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Fri Feb 7, 2020, 08:52 PM Feb 2020

'Friday Night Massacre': CNN's Jim Acosta Evokes Nixon in Trump's Retribution

...Against Vindmans, Sondland
Speaking with Wolf Blitzer, Acosta reported the breaking news that the US Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, was being recalled from his post. This move comes just hours after Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was fired from his National Security Council post and publicly escorted from the White House grounds by security. Vindman, along with his twin brother, Eugene, who also worked in the NSC but did not testify against Trump, have been reportedly reassigned to work for the Department of the Army.

“Major development,” Blitzer noted. “Remember, Ambassador Sondland, before he became Ambassador, he gave a million — $1 million to the Trump inaugural committee. And that is part of what is going on.”

“This is a cleaning of house. And this comes from the top. And there is just no other way around it,” Acosta said. - Mediate
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