I have been trying to figure out Rep. Devin Nunes for a long time. I concluded that he was after some position in the Trump White House, most probably Secretary of Agriculture. But, like Trump, Nunies seems to have some association with Russia. I hope he is not a Russian agent,* but he is at least a Russian asset, either wittingly or unwittingly.
I am hardly alone in this supposition. This morning on Morning Joe, John Heilman made the same statement that Devin Nunes was acting like a Russian agent.** Vladimir Putin must be laughing his head off.
The idea, however, that Nunes is a Russian agent instead of asset seems to be overblown. It owes to Nunes being an investor in a winery that sold 22 cases of wine to a Russian distributor in 2013. The size of Nunes's investment is rather small and ties to Russia are obscure as analyzed by Snopes.*
I am shocked by how much the U.S. Congress has turned pro-Russia so fast. We really need to have a Democratic Congress elected in the fall because I doubt that President Trump will ever be be considered for impreachment by a Republican Congress. Even in the case of Nixon, most Republicans were against impeachment even after all the information came out.***
But if a Democratic President ever did something like withold sanctions against Russia, like Trump is doing,*** he probably would be impeached the next day in a Republican Congress. I believe with Nixon, his "impoundment of funds" in 1971**** was maybe more important than the Watergate Breakin.
* https://www.snopes.com/devin-nunes-wine-russia/
** https://www.thedailybeast.com/msnbc-analyst-john-heilemann-suggests-devin-nunes-compromised-by-russia
*** https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/even-the-biggest-scandals-cant-kill-party-loyalty/
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/29/us/politics/trump-russia-sanctions.html
**** https://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2015/10/richard-nixon-congressional-budget-control-act-history-000282
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