Again with the whataboutism.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 4:20 pmYou... Willing to take a bullet to save trump??? Col. Vindman was also privy to high level secret information and how did that work out? He violated protocol and threw his boss under the bus. You do understand you can be privy to high level top secret classified information and not blab it to anyone. My son has told me numerous times when he was in the FAM service that he was privy to top secret classified information. He never in a million years would have told me what it was. So did Mr Bongino do a Col. Vindman and violate his top secret security clearance and tell anything to anyone? You do know and understand that EVERY secret service agent is privy to top secret classified information. You act like you are stunned that Mr Bongino would make such a startling relation. BTW did you read Mr Bonginos book Life Inside the Bubble? I'm going to the library tomorrow to check it out. Maybe he blabs some top secret dirt.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 3:57 pmWait a second.cradleandshoot wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 2:44 pmBut he would have taken a bullet to save president Obama. That is something you would never do ever. Maybe he patterned his ability to make a buck outside of the secret service ala Al Gore? If you find a large flock of gullible pigeons they can soon be separated from their hard earned cash. It worked for Al so a slightly different formula is working for Mr Bongino. Does all those trump people being talked out of their cash really bother you all that much? You did give me a chuckle when the lifelong Republican who hates his own party with a vengeance ripped on Bongino for hating the democrats. Is it wrong for Republicans to hate Democrats and right for Democrats to hate Republicans? Hell hating Republicans on this forum is required for admission to the club.MDlaxfan76 wrote: ↑Mon Jul 10, 2023 12:34 pm sigh...Bongino has been an ultra-right attack dog on all things Hunter Biden...big part of what cradle calls just "schtick".
ggait called out his credibility 4 days ago and we've had a running discussion of Bongino since then.
He's a lying grifter on all sorts of topics, all part of the right-wing outrage machine.
1) How do you actually know he would have taken a bullet to save Obama? That was the job, but as he was never called to actually do so, how do you know he wouldn't have hesitated? (My hunch is that he'd have done the job he was trained and paid to do, the training would have taken over in the moment).
2) How do you know I wouldn't have been willing to do that job?
Here's what I would hope I wouldn't do after being in such a position: write a book claiming I was privy to high-level secret information I overheard...
My bad, Col Vindman was a whistleblower. We know how untrustworthy them whistleblowers are. Just ask those IRS agents how that worked for them? There must be good whistleblowers and bad whistleblowers? Col Vindman should have followed protocol and taken his concerns to his chain of command. He chose to do it his way and paid the price. Those IRS agents certainly also know their careers are finished. So what is the motivation to be a whistleblower?
Is that your only defense of this lying grifter, others are 'bad' too???
Back to Bongino, yeah, the job requires that training, that service...I absolutely would assume that in that job, with that training, I'd behave according to that job training. That's why I would assume that Bongino would have done so, but we'll never really know, will we?,
And no, his colleagues were pretty apoplectic about his writing and selling that book...he tried to walk back his claim of "high-level secret information" when called out by them. They didn't do what he did, none of them, and that's a heck of a lot of former and later secret service agents. I'm pretty sure I'd have stuck with those norms rather than grifting off the service with a book...
As to which POTUS, it's the job, either do it straight or get out...which is what Bongino did in Obama's first term, he got out...and ran for office. I might have asked for a different assignment in his position (in my case get away from POS Trump), but I wouldn't have gone a couple years and then written a book about it...
I obviously have a different assessment of Vinman's motivations than I do Bongino's.