February 11, 2020: President Trump Wants Lt. Col. Vindman Punished for Testifying Under Oath

 

2/11/20: Reporters ask the president if he thinks Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman should face disciplinary action for his crime. 

That crime being: testifying under oath. 

In the Trumpistan, you already know the answer. “That’s going to be up to the military,” the president says. “We’ll have to see. But if you look at what happened, they’re going to certainly – I would imagine – take a look at that.” (See: Trump interfering in the case of Roger Stone or the case of Chief Petty Officer Eddie Gallagher; 2/5/20 and 2/13/20.)

No one but Trump.

 

Trump admitted he “wasn’t happy” with a man who would testify under oath and tell the truth. He accused Vindman of having reported “very inaccurate things” about his perfect phone call in July. “After they said these horrible things and made up these horrible, horrible lies about what was said on the call, and then I said, ‘Here’s the call,’” Trump told reporters, “if I didn’t have a transcript, it would’ve been my word against their word.” 

So, let’s get this straight: testify under oath, and face disciplinary action. And “they” would be plural. 

Their word against Trump’s – and we all know Trump’s word is about as close to the gold standard as Monopoly money can get.

 

Trump also devotes part of his valuable time as Leader of the Free World tweeting insults aimed at members of the DOJ and the judicial branch of the federal government who are involved in the Roger Stone case. Now that he has called for a lighter sentence for his prevaricating, perjuring pal Roger, and the prosecutors handling the case have resigned, it’s time to tweet. “Who are the four prosecutors (Mueller people?),” Trump wonders, “who cut and ran after being exposed for recommending a ridiculous 9 year prison sentence to a man that got caught up in an investigation that was illegal, the Mueller Scam, and shouldn’t ever even have started?” 

The president also decides that this would be a perfect time to attack the judge involved in the case too. “Is this the Judge that put Paul Manafort in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT, something that not even mobster Al Capone had to endure?” he tweets. The man loves to tweet. 

Way more than he loves the rule of law. 

De regula iuris non est ex mortuis.