This is why they want to silence Sen Tammy Duckworth

[Budi]

She is NOT letting them bury the Russian bounty headline


https://www.stripes.com/news/us/duckworth-asks-esper-whether-dod-is-probing-links-between-troop-deaths-and-russian-bounties-1.636938

Duckworth asks Esper whether DOD is probing links between troop deaths and Russian bounties

WASHINGTON — Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., is demanding to know whether the Pentagon is investigating whether any American troops died in Afghanistan as a result of the bounties reputed to have been offered by Russia to attack them.

“It is unacceptable that to date, the Trump administration appears to be ignoring a matter of great importance to Gold Star family members whose loved ones were killed while serving in Afghanistan: were any U.S. troop casualties in Afghanistan connected with the alleged [Russian military intelligence service] bounty payments to Taliban-linked militants?,” Duckworth wrote in a letter sent Thursday to Defense Secretary Mark Esper.

The New York Times first reported on June 26 that American intelligence officials had determined a Russian military intelligence unit secretly had offered bounties to Taliban-linked militants to attack American and coalition forces in Afghanistan and that it was believed some of the money had been collected.

Duckworth, a combat veteran, wants Esper to confirm whether the Pentagon is investigating whether any U.S. troop deaths in Afghanistan were related to the Russian bounties.
She also wants him to say whether the Defense Department is “tracking any concurrent or completed” intelligence community investigations into military casualties in Afghanistan.
Duckworth’s letter also asks whether Esper would commit to disclosing the findings of all investigations regarding the Russian-bounties program and American casualties with Gold Star families, Congress, and the public.
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THIS is why they are relentless in their persuit to discredit & silence Sen Duckworth.

She's not letting them bury the traitorous act.
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Tammy Duckworth hits back at Trump and Carlson: 'These titanium legs don't buckle'

https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/07/10/politics/tammy-duckworth-tucker-carlson/index.html

[FM123]

1. Yes!

She is a force of nature and we are so lucky to have her! I agree, we must keep this alive in the news cycle we can not let this become yesterday's news....

[Pisces]

2. The other reason is because she is a VP candidate that they want to undermine.

[Budi]

7. And this: She called out Trump sending America's PPE to China to perhaps cover his Loan pymt.

https://www.duckworth.senate.gov/news/press-releases/following-reports-that-trump-owes-millions-to-chinese-bank-duckworth-requests-investigation-into-decision-to-ship-tons-of-ppe-and-medical-supplies-from-the-us-to-china-

SNIP

Trump himself is tens of millions of dollars in debt to China:
In 2012, his real estate partner refinanced one of Trump’s most prized New York buildings for almost $1 billion.” This report also notes that President Trump’s debt “...includes $211 million from the state-owned Bank of China — its first loan of this kind in the U.S. — which matures in the middle of what could be Trump’s second term, financial records show.”

Duckworth continued, “The American people deserve to know whether the Trump administration’s failure to acquire, distribute and stockpile adequate supplies of PPE and other medical supplies at home, while shipping such supplies to China, are related to President Trump's personal indebtedness to the Bank of China and his fear of upsetting the PRC, which owns that bank.”

[CaliforniaPeggy]

3. Senator Duckworth is one tough, smart and determined lady!

Brava, Senator Duckworth!

I'd love to see her as Joe Biden's running mate.

[NCjack]

4. "These titanium legs gonna walk all over you!" nt

[Budi]

8. 👍💕

[murielm99]

5. She would make a great Veep.

I don't think I could ever have the strength and stamina she has.

[erronis]

17. And perhaps on to POTUS. FDR did quite well with infirmaties. Dump has to deal with bone-spurs....

And hemorrhoids and flushing the toilet 10-15 times.
Hate to think what the WH toilet-paper budget is.

[dalton99a]

6. Kick

[AnotherMother4Peace]

9. I must say she is rather bad ass. Tammy Duckworth is a patriot & great role model. nt

[Ferrets are Cool]

10. And TRUE journalists wouldn't be burying this story either

but there are so few of them left.

[Lokee11]

11. Not to brag or anything -

But that's my senator

FDT

[erronis]

19. Please brag! I'm pretty happy in Vermont other than some venal F-35 basing decisions.

[leanforward]

12. I want to know, too

[Evolve Dammit]

13. She would be a great VP. Biden is fortunate he has so many to choose from. Others to head Agencies

This needs to be dramatically reversed.

[lagomorph777]

14. Pay For Slay is not going away.

Dems and the Lincoln Project need to keep it in the spotlight every day until Turd is ousted for it.

[Catch2.2]

15. Maybe...just maybe...

The Dems can support Tammy Duckworth a little by having some hearings on this. Not doing anything about the Russian bounties is not only shameful but a huge missed opportunity by the Dems.

[NBachers]

16. I'm no Tammy Duckworth

I'm sorry, I have excellent writing skills, but I couldn't write something like her "Titanium legs" response to Carlson without descending into vulgar language, name-calling, and advocating for the worst punishments my fertile imagination can produce.

I'm no Tammy Duckworth.

The more I see of her, the more I hear her turn their invective around with sense and reason; the more I read things like this from her, the more respect and admiration I have for her.

She had never entered a place in my Vice Presidential Sweepstakes, but she's a dark horse, moving up fast. And the more they attack her, I think it reflects their fear of what a formidable opponent she'd be.

[erronis]

20. +1. Sometimes we just need to acknowledge that there are good people in congress.

Hard to believe since the (r)epuglicons have soiled the whole institution - purposefully.

[Sherman A1]

18. They are trying to silence her because

She is a woman

She is a Democrat.

Either of those are more than enough to incur the wrath of Trumpy Bear.

[erronis]

21. Agree, altho this isn't coming from trump. It's coming from the (r) machine.

The slime-masters.

Newt-the-reptile was part of the founding but I think it started when the oligarchs in the US realized that the "people" wanted power, and these oligarchs realized that people-power was going to undercut their control and raping of the economy.

[onetexan]

22. and she's a VET, and an honorable one at that

all the more reason for them to want to silence her.

[Fullduplexxx]

23. Tammy ...