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erronis

(15,242 posts)
Sat Jun 24, 2017, 12:34 PM Jun 2017

VP Mike Pence checks in with the boss: a pause to refresh [View all]

Source: TheHill via GreenMountainDaily

In the face of multiple official investigations into Trump campaign’s possible Russian contacts heating up and a key vote due in the Senate to repeal the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) and trash Medicaid funding, Vice President Mike Pence Pence somehow found time to sneak off and have a private chat with Charles Koch.the koch machine

According to The Hill.com the first instinct of the Veep’s office was to deny the meeting took place. But it turns out while at a conservative Christian celebration in Colorado, Pence had an unannounced meeting with Charles Koch and representatives from the Koch brothers’ political finance and policy arm, Americans for Prosperity.

Pence, in town to headline a banquet celebrating the 40th anniversary of the Christian conservative group Focus on the Family, sat down with the chairman and chief executive of Koch Industries, along with key members of the Koch team.

The meeting was not on the vice president’s schedule released by the White House late Thursday.

A spokesman for the vice president’s office denied to The Hill earlier Friday that Pence would be meeting with the Koch brothers’ network. The spokesman did not respond to requests for comments late Friday.

Read more: http://www.greenmountaindaily.com/2017/06/24/vp-mike-pence-checks-in-with-the-boss-a-pause-to-refresh/



This has been the plan, all along. Hoping americans will think anything will stink less than Drumpf.

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