Democratic Representative Eric Swalwell has just dropped a bombshell on the Republican Party. In a stunning effort to call out the corruption in the GOP, Swalwell has just exposed House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes in an op-ed for purposefully hiding evidence about Russian meddling to protect president Donald Trump.
As a member of the U.S. House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence and the ranking member of the subcommittee on the CIA, Swalwell has taken it upon himself to out Nunes and trash him in front of the world. While Swalwell stated that most of America knew we couldn’t count of the president to clean up America’s elections after Russia, it’s pathetic that no one in Congress has done anything to protect our next elections — and for this, he blames Nunes. Swalwell wrote:
Due to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes’ persistent and pernicious obstruction, America has been spectacularly let down.
Just last week, hours before the Republican-led House recessed for six weeks, Nunes broke out his shovel yet again to bury even deeper the evidence of Russian interference, once again demonstrating there’s no distance he won’t go to protect this president.”
Swalwell then outlined the most recent actions by Nunes and Republicans, which certainly sounds shady and looks as though Nunes is hiding something:
Nunes and committee Republicans had promised that the American people would see our interview transcripts after the investigation was completed. When they abruptly ended the investigation without calling dozens of relevant witnesses, they voted to conceal the transcripts.
Suddenly, last month, Nunes agreed to release them. Perhaps he was worried about the burgeoning campaign of his Democratic opponent — a local prosecutor named Andrew Janz, whose argument to the voters includes powerful evidence of Nunes’ efforts to poison the Russia investigation. But predictably, at a hearing last week on releasing the transcripts, Nunes still wouldn’t allow real transparency.”
Swalwell also explained that Nunes has been not only hiding transcripts from the public, but also Special Counsel Robert Mueller even though it would be relevant to his work. Swalwell backed up his claims by providing numerous examples of how Nunes and the GOP have worked to protect the president:
We sought to test witnesses’ accounts by subpoenaing third-party records such as cell phone, bank and travel records. Republicans refused to allow it.
To arrange the infamous June 9, 2016 Trump Tower meeting, Donald Trump Jr. called his Russian contact, then called a blocked number, and then called his Russian contact back. We had evidence from other witnesses that Donald Trump used a blocked number. Republicans refused to pursue whether it was the same number.
The Republicans ran a “take them at their word” investigation when most of the Trump team clearly didn’t deserve that benefit of the doubt. So at last week’s hearing, I moved to subpoena many of the records that could fill a lot of the gaps. Nunes nixed it.”
Then, Swalwell detailed how Nunes was “burying” evidence:
Reviewing his plans, we saw a glaring omission: the transcript of Congressman Dana Rohrabacher’s interview. I took part in that lengthy interview and I was disturbed by his contacts with Russia before and during the 2015-16 campaign. So Democrats at our hearing moved to release Rohrabacher’s transcript, plus several others; Nunes killed our effort. He’s burying that transcript to protect his friend — also in a tight re-election battle against Harley Rouda in Orange County — just as he has protected President Trump.
The Nunes fix was in from the very start. Soon after 2016’s election, as we began to see the breadth of Russia’s interference, I had approached him with an idea: “Let’s have an independent commission look at what the Russians did,” just as we had after the Sept. 11 attacks.
‘We can handle this on the committee,’ Nunes insisted. I was doubtful, but I never expected that by ‘handle,’ he meant ‘bury.’”
Swalwell expressed disappointment in the GOP, as most Americans feel right now. He even stated that many Republicans are against Trump and Nunes and have told him that they’re “dead wrong” — but they’re afraid to say anything because Trump will attack them on Twitter. Really, it does not get more spineless than that.
Swalwell ends his exposure of Nunes by encouraging Americans to vote in November so we can “show the president, and congressional enablers like Nunes, that we will not be bullied.” He concluded:
And when Democrats hold the majority, it will be our responsibility to unite with any Republicans willing to defend this great nation.”
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