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kentuck

(111,036 posts)
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:52 PM Feb 2017

Who knew?

We know that Flynn and the WH counsel knew.

We can assume that Trump and Banning also knew?

Probably, Kushner and Spicer?

Would KellyAnne Conway have known?

Mike Pence probably knew?

Would Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have known? Maybe?

Who else in the White House circle might have known?

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Blanks

(4,835 posts)
1. Pence is the only important one...
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:56 PM
Feb 2017

Because he made a statement about it on television BEFORE they took office.

If Pence knew and lied about it, well, we had a president impeached for lying once.

They probably know that proof is out there too. They all seem a little twitchy today.

Trump signed some kind of fossil fuel friendly EO today, trying to draw attention away from the scandal.

Wounded Bear

(58,571 posts)
3. "we had a president impeached for lying once"
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:58 PM
Feb 2017

Yeah, but Clinton lied about SEX. That's much worse than this silly little 'collusion with our enemies' thingy.

Blanks

(4,835 posts)
6. We had one lie...
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:01 PM
Feb 2017

About weapons of mass destruction, but somehow he avoided impeachment.

There's kind of a double standard.

Eliot Rosewater

(31,104 posts)
2. Knew? Why do you think fuckface chose Flynn in the first place?
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:56 PM
Feb 2017

They have both been tied to Putin, either financially or being blackmailed for YEARS.

I dont even think it is blackmail, I think they are in business together.

Pachamama

(16,884 posts)
4. With the exception of Spice Boy & Kellyanne, they all knew and Mcconnell & Ryan have purposely tried
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 05:58 PM
Feb 2017

...to know as little as possible, but they know and suspect what is going on.....which makes them now accessories to covering up the crime if they don't investigate or speak out.

world wide wally

(21,733 posts)
9. Pretty much sums it up.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:09 PM
Feb 2017

And then further down in to the trenches of the Senate and Congress to varying degrees.

jmg257

(11,996 posts)
11. trump, Spicer, Priebus, Kushner, Bannon, Conway, ("small group of senior advisers" were briefed)
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:13 PM
Feb 2017

likely they wouldn't tell anyone else. (i mean like Ryan et. al. - Ivanka is another matter)

delisen

(6,042 posts)
13. Even the attorney McGahn has Russia ties from his past dealings with Tom DeLay. nt
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:24 PM
Feb 2017

this is quite a basket of deplorables.

triron

(21,980 posts)
15. Good chance Paull Ryan knew fairly early on.
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:38 PM
Feb 2017

Remember he lied "Trump won fair and square".
He knew he did not.

kentuck

(111,036 posts)
16. Also, all the intelligence chiefs, including Comey at FBI, would have known?
Tue Feb 14, 2017, 06:43 PM
Feb 2017

As well as the leaders of the intelligence committees in the House and Senate?

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