Posted on 10/29/2019 11:15:32 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Top Democrats at the deposition of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, said his testimony Tuesday was “extremely disturbing” and praised him for appearing despite attacks from the White House.
Acting House Oversight Chairwoman Carolyn Maloney, D-N.Y, told NBC News she found Vindman’s remarks “extremely, extremely, extremely disturbing” as she left the deposition. Maloney refused to answer any other questions about Vindman’s testimony.
Vindman, appearing voluntarily under congressional subpoena, was set to tell members of Congress conducting an impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump that he was on the phone call between Trump and Ukraine’s leader in which Trump asked for an investigation into the Bidens — and that he raised concerns about it.
Vindman considered Trump’s request that Ukraine investigate his political rivals so damaging to American national security that he reported it to a superior, according to his opening statement obtained by NBC News.
Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, a member of the House Oversight Committee who was present for the deposition, told NBC News that Vindman was a “very credible” witness and said his testimony "corroborated the testimony of other witnesses" that "really drew a direct line to the President, and those around him and their interest in withholding foreign aid through Ukraine that was vital, as well as insisting on investigations into Biden."
Vindman’s testimony, she said, has "actually filled in more of the puzzle pieces."
Wasserman Schutlz said the Republicans present for the deposition were trying to get Vindman to reveal the identity of the whistleblower.
"What the Republicans are trying to do very clearly in their questioning is try to front door or back door Lt. Col. Vindman into revealing who the whistleblower is, even though in his testimony he says he doesn't he didn't know," she said.
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Once again, the transcript has been released! This Lt Cols views done mean hack sh*t!
This is all smoke and mirrors!
I don’t know what the point of all these calling of witnesses is.
We already have the TRANSCRIPT of the call between Trump and Zelensky.
What we’re getting are simply the personal opinions of those who were privy to the conversation.
so trump specifically asked for an investigation of the bidens?
hmmmmm.
if it was alleged that kamala harris was guilty of collusion, would an investigation be in order...
hmmmmm.
I’m alarmed at a secret congressional attempt to impeach an innocent President.
OH WAIT, WE DO. WE HAVE THE TRANSCRIPTS!
Why do we need this loser's interpretation of what we can read for ourselves?
Transcript vs. the opinion of an officer, which may well hold socialist views being a swamp soldier.
“”“extremely, extremely, extremely disturbing””””””
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Oh my, a triple extremely thingy. Sounds series.
Reminder:
Let’s not confuse the facts of a thing with what the Dems and the media claim to be the facts of a thing.
Let’s not confuse what V.L. says with what the Dems and media say he says.
Btw... I have no clue about what V.L. actually says.
Couple of problems for the Democrat Fascists here.
It all based on his feelings. No legal standing at all to his feelings.
If he was sworn in, he violated his military oath and perjured himself. Here is the transcript of the call he supposedly is testifying about. It contradicts his “testimony”.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/Unclassified09.2019.pdf
It’s the same phone call that the Democrats had a transcript of for weeks.
Exactly.
I don’t know what the point of all these calling of witnesses is.
We already have the TRANSCRIPT of the call between Trump and Zelensky.
What we’re getting are simply the personal opinions of those who were privy to the conversation.
They are calling Witnesses to parse the conversation into what they THINK it means, that’s all.
If you want to impeach Trump, you will ( like Adam Schiff ) read into it, sinister motives. This latest witness was called in order to support Adam Schiff’s accusations, that’s all.
This is crazy! The whole concept is ludicrous -
Is this an officer trying to take down his Commander in Chief?
Reminder:
Let’s not confuse the facts of a thing with what the Dems and the media claim to be the facts of a thing.
Let’s not confuse what Vindman says with what the Dems and media say he says.
Btw... I have no clue about what Vindman actually says.
Does this mean...the walls are closing in on Mr Trump? Or is this...a bombshell? Or worse....the beginning of the end?
C’mon, people you cannot expect the left to take the transcript at face value.
When are the Democrats going to actually say what law Trump broke? I still see no evidence of any wrongdoing.
OH NOES HE WAS ALARMED..Good Lord, everyone has their “opinion” about a freakin PHONE CALL..you can have 10 people in a room hearing the same conversation, half approve and half dont..thats what is called having an OPINION means..its totally irrelevant unless they can prove that there something was deleted from that transcript, that its not the full transcript, and I have yet to hear anyone say that the transcript is not complete
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