REPORT: Key White House aide arrives to testify on Trump Ukraine dealings
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A key White House witness in the Democrats’ impeachment probe arrived in the Capitol Tuesday morning for a closed door deposition with House investigators, who are expected to hear damning new revelations about President Trump’s contacts with Ukraine.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the director for European affairs on the National Security Council (NSC), plans to tell three House committees that he raised concerns more than once about Trump and other officials pressing Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to launch two politically motivated investigations that would benefit Trump, according to a copy of his opening remarks.
The article goes on to state the following:
Vindman, a Purple Heart recipient and career civil servant, is one of a select few individuals who participated on a July 25 phone call between Trump and Zelensky — and the first to testify in the impeachment investigation.
Vindman, 44, is a Ukrainian refugee who came to the U.S. with his family when he was three years old.
“I listened in on the call … I was concerned by the call. I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine,” he reportedly plans to tell Congress, according to his opening statement.
Opening Statement (IN FULL):
Alexander Vindman:
“I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine.”#ImpeachmentHearingshttps://t.co/au70BTEDfh
— Sara A. Carter (@SaraCarterDC) October 29, 2019
NEW: White House national security official Alexander Vindman arrives for a closed-door deposition at U.S. Capitol.
He is set to become the first current White House official to testify before House impeachment investigators. https://t.co/9enN2MNvdI pic.twitter.com/fgw7NI88Lj
— ABC News (@ABC) October 29, 2019
Three things to know about Vindman:
1. He still works at the White House.
2. He actually heard the call.
3. He’s active duty Army, about to testify against his commander-in-chief. https://t.co/bNhsHWL7ht— Mary Louise Kelly (@NPRKelly) October 29, 2019
Alexander Vindman has become a diplomat, decorated lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army & Harvard-educated Ukraine expert. He completed “multiple overseas tours.” A 2003 deployment to Iraq left him wounded by a roadside bomb. He was awarded a Purple Heart. https://t.co/ioppoHSVtq
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) October 29, 2019
Alexander Vindman has arrived at the Capitol for what could be another day of explosive impeachment testimony. pic.twitter.com/2RpRm185OI
— Michael D. Shear (@shearm) October 29, 2019
JUST IN: Key White House aide arrives to testify on Trump Ukraine dealings in impeachment inquiry https://t.co/RieWXQLimn pic.twitter.com/NfqMhhZ9KJ
— The Hill (@thehill) October 29, 2019
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