The Associated Press did a partial fact check of inept Trump stooge Rep. Devin "Numbnuts" Nunes during his portion of today's impeachment inquiry hearing, and to no one's surprise, he's been lying. According to the AP:
Nunes: “President Trump had good reason to be wary of Ukrainian election meddling against his campaign.”
Fact: That’s not credible. The theory that Ukrainians interfered in the U.S. election and that Democrats cooperated in that effort is unsubstantiated.At the beginning of his opening remarks, Nunes waved the report on Russian interference in the 2016 election that he oversaw when Rethugs were in the majority in 2018. He claimed that the report was in line with the intelligence community's unanimous assessment on the matter. In truth, the Nunes-led report diverged in the most major way possible: that Russia did not have a preference for their man Donald "Tovarich" Trump, thereby distorting the main takeaway from the intel community's assessment and the assessment of Special Counsel Robert Mueller that Russia interfered on Trump's behalf.
Fiona Hill, who was Trump’s special assistant to Trump on the National Security Council, testified Thursday that it was a “fictional narrative.”
Trump himself was told by his officials that the theory was “completely debunked” long before the president pressed Ukraine to investigate it anyway, according to Tom Bossert, Trump’s first homeland security adviser."
Nunes: Trump also has good reason to be wary 'of widespread corruption in that country.'
Fact: He’s pointing to an oft-made defense by Trump and GOP allies that he withheld military aid to Ukraine because of concerns about corruption. But the hearings have produced bountiful testimony that Trump was singularly focused on making Democrats the target of Ukrainian investigations."
