#MemoDay: Democrats Lose It, Pelosi Says Trump ‘Just Sent His Friend Putin A Bouquet’

The memo, which details blatant abuse of government surveillance, has been released to the public. You can catch up here, here and read the entire thing here.

The main takeaways?

•  Warrants on Carter Page wouldn’t have been possible without the phony dossier
•  The FBI and DOJ relied on media reporting to lend credibility to the dossier, meaning there was a lot of “circular reporting” in this case
• Christopher Steele said he was “desperate that Donald Trump not get elected and was passionate about him not being president”
• DOJ and FBI officials KNEW about the shady dossier but excluded it from the FISA applications
• FBI and DOJ officials knew the truth behind the phony dossier and used it anyway

Holy mother of corruption.

Turns out the Dems’ hysterical denunciations — ‘There will be terrorist attacks because of this!’ ‘Will destroy the FBI!’ – were a total bluff.

— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) February 2, 2018

Yup.

Cue the Democrats. They’re losing it:

Pelosi’s losing it. She thinks Trump just gave Putin a bouquet. Yeah, don’t ask me to explain her logic. She’s out of her mind.

“President Trump has surrendered his constitutional responsibility as Commander-in-Chief by releasing highly classified and distorted intelligence. By not protecting intelligence sources and methods, he just sent his friend Putin a bouquet.

“As the Department of Justice warned, the public release of the memo would be an ‘unprecedented action’ and ‘extraordinarily reckless.’ The FBI also expressed ‘grave concerns about material omissions of fact that fundamentally impact the memo’s accuracy.’

“Nunes’ partisan spin memo distorts highly classified intelligence in a cynical attempt to discredit our national intelligence and law enforcement agencies and the Special Counsel investigation. Releasing the memo is a desperate attempt to distract the American people from the truth about the Trump-Russia scandal.

“One year ago, the intelligence community concluded that the Russians interfered in our elections and plan to do so again. Yet, the President refuses to hold Putin accountable, making us all ask: what do the Russians have on Trump, politically, financially and personally?

“As the Speaker and former Vice Presidential candidate, Speaker Ryan knows how dangerous it is to jeopardize our intelligence and national security. Why is he enabling this recklessness and not taking action to remove Chairman Nunes?”

McCain’s mad:

Basically, all Democrats are mad:

Take the memo at face value. The Steele Dossier was part of why Carter Page ended up under surveillance. The Steele Dossier was partly funded by Trump's opponents.

So what? The question is whether laws were broken by the Trump campaign.

— Ezra Klein (@ezraklein) February 2, 2018

Nice try idiot👌🏻

— SoCalPhillie🐼 (@SoCalPhillie) February 2, 2018

"So what" is a good look for a guy who claims it's his profession to explain things. https://t.co/wMTvpT1Bw4

— Stephen Miller (@redsteeze) February 2, 2018

Not a good look by the House GOP to release cherry picked excerpts through friendly media outlets in order to build a narrative. Only reinforces the partisan look to all this. A truly nonpartisan act would have been a complete release without cherry picks

— Chuck Todd (@chucktodd) February 2, 2018

Senate Intel Committee Vice Chair Mark Warner on public release of Nunes memo:

"Unlike almost every House member who voted in favor of this memo's release, I have actually read the underlying documents on which the memo was based. They simply do not support its conclusions." pic.twitter.com/2yhLJwg8mh

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) February 2, 2018

House Intelligence committee minority on release of Chairman Nunes’ "misleading memo"

“Chairman Nunes’ decision…is a shameful effort to discredit these institutions, undermine the Special Counsel’s ongoing investigation, and undercut congressional probes." pic.twitter.com/MMWnovreUt

— NBC Politics (@NBCPolitics) February 2, 2018

Nah fake Nunes memo.. if this is the best They can do… wait till they see what Mueller has . memo is a nothing burger

— Akinwumi j Oyebade (@oyebee) February 2, 2018

.@HardballChris: This is a staff-written memo, perhaps written with the help of the WH. This document…is almost like an indictment of Comey, McCabe, and Rosenstein. The targets are there. The next target is Rosenstein. The language is mischievous. #AMR

— Andrea Mitchell (@mitchellreports) February 2, 2018

WATCH: @chucktodd on memo release: GOP is making their case look worse because they're only releasing the memo to partisan, friendly media outlets

"This is what a campaign would do … not something done by someone who cared about the rule of law." pic.twitter.com/Ybc2fVWdDF

— MSNBC (@MSNBC) February 2, 2018

.@NancyPelosi: "It's a bogus memo. It's not based on fact." https://t.co/tdXiIGDNNv pic.twitter.com/8QfI38gHMq

— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 2, 2018

What’s not factual? If anything, Democrats are guilty of doing exactly what they’ve been accusing the Trump campaign of. They “colluded” with a foreign agent who hated Trump, funded a bogus dossier, and officials– KNOWING the political origins of it– used it to obtain a warrant to spy on Trump associates anyway.

Nothing about this is defensible.