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Trump ousts two impeachment witnesses after acquittal


Monitoring Desk

WASHINGTON: The Trump
administration on Friday ousted the two witnesses who provided the most
damaging testimony during the US President Donald Trump’s impeachment
investigation: Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman and Ambassador Gordon
Sondland.

Two days after Trump
was acquitted by the Republican-controlled Senate on charges of trying to
pressure Ukraine to investigate a political rival, Vindman — the top Ukraine
expert at the White House’s National Security Council — was escorted out of the
building, according to his lawyer.

“Vindman was asked to
leave for telling the truth,” said his lawyer, David Pressman.

Hours later, Sondland
said he had been fired from his post as U.S ambassador to the European …read more

Source:: The Frontier Post

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