Pence was installed by a Russian operative and has deep ties to dark money

[L. Coyote]

August 31, 2017 by Zev Shalev and Tracie McElroy
https://narativ.org/2017/08/31/mike-pence-dark-shadows/

Governor Eric Greitens is a Republican rising star. The 43-year-old former Navy SEAL rode the coattails of Donald Trump all the way to the Missouri Governor’s mansion in November, when he defeated Democrat Chris Koster 51%-45%.

Greitens has barely been in office for nine months and he’s attracting his fair share of critics. In March, The St Louis Post-Dispatch called his tenure “creepy” and The Kansas City Star published an editorial criticizing Greitens for “secret fundraising and secret spending”.

Just a block away from the Governor’s Mansion in Jefferson City, Greitens’ former campaign manager is running “A New Missouri Inc”, a slush fund masquerading as a social welfare nonprofit. The governor operates the nonprofit so he can accept unfettered contributions from foreign and corporate interests, skirting state election rules.

Greitens’ election campaign was powered by a single $1.9 million donation from a super PAC funneled through the American Policy Coalition run by lawyer David Langdon who has been dubbed “the nexus of dark money” by the Center of Public Integrity. Langdon is among a small group of lawyers “working to keep secret the origins of millions of dollars coursing through the American political system.”

Now it’s emerged that Greitens’ other big donor included the DeVos family ............

[Not Ruth]

1. Baby cannon go BOOM

[Zoonart]

2. Pence having his second press avail of the day.

Auditioning for 2018 not 2020. MSM is melting all over him..."so human in Texas". Hard sell...something's up.

[enough]

3. Glad to see that Pence/Manafort connection coming back to the surface again.

That has always seemed like one of the strangest wrinkles of this whole sorry saga.

[BigmanPigman]

4. AMEN and Thank God (as Pence would say).

[dottie66]

8. Yes, there was something strange

with the choice of Pence for VP., I read that Manafort pressured Trump to spend more time with Pence when interviewing for VP even though Trump had decided against Pence. More time with Pence did the trick and Pence got the nod.

[dalton99a]

5. Kick.

[ffr]

6. The DeVos family too? One big happy loyal family of corrupt politicians. How many is that already?

I've lost count today.

[malaise]

7. But but

Jebus!

[2naSalit]

9. There was never the slightest doubt

in my mind about this. Thanks for posting.

[ancianita]

10. THIS. Pence is a henchman.

My favorite paragraph:

Vice President Mike Pence is himself a person of interest in Robert Mueller’s investigation. Pence had extensive and daily interactions with Paul Manafort, a known Russian asset, even after Manafort left the campaign. Pence’s financial deals involving satellite companies of Oleg Deripaska and “dark money” political operations remain the subject of increased scrutiny complicated by Pence’s own hacked email scandal.

Pence can be indicted just for the felony of lying about his Russian connections to investigators. Whatever works to get rid of this creep.

When the indictments go down, I'm going to be at the celebration.

Thanks.

[stuffmatters]

11. Always have thought DeVos, Mercer and their boy Pence central to the Russia connex

Pence was always a Koch puppet too. I'm hoping the Koch's ultimately get caught in this net too.

[ancianita]

12. Getting a Koch would be the grand prize. I'm totally with you on this.