The former Navy SEAL who claims to have shot Osama bin Laden sought to cast doubt on Democrats’ intelligence during the House Judiciary Committee’s first impeachment hearing.
“Keep in mind: One of the guys on the impeachment panel once thought that Guam was floating, not an underwater mountain. It’s not going to tip over, Congressman!” Robert O’Neill tweeted Wednesday.
Keep in mind: One of the guys on the impeachment panel once thought that Guam was floating, not an underwater mountain. It’s not going to tip over, Congressman!
— Robert J. O’Neill (@mchooyah) December 4, 2019
His tweet was in reference to Rep. Hank Johnson of Georgia saying in 2010 that he feared stationing thousands of Marines on Guam would cause the island to capsize.
Johnson expressed his concern during a House Armed Services Committee meeting with Adm. Robert Willard, who was then commander of the U.S. Pacific Command and has since retired.
“My fear is that the whole island will become so overly populated that it will tip over and capsize,” Johnson said when asking about the dimensions of the U.S. territory.
“We don’t anticipate that,” Willard responded. “The Guam population, I think currently about 175,000, and again with 8,000 Marines and their families, it’s an addition of about 25,000 more into the population.
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O’Neill has previously slammed the impeachment hearings. He called Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman “an operative with an agenda” for testifying to the House Intelligence Committee while wearing his official military uniform.
