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Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman Will Be Transferred From the White House
NYT ^ | Feb. 7, 2020, 11:34 a.m. ET | By Maggie Haberman and Peter Baker

Posted on 02/07/2020 8:44:50 AM PST by Red Badger

The White House plans to transfer Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, whose testimony in the House impeachment hearings infuriated President Trump and his allies, out of the National Security Council staff as early as Friday, two senior administration officials said.

It was not immediately clear where he would next be sent within the Defense Department, one administration official said, but Colonel Vindman is on active duty in the military.

The action comes just days after Mr. Trump was acquitted in a Senate impeachment trial that turned in part on the testimony of Colonel Vindman and other administration officials who described a campaign to pressure Ukraine into announcing corruption investigations into former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other Democrats.

Mr. Trump made clear as recently as Thursday his personal antipathy for Colonel Vindman, who oversaw American policy toward Ukraine on the National Security Council staff and whose twin brother, Yevgeny Vindman, works as a lawyer for the N.S.C. “Lieutenant Colonel Vindman and his twin brother, right?” the president said at one point during a rambling hourlong venting session at the White House. “We had some people that — really amazing.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexandervindman; backstabber; burisma; deepstate; ericciaramella; goodriddance; nsc; trumpnsc; ukraine; vindman; yourefired
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To: Red Badger
The National Security council needs to be done away with.
What purpose does it serve? Apparently it is now an Obama/
Democrat Party outpost to spy on and subvert
President Trump's administration.
Trump should fire all of them and fill the NSC positions
with folks loyal to him.
101 posted on 02/07/2020 10:43:25 AM PST by StormEye
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To: StormEye

Are there any decommissioned empty missile silos left? We could stuff him in there with dehydrated food.


102 posted on 02/07/2020 10:45:18 AM PST by combat_boots (God bless Israel and all who protect and defend her. Merry Christmas! In God We Trust!)
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To: StormEye

NatSec Council is being remade...............


103 posted on 02/07/2020 10:45:51 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger

I wonder if Mark Meadows is going to NSC???


104 posted on 02/07/2020 10:52:49 AM PST by Trump Girl Kit Cat (Yosemite Sam raising hell)
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To: NautiNurse
Transfer him to a dark, windowless basement without wireless access, flickering flourescent lights, and a creaking, unbalanced chair.

Here's your office, Vindman...


105 posted on 02/07/2020 10:54:10 AM PST by COBOL2Java (Hillary Clinton: Just like Joe with only half the dementia.)
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To: Levy78

I believe Gitmo is Navy & Marines. Send him to Kandahar, Afghanistan. Maybe he will step on an IED or just get shot.


106 posted on 02/07/2020 10:54:36 AM PST by woodbutcher1963
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To: woodbutcher1963

I believe Gitmo is Navy & Marines. Send him to Kandahar, Afghanistan. Maybe he will step on an IED or just get shot.


no, I mean put him IN Gitmo.


107 posted on 02/07/2020 10:58:26 AM PST by Levy78
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

I think they intend to shrink it..................


108 posted on 02/07/2020 10:58:41 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger

I’d consider building a small, remote office on the WH property for him with a desk and a Jack-in-the-Box on it for him to play with, no phone, TV, radio or computer. All topped off with a surveillance camera.


109 posted on 02/07/2020 11:04:41 AM PST by DPMD (uo)
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To: FlipWilson

Lots of jobs he can do in Iraq—in the back country far from the Green Zone.


110 posted on 02/07/2020 11:17:40 AM PST by Forward the Light Brigade (Into the Jaws of H*ll Onward! Ride to the sound of the guns!)
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To: 2CAVTrooper

I remembered right - he did give ‘contrary’ instruction to Trump ....

REPORT: Lt. Col. Vindman May Soon Be Removed From White House…
https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/02/07/report-lt-col-vindman-may-soon-be-removed-from-white-house/

From link:

This next section is very interesting, and very important.

Congressman John Ratcliffe begins questioning Vindman from the perspective of an Article 92 violation {READ IT}, coupled with an Article 88 violation {READ IT}. President Trump, is Lt. Col Vindman’s superior. President Trump sets the foreign policy.

Any commissioned officer who uses contemptuous words against the President, the Vice President, Congress, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department, the Secretary of Homeland Security, or the Governor or legislature of any State, Commonwealth, or possession in which he is on duty or present shall be punished as a court-martial may direct. [Article 88, UCMJ]

Two weeks after President Trump has established an agreement with Ukraine President Zelenskyy, and established the policy direction therein, Lt. Col. Vindman is now giving contrary instructions to the Ukranian government. Vindman’s lawyer recognizes where the questioning is going and goes absolutely bananas ....


111 posted on 02/07/2020 11:21:06 AM PST by Qiviut (President Trump: defies political gravity - MAGA!)
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To: Red Badger

I vote for United States Disciplinary Barracks.


112 posted on 02/07/2020 11:36:45 AM PST by Lockbox
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To: Red Badger

Transfer this turd to the US councilate in Lagos Nigeria.


113 posted on 02/07/2020 11:56:54 AM PST by Lockbar (What would Vlad the Impailer Do??)
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To: Lockbar

Most anywhere he goes he will be a pariah...................


114 posted on 02/07/2020 11:58:37 AM PST by Red Badger (Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.......... ..)
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To: Red Badger

Oh say can you see....


115 posted on 02/07/2020 2:11:36 PM PST by traumer
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To: Red Badger

GOOD RIDDANCE!!!!


116 posted on 02/07/2020 2:48:42 PM PST by terycarl
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To: Red Badger

How about a court martial?
Then shot.


117 posted on 02/07/2020 3:20:21 PM PST by minnesota_bound (homeless guy. He just has more money....He the master will plant more cotton for the democrat party)
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