On this date in both 2018, 2019, 2020, as well as 2021, “Fanatical Republican Extremist of the Day” gave our original, long-overdue profile of the sitting member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California’s 22nd District, Devin Nunes, who has rocketed up into our “must profile” list over the past two years after actions he took his role in the Trump transition team, as well as in the Republican House Intelligence Committee’s joke of an investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Trump transition team with Russia. Because it’s not so much that Rep. Nunes has made Trump look like a traitor, or that he’s made his campaign look like traitors, or that he’s made himself look like he was covering up his own potentially treasonous actions… no, Devin Nunes has drawn our scrutiny because he’s so goddamned transparent and incompetent of how to cover up a scandal, he may as well have been trying to put out a fire by pouring gasoline on it.
Devin Nunes spent his high school days back in the 1990s rocking a mullet and passing the time like you would think a guy with a mullet would, then first fan for Congress at the age of 29 back in 2002, winning and spending six years quietly going about his business as most Bush-era Republicans, using patriotism after 9-11 as a shield against any criticism. Nothing too interesting about him, through that stretch.
Of course, Rep. Nunes’ tone changed around 2009, in the face of Democrats having control over the White House, Senate, and House, when during the debate over the soon-to-be-passed Affordable Care Act, he spitefully claimed it was bringing back “ghosts of communism”, which we’re sure in no way was any kind of hyperbole about democratic socialism.
Fast forward a few years to February of 2014, and the Congressman was also going “all-in” on climate change denial, during one of the worst droughts in the history of California, no less, when he declared “global warming is nonsense”. Other than that, Nunes spent the second half of the Obama administration wasting taxpayer dollars so that conspiracy theory nuts could bay at the moon over theories about the attack on an American-controlled compound in Benghazi, but after years of promising some clear links to wrongdoing by President Obama or Hillary Clinton, Rep. Nunes and his GOP-controlled House Intelligence Committee investigation ended up having to debunk most of their own theories.
Still, all of that partisanship brought Devin Nunes to the attention of the Trump campaign, and he was quickly brought on as a member of the Trump transition team. Only days after the inauguration IN 2016, Nunes was entrenched enough with the secrets of Team Trump and on their side that he was backing his Muslim ban, in spite of the fact that, y’know, it was unconstitutional as f*** and most national security experts thought it actually would make foreign relations far, far worse.
Less than a month into the Trump administration, though, the whispers of links between the Trump campaign and the Trump transition team trying to set up secret meetings with Russians were growing to a claxon alarm… and Devin Nunes, the man who only a few years earlier was whining about healthcare reform bringing back “the ghosts of Communism” was suddenly referring to the reports from the FBI, CIA, and others in the intelligence community as a “Witchhunt” or a new “McCarthyism”.
Around March of 2017 where Nunes done f***ed up when it came to being a covert operative trying to help out the Trump administration and himself. As the great John Oliver summed it up, Devin Nunes managed to become a key player in “Stupid Watergate”, where if Watergate were happening again, but everyone involved was very, very stupid. Nunes was caught leaking classified information found during the intelligence community’s investigation into the Trump campaign and Trump transition team directly back to the White House and then blurting it out to the public outside the White House to frame public opinion in Trump’s favor. Similarly to how Attorney General Jeff Sessions was forced to recuse himself from the Department of Justice’s inquiries into Trump/Russia because of his own involvement, Nunes was forced to step aside after leaking classified information to the White House, then the public.
Except, Devin Nunes is completely full of s*** that when he was caught by the media sending his own investigators on taxpayer’s dime to the United Kingdom to try and find Christopher Steele, author of the Steele Dossier. As time goes by, though, Nunes has become less and less subtle about putting his thumb on the scale, moving on to actually outright talk of “corruption” he’s imagining is happening at the Bureau, trying to throw up smokescreens to distract from the Trump/Russia investigation like say, demanding an investigation Hillary Clinton over the conspiracy theory Uranium One in December of 2017, because no Republican would enjoy giving a Christmas gift to their party like continuing to waste taxpayer dollars harassing Hillary Clinton for daring to be both a Democrat and a woman seeking the presidency, and of course, choosing the FBI’s surveillance of Carter Page, the most suspicious Russian operative in the entire Trump/Russia operation to be the hill to die on, by write a memo about it, saying it was full of “shocking revelations” but once it was released, would do little but make him look like even more of an incompetent boob.
By February of 2018, Congressman Nunes was caught funding his own alternative news site to try and manipulate what “news” was being spread about the Trump/Russia investigation, and that in no way mirrored how the intelligence community reported on how the 2016 election was tainted by Russian bots spreading those kinds of stories, right? Nunes has started threatening senior members of the FBI and Department of Justice with impeachment for not revealing all of the information they’ve gathered during their investigation of the links between Trump and Russia and opted to respond by going on Fox & Friends to claim that the Trump campaign was “set up” by the FBI.
Devin Nunes is not your “average” Republican, he’s the sea-worthy douche-canoe who chose to use whatever power he has to prop up in incompetent racist s***heel in the White House. He somehow continued to be re-elected and survived all the controversy and criminal activity he seems to be linked to over the past few years, while also getting his ass handed to him in court rulings about all the frivolous lawsuits he’s been filing.
So we were relieved to find out that Devin Nunes announced he was resigning from Congress in the middle of his term, at the end of 2021. We are downright amused that his supposed “golden parachute” is made of lead, as he took the job of running Donald Trump’s own Twitter knockoff, Truth Social, and predictably it’s being run into the ground like all of Trump’s other failed business ideas.
We’re hoping that Devin Nunes never re-emerges in politics, and we can hope he f***s off and keeps f***ing off until he escapes the Earth’s orbit, then keeps f***ing off some more.
One Year Ago, June 17th, 2021: Devin Nunes (CA)… 2021 Update
Two Years Ago, June 17th, 2020: Devin Nunes (CA)… 2020 Update
Three Years Ago, June 17th, 2019: Devin Nunes (CA)… 2019 Update
Four Years Ago, June 17th, 2018: Devin Nunes (CA)… Original Profile
Five Years Ago, June 17th, 2017: Pat McDonough (MD)… 2017 Update
Six Year Ago, June 17th, 2016: Pat McDonough (MD)… 2016 Update
Seven Years Ago, June 17th, 2015: Pat McDonough (MD)… Original Profile