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Impeachment witness Alexander Vindman calls Trump Putin's 'useful idiot'
The Hill ^ | 9/14/2020 | zack budryk

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.

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


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: alexandervindman; fakenews; putin; russiarussiarussia; tds; traitor; trump
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41 posted on 09/14/2020 8:30:38 PM PDT by AnthonySoprano
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42 posted on 09/14/2020 8:31:15 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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43 posted on 09/14/2020 8:34:24 PM PDT by Vendome (I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
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Recall, courts martial, blindfold and wall.


44 posted on 09/14/2020 8:35:48 PM PDT by MileHi (Liberalism is an ideology of parasites, hypocrites, grievance mongers, victims, and control freaks.)
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Something needs to happen to that Vindeman prick


45 posted on 09/14/2020 8:37:50 PM PDT by LeoWindhorse
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"Alexander Vindman calls Trump Putin's 'useful idiot'"


46 posted on 09/14/2020 8:40:05 PM PDT by clearcarbon
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this is what you get when these evil creeps are not prosecuted.....


47 posted on 09/14/2020 8:41:47 PM PDT by cherry
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“Trump broke me”


48 posted on 09/14/2020 8:45:07 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
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And Vindman is certainly Soros’ useful idiot - if he even rises to the level of being useful (he’s got the idiot part down pat).


49 posted on 09/14/2020 8:47:16 PM PDT by Ancesthntr ("The right to buy weapons is the right to be free." A. E. van Vogt, The Weapons Shops of Isher)
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Alexander Semyonvich Vindman, age 45, born in Kiev, Ukranian Soviet Socialist Republic (now Ukrania)

Leni

50 posted on 09/14/2020 8:48:06 PM PDT by MinuteGal (MAGA !!! MAGA !!! MAGA !!!)
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Scumbag Vindman can still be recalled I believe and then put on trial for treason as he was obviously a Ukranian agent while under arms.


51 posted on 09/14/2020 8:49:19 PM PDT by JMS
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If only Vindman himself were a "useful idiot", instead of one step down, a "useless idiot".


52 posted on 09/14/2020 8:54:22 PM PDT by magooey (The Mandate of Heaven resides in the hearts of men.)
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Is that a photo of Vindman, or Kent “Flounder” Dorfman from “Animal House”? And in either case, where’s Douglas C. Neidermeyer when you need him? Oh, I forgot - Dougie was killed by his own troops...


53 posted on 09/14/2020 8:57:07 PM PDT by Red Patriot in Blue California
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Who is lardass’s puppetmaster ? Soros ? Red China ?


54 posted on 09/14/2020 8:57:17 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Want Stalinazism More ? PLUGS-WHORE 2020 !)
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Fairy dust is more heterosexual than this barrack’s Barbie.


55 posted on 09/14/2020 8:58:34 PM PDT by Eddie01 (NRA)
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Ukraine’s useful idiot speaks...


56 posted on 09/14/2020 9:04:43 PM PDT by Hypo2
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Putin played Ukraine like a fiddle and obama and all his butt suckers fell for it...”flexibility after the election”


57 posted on 09/14/2020 9:07:46 PM PDT by Hypo2
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Thanks dickhead. Now crawl back under your Rock asswipe !


58 posted on 09/14/2020 9:13:45 PM PDT by Truthoverpower (The guv-mint you get is the Trump winning express ! Yea haw ! Trump Pence II! Save America again)
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Vindman/Goldberg/Atlantic - what a joke.


59 posted on 09/14/2020 9:31:24 PM PDT by MAGAthon
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can he be reinstated, called back, and busted down to private then court-martialed?


60 posted on 09/14/2020 9:39:25 PM PDT by Bob434
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