QOTD: Eric Swalwell

QOTD: Eric Swalwell

by digby





On Morning Joe, today:


They essentially have put out a book review on a book that Devin Nunes himself has not read, and they say the book is full of lies. That's the position they're going to put the American people in...The memo goes to great length, asserts inaccuracies to discredit Robert Mueller and his team... I'm afraid [Republicans] will have poisoned the well of public sentiment as Robert Mueller continues to do his work, and if he reaches further indictments, the public sentiment will have been tainted because of a one-sided memo. The full picture isn't seen. I'm confident if the full picture would be seen it would be laughable. The intent is to protect the president, at the risk of torching the FBI building...

The State of our Union is lawless -- lawless as the president tries to remove Bob Mueller through tactics like this; lawless as his aides in Congress seek to help him; and lawless as ... he has failed to impose the sanctions against Russia that Congress passed.

I don't know what's in the memo but let's just say I don't have a lot of faith in the judgement of Devin Nunes and the boys.

I also don't have any faith in the fatuous and self-serving Speaker of the House who gave a speech this morning telling everyone that this memo has nothing to do with the Mueller investigation which is like saying the sun has nothing to do with daylight.

It's insulting that he would even say such a stupid ignorant thing. As if we're supposed to believe that Trump and his henchment are only concerned about the integrity of the FISA process --- the same henchment by the way, who all voted to extend thew powers of the NSA to spy on average Americans. It's just Dear Leader and his pals they want to protect.

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