President Donald Trump’s administration on Friday ousted the two witnesses who provided the most damaging testimony during his 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.
Hours later, Sondland said he had been fired from his post as U.S ambassador to the European Union.
The two men served as star witnesses during the Democratic-controlled House of Representatives’ impeachment investigation last year.
Vice President of the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Institute for International Studies at The Heritage Foundation and author of Wiki at War: Conflict in a Socially Networked World and Private Sector, Public Wars – Contractors in Combat, Jim Carafano, offers his opinion on Trump’s removal of Lt Col Vindman with Dan & Amy: