All Agent Orange has left after he wimped out on blocking the Schiff counter-memo is weak sauce and false claims. Sitting Duck L’Orange.
The original Nunes memo was facilitated by the WH (he never denies this), so calling Schiff a phony really doesn’t address how the WH created false claims and that the WH used the House committee (and tacitly Graham and Grassley) to disinform the public and obstruct the investigations.
And more importantly, the lack of detailed refutation only confirms how #TrumpRussia could never be a hoax with so many cooperating parties. The money trail will make this clearer in the coming months.
While the description of what Papadopoulos said is redacted, the context makes it clear (as does this Adam Schiff tweet) that Papadopoulos didn’t tell Downer specifically what Russia had told him was available, only that they could release it to help Trump.
But that Mifsud told Papadopoulos that the Russians were thinking of releasing it to help Trump is news, important news. It means the discussions of setting up increasingly senior levels of meetings between Russia and the Trump campaign took place against the offer of help in the form of released kompromat.
Which, particularly given the evidence that Papadopoulos shared that information with the campaign, makes the June 9 meeting still more damning.