One of the main witnesses to testify against President Trump during the House impeachment proceedings has been escorted from the White House after the president was acquitted by the Senate on two articles of impeachment.
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who worked on European affairs at the National Security Council, was instrumental in the investigation into the president. He provided a report to the White House counsel regarding Trump’s July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, during which the president pressed Zelensky to investigate his political rival, former Vice President Joe Biden.
“Today, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman was escorted out of the White House where he has dutifully served his country and his President,” said a statement from Vindman’s lawyer, David Pressman. “He came into the public eye only when subpoenaed to testify before Congress, and he did what the law demanded.”
A decorated combat veteran, Vindman became one of the most controversial figures in the impeachment investigation. He was celebrated by the Left as a truth-teller, but others, such as the man who killed Osama bin Laden, Robert O’Neill, decried Vindman as “an operative with an agenda.”
Vindman’s brother Yevgeny, a senior lawyer on the NSC who had no role in the impeachment investigation, was also removed from the White House Friday.
