Lieutenant-Colonel Alexander Vindman has given the strongest evidence so far that there was a well-established plan to discredit Joe Biden
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 , 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.
First, Colonel Vindman is the first official from the White House to testify that he listened in on the conversation between Presidents Trump and Zelensky on July 25th. Colonel Vindman has become at least the fourth person to suggest Mr Trump offered Mr Zelensky a quid pro quo. Last month, an account from a whistle-blower of that conversation prompted the Democrats to launch the inquiry.
A little later when Mr Sondland “emphasized the importance that Ukraine deliver the investigations into the 2016 election, the Bidens, and Burisma”, Colonel Vindman told Mr Sondland that “his statements were inappropriate, that the request to investigate Biden and his son had nothing to do with national security, and that such investigations were not something the NSC was going to get involved in or push.
Colonel Vindman’s testimony does not look good for Mr Sondland, whom it appears to contradict: earlier this month, Mr Sondland told investigators that he did not remember discussing the Bidens and that no one had raised concerns about Mr Trump’s actions.
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