Trump’s war against ‘the deep state’ enters a new stage
With no need to worry about Congress now that he has been acquitted of two articles of impeachment, the President has shown a renewed willingness to act even if it prompts fresh complaints about violating traditional norms.
Washington | As far as President Donald Trump is concerned, banishing Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from the White House and exiling him back to the Pentagon was not enough. If he had his way, the Commander-in-Chief made clear this week, the Defence Department would now take action against the colonel, too.
“That’s going to be up to the military,” Trump told reporters who asked whether Vindman should face disciplinary action after testifying in the House hearings that led to the President’s impeachment. “But if you look at what happened,” Trump added in threatening terms, “I mean they’re going to, certainly, I would imagine, take a look at that.”
