House Armed Services Committee Chair Adam Smith (D-WA) said on Saturday that Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) faces an ethics investigation for allegedly working with Lev Parnas, one of Rudy Giuliani’s indicted associates.
During an interview on “AM Joy,” MSNBC host Joy Ann Reid asked Smith about a potential ethics investigation into Nunes after Parnas’ attorney told the Daily Beast on Wednesday that his client had arranged contacts for Nunes in 2018 to help with his “investigations.”
“Quite likely, without question,” Smith responded.
In addition to the Daily Beast report, another one of Parnas’ lawyers told CNN on Friday that former Ukrainian Prosecutor General Viktor Shokin told Parnas he had met with Nunes to dig up dirt on Joe Biden.
Joseph Bondy, the attorney who spoke to CNN, said that his client is will to testify to Congress on Nunes’ alleged dealings in Ukraine.
As ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, Nunes has used his position to rail constantly against the impeachment probe into President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme.
Watch Smith below:
House Armed Services chair says it’s “quite likely” Nunes will be investigated for breach of ethics after working with indicted Giuliani associate. pic.twitter.com/ozt26GeAAL
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Ahhh, a little happy dance on my Saturday night. Thanks Dev!
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Devin “milked” his credibility for a little too long.
Absolutely right to go at this as a conflict of interest, if Nunes was doing investigations and then was supposed to help run impeachment hearings, that’s a clear conflict and he should have recused himself. Dumb move on the part of Republicans to leave him there, both because he’s an incompetent prick but also because this just gave the Republican’s defense a huge whiff of coverup at the Congressional level. That’s going to feed into all the maneuvering in the Senate, so when Trump gets off there is going to be a huge number of people enraged at the unfairness of the process by Republicans, no Democrats (who will have run a fair and honest investigation the whole way).
Couldn’t happen to a more deserving cow tipper.
Couldn’t happen to a mooooore deserving bovine.
Thing is, you know damned well they would have pushed their Ukraine DNC Hillary alt.reality to endpoint if they could, including “lock her up” for real. (Putin would also be all in: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/putins-revenge/transcript/ )
Their hate is boundless.