Trump's Defenders Are Now Attacking the Patriotism of a Purple Heart Officer
I think Repugs can not sink lower, yet they do!!
Trump’s Defenders Are Now Attacking the Patriotism of a Purple Heart Officer
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/10/appalling-attack-alexander-vindman/601000/
Without substantive defenses of the president, and deprived of process complaints, Trump’s allies resort to toxic xenophobia and baseless accusations.
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Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman arrives for testimony on Capitol Hill today.Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
This article was updated on Tuesday, October 29 at 1:58 pm.
The White House can’t muster a substantive defense of President Donald Trump’s behavior regarding Ukraine. Democrats more or less gave way to Republican process complaints about impeachment on Monday. So with few other options left, Trump and his allies are returning to the mode that got him elected in the first place: toxic xenophobia.
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Monday evening, the opening statement from Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman was released to the press, ahead of his appearance before House investigators today. In another age, Vindman’s statement would be called a smoking gun, though by this stage the facts are clear enough that it adds little to the established record.
Vindman wrote that he heard Ambassador Gordon Sondland, Trump’s European Union envoy, demand that Ukrainians investigate Joe Biden’s family and that he told Sondland this was inappropriate. Moreover, he was listening to Trump’s July 25 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and was disturbed by Trump’s requests.
Read: An oral history of Trump’s bigotry
“I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma, it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained,” Vindman said. “This would all undermine U.S. national security.” 
Vindman’s testimony sidesteps the whistle-blower complaint that kicked off this scandal. Unlike the whistle-blower, whose identity is still unknown, Vindman had firsthand knowledge of the call; he also complained up the chain of command.
Vindman would seem like a difficult witness to attack: a career soldier, an active-duty lieutenant colonel in the Army, a Purple Heart recipient for a wound from an IED in Iraq. Yet imagining that Trump’s allies might struggle to impugn Vindman badly overestimates their scruples.
Shortly after the statement was released, Laura Ingraham covered his story on her Fox News show..................................
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To suggest that, categorically, a decorated military officer somehow can’t lie under oath is pretty short sighted, historically speaking.
You want a Purple Heart recipient lieutenant colonel who lied his ass off under oath?
Try this dipshit:
All witnesses need to be evaluated on their own terms, instead on the basis of a decorated uniform.