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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho knew?
We know that Flynn and the WH counsel knew.
We can assume that Trump and Banning also knew?
Probably, Kushner and Spicer?
Would KellyAnne Conway have known?
Mike Pence probably knew?
Would Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have known? Maybe?
Who else in the White House circle might have known?
Blanks
(4,835 posts)Because he made a statement about it on television BEFORE they took office.
If Pence knew and lied about it, well, we had a president impeached for lying once.
They probably know that proof is out there too. They all seem a little twitchy today.
Trump signed some kind of fossil fuel friendly EO today, trying to draw attention away from the scandal.
Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)Yeah, but Clinton lied about SEX. That's much worse than this silly little 'collusion with our enemies' thingy.
Blanks
(4,835 posts)About weapons of mass destruction, but somehow he avoided impeachment.
There's kind of a double standard.
Wounded Bear
(58,743 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)as I recall?
Eliot Rosewater
(31,131 posts)They have both been tied to Putin, either financially or being blackmailed for YEARS.
I dont even think it is blackmail, I think they are in business together.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)But, I don't "know" for a fact.
Pachamama
(16,887 posts)...to know as little as possible, but they know and suspect what is going on.....which makes them now accessories to covering up the crime if they don't investigate or speak out.
world wide wally
(21,757 posts)And then further down in to the trenches of the Senate and Congress to varying degrees.
spanone
(135,900 posts)jmg257
(11,996 posts)likely they wouldn't tell anyone else. (i mean like Ryan et. al. - Ivanka is another matter)
kentuck
(111,110 posts)The #1 suckass in the White House?
delisen
(6,046 posts)this is quite a basket of deplorables.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)I read somewhere.
triron
(22,026 posts)Remember he lied "Trump won fair and square".
He knew he did not.
kentuck
(111,110 posts)As well as the leaders of the intelligence committees in the House and Senate?
triron
(22,026 posts)kentuck
(111,110 posts)that helped Sally Yates in her initial report?