“Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade doesn’t understand all the fuss over his suspicions that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who has served on the National Security Council since 2018, has an “affinity to the Ukrainian people.”
During a Wednesday morning segment on “Fox & Friends,” Kilmeade pushed back on the heat he’s gotten for the remark he made on Vindman Tuesday morning. Vindman’s testimony recounted how he alerted a top White House lawyer twice about his concerns over the Trump administration’s pressure campaign against Ukraine.
Kilmeade dismissed the notion that his Vindman skepticism is “not patriotic” and called the blowback he’s received “farcical.”
“It’s a joke that people think if you have questions to the lieutenant colonel because he’s a great warfighter, that you’re somehow not patriotic or don’t like the military, which is the blowback that we’re getting from our show and others,” Kilmeade said. “I think that’s farcical.”
Kilmeade then doubled down on his suspicions about Vindman’s supposed Ukrainian allegiance.
“There is no doubt about it, this lieutenant colonel was born in Ukraine. He came here,” Kilmeade said, before noting that the Ukrainian government reportedly reached out to him about Rudy Giuliani working as an envoy for Trump. “And to think that maybe he was going to come forward with an additional point of view and can’t be challenged because he served in the military, it doesn’t make any sense to me.”
Watch Kilmeade’s remarks on “Fox and Friends” below:
Kilmeade: "Farcical" to say that Vindman skepticism is "not patriotic" pic.twitter.com/arvpB3uZkC
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When you got a shovel you gotta use it.
Kilmeade doesn’t like it that people have concluded his remark was tacky and problematic. Vindman is the White House Ukrainian specialist. Hell yes he has an affinity for Ukraine. That is his job.
Anyway, what does “have an affinity for Ukraine” mean in this context. Vindman doesn’t approve of Trump trying to strong arm campaign dirt from Ukraine, an American ally with the Russian bear on its border, in exchange for badly needed military aid congress had approved.
It’s about time for a “previously planned vacation to knit sweaters for the elderly” or some other nonsense.
‘Farcical’? Now there’s a subject about which Kilmeade likely has some insight.
Yeah, doesn’t he have some type of family he needs to spend time with?