Pence's name mysteriously missing from thousands of emails from transition he led
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Investigators on the House Intelligence Committee say they have looked over thousands of emails from the transition team but cannot find Pence’s name. The committee has been tasked with investigating the emails as part of its examination of Russia’s election interference.
Pence’s missing mentions raise questions about how much transparency is truly being offered by the Trump team, and if his role is being covered up to protect him from fallout from the investigation.
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It seems unusual that during a transition period in which so much happened, with key figures like Flynn and the Russian ambassador and documents warning about Flynn that were received by the committee, that Pence’s name has disappeared.
Yet the omissions follow a pattern, where Pence has tried mightily to separate himself from this disturbing and scandal-plagued episode with the Trump team.
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If any emails showed Pence’s name in connection with vetting Flynn, his carefully constructed narrative where the Russia scandal does not taint him would quickly collapse. But conveniently, those emails can’t be found. - ShareBlue
Convenient wouldn't be the word.
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Manafort sneakily got Trump to accept Pence as VP, on that infamous day when Manafort lied to Trump about the campaign plane needing repairs, so that Trump had to stay on the ground, and meet with Pence.
Mike Pence's brother, Ed Pence is VP for Cummins, a majority owned Russian state engine company since 1987.
Cummins uses Lobbying firm PPG.
PPG is run by Charles Black
Black was a former partner w/ Manafort in Ukraine PPG worked w/ TRNC as did Flynn.
Pence ignored warnings and got Flynn hired for Trump's Adviser.
More detail of this web, and why Flynn is so important to Mueller's investigation of Manafort and Pence.
Vice President Pence Has Cause to Support Trump’s Kremlin-Friendly Agenda
Posted by Bill Conroy - May 29, 2017 at 8:28 pm
Two of his biggest Indiana corporate backers have significant business interests in Russia
https://narcosphere.narconews.com/notebook/bill-conroy/2017/05/vice-president-pence-has-cause-support-trump-s-kremlin-friendly-agenda
Coincidentally, Mike Pence's brother Ed is a top executive at Cummins. Here's a deeper dive into Cummins/Russia:
Is Cummins VP Pence’s Motive for Ignoring (Rep Elijah)Cummings’ Warning Re Flynn? Cummins Literally Moves Russia, Including Military; Partners With KAMAZ Owned By Russian Gov Owned-Sanctioned Entities Rostec & Sberbank
LINK https://mobile.twitter.com/PersuasivePR/status/924786360443179009
Is Cummins VP Pence’s Motive for Ignoring Cummings’ Warning Re Flynn? Cummins Literally Moves Russia, Including Military; Partners With KAMAZ Owned By Russian Gov Owned-Sanctioned Entities Rostec & Sberbank
https://miningawareness.wordpress.com/2017/06/21/is-cummins-vp-pences-motive-for-ignoring-cummings-warning-re-flynn-cummins-literally-moves-russia-including-military-partners-with-kamaz-owned-by-russian-gov-owned-sanctioned-entities-rostec-a/
EXPOSED: VICE PRESIDENT MIKE PENCE WAS INSTALLED BY A RUSSIAN OPERATIVE AND HAS DEEP TIES TO “DARK MONEY”.
https://narativ.org/2017/08/31/mike-pence-dark-shadows/
While Manafort officially disappeared from the campaign in August, he kept in close contact with Mike Pence well after Election Day and through the the transition. “I think he is weighing in on everything,” a former official told The Daily Beast. “I think he still talks to Trump every day. I mean, Pence? That was all Manafort. Pence is on the phone with Manafort regularly.”
It’s worth recalling Pence headed the Trump transition team and was responsible for appointing Lt-Gen Michael Flynn as the National Security Adviser despite having been warned Flynn was compromised by Turkey and Russia. Flynn would later be forced to resign for his compromising contacts with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak.
Special Counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Pence’s role in any Obstruction of Justice related to Flynn and the firing of FBI Director James Comey. Mueller’s investigators are also probing Manafort’s financial dealings with Russia, Deripaska and donations to the Republican Party. Pence has also lawyered up with seasoned criminal attorney Richard Cullen of the law firm McGuireWoods to “assist him in responding to inquiries by the special counsel.”
Richard Cullen of the law firm McGuireWoods to "assist him in responding to inquiries by the special counsel, Oleg Deripaska (left) and Russian President Vladimir Putin (right). Deripaska hired Paul Manafort to “assist” in Putin’s global agenda for $10m a year between 2006 and 2009.
Pence’s ties to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska date back to before the campaign and may involve an illegal private email account Pence maintained while Indiana Governor.
Another sign Russian fingerprints were all over the Pence appointment came in the form of a ringing endorsement from Sergei Millian, president of the Russian-American Chamber of Commerce, and a long-time Deripaska associate. Millian called Pence an “excellent’ candidate” all while being under FBI investigation as a Russian spy recruiter. “He works well in his post and gets by without scandals,” Millian said.
Deripaska used to be one of Russia’s richest men but a series of bankruptcies has left him and his company Rusal beholden to Russian President Vladimir Putin. In 2016, then Indiana Governor Mike Pence led an economic mission to Israel and later picked up a lucrative deal from Rusal’s Israeli partner Omen to open an aluminum parts factory in Pence’s state of Indiana.
It’s around that time that Pence had an email scandal of his own. Pence’s private AOL email account was compromised by a Russian hacker. Pence took six months to turn over his emails to Indiana officials, raising the specter that Russia may have kompromat on Pence and that he may have attempted to delete important emails before handing over the documents to investigators.
Pence has also been close to mercenary Erik Prince for over a decade. Prince met with Pence at the Trump transition offices in December 2016 before undertaking a secret mission to meet with Russian officials in the Seychelles In January this year.
Vice President Mike Pence is readying for the Oval Office backed by Russian operatives and secretive "dark money". Vice President Mike Pence swears in Nick Ayres as his new Chief of Staff. Ayres is linked to “dark money” which has powered numerous Republican campaigns including Missouri Governor Chris Greitens.
Republican dark money and Russia operatives are backing a new team in the event Trump is impeached.
With the Trump administration in trouble, Vice President Mike Pence has taken the unusual move of forming his own fundraising committee, raising millions for a political action committee and a legal defense fund for the Trump-Russia affair. Pence’s fund is the brainchild of Nick Ayres, who also became the Vice President’s Chief of Staff on July 28.
There are signs the group of billionaire funders and Russian operatives who helped install Trump are preparing for his impeachment and readying Pence for the presidency with Missouri Governor Eric Greitens being groomed for vice-president.
Those dreams may be short-lived. It’s becoming increasingly clear that Vice President Mike Pence is himself a person of interest in Robert Mueller’s investigation. Pence had extensive and daily interactions with Paul Manafort, a known Russian asset, even after Manafort left the campaign. Pence’s financial deals involving satellite companies of Oleg Deripaska and “dark money” political operations remain the subject of increased scrutiny complicated by Pence’s own hacked email scandal. Most troubling to investigators must be the notion that Pence himself was installed at the behest of the Kremlin.
PENCE MEETS WITH ONE OF PUTIN’S TOP CLERICS: STRANGE BEDFELLOWS AT BGEA’S WORLD SUMMIT IN DEFENSE OF PERSECUTED CHRISTIANS
http://religiondispatches.org/pence-meets-with-one-of-putins-top-clerics-strange-bedfellows-at-bgaes-world-summit-in-defense-of-persecuted-christians/
esterday, U.S. Vice President Mike Pence made headlines for his appearance at the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association’s World Summit in Defense of Persecuted Christians, where he proclaimed Christians to be among the most persecuted people in the world.
While there are parts of the world where the persecution of religious minorities, including Christians, is a real problem, the United States is not one of them. Russia, on the other hand, has enacted laws that bar Protestant groups from proselytizing on penalty of fines, and has even gone so far as to ban Jehovah’s Witnesses entirely.
At first blush, then, it might seem odd that one of the Russian Orthodox Church’s leading hierarchs, Metropolitan Hilarion (Alfeyev) of Volokolamsk—who was staying at the Trump International Hotel—not only participated in BGEA’s summit yesterday, but also, as first reported by Time, met privately with the vice president. Curiously enough, a key talking point from their meeting was that America and Russia should work together to fight international terrorism, a hallmark of the Trump campaign’s election season foreign policy rhetoric.
Metropolitan Hilarion heads the ROC’s Department of External Relations, and in this capacity he has worked tirelessly in recent years to cultivate relationships with Catholic and Protestant supporters of “traditional values” abroad, in order to work with them to promote Christian supremacy at the expense of women’s and LGBTQ rights—an example of what I call “bad ecumenism.” Such efforts are coordinated with the Kremlin’s foreign policy, which seeks to foster relationships with anti-democratic forces outside Russia. While Moscow made similar efforts during Soviet times, Russian President Vladimir Putin has rebranded post-Soviet Russia into the global standard bearer for “traditional values conservatism,” and in this capacity attracts primarily right-wing fellow travelers.
Mike Pence’s Lawyer’s Ties To Russia Were Just Exposed
http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/06/15/mike-pences-lawyers-ties-russia-just-exposed/
Of all the firms in and around the nation’s capital to choose from, Vice President Mike Pence settled on McGuireWoods, a fine Virginia institution tracing its roots back over 180 years, but with one with an interesting client list.
“The Vice President has retained Richard Cullen of McGuireWoods to assist him in responding to inquiries by the special counsel,” a Pence spokesman told The Washington Post. Cullen is the Chairman of McGuireWoods and a senior litigation partner, and he’s got quite a resume, including stints as the Attorney General of Virginia and counsel to President Reagan during the Iran Contra Affair.
There’s just one problem, especially for someone under investigation for colluding with Russia and then participating in a cover-up to obstruct that investigation.
“McGuireWoods’ lawyers have been active in Eurasia since the mid 1980s — providing legal and consulting services to entrepreneurs, investors (both foreign and domestic), multinationals and government clients.”
“Eurasia,” in case you’re wondering, is a geopolitical shorthand for “Russia and the countries and peoples on or near the traditionally accepted border separating Europe and Asia.”
As for how he got to be VP: ---------------------------------------------------------------------
This twitter feed lays it out from start to finish, how Pence got to be VP and WHY.
https://mobile.twitter.com/PersuasivePR/status/924778575554924544
- @PersuasivePR
1/. THREAD: If Paul Manafort and/or Mike Flynn are indicted, what does that mean for Mike Pence?
Continued here:
https://mobile.twitter.com/PersuasivePR/status/924786360443179009
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I knew Pence was dirty but the depth of it is rather stunning.
To think of what we were up against in 2016.
We really were blindsided & never stood a chance.
Pence will not walk away from Mueller's wide net.
12. I took a look at the 1st set. Came back with this:
5 Facts About Mike Pence's Close Ties to the Koch Brothers Not Included in Jane Mayer’s New Yorker Article
This is a guest post by Scott Peterson from Checks and Balances Project.
If you’ve read Jane Mayer’s deep dive into the ties between the Koch Bros. and the Vice President, “The Danger of President Pence,” you’ll understand why it’s the high-water mark of reporting about their relationship.
Yet there are several facts that aren’t included in the New Yorker article. Here are five facts worth knowing in addition to her excellent work.
Fact #1: the No Climate Tax Pledge was a key tool for the Kochs to turn what had previously been a bipartisan issue into a weapon that ignores the science behind climate change and helps the bottom line of Koch Industries.
The No Climate Tax Pledge was issued by Americans for Prosperity, which is itself controlled by the Kochs and funded by them and their network of donor allies. The pledge claimed that it would “draw a line in the sand” to guard against “unrestrained growth in government at taxpayers’ expense hidden under the guise of environmental correctness.” Yet a climate tax that would tax fossil fuel carbon pollution has bipartisan support — even by Exxon — as the most efficient way to solve the problem of a rapidly heating planet.
Fact #2: David Koch’s Largest Personal Campaign Contributions Go to Mike Pence
Since signing the Pledge, David Koch has demonstrated his appreciation by giving more money to Mike Pence than any other candidate. This includes $200,000 to Mr. Pence when he ran for governor of Indiana (along with his running mate for Lt. Governor Sue Ellspermann) in 2012, $100,000 to Pence individually in 2016 (before he “withdrew” to run for Vice President), and nearly $10,000 in political contributions from Koch Industries for his gubernatorial runs since 2011. These amounts do not include funding hidden through other sources, such as the Republican Gubernatorial Campaign Committee.
more
https://www.desmogblog.com/2017/10/20/5-facts-about-mike-pence-s-close-ties-koch-brothers-not-included-jane-mayer-s-new-yorker-article
14. Manafort got Trump to pick Pence for VP over Christie. They are all in on the treason.
that if they managed to install dump, he would implode. So, whether they planned from the start to have dense step in, they certainly had to be aware that it was a realistic course of events.
Who picked Pence, the kochtopuss chose him a long long time ago....he destroyed Indiana and he will destroy the social safety net that oligarchs and the 1% call entitlement...
He is the oligarchs self righteous boy toy...religiously right to make decisions for all the heathens..
The man who is not there serves the one who is not there at all...
...looks so sneaky. I think he's got a man crush and is in love with "The Donald" - I see the way he looks at him...
Wonder what Manafort & Bannon's telling Mueller about Pence?
There's tons of info gathered on this thread! 
Bookmarked and appreciated, ty!!!
