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”…
Amazing that soft, pudgy twit has airborne ranger badges.
How much do they cost on Ebay?
Ratcliffe was outstanding. It’s becoming more clear as the days pass and the coup continues why McConnell and the GOP Senate blocked his appointment to DNI. The GOP are no less than co-conspirators in the ongoing coup along with the House Democrats and Deep State spies.
Pretty clear how we are supposed to handle coup traitors. Especially those in the military.
Maybe what Sundance says about a complicit military is true, maybe not. I don’t know that we should accept no public response as a bad response. Who knows what’s going on off camera?
I like Sundance, but he gets hyperbolic on occasion. This is wild conjecture. Trump has many enemies, some in the military, no doubt, but I don’t buy that the military is now on the coup wagon.
It is FAR beyond obvious by now that “Official Washington” cannot handle anyone not on the “team” looking into its actions over the past 60 years or so. Or more.
The corruption is obviously massive. So huge that “the folks back home” would be waiting with pitchforks for their “representatives.”
“Official Washington” needs to be dismantled. If some private entity had the sort of monopoly “Official Washington” has, “Official Washington” would have long ago broken it into a thousand pieces.
The Halfrican was busy purging the officer corps of patriots, supplanting them with Resistance stooges.
I agree! Texas' 4th district has a hound dog for a congressman. He was right on track!
PING
The words Coup d'état 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.
Yep, Ratcliffe nailed Vindman to the floor.
If you didn't have the right politics you'd have a hard time getting promoted if an Officer. Then you'd be forced out because of high year tenure (20 years or so). But if you had the right politics things were much easier.
Ping FYI
Any O-5 and above from 2008 on MUST be suspect. How many McRavens are there in the Five Sides Square?
One of the factors in the success of the United States is that the Officer's Corps swore allegiance to the Constitution, not a political party, until Obama. These f%ckers are depending on a compliant military to back their overthrow...
Cut off their epaulets, break their swords, and stand them against a wall...
Freepers love to opine with very little knowledge which works since their hearts are in the right place usually
But in this case they need to know all they can learn about this from late 2015 when Podesta and Mook planted these seeds with Obama team and IC and hired Fusion GPS head Simpson who used Steele as a dummy to author a Fusion GPS dossier after the first Proto Dossiers had worked so well
It’s been a running misinformation war ever since and a paper coup
The coordination with major media is breathtaking
John McCain...May your fat daughter hang from her own petard
Major hero on our side Devin Nunes
Barr maybe...
Let’s hope
John Solomon, Sara Carter and Maria Bartiromo
What sucks is GOPe knows what’s going on and does very little
They will get a long rope when this plays out
It’s all most deserve
Please inform yourself way beyond Sean and Levins sound bites
This is far worse than most realize
You can look at this guy...and tell he ain’t shit
Keep praying for our nation.
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