He is broken and evil:
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trumps-impeachment-revenge-alexander-vindman-is-bullied-into-retiring
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/trumps-impeachment-revenge-alexander-vindman-is-bullied-into-retiring
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It was an illusion. After Vindman's testimony, Defense Secretary Mark Esper and Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist promised that the Department would protect Vindman from retaliation. That proved untrue. Two days after the Senate voted, on February 5th, to acquit Trump, the President fired Vindman. Trump also fired Vindman's twin brother, Yevgeny, who worked as an ethics lawyer at the White House and held the same military rank. They were abruptly and unceremoniously escorted from the White House grounds.
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Vindman expected to go to the National War College this falla low-profile assignmentthen take another foreign posting. But, in a final act of revenge, the White House recently made clear that Trump opposed Vindman's promotion. Senior Administration officials told Esper and Ryan McCarthy, the Secretary of the Army, to dig for misconduct that would justify blocking Vindman's promotion. They couldn't find anything, multiple sources told me. Others in the military chain of command began to warn Vindman that he would never be deployable overseas againdespite his language skills and regiona