{"id":532,"date":"2017-03-28T17:58:02","date_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/?p=532"},"modified":"2017-03-28T17:58:02","modified_gmt":"2017-03-28T22:58:02","slug":"and-the-gullible-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/532","title":{"rendered":"And, The Gullible Believe&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-russia-nunes-idUSKBN16Z2TZ\">U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Tuesday he will not divulge &#8211; even to other members of his panel &#8211; who gave him intelligence reports that indicated President Donald Trump and his associates may have been ensnared in incidental intelligence collection.<span id=\"midArticle_1\"><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-usa-trump-russia-nunes-idUSKBN16Z2TZ\">Asked by an ABC News reporter whether he would inform the other committee members about who gave him the reports he viewed on the White House grounds last week, Nunes said: &#8220;We will never reveal those sources and methods.&#8221;<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Why would you reveal sources that don&#8217;t exist?\u00a0When your goal is to create conspiracy theories just drop the fabrication, repeat it often, and sooner or later gullible people will start swearing it is the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans and conservative have this all figured out. And, as history is demonstrating real-time, it sure as heck has worked for them. So, they&#8217;ll continue. Likely at an accelerated pace with Trump heading up the party.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes said on Tuesday he will not divulge &#8211; even to other members of his panel &#8211; who gave him intelligence reports that indicated President Donald Trump and his associates may have been ensnared in incidental intelligence collection. Asked by an ABC News reporter whether he would inform the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/532\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">And, The Gullible Believe&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[28,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ethics","category-politics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8ovtF-8A","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":456,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/456","url_meta":{"origin":532,"position":0},"title":"Trump Exonerated?&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"March 22, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump's allegations that his phones were wiretapped on orders by Obama have been widely considered\u00a0 bogus by knowledgeable intelligence\u00a0officials as well as congressional Republicans.\u00a0This afternoon\u00a0Representative Devin Nunes, the chair of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence,\u00a0made public\u00a0new information\u00a0from an unnamed source that,\u00a0on numerous occasions the Intelligence Community incidentally collected\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Government&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":534,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/534","url_meta":{"origin":532,"position":1},"title":"Trey Gowdy All In For Nunes (and Trump)&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"March 29, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Rep. 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King did say Trump overstated it when he accused President Obama of ordering wiretapping his phones. King was obviously referencing the information Representative\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Politics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Politics","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/politics"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":464,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/464","url_meta":{"origin":532,"position":3},"title":"Comey Confirms Trump&#8217;s Allegations Obama Had His Phones Wiretapped Are False&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"March 20, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"So, Trump was wrong. And, for folks like me we suspect he knew he was wrong all the while. He willfully spouted lies to mislead the American people and he should be held to account for it. Most likely\u00a0Trump will pass it off that he was given misinformation, pick a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Government&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Government","link":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/category\/government"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":313,"url":"https:\/\/rationalnationusa.com\/blog\/archives\/313","url_meta":{"origin":532,"position":4},"title":"The President Of The United States Is A Conspiracy Theorist&#8230;","author":"Les","date":"March 4, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Trump is, in essence, a conspiracy theory nut job. He bought into the birther movement of the far right. Now he has made wild accusations that President Obama had his phones wiretapped. 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