Posted on 07/05/2020 11:06:24 AM PDT by John Semmens
Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-Ill) says she will block Senate confirmation of 1,123 senior U.S. Armed Forces promotions unless Defense Secretary Mark Esper agrees to promote Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.
Vindman served on the White House National Security Council and gained fame for testifying in the House impeachment hearings that, in his opinion, Trump was too aggressively pushing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate corruption at the Burisma corporation. Burisma also paid Hunter Biden—son of then Vice-President Joe Biden--$80,000 per month for a "no show" job on the company's Board of Directors. Trump fired Vindman from his White House job four months ago.
Duckworth called Vindman "the most heroic member of this country's armed forces since John Kerry. He courageously went outside of the chain of command and worked with Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Cailf) in the unsuccessful effort to remove Trump from office. It is simply wrong for any Commander in Chief to meddle in routine military matters to block Col. Vindman's advancement."
Esper disagreed with "Sen. Duckworth's attempt to hold up the promotion of more than a thousand deserving officers. It is simply wrong for any member of Congress to inject herself into the process of evaluating which officers to promote at a given time. Lt. Col. Vindman will be treated like any other officer. If, in the judgment of his superior officers, he deserves promotion he will get it. The Senator's attempt to get special treatment for one person is unacceptable interference."
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Why would she screw over Air Force people over not promoting a Army, fat looser like Vinderman....what a evil DemoRat.
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And tammee can phu cough.
Promote the SOB, than screw his lying as...er...Obamahole to the wall for lying and conduct unbecoming an officer.
I’ve seen folks get canned for a lot less than this low IQ loser. (Repetition not needed since he is a liberal.)
There must be some way to get around Sen. Suckworth.
We can easily pass on All of these 1,123 promotions of senior officers. The U.S. military has WAAAAAY more brass than it needs...far more than were needed to win World War II. We need majors as battalion commanders. We don’t need a phalanx of generals. We have too many now.
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