Despite a suggestion from President Donald Trump, the Army is not currently investigating Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman for his testimony during the House’s impeachment inquiry.
However, the Defense Department official who confirmed the current lack of a probe to the Daily Beast did not guarantee that there wouldn’t be one in the future.
Vindman was frogmarched from the White House campus last week, after he and his twin brother Yevgeny, a lawyer for the National Security Council who did not testify in the hearings, were unceremoniously fired.
But aside from a formal investigation, as an unnamed former senior Army official told the Daily Beast, there are other more subtle ways Vindman could be punished. For example, he could be denied a promotion to colonel when he’s up for the job. Those decisions are subjective and take into account multiple factors — it would be difficult to pin the snub on his testimony alone.
Trump has sustained his anger at Vindman since his testimony, and also axed former Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland last week.
Many Senate Republicans told TPM that they found Trump’s Friday Night Massacre to be reasonable, saying that it’s his prerogative to surround himself with only “loyal” officials.
While I think Cadet Bone Spurs would gleefully like to make Vindman suffer, I think his blathering call for an investigation was intended primarily as a chilling factor for others. Donnie is that vile.
Welcome to the new America courtesy of Dictator Donnie and all the cowards of the Rethug Senate. A pox on all of you!
I hope all my sister and brother Vets and active military understand we were, and are, here for our Country and not for 5 Deferment Don.
He has removed any of us who have refused to kiss this draft dodger’s cowardly ass.
Please remember he hates POW’s, Gold star families, who question him, and those who only have concussions .
That’s not the issue, you spineless cowards. He’s punishing someone who responded to a subpoena and testified truthfully about the call.
If Vindman is lying, btw, prove it.
But you can’t, can you.
Horrible people.
Vindman and his brother are e*ffed and screwed for betraying the Trump Family Organization. I am not sure that the Army is not investigating them.
In this case, I believe what the President said. Government agencies including the military have toed the line on every thing illegal the President Putin-Whore has suggested or asked for on Twitter, in conversations with Hannity and elsewhere. Time will tell. Many of the generals have pledged loyalty to the Trump family organization.
The Vindman will likely end up being court-martialed and seeing the inside of a military paddock.
And Lindsay Graham, that skanky brown-nosing dick sucking whore from South Carolina, will gloat and say how proud he is of the president.