Alexander Vindman's firsthand testimony is a problem for the GOP
by Kaylee McGhee
| November 18, 2019 12:48 PM
This week’s impeachment hearings will feature a lineup of firsthand witnesses, including Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s director for European Affairs, who reportedly confronted the White House’s “irregular†channel about its attempts to pressure Ukraine into investigating Joe Biden.
Vindman’s first closed-door testimony warranted a good amount of criticism from conservatives concerned about the “unmistakable disdain†Vindman and his lawyer reportedly expressed toward Republican members of Congress. This friction will likely be on display once again during Vindman’s testimony on Tuesday. But Republicans shouldn’t let Vindman’s alleged antagonism (key word: “allegedâ€) get in the way of the facts.
Testifying under oath, Vindman said he was part of a July 10 White House meeting in which Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland specifically said Ukraine would need to publicly commit to an investigation into Joe Biden and his son Hunter Bidens’s dealings with Burisma if they wanted a White House visit. Vindman is also the first Democratic-called witness to have actually been on the July 25 call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.
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