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Trump Taps D.C. Lawyer Who Vetted Palin for VP Search
NBC News ^ | May 20, 2016 | Kelly O'Donnell

Posted on 05/20/2016 2:58:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet

Donald Trump has hired the same D.C. power lawyer who vetted Sarah Palin in 2008 to conduct the legal review of his potential running mate.

NBC News confirms that A.B. Culvahouse, a partner in the firm O'Melveny & Myers, will lead the process of sifting through financial, legal and other background materials submitted by potential candidates before Trump finalizes his choice for second-in-command.

Trump personally met Culvahouse Wednesday in New York after the Trump campaign reached out to at least two DC-based law firms in an effort to find the best counsel for the job.

After John McCain made a last-minute choice to add Palin to his vice presidential search in 2008, Culvahouse was left with a matter of days to vet the Alaska governor. Palin was widely seen as a fatally flawed vice presidential candidate after past scandals and a lack of message discipline quickly became clear during McCain's general election bid....

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TOPICS: Campaign News; Parties
KEYWORDS: 2nddivisionvet; crap; palin; trump; trumpvp; trumpvpsearch; veepstakes; vetting; vicepresident; vp; vpsearch
Yeah, that's why McCain lost. Is Kelly related to Nicole Wallace?
1 posted on 05/20/2016 2:58:04 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Palin was widely seen as a fatally flawed vice presidential candidate after past scandals and a lack of message discipline quickly became clear during McCain's general election bid....

What past scandal came to light about Palin during the campaign? What did I miss?

2 posted on 05/20/2016 3:04:27 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin, past scandals and inability to stay on message, so that is the latest bull crap Palin bashing shtick brought us by Pravda USA.

I really hate our lying alphabet media.


3 posted on 05/20/2016 3:04:35 PM PDT by A message
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To: CaptainK

I assume they mean her daughter’s pregnancy.


4 posted on 05/20/2016 3:06:36 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; KC_Lion
Palin was widely seen as a fatally flawed vice presidential candidate after past scandals and a lack of message discipline quickly became clear during McCain's general election bid.

As long as the No Body Cares News kids keep churning out this pablum, all is right with the world.

Now, if they changed their tune and began to issue Palin news without the obligatory pre-written and rehearsed swipes at her, I might begin to surmise that something had truly been shaken in their quarter of the American TV medium.

As of today, though, No Body Counts on NBC News anymore.
5 posted on 05/20/2016 3:10:45 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

NBC’s Kelly MacDonald had a farm-O is meaner and bitchier than twenty Kelly Mayguns.


6 posted on 05/20/2016 3:15:11 PM PDT by Resettozero
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To: Tax-chick

She didn’t hide the fact about her daughter’s pregnancy. She told them up front.


7 posted on 05/20/2016 3:16:37 PM PDT by CaptainK (...please make it stop. Shake a can of pennies at it.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Plain saved McCains butt from a worse defeat


8 posted on 05/20/2016 3:35:05 PM PDT by stocksthatgoup (GOPe/MSM - "When we want your opinion, we will give it to youGo to trumps websites look at issues an)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Should have hired Dick Cheney!! He came up with a GREAT one!


9 posted on 05/20/2016 3:38:45 PM PDT by Ann Archy (ABORTION....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin was the only big positive on the ticket. GO SARAH GO


10 posted on 05/20/2016 3:44:50 PM PDT by Parley Baer
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To: CaptainK

Iirc, it was not known until to the public until the crazies started claiming that Bristol, rather than Sarah, was Trig’s mother. Then they pointed out that Bristol could not have given birth to Trig because she was pregnant with her own child.


11 posted on 05/20/2016 4:24:08 PM PDT by Tax-chick ("We like us the way we are. That makes us real, true friends." ~ The Undead Thread)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

biden’s daughter was on drugs and there is a homo and tranny in the white house with two adopted moroccans.
Trump/Palin !!!!!!!


12 posted on 05/20/2016 4:46:20 PM PDT by biggredd1
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“Yeah, that’s why McCain lost.”

Palin was the only reason I bothered to vote that year.


13 posted on 05/20/2016 5:30:30 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Palin was the only reason why McCain even had a chance. Palin boosted his poll numbers right after he introduced her. They were actually winning until the idiot GWB crashed the economy and basically handed the election BHO on a silver platter. And we have not seen or heard from the idiot since!


14 posted on 05/20/2016 6:02:33 PM PDT by rwoodward ("god, guns and more ammo")
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

What could possibly go wrong...


15 posted on 05/20/2016 9:20:16 PM PDT by Stormy_2021 (... Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts..!)
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To: biggredd1

Now you... you have a poet’s way with words...

Has anyone ever told you that..?


16 posted on 05/20/2016 9:22:01 PM PDT by Stormy_2021 (... Pear Pimples for Hairy Fishnuts..!)
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