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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsVideo: Pence hangs himself about the emails stolen by Russia, August 2013
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Pence, "Well it looks that way more and more everyday with the new emails .... "
Gee, Mike where did you get those emails?
Anybody got Bob Mueller's address?
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Video: Pence hangs himself about the emails stolen by Russia, August 2013 (Original Post)
Botany
Mar 2018
OP
Sanity Claws
(21,847 posts)1. 2016?
Did he see how he kept shaking his head no as he talked? He knows he is lying.
panader0
(25,816 posts)4. That was a tell for me too.
spanone
(135,831 posts)2. pious mike is not the 'christian' he pretends to me....you are right mike...
the american people have a right to know...
Botany
(70,503 posts)3. Pence on contacts between team trump and Russia .... of course not
https://www.cnn.com/2017/01/15/politics/mike-pence-flynn-trump-russia-contacts/index.html
Asked by Fox News' Chris Wallace about contact between Trump or Trump's team and the Kremlin, and the former Indiana governor denied there had been any, writing off the whole line of questioning as a "distraction."
"Of course not. Why would there be any contact between the campaign?" Pence told Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "This is all a distraction, and it's all part of a narrative to delegitimatize the election and to question the legitimacy of (Trump's) presidency."
Asked by Fox News' Chris Wallace about contact between Trump or Trump's team and the Kremlin, and the former Indiana governor denied there had been any, writing off the whole line of questioning as a "distraction."
"Of course not. Why would there be any contact between the campaign?" Pence told Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "This is all a distraction, and it's all part of a narrative to delegitimatize the election and to question the legitimacy of (Trump's) presidency."
Corgigal
(9,291 posts)5. Manafort pick.
Ran him to Trumps plane. Asked the airline pilot to pretend he had an issue, so he could get Pence on the plane to meet Trump.
He wouldn't have picked him if he was clean, and couldn't be bought.
Botany
(70,503 posts)6. Newsweek Manafort (Russian agent) picked Pence to be V.P.
http://www.newsweek.com/mike-pence-was-handpicked-paul-manafort-696412
Russia is way deep into the Republican party.
Before Trump formally announced Pence as his vice presidential candidate, it was Manafort who made sure it happened, The New York Times reported last year.
Trump had hesitated to settle on Pence, who was governor of Indiana. Trump was fielding last-ditch appeals from New Jersey Governor Chris Christie and publicly said he had not made a final, final decision until advisers like Manafort reminded him of the importance of uniting the GOP around conservative Christian values.
CBS News reported that Pence was Manafort's "first choice" and that Manafort even lied about mechanical problems on Trump's plane to make the soon-to-be GOP nominee stay an extra day in Indiana to get to know Pence. In a phone call, Manafort assured Trump that Pence was the right choice and made a case that won over the real estate tycoon.
malaise
(268,980 posts)7. Mike Pence used campaign funds to pay his mortgage...and car payments for 'mother'
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mike-pence-used-campaign-funds-to-pay-his-mortgage--and-it-cost-him-an-election/2016/07/15/90858964-49ed-11e6-bdb9-701687974517_story.html?utm_term=.f13af4ecd235
<snip>
Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district.
And then, scandal.
Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.
The spending had not been illegal at the time. But it stunned voters and undermined Pences strategy to portray the incumbent, Rep. Philip R. Sharp, as tainted by donations from special-interest political action committees.
It was a brazen act of hypocrisy, said Billy Linville, who was Sharps campaign manager. It was a bombshell, for sure. .?.?. Without question, he may well have won the election if it had not been for that.
Pences early stumble proved to be a defining moment, prompting a period of public remorse that helped create the wholesome image many Republicans now say makes him an ideal running mate to counterbalance the bombastic Donald Trump.
In the months after that 1990 defeat, Pence waged a statewide apology tour and disavowed negative campaigning. He told a local reporter that using campaign funds for personal expenses had been an exercise in naivete.
Pences 1990 race also led to key changes in campaign finance policies. Experts say that subsequent rules passed by the Federal Election Commission barring the use of campaign funds for personal needs were the direct result of ethics concerns raised by Pences actions.
According to FEC documents, Pence spent a total of $12,867 from his 1990 campaign account for personal expenses, including seven installments of his $992 monthly mortgage and his wifes $222 a month car payment.
Pence was unapologetic at the time, telling reporters that he had taken a 30 percent pay cut to run for office and needed the money. Im not embarrassed that I need to make a living, he said.
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Mike and mother should start a new church - Christianity without ethics.
<snip>
Mike Pence was a young lawyer on the rise, challenging a longtime Democratic congressman in a Republican-leaning Indiana district.
And then, scandal.
Campaign finance records from the 1990 effort showed that Pence, then 31, had been using political donations to pay the mortgage on his house, his personal credit card bill, groceries, golf tournament fees and car payments for his wife.
The spending had not been illegal at the time. But it stunned voters and undermined Pences strategy to portray the incumbent, Rep. Philip R. Sharp, as tainted by donations from special-interest political action committees.
It was a brazen act of hypocrisy, said Billy Linville, who was Sharps campaign manager. It was a bombshell, for sure. .?.?. Without question, he may well have won the election if it had not been for that.
Pences early stumble proved to be a defining moment, prompting a period of public remorse that helped create the wholesome image many Republicans now say makes him an ideal running mate to counterbalance the bombastic Donald Trump.
In the months after that 1990 defeat, Pence waged a statewide apology tour and disavowed negative campaigning. He told a local reporter that using campaign funds for personal expenses had been an exercise in naivete.
Pences 1990 race also led to key changes in campaign finance policies. Experts say that subsequent rules passed by the Federal Election Commission barring the use of campaign funds for personal needs were the direct result of ethics concerns raised by Pences actions.
According to FEC documents, Pence spent a total of $12,867 from his 1990 campaign account for personal expenses, including seven installments of his $992 monthly mortgage and his wifes $222 a month car payment.
Pence was unapologetic at the time, telling reporters that he had taken a 30 percent pay cut to run for office and needed the money. Im not embarrassed that I need to make a living, he said.
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Mike and mother should start a new church - Christianity without ethics.
BSdetect
(8,998 posts)8. Maybe we dodged a bullet with Christie losing that position
He might have proved more effective at covering drumps substantial butt.