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Devin Nuness Family Farm Is Hiding a Politically Explosive Secret
Rep. Devin Nunes is head of the House Intelligence Committee and one of President Trumps biggest defenders. For years, hes spun himself as a straight talker whose no-BS values are rooted in his familys California dairy farm. So why did his parents and brother cover their tracks after quietly moving the farm to Iowa? Are they hiding something politically explosive? On the ground in Iowa, Esquire searched for the truthand discovered a lot of paranoia and hypocrisy.
https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a23471864/devin-nunes-family-farm-iowa-california/
Devin Nunes has a secret. Nunes is the California Republican and chairman of the House Intelligence Committee who has become famous in the Trump era for using his position as a battering ram to discredit the Russia investigation and protect Donald Trump at all costs, even if it means shredding his own reputation and the independence of the historically nonpartisan committee in the process
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Which brings us back to Nuness secret.
Nunes grew up in a family of dairy farmers in Tulare, California, and as long as he has been in politics, his family dairy has been central to his identity and a feature of every major political profile written about him. A March story in National Review is emblematic. It describes how Nuness family emigrated from the Azores in Portugal to Californias Central Valley, a fertile, sunny Eden, and how the family worked and saved enough money to buy a 640-acre farm outside Tulare. The soil of the Central Valley is depicted as almost sacred in these articles. National Review quotes a 1912 Portuguese immigrant farmer who wrote that when he grabs a clump of dirt, I feel as if I had just shaken hands with all my ancestors. As recently as July 27, the lead of a Wall Street Journal editorial-page piece about Nunes, which featured a Tulare dateline, emphasized the dairy: Its 105 degrees as I stand with Rep. Devin Nunes on his familys dairy farm. Last year, Nunes noted in an interview with the Daily Beastheadline: The Dairy Farmer Overseeing U.?S. Spies and the Russia Hack InvestigationIm pretty simple. I like agriculture. The Daily Beast noted, The cows are not far from his mind. He keeps in regular contact with his brother and father about their dairy farm.
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I laid out the facts I had uncovered in Sibley, including the intimidation of sources and the Devin Nunes angle, and asked him for advice. Id tell that story, he said. He paused and added, Were a sanctuary church, if you need a place to stay. Youre safe here!
On the way back to Sibley, I stopped at Hawkeye Point, the highest elevation (1,670 feet) in Iowa, and flipped through my GoPro videos and pictures, zooming in on the drivers and cars. I clicked over to Facebook and searched for any Nuneses in Sibley, Iowa. I saw some familiar faces. It all started to click. There was the redheaded woman from the muddy white Yukon; she was Devins sister-in-law, Lori Nunes. There was the chubby guy with curly hair from the Lantern who had also waved at me from the same Yukon; he was Devins brother and Loris husband, Anthony Nunes III. There was the woman from the newer Yukon. I zoomed in on a picture of the cars license plate: nustar. Not very subtle. The driver was Devins mother and campaign treasurer, Toni Dian Nunes. The guy in the pickup truck with California plates was, of course, Devins dad, Anthony Jr.
I learned that Anthony Jr. was seemingly starting to panic. The next day, the 2009 Dairy Star article about NuStar, the one that made me think the Nuneses were hiding something and that had led me to Sibley in the first place, was removed from the Dairy Stars website. Anthony Jr., I was told, had called the newspaper and demanded that the editors take the nine-year-old story down. They relented. The article wasnt captured by the Internet Archive, which provides cached versions of billions of web pages, and it can no longer be found anywhere online. According to someone who talked to him that day, Anthony Jr. allegedly said that he was hiring a lawyer and that he was convinced that his dairy would soon be raided by ICE. (Is it possible the Nuneses have nothing to be seriously concerned about? Of course, but I never got the chance to ask because Anthony Jr. and Representative Nunes did not respond to numerous requests for interviews.)
awesomerwb1
(4,268 posts)Everybody should share this on social media.
Little comrade Devin is not gonna like this. One of his secrets exposed.
mikeysnot
(4,757 posts)Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)Why the obvious fear and coverup now??
Another bit of proof the R vampires hate light.
IADEMO2004
(5,554 posts)Bayard
(22,075 posts)And probably lack of water if they grow their own hay. They'd have to do a lot of irrigation. The whole Central Valley is a desert without irrigation.
chowder66
(9,070 posts)Ah ha! So his brother and father are cows!
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,343 posts)You're trying to milk this to get points. We will not be cowed.