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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoseph DiGenova - Maddow Apr 4th - ties to Erik Prince - Susan Rice
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/watch/rachel-maddow-4-3-17-episodeFast forward to about 40 minutes into the show.
She starts with Digenova's involvement in the Clinton/Lewinsky fiasco. 300 times he and his wife commented in early 1998 on the "happening".
He was in on the Clinton nonsense (LIES) in 2016.
Now this week - it comes out that Erik Prince of Frontier Service based in Hong Kong - formerly of Blackwater now named something else . . .had a "back channel" meeting with a Russian official prior to Trump taking office.
It's The Intercept - I apologize in advance but they covered it:
Reference Points:
Money laundering investigation - his new company:
https://theintercept.com/2016/03/24/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-under-federal-investigation/
Frontier Services Group
http://www.fsgroup.com
50 minutes into the show - Andrea Mitchell is on the show talking about the diversions away from Russia. It pivots off Digenova's shenanigans. Digenova who started the Susan Rice nonsense.
Stay with me here . . .
Digenova's wife? The 300 comments on the Clinton investigation by Ken Starr in 1998?
Guess what her name is?
Victoria Toensing.
Who has been Erik Prince's attorney and spokesperson aside from his now third wife Katherine Stacy Deluke Capace Prince? (She's the one who posted the pictures on Facebook from Trump HQ on election night)
Victoria Toensing.
Reference Point:
cal
Blackwater founder Erik Prince goes to war against a former business partner
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/blackwater-founder-erik-prince-goes-to-war-against-a-former-business-partner/2015/01/01/23385e8a-6f39-11e4-893f-86bd390a3340_story.html?utm_term=.b72acac2d08b
We all knew it was bullshit about Rice - but now we know who planted this non story . . .and why.
I'll be watching Maddow tonight. I've got a feeling she's going to make the connection tonight.
Digenova - married to Erik Prince's attorney Toensing - placed this diversion Nothing Burger in the media.
Stay strong Susan Rice! If Toensing is going after you - you are doing the right thing and have done the right thing.
This Administration knows Susan Rice can connect the dots. So does Erik Prince. I think he was unmasked.
JI7
(89,262 posts)debated.
as Rachel showed. the facts are all out there . not everything needs to be debated. it's not even a matter of where you stand politically. it's about just reporting the facts.
Rhiannon12866
(205,840 posts)We keep hearing revelations that practically make your hair stand on end, or at least elicit screaming at the TV, but the MSM reports these stories like they're just business as usual. I don't expect them to holler or wave their arms, but they can't keep acting as if what's going on is normal. That's when it's dangerous, to treat the outrageous behavior of Trump and his minions as anything but extraordinary. Rachel should be required viewing, these days, and Lawrence O'Donnell has really been speaking out more than ever, too...
JustAnotherGen
(31,867 posts)Documenting for our own sanity.
Cosmocat
(14,568 posts)the inane mindset that because 99 out of 100 times republicans are doing something flat illegal, immoral, unethical or just plain fucking stupid, and that totally unbiased coverage would be a nonstop shit storm for Rs, they have to get behind blatantly non-sensical bullshit like this to be "fair" in their coverage.
Let's keep documenting, documenting, documenting.
We know - it's up to us to preserve the truth.
brer cat
(24,592 posts)If you want to mug a Democrat, Toensing and Digenova will be waiting behind a dumpster filled with sleeze in the alley.
Right, JAG.
ananda
(28,873 posts)I hope this is a good synopsis.
The Susan Rice allegation is a false story put out by Joseph DiGenova and his wife Victoria Toensing (lawyer for Erik Prince) in order to deflect attention away from Prince's involvement in the 45-Putin collusion, you know, what with Prince setting up the back channel communications with Russia, and doing all that money laundering. There is no debate about this. This is fact. And the 45 admin knows that Susan Rice is in a position to connect the dots, so they're trying to make us think she did something wrong -- she clearly didn't, just as Hillary Clinton clearly didn't.
Whoa. Once again we learn that there is no level too low for 45 and his coterie of snakeflakes to stoop.
JustAnotherGen
(31,867 posts)NoMoreRepugs
(9,453 posts)the basket of facts as to why this current deflection 'scandal' is going on
JHan
(10,173 posts)still_one
(92,371 posts)household name with his "you're fired" bullshit, they also made Geraldo Rivera a household name with the OJ fiasco, and Geraldo Rivera legitimized Digenova and Tensing by having them on his show all the time
CNBC was where Ailes started off, and he made CNBC the financial network from FNN, and turned it into a right wing piece of junk with folks like joe kernen, maria bartiromo, Michelle Caruso-Cabrera, and the worst of all tea bagger, Rick Santelli, who is a cheap demagogue spewing the hate and bigotry of the tea party
katmondoo
(6,457 posts)They must be old now and Victoria may not be as attractive as she was in her Hey Day.
still_one
(92,371 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,867 posts)Never really went away. Scahill has covered her and her bullshit too. 2007 - through the trial last year (IIRC - the blackwater guys accused of murder).
still_one
(92,371 posts)JustAnotherGen
(31,867 posts)It IS their career.
still_one
(92,371 posts)orangecrush
(19,611 posts)Keep putting the truth out there for all to see!!!