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The Nunes Memo is a National Gaslighting from the Trump Regime

Fred Chong Rutherford
5 min readFeb 2, 2018

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I was listening to The Brian Lehrer show on WNYC this morning, and the discussion at one point was about the release of the Nunes memo. Listening to the host, and a few callers, I was astonished that the discussion became about, “Did Trump collude with Russia?” There’s something important people need to understand, collusion with Russian nationals is not necessarily a crime. However, there is a lot of criminality that can be associated with collusion.

In addition, today, that memo, isn’t really about facts or reason. None of the intelligent, logical things that people are saying about why the memo is stupid matters to the Trump regime or its supporters, because the Nunes Memo is simply a loyalty test for Trump supporters and their autocratic cult. When an autocrat lies, and says, “It’s a sunny day!” when it’s clearly raining, the point isn’t the lie. The point is, “Who accepts my truth?” That’s today.

I wrote this email to WNYC, officially turning into an old-person crank who writes the media, specifically about the crimes that matter, versus the collusion question which may not.

Here’s what I wrote …
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To the Brian Lehrer Show,

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