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#ShePersisted » 11 Mar 2017 12:47 pm » wrote: Okay, so for the sake of argument let's assume that the transition lawyer didn't tell Pence.

Flynn wrote an Op-Ed on November 8th (election day) advocating for the extradition of cleric Fetullah Gulen to Turkey.

A few days later, The Daily Caller broke the story that Flynn's consulting firm was lobbying for Turkey.

http://dailycaller.com/2016/11/11/trump ... overnment/

It was also then reported by several other media outlets including, Politico, Bloomberg, the AP and even the Rachel Maddow show on MSNBC.

And on November 18th, Elijah Cummings wrote a letter to Pence informing him of Flynn's potential conflict of interest.

It strains credulity to believe that all of that got past the transition team which Pence headed, or that members of the team were aware of it, but didn't think that it was important enough to inform Pence.

And as we know, the POTUS is a voracious consumer of the media that he purports to hate so much, but I guess he missed it too, since he said that he also just found out this week that Flynn was being paid to lobby for Turkey.