Report: Pence Didn’t Know About Flynn’s Sanctions Talk Until Days After Trump

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Vice President Mike Pence was informed that Michael Flynn had misled him about the contents of a phone call with the Russian ambassador days after the President knew, NBC News reported Tuesday.

Then-acting Attorney General Sally Yates alerted the White House that Flynn may have discussed sanctions in a December phone call with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak on Jan. 26. But according to two unnamed sources cited by NBC, Pence did not know until Feb. 9.

The Washington Post reported the same day, citing nine unnamed current and former officials, that Flynn’s call had included a discussion of sanctions.

Before the Justice Department alerted the White House of its suspicions about Flynn, Pence had defended the now-resigned national security adviser against charges of wrongdoing.

Eighteen days elapsed between the White House first hearing those suspicions on the 26th, and Flynn’s resignation Monday.

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  1. Tales of Sus-pence

  2. “What did the Vice President not know, and when did he not know it?”

    (Or something.)

  3. Can we contact the agency we got these guys from and tell them they aren’t working out? I’m not sure we really need them, to be honest. Maybe we could all just stay a half hour late divide up the work among ourselves. I’ll order pizza.

  4. Avatar for jinnj jinnj says:

    Goodness me is that Mike Pence making loud banging sounds near Donald Trump’s Presidential Soufflé …

    Hummm

  5. This tells me Pence means exactly shit to Drumpf.

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