Posted on 06/18/2020 11:00:40 AM PDT by where's_the_Outrage?
An Army officers promotion is in jeopardy over what some officials fear could be White House retaliation for his role in last years impeachment inquiry, raising the possibility that President Trump might again intervene in military affairs, according to officials familiar with the matter.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who received a Purple Heart for his actions in Iraq and later served as a White House aide on European affairs, is among hundreds of officers selected to be promoted to full colonel this year. Such promotions are typically signed off on by Army and then Pentagon leaders before moving to the White House and the Senate for a confirmation vote. The list is now with a Pentagon personnel office.
Multiple government officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to address personnel matters, have voiced concern, however, that the White House could strike Vindmans name once it is conveyed, effectively sanctioning him for testimony he gave under subpoena to House lawmakers.
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Since he has a problem with authority figures, and thinks he’s smarter than every other officer in the Army, he shouldn’t be given a higher rank of authority over anyone. He should actually be demoted to Private...not even the rank of PFC.
Strange that the article posits that the commander in chief is interfering in the military.
I was thinking the same thing. We are in a cold civil war. They should read up on what Lincoln did with generals who were uncooperative. And participating in a coup is being uncooperative.
“How many conservatives under Obama were denied promotion or even forced to resign for political retaliation?
Dont care anymore - this is war”
It was all fine with the left wing nuts when Obama did it. Honestly, I am shocked that Vindman isn’t guarding an important installation in remote alaska.
Transfer him to Mogadishu.
HES A COUP PLOTTER!!! HE SHOULD BE IN PRISON!
I agree!
He got his feeeewings hurt.
Stitches for snitches. In most businesses, he wouldn’t still have a job.
This guy hasn’t been in the real Army for 10 years. Put him in charge of a brigade and he’d get people killed. What was the Board smoking?
Effing traitor to America. And the Army did nothing about him spying on the president, and undermining him on behalf of foreigners. And his purple heart is a John Kerry Purple Heart.
They act like the fat little turd is Audie Murphy.
Oh, well, sucks to be him.
Obviously, Dorkbama the Muslim eunuch quota boy presidential pretender NEVER let politics get in the way of the promotions of - shall we say - underwhelming generals, would he?
How dare the President “interfere” with the military he is the Commander in Chief of. Next thing you know he will direct the FBI or US Forest Service what to do.
Did he get a splinter in his finger like John Fn Kerry??
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I’m thinking the splinter Kerry received was a piece of rice embedded in his butt from a blast from a Kerry thrown grenade
i’d prefer a court marshall
Demote him to PFC, then give him KP..
.those dishes aren’t gonna wash themselves.
Normally I would defend the army fellow’s speaking out. But the D-Pelousy-Schitt-Nadler “impeachment” circus was SO false, so evil, so deceitful...
that anyone involved in it should NOT be permitted to stay on the taxpayer’s payroll. We are hoping to see the Swamp Draining on a full scale, SOOOOON!
“the commander in chief is interfering in the military” Four co-authors and not one of them knew that the president by his role as Commander-in-chief is not interfering in the military, that is his job. The compost is a pathetic excuse for journalism.
How bout they bust his ass and hang him for treason.
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