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Jul 8, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read • Read on X
Breaking: Lt Col Alexander Vindman to retire from military. His lawyer blames White House 'campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation' - CNN exclusive. cnn.com/2020/07/08/pol…
“Vindman was told by senior Army officials that he would no longer be deployable in his area of expertise, which includes Ukraine...He was also told by senior officers he would need a "rehabilitative assignment" even if he had opted to attend the National War College.”
"The President:.attempted to force LTC Vindman to choose: Between adhering to the law or pleasing a President. Between honoring his oath or protecting his career. Between protecting his promotion or the promotion of his fellow soldiers," his lawyer said in statement to CNN.
“In one case, a senior officer quipped about sending him to "man a radar station in Alaska," the source familiar with his decision said.”

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Dec 23
Breaking: House Ethics Committee found evidence former Rep. Matt Gaetz paid tens of thousands of dollars to women for sex or drugs on at least 20 occasions, including paying a 17-year-old girl for sex in 2017, according to a final draft of the panel’s report on the Florida Republican, obtained by CNN.
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The Committee determined there is substantial evidence that Representative Gaetz violated House Rules and other standards of conduct prohibiting prostitution, statutory rape, illicit drug use, impermissible gifts, special favors or privileges, and obstruction of Congress,” panel investigators wrote.
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Nov 14
“Controversial” should be retired as a descriptor for these latest Trump administration appointments. These are not candidates just with stray comments or personal foibles. Rather, many have fundamentally different views of the functions of the agencies they’re nominated to lead and views lining up with some of Trump’s more
extreme positions. 1/
2/ Hegseth at DOD opposes women in combat, has identified a third of senior officers as guilty of a “woke” agenda and deserving of removal, and is a proponent of Trump’s “America First” agenda which would upend U.S. relations with allies and adversaries.
3/ Gabbard at DNI has blamed Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the U.S. and NATO and said Syria’s Assad, ally to Putin and slaughterer of thousands of his own people, is “not the enemy of the U.S.” This, despite the IC she would lead identifying Russia as a clear and present danger to the national security of the U.S. and its allies.
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Nov 9
This election - unlike previous ones with differences at the margins - may prove to have an enormous impact not just on US foreign policy but on America’s very role in the world. Trump has repeatedly expressed he’s ready to deliver on “America First” and depart from what used to be a bipartisan worldview. 1/
2/ Trump, like in domestic politics, has demonstrated a transactional view of U.S. relations abroad - and one that often fails to differentiate based on values or shared history. He’s repeatedly communicated he sees the U.S. as no better or worse than its adversaries. From “You think we’re so innocent” to O’Reilly in 2017 to “Our allies are worse than our enemies” in the last week of the campaign.
3/ With this approach, he seems to believe he’s just as able to make an agreement beneficial to the U.S. with, say, Russia or China, as with NATO allies or allies in Asia, that is, countries who have fought alongside the U.S. and signed mutual defense treaties. Negotiation is certainly better than great power war, but his approach neglects that those adversaries see it as in their strategic interests to weaken the U.S. and the U.S.-led global order.
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Oct 2
Breaking: In newly released brief, Special counsel Jack Smith’s team works to show how Donald Trump was directly involved in the plot to nominate fake electors – a central part of the allegations that Trump himself was working to undermine the 2020 election results. 1/
2/ For example, Smith’s team identifies one individual, whose name is redacted in filings, who worked in Trump’s White House and appears to have relayed information about the fake electors plot to Trump while the strategy was unfolding.
 
The person, identified only as “P9,” appears to have personally had discussions over the phone about the fake electors strategy with Trump, and had repeated text conversations with other people in the campaign about how the strategy was “crazy” or “illegal,” according to the filing.
3/ Special counsel Jack Smith’s office stressed the private and political nature of Donald Trump's actions around the 2020 election in his new court filing Wednesday.
 
"The executive branch," prosecutors wrote, "has no authority or function to choose the next president."
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Aug 29
New: US Army issued a stark rebuke of Trump campaign staff over the incident on Monday at Arlington National Cemetery, saying in a statement participants in the ceremony “were made aware of federal laws” regarding political activity at the cemetery, and “abruptly pushed aside” an employee of the cemetery.  1/
2/ “Participants in the August 26th ceremony and the subsequent Section 60 visit were made aware of federal laws, Army regulations and DoD policies, which clearly prohibit political activities on cemetery grounds. An ANC employee who attempted to ensure adherence to these rules was abruptly pushed aside,” the Army spokesperson said in the statement, @halbritz reports.
3/ “This incident was unfortunate, and it is also unfortunate that the ANC employee and her professionalism has been unfairly attacked. ANC is a national shrine to the honored dead of the Armed Forces, and its dedicated staff will continue to ensure public ceremonies are conducted with the dignity and respect the nation’s fallen deserve,” the statement said.
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Mar 17
As X battles over Trump’s bloodbath comment, remember his fmr chief of staff told me he praised Hitler. Consider the character of his comments together, from those he attacks - immigrants, stutterers - to those he praises - Putin, Jan 6 rioters. 1/

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2/ The themes are fairly consistent; admiration of unfettered power, demonization of critics and those he sees as weak (Gen Kelly also detailed his disdain for wounded veterans), and predictions of carnage and chaos if he’s not in control.
3/ One concern his former advisors related to me is, in a second term, those beliefs and feelings would be magnified.

“A second term with him [Trump]— ­ particularly when he would not be worrying about ­ reelection—­ it would be fundamentally a catastrophe for us,”
Kelly told me
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