Former White House chief of staff John Kelly said Wednesday that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was following his military training when he reported President Donald Trump’s now infamous call with the president of Ukraine
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Their removals were widely viewed among Democratic lawmakers and administration critics as an act of political retribution after Vindman informed White House lawyer John Eisenberg of Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and proceeded to cooperate with the House impeachment investigation.
“We teach them, Don’t follow an illegal order. And if you’re ever given one, you’ll raise it to whoever gives it to you that this is an illegal order, and then tell your boss,” Kelly said Wednesday of Vindman’s flagging of the call, during which Trump pressured Zelensky to open foreign probes into his domestic political rivals.
“Through the Obama administration up until that phone call, the policy of the U.S. was militarily to support Ukraine in their defensive fight against …. the Russians,” Kelly said. “And so, when the president said that continued support would be based on X, that essentially changed. And that’s what that guy [Vindman] was most interested in.”
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