4/6/19: You can tell the president and his toadies are starting to worry about what the Mueller report will reveal once it’s out.
Two weeks ago, Republicans were so excited to have their main man cleared they went along with Democrats in the House of Representatives and voted 420-0 to have the Mueller report released.
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Seventy-three
words were enough.
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The days passed and GOP hands grew clammy. When Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-NY), head of the House Judiciary Committee, moved to issue a subpoena for the full report, all seventeen Republicans on the panel decided that – on second thought – they really didn’t care to see what Mueller said. The vote went against them, with all 24 Democrats still in favor of releasing the report.
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Devin, Devin! The hat is the tell. |
Rep. Devin Nunes, who used to run the committee, and couldn’t have found a Russian if a Russian hooker was seated in his lap, appeared on Fox & Friends. He went his GOP colleagues one better. He said he didn’t care what the 488-page report said. He didn’t care about Mueller’s findings. “You know, we can just burn it up. It is a partisan document,” Nunes claimed.
He hadn’t read it, he admitted. He was merely using his totally non-partisan, clairvoyant powers to make a point.
Nunes told his hosts he thought the four-page summary released by Attorney General Barr was great, including all 73 words quoted from the Mueller report. But in one poll only 18% of Americans believed the summary was good enough and a full 75% said they would like to see the full report.
A second poll was even more definitive, with 84% of Americans saying they wanted to see the report.
(See: 4/19/19, to understand why nearly 200 Republicans had changed their windmill minds.)
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