connection with mohamed bin salman, and mbs as he s known was leapfrogging to become crown prince. what was interesting is how coordinated and methodical, they sent delegations to meet with kushner during the transition period. they thought through very carefully how they would appeal to him and presented various proposals of things the saudis could do and buy from the united states. they planted the idea of president trump visiting riyad if you recall he did as first trip of president. this was a very well thought out, carefully plotted effort to single out this son-in-law of the president who the saudis felt would be very influential and bring hill m on board early and get his support, throw his support behind mohamed bin
the white house version of events has fallen apart when it comes to the vice president. if lying to mike pence is a shocking, firing offense, that ought to be the reason to fire all of those people from the transition and white house. but it wasn t. they say that was only a shocking firing event for mike flynn. that doesn t make any sense. i mean, choose your own adventure. vice president mike pence is totally truthful and everyone lied to him running the transition and all these people that answered to him and lied to him and allowed hill m to tell public lies and he doesn t mind that. never bothered him. or the vice president told the same lies to cover up for flynn that everybody else did, too. in which case, why? why did he do that? and why did all these other senior members of the white house staff tell lies to cover up what mike flynn did when they knew otherwise?