk, or better yet, chased to your demise by tRUmp’s fine Nazis (as your heritage should probably have your family expelled from this country for having too much brown in your background)

  5. Avatar for j.dave j.dave says:

    “If that’s the Nunes’ standard, he might have a hard time applying it evenly …”

    Seriously? Either that or some awfully dry humor …

    Applying it as unevenly as possible is the name of the game.

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