An article published yesterday was raising some eyebrows while talking at the water cooler on Monday morning and makes some interesting points that everyone should think about.
To paraphrase the article,
The word “coup” shifted to a new level of formalized meaning last week when members of the political resistance showed up to remove President Trump wearing military uniforms.
Not only did U.S. military leadership remain silent to the optics and purpose, but in the testimony of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman he admits to giving instructions to ignore the instructions from a sitting United States President.
*In the absence of push-back from the Joint Chiefs, from this moment forth, the impression is tacit U.S. military support for the Vindman objective. *
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council official, testified before congressional committees conducting an impeachment inquiry on October 29, wearing a full military uniform.
To date there has been no visible comment from U.S. military sanctioning Lt. Col. Vindman for his decision; or correcting the impression represented by Vindman’s military appearance. The willful blindness is concerning, but it gets much worse.
Beyond the debate about the optics of the “ coup “, within the testimony of Lt. Col Vindman, the witness readily admits to understanding the officially established policy of the President of The United States (an agreement between President Trump and President Zelenskyy), and stunningly admits that two weeks later he was giving countermanding instructions to his Ukrainian counterpart to ignore President Trump’s policies.
Think about the last part for a minute and let that sink in. Lt Co Vindman at the very least should be charged with sedition, and had he not had the presence of legal council, somewhere in the questioning process he may have revealed more of his complicity to disregard his commander in chief’s orders when it pertains to Ukraine foreign policy issues. There certainly is a good reason to raise the issue of charging Vindman with Treason when it is all said and done is this what awaits many people like this who sought to undermine a duly elect president? Who shows up in full Military garb for what is considered a deposition? This is unprecedented and the people should take notice!
The full transcript is available in the provided link, of Ratcliff Interviewing Vindman and is quite revealing in the parsed language of the lawyers and Democrats present that to which they are trying to employ in order to protect the witness. This last part is pretty obvious!
Interesting tidbits from the interview with the exchanges of Ratcliffe and Vindman
