“Fox & Friends” co-host Brian Kilmeade doesn’t understand all the fuss over his suspicions that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who has served on the National Security Council since 2018, has an “affinity to the Ukrainian people.”
When you got a shovel you gotta use it.
Kilmeade doesn’t like it that people have concluded his remark was tacky and problematic. Vindman is the White House Ukrainian specialist. Hell yes he has an affinity for Ukraine. That is his job.
Anyway, what does “have an affinity for Ukraine” mean in this context. Vindman doesn’t approve of Trump trying to strong arm campaign dirt from Ukraine, an American ally with the Russian bear on its border, in exchange for badly needed military aid congress had approved.
It’s about time for a “previously planned vacation to knit sweaters for the elderly” or some other nonsense.
‘Farcical’? Now there’s a subject about which Kilmeade likely has some insight.
Yeah, doesn’t he have some type of family he needs to spend time with?
“There is no doubt about it, this lieutenant colonel was born in Ukraine. He came here . . .”
No, Brian, he was brought here. By his parents. When he was three.
His testimony and conclusions may be questioned and tested, Brian, but not based on the un-American notion that a citizen born outside the United States can legitimately be suspected of dual loyalties.
See: Japanese internment camps, Jewish Americans, etc.
“…it doesn’t make any sense to me.”
I’m guessing Short Bus Kilmeade says that a lot.
Reducing him to “a great warfighter” now… I guess Republicans no longer consider those who serve to be American Patriots. They are just “war fighters,” perhaps no better than mercenaries.
Of course not… he still thinks tRump is a good guy
Good deal…
Evan McMullin is a rather dour and morose observer these days, believing that Trump will pull himself out of even this jam**.
But even McMullin sez that this trashing of Vindman is going to go south on Trump & Crew.
**I do not agree with his assessment on that
So let’s look at the careers of the following 2 men to compare their service and fealty to the United States:
Lt. Col. Vindman
Military service
Allegiance 
United States
Branch/service 
United States Army
Years of service 1999–present
Rank 
Lieutenant colonel
Battles/wars War in Iraq
Awards 
Purple Heart
Defense Meritorious Service Medal (2)
Army Commendation Medal (4)
Army Achievement Medal (2)
Army Valorous Unit Award
Navy Unit Commendation
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Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation[1]
“By the time one reaches the rank of Lieutenant Colonel, you take the oath five times to support and defend the Constitution of the US against all enemies, foreign and domestic—not to defend a political party nor a president. It’s an oath to defend the nation.” Amy Garth
Brian Kilmeade: Service to his country and years in military:
None.
Need more be said.
The same goes for Sean Duffy who spent his 20s on MTV’s The Real World and the Real World/Road Rules Challenge while Vindman was serving his country.
We don’t even need to go into details about pResident Bonespurs.
But was the potty training patriotic?
No, Brian, he was *brought* here. *By his parents* . When he was *three* .
Yes, but those first three years are when we develop most of our beliefs about political and economic systems in the wider world.
Everyone knows that…
I want someone, anyone, to bring up the fact that the FLOTUS has ‘an affinity’ for the Soviet Block.
Isn’t this “dual loyalties” trope what got Ilhan Omar in trouble, when she said something vague and the Rs screamed she was anti-Semitic? Vindman’s family were Jewish refugees from the Soviet Union. Would it be OK if Kilmeade and Laura Ingraham and Jon Yoo and Sean Duffy said he had dual loyalties to Israel?
By the way, loved it yesterday when Nicolle Wallace called Ingraham, Yoo, Duffy, et al “chickenshit.”
Work on your sentence structure dude. You had time to think about what you wanted to say.
Also, try this next time, “Some viewers found my comments recognizing V as an immigrant from the Soviet Union as an attempt to use this fact to discredit him. This was not my intention and I fully recognize the government persecution the Jews suffered under the Soviet regime.”
Something like that next time?
war boy
kinda like when people question the rationale for going to war, then they get accused of being unpatriotic.