Donald Trump Jr. said in an interview aired Saturday that the release of the so-called Nunes memo marked “a little bit of sweet revenge” for him and his family in the face of what he said was a “weaponized” intelligence community aimed at attacking his father.
Republicans claimed in the Nunes memo, among other things, that the FBI and Justice Department had improperly used a document paid for by the Clinton campaign and the DNC, the Steele dossier, in the application for a warrant to surveil former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.
The memo doesn’t support those claims, and Democrats allege the document is intentionally misleading.
Trump told Fox News’ Jesse Watters that Democrats had “weaponized the FBI and the DOJ to attack the duly-elected President of the United States” and celebrated the memo’s release.
“There is a little bit of sweet revenge in it for me and certainly probably the family in the sense that if they wouldn’t have done this, this stuff would be going on,” he said. “This would be going on at the highest levels of government. They’d be continuing doing it to my father, trying to undermine his actions.”
“Imagine how effective he can be, given the year he’s had, without this cloud over his head?” Trump continued. “So I want them to come, but come to a conclusion already because you’ve been looking for two years, you’ve come up with nothing other than their own nefarious actions and their own collusions. They’ve come up with nothing.
“I raked this guy over the coals so hard, he had nowhere to to turn” Watters joked Friday to cackling from his co-panelists on Fox News’ “The Five,” previewing his interview with the President’s son. “The most hard-hitting interview you’re ever going to see.”
Watch below:
.@DonaldJTrumpJr on the memo: “Imagine how effective [@realDonaldTrump] can be, given the year he’s had, without this cloud over his head.” https://t.co/yb9zbeS8tq pic.twitter.com/jj5vvXn0Fm
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 4, 2018
H/t The Hill
Goddamn he’s stupid. I mean even by the standards of the Regime of Stupid, elected (more or less) by the stupidest fucking people in America to do the stupidest possible things in the stupidest possible way at the stupidest possible time, he is exceptionally stupid. And he’s the smart one of the two.
Oh, Junior, you don’t even begin to know from sweet revenge. But, no worries, it’ll get to you [not quite] soon enough.
Keep talking. It’s a free motivational speech for the FBI and the intelligence agencies.
Is this the moment to start taking book on what charges Mueller is going to file against Jr.? Obstruction, at the very least…
Junior, Junior - you breaker of campaign laws, obstructor of justice, perjurer, conspirator to commit treason…I truly hope your world comes crashing down around you with enough force to mess up your hair, fix your teeth, and knock enough sense into you that you finally realize what happened as you are led into the jail.