But maybe slick, as well.
For a man who is supposed to be number two in the nation, and who supposedly headed the transition team, this is a pretty sad admission. Is it believable?As the White House contends with questions about who knew about former national security adviser Michael Flynn lying to the FBI, people close to Vice President Mike Pence are trying to make clear that President Donald Trump’s No. 2 knew nothing at all.
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Pence’s aides have maintained for months that their man was out of the loop, blissfully ignorant of contacts between the Trump campaign and various foreign actors, from the Russian ambassador to WikiLeaks.
Politico
But, it IS what we've got as a vice president. And MAY eventually have as a president. It's also entirely conceivable that he knew what they were up to and told them to just keep him out of it, looking ahead to the day he might move up the ladder.“It’s remarkable, as close as he was to the transition, as close as he was to the president, [that] at least what’s come out so far very little that puts him in key places at key times,” said William Jeffress, the attorney who represented Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby during the Valerie Plame CIA leak investigation.
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Flynn’s overtures to foreign governments took place in the midst of a transition that Pence was leading. “Either he didn’t know about it and then there’s why didn’t he know about it, or he did know about it and he’s lying. Neither is tenable for him,” said Rick Tyler, a Republican strategist and former communications director for the presidential bid of Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas). “One speaks to a lack of character, and one speaks to a lack of competence — neither of which we want in a vice president, or a future president.”
And, as Preet Bharara intimated in his special podcast, Pence may well be the guy Mueller needs to do more investigating into in order to get something he can really stick.
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.
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