“A year since The Call. Much has changed for me and much more has changed for our country. I rest well knowing that I have done my duty,” Vindman, the former Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, wrote in a tweet. the call of July 25.
Vindman’s tweet on Saturday refers to the moment that sparked a month-long saga that included Democrats’ announcement of a impeachment investigation in September and his public testimony in November. Preliminary work for the third impeachment trial of a United States president began when Democrats announced a impeachment investigation following an anonymous complaint by whistleblowers alleging that Trump sought electoral help from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky in a phone call on 25 July 2019. The Senate finally voted to acquit Trump for two articles of impeachment.
Vindman has suffered a “campaign of intimidation, intimidation and retaliation” led by the president following his testimony in the impeachment investigation last year, according to his lawyer, the ambassador. David Pressman, partner at Jenner & Block.
Trump fired Vindman as Ukraine’s top expert on the NSC in February and also expelled his twin brother who also played a key role in impeachment proceedings while serving in the White House as a lawyer for the NSC.
Vindman said he reported his concerns about a “sense of duty,” and defended his fellow witnesses from what he described as “reprehensible” attacks.
Witnessing in his Army uniform as an active-duty soldier, Vindman invoked his father’s decision to leave the Soviet Union and come to the United States, noting that the testimony he was giving would likely kill him in Russia. “Don’t worry, I’ll be fine to tell the truth,” Vindman said in a line now well known.
But Vindman remained a focal point of Trump’s anger when impeachment proceedings moved to the Senate, facing a wave of unfounded attacks by the President and his allies during the trial portion.
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