Byron York: Vindman, the driving weasel behind Trump impeachment

When retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman testified against President Trump at the impeachment trials, a congressman referred to him as "Mr. Vindman" rather than using his rank. I believe that congressman was Jim Jordan (R-OH) but I could be mistaken and it isn't important enough to go back and namecheck that factoid. What't important is that hearing Vindman's response made me realize that this guy is a scumcrumpet. He's like the PhD who insists you provide the honorific "Doctor" before his or her name. These are people who have deep-seated feeling of being insignificant and require you honor their title, like the left does with Doctor Jill Biden, whose PhD is in education.

Anyway, Mr. Vindman was a key witness and, as it turns out, was the "original source" of the Trump-Russia collusion delusion, not the whistleblower, says Byron York.

York reveals in his new book "Obsession Inside the Washington Establishment's Never-Ending War on Trump," that Mr. Vindman, who retired from the Army in July after he was fired from the National Security Council in February, was the driving force for Democrats' impeachment.

"It didn't take a real rocket scientist that the source of this, the original source of this, was Lt. Col. Vindman," York told Fox News' "The Ingraham Angle,"
Wednesday night. He laid out the facts of the case.

"If you remember early on in the Ukraine matter, the Democrats said they wanted the whistleblower to testify, and then they changed their mind and they didn't want the whistleblower to testify and they began to shut off any Republican attempts to find out who the whistleblower was," he said.

Then-National Security Council aide Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman arrives to testify before the House Intelligence Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, Nov. 19, 2019, during a public impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump's efforts to tie U.S. aid for Ukraine to investigations of his political opponents.

York, the Washington Examiner chief political correspondent asked, "So the question is if the whistleblower wasn't in the White House, how did he learn what was going on?"

He points out Vindman was one of several people who listened to Trump's call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, "but [Vindman] was the only one who was disturbed by what took place. He was the only one who thought there was a problem there."

Vindman testified to the Intelligence Committee that he only told two people outside the White House, George Kent, who was a State Department official who specialized in Ukraine, and a member of the intelligence community.

"At that point, Adam Schiff, other Democrats interrupted, you cannot say, you cannot ask the other person he spoke to, and Republicans said well, why can't we ask about that? And they said because it would tend to identify the whistleblower."

Republicans had a "very difficult time handling" Vindman because, although they felt he was the "origin of all this," he was a decorated military officer, York said.

And a scumcrumpet.



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