Sunday, 12 March 2017
quote [ Rachel Maddow reviews the dubious explanations the Trump administration has offered for its behavior toward disgraced National Security Adviser Mike Flynn and points out the glaring problems in V.P. Pence's story about what he knew about Flynn's lobbying. Duration: 23:08 ]
“That cannot be true,” Maddow said bluntly. “It is impossible this is the first Mike Pence has heard of it. Mike Pence was the head of the [Trump] transition, while all of those news stories of Mike Flynn being on the Turkish government’s payroll were breaking. He was the head of the transition when Mike Flynn was being vetted for the National Security Advisor job. He was the head of the transition when Congress formally notified the head of the transition that Mike Flynn appears to be on a foreign government’s payroll. He was the head of the transition when Mike Flynn’s personal lawyers came and told the transition that Mike Flynn maybe needed to register as a foreign agent.”
However, Pence now claims that he’s only now hearing about the information. Maddow called it absolute bunk. Rachel Maddow calls BS on Pence claim he never knew about Flynn’s Turkish contract
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sanepride said @ 2:25am GMT on 13th Mar
Of course Rachel is, as usual, totally on point. So what difference does it make? Who's gonna investigate Pence? Even the few Republicans who might be inclined to go after Trump wouldn't touch this.
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midden said @ 4:18am GMT on 13th Mar
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bbqkink said @ 4:24pm GMT on 13th Mar
Well right now it doesn't make any difference as people don't know about it, this is not making the news. It will become relevant if a bigger connection is made or when it gets around 2018.
This is just another turd on the turd pile. Still waiting for there to be enough shit to matter. |
sanepride said @ 4:48pm GMT on 13th Mar
I suspect that in 2018 people will cast their votes for the same overall reasons they did in 2016- based on their immediate hopes and fears and perceived economic happenstances. Hopefully these factors will be tipping in the opposite direction by then, but I doubt that scandal will be much of a driver. Trump folks don't care, and most rank-and-file Republicans are happy to look the other way.
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bbqkink said @ 5:00pm GMT on 13th Mar
They won't be able to not notice the smell that long...It has only been 50 days and already.... 50 days of 'facts'
If there's one thing we've learned in the first 50 days of the Trump administration, it's that nothing can be taken at face value. |
HoZay said[2] @ 6:58am GMT on 31st Mar
Time Magazine:
Michael Flynn Is in Talks to Testify Before Congress in Exchange for Immunity My question: what happens when Trump starts issuing blanket pardons for Manafort, Flynn, etc? It'll be pretty hard to get any testimony about anything. |
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