Devin Nunes, Trump defender, allegedly met a Ukrainian ex-prosecutor to ask about Joe Biden, CNN reports. The California congressman ducked a question about it.
Now, Nunes finds himself cast differently, entangled in the same chain of-- whether Trump and his allies sought to turn rumors and intrigue in Ukraine into a source of political attacks against Democrats in the U.S., especially former Vice President Joe Biden.
“I think you can understand that I can’t compete by trying to debate this out with the public media when 90% of the media are totally corrupt,” he said. “That’s actually what the president is accused of doing -- misusing public dollars for a political purpose.” Throughout the two weeks of public hearings, Nunes, who along with Rep. Adam B. Schiff was allowed to give opening and closing statements as the testimony proceeded, poured scorn on the process, calling the hearings “bizarre,” a “kangaroo court” and a “circus.”
Trump and his backers have repeatedly suggested that Biden engineered Shokin’s firing to protect his son Hunter, who sat on the board of a Ukrainian gas company, Burisma. U.S. officials who testified in the impeachment inquiry said that was false. The U.S. allies and international organizations that pushed for Shokin’s dismissal said at the time that the then-prosecutor general was corruptly blocking investigations into wrongdoing in Ukraine.
Interviewed on CNN’s “State of the Union,” Schiff said that if Nunes “was on a taxpayer-funded” trip “and I say if -- seeking dirt on a potential Democratic candidate for president, Joe Biden, that would be an ethics matter.”Schiff said the main interest of the Intelligence Committee, which until now has taken the lead in the impeachment proceedings, was establishing actions ordered by Trump that pertained to Ukraine.
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