Trump says Devin Nunes 'may someday be recognized as a great American hero'
President Trump tweeted praise for the man who spearheaded the memo alleging the FBI used and misrepresented information from the Steele dossier to obtain a surveillance warrant for Trump campaign adviser Carter Page in 2016.
“Representative Devin Nunes, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!” Trump wrote on Monday.
Representative Devin Nunes, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2018
Nunes has faced criticism since the release of the memo, with many dismissing it as an intentionally manipulative assembly of partial and mischaracterized information aimed at discrediting the FBI and the Russia investigation, according to Politico.
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Others have embraced it as evidence of corruption in the FBI and proof that the Trump campaign did not collude with Russia for the 2016 election.
Trump is among the latter, saying in a weekend tweet, “This memo totally vindicates ‘Trump’ in probe.”
This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2018
Donald Trump Jr., President Trump’s son, expressed a similar view during a FOX News interview on Saturday, asserting that the memo discounts the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.
“There is a little bit of sweet revenge in it for me and, certainly, probably the family, in a sense that if they wouldn’t have done this, this stuff would be going on,” Trump Jr. remarked.
One day later, Trey Gowdy, a Republican representative who serves on the House Intelligence Committee with Nunes, appeared on CBS News and expressed an entirely different view.
“I actually don’t think it has any impact on the Russia probe. There is a Russia investigation without a dossier,” Gowdy commented.
