Posted on 09/14/2020 7:50:12 PM PDT by bitt
Former National Security Council Ukraine expert Alexander Vindman called President Trump Russian President Vladimir Putin’s “useful idiot” in a new interview.
“President Trump should be considered to be a useful idiot and a fellow traveler, which makes him an unwitting agent of Putin,” Vindman told The Atlantic's editor-in-chief, Jeffrey Goldberg.
“They may or may not have dirt on him, but they don’t have to use it,” he said when asked if the Kremlin has material to blackmail Trump. “They have more effective and less risky ways to employ him. He has aspirations to be the kind of leader that Putin is, and so he admires him. He likes authoritarian strongmen who act with impunity, without checks and balances. So he’ll try to please Putin.”
Vindman gained a national profile with his testimony against the president in the House’s impeachment inquiry last year. He retired from the military this July, saying a retaliatory campaign by the president had stalled his promotion to the rank of colonel. White House communications director Alyssa Farah, however, has called the allegation that Vindman was the victim of retaliation “ridiculous and false,” although Trump has tweeted that he was “very insubordinate.”
“The president destroyed my Army career,” Vindman told Goldberg in the interview published Monday. “I’m not crying over spilled milk. I have other things to do.”
The Atlantic interview marks Vindman’s first public remarks against Trump since the impeachment hearings.
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What could possibly go right?
IIRC Vindman was once reprimanded by his CO for disparaging the United States while in the company of a bunch of Russian military types. This was back in the Obama years, probably the first term before the left had totally flipped on Russia. Point being that Vindman knows a little about being a useful idiot.
But I bet you're crying because you were forced to retire, since no one likely wanted to work with you. Didn't like being shunned did you fat boy? That's what happens to traitors. Nobody can trust them to have their back.
So many people just invent things, fresh out of their own imagination about Trump, and then once said, others in the media just repeat it and repeat it and repeat it ad nauseam, KNOWING by that method the sheeple then take it as “truth”.
Vindman , Putin’s Spy
Imagine a poker game involving Alexander Vindmann, John Kerry, Adam Schiff, Jerry Nadler, Steve Cohen, and John Podesta.
Last one still awake at the end of the night wins all the chips.
UCMJ still applies, LTC Vindman!
Court martial time!
In the old days, this guy would have been put in front of a firing squad.
“ “The president destroyed my Army career,...”
.... no, you POS, you destroyed your career. How dare you impugn the President of the United States. Pray to God we never meet.
I wonder if that gig as Defense Secretary of Ukraine is still open. Remember they supposedly offered it to this swine twice
Vindman is another deranged conspiracy nut. It’s depressing that so many neurotics are in positions of authority in government and the military.
Vindman, if you'd been paying attention, it's known as the "Trump Curse". You lose.
Is there any way to demote him to bottle washer?
Best to give him back his red stapler or he’ll put striknyne in the guacamole.
bingo!!....hes yet another scalp on the Trump mantle...heh
landscape is littered with em....
If those guys got together to “play POKER”, NONE of them would DARE fall asleep!!
What a crybaby b**** and he rose in the army?
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