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Trump Fires Gordon Sondland Hours After Dismissing Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman
NYSlimes ^ | 2/7/2020 | Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Danny Hakim and Michael S. Schmidt

Posted on 02/07/2020 3:59:49 PM PST by grayboots

President Trump and his aides wasted little time opening a campaign of retribution against those he blames for his impeachment, firing on Friday two of the most prominent witnesses in the inquiry against him barely 48 hours after the Senate acquitted the president.

Emboldened by his victory and determined to strike back, Mr. Trump fired Gordon D. Sondland, the ambassador to the European Union, within hours of the White House dismissing Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, a decorated Iraq war veteran who was a Ukraine expert on the National Security Council. Both officials testified to a House committee about the president’s efforts to pressure Ukraine to help him against his domestic political rivals.

“I was advised today that the president intends to recall me effective immediately as United States Ambassador to the European Union,” Mr. Sondland said in a statement just hours after Colonel Vindman’s dismissal. He expressed gratitude to Mr. Trump “for having given me the opportunity to serve.”

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


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexandervindman; braking; burisma; ericciaramella; europeanunion; goneforever; gordondsondland; impeachment; nsc; sondland; trump; ukraine; vindman; winning; yourefired
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To: frank ballenger

LOL!


161 posted on 02/07/2020 5:11:15 PM PST by BEJ
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To: Cobra64

I didn’t take thing seriously.


162 posted on 02/07/2020 5:11:39 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: Lurker
Drop those hammers Mr. President.

Hard and heavy too! Go Mr. President!

I think I'm celebrating with a cigar tonight and some range time tomorrow with my favorite 9mm, .45acp and my AR-15.

It's going to be a glorious time!

163 posted on 02/07/2020 5:11:54 PM PST by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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To: Alberta's Child

Sondland was Mr. 2+2=4

Jim Jordan turned that into 0 for 3. It was brilliant.


164 posted on 02/07/2020 5:13:13 PM PST by Gahanna Bob
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To: grayboots

Good for President Trump. The next step is to have the bastards dangling on the end of a rope about four feet from the ground.


165 posted on 02/07/2020 5:14:33 PM PST by sport
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To: heavy metal

Oh they’re just going to repeat the same boring attacks using their usual twisted vocabulary on how terrible he is for doing this..becaus emedia thinks if it doesn’t get clearence by Pelosi and her juggernuts then it’s always bad.


166 posted on 02/07/2020 5:15:26 PM PST by caww
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To: grayboots

Is Vindman a US CITIZEN??


167 posted on 02/07/2020 5:16:26 PM PST by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: grayboots
Yea! [Applause]

168 posted on 02/07/2020 5:17:43 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: doosee

Without question.


169 posted on 02/07/2020 5:19:52 PM PST by gov_bean_ counter (Trump didnÂ’t want an AG, he wanted a consigliere.)
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To: grayboots

Winning


170 posted on 02/07/2020 5:22:24 PM PST by TheConservativeParty (MAGA KAG)
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To: dfwgator

LOL!


171 posted on 02/07/2020 5:24:56 PM PST by COUNTrecount ("I've always won, and I'm going to continue to win. And that's the way it is." -- Donald Trump)
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To: grayboots

After next November,...

Go through all of the necessary management steps to fire the corrupt among civil service employees en masse, every one in every department down to the lowest. Then start in the states with employees employed by state offices, or cut the pork strings to those states. Cut federal spending.


172 posted on 02/07/2020 5:25:06 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." - -Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: grayboots

Good. They’re lucky they’re just being “dismissed” and not brought up under charges of treason or sedition.


173 posted on 02/07/2020 5:36:01 PM PST by livius
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To: Sarah Barracuda

Fire the evil Vindman twin, too.


174 posted on 02/07/2020 5:36:45 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: Sans-Culotte

Hopefully Month of...


175 posted on 02/07/2020 5:38:02 PM PST by epluribus_2 (He, had the best mom - ever. my)
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To: grayboots

“Bill, Donald here. How’s the Durham investigation going. Oh. Well, I want it done by next Tuesday and of course I assume there will be indictments. If not, you can go back to private practice and I’ll send Mike Flynn over to see if he can’t move things along.”


176 posted on 02/07/2020 5:42:10 PM PST by technically right
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

Eliminate the security clearances if Brennan and Comey.


177 posted on 02/07/2020 5:45:25 PM PST by gcparent (Justice Brett Kavanaugh)
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To: dfwgator

good call


178 posted on 02/07/2020 5:45:46 PM PST by KC_Conspirator
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To: fieldmarshaldj; Impy; BillyBoy; LS; NFHale; DarthVader

Anyone that wasn’t with The Don from the beginning is a traitor.


179 posted on 02/07/2020 5:51:27 PM PST by GOPsterinMA (I'm with Steve McQueen: I live my life for myself and answer to nobody.)
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To: grayboots

Two more little rats culled from the swamp.


180 posted on 02/07/2020 5:57:44 PM PST by Pirate Ragnar
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