Rep. Jackie Speier Karen (Jackie) Lorraine Jacqueline SpeierOvernight Defense: House to vote on military justice bill spurred by Vanessa Guillén death | Biden courts veterans after Trump's military controversies House to vote on 'I Am Vanessa Guillén' bill Overnight Defense: Trump's battle with Pentagon poses risks in November | Lawmakers launch Fort Hood probe | Military members can't opt out of tax deferral MORE (D-Calif.), who survived the Jonestown massacre as a congressional staffer, on Thursday blasted Rep. Devin Nunes Devin Gerald NunesOvernight Defense: Stopgap spending measure awaits Senate vote | Trump nominates former Nunes aide for intelligence community watchdog | Trump extends ban on racial discrimination training to contractors, military Trump nominates former Nunes aide to serve as intel community inspector general Sunday shows preview: Justice Ginsburg dies, sparking partisan battle over vacancy before election MORE (R-Calif.), a major ally of President Trump Donald John TrumpFederal prosecutor speaks out, says Barr 'has brought shame' on Justice Dept. Former Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick MORE, for calling the impeachment inquiry a cult.

Speier suggested Nunes, the ranking member of the House Intelligence Committee, "look elsewhere."

Devin Nunes calling the Intelligence Committee’s fact-finding mission a cult is dispicable. I know about cults. Cults are led by maniacal narcissists who expect complete adoration and relinquishment of independent thought. I suggest Mr. Nunes look elsewhere. — Jackie Speier (@RepSpeier) October 31, 2019

The congresswoman survived five gunshot wounds in 1978 when her boss, then-Rep. Leo Ryan (D-Calif.), was assassinated in Guyana, right before cult leader Jim Jones convinced more than 900 people to ingest cyanide and end their lives.

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Speier’s post comes in response to

Nunes’s comments

on “The Ingraham Angle” on Fox News the night before that the Democrat's inquiry has turned into a “cult.”

"So we go behind — we go into the basement every day and things leak out,” he said. “And it's a bit like watching a cult. It's become a cult."

The House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs and Oversight and Reform committees have been holding closed-door hearings in which former and current Trump officials are testifying. The inquiry began after a whistleblower report detailed a phone call between Trump and the Ukrainian president, in which Trump asks Ukraine to look into former Vice President Joe Biden Joe BidenFormer Pence aide: White House staffers discussed Trump refusing to leave office Progressive group buys domain name of Trump's No. 1 Supreme Court pick Bloomberg rolls out M ad buy to boost Biden in Florida MORE and his son.

The House plans to have its first floor vote on the inquiry Thursday.