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Peter King defends Hope Hicks' 'white lies': 'That shows how honest she was being' (Original Post)
DonViejo
Mar 2018
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OneBlueDotBama
(1,371 posts)1. Peter
Peter King (R_IRA)
Steve King (R_KKK)
DonViejo
(60,536 posts)2. Thanks! I knew it was Peter but, for some reason, couldn't get "Steve" outta my head! eom
OneBlueDotBama
(1,371 posts)4. I saw the Interview
Peter King, who elects such a moron, really...
Docreed2003
(16,817 posts)3. Wait...what???
lkinwi
(1,477 posts)5. The king of oxymorons
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)6. Actually, he has a point
She is willing to lie for Trump, but not under oath. Which means she has probably told Mueller everything. Which explains why he is so upset with her. He got caught because of her.
C_U_L8R
(44,897 posts)7. Hey King, say hi to my friend Henry
old guy
(3,281 posts)8. I didn't watch this video.
Nothing he says is of any relevance and why the media goes to him for comment baffles me. Even for ratings it makes no sense. Are they just lazy?
Sedona
(3,769 posts)9. Another woman abuser
http://www.newsweek.com/2017/12/29/donald-trump-watergate-stephen-king-martha-mitchell-richard-nixon-john-744823.html
In June 1972, King was an exFBI agent working as a security aide for the Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CREEP, Nixons campaign arm. His duty on the week of the break-in was to protectand keep a close eye onMartha Mitchell, the talkative wife of Nixons campaign director, former Attorney General John Mitchell, while the Mitchells were on a campaign swing in California.
Martha Mitchell, an outspoken Arkansan dubbed the Mouth of the South in press reports, had been complaining vaguely to anyone who would listen about campaign operatives carrying out dirty tricks against the Democrats. So when she learned that James McCord, the security director of CREEP, was among those arrested at the Watergateand described by her husband to the press as a private security contractor who was not operating either on our behalf or with our consentshe called a favorite reporter, United Press Internationals Helen Thomas.
Enter King, who rushed into her bedroom, threw her back across the bed, and ripped the telephone out of the wall, wrote veteran Washington reporter Winzola McLendon in her 1979 biography of Martha Mitchell, to whom she was close. The conversation ended abruptly when it appeared someone took away the phone from her hand, Thomas reported. She was heard to say, You just get away.
Thomass story was a sensation. Reporters scurried to find Mitchell for a follow-up. A few days later, one did. Marcia Kramer of the New York Daily News tracked her down at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. Kramer, a veteran crime reporter, described Mitchell as a beaten woman, with incredible" black and blue marks on her arms. A later account in McCalls magazine said that after King ripped the phone from Mitchell, he summoned a doctor, who gave her a tranquilizing shot and [saw] to it that no more of her outgoing calls [would] be taken by the hotel switchboard.
In June 1972, King was an exFBI agent working as a security aide for the Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CREEP, Nixons campaign arm. His duty on the week of the break-in was to protectand keep a close eye onMartha Mitchell, the talkative wife of Nixons campaign director, former Attorney General John Mitchell, while the Mitchells were on a campaign swing in California.
Martha Mitchell, an outspoken Arkansan dubbed the Mouth of the South in press reports, had been complaining vaguely to anyone who would listen about campaign operatives carrying out dirty tricks against the Democrats. So when she learned that James McCord, the security director of CREEP, was among those arrested at the Watergateand described by her husband to the press as a private security contractor who was not operating either on our behalf or with our consentshe called a favorite reporter, United Press Internationals Helen Thomas.
Enter King, who rushed into her bedroom, threw her back across the bed, and ripped the telephone out of the wall, wrote veteran Washington reporter Winzola McLendon in her 1979 biography of Martha Mitchell, to whom she was close. The conversation ended abruptly when it appeared someone took away the phone from her hand, Thomas reported. She was heard to say, You just get away.
Thomass story was a sensation. Reporters scurried to find Mitchell for a follow-up. A few days later, one did. Marcia Kramer of the New York Daily News tracked her down at the Westchester Country Club in Rye, New York. Kramer, a veteran crime reporter, described Mitchell as a beaten woman, with incredible" black and blue marks on her arms. A later account in McCalls magazine said that after King ripped the phone from Mitchell, he summoned a doctor, who gave her a tranquilizing shot and [saw] to it that no more of her outgoing calls [would] be taken by the hotel switchboard.