February 7, 2020: Trump "Cleans Up" the White House

 

2/7/20: Wasting no time after surviving impeachment, President Trump acts to clean up his administration by (you are thinking) cutting ties with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani.

 

Nope.

 

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“The most powerful man in the world – buoyed by the silent, the pliable and the complicit – has decided to exact revenge.” 

David Pressman, lawyer for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman

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Trump has Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman escorted out of the White House by security guards.

 

Just to make sure, he also has Vindman’s twin brother, Lt. Col. Eugene Vindman, tossed as well.

 

Then he fires Ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sondland.

 

What crimes did these three men commit? Were they working with Lev Parnas, now out on bail, alleged to have helped funnel foreign money into Trump and GOP campaign coffers? Did Sondland cheat on his taxes, like former Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort? Did Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman tamper with witnesses before trial, like Roger Stone? Did his brother perjure himself, like Trump’s old personal lawyer, Michael Cohen? None of the above.

 

Two of the three testified under oath and made the president sound like the sneaky crook he is.

 

Lt. Col. Eugene Vindman just happened to be related to one of the others. 

David Pressman, the lawyer for Alexander Vindman, is blunt in his assessment of what has just occurred: “The most powerful man in the world – buoyed by the silent, the pliable and the complicit – has decided to exact revenge.”

 

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APPARENTLY, this blogger, and millions of others who think like he does…well…we’re just jealous of President Trump. 

On Friday’s episode of his radio program, Reverend E.W. Jackson insists that those of us on the Left hate Donald J. Trump because we hate masculinity and the president is “just too much of a man [emphasis added].” 

They just don’t like manhood, and I think that’s part of the problem too—the radical feminists, the homosexuals, the trangsenders, whatever bizarre idea they have of who we’re supposed to be, they’re not putting up with men who stand tall, who stand up straight and say, “Look, this is who I am, this is what I believe, you can like it, or you can lump it, but there it is.”

 

You got me, Pastor Jackson. I wish I could stand tall and cheat on three wives in a row. I wish I could lie about banging a porn star. I wish I could kick people out of the military who wanted to serve – “transgenders,” or “whatever bizarre idea they have of who” they are supposed to be. And I wouldn’t want to serve with people like my gay Cousin Bill, a door gunner on a helicopter in Vietnam in 1967. 

I just wish I knew who I was when I joined the Marines in 1968.

The essence of masculinity?

 

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NOW THAT WE KNOW Trump has put two more U.S. soldiers out of action, namely the Vindman brothers, we might consider what Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s former supervisor, Brig. Gen. Peter Zwack, has to say of Vindman. “I think that he’s hurt and insulted, he’s uncertain about his future, and he wears – not wore – the uniform proudly.” 

Gen. Zwack is unhappy with attacks on the character of his former subordinate by the president and others in high administration circles. “I think that seniors at a very, very high level,” he says, “should not dump that way publicly by statement or the God gun of a tweet in demeaning his personality. And the other thing that offends me greatly is so many other people have piled in that don’t even know him.” 

“When you serve on the NSC, you do serve at the behest of the president,” he admits. “But there’s also the greater Constitution, and I think this was punitive. It didn’t have to be. He could have been allowed to say at least goodbye to his peers.” Instead, the Vindman brothers were marched out of the White House like criminals, flanked by security guards. “He was not allowed…It was just insulting and offending and wrong,” Zwack adds. 

Zwack also has harsh words for Sen. Lindsey Graham, who defended the president’s decision to oust the brothers. 

I’m a proud retired member of the intelligence community… I guess that that makes me a card-carrying member of the deep state. This is ridiculous, okay? Senator Graham, I’ve always had a lot of respect for you. I met you when you was in Afghanistan in 2008, when you arrived with Senator McCain and Joe Lieberman as part of the three amigos. We thought you guys were rock stars.

 

Where are you now, sir?

 

Cringing in fear, this blogger would venture to say.