“If you don’t want him on the list, then you should remove him, but I don’t support it. It would be the wrong thing to do,” I shouted. Mark Meadows yelled back, “He’ll never get promoted.” With that, the conversation abruptly ended. We all knew why the president didn’t like Alexander Vindman, but the fact that he continued to punch so far down at an Army lieutenant colonel was undignified and wrong. The National Security Council is staffed with officers from all the armed services, as well as people from other executive branch departments and agencies. Alexander Vindman was one such staffer,
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