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Article: Mike Pence shows just how much contempt he holds for the American public with tweet
https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/mike-pence-shows-just-how-much-contempt-he-holds-for-the-american-public-with-tweet-containing-multiple-lies/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3382snip of article:
Donald Trump has lied over 14,000 times since taking office. Some of those lies are about the economy, some of them about his political opponents, and a surprising number involve Trump claiming credit for programs actually signed into law by Barack Obama. Trump’s been joined in his lies by members of his White House team, from Kellyanne Conway to Mick Mulvaney to Mike Pompeo, delivering a fat untruth with a sneer seems to be the primary qualification to join Team Trump.
But it’s a tweet posted by Mike Pence on Friday that may be the best illustration of the lies originating from this White House. Because it’s not just a lie, it’s multiple lies. Incredibly lazy lies. Lies so sloppy, with so little attention to history, reason, or anything else, that Pence should be forced to wear them eternally stapled to his massive white forehead.
In defense of assassinating Iranian general Qassem Soleimani, Pence went through a long list of Soleimani’s supposed crimes. Among them “Assisted in the clandestine travel to Afghanistan of 10 of the 12 terrorists who carried out the September 11 terrorist attacks in the United States.”
Attempting to tie the Sunni forces of al-Qaeda to the Shiite government of Iran may just signal that Mike Pence is astoundingly ignorant. But it certainly shows the disdain the whole Trump White House holds for the intelligence of the American public. And it’s not the only way they’re demonstrating their contempt.
Here’s the schedule for the top Defense Department officials on Friday.
Mark Esper, Secretary of Defense: No public or media events.
David Norqust, Deputy Sec. of Defense: No public or media events.
Mark Miley, Chairman Joint Chiefs of Staff: No public or media events.
John Hyten, Vice chair Joint Chiefs of Staff: No public or media events.
In the wake of an event that takes the nation to the brink of war, the Defense Department had nothing to say. The generals left it guys like Pence to distribute lies.
Lying us into a war........it's their MO.
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to say by others, meaning a group of secretive strategists in the WH that are fed talking points and policy ideas from hard right-wing think tanks, right-wing media strategists, and big dollar donors.
Personally, I refuse to give either Trump or Pence enough credit to come up with this level of evil strategy....
Those same strategists keep the egos of those two pumped up to beyond Hindenburg proportions.
