Devin Nunes, 'Great American Hero'?
The president’s praise for the chair of the House Intelligence Committee makes the congressman something of an outlier in Trump’s pantheon.
by David A. Graham
Feb 06, 2018
3 minutes
Donald Trump’s flair for insults is well noted, but his knack for backhanded compliments is perhaps under-appreciated. Note the finely calibrated use of the conditional tense in this Friday morning tweet:
Representative Devin Nunes, a man of tremendous courage and grit, may someday be recognized as a Great American Hero for what he has exposed and what he has had to endure!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 5, 2018
The pesky “may” aside, the Republican chair of the House Intelligence Committee isn’t getting much
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