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

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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/

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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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[yardwork]

1. Pence is being protected so he can be president.

[Nay]

4. YEP.

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[pennylane100]

23. Hopefully he will face at least one house democrats after the 2018 election

and we can make his life miserable.

[keithbvadu2]

2. If Trump was elected by fraud and collusion,,,,, so was Pence.

[SammyWinstonJack]

8. Exactly!

[Volaris]

12. Yes that's correct. Which, unless we can PROVE that Paul Ryan was also elected the same way,

Guess who gets to be Mr. President?
The Republican House will not impeach. The Republican Senate will not convict.

The only Just and Right remedy, would be for Dems to win both Houses, nominate Hillary Clinton Madame Speaker, and then impeach the Republican TICKET. She could then appoint Sanders, Warren, or Harris VP, and you can fill in the rest.

[FakeNoose]

14. Yes they're both guilty

... and they both need to be GONE from our government.

I don't give a rat's ass about the 25th amendment. This has nothing to do with that and this could never have been anticipated by the originators of our Constitution. We're in totally new territory here.

Probably new Amendments will have to be written after this mess gets straightened out.

[LittleGirl]

3. Does anyone have a summary?

I can't watch Rachel anymore. She takes so long to make a point, it drives me batty. I love her information but the method of delivery is exhausting.

[shraby]

9. She needs to do that in order to educate the right wing if they happen to be watching.

[lastlib]

28. *SNORT!*

a) they don't watch, and b) educate a right-winger? "We don't need no edjumacation--We Got JA-A-A-AY-ZUS!!"

I realize that she would have to double or triple her show's content if she stopped belaboring her points ad nauseum so that a fourth-grader can understand them, but I wish she would give her viewers credit for a little intelligence and make points more succintly. It gets a little tiresome to be so condescended all the time.

[sagesnow]

13. I often watch her on YouTube the next day and

turn the speed up 1.5X to 2x's normal speed. Her delivery is perfect for talk radio. She's the Rush Limbaugh of the Left. We need more like her! After a while you get used to her and don't want to miss her show.

[not fooled]

30. Yeah, the Limbaugh of the left

just without the lies and hate.

I appreciate your support of her but she and Limbaugh are not comparable. Limbaugh is paid ~35 mil a year to put forth a fact-challenged stream of hate-filled propaganda that supports the far right agenda.

There are websites devoted to debunking and listing his lies.

Rachel is all about presenting carefully researched and factual information. She wants to inform and educate, not con viewers into believing a lie-filled agenda of hate and fear.

The only quibble I have with her is that as far as I can tell she doesn't report on topics like net neutrality that Comcast--her corporate overlords--would find problematic. But, in this day and age that's as good as it gets in terms of being able to operate under corporate control.

[mrmpa]

32. I agree.......

My boyfriend of one year, has never been into politics. When I moved in with him, I would watch Rachel every night. He is so hooked on watching her, if we're not home he will DVR the show.

He likes it because she explains everything in detail, & he gets that and understands because of her, what is happening.

[SalviaBlue]

18. We have been conditioned to have very short attention spans.

I understand your problem and have experienced the same impatience but most times I stick with her and am always impressed with her ability to fully inform.

[More_Cowbell]

21. And the GOP wants to make sure that our kids are even less able to think critically

They want to gut the Department of Education. They want to siphon money away from public schools and into charter schools that will be profitable for certain interests. They would rather have kids be taught about God than about how to recognize when they're being lied to.

[ananda]

6. She really went after Pence ..

.. showing him to be a consummate and
frequent liar.

[BigmanPigman]

25. We all knew he was guilty for months. After all, Manafort CHOSE

and arranged for Pence to be the running mate.

[Achilleaze]

7. The Pence of Darkness (R)

Hath assumed a pleasing "conservative" republican "family-values" form yet speaketh all the frikken time with a fork-ed tongue. What's up with that?

[Honeycombe8]

10. Yeah, I have my doubts about Pence. But he's an experienced politician....

unlike the others in the Trump Team (except Sessions). It's possible he's been able to protect himself, quietly.

[sandensea]

11. Putin, after all, hand-picked Dense Pence.

My guess is that there's a Swiss bank account with his name on it (or his ambitious wife's), and a seven-figure balance attached to it.

[keithbvadu2]

20. Pence/Putin

[NastyRiffraff]

15. VERY glad she went after Pence

He's a chronic liar just like Dump, AND a Dominionist.

[UCmeNdc]

16. Pence is in on it too!

[PatrickforO]

17. Pence is in it up to his hypocritical 'christian' nose hairs.

He's a traitor right along with the rest of the Trump criminal enterprise.

[SunSeeker]

19. Manafort tricked Trump to pick Pence over Christie for VP.

http://www.rawstory.com/2016/10/paul-manafort-tricked-trump-into-switching-from-christie-to-pence-by-faking-airplane-malfunction/

So yeah, Pence is definitely part of the Kremlin Klan.

[bearsfootball516]

26. May have been a good play on Manafort's part, at the time.

Pence helped bring evangelical voters to Trump. People on the far right hate Christie, but love Pence.

I'm willing to bet there are a lot of conservatives who wouldn't have voted for Trump if he had chosen Christie instead of Pence.

[dchill]

22. K&R.

[Scurrilous]

24. K&R

[redstatebluegirl]

27. I honestly think they are glad Trump is as crazy as he is, that way when Pence takes over

he will seem sane and ram through that crazy right wing religious agenda from the Christian Taliban.

[Major Nikon]

29. Pretty sure Pence is the one spiking Trump's diet coke

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a12222847/alex-jones-trump-drug-diet-coke/

[not fooled]

31. Yeah

when you already have a PAC in place to run in 2020, your motives are definitely suspect.

punce needs to be taken down too, for his complicity in facilitating the theft of the presidency, and to prevent this radical (fake) Xtian extremist dominionist from being able to use the presidency to enact his (fake) Xtian agenda. Just one example would be for instance trying to escalate tensions in the Middle East in order to bring about the end times. That's a definite possibility from this nutter.

Oh, and conveniently, he's a kochbot corporate tool who will indeed attempt to ram through their extremist agenda. And he's a much more competent politician than dump.

My fear is that the corporate media will continue to soft-peddle his crackpottery in order to reassure the peasantry that after dump goes down in flames we should all be happy with punce as president.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

33. Bookmarking to check out tomorrow.

Thanks for posting.