Chuck Ross on November 8, 2019
House Democrats on Friday released deposition transcripts for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and Dr. Fiona Hill, two national security experts who are considered to be key witnesses in the impeachment inquiry of President Donald Trump.
Vindman, the director for European affairs at the National Security Council, was deposed Oct. 29, while Hill, who served as the White House’s top Russia expert until she left the post in July, was questioned Oct. 14.
Vindman was one of two officials deposed so far to have listened in on the July 25 phone call between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that is at the center of the impeachment inquiry.
Vindman testified that he had serious concerns that Trump asked Zelensky to open up politically charged investigations into allegations that Joe Biden pressured Ukraine’s former president to shut down an investigation into an energy company linked to his son, Hunter Biden.
Vindman, who received a Purple Heart for injuries sustained in the Iraq War, said he believed Trump’s remarks undermined U.S. national security. He also testified that he raised those concerns with John Eisenberg, the top lawyer on the National Security Council.
Hill expressed concerns that Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani operated an unofficial diplomatic channel between the Trump administration and Ukrainian government officials. She told lawmakers that John Bolton, the former national security adviser, described Giuliani’s involvement in Ukraine issues as a “drug deal.”
Vindman’s testimony, which Democrats called damning for Trump, was somewhat nullified by a deposition given by Timothy Morrison, who also listened in on the Trump-Zelensky phone call.
Morrison, who served on the National Security Council before filling Hill’s vacated position, said he “was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed” on the phone call.
Democrats began releasing transcripts this week of witnesses who have been deposed in the impeachment investigation. On Monday, they released deposition transcripts for former Ukraine ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and former State Department senior aide Mike McKinley.
Tuesday, they published transcripts for EU Ambassador Gordon Sondland and former Ukraine special envoy Kurt Volker. The next day, they released a transcript for acting Ukraine Ambassador Bill Taylor. And Thursday, they dropped the deposition for George Kent, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian affairs.
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That is part of the problem. This senile old crone seems to believe that SHE is now President--or at least EQUAL in power to the Presidency. And the deranged Demmunists are ACTUALLY conniving to IMPEACH a President with NO actual evidence, WHATSOEVER of any actual crime, and now I'm reading they're scheming to take out PENCE, too, so they can put the SENILE Queen of the Moonbats into the White House. Un-freaking-believable!
The dumbucrats are only releasing testimony that hurts the President and supports thier impeachment. We have no way of knowing if each transcript is complete or has not been altered. The 'witnesses' cannot challenge to accuracy of the transcript as they would be charged with exposing classified information, which is a crime.
Will Shifty Schiff release testimony that supports the President? We know some witnesses did support the POTUS in these fake hearings, but I have not heard of or seen thier transcripts.
This is an excellent read on Pelosi, the balck royalty and who and what is really behind this daughter of a Baltimore mafia kingpin and politician. https://galacticconnection.com/coup-in-progress-pelosi-the-mafia-and-the-black-nobility/
They are about as funny as a hot case of the Herps!!
I wish there were little hearts to put here because that what I would give you as a rating!!!! Smiles!!!
You are so right......opinions are like rectums.....everyone has one, yet, the Dims apparently believe their opinions are like gold, written in stone and the last word!!! I don't think so!!!!
Charge bind an with sedition & treason and hang him like Benedict Arnold.
in a corrupt world of QQP being so common they assume there is always QQP so there has to be here to ,but they can't find any coming from Trump and it comfuses them
Exactly. See the post on galactic connection dot com about Pelosi the mafia and the black royalty. I posted it above but it may not make it past the moderator.
Who gives a damn what these people THINK about President Trump's Foreign Policy? It is the Presidents call on Policy, not these underlings. Shut up, do your job, or leave and run for office. NOT IMPEACHABLE!!!