A soldier’s word against Donald Trump’s in impeachment inquiry
Testimony from Alexander Vindman, a decorated veteran, is hard to trash as partisan sniping
By M.S.R. | WASHINGTON, DC
IF THE CASE for impeaching President Donald Trump needed any further nailing down, it received it on October 29th. Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vindman, the senior expert on Ukraine at the National Security Council (NSC), told impeachment investigators that he was so appalled by Mr Trump’s repeated demands that Volodymyr Zelensky, the president of Ukraine, investigate Joe Biden, a front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, that he reported it to a lawyer at the NSC. He did so twice.
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