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Rachel Maddow took apart Vice President Mike Pences lies about Mike Flynn and showed why the VP is facing his own Russia problems.
Maddow said:
Similarly, Mike Pence publicly denied that there had ever been any role in the transition for Mike Flynns son, Mike Jr. After one of many instances in which Mike Jr. Achieved press attention and some notoriety for controversial public statements. Mike Pence was running the transition. He said overtly that Mike Flynns son never had any role in the transition, but in fact he had. Some of the stuff he later got in trouble for were messages he sent from his official transition e-mail address. Vice president Pence trying to preserve some sort of deniable fiction about that was just inexplicable and embarrassing at the time, but its ended up being just one of a whole bunch of things that the vice president has said specifically about Mike Flynn that turned out to be utterly implausible or just flat-out false.
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Rachel Maddow then closed by asking the big question. Why did Mike Pence tell so many lies about the role of Mike Flynn? - PoliticusUSA
YES! Rachel nailing Vice President Mike Pence to the wall for his connections to RussiaGate.
lunatica
(53,410 posts)Coming to Rachels attention can be hazardous to your health if you have something to hide.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)Laura PourMeADrink
(42,770 posts)of all. Like... what is his end game? Does he think he will take over if Dipshit is gone? How will he explain backing a criminal for so long?
Or will he say, I was just there to protect the country from an idiot? And if he says the latter, who told him to do that? God?
MontanaMama
(23,307 posts)Im listening to episode 4 of Bag Man and it is riveting. It is no accident that Rachel is talking about Pence at this moment. Just like the Baltimore prosecutors in Bag Man...nailing the VP in a corrupt administration is key. Nail the VP first. The hard part is we dont have an AG who will support this investigation like Elliot Richardson did in 1973. Regardless, I believe there are white hats in the background looking for the skeletons in Pences closet. This is good.
leftieNanner
(15,081 posts)I binge listened this past weekend. And the parallels between Nixon/Agnew and Trump/Pence are astonishing.
And I think Pence does think that he can talk to God. He is trying to walk the tightrope between being a Trump toady and the innocent good guy when all the crap hits the fan about his boss. Not gonna work Mikey!
LuckyLib
(6,819 posts)Knee-deep in criminal behavior.
onit2day
(1,201 posts)itsrobert
(14,157 posts)They rigged the system.
Hekate
(90,642 posts)Volaris
(10,270 posts)My money's on she's now thinking the same thing about Pence, and I agree. The fucker is in this up to his eyeballz, and unlike Trump, he can't say
'ive never been a govt official so how was I supposed to know I couldn't do that?'
Keep digging, Girl. It's all there.
Squinch
(50,944 posts)ecstatic
(32,681 posts)NO PITY OR MERCY!
Delphinus
(11,830 posts)Thank you - will share too.