Posted 2/6/18–♣ Embellishment, holes and innuendo, that’s the Nunes memo. It’s a frivolous document palmed off beforehand by plotting republican lawmakers and all the usual suspects who befoul conservative media, as a scandal “worse than Watergate,” a scandal touching threat to US “rule of law” and other lamentable things, all so “very, very sad for democracy,” reprehensible things that make “Watergate look like stealing a Snickers bar” according to Fox News non-journalist (self-proclaimed) Sean Hannity. Republicans leaders called the memo proof positive Robert Mueller’s Russia probe, in trying to learn if the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, poses nothing more than a partisan witch hunt.
Public release of the cheap, sordid, security-sensitive memo was a lame, desperate and flagrant attempt by Representative Nunes to discredit the FBI and DOJ, not to mention the crucial, much-maligned Russia investigation. The contentious memo is now poised to lend a contrived excuse for Trump to fire with impunity two imminent threats to his royal throne, the storied Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein.
With the memo afloat, something in writing penned by a public official and casting doubt on the FBI’s adherence to legal procedure, Trump can cite a seemingly more legitimate scorn of the FBI and DOJ, ax their leaders with more probable cause than had he James Comey and still eschew obstruction of justice charges preferred by the Special Council.
Under the guise, thin as it was, of a key official record holding FBI and DOJ integrity in question, Trump could even keep the leaders in place while spreading confusion and doubt in the public mind concerning our most intrepid and indispensable institutions, not to mention the requisite Russia investigation.
Devon Nunes, fleeing grim conflict of interest optics, had recused himself long since from the highly-contested Russia investigation when a detestable ruse hatched at the time exploded in both his faces. Nunes’ claim to have found a source that proved Barack Obama once ordered Donald Trump illegally bugged only backfired when the scam was seen to boomerang and double back to the White House where it promptly revealed the all but blushing origin of the fraud, none other than bamboozling Donald Trump himself.
Trump, having griped that Obama had bugged his space illegally, couldn’t prove the claim though he more than implied he could. Nunes, however, emerged declaring a source of positive proof. At first the public was unaware his declaration was only valid since Trump himself had staffers inform Nunes it was true.
The looming source Nunes revealed so publicly and threateningly, the source of proof that Obama indeed bugged Trump illegally, was exposed later as empty-handed Trump himself immersed in yet another hollow slander attack, the release of baseless libel, detonation of yet another in an arsenal of Trump-crafted stink bombs that pack no viable punch but do tend to foul the nation’s air supply for weeks on end.
At close of day, both men were subject to public scrutiny for a cheap trick many perceived as scandalous in itself. Utterly shameful behavior, childish yet effective, still to them perhaps the trick was worth any degree of embarrassment, assuming, that is, either man is possessed of such an emotion.
Nunes then, a not so innocent bystander, indeed a brazen interloper, has now touched the probe again, recusal or not. The dubious Rep has now emerged the artful scribe of a much-touted memo he billed a sure indictment of the FBI and DOJ–cue the Messrs. Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein. It appears more a slander spun by Trump, Nunes and other ignoble Republicans aimed at impugning the fateful Russia investigation.
A banal assessment after all, the memo is likely to prove a mere limp and despicable scam by Donald Trump and Republican cronies, with the main assistance of sycophant Devin Nunes, a ruse with which to assert themselves politically, a wholly partisan Republican ploy to smear the FBI, its current leadership and even the Justice Department in order that Trump might finally dispense with constant irritants Mueller and Rosenstein unburdened by any legal hassle or repercussion. Either Trump is naively sure or trying to give the impression the untenanted memo “vindicates Trump” absolutely in a totally partisan Demoratic witch hunt to show he did collude with Russia, a hostile force known to have hacked the 2016 presidential election.
If the Nunes memo did in fact determine misconduct, the determination would constitute but a brief if rather embarrassing little footnote in the annuls of an extensive probe and would have but meager bearing on the investigation at large.
Nunes and his flunkies grasped at every single resource they believed would somehow spice up the memo, all to stunt, slur and disparage, all to slander, block and incriminate Bob Mueller, the FBI and the Justice Department while at the same time scorning and discrediting the fearsome Russia probe. In the end, the whole plot came to little avail. It’s worth noting that other Republicans leaders helped season the vile memo with their own treacherous lies, spin and rhetoric.
The Nunes group put all they had but ketchup into spicing up the contents of their tasteless new concoction, blind to the salient fact that nothing, even America’s favorite condiment, can enhance the shear flavorlessness of a total nothingberger.
Despite their having been needlessly and permanently maligned, the FBI and DOJ can gather cold consolation in the likelihood that ultimately Republican chefs will find themselves in the dread position of having to swallow their own deadly poison.
For Nunes’ part, the ne’er-do-well conspirator knows he’ll always bear the brand of having penned the first recipe for and boosted the mass production of America’s most prominent nothingburger and having won the rare distinction of being Donald Trump’s biggest, baddest, loudest, most shameless yipping lapdog.
–♦©M. D. Phillips–awincingglare.com