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.”
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Glad to hear the creep is gone.
or....
Vindman paid by DOD as a real POS (my version)
And it was the great pleasure of the President to kick Sondland's ugly azz out on the pavement. (my version)
Fire ALL 0bama hires!
Wait. Is Mr Sondland fired fired, or is he just presuming he is fired?
And what is it called when an officer leaks info from his high command and seeks to injure the person and policy of the commander in chief?
If he wears the uniform, he isn’t Civil Service. He’s an officer in the DoD and perhaps past tense.
BTW, since nobody knows who the whistleblower is, POTUS could release the majority of personnel in the office and still not be guilty of violating the rights of any whistleblower.
“It was my assumption”.
Barzini is dead.
So is Phillip Tattaglia. Moe Greene. Stracci. Cuneo.
Today I settled all family business.
Mr Vindman would look sharp as a mess cook in Greenland.
I wanna know how this guy ever got into the military and was granted a security clearance. He’s from the USSR back when it was the USSR. I’ll go out on the limb with my political un-correctness. My friend in Nuclear Power School was dismissed for having too many traffic tickets in high school.
Vindman’s twin brother still serves in the WH. He is suspected of colluding with Bolton to leak parts of his manuscript under review.
Something “there” is still in play as removing the Vindman twin would add fuel to any “obstruction” charges.
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Laura Ingram said on her show tonight that both Vindman and his twin brother were removed from the WH.
Wyatt Trump’s vendetta ride.
“So run, you cur! Run! Tell all the other curs the law’s comin’! You tell ‘em I’’m coming and hell’s coming with me, you hear? Hell’s coming with me!”
Why do you want to pollute Alaska?
I agree. If an enlisted soldier under him did the same things to Vindman there is no doubt in my mind that he would fry the hell out of them.
Cleaning out the rats.
President Volodymyr Zelensky and First Lady Olena Zelenska with U.S. Secretary of Energy Rick Perry and the U.S. delegation attending the inauguration, which included U.S. Special Representative for Ukraine Negotiations Kurt Volker, U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon D. Sondland, the National Security Council’s Director for European Affairs Alexander Vindman and Deputy Chief of Mission for the U.S. Embassy in Ukraine Joseph Pennington. http://www.ukrweekly.com/uwwp/president-zelensky-addresses-heads-of-foreign-delegations/
Thank you sir for your service. My son, (3 tour Iraqi war
veteran, 10 years of service), said the eexact same thing.
dfwgator wrote:
““Today I settle all family business.””
First thing that came to mind when I read the headline & excerpt.
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