As a White House national security official prepared to give damaging testimony in the House impeachment inquiry Tuesday, President Trump and some of his allies immediately began a push to attack the integrity and patriotism of the decorated Iraq War veteran.
Former congressman and Trump surrogate Sean P. Duffy said Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman had “an affinity for Ukraine” over the United States because it was his birthplace. Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani joined in with the suggestion on Twitter that Vindman was “advising two gov’s,” an apparent reference to dual loyalties.
And Trump himself attacked Vindman as a political opponent: “Supposedly, according to the Corrupt Media, the Ukraine call ‘concerned’ today’s Never Trumper witness,” the president tweeted Tuesday. “Was he on the same call that I was? Can’t be possible!”
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