President Trump with Presidential Medal of Honor recipient Rep.
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I would certainly not lump Nunes in with his fellow medalist Cosby, a serial assaulter of women. Column: How Trump cheapened one of America’s highest honors, the Medal of Freedom. From a national security standpoint, that makes us all less safe.” “Opposing strengthening protections for whistleblowers is the same as opposing oversight. “Supporting whistleblowers is supporting the safeguards that prevent our democracy from going off the rails,” McCullough added. Among other things, the reforms would have imposed criminal penalties on anyone who shares a whistleblower complaint with the target of an investigation without the whistleblower’s permission (as happened with the complaint about Trump’s Ukraine call), McCullough said. In December, Foreign Policy magazine reported, Nunes blocked reforms to the Whistleblower Protection Act that would have strengthened those protections. In Trump’s first impeachment, McCullough said, “Republicans just abandoned the bipartisan tradition of whistleblower protection.” “How did I react? With a mixture of disgust and disappointment.” “It was shocking to see Devin Nunes receiving the medal for his work in the first impeachment and investigations,” said Irvin McCullough, a national security analyst who specializes in military and intelligence community whistleblowing for the Government Accountability Project. UNC basketball legend and Charlotte Hornets owner Michael Jordan was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama on Tuesday at the White House. Alexander Vindman to reveal the identity of the whistleblower, a CIA officer who was detailed to the White House. During the impeachment inquiry, Nunes repeatedly tried to get witnesses like Lt. Trump himself, you’ll recall, had already endangered the safety of the unnamed whistleblower by accusing him of treason. That was, of course, the call during which Trump asked Volodymyr Zelensky, who wanted Trump to allow the release of nearly $400 million in aid to Ukraine, to “do us a favor though” and dig up dirt on Joe Biden. Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor a civilian can receive, The Hill reports. He and his colleagues, including most notably his fellow medalist Jordan, tried to out the anonymous whistleblower who first raised concerns about Trump’s phone call with the new president of Ukraine. President Donald Trump on Monday awarded his close ally Rep. He showed no interest in Trump’s alleged crimes but continually tried to drag an unknown Democratic National Committee operative named Alexandra Chalupa into the proceedings by implying with absolutely no proof that she’d sabotaged Trump’s 2016 campaign. Nunes’ unhinged performance during the House’s first impeachment inquiry in 2019 should go down as one of the most bizarre political displays of all time.
“Look,” he told Sean Hannity, “the president makes a lot of mistakes. Capitol and killed Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick. The other day, Nunes seemed to excuse Trump’s incitement of the crowd that stormed the U.S. As the Washington Post’s Dana Milbank wrote last March, “That’s a lot of litigation for a guy who co-sponsored the Discouraging Frivolous Lawsuits Act of 2017.”
He has distinguished himself as Congress’ most thin-skinned member, suing for defamation newspapers, magazines, television networks, a fellow congressman, an organic fruit farmer and, of course, the anonymous author of a Twitter account who purports to be a cow.
That chamber’s minority leader, Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., this week called Greene’s words a “cancer” on the GOP and country.Now, I don’t mean to pick on Nunes. Underscoring the political vise her inflammatory commentary has clamped her party into, all but 11 Republicans voted against the Democratic move on Thursday but none rose to defend her lengthy history of outrageous social media posts.Įven social media stars like Greene could find it harder to define themselves without the spotlights that committees provide. Marjorie Taylor Greene lashed out Friday at “morons” in both parties who voted to kick her off her committees, a day after the House meted out the unprecedented punishment that Democrats said she’d earned by spreading hateful and violent conspiracy theories. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik)WASHINGTON – Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., goes back to her office after speaking on the floor of the House Chamber on Capitol Hill in Washington, Thursday, Feb. Greene says 'morons' voted to boot her from committees
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