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riversedge

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Sat Sep 16, 2017, 09:12 AM Sep 2017

Smoking gun?: Maddow pinpoints a massive missing link in the flurry of Trump firings and resignation [View all]

Source: raw story





15 Sep 2017 at 22:26 ET


In President Donald Trump’s White House, all roads are said to lead to Russia, to his son-in-law and adviser Jared Kushner and…to Vice President Mike Pence?

According to MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow, “Pence has been caught out in way more of these scandals than his bland Beltway press coverage would have you believe.”

From the very first “dramatic departure” — controversial national security adviser Mike Flynn, just a few weeks after Trump’s inauguration — Pence’s shadow has loomed.

Pence, as Maddow noted on Friday night, was head of the presidential transition — and was also the recipient of a letter from Congress warning that the Flynn “was on the payroll of foreign governments” and an in-person visit from the former general’s lawyers with the same information.
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Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/09/smoking-gun-maddow-pinpoints-a-massive-missing-link-in-the-flurry-of-trump-firings-and-resignations/



Very good segment.


Watch Maddow detail the vice president-sized hole in many of the Trump White House’s biggest scandals below, via MSNBC.


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Pence is being protected so he can be president. yardwork Sep 2017 #1
YEP. Nay Sep 2017 #4
+1 dalton99a Sep 2017 #5
Hopefully he will face at least one house democrats after the 2018 election pennylane100 Sep 2017 #23
If Trump was elected by fraud and collusion,,,,, so was Pence. keithbvadu2 Sep 2017 #2
Exactly! SammyWinstonJack Sep 2017 #8
Yes that's correct. Which, unless we can PROVE that Paul Ryan was also elected the same way, Volaris Sep 2017 #12
Yes they're both guilty FakeNoose Sep 2017 #14
Does anyone have a summary? LittleGirl Sep 2017 #3
She needs to do that in order to educate the right wing if they happen to be watching. shraby Sep 2017 #9
*SNORT!* lastlib Sep 2017 #28
I often watch her on YouTube the next day and sagesnow Sep 2017 #13
Yeah, the Limbaugh of the left not fooled Sep 2017 #30
I agree....... mrmpa Sep 2017 #32
We have been conditioned to have very short attention spans. SalviaBlue Sep 2017 #18
And the GOP wants to make sure that our kids are even less able to think critically More_Cowbell Sep 2017 #21
She really went after Pence .. ananda Sep 2017 #6
We all knew he was guilty for months. After all, Manafort CHOSE BigmanPigman Sep 2017 #25
The Pence of Darkness (R) Achilleaze Sep 2017 #7
Yeah, I have my doubts about Pence. But he's an experienced politician.... Honeycombe8 Sep 2017 #10
Putin, after all, hand-picked Dense Pence. sandensea Sep 2017 #11
Pence/Putin keithbvadu2 Sep 2017 #20
VERY glad she went after Pence NastyRiffraff Sep 2017 #15
Pence is in on it too! UCmeNdc Sep 2017 #16
Pence is in it up to his hypocritical 'christian' nose hairs. PatrickforO Sep 2017 #17
Manafort tricked Trump to pick Pence over Christie for VP. SunSeeker Sep 2017 #19
May have been a good play on Manafort's part, at the time. bearsfootball516 Sep 2017 #26
K&R. dchill Sep 2017 #22
K&R Scurrilous Sep 2017 #24
I honestly think they are glad Trump is as crazy as he is, that way when Pence takes over redstatebluegirl Sep 2017 #27
Pretty sure Pence is the one spiking Trump's diet coke Major Nikon Sep 2017 #29
Yeah not fooled Sep 2017 #31
Bookmarking to check out tomorrow. Dark n Stormy Knight Sep 2017 #33
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