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Schumer: Atkinson, Roosevelt Captain Fired for Speaking Truth to Power
Breitbart.com ^ | 4/4/2020 | Ian Hatchett

Posted on 04/05/2020 10:39:19 AM PDT by rktman

On Saturday’s “CNN Newsroom,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) said that Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson and USS Theodore Roosevelt Commanding Officer Captain Brett Crozier are examples of people the Trump administration fired for speaking the truth.

Schumer said, “There’s all too familiar a pattern in this administration, when you tell the president the truth, you get fired. This guy was a patriot. This guy stood for — our intelligence agencies have done such a wonderful job. … And by politicizing it, dismantling it, not wanting to hear the truth, that’s — since World War II, we have built up this fine, fine agency. And the president is undermining it. When you speak truth to power in this country, Fredricka, when you speak truth to power, you should be a hero. But in this administration, when you speak truth to power, all too often, you get fired. Ask the captain of the aircraft carrier Theodore Roosevelt, ask Col. Vindman, ask other people.”

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TOPICS: Government; Philosophy; US: New York
KEYWORDS: chuckschumer; michaelatkinson; military; newyork; ucmj; upchuckschumer
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News flash schumckee. The military is not a Republic. You step out of the chain of command, you may get the horn. And, wth is "speak truth to power" supposed to mean anyway? Is it like "re-doubling"? "Going forward"? Stoopid verbiage from stoopider people.
1 posted on 04/05/2020 10:39:20 AM PDT by rktman
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To: rktman

Schumer, you were caught talking to an empty chair in the Senate, so I think we can do without your “perspective.”


2 posted on 04/05/2020 10:41:16 AM PDT by conservativepoet
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And yet Trump is expected to work this this walking, talking piece of excrement - not to mention that cow-breasted, vile airhead Pelosi.


3 posted on 04/05/2020 10:41:25 AM PDT by Pravious
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Here's an actual example of speaking truth to power -- Chuck Schumer is a partisan liar who is and always has been unfit for office.

4 posted on 04/05/2020 10:41:44 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
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Go home Chuck. They need you there.


5 posted on 04/05/2020 10:42:39 AM PDT by Ouchthatonehurt
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“speak truth to power”

The only “REAL” reason anyone is ever fired.


6 posted on 04/05/2020 10:42:44 AM PDT by DUMBGRUNT
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Fired for Speaking Truth to Power

As the commanding officer of a naval vessel he was the power. Navy Regs repose full responsibility and authority in the CO. It wasn't for him to tell others they need to tell him what to do. He needed to use the vast resources at his command to do everything possible for his ship and his men. Instead of doing that, he whined, and apparently got himself infected in the process.

7 posted on 04/05/2020 10:42:57 AM PDT by AndyJackson
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corrupt as F deep state


8 posted on 04/05/2020 10:43:47 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Everyone knows Hillary was corrupt, lied, destroyed documents, and influenced witnesses. Rat crime.)
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That settles it for me.

If those two scumbags are backing up that guy, then that guy must be guilty as hell.

Cabal don’t speak up for anyone but cabal.


9 posted on 04/05/2020 10:44:58 AM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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And possibly “allowed” his “request” to be accessed by someone in the media. Stepping outside the chain of command can be hazardous to your career.


10 posted on 04/05/2020 10:46:15 AM PDT by rktman ( #My2ndAmend! ----- Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?)
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speaking truth to power.....that has to be about single dumbest and useless phrase I hear from the Left.


11 posted on 04/05/2020 10:46:41 AM PDT by ealgeone
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NO ! He was fired for revealing the Combat Readiness Status of one of America’s biggest warships. He should be prosecuted for releasing classified information.


12 posted on 04/05/2020 10:46:48 AM PDT by Newbomb Turk
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How’s YOUR state doin, Schmuck?


13 posted on 04/05/2020 10:47:44 AM PDT by glock rocks (orange man bad-ass)
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“I’ve known you for many years, but I never knew how bad a Senator you are for the state of New York, until I became President.” - President Donald J. Trump in a White House letter to Schumer


14 posted on 04/05/2020 10:51:38 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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ask Col. Vindman, ask other people.”
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Next chuckles will be ORDERING PDJT to heed di Blasio and Cuomo, two people with cool heads on their shoulders.

One would think chuck has an axe to grind with the Prez<: <: <:.

Chuck has been and will be a no good piece of Schiff who will cause you great bodily damage if one tries to get between him and a microphone or camera.


15 posted on 04/05/2020 10:52:01 AM PDT by xrmusn (6/98"HRC is the Grandmother that lures Hansel & Gretel to the pot")
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The only power it’s permissible to stand up to in the military is the enemy. Otherwise it just doesn’t work.


16 posted on 04/05/2020 10:52:35 AM PDT by Spok
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Who put the crew ashore in a foreign country amid the pandemic?


17 posted on 04/05/2020 10:52:41 AM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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The truth Schmucky? How you RATs were behind the Steele Dossier and fabricated evidence against the president in your fake impeachment! Truth to power Schmucky? How about the Democrat Party’s long standing and continuing financial ties to despots and oligarchs around the world including Russia, Saudi Arabia and China! No Schmucky. You guys can’t handle the REAL truth because it will destroy all of you in The Swamp!


18 posted on 04/05/2020 10:53:24 AM PDT by dowcaet
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Schumer is the biggest liar that has ever served in the Senate. Yep, worse than Reid.


19 posted on 04/05/2020 10:54:12 AM PDT by jimfree (My19 y/o granddaughter continues to have more quality exec experience than an 8 year Obama.)
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Based on the evidence to date he did indeed step outside of the chain of command. He also made the job of the Chicoms and Russians that much easier by revealing how easy it is to put an American aircraft carrier out of commission. He potentially put not only the entire fleet at risk but our national security.


20 posted on 04/05/2020 10:54:16 AM PDT by SubVet72
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