Thread by @HNIJohnMiller

1) I'm bored. Let's break down and fucking eviscerate the bullshit Yahoo News article about State Dept employees fearing 'payback' from Trump over impeachment.

Link is the archive because fuck your ad dollars Yahoo. archive.is/NLHLY

2) "President Donald Trump mostly stifled his fury toward the impeachment witnesses who detailed, over hundreds of hours of testimony, the turmoil wrought by his handling of Ukraine policy."

The only turmoil I saw was an over bloated foreign policy bureaucracy getting cut out.

3) People who were used to each and every one of their opinions being presented, collated, and refined to be passed up the chain to the President were suddenly in shock that they were being ignored and that their precious foreign aid money laundering operation was threatened.

4) "The White House is weighing a plan to dismiss Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council after he offered damning testimony in the House impeachment inquiry,"

'Damning testimony'. REALLY? Damning? Because Trump didn't get damned as far as I can tell.

5) "The deeper anxiety among many career national security officials is that Trump... will act on long-harbored suspicions that bureaucrats at the State Department and the NSC are out to undermine his agenda." They have published op-eds that they are undermining his agenda FFS.

6) "Unburdened by impeachment, they fear that Trump could unleash his anger at the foreign policy establishment he’s long equated with what some of his advisers and supporters call the “Deep State.”" Yovanovitch has been in the state dept since the 70's. How is that NOT deep?

7) "Some fret that Secretary of State Michael Pompeo -- who throughout the impeachment process repeatedly declined to defend beleaguered department officials publicly -- won’t shield them." So Pompeo's the bad guy for not defending people who hate him and want him fired. Yyyyup.

8) "“Active-duty officers are scared of word getting out and then facing retribution, not just from the president but also from political ambassadors,” said Lewis Lukens, the former deputy envoy in London who was removed last year by Trump’s choice to lead the embassy there" hmmm

9) That Lewis Lukens name sounds familiar...

Oh wait, I remember where I heard it from.

From 2017:

thehill.com/policy/interna…

10) "Rank becomes the second U.S. ambassador to publicly split with Trump in the past few days. Acting U.S. Ambassador to the UK Lewis Lukens publicly praised London Mayor Sadiq Khan for his response to this weekend’s terrorist attack after Trump criticized him on Twitter."

11) Ooh, ooh, found his Twitter!

https://twitter.com/LukensLewis/status/1222083738928123904

12) Dude's a clear anti-Trump figure.

https://twitter.com/LukensLewis/status/1191425635551461379

13) Oh look at that. He was fired after giving a speech praising Obama!

No, dumbasses. That was the last straw. He was fired after opposing Trump's foreign policy goals.

Five bucks says he was anti-Brexit as well.

gq.com/story/trump-is…

14) Can't find anything on this fucker pre-2017, but he's been spending a lot of time running around contradicting Trump's foreign policy even after he was ousted. google.com/search?q=lewis…

15) ANYWAYS, back to the Yahoo article.

"One of the most compelling narratives of the impeachment saga focused on the career officials who felt duty-bound to answer congressional subpoenas to testify at House hearings despite the State Department ordering them not to."

16) IE, career officials who have served under multiple presidents did a shocked pikachu face when suddenly they realized executive privilege when it came to foreign policy was a thing. Because apparently it has NEVER, in their DECADES LONG CAREERS, ever come up before.

Yeah.

17) "The president says he’s convinced that Ukraine, not Russia, sought to undermine the 2016 election and did so to help Democrat Hillary Clinton, not him."

This has been widely reported on by the MSM.

18) "He still believes that Joe Biden sought to quash an investigation into his son, Hunter."

He admitted to getting the investigating prosecutor fired on camera.

19) "And he continues to shower praise on Giuliani, who the witnesses portrayed as an interloper who disrupted policy"

Maybe Guiliani wouldnt have to be around if you all would have followed through on policy rather than refusing to implement it over your cult-like Obama worship

20) "The result is that the disjointed policy style diplomats decried in their testimony continues."

Apparently being shut out of policy for being fucking awful at it is 'disjointed.' Good.

21) "When Pompeo was in Ukraine last week, he affirmed U.S. support while declining to offer President Volodymyr Zelenskiy the invitation to visit the White House that he has long sought." Trump's invited him multiple times. 'Declining to invite' my ass.

"“It’s completely broken,” Kenneth Pollack, a... former National Security Council director, said of policy making under Trump. “You have this very severe disconnect between the Oval Office and the principals and the rest of the bureaucracy.”"

GOOD. Fuck the bureaucracy.

23) "Trump’s defense team argued for an expansive view of presidential power and a vastly reduced role for civil servants, even in cases where Trump’s actions may have been inappropriate."

You mean Trump's authority being as any other president's and ignoring unelected morons?

24) I'm done. This article is clearly propaganda. As should be expected. Fuck it.

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