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Soph0571

(9,685 posts)
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 02:25 PM Feb 2020

Vindictive wanker behaves like a vindictive wanker? Surprise!

Sondland and Vindman were both planning to leave — but Trump pushed them out early to humiliate them: CNN

According to CNN’s sources, both Sondland and Vindman “had seen their standings diminished significantly after they appeared before Congress and under subpoena” during the House of Representatives’ impeachment inquiry, which prompted them to begin planning their exits.

However, sources described as “familiar” with Trump’s thinking said that the president “didn’t want them to go quietly,” despite pleas from advisers and Republican senators to not create a public spectacle by firing prominent impeachment witnesses.

[link:https://www.rawstory.com/2020/02/sondland-and-vindman-were-both-planning-to-leave-but-trump-pushed-them-out-early-to-humiliate-them-cnn/|]

He is just so fucking petty...
I have no sympathy for Sondland of course but for the CIC to break the law for childish point scoring, against people standing up for the rule of law... November cannot come soon enough. Bloody big man baby.

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Vindictive wanker behaves like a vindictive wanker? Surprise! (Original Post) Soph0571 Feb 2020 OP
Like firing Andy McCabe the day before he became eligible for his pension The Velveteen Ocelot Feb 2020 #1
It surprised me that McCabe's firing didn't cause more of a backlash. Midnight Writer Feb 2020 #7
Thinks he's still on The Apprentice Roland99 Feb 2020 #2
What do you expect? It's not like he has a dog to kick. CaptYossarian Feb 2020 #3
I don't think he fires anyone.. stillcool Feb 2020 #4
I used to have a boss like that... Soph0571 Feb 2020 #5
that had me for a minute... stillcool Feb 2020 #6
Aye Aye Guv Soph0571 Feb 2020 #8

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,597 posts)
1. Like firing Andy McCabe the day before he became eligible for his pension
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 02:29 PM
Feb 2020

even though he was about to retire anyhow. Just to fuck with him, because he could.

Midnight Writer

(21,716 posts)
7. It surprised me that McCabe's firing didn't cause more of a backlash.
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 03:43 PM
Feb 2020

The practice of firing (or downsizing) employees just to screw them out of pensions is something most working folk have seen personally.

That would be, I thought, the straw to break the camel's back, but it hardly made a stir.

CaptYossarian

(6,448 posts)
3. What do you expect? It's not like he has a dog to kick.
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 02:52 PM
Feb 2020

And he hasn't figured out whose children to kidnap next.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)
6. that had me for a minute...
Mon Feb 10, 2020, 03:34 PM
Feb 2020

bloody trousers? Why would the trousers be bloody? What happened to him?...and then, I could hear the accent.

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