Mike Pence, VP

Mike Pence, Vice President

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Marc E. Kasowitz, attorney in Russia probe

Trump lashes out at Russia probe; Pence hires a lawyer “Pence’s decision to hire Richard Cullen, a Richmond-based lawyer who previously served as a U.S. attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia, came less than a month after Trump hired his own private lawyer. The hiring of Cullen, whom an aide said Pence was paying for himself, was made public a day after The Washington Post reported that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is widening his investigation to examine whether the president attempted to obstruct justice.” Washington Post

“Pence’s decision comes less than a month after Trump hired his own private attorney, Marc E. Kasowitz, to help navigate the investigations related to the Russia probe.” Washington Post

Pence’s lawyer is the godfather of Comey’s daughter. That’s ‘the swamp’ for you.  Washington Post

Mike Pence joined the Trump campaign mid-August, 2016.

From the Washington Post: “During Jan. 15 interviews in which he also passed along Michael Flynn’s faulty information about Flynn not having discussed sanctions with Russia’s ambassador to the United States. Speaking to “Fox News Sunday’s” Chris Wallace, Pence also denied any contact between the campaign and the Kremlin:

WALLACE: I’m asking a direct question: Was there any contact in any way between Trump or his associates and the Kremlin or cutouts they had?

PENCE: I joined this campaign in the summer, and I can tell you that all the contact by the Trump campaign and associates was with the American people. We were fully engaged with taking his message to make America great again all across this country. That’s why he won in a landslide election.

(CROSSTALK)

WALLACE: — if there were any contacts, sir, I’m just trying to get an answer.

PENCE: Yes. I — of course not. Why would there be any contacts between the campaign? Chris, the — this is all a distraction, and it’s all part of a narrative to delegitimize the election and to question the legitimacy of this presidency. The American people see right through it.

And here he was the same day on “Face the Nation”:

DICKERSON: Just to button up one question, did any adviser or anybody in the Trump campaign have any contact with the Russians who were trying to meddle in the election?

MIKE PENCE: Of course not. And I think to suggest that is to give credence to some of these bizarre rumors that have swirled around the candidacy.”