National Security Council staffers uneasy, fear Trump backlash

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Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman departed Capitol Hill after dark on Tuesday after spending more than 10 hours detailing his concerns at President Trump's handling of foreign policy. The next morning he returned to his desk as Trump's top Ukraine expert.

The swift return to work for one of the impeachment inquiry's central witnesses -- who the President and his allies decried as a"never-Trumper" with ulterior motives, even as he remains on the President's National Security Council staff -- illustrates the predicament facing staffers as the proceedings advance.

Attendee: Bolton criticized Trump at closed-door event 00:30Some National Security Council officials -- particularly those not working on top White House priorities like the Middle East or Asia -- increasingly feel undervalued and sidelined in the policy-making process, according to people familiar with the dynamic. Like Vindman, much of the National Security Council staff is drawn from the Pentagon, State Department or the US intelligence agencies.

White House NSC official says he sounded the alarm after Trump's Ukraine call 02:33Trump's interactions with much of the National Security Council staff have been fleeting, and he has made a point of announcing that some of the most damaging testimony against him comes from people he doesn't know."Why are people that I never even heard of testifying about the call," he wrote on Twitter on Tuesday just ahead of Vindman's arrival, in his military uniform, on Capitol Hill.

House Dems' resolution potentially expands role in impeachment inquiry for GOPers 01:40 The impeachment probe also ramped up at a moment when there was already a cloud of uncertainty hanging over the National Security Council as officials adjusted to their new leader, Robert O'Brien, who replaced former national security adviser John Bolton last month. Officials who were looking to O'Brien for direction on how to handle the impeachment probe haven't found it, they say.

 

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Vindman is a show boat, with an axe to grind cause his candidate lost. The Democrats announced before President Trump took office that they were going to impeach him. That is totally not how impeachment works first there must be a CRIME then the investigation not the opposite!!!

Blackmailed traitor colonel Vindman admitted he wanted to ALTER the transcript by adding stuff he claims he heard Trump say. In other words, the conversation had NOTHING impeachable so now let's MAKE it impeachable. TheseLosersAreStupid

He should be arrested for espionage! SovietSpy

Funny how military service is being viewed by the left as some form of virtue when it serves their purpose. Take this for example: he’s treated as noble, patriotic and infallible due to service in combat. Yet Tulsi is treated with disdain and disrespect.

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Piss on his concerns. We have the transcript and it is a dud! Now why don’t you report on the whistleblower Eric Ciaramella ? Partisan hack worked for the coup. Sad

Go Lt. Col Vindman -- you rock and are a rock! You inspire many!

But is he the guy the whistle blower got his info from? Schiff didn’t allow that question.

Pathetically sad that fear of trump's wrath is sorry. He is so not worth it. He is loathsome and a bore.

Everyone of your men are jumping ship.

Anybody who works for the US government has the right to not be intimidated, harrassed or threatened by ANY ONE - INCLUDING THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.

The message Patriot Vindman wants tRump to know 👇🏽

No mention of how he was fired and who he worked for. So sad. So desperate. So exposecnn

Jeff Epstein was hushed before he could spend hours detailing what many did. Wonder who “suicided him” to hush him?

I hope he is being protected

Corrupt news network. Vindman is a Brennan bureaucrat hack. Trying to cya for the Russian hoax.

Did he actually say he advised Ukraine on how to deal with the US president? If so, that is a big problem.

Why is ANYONE scared of the vomit bag in the Oval Office

The man has a purple heart and a chest covered with ribbons - I don't think Trump scares him!

Deep state partisans like Eric Ciaramella, who betray the trust of the President & conspire to weaponize the bureaucracy of the U.S. against it's own citizens, deserve no sanctuary. 62 million Americans will not stand by quietly, on the sidelines of history. StopTheCoup

That guy’s a real patriot

Patriot

10 wasted hours, courtesy of the Democrats

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