Trump goes on Twitter tear after White
House official condemns his Ukraine call
Politico,
by
Quint Forgey
Original Article
Posted By: BigRedBill,
10/29/2019 4:02:04 PM
President Donald Trump launched a sustained online offensive Tuesday morning after details emerged of damaging congressional testimony by a senior White House official — retweeting numerous messages by Republican lawmakers assailing the latest developments in House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.
The flurry of activity on the president’s social media feed came just hours before Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council staffer overseeing Ukraine policy, was due to tell investigators on Capitol Hill that Trump undermined U.S. national security when he pressured Ukraine’s president in a July phone call to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
john56 10/29/2019 4:11:25 PM (No. 221263)
Look for the Lt. Col. to be reassigned to another important White House duty. Like maintaining an adequate back stock of paper clips and rubber bands.
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I was in the Navy. Does that make me immune to criticism? If so, I'm going on a tear. lol
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
swarfer 10/29/2019 4:40:34 PM (No. 221286)
Vindman is not an elected official. Has no authority or responsibility in US foreign relations or military affairs. He does not make policy and his personal opinion is irrelevant as to the nature of US and Ukraine relations. He is a subordinate military officer who believes he is above the president and the Constitution because he is Ukrainian and has a special insight as to what is best for Ukraine including ignoring out of control corruption which includes Joe Biden and his son.
Vindman's "I'm a patriot" has been used since time immoral to justify back stabbing superiors and to try to alter events to conform to personal opinion or vision. I suppose in ancient Rome he would have wielded a dagger against Caesar.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Flyball Dogs 10/29/2019 4:40:46 PM (No. 221287)
“Trump goes on Twitter tear...”
Well, Squint, you’d go on a tear, too, if you were attacked incessantly by fools and their keepers.
Got anything else to add to the conversation other than some backward snipe?
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
cor-vet 10/29/2019 4:52:18 PM (No. 221293)
Could someone explain to me, exactly how asking another country to investigate a crooked American politician undermines national security? Is this different than asking 3 or 4 foreign countries to spy on an American Presidential candidate, or to 'find dirt' on a rival Presidential candidate, or does this only apply when it's allegedly done by a Republican?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
curious1 10/29/2019 5:01:51 PM (No. 221302)
I've read the transcript.
The LTC apparently doesn't realize he doesn't get a say in foreign policy or get to make up things that never happened. A perfumed princeling wanna-be, apparently. Rotate his hiney to Antarctica. Permanently.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
GO3 10/29/2019 5:02:19 PM (No. 221303)
Reassignment to a one man weather igloo outside of Nome would be appropriate I think.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
Clinger 10/29/2019 5:12:13 PM (No. 221307)
I read the transcript. I can see where someone could be so predisposed to see something nefarious that they'd twist it in their minds to see what they want to see. I would ask my democrat neighbors to consider the difference between stepping into a mountain of dung and asking the question, "hey how'd that get here" and asking someone to pick up a shovel and start digging around just in case they could find buried dung. Worlds apart to me. Biden presented us a pile of dung and bragged about it, we should ignore him?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 10/29/2019 5:20:03 PM (No. 221312)
Yeah, yeah, and Benedict Arnold was a member of the US military as well!!
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 10/29/2019 6:14:46 PM (No. 221347)
The Lt. Col. does realize he broke the chain of command and spit in the face of his Commander in Chief doesn't he? I doubt he will get the same protective coverage as a civil servant. I might suggest at least a dishonorable discharge.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
HotRod 10/29/2019 6:17:31 PM (No. 221350)
President Trump did not ask the Ukrainians to investigate Biden, he asked that they look into an alleged crime(s). Too bad for Biden that he is the criminal.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
nina584 10/29/2019 7:46:42 PM (No. 221402)
Time for Trump to remove all Obama appointees. No excuse to have any of them working in the WH.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bdog 10/29/2019 9:16:31 PM (No. 221452)
This dimwit tried to put himself in the class of a former Marine who was a patriot and protected the Commander-in-Chief. Ollie North commanded respect something Benedict Arnold and a list of other military traitors over the years never accomplished. Obama sported the last traitor on, TV showing his affinity for muslim treachery.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
bighambone 10/29/2019 9:20:55 PM (No. 221453)
The Democrats could call a thousand civilian and military Democrat aligned “Deep State” bureaucrats from DC who take issue with the manner that President Trump makes executive and foreign policy decisions that they don’t like for one reason or another to give their opinions. That does not mean in anyway that the President should be impeached and removed from office because the Democrats and “Deep State” bureaucrats do not like the way that he conducts his foreign policy agenda putting American national interests first.
When conducting foreign policy and handing out huge amounts of foreign aid to foreign governments the US Government routinely has demanded that those foreign governments do a lot of things to qualify for that foreign aid. As examples both socialist Democrat politicians Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren have said publicly many times during their campaigns for the Democrat nomination that they would demand that Israel do all sorts of things regarding the Palestinians to continue to qualify for US foreign aid after they are elected. Demanding foreign concessions from foreign governments as a qualifier for US foreign aid has never before been considered to be an impeachable offense for any President in the past. In addition it is routine for the US Government to ask foreign governments to investigate US citizens and foreign nationals for crimes they are suspected of committing. It is a misrepresentation to characterize Jose Biden as Trump’s presidential opponent in the upcoming 2020 election, because in reality Biden is only a potential Democrat nominee for the 2020 presidential run, along with about 20 other Democrats, and will not actually be Trump’s opponent until after he is nominated by the Democrats next year, which at the moment is far from being a sure thing. Actually what Trump asked during the telephone conversation that is in question is that the Ukrainians cooperate with the US Attorney General who is conducting a criminal investigation into political corruption relating to the 2016 election, some of which occurred in Ukraine. There was nothing wrong with the President doing that, and Joseph Biden and his son are not immune from being legitimately investigated by the US Department of Justice because the elder Biden is seeking the 2020 Democrat nomination.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 10/29/2019 10:19:12 PM (No. 221483)
The deep state and the intelligence services are desperately trying to hide something big. The question is: what?
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
judy 10/29/2019 11:23:59 PM (No. 221513)
It makes you wonder how many other calls Schiff’s hero listened to.Trump has a right to go on a tear, if you can’t trust the military who can you trust? Only Schiff would give someone like this national attention.
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