Ex-Vindman Supervisor Slams Graham | Talking Points Memo

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s former supervisor, Brig. Gen. Peter Zwack, took aim at Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) after the senator defended Vindman’s abrupt ouster by President Trump.


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Vindman’s Ex-Supervisor Says He’s Lost Respect For Lindsey Graham

Buy a ticket and get in line.

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LTC Vindman - one peice of advise, your brother and you need to SUE THE ORANGE HAIRED BASTARD. This was not a policy decision, but a retaliatory political firing. It was illegal, and you need to sue, and name, everyone connected with it.

Since you will file in DC, you will win, and discovery will be fun. The problem will be collecting from a hopefully bankrupt Trump.

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Exactly what I was going to say. Exactly.

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“I met you when you was in Afghanistan in 2008, when you arrived with Senator McCain and Joe Lieberman as part of the three amigos. We thought you guys were rock stars. Where are you now, sir?”

Performing at remote Indian Casinos in the Arizona desert.

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Me three.

Oh, and a friendly bit of advice to damn near everyone in the GOP: You’re concerned, you’re troubled, damn near all of you, we all know it, it’s been widely reported. This isn’t funny anymore, is the thing. You can’t go along with the gag any more. He’s hurting innocent people, vulnerable people, and quite often the best people. You can’t be a decent person and go along with that. You can’t say what do you want, Warren as president? None of your excuses matter. SPEAK UP AND SAVE YOUR SOULS. Because seriously, you folks, time is running out.

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Do you really want a screwed over intelligence expert on European Affairs digging up your Kompromat, Lindsey?

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“I met you when you was in Afghanistan in 2008, when you arrived with Senator McCain and Joe Lieberman as part of the three amigos. We thought you guys were rock stars.

Oof, among other things, that was tough to read without groaning out loud at work.

This ain’t your daddy’s Lindsey Graham.

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Guess we’re in line after Mr. Von Holst.

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Where does that put me? I know I’m behind you and @mattinpa, and y’all are behind some others…

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Buzzer game. You neglect it at your peril. Too many great minds thinking alike. :nerd_face:

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What was that old saying: And when they came for me, there was no one to speak up?

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“I think that seniors at a very, very high level should not dump that way publicly by statement or the God gun of a tweet in demeaning his personality,” Zwack said.

Ι’d prefer they not dump that way publicly either. At least find an opaque bush. “God gun?” Is this some kind of military jargon?

“And the other thing that offends me greatly is so many other people have piled in that don’t even know him.”

I can tell he’s never been to a CPAC convention.

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Yeah, the Niemoller thing, but honestly I think more about the collaborationists in France. Nobody shrugged and said eh bien, what could you do? They could have not collaborated, was how most saw it. In my own small way, like abandoning certain ex-friends forever, I’ve begun.

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I am surprised that he ever had respect for Lindsey Graham. To my mind, Graham has always been a self-satisfied, disingenuous prick.

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What did any of that mean?

Am I having a stroke?

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You know what happened to collaborators after the war - the Resistance hunted them down.

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Sounds like a Batman and Robin caption bubble.

Kinda fitting when he’s going after a cartoon Senator.

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Your guess is as good as mine.

I doubt it, that was really unintelligible. The general sounds not quite all there.

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Yup, the only news is that the General had respect for Graham in the first place.

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