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bigtree

(85,998 posts) Tue Feb 14, 2017, 02:17 PM Feb 2017

Coup Thoughts

...was it Pence's idea to provide him deniability through Flynn's apology/resignation, ostensively for lying to the VP, or was it Bannon's?

Pence is now conveniently positioned to slide into the presidency with relative impunity from this scandal, in the event of a Trump resignation or removal from office.

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Coup Thoughts (Original Post) bigtree Feb 2017 OP

Yeah... cilla4progress Feb 2017 #1

Really is a chess version of watergate - who the hell knew what when - and why. NRaleighLiberal Feb 2017 #2

» bigtree Feb 2017 #3

We must ask: what do the Koch Bros want? flamingdem Feb 2017 #4

What's the relationship like between Bannon and Pence? Any notions? jmg257 Feb 2017 #5

not sure bigtree Feb 2017 #6

cilla4progress

(24,736 posts)

1. Yeah...

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Tue Feb 14, 2017, 02:21 PM

Feb 2017

time to start setting our sites on Pence ...

NRaleighLiberal

(60,015 posts)

2. Really is a chess version of watergate - who the hell knew what when - and why.

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Tue Feb 14, 2017, 02:21 PM

Feb 2017

bigtree

(85,998 posts)

3. »

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Tue Feb 14, 2017, 10:31 PM

Feb 2017

flamingdem

(39,313 posts)

4. We must ask: what do the Koch Bros want?

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Tue Feb 14, 2017, 10:51 PM

Feb 2017

And those like them

jmg257

(11,996 posts)

5. What's the relationship like between Bannon and Pence? Any notions?

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Tue Feb 14, 2017, 10:53 PM

Feb 2017

bigtree

(85,998 posts)

6. not sure

Reply to jmg257 (Reply #5)

Tue Feb 14, 2017, 11:04 PM

Feb 2017

...it was Bannon, though, who the WH said asked Flynn to resign (after Kellyanne said he did so on his own accord, and before they attributed it to Trump today).

I do think most republicans saw Trump as their vehicle into the WH and Pence as their regulating factor. Would republicans seriously resist jettisoning Trump in favor of a Pence regime?

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