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Trump Fires Gordon Sondland Hours After Dismissing Impeachment Witness Alexander Vindman
NYSlimes ^ | 2/7/2020 | Peter Baker, Maggie Haberman, Danny Hakim and Michael S. Schmidt

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.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexandervindman; braking; burisma; ericciaramella; europeanunion; goneforever; gordondsondland; impeachment; nsc; sondland; trump; ukraine; vindman; winning; yourefired
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To: kaehurowing

"Hello, Mitt!"

61 posted on 02/07/2020 4:13:36 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: grayboots

FIRING WEEK! This is good!

Needs to become a weekly event.


62 posted on 02/07/2020 4:13:38 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Trump Girl Kit Cat

West Tennessee is nice.


63 posted on 02/07/2020 4:14:04 PM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: Paladin2; All

Yup. Wray is a snake and few see through his charade. He should have ripped through his dept. with an axe and a machete a year ago.


64 posted on 02/07/2020 4:14:16 PM PST by Cobra64 (Common sense isnÂ’t common anymore.)
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To: Paladin2

I despise Wray, but this is taking care of the Impeachment thingee.

Patience, all in good time for the corrupt, deranged, vindictive DEEP STATE.

I’m sure his day will come...


65 posted on 02/07/2020 4:14:19 PM PST by Maris Crane
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To: DoughtyOne

Its publicly available to use.


66 posted on 02/07/2020 4:14:43 PM PST by Candor7 ((Obama Fascism)http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2009/05/barack_obam_the_quintessentia_1.html))
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To: grayboots

President Trump should fire every US attorney in the DOJ if he did not appoint them. Every damned one of them.


67 posted on 02/07/2020 4:14:51 PM PST by wildcard_redneck (If the Trump Administration doesn't prosecute the coup plotters he loses the election in 2020)
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To: grayboots

Hopefully there are a lot more to come, though many of the traitors were fired or quit over the past few months to avoid being fired.


68 posted on 02/07/2020 4:14:56 PM PST by ETCM
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To: lodi90

Sondland was trying to save his bacon. His initial testimony was favorable to POTUS. He was obviously threatened with financial ruin for himself and his wife’s business if he did not play ball for Team Impeachment.


But in the end, his testimony was piffle. Assumptions. No claim of knowing of a crime. Was there something I missed there?


69 posted on 02/07/2020 4:15:01 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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To: grayboots

Isn’t he the clown whom Shitty had take the stand and Trump’s Lawyers got him to admit he had no first hand knowledge of Trump wrong doing but ASSUMED Trump did something wrong.

JOKE


70 posted on 02/07/2020 4:15:06 PM PST by DAC21 ( and Naflet)
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To: grayboots

A shout out and thanks to the deep state for identifying themselves during the failed impeachment attempt.


71 posted on 02/07/2020 4:15:17 PM PST by taxcontrol (Stupid should hurt - dad's wisdom)
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To: grania

your coup all belong to me


72 posted on 02/07/2020 4:15:25 PM PST by urbanpovertylawcenter (the law and poverty collide in an urban setting and sparks fly)
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To: lepton
I must have missed actual wrongdoing on his part

Making a mess with his assumptions!

73 posted on 02/07/2020 4:15:54 PM PST by Right Wing Assault (Kill-googl,TWTR,FCBK,NYT,WaPo,Hwd,CNN,NFL,BLM,CAIR,Antfa,SPLC,ESPN,NPR,NBA,ARP)
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To: grayboots

Presumption or firsthand knowledge?


74 posted on 02/07/2020 4:15:59 PM PST by kabar
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To: Sans-Culotte

You’re fired!!!


75 posted on 02/07/2020 4:16:44 PM PST by kabar
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To: Candor7

Just kidding. I was sure it was.

If I thought it was yours, I would have given it a pass for using it online.


76 posted on 02/07/2020 4:16:46 PM PST by DoughtyOne (Time to up our FR Monthlies by 5-10%. You'll < hardly miss it and it will help.)
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To: grayboots

I dun goofed.
77 posted on 02/07/2020 4:17:48 PM PST by conservative98
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To: Repeal The 17th

A campaign of accountability.


78 posted on 02/07/2020 4:17:56 PM PST by kabar
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To: kaehurowing

“Go in peace.” Yeah, buddy...


79 posted on 02/07/2020 4:18:00 PM PST by Billthedrill
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To: grayboots

If I were Trump, I’d go scorched earth on all those scumbags!!!


80 posted on 02/07/2020 4:18:05 PM PST by bantam
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