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One morning in early July 2020, someone called & asked if I was aware that the previous day WH Chief of Staff @MarkMeadows called in Army Sec Ryan McCarthy and SECDEF Esper.
The purpose of the meeting was to berate them for having @AVindman’s name on the promotion list and pressure/order them to remove him.

I immediately began shivering. My teeth were chattering. I stepped outside in VA in July but I wasn’t cold, I was shaking from adrenaline.
My husband’s service, my service, our family’s decades of service was being destroyed because he was an impediment to their corruption.

I was upset then but now I can talk about it more clearly: these people are nothing more than mafioso thugs.
It’s his right to publish a book but he should receive ZERO national media attention until he answers hard questions about his role on Jan 6th.

We need #Accountability. If @MarkMeadows wants to talk about his time in the WH, let him start with #jan6committee.

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23 May
Each week I receive several DMs from female service members who have been the victims of sexual harassment/assault. Invariably the victims were too scared to speak up or they spoke up & faced consequences. I've never been in the military but I believe these women.
Last week I saw a post from an army public affairs officer w/ a history of degrading women. When a leader publicly tweets something like that from a verified account, it perpetuates the notion that SH/SA victims will not be heard and/or treated fairly when reporting abuse.
I quote tweeted his tweet & it received a fair amount of traction. @ArmyTimes later ran a story that the officer has been suspended pending an investigation. If I held the power to influence @USArmy w/ my tweets a lot of things in my life would be very different than they are.
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