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TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
Fri May 12, 2017, 09:54 PM May 2017

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 president’s 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 wasn’t 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.
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dhill926

(16,234 posts)
1. Pence is a remarkably stupid man....
Fri May 12, 2017, 10:05 PM
May 2017

he was reviled in Indiana by the end. He only looks slightly sane in comparison to Harrumph....

cisco man

(26 posts)
6. I'm Just Hoping
Sat May 13, 2017, 01:11 AM
May 2017

that the whole lot of em will be included in upcoming indictments!! They are ALL complicit & dangerous. The money trail people!!

TomCADem

(17,378 posts)
13. MSNBC: Mike Pence gets caught making yet another bogus claim
Sat May 13, 2017, 02:38 PM
May 2017

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 president’s 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 weren’t true – because Pence’s boss has now admitted as much. Trump acknowledged yesterday that his decision to fire the FBI director wasn’t related to the Justice Department’s recommendations, and wasn’t “based solely and exclusively” on the national interest. On the contrary, the president said it was Comey’s 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 that’s 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 MSNBC’s Andrea Mitchell on Wednesday that it’s “a terrible thing to watch” the vice president undermine his own credibility this way. That’s true, but let’s not forget that it’s also a terrible thing that Pence keeps doing this.


Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
8. I never believed that Flynn lied to Pence. Pence is part of the problem.
Sat May 13, 2017, 11:00 AM
May 2017

But he's managing to come out clean so far.

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
11. Yep. Pence is an experienced politician. He is not being played the fool.
Sat May 13, 2017, 12:04 PM
May 2017

He's in on the fix and doing his "job."

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