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It's Wednesday, February 12, 2020, from slated to the Gist I, Mike Pasca.

A few days ago, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman was fired. You heard that, right?

What is the White House saying about the fact that Alexander Vindman, Lieutenant Colonel Vindman,

was fired also as twin brother, a jazz officer, a US Army officer, a lawyer working at the National Security Council,

was also removed. That's right, both of these brothers were abruptly fired today.

Only it's not right. They were reassigned. I mean, that is the more accurate way to say it.

Firing usually involves a loss of money. Of course, you can be fired for your unpaid internship,

but usually that's a portion or at least an aspect of firing.

These two gentlemen keep their roles and their titles and they move to the Pentagon.

In fact, CNN, Wolf and Jim's own network, reported that very day that Vindman was due to be rotated

to the Pentagon, a Pentagon posed this summer and Trump just pushed him out early, because he is a small and petty man.

I posted these sentiments on Twitter and was charged with pedantry missing the point, betraying the resistance, being a bad person.

But I think it's important to be accurate and the cost of inaccuracy, and perhaps in this case even a defensible inaccuracy,

is that it does play right into Trump's hands. He wanted people to think that he fired Vindman.

He wants his followers to believe that he has these powers to strip his enemies of their honor and their livelihood.

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