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Impeachment witness reveals Ukraine offered him minister post


Kiev-born Vindman flatly turned down the offer. (AP pic)WASHINGTON: A key witness in the impeachment investigation into US President Donald Trump’s alleged arms-for-investigations Ukraine scandal testified Tuesday that a senior Kiev official offered him the job of defence minister.
Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, a Ukraine expert on the White House National Security Council, told a congressional impeachment hearing he did not take the offer seriously.
Republicans brought up the offer from Oleksandr Danylyuk, the former secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defense Council, in an apparent bid to discredit Vindman’s damning testimony against Trump.
Vindman said Danylyuk dangled the post three times during …read more

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