UPDATE, 10:07 AM PT: As Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was being grilled by the House Intelligence Committee during their impeachment inquiry, the White House sent out a tweet about his judgment. ̶…
On Friday, Trump tweeted out an attack on another witness, former Ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, as she testified. Democrats immediately seized on his tweet as an effort at witness intimidation.
But one of the more compelling moments thus far of Vindman’s appearance before the House Intelligence Committee came in his opening statement, when he talked of his father’s decision to move the family from the former Soviet Union to the United States some 40 years ago. The risk for the Republicans is in attacking someone some regard as a military hero. Already, when Vindman testified behind closed doors, Trump called him a “never Trumper,” and some commentators on the right have questioned Vindman loyalty, to some backlash. In his opening statement, House Intelligence Chairman
“If you watched the impeachment hearings last week, you may have noticed a disconnect between what you actually saw and the mainstream media accounts describing it,” Nunes said. While Republicans didn’t overtly attack Vindman’s loyalties, Democrats complained that they hinted at it. Rep. Jim Himes blasted the GOP committee counsel, Stephen Castor, for asking Vindman about an offer he received to serve as Ukraine’s defense minister. Himes suggested that it was a way of triggering conspiracy theories.
Vindman said that he had prepared talking points for Trump for an initial call that he had with Zelensky in April. The talking points included mention of Ukrainian corruption, but Trump did not bring that up on the call, according to transcript notes the White House released last week. That’s significant because one of Trump’s defenses has been that he was concerned about Ukrainian corruption in his call for an investigation of the Bidens, yet he did not raise the issue in the call.
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