Before I start this thread, I repeat what I said when Mueller was appointed: he was a good choice bc he had credibility, trust at FBI, and was perceived as non-partisan.https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/us/politics/robert-mueller-russia-investigation.html …
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If it weren't for Paul Manafort, Chris Christie would have been the nominee. Also, MP was in transition meetings in fall 16 that likely included Flynn talk.
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Paul Manafort was, in addition to being a likely RU asset, an experienced consultant who knew what it would take to make Trump acceptable to enough Republicans to win. Thus -- Pence.
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And while Pence was in meetings of interest, he is not known to be in the most important. I think Republicans who knew what a vulnerability Trump was saw to it to keep Pence relatively clean. That may not be enough, but I'm just not aware of "neck deep" evidence.
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There's certainly nothing of the sort established, but there's a good bit of circumstantial evidence around his running of the transition, lying about Flynn's comms with Kislyak, the Flynn firing, etc. overlapping with some of McGahn's exposure you've previously outlined.
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Actually the story abt Pence lying abt Flynn's comms may be an invention to cover up why Flynn lied.
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Pence def lied on FtN about Flynn comms. WH story's been that Flynn had lied to him, thus supplying (late/thin) reasoning for Flynn firing. Always seemed more plausible that Pence knew full well he was lying on air, which would tend to implicate him in the surrounding cover-up.
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Maybe. But if so that puts him in the company of 8 other transition officials, some of whom are far more central to this story.
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I mean, he was the actual head of the transition, after all. And while those other 8 were undoubtedly more active in securing the back-end quo to the pre-election Russian quid, you can only plausibly plead total managerial incompetence so long...
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