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Peter King defends Hope Hicks' 'white lies': 'That shows how honest she was being' (Original Post) DonViejo Mar 2018 OP
Peter OneBlueDotBama Mar 2018 #1
Thanks! I knew it was Peter but, for some reason, couldn't get "Steve" outta my head! eom DonViejo Mar 2018 #2
I saw the Interview OneBlueDotBama Mar 2018 #4
Wait...what??? Docreed2003 Mar 2018 #3
The king of oxymorons lkinwi Mar 2018 #5
Actually, he has a point marylandblue Mar 2018 #6
Hey King, say hi to my friend Henry C_U_L8R Mar 2018 #7
I didn't watch this video. old guy Mar 2018 #8
Another woman abuser Sedona Mar 2018 #9

marylandblue

(12,344 posts)
6. Actually, he has a point
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 04:30 PM
Mar 2018

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.

old guy

(3,281 posts)
8. I didn't watch this video.
Fri Mar 2, 2018, 04:45 PM
Mar 2018

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
Sat Mar 3, 2018, 08:47 AM
Mar 2018
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 ex–FBI agent working as a security aide for the Committee to Re-Elect the President, or CREEP, Nixon’s campaign arm. His duty on the week of the break-in was to protect—and keep a close eye on—Martha Mitchell, the talkative wife of Nixon’s 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 Watergate—and described by her husband to the press as a private security contractor who was “not operating either on our behalf or with our consent”—she called a favorite reporter, United Press International’s 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.’”

Thomas’s 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 McCall’s 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.”
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