In Trump's GOP, Purple Heart Winners Aren't Patriots Unless They're Loyal to the President
WASHINGTON — The Trump-owned Republican Party showed no hesitation in attacking the integrity and credibility of Special Counsel Robert Mueller despite his being a Vietnam War veteran and Purple Heart winner. In the cult of Trump, defending the president outweighed any other concerns, including the GOP’s allegiance to anything involving “the troops.”
But what if the messenger were an active duty officer, a self-described “patriot” who, acting out of a “sense of duty” to his country, criticized President Trump’s actions? Would the GOP take this officer at his word and defend his decision to speak up — or would it attack him too?
The latest government official to come forward with concerns about Trump’s insistence that Ukraine investigate his political rival Joe Biden and the 2016 election is Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an Army officer and the leading Ukraine expert on the National Security Council. An American who was awarded a Purple Heart for his service in Iraq, Vindman was scheduled for a deposition interview with investigators on Tuesday as part of the House’s impeachment investigation into the Trump-Ukraine scandal.
According to his prepared remarks, Vindman planned to tell investigators that he believed it was improper for the president to “demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen,” and that he feared “the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine.” He planned to tell investigators that “I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained.” The result of that would “undermine national security,” he planned to say.
The president’s allies responded by — you guessed it — attacking Vindman.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/vindman-testimony-impeachment-trump-gop-laura-ingraham-905246/
Didn't start with Trump. We all remember what John Kerry went through.
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