And too many Bush appointments.
Posted on 02/07/2020 7:16:38 PM PST by USA Conservative
Army Lt. Col Alexander Vindman was escorted off the White House grounds and dismissed from the National Security Council Friday afternoon, according to reports. His twin brother Army Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, who served as a lawyer on the NSC was also fired and left with Alex.
President Trump continued to drain the swamp as of this Friday he fired Gordon Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union, just hours after firing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council official who testified at House impeachment proceedings against the commander-in-chief.
Like Vindman, Sondland testified at the impeachment proceedings.
“I was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately as United States Ambassador to the European Union,” Sondland said in a statement, according to The New York Times.
The dual firings came days after Trump was acquitted in the Senate on charges that he abused his power by exerting pressure on Ukraine to open up politically charged investigations.
Both Sondland and Vindman testified about the interactions they had in spring and summer 2019 regarding the Trump administration’s policy toward Ukraine.
Nancy Pelosi decided to give her statement about the latest removal in Trump’s administration:
Lieutenant Colonel Vindman has proven to be an American patriot: on the battlefield when he earned a Purple Heart, and in the House trial when he spoke truth to power. His brave testimony showed America that right still matters.
“President Trump is impeached forever. The shameful firing of Colonel Vindman was a clear and brazen act of retaliation that showcases the President’s fear of the truth. The President’s vindictiveness is precisely what led Republican Senators to be accomplices to his cover-up. The firing of this patriotic soldier is a sad and shameless loss for America’s security.
“History will remember Lieutenant Colonel Vindman as an American hero.”
The moves come just two days after Trump was acquitted in the Senate on two articles of impeachment brought by the House last year over his dealings with Ukraine.
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ALL of the people from the Kenyanesian Usurpation should have been escorted out on Monday after Inauguration Day at the latest.
but we could cut govt like eliminating the dept of education for one.....stop filling govt positions...slim the work force way down and CUT TAXES to the bone so the swamp critters can't steal it....
and make it mandatory to have a balanced budget...
And too many Bush appointments.
Don't speak prematurely. He's the Chief Law Enforcement Officer in the Land. If she violated the law by tearing up the SOTU speech and the House fails to act, he might, having authority to safeguard the nation from domestic enemies of the Constitution, have the authority to remove her from office.
...and then reimburse Mexico for their portion of the wall along Ca using funds from her District.
Dream on, swamp thing. The Swamp Drainer in Chief is not in the business of repopulating the swamp with the things he's gone to all the trouble to drain out of it, but in making sure they NEVER return!
Vindman needs to face UCMJ action for what he did.
Trump is finally being Trump. “You’re fired.”
Sondland isn’t a creature of the DC swamp, and labeling him as such is a misnomer.
The real problem in the Trump administration are the repeated poor hiring choices...almost as if there is a life long Democrat involved in making them.
Is Nancy going to try impeaching hm for this? Does she think she has say over who he employs in the White House or who represents him as ambassador?
Recall as in bring him home... he’s done jim
We get to do that. In November.
Personally I think Trump’s been busy reviewing top candidates at DoJ (including FBI, CIA, etc.), not just the NSC and State Dept posts....
That is why we haven’t heard any firing from that department. It also could be the long-waited Durham report.
But I think Durham report will be just like Horowitz report, lots of noises but buried in details (who would read > 1000 page report?) and McCabe/Wray/The Ohrs/Strzok/Page/etc. etc. still get to ‘retire on cushy gubmint pension’. I hope not, but after so many promises, I am not holding my breath.
I thought it was illegal to be in the military with dual citizenship, let alone officer with security clearance wtf. The Army made me renounce mine at MEps
Trump should call pelosi to inform her that military planes have been restricted to military use and personnel until further notice.
Oh, I misunderstood that. I thought he was saying he was going to get his job back. But no, he’s done, indeed.
Thanks!
I would like a list from that bitch on everybody she considers a patriot.
Vindman can work for the Ukraine and be the Minister of Defense — a job they offered him three times. Pelosi can practice tearing up more paper and eventually phone books (world class).
> “President Trump is impeached forever.”
WRONG. Wg=hen the GIO takes vack the Hiouse, and they most certainly will, there will be an immediate call to RESCIND the phony impeachment because it was based on nothing more than partisan malice. The impeachment of Donald J. Trump will be forever marked in history with an asterisk, signifying that a petty incompetent schemer like Pelosi dragged her faction under the threat of pulling their campaign support unless they voted to impeach Donald J. Trump who did noting wrong.
> “The shameful firing of Colonel Vindman was a clear and brazen act of retaliation that showcases the President’s fear of the truth.”
WRONG. Vindman was never decorated nor awarded for valor or bravery in combat. He was decorated for combat wounds suffered from the hands of an IED.
Men and women in our armed forces receive purple heart awards to remind us all that war is dangerous and people in it are putting their lives at risk for us. Fair enough, but then there is a selfless character that receives higher awards and Vindman never qualified for such awards. To embellish his presence as a great hero warrior insults true heroes and patriots..
> “The President’s vindictiveness is precisely what led Republican Senators to be accomplices to his cover-up.”
WRONG. The Presidient is not vindictive, he is fair and firm in his dealings, and he needs people to assist him, not people who insist on plotting against him..
> “The firing of this patriotic soldier is a sad and shameless loss for America’s security.”
WRONG. Vindman got himself a government job during the shamed Obama years and then hung over to the nnew Administration thinking he was somehow important because “he had been there longer” What a crock. This incompetent fellow nver wore a military uniform to his White House office until he was told to don his best uniform as a part of a failed coup.
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> “History will remember Lieutenant Colonel Vindman as an American hero.”
WRONG. They will remember his persona of self ascribed superiority.
He is off to a good start, but he needs sooooo much help in weeding out all of the swamp critters. Such a target rich environment, so little time. Seriously, some of these people need to be tried by we the people . Nobody can blame President Trump for the sentences of the juries or Grand Juries. Let us deplorables help you, President Trump!
We need Rick Perry to be put in charge of Department Demolition. He sounds like a great man for that job.
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