In testimony released by House impeachment investigators, Trump’s top Ukraine expert describes the pressure campaign orchestrated by Trump administration officials on Ukraine.
House impeachment investigators release testimony by Army Lieutenant Col. Alexander Vindman, President Donald Trump's top Ukraine expert.
National Security Council Director for European Affairs Alexander Vindman arrives for a closed-door deposition at the US Capitol in Washington, DC on October 29, 2019.released the transcript of testimony by Army Lieutenant Col. Alexander VindmanIn it, Vindman described in detail the monthslong pressure campaign orchestrated by a small group of Trump administration officials this spring and summer, to get Ukraine to agree to launch investigations that could benefit Trump's reelection effort.
As the top Ukraine expert at the NSC, Vindman also listened in on the July 25 telephone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodimyr Zelensky which is now at the heart of the House impeachment inquiry. During that call, Trump asked Zelensky for "a favor," and proceeded to describe the investigations he wanted Ukraine to undertake.
The first was a July 10 meeting during which Vindman said Sondland told a group of visiting Ukrainian officials that in order for Zelensky to secure a meeting with Trump, he must first commit to undertaking two investigations. One was into a Ukrainian company, Burisma, on whose board the son of Trump's political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden, once sat. The second concerned a discredited conspiracy theory alleging that Ukraine, and not Russia, interfered in the 2016 U.S.
Two weeks later, Vindman said he had many of the same concerns after listening to the July 25 call between Trump and Zelensky.
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