A war hero, immigrant, patriot goes to Congress to report what he saw and said during Tweety Trump's shake-down of the Ukraine President. So he's a traitor, a "never Trumper," a spy, and whatever else the GOP can think of to smear him?
Tweety says VERY nasty things about the man at the time he says he does not know! Tweety is a bully and he is afraid!
How do Tweety Trump supporters look in the mirror? This is simply a gathering of evidence, so why all the anxiety if Tweety Trump is innocent?
"Official to Testify Appearance of ‘Partisan Play’ in Trump’s Ukraine Call Raised"
Concerns National Security Council aide Alexander Vindman also to tell impeachment investigators Sondland made Ukraine meeting with Trump contingent on probes
By Vivian Salama The Wall Street Journal Updated Oct. 29, 2019 8:21 am ET
"Slandering an American war hero must have consequences"
By Jennifer Rubin Opinion writer covering politics and policy, foreign and domestic
Opinion writer October 29 at 11:00 AM
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"Vindman goes on to describe a meeting on July 10 with Oleksandr Danylyuk, the secretary of the National Security and Defense Council for Ukraine, national security adviser John Bolton and Ambassadors Kurt Volker and Gordon Sondland as well as Energy Secretary Rick Perry. “Amb. Sondland started to speak about Ukraine delivering specific investigations in order to secure the meeting with the President, at which time Ambassador Bolton cut the meeting short.” Afterward, “Sondland emphasized the importance that Ukraine deliver the investigations into the 2016 election, the Bidens, and Burisma.” Vindman stated this was inappropriate, and Fiona Hill entered and agreed. “Following the debriefing meeting, I reported my concerns to the NSC’s lead counsel. Dr. Hill also reported the incident to the NSC’s lead counsel.”
As an aside, this directly contradicts Sondland’s testimony, in which he pleaded ignorance of any discussions in which the quid pro quo was challenged."
So as this evidence is set forth, what is the reaction?
"On an eye-popping segment on CNN’s “New Day,” CNN contributor and former Wisconsin congressman Sean Duffy declared: “It seems very clear that he is incredibly concerned about Ukrainian defense. I don’t know that he’s concerned about American policy ... we all have an affinity to our homeland where we came from ... he has an affinity for the Ukraine.” The scurrilous charge of disloyalty is entirely unfounded and frankly, slanderous. CNN is responsible for its contributor’s words and should immediately repudiate the comment. Duffy has previously engaged in right-wing, unsupported conspiracy-mongering. CNN needs to decide what value it is providing to viewers by having such a person on air."
These are sick, sad words with no support, no moral compass, no ethical basis, and no logic whatsoever. CNN should repudiate these comments.
"Trump’s defenders have no facts or law on their side. They have only calumny. News organizations should not propagate slander and should take measures against those who do. Lawyers, member of Congress and other partisans should be held accountable for detestable lies that only confirm their cultlike reverence for Trump — and the absence of exculpatory evidence."
"Trump attacks on Vindman trigger backlash"
By Morgan Chalfant and Brett Samuels - 10/29/19 04:53 PM EDT
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/467994-trump-attacks-on-vindman-trigger-backlash
"Trump described Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an active-duty member of the military who attended his deposition in uniform, as a “Never Trumper,” while some allies questioned the Purple Heart recipient’s patriotism given the fact that he emigrated from Ukraine as a child.
Sen. Mitt Romney Willard (Mitt) Mitt RomneyMurkowski, Collins say they won't co-sponsor Graham's impeachment resolutionTrump Jr. sending copies of 'Triggered' book to Romney, top DemocratsRomney: About half of constituents in town halls said I'm being too tough on TrumpMORE (R-Utah) called the attacks “absurd,” while Rep. Liz Cheney Elizabeth (Liz) Lynn CheneyTrump met with boos, 'lock him up' chant at Game 5 of World SeriesLiz Cheney leads GOP field by 20 points in potential Wyoming Senate race: pollOvernight Defense: Top general briefs GOP senators on Syria plan | Senators 'encouraged' by briefing | Pence huddles with Republican allies on Syria | Trump nominee sidesteps questions on arms treatiesMORE (Wyo.), the No. 3 Republican in the House, admonished those who would question Vindman’s patriotism without naming names."
Has Tweety finally gone too far, saying his best military is scum?!
"The fundamentally un-American attacks on Alexander Vindman"
[It's Fox News of course, the USA for Trump Media source; below a video of Fox News lead Laura Ingraham with talking heads]
Ahead of Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman’s testimony in the House impeachment inquiry on Oct. 29, some cable news commentators questioned his patriotism. (JM Rieger/The Washington Post)
By Philip Bump National correspondent focused largely on the numbers behind politics
October 29 at 9:56 AM
"Documentary filmmaker Ken Burns and his team were exploring New York in the early 1980s, working on a feature about the Statue of Liberty as part of Burns’s “America” series. Sitting on a bench near Brighton Beach, they found an elderly woman sitting on a bench with twin boys, then about 10 years old.
They'd come from Russia, from Kyiv, the twins told the camera, their explanations overlapping. “Our mother died, so we went to Italy,” one added, “and then we came here."
In the final version of the film, titled, “Statue of Liberty,” the twins begin a section of interviews with other immigrants to the United States: a woman from Austria, a couple from Italy, a man from Cuba who worked at Yankee Stadium. The through-line is obvious, even without historian David McCullough’s introduction to the segment.
“To me, the Statue of Liberty is like the light that’s left on back home,” he said. Being at the statue, he said, made “you feel something I think much more than just being an American. You feel the importance of being human. And you feel a kind of fraternal [bond] with everybody who has come here."
That’s when the film transitions to the twins, identified as having come from the Soviet Union — at that point, the fiercest international rival to the United States.
Above that identifier is the twins’ family name: the Vindmans."
The story unfolds as Laura leads a hit job on Vindman.
"When news of Vindman's expected testimony broke on Monday night, the reaction from Trump's normal defenders was remarkably uniform: Vindman was suspect because he came from what is now Ukraine.
Fox News Channel host Laura Ingraham picked out Vindman’s background and interactions with the Ukrainian government during her show.
“Here we have a U.S. national security official who is advising Ukraine while working inside the White House, apparently against the president’s interests, and usually they spoke in English,” she said. “Isn’t that kind of an interesting angle on the story?"
“I find that astounding,” said John Yoo, who worked in the George W. Bush administration. “And some people might call that espionage."
Yoo, who wrote post-9/11 legal opinions for Bush that were used to justify torturing terrorism suspects, is an immigrant from South Korea."
Ya, no matter what, the GOP will find a way to disrespect the evidence and the people.
"The reaction to Vindman, though, reveals a fundamental hypocrisy in the Trumpian approach to immigrants. What Trump prioritizes in migrants who come to the United States is self-sufficiency and assimilation. He prefers migrants from Europe over Africa or the Middle East. What he wants is Alexander Vindmans — until Alexander Vindman points out where the loyalties of Trump himself might be questionable.
“My family fled the Soviet Union when I was three and a half years old,” Vindman’s opening remarks read. “Upon arriving in New York City in 1979, my father worked multiple jobs to support us, all the while learning English at night. He stressed to us the importance of fully integrating into our adopted country. For many years, life was quite difficult. In spite of our challenging beginnings, my family worked to build its own American Dream.""
