If *anyone* working on the Trump investigation wanted to hurt Trump in 2016 they could have leaked details of the investigation. They did not. In fact, FBI sources went so far as to tell the Times there was no Russia connection!
(There *were* a number of anti-Clinton leaks)— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 2, 2018
And all this is, apparently, evidence that the FBI was engaged in a conspiracy to get Clinton elected?
Literally none of this makes any sense and it's an insult to everyone's intelligence.
And it's depressing as hell to watching smart people pretend to be this stupid.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 2, 2018
Many political correspondents agreed: the memo is, if you’ll pardon the expression, a nothingburger.
https://twitter.com/mattyglesias/status/959476547303419905
Some things the Nunes Memo does not explain away:
1) The hack of DNC servers by 2 Russian intelligence agencies
2) George Papadopoulos's contacts with the Russians
3) Michael Flynn's negotiations with the Russian ambassador
4) the Trump Tower meeting
5) Firing Comey— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) February 2, 2018
The whole thing feels so hilariously anticlimactic that many Twitter users couldn’t resist the opportunity to mock the memo charade.
https://twitter.com/SamGrittner/status/959479352659410946
reeling from the revelations in this part of the memo pic.twitter.com/eQk2ftP4ph
— David Weigel (@daveweigel) February 2, 2018
Wow some pretty big claims in the memo pic.twitter.com/X1cQwX2lqI
— Christopher Ingraham🦗 (@_cingraham) February 2, 2018
https://twitter.com/isteintraum/status/959478991878082560
https://twitter.com/ditzkoff/status/959484614992687104
The official GOP position is that police are an incorruptible force when it comes to patrolling Black neighborhoods, but also the top law enforcement agency in the nation is corrupt in its investigation of Trump
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
— Don’t Boo…Revolt! (@BreeNewsome) February 2, 2018
What Republicans thought they were getting with the Nunes Memo vs. what Republicans got with the Nunes Memo pic.twitter.com/kYTqFk2sLP
— Mike Drucker (@MikeDrucker) February 2, 2018