Lt. Col. Vindman was just "escorted" out of the White House by security and told his services were no longer needed.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/vindman-who-provided-key-impeachment-testimony-escorted-white-house-attorney-n1132526?cid=sm_npd_nn_tw_mtp
Lawyer: "There is no question in the mind of any American why this man’s job is over, why this country now has one less soldier serving it at the White House. LTC Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth. His honor, his commitment to right, frightened the powerful."
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1225888563801268224
NEWS via LTC Vindman’s atty: “Today, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman was escorted out of the White House where he has dutifully served his country and his President. He does so having spoken publicly once, and only pursuant to a subpoena from the United States Congress.”
https://twitter.com/GeoffRBennett/status/1225883986259566592
Full statement (Vindman):
https://twitter.com/NatashaBertrand/status/1225888493286674434
“The truth has cost LTC Alexander Vindman his job, his career, and his privacy.”
So who is coordinating Ukraine policy at the NSC? Vindman is gone, and the Senior Director for Russia and a Europe was “escorted out of the White House” last month.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/andrew-peek-nsc-russia-director-was-under-suspicion-before-he-got-the-white-house-job
A reminder that yesterday, while talking about Vindman, Trump for some reason also mentioned his brother, Eugene, who was not an impeachment witness.
https://twitter.com/AaronBlake/status/1225887433474166785
Escorted out of the White House? What the hell ! NSA O'Brien should be throwing Lt. Col. Vindman a farewell party. That's what we did for departing NSC directors, who had served their country honorably, when I worked at the White House/NSC. Such a disgrace.
https://twitter.com/McFaul/status/1225886618231296000
He told us in 2016, "You have to go after their families"..........
Pete Buttigieg won almost all the caucuses, almost all the campaign volunteers whose candidates did not qualify realigned themselves with Pete.
https://results.thecaucuses.org/
https://www.thegreenpapers.com/P20/IA-D#0203
Gordon Sondland Fired As EU Ambassador
https://www.thedailybeast.com/gordon-sondland-recalled-as-eu-ambassador
James Comey: As usual, Trump called me a sleaze. But the audience reaction to his rant was more upsetting. | The important thing was what happened in the audience, where there were plenty of intelligent people of deep commitment to religious principle. They laughed and smiled and clapped as a president of the United States lied, bullied, cursed and belittled the faith of other leaders. That was the deeply disturbing part of the East Room moment, and should challenge us all. How it is possible that they didn’t get up and walk out — that they seemed to participate actively in something they should know was deeply wrong? How could they smile and laugh? Because they are people. And, like all people, they too easily surrender their individual moral authority to a group, where it can be hijacked by the loudest, harshest voice. I know because I’ve done it. | It is his gift, as it has been the gift of demagogues throughout history, to play on human weakness. He knows that good, principled people — who would never lie, curse or belittle the faith of another person — will go along, be swept along, at a rally, in a meeting, maybe silent, maybe smiling, maybe on their feet waving a MAGA hat. But they will go along. They will still their inner voices. That’s the scary lesson of the East Room rant. There were good people in that White House on Thursday. And they went along. We have passed through the legal and constitutional trials of the Trump era. They were painful, but we now face our greatest trial, because it is about each of us, alone. And especially about those who were, or are, Republicans. Will they assert personal, core values in the face of a powerfully human temptation to surrender them? Or will they still those inner voices, smile tightly in places like the East Room, and drift with the crowd? We will know in just nine months.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/james-comey-as-usual-trump-called-me-a-sleaze-but-the-audience-reaction-to-his-rant-was-more-upsetting/2020/02/07/1c421146-49d8-11ea-b4d9-29cc419287eb_story.html
Treasury Department Hands Over Hunter Biden Info After Withholding Trump's Tax Records. They want to justify their refusal to impeach Trump by claiming he was right about chasing corruption. Which is moot because had Biden done everything they accuse him of, Trump’s actions were still illegal and impeachable.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/senate-republicans-hunter-biden_n_5e3c61bfc5b6b70886fc4ed4
Antarctica logs hottest temperature on record with a reading of 18.3C | A new record set so soon after the previous record of 17.5C in March 2015 is a sign warming in Antartica is happening much faster than global average
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/07/antarctica-logs-hottest-temperature-on-record-with-a-reading-of-183c
Downpour in Australia knocks back a third of New South Wales' fires in one day
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/02/06/world/australia-rain-bushfire-trnd/index.html
Bumblebees' decline points to mass extinction – Populations disappearing in areas where temperatures are getting hotter, scientists say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/06/bumblebees-decline-points-to-mass-extinction-study
Hundreds of people turned out for the funeral of a World War Two veteran who had no surviving relatives
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-51389580
After impeachment whitewash, Trump ramps up the politics of revenge | Feeling vindicated, Trump turns to policies that punish "enemies," including Puerto Rico, New York and California, and all the witnesses who testified against him
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/07/after-impeachment-whitewash-trump-ramps-up-the-politics-of-revenge/
Chinese Authorities Say Someone Caught Coronavirus After Being Exposed for Just 15 Seconds: Several cases of rapid infection have been reported as China scrambles to contain the epidemic.
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/v747jx/chinese-authorities-say-it-takes-just-15-seconds-for-coronavirus-to-spread
Shitstain Sanders: If the DNC is so corrupt and evil, run third party
Video Shows Controversial Use Of Force Inside An ICE Detention Center
https://www.npr.org/2020/02/06/802939294/exclusive-video-shows-controversial-use-of-force-inside-an-ice-detention-center?sc=18&f=802939294
Virginia poised to become first Southern state banning LGBT discrimination
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-poised-to-approve-sweeping-lgbt-rights-measures/2020/02/06/2053a190-48f8-11ea-bdbf-1dfb23249293_story.html
Twitter demands legal fees from Devin Nunes’ attorney in new filing over fake cow’s identity
https://www.fresnobee.com/news/local/article240046358.html
After Rep. Matt Gaetz files ethics complaint against Pelosi, Florida Dems file complaint accusing him of grave misconduct
https://www.newsweek.com/after-rep-matt-gaetz-files-ethics-complaint-against-pelosi-florida-dems-file-complaint-accusing-1486190
61 coronavirus cases confirmed on cruise ship off Japan, Israelis on board
https://www.jpost.com/International/A-total-of-61-coronavirus-cases-confirmed-on-cruise-ship-off-Japan-616814
After Disasters, Puerto Ricans Are Left With $1.6 Billion in Unpaid Insurance Claims: Homeowners and cities say they’re getting pennies on the dollar. Some insurers have gone out of business. Lawsuits and claims of fraud — on both sides — are flying
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/06/us/puerto-rico-insurance-tsunami.html
With 100% reporting, Bernie Sanders can be congratulated for once again coming in second place in the #IowaCaucus! He made improvements though!! In 2016, he lost to Hillary by .2%. In 2020, Bernie lost by .1% - guess AOC did help.
https://twitter.com/josecanyousee/status/1225646909403983872
Astros are unscrupulous imbecile, ingrates
Six ancient plants from 2,000-year-old seeds have been grown by scientists
https://www.newsweek.com/six-ancient-plants-2000-year-old-seeds-grown-scientists-1485900
Trump’s company charges the Secret Service for the rooms agents use while protecting him at his luxury properties — billing U.S. taxpayers at rates as high as $650 per night, according to federal records and people who have seen receipts. Those charges, compiled here for the first time, show that Trump has an unprecedented — and largely hidden — business relationship with his own government. When Trump visits his clubs in Palm Beach, Fla., and Bedminster, N.J., the service needs space to post guards and store equipment. Trump’s company says it charges only minimal fees. But Secret Service records do not show that.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/secret-service-has-paid-rates-as-high-as-650-a-night-for-rooms-at-trumps-properties/2020/02/06/7f27a7c6-3ec5-11ea-8872-5df698785a4e_story.html
Virginia will eliminate a state holiday honoring Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. It'll make Election Day a day off instead
https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/07/politics/virginia-ends-confederate-holiday-replace-election-day-trnd/index.html
Trump's Chicago tax appeal on Trump Tower is under investigation
https://chicago.suntimes.com/2020/2/7/21126855/donald-trump-tower-chicago-property-tax-appeal-investigation
ICE officers shot a man in the face as he tried to intervene in an arrest
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2020/02/07/ice-shooting-brooklyn/
‘I would rather have a socialist in the White House than Donald Trump,’ says Republican Joe Walsh
https://www.marketwatch.com/story/republican-joe-walsh-drops-out-of-the-presidential-race-calls-gop-a-cult-and-trump-its-cult-leader-2020-02-07?mod=newsviewer_click
House Votes to Condemn Trump's Plan to Cut Medicaid
https://www.courthousenews.com/house-votes-to-condemn-trumps-plan-to-cut-medicaid/
Caucus chaos in Iowa? Oh, please. Nobody screws up elections like Florida
House approves pro-union labor bill
https://thehill.com/business-a-lobbying/business-a-lobbying/481967-house-approves-pro-union-labor-bill
Joe Walsh ends bid to challenge Trump, calls on Republicans to 'reject' GOP and elect Democrats
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2020/02/07/joe-walsh-ends-2020-republican-primary-challenge-president-trump/4688784002/
Jessica Mendoza has resigned as a Met advisor and will no longer be on Sunday Night Baseball. She will remain on ESPN, doing weekday games, among other things.
https://twitter.com/AndrewMarchand/status/1225829406171639808
https://twitter.com/DSzymborski/status/1225849198530174978
Glad to see Jessica Mendoza step down from the Mets position. While you want to see more women in front offices, not fewer, an actual *advisory* position while also covering baseball is just too far in a field in which the lines are frequently blurry. Maybe if Jessica Mendoza had went straight to ESPN producers or the Mets with her thoughts on Mike Fiers they would have told her not to be so fucking stupid on air. I credit Mendoza with all she's done as a woman in baseball. I simply disagree with how fucking out of sync with reality she was about the Astros cheating scandal.
Massie has condemned NATO expansion, voted against sanctions on Russia, and voted against upholding nonrecognition of Russian claims in Crimea. He’s also the only member of Congress who dined with Maria Butina.
https://twitter.com/cjcmichel/status/1225838291351678977
Fucking terrible: Former Obama Adviser Anita Dunn Helped Harvey Weinstein Strategize Before New York Times Story. She's part of the Biden campaign and has been promoted. Anita Dunn now has final decision-making authority - not Greg Schultz, the current manager.
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/stevenperlberg/former-obama-adviser-anita-dunn-helped-harvey-weinstein
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/us/politics/joe-biden-anita-dunn.html
Appeals court rejects Democrats' emoluments suit against Trump | D.C. Circuit rules, 3-0, that individual lawmakers lack standing to sue.
https://www.politico.com/news/2020/02/07/appeals-court-rejects-democrats-emoluments-suit-against-trump-111942
Astros front office involved in cheating efforts going back to 2016
https://mlb.nbcsports.com/2020/02/07/report-shows-that-astros-front-office-involved-in-cheating/
The US Navy Shut Down its Task Force on Climate Change
https://www.ucsusa.org/resources/attacks-on-science/navy-quietly-shut-down-climate-task-force
O'Malley (16 candidate): I’m quite sure I made far more appearances for Hillary Clinton in 2016 than Bernie ever did. And I never insisted on a private leer jet to go campaign for her in OH, PA, or WI. Nor were any of my bloggers paid by Russian television to attack her throughout the general
https://www.twitter.com/MartinOMalley/status/1225707489385017344
Official: atWhiteSox has acquired tacos, as well as chips and guacamole, in exchange for cash considerations.
https://twitter.com/whitesox/status/1225843555459047424
The White Sox picked a great time to sh!tpost/sh!ttweet, seeing as they already made a bunch of fan-pleasing moves this offseason.
[ESPN] Steve Kerr thinks Andrew Wiggins fucking sucks
https://www.nbcsports.com/bayarea/warriors/why-steve-kerr-believes-warriors-dont-need-andrew-wiggins-be-star
Why Would a Billionaire Charge the Secret Service $650 a Night?
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/02/why-does-billionaire-charge-secret-service-650-night/606253/
Largest maker of pesticide linked to brain damage in kids to stop producing chemical
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/feb/06/chlorpyrifos-pesticide-corteva-trump-administration
Trawling, where most seafood comes from, is like taking a bulldozer and scraping up your entire garden, shredding it, keeping a few pebbles, and dumping the rest down the drain.
https://i.redd.it/7af98d37cjf41.jpg
New York to Sue Trump Administration Over Global Entry Freeze
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/07/nyregion/global-entry-lawsuit-ny.html?emc=rss&partner=rss
Leaders of the intelligence community will not appear before the House Intel Committee next week for a public hearing on the top threats facing the country, despite a formal request from Chairman Schiff for them to commit to a public and closed-door session on February 12.
https://twitter.com/Olivia_Gazis/status/1225902188221825025
What normally happens when a public official retaliates against a witness who testified about the public official’s criminal conduct is that the public official goes to prison.
https://twitter.com/gtconway3d/status/1225901372312346624
Internal Fox News briefing book warned that Rudy Giuliani was “spreading disinformation”: report. Fox News' research team advised that Giuliani and fellow Trump boosters spread lies. Fox hosts booked them, anyway
https://www.salon.com/2020/02/07/internal-fox-news-briefing-book-warned-that-rudy-giuliani-was-spreading-disinformation-report/
So the Astros cheated on the road, too....
https://www.wsj.com/articles/houston-astros-cheating-scheme-dark-arts-codebreaker-11581112994
"Let me assure you, the Department will not tolerate any act of retaliation or reprisal against" Col. Vindman.
https://twitter.com/neal_katyal/status/1225912061294776320
https://twitter.com/maddow/status/1225909799835049985
“It was always a fiction that the institutions would discipline Trump”
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1225921423857868800
I reported this 3 years ago. This happened after Trump's casino. A lawyer representing investors told police and FBI he got a menacing call "If You Keep Fucking With Mr. Trump We Know Where You Live” “We’re going to your house for your wife and kids”
https://twitter.com/JasonLeopold/status/1225922978715598849
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/jasonleopold/if-you-keep-fucking-with-mr-trump-we-know-where-you-live
There are no institutions, only people
https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1225922673684992000
As a Brit, I was astounded to get an email from an American contact the day after the ‘16 election, reassuring me that America’s great constitutional institutions would save it. The foundational myths of which the rest of the world has always been sceptical are being fractured.
https://twitter.com/KateMaltby/status/1225922265386274817
America has fallen so far in such little time
Reminder: In October 2004 while lieutenant colonel Vindman was recovering from roadside bomb injuries sustained in Iraq, Donald Trump was judging a season 2 episode of The Apprentice where teams had to create a fun dog walking service.
https://twitter.com/DecoherenceWave/status/1225940824652836864
New York Gov. Cuomo announced that the state will sue the Trump admin. over its decision to bar New Yorkers from enrolling in Global Entry and other programs that allow travelers to pass quickly through airport security and customs.
https://twitter.com/NBCPolitics/status/1225947436599988224
Doesn't get much more on-the-nose than the regime leader's eldest son trumpeting propaganda from a morally disgraced ex listicle writer about excising "disloyal" civil servants and military members from the leader's security apparatus
https://twitter.com/AdamWeinstein/status/1225916946245472256
For the first time, the flagship law journals at the top 16 law schools in the U.S. are all led by women.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/legal-issues/for-the-first-time-flagship-law-journals-at-top-us-law-schools-are-all-led-by-women/2020/02/07/b4d3bc64-4836-11ea-bc78-8a18f7afcee7_story.html
Sen. Coons, a Biden surrogate: "Pete is a very capable skilled mayor of a city of 100,000 people...with all due respect, standing on a debate stage and exchanging quips as everyone seeks their viral moment isn't what happens at the G7 and isn't what happens in a Cabinet meeting."
https://twitter.com/tparti/status/1225938198322405378
18 U.S. Code § 1513. Retaliating against a witness, victim, or an informant Subsection (e):
(e) Whoever knowingly, with the intent to retaliate, takes any action harmful to any person, including interference with the lawful employment or livelihood of any person, for providing to a law enforcement officer any truthful information relating to the commission or possible commission of any Federal offense, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than 10 years, or both.
bUt NaNcY RiPpEd uP a PiEcE oF pApEr!!!
Bernie: “I did not fully appreciate until I ran for president how corrupt and racist our criminal
justice system is”
Was in public office since 1981
“The existence of Codebreaker shows that it was the Astros front office that laid the groundwork for the team’s electronic sign-stealing schemes”
https://www.wsj.com/articles/houston-astros-cheating-scheme-dark-arts-codebreaker-11581112994
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