Posted on 11/09/2019 10:06:07 PM PST by Bratch
The word “coup” shifted to a new level of formalized meaning last week when members of the political resistance showed up to remove President Trump wearing military uniforms.
Not only did U.S. military leadership remain silent to the optics and purpose, but in the testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman he admits to giving instructions to ignore the instructions from a sitting United States President.
In the absence of push-back from the Joint Chiefs, from this moment forth, the impression is tacit U.S. military support for the Vindman objective.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council official, testified before congressional committees conducting an impeachment inquiry on October 29, wearing a full military uniform.
To date there has been no visible comment from U.S. military sanctioning Lt. Col. Vindman for his decision; or correcting the impression represented by Vindman’s military appearance. The willful blindness is concerning, but it gets much worse.
Beyond the debate about the optics of the “coup“, within the testimony of Lt. Col Vindman, the witness readily admits to understanding the officially established policy of the President of The United States (an agreement between President Trump and President Zelenskyy), and stunningly admits that two weeks later he was giving instructions to his Ukrainian counterpart to ignore those instructions and policies.
The coup against President Donald Trump went from soft, to hard. Consider…
The testimony from Lt. Col. Vindman is available here. [SCRIBD pdf below]
Borrowing from Roscoe B Davis, here are some highlights:
Representative John Ratcliffe begins deconstructing Lt. Col Vindman, while his arrogant attorneys begin trying to interfere with the questioning.
This next section is very interesting, and very important.
Congressman John Ratcliffe begins questioning Vindman from the perspective of an Article 92 violation, coupled with an Article 88 violation. President Trump, is Lt. Col Vindman’s superior. President Trump sets the foreign policy.
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:
A reminder from the CIA “whistleblower” attorney. January 30th, 2017, ten days after President Trump’s inauguration: the “coup has started”…
What’s going on “off camera” might well be much worse than what’s going on on camera. That has definitely been the case for over three years.
It’ll be a pleasure taking their toys away from them.
Vindman said he was merely "concerned" about Trump's policy and downplayed himself perceiving it as illegal.
So, Vindman then goes to Schiff to bitch about it because he was merely "concerned" about Trump's policy?
I think what actually happened is, Schiff got wind of Vindman's gripes and it was SCHIFF WHO TURNED VINDMAN INTO A "WHISTLEBLOWER" WHICH MEANS VINDMAN DID NOT WRITE HIS OWN DAMN COMPLAINT!
Lock Schiff AND Vindman up in the same cell and throw away the key. They would probably enjoy each other's company, SEXUALLY.
Pray and be prepared to use violence
That’s all they respect and fear
People need to hang. Plain and simple. This all boils down to people need to hang.
The GOP are deer in the headlights.
They thought they could oppose Trump, but after he got even stronger many of them sort of came over to his side. Even though they no longer oppose him, they refuse to defend him because they are hoping the Rats take him down.
So they have just stepped aside, like the offensive line in THE LONGEST YARD.
I believe the Senate Republicans will come through, though, when the chips are down. They know their careers — and the very existence of the Republican Party — depends on it.
Remember how frightened they were of the Tea Party movement? That was child’s play.
Nothing I have ever experienced had made me ashamed of being an Army Officer. Until now.
I have not followed military staffing for a while, but, a year ago, most of Trump's top generals were appointed by Obama.
Heck, Trump's Chief of Staff, General John Kelly, got his third and fourth star from Obama within a 16 month period.
Staffing at DOJ, FBI, Intelligence Community, State, and Homeland Security is (or recently was) the same sick story.
Trump has only himself to blame - he could have fired everybody his first day in office.
If Congress refused to confirm his nominees, so what?
Just leave the jobs unfilled, and make every agency and department trek over to the Oval Office to get executive decisions.
“So they have just stepped aside, like the offensive line in THE LONGEST YARD.”
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Good movie - but a bad comparison for the GOP and Trump.
If you recall, in the film the reason the Off Line let the rushers in to get Burt Reynold’s QB character is because he had agreed to throw the game and the team was POed about that - they wanted to win.
That is, the Off Line was acting honorably and he wasn’t (though Reynold’s character did change his mind and went on to win the game).
Who was Vindman working for? If the answer is Ukraine, then he is guilty of some type of sedition charge up to treason (because the communists had tremendous influence in the new Ukraine government of Zelensky despite his election as the new president of Ukraine.
Looks like American communists also had their fingers in both Ukraine and Assange/Manning/WikiLeaks, and possibly the DNC servergate scandal.
Might just be a “real” Russian collusion plot by the Deep State and many of its component parts from the FBI/DOJ. DNI, CIA, State Dept. to the old Obama White House structure (Jarrett, Rice, Powers, Creamer, Rhodes, and Obama himself, plus Hillary and Kerry (both traitors on their own).
No Jeff, their existence depends on supporting the president should the House impeach him. This coup will not be left unanswered should it succeed for the Deep State.
Any RINOs that side with the Rats will be the very first to go in CWII. ALL OF THEM. . Plus Ryan at Fox, and then every single Democrat still living.
We are making lists, and checking them twice... Umbrella Corporation will not survive.
We currently need approximately 515 scaffolds to be built in DC.
Yet I get told i’m nuts here when I say I don’t fully trust the Rs in the senate to do the right thing.
My HOPE is that there are not 20 who will do the wrong thing.
I would LOVE to see them all stand together for Trump.
It’s too bad the haji missed him
maybe somebody needs to take up where they left off
And a large number of Obamaphiles were purged by Joe Dunford before Trump even came on the scene as I observed it from my profession during Obama’s last years. Trump is the representative of a coalition of nationalist patriots who are working hard to strip this nation of this insidious globalist NWO cancer. The active and reservists military is largely pro-Trump by a huge margin. Vindman is going to pay severely for his treason and shall be dealt with accordingly
I concur and also take into consideration that in all conflicts there in info warfare which is meant to confuse the enemy. I believe Sundance has engaged in that role on several occasions.
+1000
It’s guys like Vinman that the term “fragging” came about in Vietnam.
Bttt
The purge of Constitutionalist military senior leaders started under President Clinton, GWB did nothing to stop it and obama took it to another level.
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