The Treachery of VP Mike Pence Explained
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I just started to read this. Seems like she is trying to rewrite history.
The answer is simple. Trump fired Flynn. Pence had no authority to do so.
Trump tweeted about this months after it happened.
She wonders how Pence knew about Flynn phone call.
I know the answer to that. It was big news. It came out on Jan 12 Jan. 12 — The Washington Post reports that Flynn and Kislyak spoke on Dec. 29, the day that the U.S. announced new sanctions on Russia in response to the cyberattacks during the 2016 presidential election.
This is what caused Pence to speak to Flynn. On Jan 15 Flynn was interviewed on CBS and was questioned about Flynn's phone call.
So she got the timeline wrong. Nobody had to ask about how Pence was informed about Flynn's private conversations. We know this. Flynn spoke to Pence after the phone call came out in the news.
The idea that a mere FBI agent pushed Pence to fire Flynn is silly. Nobody at the FBI has influence over White House decisions. And we know it was a senior DOJ official who told the White House Flynn lied to the FBI. And Trump admitted he knew Flynn lied to the FBI which is a crime. A crime Flynn plead guilty to.
This is like the easier part of the Flynn affair to understand.
Thanks for all of this. I'm still waiting to know the end of the story regarding Pence. To this day, I'm still willing to consider that he acted without betraying.
Can you EXPLAIN what the lie was? Everybody on the Left says he lied, but nobody says what the lie was.
Could it be that criminal FBI agents are allowed to offer OPINIONS that they are being lied to?
Could it be that special prosecutors are allowed to ask the same question dozens of times, then decide they're being lied to if any jot/title is related in different ways?
I know you're busy over on that other thread, defending John Podesta's art collection, but could you explain exactly WHAT the lie was?
Bonus question: Why do you think General Flynn's list of pedophiles in government would be so irritating to Mike Pence?
So what did Flynn lie about is an easy question.
The much more interesting question is if as Flynn swore to, he knew he was lying AND he knew lying to the FBI was crime, then why did he do it?
The answer to that is quite interesting. And has to do with how he stayed out of jail.
Of course I can state what the lie was. You don't need to be on the left to heard what the lie was. The lie was clearly stated in General Flynn's guilty plea that he signed under penalty of perjury and every news report about his guilty pleas.
Flynn's plea bargain document was released publicly. When they take your case to a grand jury, they get an indictment. But if you plead guilty, they put out a "Statement of Offense." It includes Flynn admitted under oath to the crimes
Lie #1 FLynn lied about talking about sanctions with Russian ambassador
Lie #2 He lied about telling the Russians how to vote at the UN
Lie #3 He also admitted lying on his FARA forms, but this charge was dropped as part of his plea deal.
https://casetext.com/case/united-states-v-flynn-64
Flynn's statement of offense https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1015126/download
Flynn swore under oath that these facts were true and he was "in fact guilty."
https://www.justice.gov/archives/sco/file/1015126/download
When he went to court to be sentenced a year later. The judge asked him AGAIN if he knew he was committing a crime, if he had any problems with his lawyers, or if he had any problems with how he was treated by the FBI and again he swore UNDER OATH, he was in fact guilty and was treated well.
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So if you were paying attention, it's clear what the lies were and that he swore under oath twice he was guilty of these crimes.