Retaliation against Military staff doing their duty isn't supposed to be allowed and Alexander Vindman is going to make sure he makes his point about it.
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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Sonam Sheth
Wed, February 2, 2022, 10:13 AM
Alexander Vindman
The National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee Washington in 2019.Andrew Harnik/AP
Vindman, an impeachment witness, filed a civil lawsuit against Trump and his allies on Wednesday.
The suit accuses Trump, Giuliani, and two Trump aides of violating the KKK Act of 1871.
It says they conspired to retaliate against Vindman for doing his duties as a federal official.
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and the Trump aides Dan Scavino and Julia Hahn.
The civil suit accuses the defendants of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which among other things prohibits conspiracies to prevent someone from holding or discharging the duties of their office or to retaliate against them for doing so. It also bars conspiracies to stop witnesses from testifying or to retaliate against them for doing so.
Vindman worked as a top Ukraine expert on Trump's National Security Council and was among several witnesses who testified to Congress during Trump's first impeachment about the president's efforts to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into launching political investigations against the Bidens ahead of the 2020 e******n.
After it became public knowledge that he was cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry, Vindman, whose family fled the former Soviet Union when he was a child and arrived in the US as refugees, was subject to a slew of antisemitic and xenophobic attacks from Trump's allies and the right-wing media.
He and his twin brother, Yevgeny, who was a lawyer on the NSC but did not participate in the impeachment hearings, were also abruptly fired and escorted off White House grounds two days after the Senate acquitted Trump of the charges in his first impeachment trial.
"We can't have a functional government or healthy democracy if witnesses can't testify, and if federal officials can't do their jobs, without fear of payback," Vindman wrote in a USA Today op-ed announcing the lawsuit on Wednesday. "I filed this lawsuit because I believe in the active role all citizens must play in upholding our democracy."
He continued later: "I hope this lawsuit will shed more light on the abuses that are chipping away at our democracy, and eventually bring a measure of justice to those who are responsible."
The suit accuses Trump and the other defendants of trying to intimidate and retaliate against Vindman by:
Holding meetings to "coordinate strategy regarding impeachment witnesses";
Putting out talking points amplifying "false narratives" about Vindman's loyalty to the US;
Publishing and repeating lies that Vindman "was a spy for Ukraine and had disparaged the United States to foreign officials";
Leaking classified information to further "the false disloyalty narrative";
Falsely claiming that Vindman lied under oath;
Publicly firing Vindman and his brother;
Trying to stop Vindman's promotion to full colonel.
Vindman's complaint also drew a direct line between efforts to stop witnesses from cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry and problems that the House select committee investigating the Capitol r**t is having securing witness testimony.
Specifically, the defendants' actions "sent a message to other potential witnesses as well: cooperate and tell the t***h at your own peril," the lawsuit said. "The message reverberates to this day, as witnesses subpoenaed by Congress in connection with its investigation into the events of J****** 6, 2021, continue to heed former President Trump's instructions to defy those subpoenas, undermining Congress's constitutional oversight role and the fundamental principle of checks and balances between three co-equal branches of government."
Vindman was a crucial witness in Congress' first impeachment inquiry into Trump's actions regarding Ukraine. He directly listened in on the infamous July 25, 2019, phone call in which Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens and the Democratic Party as a whole over bogus claims of corruption involving Joe Biden, H****r B***n, and the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings.
The former lieutenant colonel told lawmakers that he thought Trump's conduct was "inappropriate" and "improper" and threatened US national security.
He testified that he immediately f**gged his concerns to the NSC's top lawyer "out of a sense of duty," adding that the lawyer, John Eisenberg, told him not to discuss his concerns with anyone else. A transcript of the phone call was also subsequently moved to a top-secret code-word level NSC server typically used to house sensitive information pertaining to national security.
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336Robin wrote:
Retaliation against Military staff doing their duty isn't supposed to be allowed and Alexander Vindman is going to make sure he makes his point about it.
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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Sonam Sheth
Wed, February 2, 2022, 10:13 AM
Alexander Vindman
The National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee Washington in 2019.Andrew Harnik/AP
Vindman, an impeachment witness, filed a civil lawsuit against Trump and his allies on Wednesday.
The suit accuses Trump, Giuliani, and two Trump aides of violating the KKK Act of 1871.
It says they conspired to retaliate against Vindman for doing his duties as a federal official.
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and the Trump aides Dan Scavino and Julia Hahn.
The civil suit accuses the defendants of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which among other things prohibits conspiracies to prevent someone from holding or discharging the duties of their office or to retaliate against them for doing so. It also bars conspiracies to stop witnesses from testifying or to retaliate against them for doing so.
Vindman worked as a top Ukraine expert on Trump's National Security Council and was among several witnesses who testified to Congress during Trump's first impeachment about the president's efforts to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into launching political investigations against the Bidens ahead of the 2020 e******n.
After it became public knowledge that he was cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry, Vindman, whose family fled the former Soviet Union when he was a child and arrived in the US as refugees, was subject to a slew of antisemitic and xenophobic attacks from Trump's allies and the right-wing media.
He and his twin brother, Yevgeny, who was a lawyer on the NSC but did not participate in the impeachment hearings, were also abruptly fired and escorted off White House grounds two days after the Senate acquitted Trump of the charges in his first impeachment trial.
"We can't have a functional government or healthy democracy if witnesses can't testify, and if federal officials can't do their jobs, without fear of payback," Vindman wrote in a USA Today op-ed announcing the lawsuit on Wednesday. "I filed this lawsuit because I believe in the active role all citizens must play in upholding our democracy."
He continued later: "I hope this lawsuit will shed more light on the abuses that are chipping away at our democracy, and eventually bring a measure of justice to those who are responsible."
The suit accuses Trump and the other defendants of trying to intimidate and retaliate against Vindman by:
Holding meetings to "coordinate strategy regarding impeachment witnesses";
Putting out talking points amplifying "false narratives" about Vindman's loyalty to the US;
Publishing and repeating lies that Vindman "was a spy for Ukraine and had disparaged the United States to foreign officials";
Leaking classified information to further "the false disloyalty narrative";
Falsely claiming that Vindman lied under oath;
Publicly firing Vindman and his brother;
Trying to stop Vindman's promotion to full colonel.
Vindman's complaint also drew a direct line between efforts to stop witnesses from cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry and problems that the House select committee investigating the Capitol r**t is having securing witness testimony.
Specifically, the defendants' actions "sent a message to other potential witnesses as well: cooperate and tell the t***h at your own peril," the lawsuit said. "The message reverberates to this day, as witnesses subpoenaed by Congress in connection with its investigation into the events of J****** 6, 2021, continue to heed former President Trump's instructions to defy those subpoenas, undermining Congress's constitutional oversight role and the fundamental principle of checks and balances between three co-equal branches of government."
Vindman was a crucial witness in Congress' first impeachment inquiry into Trump's actions regarding Ukraine. He directly listened in on the infamous July 25, 2019, phone call in which Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens and the Democratic Party as a whole over bogus claims of corruption involving Joe Biden, H****r B***n, and the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings.
The former lieutenant colonel told lawmakers that he thought Trump's conduct was "inappropriate" and "improper" and threatened US national security.
He testified that he immediately f**gged his concerns to the NSC's top lawyer "out of a sense of duty," adding that the lawyer, John Eisenberg, told him not to discuss his concerns with anyone else. A transcript of the phone call was also subsequently moved to a top-secret code-word level NSC server typically used to house sensitive information pertaining to national security.
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Watch the trump lovers pile on with their smears now. what a joke.
336Robin wrote:
Retaliation against Military staff doing their duty isn't supposed to be allowed and Alexander Vindman is going to make sure he makes his point about it.
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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Sonam Sheth
Wed, February 2, 2022, 10:13 AM
Alexander Vindman
The National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee Washington in 2019.Andrew Harnik/AP
Vindman, an impeachment witness, filed a civil lawsuit against Trump and his allies on Wednesday.
The suit accuses Trump, Giuliani, and two Trump aides of violating the KKK Act of 1871.
It says they conspired to retaliate against Vindman for doing his duties as a federal official.
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and the Trump aides Dan Scavino and Julia Hahn.
The civil suit accuses the defendants of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which among other things prohibits conspiracies to prevent someone from holding or discharging the duties of their office or to retaliate against them for doing so. It also bars conspiracies to stop witnesses from testifying or to retaliate against them for doing so.
Vindman worked as a top Ukraine expert on Trump's National Security Council and was among several witnesses who testified to Congress during Trump's first impeachment about the president's efforts to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into launching political investigations against the Bidens ahead of the 2020 e******n.
After it became public knowledge that he was cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry, Vindman, whose family fled the former Soviet Union when he was a child and arrived in the US as refugees, was subject to a slew of antisemitic and xenophobic attacks from Trump's allies and the right-wing media.
He and his twin brother, Yevgeny, who was a lawyer on the NSC but did not participate in the impeachment hearings, were also abruptly fired and escorted off White House grounds two days after the Senate acquitted Trump of the charges in his first impeachment trial.
"We can't have a functional government or healthy democracy if witnesses can't testify, and if federal officials can't do their jobs, without fear of payback," Vindman wrote in a USA Today op-ed announcing the lawsuit on Wednesday. "I filed this lawsuit because I believe in the active role all citizens must play in upholding our democracy."
He continued later: "I hope this lawsuit will shed more light on the abuses that are chipping away at our democracy, and eventually bring a measure of justice to those who are responsible."
The suit accuses Trump and the other defendants of trying to intimidate and retaliate against Vindman by:
Holding meetings to "coordinate strategy regarding impeachment witnesses";
Putting out talking points amplifying "false narratives" about Vindman's loyalty to the US;
Publishing and repeating lies that Vindman "was a spy for Ukraine and had disparaged the United States to foreign officials";
Leaking classified information to further "the false disloyalty narrative";
Falsely claiming that Vindman lied under oath;
Publicly firing Vindman and his brother;
Trying to stop Vindman's promotion to full colonel.
Vindman's complaint also drew a direct line between efforts to stop witnesses from cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry and problems that the House select committee investigating the Capitol r**t is having securing witness testimony.
Specifically, the defendants' actions "sent a message to other potential witnesses as well: cooperate and tell the t***h at your own peril," the lawsuit said. "The message reverberates to this day, as witnesses subpoenaed by Congress in connection with its investigation into the events of J****** 6, 2021, continue to heed former President Trump's instructions to defy those subpoenas, undermining Congress's constitutional oversight role and the fundamental principle of checks and balances between three co-equal branches of government."
Vindman was a crucial witness in Congress' first impeachment inquiry into Trump's actions regarding Ukraine. He directly listened in on the infamous July 25, 2019, phone call in which Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens and the Democratic Party as a whole over bogus claims of corruption involving Joe Biden, H****r B***n, and the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings.
The former lieutenant colonel told lawmakers that he thought Trump's conduct was "inappropriate" and "improper" and threatened US national security.
He testified that he immediately f**gged his concerns to the NSC's top lawyer "out of a sense of duty," adding that the lawyer, John Eisenberg, told him not to discuss his concerns with anyone else. A transcript of the phone call was also subsequently moved to a top-secret code-word level NSC server typically used to house sensitive information pertaining to national security.
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will you guys ever get tired of going after Trumo. So much better, 10'x better than Brandon.
336Robin wrote:
Retaliation against Military staff doing their duty isn't supposed to be allowed and Alexander Vindman is going to make sure he makes his point about it.
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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Sonam Sheth
Wed, February 2, 2022, 10:13 AM
Alexander Vindman
The National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee Washington in 2019.Andrew Harnik/AP
Vindman, an impeachment witness, filed a civil lawsuit against Trump and his allies on Wednesday.
The suit accuses Trump, Giuliani, and two Trump aides of violating the KKK Act of 1871.
It says they conspired to retaliate against Vindman for doing his duties as a federal official.
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and the Trump aides Dan Scavino and Julia Hahn.
The civil suit accuses the defendants of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which among other things prohibits conspiracies to prevent someone from holding or discharging the duties of their office or to retaliate against them for doing so. It also bars conspiracies to stop witnesses from testifying or to retaliate against them for doing so.
Vindman worked as a top Ukraine expert on Trump's National Security Council and was among several witnesses who testified to Congress during Trump's first impeachment about the president's efforts to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into launching political investigations against the Bidens ahead of the 2020 e******n.
After it became public knowledge that he was cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry, Vindman, whose family fled the former Soviet Union when he was a child and arrived in the US as refugees, was subject to a slew of antisemitic and xenophobic attacks from Trump's allies and the right-wing media.
He and his twin brother, Yevgeny, who was a lawyer on the NSC but did not participate in the impeachment hearings, were also abruptly fired and escorted off White House grounds two days after the Senate acquitted Trump of the charges in his first impeachment trial.
"We can't have a functional government or healthy democracy if witnesses can't testify, and if federal officials can't do their jobs, without fear of payback," Vindman wrote in a USA Today op-ed announcing the lawsuit on Wednesday. "I filed this lawsuit because I believe in the active role all citizens must play in upholding our democracy."
He continued later: "I hope this lawsuit will shed more light on the abuses that are chipping away at our democracy, and eventually bring a measure of justice to those who are responsible."
The suit accuses Trump and the other defendants of trying to intimidate and retaliate against Vindman by:
Holding meetings to "coordinate strategy regarding impeachment witnesses";
Putting out talking points amplifying "false narratives" about Vindman's loyalty to the US;
Publishing and repeating lies that Vindman "was a spy for Ukraine and had disparaged the United States to foreign officials";
Leaking classified information to further "the false disloyalty narrative";
Falsely claiming that Vindman lied under oath;
Publicly firing Vindman and his brother;
Trying to stop Vindman's promotion to full colonel.
Vindman's complaint also drew a direct line between efforts to stop witnesses from cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry and problems that the House select committee investigating the Capitol r**t is having securing witness testimony.
Specifically, the defendants' actions "sent a message to other potential witnesses as well: cooperate and tell the t***h at your own peril," the lawsuit said. "The message reverberates to this day, as witnesses subpoenaed by Congress in connection with its investigation into the events of J****** 6, 2021, continue to heed former President Trump's instructions to defy those subpoenas, undermining Congress's constitutional oversight role and the fundamental principle of checks and balances between three co-equal branches of government."
Vindman was a crucial witness in Congress' first impeachment inquiry into Trump's actions regarding Ukraine. He directly listened in on the infamous July 25, 2019, phone call in which Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens and the Democratic Party as a whole over bogus claims of corruption involving Joe Biden, H****r B***n, and the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings.
The former lieutenant colonel told lawmakers that he thought Trump's conduct was "inappropriate" and "improper" and threatened US national security.
He testified that he immediately f**gged his concerns to the NSC's top lawyer "out of a sense of duty," adding that the lawyer, John Eisenberg, told him not to discuss his concerns with anyone else. A transcript of the phone call was also subsequently moved to a top-secret code-word level NSC server typically used to house sensitive information pertaining to national security.
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Just shows the left's utter mentally unbalanced desperation.
336Robin wrote:
Retaliation against Military staff doing their duty isn't supposed to be allowed and Alexander Vindman is going to make sure he makes his point about it.
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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Sonam Sheth
Wed, February 2, 2022, 10:13 AM
Alexander Vindman
The National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee Washington in 2019.Andrew Harnik/AP
Vindman, an impeachment witness, filed a civil lawsuit against Trump and his allies on Wednesday.
The suit accuses Trump, Giuliani, and two Trump aides of violating the KKK Act of 1871.
It says they conspired to retaliate against Vindman for doing his duties as a federal official.
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and the Trump aides Dan Scavino and Julia Hahn.
The civil suit accuses the defendants of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which among other things prohibits conspiracies to prevent someone from holding or discharging the duties of their office or to retaliate against them for doing so. It also bars conspiracies to stop witnesses from testifying or to retaliate against them for doing so.
Vindman worked as a top Ukraine expert on Trump's National Security Council and was among several witnesses who testified to Congress during Trump's first impeachment about the president's efforts to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into launching political investigations against the Bidens ahead of the 2020 e******n.
After it became public knowledge that he was cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry, Vindman, whose family fled the former Soviet Union when he was a child and arrived in the US as refugees, was subject to a slew of antisemitic and xenophobic attacks from Trump's allies and the right-wing media.
He and his twin brother, Yevgeny, who was a lawyer on the NSC but did not participate in the impeachment hearings, were also abruptly fired and escorted off White House grounds two days after the Senate acquitted Trump of the charges in his first impeachment trial.
"We can't have a functional government or healthy democracy if witnesses can't testify, and if federal officials can't do their jobs, without fear of payback," Vindman wrote in a USA Today op-ed announcing the lawsuit on Wednesday. "I filed this lawsuit because I believe in the active role all citizens must play in upholding our democracy."
He continued later: "I hope this lawsuit will shed more light on the abuses that are chipping away at our democracy, and eventually bring a measure of justice to those who are responsible."
The suit accuses Trump and the other defendants of trying to intimidate and retaliate against Vindman by:
Holding meetings to "coordinate strategy regarding impeachment witnesses";
Putting out talking points amplifying "false narratives" about Vindman's loyalty to the US;
Publishing and repeating lies that Vindman "was a spy for Ukraine and had disparaged the United States to foreign officials";
Leaking classified information to further "the false disloyalty narrative";
Falsely claiming that Vindman lied under oath;
Publicly firing Vindman and his brother;
Trying to stop Vindman's promotion to full colonel.
Vindman's complaint also drew a direct line between efforts to stop witnesses from cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry and problems that the House select committee investigating the Capitol r**t is having securing witness testimony.
Specifically, the defendants' actions "sent a message to other potential witnesses as well: cooperate and tell the t***h at your own peril," the lawsuit said. "The message reverberates to this day, as witnesses subpoenaed by Congress in connection with its investigation into the events of J****** 6, 2021, continue to heed former President Trump's instructions to defy those subpoenas, undermining Congress's constitutional oversight role and the fundamental principle of checks and balances between three co-equal branches of government."
Vindman was a crucial witness in Congress' first impeachment inquiry into Trump's actions regarding Ukraine. He directly listened in on the infamous July 25, 2019, phone call in which Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens and the Democratic Party as a whole over bogus claims of corruption involving Joe Biden, H****r B***n, and the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings.
The former lieutenant colonel told lawmakers that he thought Trump's conduct was "inappropriate" and "improper" and threatened US national security.
He testified that he immediately f**gged his concerns to the NSC's top lawyer "out of a sense of duty," adding that the lawyer, John Eisenberg, told him not to discuss his concerns with anyone else. A transcript of the phone call was also subsequently moved to a top-secret code-word level NSC server typically used to house sensitive information pertaining to national security.
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Are you grateful to Trump for letting bunch of you live rent free in his head????😁😁😁
proud republican wrote:
Are you grateful to Trump for letting bunch of you live rent free in his head????😁😁😁
GOOD question, hope you are feeling better nowadays !
336Robin wrote:
Retaliation against Military staff doing their duty isn't supposed to be allowed and Alexander Vindman is going to make sure he makes his point about it.
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Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman files federal lawsuit accusing Trump and Rudy Giuliani of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act
Sonam Sheth
Wed, February 2, 2022, 10:13 AM
Alexander Vindman
The National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman is sworn in to testify before the House Intelligence Committee Washington in 2019.Andrew Harnik/AP
Vindman, an impeachment witness, filed a civil lawsuit against Trump and his allies on Wednesday.
The suit accuses Trump, Giuliani, and two Trump aides of violating the KKK Act of 1871.
It says they conspired to retaliate against Vindman for doing his duties as a federal official.
Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman filed a federal lawsuit on Wednesday against former President Donald Trump, former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, and the Trump aides Dan Scavino and Julia Hahn.
The civil suit accuses the defendants of violating the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, which among other things prohibits conspiracies to prevent someone from holding or discharging the duties of their office or to retaliate against them for doing so. It also bars conspiracies to stop witnesses from testifying or to retaliate against them for doing so.
Vindman worked as a top Ukraine expert on Trump's National Security Council and was among several witnesses who testified to Congress during Trump's first impeachment about the president's efforts to strong-arm the Ukrainian government into launching political investigations against the Bidens ahead of the 2020 e******n.
After it became public knowledge that he was cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry, Vindman, whose family fled the former Soviet Union when he was a child and arrived in the US as refugees, was subject to a slew of antisemitic and xenophobic attacks from Trump's allies and the right-wing media.
He and his twin brother, Yevgeny, who was a lawyer on the NSC but did not participate in the impeachment hearings, were also abruptly fired and escorted off White House grounds two days after the Senate acquitted Trump of the charges in his first impeachment trial.
"We can't have a functional government or healthy democracy if witnesses can't testify, and if federal officials can't do their jobs, without fear of payback," Vindman wrote in a USA Today op-ed announcing the lawsuit on Wednesday. "I filed this lawsuit because I believe in the active role all citizens must play in upholding our democracy."
He continued later: "I hope this lawsuit will shed more light on the abuses that are chipping away at our democracy, and eventually bring a measure of justice to those who are responsible."
The suit accuses Trump and the other defendants of trying to intimidate and retaliate against Vindman by:
Holding meetings to "coordinate strategy regarding impeachment witnesses";
Putting out talking points amplifying "false narratives" about Vindman's loyalty to the US;
Publishing and repeating lies that Vindman "was a spy for Ukraine and had disparaged the United States to foreign officials";
Leaking classified information to further "the false disloyalty narrative";
Falsely claiming that Vindman lied under oath;
Publicly firing Vindman and his brother;
Trying to stop Vindman's promotion to full colonel.
Vindman's complaint also drew a direct line between efforts to stop witnesses from cooperating with Congress' impeachment inquiry and problems that the House select committee investigating the Capitol r**t is having securing witness testimony.
Specifically, the defendants' actions "sent a message to other potential witnesses as well: cooperate and tell the t***h at your own peril," the lawsuit said. "The message reverberates to this day, as witnesses subpoenaed by Congress in connection with its investigation into the events of J****** 6, 2021, continue to heed former President Trump's instructions to defy those subpoenas, undermining Congress's constitutional oversight role and the fundamental principle of checks and balances between three co-equal branches of government."
Vindman was a crucial witness in Congress' first impeachment inquiry into Trump's actions regarding Ukraine. He directly listened in on the infamous July 25, 2019, phone call in which Trump pressured Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate the Bidens and the Democratic Party as a whole over bogus claims of corruption involving Joe Biden, H****r B***n, and the Ukrainian natural-gas company Burisma Holdings.
The former lieutenant colonel told lawmakers that he thought Trump's conduct was "inappropriate" and "improper" and threatened US national security.
He testified that he immediately f**gged his concerns to the NSC's top lawyer "out of a sense of duty," adding that the lawyer, John Eisenberg, told him not to discuss his concerns with anyone else. A transcript of the phone call was also subsequently moved to a top-secret code-word level NSC server typically used to house sensitive information pertaining to national security.
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Good for him. Hope the award is a very large one..
Of course you do. He is an ELWNJ cut from your cloth. CLPOS.
American Vet wrote:
Of course you do. He is an ELWNJ cut from your cloth. CLPOS.
HA HA HA.. such a silly reply from a true dork..
You are overjoyed because a coward shi* for brains do nothing took out his anger on an honorable military Lt. Col. who pointed out violations of ethics and law...
Well, I will keep working for this nation of mine, despite the damning of you and your orange sprayed lily livered gutless coward..
Once more.... I hope the award is a huge one....
American Vet wrote:
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and some fool like you would pull some BS by breitbart out of your butt and another lie from some other obscure right wing fish wrap and call it explained.. the cork stopper the used to soil the oval will be rotting in jail if not die first..
Try and think clearly.... If what you stutter were true, why would he file a lawsuit and have the smallest expectan that he would win???
I hope his reward is huge and they find some money in trump land to pay it..
permafrost wrote:
and some fool like you would pull some BS by breitbart out of your butt and another lie from some other obscure right wing fish wrap and call it explained.. the cork stopper the used to soil the oval will be rotting in jail if not die first..
Try and think clearly.... If what you stutter were true, why would he file a lawsuit and have the smallest expectan that he would win???
I hope his reward is huge and they find some money in trump land to pay it..
Typical ELWNJ (but not a very bright one): Can't refute the message but attacks the messenger.
Why? He is a democrat - follow the money.....or do I need to explain that to you?
American Vet wrote:
Typical ELWNJ (but not a very bright one): Can't refute the message but attacks the messenger.
Why? He is a democrat - follow the money.....or do I need to explain that to you?
the message?? The false message by the lying right wing fish wrap.. that is what the false article said and apparently anything else is beyond your comprehension.. so enjoy..
I do hope trump finds your money so he can pay the man rather the just the lawyers..
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