Frustrated by continued scrutiny of his campaign’s dealings with Russia, and unable to divert investigators attention to alleged Clinton scandals, President Donald J. Trump focused today on a far more insidious threat. He directed the attention of the House Intelligence Committee to the “very real” Russian ties of Phillip and Elizabeth Jennings, the protagonists of the FX series “The Americans.”
“Why isn’t the committee investigating the Jennings? Phillip and Elizabeth have very real ties to Russia! Trump Russia story a hoax!” the President tweeted this morning. In a follow up tweet, he said “Every week, I learn something new about their organization, yet NOTHING DONE! Committee instead chases Trump fiction!”
The Americans is a television series, set 30 years in the past, about Russian sleeper agents, living in suburban Washington, D.C. Neither the fictional nature of the series, nor the distance in time has deterred top government officials from responding to the President’s call for action. Attorney General Jeff Sessions immediately dispatched a cadre of FBI agents to DuPont circle to examine each and every record from the Jennings’ imaginary travel agency. Speaker of the House Paul Ryan, immediately proposed legislation cutting funds to both Medicaid and Welfare programs “until such time as all undocumented workers can be vetted to determine what ties, if any, they have with the, now defunct, U.S.S.R.”
Approached for comment on these latest allegations, Rep. Adam Schiff, ranking Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said “Well, It’s at least as credible as any other story he has given us.”
Devin Nunes, chair of the Intelligence Committee, said that he found these revelations to be “the most troubling I have yet heard.” He then vowed to throw all committee resources into the Jennings investigation as well as a parallel Russia probe, the top secret details of which he was just made aware of, known only by the code name “Moose and Squirrel.”
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