Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, arriving Tuesday on Capitol Hill to testify in the impeachment inquiry.Credit...Erin Schaff/The New York Times
Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, who heard President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine’s president and was alarmed, testified that he tried and failed to add key details to the rough transcript.
WASHINGTON — Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine’s president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to include them failed, according to three people familiar with the testimony.
The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump’s assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine’s president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden’s son Hunter.
More: Account of Trump’s Ukraine Call Omitted Key Details, Official Testifies
I salute Lt. Col. Alexander S. Vindman for his service and patriotism! Someone has to answer for this.
Vindman Twins off to their new digs!
Lieutenant Colonel Vindman is being punished for telling the truth. His brother, who had nothing to do with what Vindman did, is being punished by blood, something that countries like North Korea do. So you must know that is wrong, and if you don't then you're just another sad, sick, pathetic, lying sack of shit traitor like 45.
Colonel Vindman told the truth. You support and condone the actions an individual who has never served in the U.S. Military. He is draft dodging piece of shit coward who attacks Gold Star Families and on Men who served their country while as a Prisoner of War that 45 lied his off about "Bone Spurs" that made him a draft dodging piece of shit.
Democracies do not punish people, civilian or military who speak truth to power, even when truth means a sitting president solicited assistance from a foreign power in order to effect the outcome of U.S. Presidential Election.
The Cheating, Lying Piece of Shit Coward 45 knows he can only win by cheating.
And that truly says it all.
Consequences consequences. If he didn’t know he’d have been disciplined for a coup he didn’t belong there.
he was a participant of taking out his commander
Oh...it's about the pretend coup again. Let me know when there is a real one.
It was real, you just lost.
Carville Drops A Truth Bomb!
“WE’RE LOSING OUR DAMN MINDS”
In 2009 he confidently declared that Democrats were now set to rule for the next 40 years! He even published a book—
40 More Years: How the Democrats Will Rule the Next Generation.
Carville had drunk the Kool Aid of the liberal-Hegelian conceit that demographics and “the side of history” had delivered Democrats into the Promised Land, from whose commanding heights it was Progress as far as the mind’s-eye could imagine. Well, that glorious 40 years quickly became a fast one-way trip to the wilderness, as it didn’t even last 40 months.
James Carville, who gave an extraordinary interview to MSNBC that has been transcribed by
Vox: “
We’re Losing Our Damn Minds.” Read the whole thing if your
schadenfreude medication is at full strength. Here are a few excerpts:
James Carville: Look, the turnout in the
Iowa caucus was below what we expected, what we wanted.
Trump’s approval rating is probably as high as it’s been. This is very bad. And now it appears the party
can’t even count votes. What the hell am I supposed to think? . . . And now it’s like we’re losing our damn minds. Someone’s got to step their game up here.
James Carville: We have candidates on the debate stage
talking about open borders and decriminalizing illegal immigration. They’re talking about doing away with
nuclear energy and fracking. You’ve got
Bernie Sanders talking about letting criminals and terrorists vote from jail cells. It doesn’t matter what you think about any of that, or if there are good arguments — talking about that is not how you win a national election. It’s not how you become a majoritarian party. . .
Sean Illing: So your complaint is basically that the party has tacked too far to the left?
James Carville: They’ve tacked off the damn radar screen. And look, I don’t consider myself a moderate or a centrist. I’m a liberal. But not everything has to be on the left-right continuum. . .
Here’s another stupid thing: Democrats
talking about free college tuition or debt forgiveness. I’m not here to debate the idea. What I can tell you is that people all over this country worked their way through school, sent their kids to school, paid off student loans. They don’t want to hear this shit. And you saw
Warren confronted by an angry voter over this. It’s just not a winning message.
The real argument here is that some people think there’s a real yearning for a left-wing revolution in this country, and if we just appeal to the people who feel that, we’ll grow and excite them and we’ll win. But there’s a word a lot of people hate that I love: politics. It means building coalitions to win elections. It means sometimes having to sit back and listen to what people think and framing your message accordingly. . .
James Carville: I want to give you an example of the problem here. A few weeks ago, Binyamin Appelbaum, an economics writer for the New York Times, posted a snarky tweet about how
LSU canceled classes for the National Championship game. And then he said, do the “Warren/Sanders free public college proposals include LSU, or would it only apply to actual schools?”
You know how ******* patronizing that is to people in the South or in the middle of the country? First, LSU has an unusually high graduation rate, but that’s not the point. It’s the goddamn smugness. This is from a guy who lives in New York and serves on the Times editorial board and there’s not a single person he knows that doesn’t pat him on the back for that kind of tweet. He’s so ******* smart.
Appelbaum doesn’t speak for the Democratic Party, but he does represent the urbanist mindset. We can’t win the Senate by looking down at people. The Democratic Party has to drive a narrative that doesn’t give off vapors that we’re smarter than everyone or culturally arrogant.
James Carville: Mayor Pete has to demonstrate over the course of a campaign that he can excite and motivate arguably the most important constituents in the Democratic Party: African Americans. These voters are a hell of a lot more important than a bunch of 25-year-olds shouting everyone down on Twitter.
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and it was a failed coup attempt, an honest media would have made that clear.
