Mike Pences press secretary wont say if the vice president met with Russians Marc Lotter wouldnt

[turbinetree]

Source: Think Progress

After Tuesday’s major revelations that Donald Trump, Jr. met with a Russian lawyer last July for dirt on Hillary Clinton after receiving an email describing the information as “part of Russia and its government’s support for Mr. Trump,” Vice President Mike Pence’s press secretary Marc Lotter went on America’s Newsroom on Fox News on Wednesday to remind the nation that Pence was not yet part of the ticket at that time.

But even in the friendly confines of Fox News, host Bill Hemmer repeatedly pressed Lotter to say whether Pence himself has met with representatives of Russia during the campaign. And repeatedly, Lotter did not say no.


Hemmer first asked, “Did the vice president ever meet with representatives from Russia?” Lotter dodged this, noting that Pence’s focus “was on talking to the American people” about Trump and his agenda.

Hemmer tried again: “Did he ever meet with representatives from the Russian government during the campaign?” Lotter oddly responded that question was “stuff that the special prosecutors and the counsels are all looking at,” before again noting that Pence’s focus was “talking to the American people, taking his case to the people, and making sure the people knew why they needed to send President Trump and Vice President Pence to Washington.”

Read more: https://thinkprogress.org/pence-russia-meetings-non-denial-e62cfeb0ddbf

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Hey how about this a fucking transition vice president asshole playing the stupid card , I see nothing, I no nothing and I did nothing, my response, BULLSHIT your in so deep, the shit is up to your ears there Pence, your a Traitor also

[DetlefK]

1. "Did you meet them?" - "That's a question for the investigators."

Translation:
"If the investigators find evidence, then Yes. If not, then No."

[Cosmocat]

8. Yep

Pence is an old school, 90s style republican, the initial radicalized version, who was smoother, had the talking points down and stuck to them.

More discipline in them.

[appal_jack]

2. K & R & grammar...

Righteous rant and important news.

But just to pick one nit, in the last paragraph, it should read, "BULLSHIT *you're* in so deep..."

-app

[central scrutinizer]

3. Any answer other than "NO, HELL NO"

Means yes

[Freethinker65]

4. Yep. I believe Pence was suggested by Manafort?

[SunSeeker]

11. Yup. Manafort pulled that stunt to get Trump to have breakfast with Pence during the VP search.

Trump was leaning toward Christie, but Manafort concocted a stunt to get Trump to have breakfast with Pence so Pence could convince him:

"Christie, the first former presidential candidate to get behind Trump after a poor showing in the New Hampshire primary, had assumed a high profile role on the campaign prior to the Convention – reaching out to donors and potential high profile supporters.

Paul Manafort, Trump’s campaign manager at the time, allegedly had another idea in mind.

Manafort had arranged for Trump to meet with his first choice for the job on July 13: Indiana Governor Mike Pence. Afterwards, the plans was for Trump and Pence to then fly back to New York together and a formal announcement would be made, a campaign source said of Manafort’s thinking.

What had previously been reported as a “lucky break” by the New York Times was actually a swift political maneuver devised by the now fired campaign manager. Set on changing Trump’s mind, he concocted a story that Trump’s plane had mechanical problems, forcing the soon-to-be Republican nominee to stay the night in Indianapolis for breakfast with the Pence family on Wednesday morning.

Swayed by Pence’s aggressive pitch, Trump agreed to ditch Christie and make Pence his VP the following day, according to a source."

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/donald-trump-offered-chris-christie-vice-president-role-before-mike-pence/

[dchill]

5. We must all remember that Jesus is always...

whispering in Mike Pence's ear that it's OK to lie in service to the Dominion.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

6. Pence lied about not knowing Flynn's Russian ties. Got a reg'd letter early in Transition he led. nt

[GusBob]

7. This "talking to the American people" line is a talking point

They are claiming that in order to stop HRC& do whats best for America, they had to collude with the Russians

Which makes it all OK

[Cosmocat]

9. You really can't argue

with that kind of stupid ...

[Botany]

10. aka Pence was in "it" too.

Link to tweet

FLASHBACK: Mike Pence January 2017.

Q: Did any Trump campaign member have contact with the Russians?

Pence: "Of course not.”


Feel free to copy this and send it around "the internets."


It was a coup, it was treason, and it was an act of war by a hostile foreign power.

[SunSeeker]

12. K & R for exposure