NBCNews: "Pence was never informed about Flynn: Source". BS. And "Trump a lifelong Democrat. BS.
About the former. They just flashed this on the main screen of MSNBC as if it was news. "Pence was never informed about Flynn: Source." Shouldn't the threshold for such an unlikely statement be higher than "source", at this point? Does "source" carry enough weight and knowledge so as to overturn a formal letter to Transition Head Mike Pence from Congress? Hasn't there been multiple indications that he would have known?
Is it even relevant, anyway? Because whether Pence knew or didn't know, he SHOULD have known. Whether a thorough background check or simply having an information screening process for -- oh, I don't know -- important information like LETTERS FROM THE CONGRESS ABOUT YOUR PROSPECTIVE NSA DIRECTOR, it is MIKE PENCE'S FAILURE if he didn't know about it. Unless he was willfully AVOIDING being informed about it.
Quit protecting Pence, lukewarm TV media. Rachel Maddow hasn't been: she recognizes that the weight of evidence on the side of "Pence knew" is far greater. Elsewhere on the same network, please, stop repeating crap.
About the latter: Joe Scarborough is attacking Trump loudly now, every day being critical and now mocking. But he STILL keeps repeating the "lifelong democrat" lie about Trump. I wrote to complain about it. Trump was a democrat during the Bush years - 2001-2008 - that's it. The rest of the time, as far as I can find, he's been a Republican or briefly the "independent party" which is conservative. I guess it's how Scarborough tries to keep his credentials as a Republican to his own ilk, but it appears to me to be a verifiable lie.
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"The source close to the administration, who requested anonymity as the White House denies the story, is now saying that Pence and his team were not made aware of any investigation relating to Flynn's work as a foreign agent for Turkey.
"It's also a fact that if he told McGahn that during the transition, it's also a fact that not only was Pence not made aware of that, no one around Pence was as well," the source said. "And that's an egregious error — and it has to be intentional. It's either malpractice or intentional, and either are unacceptable."
Well I agree that it's unacceptable, but the spin in here! To believe the source, you have to believe or she DOESNT know whether Flynn told McGahn ("if"
, but DOES know that Pence was not made aware of it and neither was anyone around Pence.
it's a lot harder to prove a negative than to prove a positive, by the way.
