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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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Feb 14
Do not underestimate the shift the Trump administration is laying out in its public comments. This is not just a shift away from supporting Ukraine against Russia, it is the U.S. reducing its support for, and involvement in, Europe’s security - and more
broadly, in the security of allies in Asia and around the world. 1/
2/ European leaders should have seen this coming, and some did, given Trump has expressed similar views during the campaign. While some nations have gotten the message and not only increased their defense spending but also began working on how to strategize for a reduced U.S. leadership, others have been demonstrably slow.
3/ The current and former NATO secretary-generals have credited Trump for driving allies to increase their defense budgets. What’s different is that this is clearly more than a budget question now. It’s a question of US involvement, leadership, troop deployments and commitment.
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Jan 2
This is an important cautionary tale from @brianstelter in the age of information bubbles and persistence of disinformation:

New: An erroneous early Fox News report about the New Orleans terror attack is warping the political dialogue in the aftermath of the deadly rampage.
 
The false report from Fox, which was attributed to anonymous sources, confused the public – and evidently President-elect Donald Trump too. The misinformation is still circulating more than 24 hours later – serving as a cautionary tale about the news ecosystem as the new year begins. 1/
2/  
During the 10 a.m. hour on Wednesday, Fox reported that the New Orleans suspect's truck crossed the US border in Eagle Pass, Texas "two days ago." Some of the right-wing network’s coverage explicitly said "the suspect" drove across the border, leaving viewers with the impression that a foreigner might be responsible for the deadly carnage.
 
In fact, the New Orleans attack suspect was a US citizen and Army veteran. But those facts weren't publicly established at the time Fox aired the faulty information.
3/ Eight minutes after the first Fox segment that mentioned the border, Trump issued a statement about "criminals coming in" from other countries. While Trump didn’t mention Fox directly, he is known to be an avid consumer of the cable network and has tapped several of its personalities for his incoming cabinet.
 
Some of Trump’s family members and political allies also immediately connected the attack to illegal immigration and cited Fox.
 
"Biden's parting gift to America — migrant terrorists," Donald Trump Jr. wrote, sharing the Fox claim on X. "Shut the border down!!!" Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene exclaimed.
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Dec 23, 2024
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.
The committee concluded in its bombshell document that Gaetz violated Florida state laws, including the state’s statutory rape law, as the GOP-led panel chose to take the rare step of releasing a report about a former member who resigned from Congress.
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, 2024
“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, 2024
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, 2024
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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