Tuesday, November 19, 2019

Your tax dollars paid for a real-time attack on Vindman as he testified

This:

The official Twitter account of the White House was used on Tuesday to distribute a personal attack on the credibility of decorated Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, while he was testifying before the House Intelligence Committee.
“Tim Morrison, Alexander Vindman’s former boss, testified in his deposition that he had concerns about Vindman’s judgment,” the White House pushed to its 19.3 million followers shortly before 1:00pm.
Morrison's assessment was already known to all involved, and in fact, Jim Jordan had tried to make hay with it a bit earlier:

Earlier in the hearing, Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) asked Vindman about Morrison's concerns about his judgment. Vindman, who is still employed by the National Security Council, responded by reading aloud former top Russia adviser Fiona Hill's final performance review of his work:
"Alex is a top 1% military officer and the best Army officer I have worked with in my 15 years of government service. He is brilliant, unflappable and exercises excellent judgment."
Second one of these real-time Twitter chime-ins, and this one from the official White House account.

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