Officials Who Spoke Out Against Trump Continue To Pay The Price

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Officials Who Spoke Out Against Trump Continue To Pay The Price
By Kate Riga
December 26, 2019 10:50 a.m.


President Donald Trump and his loyal Republicans have turned against many of his own foreign policy apparatuses since the impeachment inquiry, leaving those officials who spoke out against him to pay the price in the workplace.

According to the Washington Post, an uptick of angry tweets from Trump sends armed security officers to the whistleblower’s side to protect him from threats while on his way to and from work at the CIA.

Bill Taylor, top diplomat in Ukraine, has opted to step down in January rather than try to continue his job as Rudy Giuliani impresses upon Ukrainian officials his lack of standing with the President. By stepping down early in the month, Taylor is also sparing Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from having to appear beside him during a January trip to Kyiv.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council official, has continued to work in the White House since his testimony. But Trump and his allies have smeared him as being in cahoots with the whistleblower to undermine the President, calling him “vindictive Vindman.”

Fiona Hill, former top Russia adviser at the White House, has become a favorite target of far-right media, and has consequently received abusive phone calls, some of which have scared her young daughter. Alex Jones, the right-wing troll who runs InfoWars, has advocated for her to be punished for her testimony, adding a misogynistic flourish: “indict the whore.”

For Hill at least, the venom isn’t entirely new. Since she began working on the NSC, both external and internal attempts to discredit her flooded in as Steve Bannon and his ilk crafted an “enemies” list of people whose abject loyalty to Trump was in doubt.

Now, those tensions have been blown open as usually apolitical foreign policy officers are called to testify about their true feelings about Trump’s behavior.

[SWBTATTReg]

1. Alex Jones and others who via their despicable language and actions are impeding justice...

or allowing violence to be committed against this people who merely spoke out against illegal acts being committed by the so called president should be charged with either a hate crime or something similar.

Since the alex jones type of broadcasters seem to be going beyond freedom of speech and bordering upon calling out 'FIRE' in a crowd venue/hate speech. Like the families who have been hurt by the rhetoric spewed out by jones at Sandy Hook.

With the media and the cast of thousands that listen to these broadcasters who rant and rave, trying to boost their ratings, who's to say that some weirdo or like act upon their urgings over the airwaves? They pretend that it's just entertainment but where is the line between idle chit chat and ranting and raving of one's doings?
They have a higher authority than one's individual freedom of speech, a society's freedom of speech (yelling FIRE in a crowded room is a NO NO for example).

I suspect that there are boundaries but I'm no legal authority by any means, and I do want to respect our freedoms as much as the next person, but there is a limit...there has to be.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

2. This is absolutely disgusting. Will send to every repuke

Senator after holiday. Intimidation to the nth degree.

[aeromanKC]

3. Trump* MAGAt's are Domestic Terrorists

And Trump* is their leader.

[I_UndergroundPanther]

8. Yes they are!

I think the rightwing is a terrorist fascist group.

[Mc Mike]

4. They should sue Rump and his Admin, with some top labor and civil liberties lawyers.

[live love laugh]

6. I hope they do. nt

[Hermit-The-Prog]

5. continuing evidence of Trump being unfit for office

Trump needs to be removed and barred from ever holding any public office again.

[Demonaut]

7. alex jones has a really small penis they say