Pence lied: Led the Flynn vetting process, knew about foreign ties

[applegrove]

by Oliver Wells

http://shareblue.com/pence-lied-led-the-flynn-vetting-process-knew-about-foreign-ties/

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BAIER: Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has filed with the Department of Justice as a foreign agent for making more than $500,000 as a lobbyist, essentially, for Turkey. Your reaction to that, considering that — doesn’t that mean, Mr. Vice President, that even if he didn’t lie to you about what the Russian ambassador said or didn’t say, that you would have had to fire him anyway?

PENCE: Let me say, hearing that story today was the first I heard of it. And I fully support the decision that President Trump made to ask for General Flynn’s resignation.

BAIER: You’re disappointed by the story?

PENCE: First I heard of it, and I think it is an affirmation of the President’s decision to ask General Flynn to resign.

But this is demonstrably false, as MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow laid out on her show.
Pence took over as head of the presidential transition team from disgraced Gov. Chris Christie in early November 2016. A week later, Rep. Elijah Cummings (D-MD), the Ranking Member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent Pence a letter in response to news reports that Flynn had lobbied on behalf of a foreign entity, requesting more information on Flynn’s business dealings and partners.


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[Laura PourMeADrink]

1. Trump probably set him up - let him handle because he had to know Pence was just

a country bumpkin duffus. Can hear it now "let's let Flynn talk to Pence - you KNOW he will lie to him"

[malaise]

2. Don't rule that out

although he lies like any good ReTHUG from town or country

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. Are you hopeful they will be exposed? I know, it takes a long time - but can't imagine that

if they already knew someone in WH consorted with Russia to hack - that they would knowingly leave them in office, can you? Makes me so sad - that they will probably get away with this.

[malaise]

5. Yes - truth will out

The system is bigger than these ReTHUG scumbags

[Laura PourMeADrink]

8. well the only way is if one of them is squeezed to rat out Dimwit. If I arranged it with the

Russians, I wouldn't want to go down in history for it - would at least say I was following orders. But, can hear it now, say if Flynn says "Trump asked me to". Trump would just say "He's a liar" And without phone tap in TT nor Trump cell phone tap - there will be nothing to prove it.

[Abu Pepe]

3. but if he did the vetting, that is when the lie would have occurred, no?

just playing devil's advocate.

[Achilleaze]

6. Poses as a holier-than-thou Xtian, lies all the time

the Pence of Darkness is a full-on republican.

Deplorable.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

7. Re-read what you posted and "the disgraced Chris Christie" stood out. Think we might

agree that despite Christie's shenanigans, he is a very intelligent and bright prosecutor. Makes so much sense that Trump would think "hell no, we don't want a bright person running the show. Let's put Mikey on it. He knows nothing. He doesn't even know the right questions to ask. Only way we will get our connivers thru."

[Laura PourMeADrink]

9. See who's missing in this chart - Christie

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[triron]

10. kick for visibility

[nikibatts]

11. maybe both will be impeached at the same time?

[oasis]

12. Pence repeating "First I heard of it" will make a great campaign ad

for his Dem challenger in 2020. The "Traitor Flynn" story will stain the entire Trump administration for years to come.

[gratuitous]

13. The obvious follow-up question

So, did you ignore Rep. Cummings' letter or what? Since this is the first you've heard of Gen. Flynn's lying, you either ignored Rep. Cummings' letter, or there's a stack of unopened mail on your desk that has to be several feet high. Don't you think you should read letters from members of Congress?

[oasis]

14. Sally Yates' testimony will blow the Flynn/Kremlin chatter scandal

wide open. That should offer the MSM another chance to put the question to Pence.