NSC official testifies Trump undermined national security with Ukraine pressure

Posted on AllSides October 29th, 2019
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Ukraine phone call, US House

A senior White House official told House impeachment investigators on Tuesday that he believed President Donald Trump undermined U.S. national security when he appealed to Ukraine’s president to investigate his political rivals, according to a copy of his opening statement obtained by POLITICO.

“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,” Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a National Security Council official overseeing Ukraine policy, told investigators, referring to...

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