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Nunes Opening Statement for Whistleblower Disclosure Hearing
September 26, 2019

“I want to congratulate the Democrats on the rollout of their latest information warfare operation against the President, and their extraordinary ability once again to enlist the mainstream media in their campaign.


This operation began with media reports—from the prime instigators of the Russian collusion hoax—that a whistleblower is claiming President Trump made a nefarious “promise” to a foreign leader. The released transcript of the call has already debunked that central assertion, but that didn’t matter. The Democrats simply moved the goalposts and began claiming that there doesn’t need to be a quid pro quo for this conversation to serve as the basis for impeaching the president.

Speaker Pelosi went even further when asked earlier if she’d put the brakes on impeachment if the transcript turned out to be benign. She responded, “We have many other candidates for impeachable offenses.” So there you go—if their whistleblower operation doesn’t work out, the Democrats and their media assets can always drum up something else.

And what other information has come to light since the original false report of a “promise” being made? We’ve learned the following:

- The complaint relied on hearsay evidence provided by the whistleblower.
- The Inspector General did not know the contents of the phone call at issue.
- The Inspector General found that the whistleblower displayed “arguable political bias” against Trump.
- The Department of Justice investigated the complaint and determined no action was warranted.
- The Ukrainian President denies being pressured by President Trump.

So, once again, this supposed scandal ends up being nothing like what we were told. And once again, the Democrats, their media mouthpieces, and a cabal of leakers are ginning up a fake story, with no regard to the monumental damage they’re causing to our public institutions and to trust in government, and without acknowledging all the false stories they propagated in the past, including countless allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia to hack the 2016 election. We’re supposed to forget about all those stories but believe this one. In short, what we have with this storyline is another Steele dossier.

I’ll note here that, in the Democrats’ mania to overturn the 2016 elections, everything they touch gets hopelessly politicized. With the Russia hoax it was our intelligence agencies, which were turned into a political weapon to attack the president. And today, the whistleblower process is the casualty. Until about a week ago, the need to protect that process was a primary bipartisan concern of this committee. But if the Democrats were really concerned with defending that process, they would have pursued this matter with quiet and sober inquiries, as we always do for whistleblowers.

But that would’ve been useless for them. They don’t want answers, they want a public spectacle. And so we’ve been treated to an unending parade of press releases, press conferences, and fake news stories.

This hearing itself is another example—whistleblower inquiries should not be held in public at all, as our Senate counterparts, both Democrats and Republicans, obviously understand—their hearing with Mr. Maguire is behind closed doors. But again, that only makes sense when your goal is to get information, not to create a media frenzy.

The current hysteria has something else in common with the Russia hoax. Back then, they accused the Trump campaign of colluding with Russians when the Democrats themselves were colluding with Russians in preparing the Steele dossier. Today, they accuse the president of pressuring Ukrainians to take actions that would help himself or hurt his political opponents. And yet, there are numerous examples of Democrats doing the exact same thing. For example:

- Joe Biden bragged that he extorted the Ukrainians into firing a prosecutor, who happened to be investigating Biden’s own son.
- Three Democrat senators wrote a letter pressuring the Ukrainian general prosecutor to reopen investigations it reportedly froze on former Trump campaign officials.
- Another Democratic senator went to Ukraine and pressured the Ukrainian President not to investigate corruption allegations involving Biden’s son.
- According to Ukrainian officials, Democratic National Committee contractor Alexandra Chalupa tried to get Ukrainian officials to provide dirt on Trump associates and tried to get the former Ukrainian President to comment publicly on their alleged ties to Russia.
- Ukrainian official Serhiy Leshchenko was a source for Nellie Ohr, wife of Department of Justice official Bruce Ohr, as she worked on the anti-Trump operation conducted by Fusion GPS and funded by the Democrats.
- And of course, Democrats on this very committee negotiated with people they thought were Ukrainians in order to obtain nude pictures of Trump.

As you see, it’s a reliable rule of thumb in these information operations that whatever the Democrats accuse you of doing, they’re doing themselves.

People can reasonably ask why the Democrats are so determined to impeach this president when in just a year they’ll have a chance to vote him out of office. In fact, one Democratic congressman—one of the first to call for Trump’s impeachment—gave us the answer when he said, “I’m concerned that if we don’t impeach the president, he will get reelected.”

Yes, winning elections is hard, and when you compete you have no guarantee you’ll win. But the American people should have a say in all this, and they made their voices heard in the election. This latest gambit by the Democrats to overturn the people’s mandate is unhinged and dangerous.

They should end this entire dishonest, grotesque spectacle and get back to solving problems, which is what every member of this committee was sent here to do. Judging by today’s charade, however, the chances of that happening anytime soon are zero to none.”

Good read. Tks

I'll have to refer to this letter when I talk to Democrats I know who believe everything the media and the corrupt dems say.

Thanks for posting...

Trump broke the law.

He threatened an ally with withholding US military aid they need to fight the Russians, if they would just do him a little favor of investigating his political opponent.

Trump has said it on TV.
Guilliani has said it on TV.
The transcript said it.
The whistleblower said it.

Done.



Biden, was tasked with multiple things, including firing the Ukrainian prosector, by the US Government, EU, non-profit organization and other countries, because the prosecutor was NOT INVESTIGATING corruption. They wanted him gone, so the Ukrainians would hire a new prosecutor that WOULD Investigate corruption.

I have no love for Biden and would like to see him gone from the Democratic ticket.. but Nunes was straight out lying in this case!


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Great read, Thanks for posting. Nunes is one of few good-guys.

You must be reading a different transcript than the rest of us..

You're a lying piece of schiett.

How are you going to feel when you find out Bidens brother made a $1.5 billion dollar deal with Iran?

Are you even aware Slick Willey gave billions to NK and Zero released $150 billion to Iran or that Zero gave $5 billion to Quatar to accept 5 Taliban generals from GITMO or that the big banks got billions from Zeros $876 billion Tarp 2 RIP off of the folks or that Ruskies gave $45 million to the Clinton Foundation for U 1, or that there was a govt scandal called Chinagate under Slick Willey, or that ......?

No, I didnt think so. Keep watching CNN and stay stupid, stupid.

Hey, we need you to remind us from time to time how us Rs want to push granny off the cliff and murder post partum fetuses (babies).

Northman uses the special eyeglasses and de-coder ring that the democrats gave him for his donations.

Dont care about Biden.. he should quit the race.. He sounds like you.. rambling and talking about record players.


But I am sure if he broke the law, Republicans will investigate him.. 13 or 14 Bengazi hearings anyone...



Trump broke the law... he even said what he did on live television.

Phugg you! You truly are a steaming pile of sheit. How can you even compare this circus "investigation" based on hearsay to Bengazi, where Americans lost thier lives. Go suck a tailpipe!

Guess what Northman I remember hearing from someone on here that you and piddles like to screw little boys, so someone said it so it must be true. Thats about the basis this whistleblower complaint is based on.

The only one lying here is you dufus.

I love Nunes.

No, he read the one where immediately after the Ukraine president mentioned Javelins, Trump followed up with asking for a favor. We all know that conversations never drift and especially not with Trump. That means Trump demanded the favor in exchange for the sale of the Javelins. You are never going to make it as a liberal unless you get better at reading into content what is not there.

Here you go, sucker.


https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...-hes-going-after-origins-of-russia-hoax/

Useless to argue with a Dimocrat. Mixing facts with emotions never works.

You mean like this?

Again...facts means more then feelings.

Facts are: Biden, was tasked with multiple things, including firing the Ukrainian prosector, by the US Government, EU, non-profit organization and other countries, because the prosecutor was NOT INVESTIGATING corruption. They wanted him gone, so the Ukrainians would hire a new prosecutor that WOULD Investigate corruption.

So, he is "bragging" that he pressured them to fire a person NOT DOING HIS JOB INVESTIGATIN CORRUPTION.... then Ukraine hired a person actually investigating corruption.

Once again as in '016 the Dems don't have a candidate who can defeat Pres. Trump so they've resorted to jousting with windmills.

Impeachment = we lost the election and we don't like it one bit.

Did you procreate ?

Yet here we are years later and the New and Improved AG Barr, is not interested in investigating Biden or the other Corrupt Democrats.

AG Bill Barr IS NOT Investigating Biden Crime Family’s Billion Dollar Pay-for-Play Operation

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/20...pay-for-play-operation-why-the-hell-not/

I think the word is "than", dumbass.

So Trump is extending the Democrats policy of pressuring Ukraine to investigate corruption. But now the Democrats are pitching a hissy fit. Brilliant I tell ya, Just brilliant.

He's still the same dumb-ass now as when he called himself northwestalaska.

This^^^, but the dims were wanting to cover up corruption. That's what Northmam cant understand.

Some good journalists are questioning whether Nunes actually knew of and helped the whistle blower with his complaint. I have no doubt in my mind this WB had help from members of the house of reps.
https://twitter.com/seanmdav/status/1177254925518213120
https://www.zerohedge.com/political...questions-too-convenient-and-too-perfect

Well, it sure seems like Pelosi and Shiffty are happy to run with it. You think Nunes set them up or set Biden up?

You seem confused. Nunes is a Republican.

You are a dumb ass, yes?

Think he meant Schiff not Nunes.

Northmam, laToy, when is Schiffty going to drop the evidence on us about Trump/Ruskie collusion?

Whoops, did he lie?

Biden bragged that he got the Ukrainian prosecutor fired by threatening to withhold $1 billion in US aid. It just so happened that this prosecutor was investigating the company that paid Biden’s so 3 million for a job that he had no experience or knowledge to do. Oh, and the investigation was killed also.

WB may be Michael Barry.
https://theconservativetreehouse.co...rly-part-of-white-house-nsc/#more-172063

clueless democrat

Ummm......... The Ukrainian Prosecutor is not ours to fire nor is he the EU's to fire. Using blind party allegiance to justify that shows you the fool you are.

You're a fool Walt, always have been.

I'm pretty certain he's a hermaphrodite, He dates himself.............

It's almost like an admission that we were meddling in their politics.

Paul, that will be proven to be the indisputable case on Hannity tonight.

There ya go!

Only Walt can't see it because he's got TDS.

And always will be. They dont want to see the light. It's too bright when you've lived your life under a rock.,

Please forgive the asses on the Fire, Brett. Remember, there are so many here who expect perfection from others, but not themselves. They have their on issues or pissed off wives and live to exact misery on those who arent as perfect as they- think they are.

Well, I'm wondering if someone was an ass and ran off a great hunter and patriot with over the top BS.

Dayom. I wanted to hear the story of that huge buck.

Does anyone know the guy?

Well, so much for straightening up someone who made an evidently fatal error on da Far.

Worth repeating both parts.

Why was it ok for Biden to do such things as VP and not report any of it to Congress, but Trump can't even have a conversation with the Ukrainian governemtn without fear that Congress will ask questions? Why is Biden negotiating for the EU? We aren't members of the phoucing EU. Let them do their own dirty work. Angela Merkle can do her Medusa thing until they submit.

Which branch of governement does Foriegn Policy fall under? I believe it is the Executive Branch. So do we have a separation of Powers? Hmmm, Lefties? IS it only when you are in the White House? Hmmm?