A panel on Fox News’s The Ingraham Angle insinuated that the White House official who will testify in front of House impeachment investigators about registering internal complaints about President Trump’s July phone call with Ukraine is a spy.
Laura Ingraham on her show Monday night read a portion of the New York Times report about the testimony of National Security Council Ukraine expert Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. Vindman plans to testify that he objected twice to the president’s phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in which Trump urged the foreign leader to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son, Hunter.
The host pointed to a specific line in the middle of the Times report that she thought was “buried” and “found it very interesting.”
“Because [Vindman] emigrated from Ukraine along with his family when he was a child and is fluent in Ukrainian and Russian, Ukrainian officials sought advice from him about how to deal with Mr. Giuliani, though they typically communicated in English,” the line she highlighted reads.
She added, “Here we have a U.S. national security official, who is advising Ukraine while working inside the White House apparently against the president’s interest, and usually, they spoke in English. Isn’t that kind of an interesting angle on this story?”
John Yoo, a guest on the panel, responded, “I find that astounding. Some people might call that espionage.”
Yoo, a Berkeley law professor and former Justice Department official in the George W. Bush administration, continued, claiming that it “doesn’t actually seem to add any new facts to what we know,” later adding, “I don’t see how this breaking news actually adds more facts to what we know about whether this is an impeachable offense or not.”
Neither Ingraham nor lawyer Alan Dershowitz, who was also on the panel, pushed back on Yoo’s suggestion of espionage.
