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Ukraine Expert Who Listened to Trump Phone Call to Testify in Impeachment Hearings

HeadlineOct 29, 2019

In news from Washington, Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman is slated to testify to congressional lawmakers as part of the ongoing impeachment inquiry into whether President Trump withheld military aid from Ukraine in order to pressure Ukraine to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and his son Hunter. Vindman is the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council. He is the first witness to testify who listened in on Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, in which Vindman says Trump appealed to Zelensky to investigate Biden. Vindman registered two internal objections at the time. In a pre-released statement, Vindman said, “I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine.”

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