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WASHINGTON -- Vice President Mike Pence said Thursday that former national security adviser Michael Flynns work to further the interests of the government of Turkey is an affirmation of President Donald Trumps decision to ask for his resignation.
Pence told Fox News Bret Baier in an interview airing Thursday evening that media reports about Flynns work were the first I heard of it and I think it is an affirmation of the Presidents decision to ask General Flynn to resign.
White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday that Mr. Trump was not aware of Flynns ties to Turkey before appointing him. Spicers comments came two days after Flynn and his firm, Flynn Intel Group Inc., filed paperwork with the Justice Department formally identifying him as a foreign agent and acknowledging that his work for a company owned by a Turkish businessman could have aided Turkeys government.
Asked whether Trump knew about Flynns work before he appointed him as national security adviser, Spicer said, I dont believe that that was known.
Flynn and his company filed the registration paperwork describing $530,000 worth of lobbying before Election Day on behalf of Inovo BV, a Dutch-based company owned by Turkish businessman Ekim Alptekin. In an interview with The Associated Press, Alptekin said Flynn did so after pressure from Justice Department officials.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mike-pence-says-turkey-ties-are-affirmation-of-decision-to-fire-michael-flynn/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=35312067
Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Or perhaps they already knew and are shoveling caca here...
Renew Deal
(81,875 posts)Lucinda
(31,170 posts)Veeps first rodeo....so I have to wonder what angle he has been working, or if he is also a member of the Not Too Bright" club too.
KittyWampus
(55,894 posts)Eliot Rosewater
(31,121 posts)Even if he was completely out of the loop on everything, all the treason, he is still such a terrible person he was being run out of his state for putting hatred of gays above common sense and society.
Hillary won the election. The rust belt states were stolen by a variety of methods, including DIRECT interference with the voting process and probably manipulation of counting.
The reason minority voting was down wasnt from lack of interest, it is because cross check and other methods prevented them from voting.
Republicans like that therefore hate democracy.
spanone
(135,884 posts)Top Democrat sent letter to Mike Pence in November warning of Michael Flynn's Turkey lobbying
But Rep. Elijah Cummings, the ranking member of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, sent Pence a letter on November 18 requesting more information about the potential conflicts of interest posed by Flynn's lobbying work.
Cummings sent the letter four days after both The Daily Caller and Politico reported that Flynn's consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group Inc., had been hired to lobby for Turkish interests.
"Recent news reports have revealed that Lt. Gen. Flynn was receiving classified briefings during the presidential campaign while his consulting firm, Flynn Intel Group, Inc., was being paid to lobby the U.S. Government on behalf of a foreign government's interests," Cummings wrote.
http://www.businessinsider.com/elijah-cummings-letter-to-mike-pence-about-flynn-turkey-lobbying-2017-3
sinkingfeeling
(51,474 posts)paper bag. You both lack executive skills and the People of the USA want you fired.