During a new interview, former House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes addressed the findings from special counsel John Durham’s new report on the origins of the FBI’s investigation into the Trump-Russia collusion hoax.
Durham released his report last week and it found that the FBI had no evidence to support the investigation when it began and found “sobering” differences in how the FBI approached the Trump probe compared to other politically sensitive investigations.
Nunes addressed the findings during an interview with Fox News’ Maria Baritromo.
“I think, overall, this is a really sad day for America, because what it represents is the total collapse of the justice system,” Nunes said. “A lot of people see this as, oh, FBI/intelligence agencies. No, no, no, this represents the entire collapse of the justice system. And it really — the Durham report reads like the tombstone for the justice system. And it would say something simple, like, here lies the justice system, the Justice Department, and we knew there was criminality, and we couldn’t do anything about it. That’s really what the Durham report says. There’s a lot of great information in there. But nothing has been done.”
“Well, why? I mean, why is there no accountability after all of these years?” Baritromo responded.
“You knew it from day one. You came out with the Nunes report back in 2018 and walked us through how this was a made-up story from the Clinton campaign. And yet look at look at where they are now, all of these people who were complicit in pushing this lie, whether it’s Peter Strzok, John Brennan, James Comey. They have got big jobs at universities, and they’re writing books, and they’re on MSNBC and CNN as national security experts,” Baritromo added.
“Yes, so the way you have to look at this, it’s even bigger than that and all of those bad, evil characters,” Nunes responded. “What this is really about, it’s about the Justice Department collapsing. It’s also about the judicial branch of government collapsing and the fake news media collapsing… I just mentioned the justice system, how that it’s completely broke down. I mean, they knew about it, couldn’t do anything about it.”
“But how about the judges? Let’s just take — there’s three easy examples with the judges. You had the FISA court. They did absolutely nothing. The FISA court could have stepped in. They knew right away when I knew. They knew in 2017. And then, for sure, they knew in ’18, when we notified them. Did they do anything? No, they covered it up,” Nunes continued. “You also had the activity of federal judges as it related to General Flynn. Then, fast-forward, and you got the Mar-a-Lago raid, where you have a judge sign a FISA warrant — or a search warrant…”
“And that’s why most Americans are saying, how can this happen? How can this happen in the United States of America? Now, as you know, I spent a lot of time abroad. I made a lot of friends overseas. And I have gotten so many calls after this Durham report from people who are saying, what the hell is going on in the United States?” Nunes added. “How can — how can you guys have a justice system like this? I think a lot of people were shocked. A lot of them knew me. A lot of them knew that I was telling the truth. But when you see Durham go through this exhaustive three-year process and actually come forth with all of this information that, in any normal world, there would be — there were so many crimes committed here.”
