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highplainsdem

(49,045 posts)
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 11:44 AM Feb 2018

Nunes claims there's no evidence Papadopoulos ever met Trump despite photo

Source: The Hill

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) in a Monday morning interview said there is no evidence former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos met with President Trump, despite a widely disseminated photo of the two sitting around the same table for a meeting.

“If Papadopoulos was such a major figure, you had nothing on him, you know, the guy lied,” Nunes told “Fox & Friends.” “As far as we can tell, Papadopoulos never even knew who — never even had met with the president.”

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Nunes’s comment comes after the House Intelligence Committee last week released a controversial memo that accuses the Justice Department of abusing its surveillance powers. That memo names Papadopoulos, who pleaded guilty last year to lying to the FBI, as the individual who “triggered” the FBI’s opening of a counterintelligence probe in July of 2016.

“Look, getting drunk in London and talking to diplomats, saying that you don’t like Hillary Clinton — I think it’s kind of scary that our intelligence agencies would take that and use it against [an] American citizen,” Nunes added during his interview with “Fox & Friends.”

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Read more: http://thehill.com/homenews/house/372315-nunes-claims-theres-no-evidence-papadopoulos-ever-met-trump-despite-photo

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Nunes claims there's no evidence Papadopoulos ever met Trump despite photo (Original Post) highplainsdem Feb 2018 OP
Hahaha. Perhaps Nunes is the "greatest American hero". Afterall, it was a comedy show Freethinker65 Feb 2018 #1
Trump supporters respond to this... ck4829 Feb 2018 #2
you just cann't make this stuff up... sigh getagrip_already Feb 2018 #3
i think Nunes is really stupid. barbtries Feb 2018 #4
Nunes is desperate dalton99a Feb 2018 #5
What an idiot... SWBTATTReg Feb 2018 #6
He's so freaked out that he is just spewing randomness. lagomorph777 Feb 2018 #9
Nunes negoldie Feb 2018 #7
He's just digging that hole deeper by the hour gonna wear out that shovel SonofDonald Feb 2018 #8
What, this old photo? ffr Feb 2018 #10
FAKE NEWS !!!! Facts, Evidence, who cares !!!! groundloop Feb 2018 #12
Exactly. And it's not like people introduce themselves at big meetings like this either. ffr Feb 2018 #13
To be fair angrychair Feb 2018 #19
Proves nothing. Papadopoulos' head was turned away from Trump, ... JustABozoOnThisBus Feb 2018 #21
Let's face it neohippie Feb 2018 #11
Nunes is an idiot. TeamPooka Feb 2018 #14
No evidence. forgotmylogin Feb 2018 #15
It makes you wonder why do they even interview Nunes FakeNoose Feb 2018 #18
Never met him? I bet Papadopoulos can describe his junk. rainin Feb 2018 #16
What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes? malthaussen Feb 2018 #17
Too late, Cold War Spook Feb 2018 #20
What the fuck is wrong with this muppet? D23MIURG23 Feb 2018 #22
Straws BlueDog22 Feb 2018 #23

ck4829

(35,094 posts)
2. Trump supporters respond to this...
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 11:51 AM
Feb 2018


"So yeah, it turns out that my eyes were clearly lying, not Devin Nunes!1ONE!"

SWBTATTReg

(22,176 posts)
6. What an idiot...
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 11:56 AM
Feb 2018

More than likely, Mueller has got multiple sources of evidence collaborating each other...Nunes is undermining or trying to undermine the Mueller investigation. In any event, Papadopoulos... did plea guilty to LYING.

I don't understand Nunes' take on this ... there are multiple people sitting at that table...wouldn't you think Mueller / others would also see this?

Idiot...

lagomorph777

(30,613 posts)
9. He's so freaked out that he is just spewing randomness.
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 12:30 PM
Feb 2018

Nunes may have already received his Mueller invitation. He obviously knows Mueller is about to take him down for obstruction, and probably for accepting bales of NRA Roubles. He's so out of his mind with fear that he can't think straight at all.

SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)
8. He's just digging that hole deeper by the hour gonna wear out that shovel
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 12:21 PM
Feb 2018

There just aren't words to describe how badly this boy is gonna fall.

But fun to watch when it all comes down.

ffr

(22,674 posts)
13. Exactly. And it's not like people introduce themselves at big meetings like this either.
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 12:41 PM
Feb 2018

No, that' never happens. As proof, the covefefe boy just sat down at the table because they had a seat available.

angrychair

(8,738 posts)
19. To be fair
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 03:50 PM
Feb 2018

Trump looks as bored as a five yr old on a two hour shopping trip with Aunt Susie. I doubt trump said 10 words that whole meeting. It’s truly pathetic.

JustABozoOnThisBus

(23,374 posts)
21. Proves nothing. Papadopoulos' head was turned away from Trump, ...
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 05:42 PM
Feb 2018

... proving, ... PROVING that Trump didn't see Mr P. Yeah, maybe he saw the back of some guy's head, but so what?

Besides, BENGHAZI!!!11!

neohippie

(1,142 posts)
11. Let's face it
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 12:37 PM
Feb 2018

The KGOP refuses to look at any evidence of Russian collusion, or influence over Trump or his campaign just so that they can continue to say that they haven't seen any evidence.

It's really that simple, if they refuse to acknowledge or admit that there is evidence they can continue to deny that it exists simply because they don't want to know and will not look at it or even consider anything other than what their made up minds tell them and then they can repeat their mantra, we haven't seen any evidence

FakeNoose

(32,823 posts)
18. It makes you wonder why do they even interview Nunes
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 03:24 PM
Feb 2018

He's clearly not a source for anything except GOP bullshit. We already have plenty of sources for that.


malthaussen

(17,217 posts)
17. What are you going to believe, me or your lying eyes?
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 01:39 PM
Feb 2018

Why don't they just airbrush Mr Papadopoulos out of the photos, as Stalin did?

-- Mal

D23MIURG23

(2,850 posts)
22. What the fuck is wrong with this muppet?
Mon Feb 5, 2018, 10:11 PM
Feb 2018

What's his damage? Now he's descended to lying like trump lies.

Russian blackmail material?

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