Posted on 10/28/2019 8:12:20 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
A high-ranking Army officer and top White House Ukraine expert is expected to tell House investigators Tuesday that he twice raised objections to his superiors about how President Trump and his administration were interacting with Ukraine out of a “sense of duty."
A draft of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman's opening statement says he became worried when “outside influencers” were spreading a “false narrative” about Ukraine.
Vindman will testify behind closed doors Tuesday to the House Intelligence, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight and Reform committees. He will be the first official to testify who directly witnessed the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukranian President Volodymyr Zelensky that is at the center of the House's impeachment inquiry.
“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,” Vindman says in his statement. “I realized that if Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play which would undoubtedly result in Ukraine losing the bipartisan support it has thus far maintained.”
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More info is coming about this traitor. You can bet he’s a Putin butt boy.
Not as bad, I guess, as John F. Kerry advising the North Vietnamese and Viet Cong at the Paris peace talks against the interests of the US government...we weren't at war with Ukraine. At least this guy will never be the Democrat nominee for President. Remember, if the Democrats had just stuffed more ballot boxes in Ohio in 2004, Kerry would have won the election.
exactly.
Sounds not so much like evidence so much as opinion. Being uncomfortable with a phone call doesn’t quite reach a standard of proof.
He’ll probably get a book deal and a job at CNN
He’s either a Ukrainian spy or a Russian agent trying to destroy US-Ukraine relations.
LTC = Telephone Colonel
If he did defy orders from his commander-in-chief, then why isn’t he being court-marshalled?
DU ha the FBI does investigations on US citizens but they are too busy investigating Trump. and you just don’t name a political opponent with a foreign officer on an open channel. you have minions for that like Giuliani.
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