Vindman disappointed me and I suspect many people who serve in our military. I will disclose I’m a supporter of President Trump. I supported President Obama too while he was in office. I pledge to write this article as a neutral bystander. I watched all of the public impeachment inquiry hearings. As someone who has carried out nefarious plots against bad people over three decades; I didn’t see a nefarious plot by President Trump. What I did see in evidence was a president trying to do right by the country while not recognizing what he was doing was making him vulnerable to impeachment. The President has a duty to ascertain if the next potential president is somehow compromised. This whole Biden-Burisma cloud did need to be looked into. If President Trump had directed the Justice Department to do this and it leaked, we would be in the same place.
I will remind you that the Obama administration investigated Candidate Trump to ascertain if he was somehow compromised. What we have here is not a covert nefarious plot against the Bidens like the Obama administration did to Donald Trump, but an overt attempt to find the truth.
While I haven’t served in the military, I know soldiers must follow orders and work within their chain of command. Lt. Col. Vindman broke these two axioms. The counsel at the White House in National Security Council told Vindman to report his concerns to his supervisor, Morrison and no one else, he didn’t follow the instructions. Vindman was listening with others on the July 25th, 2019 call between President Trump and President Zelenskyy. After what Vindman had witnessed Ambassador Sondland telling Ukrainian officials at the White House made him reach possible incorrect assumptions. I’m not going to invalidate his assumption. See his statement.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s statement.
Vindman didn’t adhere to his chain of command with his concern and bypassed his supervisor. President Trump is just two steps removed from him. Why didn’t he provide his advice to President Trump? Vindman’s station was within the White House.
(A) After what Vindman had witnessed Ambassador Sondland telling Ukrainian officials at the White House made him hallucinate as to what President Trump was saying during the call. (B) Vindman’s usage of demand does confirm to me that he was the whistleblower’s source because the whistleblower used demand also. In the two pages below this page, President Trump in the green underlining isn’t making making demands to President Zelenskyy. Moreover, President Trump isn’t asking President Zelenskyy to open investigations on Hunter and Joe Biden. To me, President Trump is asking President Zelenskyy to review if Joe Biden did kill the investigation on Burisma and Hunter.
Why must we remain strategic partners with Ukraine? What has Ukraine done for us? So far, this relationship has cost us hundreds of millions of dollars that we don’t have. I don’t object to selling Ukraine weapon platforms, but to entangle with them is too costly.
Two pages from the whistleblower’s complaint. Compare President Trump’s conversation with President Zelenskyy to the whistleblower’s claims.
What I take issue is how he addressed his alarm. Our military is duty-bound to take orders from the President and to protect him. What Lt. Col. Vindman should have done with his alarm. Go to Morrison; if no satisfaction, request a meeting with John Bolton with Morrison, if no satisfaction, request a meeting with the President with Bolton and Morrison in attendance to lay out his concerns and remedies. If no satisfaction, then Vindman should have written out a complaint himself instead of shopping for someone to do it for him.
At this time, we don’t know if President Trump told Rudy Giuliani to tie an Oval Office meeting to investigations. It might be that Giuliani was pushing for the most he could get for his client, which is what a lawyer should do. No one heard President Trump make conditions for an Oval Office meeting or military aid. And no one said Giuliani told them that President Trump wanted investigations in exchange for aid and an Oval Office visit. On the contrary, Sondland testified that President Trump said, “No quid pro quo, I want nothing from Zelenskyy. I just want him to do the right thing.”
Then there’s something that everyone but me has overlooked. President Trump is a businessman. President Zelenskyy told President Trump that he wanted to buy more Javelin missiles. That order came in the neighborhood of $70 million. If President Trump hadn’t held up the $230 million of aid, Ukraine could have bought the Javelins directly with our own money. Where’s the benefit to the taxpayers in that arrangement? Of course, after the aid was received, Ukraine would reimburse themselves for the purchase of the Javelins.
I am disappointed that no one asked Dr. Fiona Hill to verify Morrison’s claim in his testimony on Lt. Col. Vindland’s alleged bad conduct.
Ambassador Volker: Game set and match.
Of course, the Democrats and the media will say President Trump is using Mafia don tactics by not issuing orders directly. First, the media and Democrats claim President Trump is an idiot that is devoid of any sophistication, now they are trying to convince us that Donald Trump is an evil genius. Every witness that was called before the inquiry was asked if they had evidence of a crime that President Trump had committed. They all said no. The Justice Department’s career lawyers who worked so hard during the Clinton-email investigation ruled no crime was committed by President Trump during the July 25th, 2019 call.
The big takeaway in all of this is the lack of communication on the part of the Ambassadors and the members of the National Security Council. But all blame rests squarely on Lt. Col. Vindman’s shoulders. Lt. Col. Vindman claims he doesn’t know who is the whistleblower. I’m certain Lt. Col. Vindman is the whistleblower’s source whether be it directly or indirectly. I’m sure if it was directly, then Lt. Col. Vindman didn’t ask if that person in the Intelligence Community if she/ he had filed the complaint. And I’m also certain that this person didn’t volunteer this to Lt. Col. Vindman.
Published by Chief Editor, Sammy Campbell. Written by Mark Pullen.