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September 10, 2020

Vindman, not whistleblower, driving force behind Trump impeachment

Dana Mathewson

I know this is VERY old news at this point in time. However, we all know that this issue was never properly put to bed.

Fox News contributor Byron York has been a reliable source for news like this all along, and he does not fail us now.

Remember all the fuss and feathers about the "whistleblower?" Of course you do.

Retired Army Lt. Col.Alexander Vindman, a key impeachment witness against President Trump, was the "original source" of the Trump-Russia collusion push, not the whistleblower, Fox News contributor Byron York said Wednesday.

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

"It didn't take a real rocket scientist that the source of this, the original source of this, was Lt. Col. Vindman, "York told "The Ingraham Angle" Wednesday night, laying 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.

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.

Trump reacted to an excerpt on Vindman in Yorkâ€™s book Thursday.

"No, Vindman knew the call itself to the Ukrainian President was â€˜perfectâ€™, but also knew the whistleblower report described the call incorrectly, way off. Why didnâ€™t Vindman say so? Thatâ€™s why Shifty didnâ€™t want the whistleblower to testify. A big scam!â€ Trump tweeted.
York also claimed former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's team, formed in May of 2017, knew early on there wasn't evidence for Trump-Russia collusion but continued to investigate.

And so on, and so forth. I know you may have lost interest in this story, but if you are the kind who likes to see loose ends neatly tied up, go here https://www.foxnews.com/politics/trump-vindman-whistleblower-impeachment-byron-york-book-obsession-laura-ingraham-angle to read the rest of this article and get some closure. The comments are appropriately snarky, too -- from our point of view.

A personal comment: during these proceedings, I was very annoyed with the Republicans, who played footsie with the Democrats over the idea that the "whistleblower's" identity had to be protected over all other considerations. Many people pointed out that that was not the case, and many believed the GOP was bending over backwards to the donkeys and should instead have demanded to know the "whistleblower's" name. I am one of those. The Donkey Party lives and dies on the strength of "anonymous sources," and it would be wonderful to see that ended.

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