What Was the Point of the Nunes Memo?

Yesterday, I argued that 'Devin Nunes Has Got Nothing'.  Well, it turns out I didn't know how right I was.

Click the link if you're not up to speed on this, but the short version is that Devin Nunes and Donald Trump produced a memo which supposedly proved that the Department of Justice and FBI were out to destroy Trump's presidency.  Without getting into all the details, the key argument of the memo is that the FBI and DOJ withheld a crucial detail when they requested a warrant to spy on former Trump associate Carter Page.  Specifically, part of the reason they wanted the warrant is that a guy named Christopher Steele and produced a lot of unverified information incriminating Trump and Page.  And most of this information was gathered while Steele was getting paid by Hillary Clinton's attorney.

The whole 'deep state conspiracy' argument hinges on the accusation that when the FBI applied for the warrant, they didn't tell the court that Clinton's campaign had funded Steele's investigation into Trump.  From Nunes' memo:

Neither the original application in October 2016, nor any of the renewals, disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele's efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior DOJ and FBI officials.

Only now it turns out that they DID tell the court:

Republican leaders are acknowledging that the FBI disclosed the political origins of a private dossier the bureau cited in an application to surveil former Trump campaign adviser Carter Page, undermining a controversial GOP memo released Friday and fueling Democratic demands to declassify more information about the bureau’s actions.

So the one thin reed of justification for even writing the memo in the first place is based on a lie.  Appropriate for the Republican party and this administration.

I would ask rhetorically why Nunes bothered to write the memo at all, but sadly its obvious.  The vast majority of Republican voters believe anything that Donald Trump and Fox News tell them.  Devin Nunes could write a memo about his dog peeing on the carpet, insist that it was proof of a conspiracy against Trump, and Trump's supporters would believe it.

Not the sharpest group, those Trump supporters.

And once again, it's worth repeating that when a devoted partisan is literally unable to produce even a shred of evidence proving that there's a conspiracy, the only logical conclusion is: There is no conspiracy.  Trump, Nunes, and the other Republicans in Congress are compromising our nation's law enforcement for the sole purpose of protecting Trump.

I'm sure I'm not alone in considering that treason.