Revealed In 'Fear': Pence Lied About Flynn

[kpete]

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Here is the Woodward transcript from today’s Rachael Maddow Show:

...On January 26, Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates had come to the White House. She told White House Counsel Donald McGahn that intercepts showed that Flynn had not been truthful about contacts with Russians and was worried that Flynn could be a blackmail target.

Flynn had denied discussing the sanctions 10 times, Priebus calculated… Priebus tracked down White House Counsel McGahn… Priebus asked him if they could get the transcripts of the conversations that Flynn had with the Russian Ambassador.

Yes, McGahn said, of course. Soon he had the highly classified transcripts of three communications between Flynn and Kislyak that the FBI had intercepted during the routine monitoring of the Russian Ambassador.

McGahn and Pribus were joined by Vice President Pence in the Situation Room to review the transcripts., Pence had backed Flynn’s denial publicly.

In all three transcripts Flynn and the ambassador discussed the sanctions. In the last call, initiated by Kislyak, the ambassador thanked Flynn for his advice on the sanctions and said the Russians would follow it.

That nailed the story and it explained Putin’s curiously passive response to the sanctions. Normally the Russian president would be expected to retaliate expelling some Americans from Russia. But the day after Obama announced the sanctions, Putin announced he would not.

President-elect Trump praised Putin, tweeting “Great move on delay (by V. Putin)-I always knew he was very smart!”

The sequence suggested that Trump might have known of Flynn’s role. But it was unclear what Flynn said to the president about his conversations with Kislyak.

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[FM123]

1. I remember watching his smug answer on tv "of course not" when asked if he knew.

Of course he knew. And everybody at the White House knew that he knew....
He has always been a dishonest and opportunistic piece of garbage just like trump, but with "better manners".

According to a Washington Post article:

"Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district.

And then, scandal.

Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-pence-used-campaign-funds-to-pay-his-mortgage--and-it-cost-him-an-election/2016/07/15/90858964-49ed-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html?utm_term=.9a5a9a710ee2

[Botany]

2. Pence is into this crap up to his eyeballs. Pence was picked to bed V.P. by Paul Manafort ...

.... who was a Russian agent.

https://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-was-handpicked-paul-manafort-696412

CBS News reported that Pence was Manafort's "first choice" and that Manafort even lied about mechanical problems on Trump's plane to make the soon-to-be GOP nominee stay an extra day in Indiana to get to know Pence. In a phone call, Manafort assured Trump that Pence was the right choice and made a case that won over the real estate tycoon.

[MrsCoffee]

3. Of course he did.

You don’t get hand picked by Manafort by being a real choir boy.