'This is the country I have served and defended, that all of my brothers have served and here, right matters,' the lieutenant colonel told the House Intelligence Committee.
his credibility and suggested he had ulterior motives for testifying against the president. The lieutenant colonel, who was appointed to the National Security Council in 2018, was on the July 25 call that took place between Trump and Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelenskiy.
That call is now at the center of the impeachment inquiry against Trump, as the president asked Zelenskiy for"a favor" during the conversation, and to open investigations into a debunked conspiracy theory about Democrats and 2016 election interference, as well as into unsubstantiated claims against Democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
In a closed door deposition last month, Vindman warned that the administration's actions could"undermine U.S. national security." He reiterated that concern during his Tuesday testimony as well. Vindman was awarded the Purple Heart after he was wounded in the Iraq War. He went on to serve the U.S. as a foreign area officer in Ukraine and Russia, and then in the Pentagon before assuming his current National Security Council role.
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