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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Trump is acquitted forever. If Nancy doesn’t repent from her support of baby killing and receiving the Sacrament unworthily, she won’t be worrying about Impeachment. She’ll have other matters to ponder- forever.
He wore a suit while in that position....NEVER a uniform. That was a costume for the public and it irked a few in the military.
It was always so that he would return to the defense department.
Andrew and his brother who had an adjacent office were escorted out for security reasons.
FINALLY!!!
Is he REALLY a US CITIZEN?? NO ONE should have dual citizenship...except Israelis, maybe.
As for the Vindman boys, they’re not being fired, they’re being reassigned.....
The Pacific Northwest is NOT totally RED.
Seattle & Portland are very BLUE & Oregon in general is blue, west of the Cascades. Only rural eastern Oregon is Red.
I pray and hope that is indeed the case.
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I keep hearing this term -- "Durham report".
I don't want a Durham report. I want Durham indictments.
Reports have a nasty way of being shuffled aside...
What do people expect him to do?
If Clinton had removed from position those who had betrayed him nobody would have said boo.
Immaterial, to most libtards since they "think' the CINC is illegitimate, chain of command is meaningless.
Peelowsea ‘is not responsible for conditions in SF They elect mayors and city council members to run the city and they get the government they elect.’
She and they are from the same cockroach infested nest...
Try again...
All she can do is screech and recoil in fear and anger.
She’s powerless now when it comes to Donald J. Trump.
She’s taken her shot and missed.
He’s grown stronger, while she becomes impotent and soon to be replaced by Speaker McCarthy.
If you cut the feds by 80%+, you wouldn’t have to worry about a balanced budget like in the 1800’s when the size of the feds were around 5% of the GDP. The IRS would become a storefront and if there was a deficit it would be relatively minuscule. (But remember, FORCING a balanced budget is ALWAYS and excuse for the Left to raise taxes. Higher taxes are MUCH WORSE than a government deficit.)
I agree that actually draining the swamp - dismantling most of the totalitarian feds and putting it back into its constitutional cage - is a seemingly impossible task. Only the Divine Providence of God Almighty can make that happen. I’m looking for Him to miraculously do that just like in 1776 when He miraculously brought victory to a bunch of rag-tag colonists over the greatest military power on earth.
Excuse me, I was saying that you should try again if you dare to make anyone believe that Sondland isn’t a creature of the DC swamp.
I'm sorry, I was using the old fashioned terminology of Red meaning Red Communist instead of True Blue American the way it was before the Mainstream Media reversed the colors on the election maps to confuse, obfuscate and thwart identification of their true Communist Colors.
Why and how did we ever accept their defining US? Just one more radical Saul Alinsky subversive revolutionary tactic.
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