In service to Trump, Pence keeps saying things that arent true
Source: Washington Post
A day after President Trump fired FBI Director James B. Comey, his vice president stared into a television camera, surrounded by a gaggle of reporters on Capitol Hill, and cited the presidents decision to rely on the counsel of his advisers as proof of his strong leadership.
President Trump made the right decision at the right time to accept the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general to ask for the termination of Comey, Pence said.
But that wasnt true.
Trump told NBC News in an interview the next day that he had not relied on the lengthy letter written by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein to make his decision, but rather that his mind had been made up before the letter existed.
Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/in-service-to-trump-pence-keeps-saying-things-that-arent-true/2017/05/12/690c4bc0-3682-11e7-b4ee-434b6d506b37_story.html?utm_term=.4b89bf245d94
My main quibble with the story is that this is not in service to Trump. This is just cya, because Pence can't admit that Comey was fired because he would not make the Russian investigation go away.
dhill926
(16,234 posts)he was reviled in Indiana by the end. He only looks slightly sane in comparison to Harrumph....
NewRedDawn
(790 posts)cisco man
(26 posts)that the whole lot of em will be included in upcoming indictments!! They are ALL complicit & dangerous. The money trail people!!
rzemanfl
(29,540 posts)TomCADem
(17,378 posts)The irony is that Trump is the one who told the truth regarding his reasons for firing Comey to shut down the FBI investigation. It was Pence who was trying to orchestrate the lie.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/mike-pence-gets-caught-making-yet-another-bogus-claim
In fact, Pence was rather specific when talking to reporters on Wednesday, saying, Let me be very clear that the presidents decision to accept the recommendation of the deputy attorney general and the attorney general to remove Director Comey as the head of the FBI was based solely and exclusively on his commitment to the best interests of the American people and to ensuring that the FBI has the trust and confidence of the people this nation.
We now know these comments werent true because Pences boss has now admitted as much. Trump acknowledged yesterday that his decision to fire the FBI director wasnt related to the Justice Departments recommendations, and wasnt based solely and exclusively on the national interest. On the contrary, the president said it was Comeys investigation into the Russia scandal that served as the motivation for the firing.
Pence also said Wednesday that it was Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein who made the recommendation on Comey, which Trump accepted. We now know thats not what happened: Trump told Rosenstein to write the memo to justify a decision the president had already made.
Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) told MSNBCs Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday that its a terrible thing to watch the vice president undermine his own credibility this way. Thats true, but lets not forget that its also a terrible thing that Pence keeps doing this.
Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)denvine
(796 posts)He is not innocent but he is anxiously measuring the drapes!
Kablooie
(18,571 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)But he's managing to come out clean so far.
WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)WinkyDink
(51,311 posts)Honeycombe8
(37,648 posts)He's in on the fix and doing his "job."
spiderpig
(10,419 posts)Oh yeah...but it's only by microns