Yesterday, House Intelligence Committee Chairperson Devin Nunes made the startling announcement that he had become aware of intelligence intercepts which may have included Donald Trump and his people – intercepts that had nothing to do with Russia.
If true, this not only lends credence to President Trump’s claim that his offices were tapped, but makes fools of the Democrats, and their complicitors in mainstream media, who have basically accused Mr. Trump of either being a fool or a liar for claiming this happened.
So what is the reaction to Rep. Nunes’ statement from the committe’s ranking Democrat, Adam Schiff (D-CA)?
From Nikita Vladimirov’s article at thehill.com:
That’s it? That’s the reaction? Not something like “I want to see the evidence that this is true”, or “if this is true it may put a different light on things”, or “I demand we get to the bottom of who would be gathering this information”?
All we get is an attack on Nunes for going public with information that provides another side to an issue Democrats would prefer us to hear just one side of?
This is no surprise. And it is no surprise that the Representative desperately – and, except for hardline Democrats, unsuccessfully – trying to turn this remarkable information into a negative for Republicans, is from a safe district no Democrat is likely to lose.
If you ask people who the Democrat Party’s worst enemies are, you’d probably hear answers like Donald Trump and Republicans in general.
Those are reasonable answers, but I don’t think they hit the nail on the head.
The Democrats’ worst enemies, it seems, are the Adam Schiffs of their own party – the ones in safe districts. The ones who can make comments like this, secure in the knowledge that they will win their next election, while endangering Democrats in vulnerable districts who then have to live with voter reaction to the things they say.
They are the enemies from within. And those are powerful enemies.
The evidence? Look what they’ve done for – or, more accuratel, to – Democrats in the past four elections.
