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https://www.politicususa.com/2018/12/11/rachel-maddow-just-became-mike-pences-worst-nightmare.htmlPosted on Tue, Dec 11th, 2018 by Jason Easley
Rachel Maddow Just Became Mike Pences Worst Nightmare
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?
Maddow has been locked in on Pence since the scandal broke. Mike Pences strategy appears to be to fly below the radar, wait for Trump to crash and burn, and then become president. The problem is that Mike Pence has a whole of questions to answer on the Russia scandal himself. It strains common sense that the vice president was as clueless as he pretends to be.
Pence was always the Republican Partys back up plan if corrupt Trump went down in a ball of flames. The problem is that beneath Pences facade of evangelical Christianity is enough corruption to take him down with Trump.
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mucifer
(23,559 posts)I love Tom Leher .
calimary
(81,432 posts)FM123
(10,054 posts)During a failed 1990 congressional run, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence used nearly $13,000 in campaign funds for a slew of personal purposes, including paying down his mortgage and covering golf tournament fees.
According to 1990 campaign finance records, Pence used $12,867 from his campaign account for personal expenses. That's the equivalent of about $23,700 in 2016.
The payouts included seven $992 mortgage payments and seven of his wife's $222 car payments. More cash went to buy household groceries, pay off Pence's credit cards and even cover the costs of participating in golf tournaments.
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https://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/mike-pence-13k-campaign-funds-mortgage-golf-fees-article-1.2714118
mucifer
(23,559 posts)She works hard to pull all of the stories together in a good narrative and gives it to the viewers. But, the actual work is done by others. But, without Rachel many people wouldn't get the information that is out there.
FakeNoose
(32,714 posts)Rachel has acknowledged her staff and show runners many times on her show and during interviews. But even without her staff, Rachel herself is brilliant and worthy of the praise she gets.
watoos
(7,142 posts)It's hard for Democrats because almost all of cable news follows the corporate right wing narratives.
Jokerman
(3,518 posts)Given the opportunity, I have no doubt that Pence would pardon Trump.
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dlk
(11,575 posts)Kudos to Rachel for drawing attention to Pence. Hes been flying under the radar for too long. Theres a reason Manafort personally selected Pence for Vice President and Rachel made an excellent start of figuring out the real story.
Old Crank
(3,616 posts)is to bleat out the words Jeebus save me and all his problems will go away.
Or so he thinks....
Texin
(2,597 posts)Cheetolini was going to select Chris Christie in all likelihood. Manafort and Roger Stone were in business together back in the '80s and tRump knew and worked with them at that time and they've been close since. Manafort was the one who introduced tRump to Pence. Given Manafort's ties to Russia and the association Stone had with Assange, it's not credible in the least that Pence had no knowledge of Flynn's activities on behalf of Turkey and, more importantly, Russia. He's been lying about this since the jump. Manafort (and McConnell???) made the recommendation of Pence, and I would assume it's because he knew Pence personally or knew of him through McConnel? or some other Russia-favored source. He was selected for a reason. We just need to learn what the reason was other than him being bland enough to appease some of the rethug voters repelled by tRump, and just dull enough to sit in a room and look like a store mannequin.
Harker
(14,030 posts)from the beginning.
BigmanPigman
(51,623 posts)Last night I was telling a Dem friend that Pence will not be POTUS due to lying about Flynn and he was picked by Manafort (that's a big red flag). Also his brother(s) does business in Russia (another Russian connection?).
Racerdog1
(808 posts)People got a great preview of just how dense this bastard is. Looking like a bobble head and acting just as dumb. Indiana despised this fucking idiot, now you know why.
watoos
(7,142 posts)he "is lucky" Manafort picked him to be V.P.
The story of Pence is one that greatly intrigues me. There has to be a back story of why he was chosen V.P.
kairos12
(12,869 posts)Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)quite, sneaky type who portrays himself as pious and good while underneath he is truly a bad man who would do more harm than Trump. So bottom line if Trump goes then so must Pence.
not fooled
(5,801 posts)We need to be rid of that smarmy hypocrite.
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ffr
(22,671 posts)We all had a good laugh at Mike Pences expense yesterday when he sat there like a wax dummy while Donald Trump sparred with Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer. So it wasnt surprising that Rachel Maddow opened her show last night with jokes about Pence.
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Sure enough, Maddow pivoted to Robert Muellers Michael Flynn sentencing memo, which spelled out that the Trump transition team was involved in Flynns Russia crimes and that by default, Flynn had ratted out those crimes. She then reminded everyone that Mueller long ago obtained all of the emails from the transition team, and that Pence was the head of the transition team.
Then came the other long-ago details about Congressman Elijah Cummings having notified Mike Pence early in the transition period, in writing, that Flynn was dirty and that Pence went on to cover for Flynn on national television anyway. And of course there was the part about Pence having added crazy lunatic Michael Flynn Jr to the transition team, presumably as a favor to Michael Flynn, and then publicly lied about having done so. - Palmer Report
Pence's time in the barrel.
I hate Russian assets.