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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsNeither Johnson nor Tillis raised any objection to the ouster of Vindman
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-escalates-campaign-of-retribution-as-republican-senators-shrug/2020/02/11/a386a50c-4ce1-11ea-b721-9f4cdc90bc1c_story.html?<<snip>>
Some Senate Republicans said they were more concerned about Sondlands fate. Sens. Ron Johnson (R-Wis.) and Thom Tillis (R-N.C.) said that they tried to save Sondland, a major GOP donor, from the embarrassment of being fired on the same day as Vindman. Both senators said they talked to senior White House officials when they learned that Sondlands job was in jeopardy.
I just wanted him to be able to leave with dignity, Johnson said Monday evening. Sondland was said to have been willing to resign his E.U. post within a few weeks had he been given the time.
Neither Johnson nor Tillis raised any objection to the ouster of Vindman, a nonpartisan official who was awarded a Purple Heart for his service in the Iraq War.
Tillis said his motivation for contacting the White House was simply to create some separation between Vindman and Sondlands dismissals as a way of helping to preserve the public image of Sondland, a Portland-based hotelier whose $1 million in donations to Trumps 2017 inaugural committee paved his way into the presidents inner circle.
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Neither Johnson nor Tillis raised any objection to the ouster of Vindman (Original Post)
dajoki
Feb 2020
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Generic Other
(28,979 posts)1. insert Niemuller quote here
And then they came for the donors...
mercuryblues
(14,531 posts)2. If you unscramble their combined names
it reads... fucking rat bastard cowards,
Amazing, I know.
Docreed2003
(16,858 posts)3. A decorated service member
Gave courageous testimony under oath and is facing blowback from his "commander in chief", but let's protect the wealthy donor...
Fuck every one of these spineless bastards.
safeinOhio
(32,674 posts)4. They might remind him of those words in Red
And forgive us our sins; for we also forgive every one that is indebted to us.