Congressman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) apparently can’t “bare” the thought of President Donald Trump being investigated.

And in his defense of the president on Thursday, he accused Democrats of trying to obtain nude pictures of the president.

Nunes, the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, made the accusation during his opening statement at the hearing about the whistleblower complaint alleging that Trump sought Ukrainian help in investigating Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son.

The congressman called the Ukraine scandal a “grotesque spectacle” created by the left and their “media assets” before claiming the Democrats wanted to see photos of the president in the buff:

“Democrats on this very committee negotiated with people who they thought were Ukrainians in order to obtain nude pictures of Trump,” Nunes said. “People can reasonably ask why the Democrats are so determined to impeach this president when in just a year, they will have a chance.”

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