Nunes Admits That Collusion Can Be a Crime in Secret Recordings
Nunes Admits That Collusion Can Be a Crime in Secret Recordings at Fundraiser for Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers
By Chantal Da Silva On 8/9/18 at 5:30 AM
https://www.newsweek.com/nunes-admits-collusion-can-be-crime-secret-recordings-1064999
Republican Representative Devin Nunes of California, during a private fundraiser last month, admitted that collusion could be a crime, leaked recordings of the event revealed.
The secret recordings, which were obtained by MSNBC's Rachel Maddow Show, featured Nunes seeming to explain to donors at the July 30 fundraiser for Republican Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers of Washington how collusion could be a criminal act.
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"So Cathy was getting secret information from the Portuguese. You know, may or may not be unusual. But ultimately let’s say the Portuguese came and brought her some stolen emails. And she decided to release those. OK, now we have a problem, right?" Nunes continued.
"Because somebody stole the emails, gave ‘em to Cathy, Cathy released ‘em. Well, if that’s the case, then that’s criminal," he said.
The leaked audio was recorded by a member of the progressive group Fuse Washington, which turned over the recordings to The Rachel Maddow Show, which aired the audio on Wednesday evening.
Nunes's comments at the fundraiser do little to support President Donald Trump's legal team's repeated claims that collusion is "not a crime."
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Nunes also stressed how important it was for Republicans to maintain control of the House in order to protect Trump.
"We have to keep all these seats," he said of the upcoming November midterm elections.
"We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away," he warned.
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Is he giving classified information about an investigation to donors at a fundraiser?
Good grief...would someone please go round up these criminals while we still have a country?
