Matt Taibbi: Devin Nunes was dead on and I have the receipts

TAIBBI: I think at that time, it seemed much more about diverting attention from the Nunes memo because remember there were two sets of fake stories they came out at the time. One was that the story was being amplified by Russian bots, and that story was repeated by virtually every major news organization in America and in some other countries as well like the CDC did that story. The other story was the Nunes memo was not just fake, and not just completely devoid of any important revelations, but grounds for him to potentially be removed from his position at the Intel committee. Moveon.org had a petition about it. Of course we found out two years later through the Inspector General’s report that virtually everything and the Nunes memo had been proved correct. I think that’s what they were doing was just try to deflect from an uncomfortable truth by calling him up Russian proxy.