Posted on 02/13/2020 7:26:01 AM PST by jerod
WASHINGTON National security adviser Robert OBrien said Tuesday evening there had been absolutely no retaliation involved in Fridays departure of Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council, even as President Trump seemed to indicate that the military would look into whether to take disciplinary action against the Army officer.
Vindman, who had been the NSCs director of European affairs, testified in November during the impeachment proceedings against the president, saying he considered Trumps efforts to have Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter inappropriate. With his twin brother, Yevgeny, also an Army lieutenant colonel on the NSC staff, Vindman was escorted from the White House grounds Friday.
Trump said Tuesday that it would be up to the military whether Vindman is disciplined for his role in the impeachment proceedings. But if you look at what happened, theyre going to certainly I would imagine take a look at that, he said.
However, later in the day, OBrien denied that there had been any retribution involved in the ouster of the Vindman brothers. Theres absolutely no retaliation with respect to the Vindmans as far as impeachment goes, OBrien told CBS journalist Margaret Brennan during a question-and-answer session at the Atlantic Council in Washington. But the president is entitled to a staff that he has confidence in and that he believes will execute his policies.
Nonetheless, OBrien then seemed to suggest that the Vindman brothers were engaged in an effort to dictate policy to Trump. Were not some banana republic where lieutenant colonels get together and decide what the policy is or should be, OBrien added...
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Just look at Ambassador Yovanovich’s statement today. She clearly thinks it is improper for the President to set foreign policy. That was her job.
Imagine some Lieutenant colonel dictating to President Clinton what America’s policy should be with regards to a foreign government.
He would be on Clinton’s Dead Enemy’s list.
This is how Muammar Khadafy got started... as a Lt. Colonel who simply took over...
LTC Terry Lakin went to jail simply for questioning the validity of an order.
She has even less cause to complain. Ambassadors serve at the pleasure of the president, period. The Vindman as army officers were simply filling a job. They’ll get thrown back into a temporary pool until either reassigned or retired.
Last I looked “insubordination” is legitimate cause to convene a general court martial.
Trump should cashier all of the Obama appointees - military and civilian.
Uh, it happened and was sanctioned by the most corrupt and inept administration in the country’s history.
Let’s make sure it does not happen again.
Democrats are the enemy.
Of the country.
Period.
Shoulda been done three years ago.
Funny. I thought we were a banana republic after what the military did to jfk.
Just imagine with what regard, she and the others holds the common citizen.
Or Article 134 UCMJ.
And yet, congress threw the book at Ollie North, as though a Marine LTC was making policy about Iran Contra. At the time, my dad commented that anybody who truly believed North was the driving force behind those decisions had no clue how the military works.
We dont have any bananas.
Weve got everything else.
They both should be reassigned to some far-away turd-world $hit hole, far from any liberal media.
Let them dine on goat hoof soup until they retire.
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Nonetheless, OBrien then seemed to suggest that the Vindman brothers were engaged in an effort to dictate policy to Trump.
"Investigative Journalism" at its finest.
Anyone whom the American Left regards as a hero probably isn’t. His heroic status becomes at least suspect.
Also known as mutiny and treason.
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