(CNN) The real message of the memo released last week by Rep. Devin Nunes assailing the FBI and Department of Justice is that Donald Trump is changing the Republican Party far more than it is changing him. But with the Nunes memo, the price of those policy gains has become more apparent. The idea that the Republican Congress would impose any meaningful restraint on Trump had already significantly eroded by the time of the Nunes memo. Nunes' memo isn't likely to change many opinions about the validity of Mueller's investigation. But it may stand as a milestone in Trump doing what he knows best: stamping his brand onto the Republican Party

Source: CNN February 06, 2018 11:03 UTC