by Tim Hains at RealClear Politics
Former Rep. Devin Nunes suggested during an interview with Maria Bartiromo on FNC’s “Sunday Morning Futures” that the latest charges against former FBI Director James Comey aren’t everything, suggesting “a grand conspiracy charge… against probably about two dozen characters in the United States over the last seven, eight years.”
DEVIN NUNES: I think Comey should consider himself lucky, Maria, number one, that he wasn’t treated like Roger Stone was treated, who had a very similar charge, where they actually raided his home at 6:00 a.m., drug him out.
And that was before they actually called the CNN camera, so that they couldn’t go and get it all on camera. So that didn’t happen to him. Secondly, what also didn’t happen to him is what happened to General Flynn, where Comey himself admitted that they ambushed Flynn in the White House, charged him on very similar charges, even though the FBI agents themselves said that they didn’t believe that Flynn had lied.
And, oh, by the way, that information had leaked out on General Flynn, that they then misled the American public about what actually General Flynn said.
So, look, Comey has long been a liar, a leaker. He’s dishonest. He ruined the FBI. And I would just lastly say this about this indictment, is, he’s going to also going to be very lucky if there’s not a superseding indictment. But I’d say, most importantly, he will be lucky if there is not a grand conspiracy charge brought, which is really what should be brought against probably about two dozen characters in the United States over the last seven, eight years.
BARTIROMO: So that’s what I want to talk about. The conspiracy charge, will that come? And what does that mean, the conspiracy charge? Because John Ratcliffe also brought that up to me, saying the statute of limitations does not apply if it’s a conspiracy that’s still going on.
NUNES: Yes, that’s right. And so, when you go back and look at this at 50,000 feet, what are we really talking about here? What actually happened that they were all involved in? And it all goes back to really one thing, and that was that there were 30,000 e-mails that Clinton had that Clinton was worried would come out before the 2016 election, and, if those came out, it would make her unelectable.
That’s what this is all about. Everything goes back to that. And then what happened is, is that Comey and company and all of them got involved in the so-called Clinton plan, which, if you remember, the Clinton plan was to do what? To say that the Trump campaign, it was colluding with the Russians and that’s how the e-mails got out.
That’s all true. That’s all happened. That’s, like, the quintessential definition of conspiracy.
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BARTIROMO: Welcome back. I’m back with Devin Nunes. My question to you is, number one, should there be more charges against Jim Comey? And, number two, should there be more indictments? What do you think?
NUNES: So, on Comey, I think the answer is, for this, it’s very specific, and it’s over whether or not he lied on this one part.
The larger part is whether or not you can bring a kind of grand conspiracy case. And people talk about there’s the law, which is lying to Congress, lying to the FBI, but there’s also a term in there called misleading.
And what a lot of these guys did is, they made up things using intelligence that didn’t exist, but acted like they knew something that actually wasn’t there, and they lied and misled the American people. And by — and by doing that, all the times they testified before Congress, the Senate, they lied over and over and again with this, oh, we have seen something, we can’t tell you about it because it’s classified.
But what do we now know by everything that’s been declassified is, is that they didn’t have any intelligence on Russia colluding with Trump.
In fact, the only intelligence that they had is that the Russians were very well aware of Clinton’s plan, and they actually not only thought Clinton was going to win, but likely preferred that she would win.
So, going back to the cover-up of her missing e-mails that, by the way, are still missing, they all got involved in this plan. They all got the FBI exercised. They were able to go spy on the Trump campaign. They were able to then get the Mueller witch-hunt going that then led to the Ukraine — remember, that dies off. Then you have the fake whistle-blower and the Ukraine impeachment.
I mean, that needs a whole investigation, in and of itself. We now know the latest information that happened on January 6 now with agents that were out there, the pipe bombs, all this other stuff that is — who broke the windows with — that I asked when I was in Congress. I really wanted to know that.
But, most importantly, Maria, who’s the victim in this? The victim is President Trump and his family. They raided Mar-a-Lago. That’s a problem, and we need answers to that.
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