Thread by @DrDenaGrayson

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Decorated @USArmy veteran LTC Alexander Vindman plans to tell @HouseDemocrats that he heard @realDonaldTrump ask #Ukraine’s president to investigate @JoeBiden, and reported it to a superior out of what he called a “sense of duty.”

What a hero!🇺🇸
nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/…

🔥Vindman—the 1st WH official to testify who listened in on the July 25 #Ukrainegate call—is the TOP #Ukraine expert on the NSC and raised internal objections TWICE about how Trump and his cronies were treating #Ukraine.

#Ukrainegate

Vindman: “I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a US citizen...I realized that if #Ukraine pursued an investigation into the Bidens and Burisma it would likely be interpreted as a partisan play” that would HURT #Ukraine.

To help TRUMP.🤬

Total #AbuseOfPower. This war hero plans to testify that Trump himself pressured #Ukraine to investigate the Bidens — imperiling #Ukraine’s bipartisan support in Congress as a bulwark against #Russian🇷🇺aggression in Europe.

#Ukrainegate

https://twitter.com/drdenagrayson/status/1188986425187942405?s=21

🔥#Vindman on Trump’s #Ukrainegate call: “This would all undermine US national security.

I am a patriot, and it is my sacred duty and honor to advance and defend our country irrespective of party or politics.”

I love this patriot!🇺🇸💙💖

@thespybrief
nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/…

#Vindman will be deposed tomorrow by House #impeachment investigators *in defiance* of an *illegal* WH command not to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry.

He is a hero.🇺🇸💙💖

#Ukrainegate

#Vindman is NOT the #whistleblower, but can corroborate the complaint: “I did convey certain concerns internally to national security officials in accordance with my decades of experience and training, sense of duty, and obligation to operate within the chain of command.”👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

#Vindman was alarmed as “outside influencers” began pushing a “false narrative” about #Ukraine counter to US policy and harmful to US interests—and that @RudyGiuliani was pushing #Ukraine to investigate the Bidens and to discredit efforts to investigate Paul Manafort.🔥

Even as he expressed alarm, #Vindman drafted a memo in mid-August that sought to restart $391,000,000 in aid being withheld from #Ukraine, but Trump *refused to sign*. He drafted a letter in May congratulating Zelensky on his inauguration, but Trump did not sign that either.🤬

🔥#Vindman emigrated from #Ukraine when he was a child and is fluent in Ukrainian and Russian. Ukrainian officials **sought advice from him about how to deal with Rudy**.

Rudy is in BIGLY trouble.😎

#Ukrainegate #Corruption #ImpeachTrump #ImpeachmentTaskForce

#Vindman—like Fiona Hill—reported concerns to the top lawyer at NSC, initially on July 10 when senior US officials met with Ukrainian officials at the WH in a stormy meeting that Bolton later called a “drug deal”👉🏼Sondland discussed investigations he wanted #Ukraine to undertake.

🔥 This is just #Vindman’s opening testimony, and it’s DAMNING.

Clear evidence of a #QuidProQuo ro “help” @realDonaldTrump at the expense of the American and Ukrainian people.🤬

#Ukrainegate #ImpeachmentTaskForce #ImpeachTrump
nytimes.com/2019/10/28/us/…

🔥#Vindman told Gordan Sondland and said his statements were “inappropriate” and that the “request to investigate Biden and his son had nothing to do with national security, and that such investigations were not something the NSC was going to get involved in or push.”

Patriot.🇺🇸

🔥WOW. #Vindman said that after his confrontation with Sondland, Fiona Hill then “entered the room and asserted to Ambassador Sondland that his statements were inappropriate.”

Total corroboration.😎

#Ukrainegate #ImpeachmentTaskForce #ImpeachTrump

#Vindman: “On many occasions I have been told I should express my views and share my concerns with my chain of command and proper authorities. I believe that any good military officer should and would do the same, thus providing his or her best advice to leadership.”

#Hero🇺🇸💙💖

Friends, the floodgates have opened. Patriotic heroes throughout our government are bravely stepping forward to speak the truth at great personal and professional risk.

I salute EVERY single one of these patriots.🇺🇸💙💖

#Ukrainegate #ImpeachmentTaskForce

https://twitter.com/drdenagrayson/status/1188984051744555008?s=21

I can’t wait for these #impeachment hearings to be held PUBLICLY, just as the #GOP has been begging for.😎

#Ukrainegate #busted #ImpeachmentTaskForce #ImpeachTrump

https://twitter.com/drdenagrayson/status/1188984051744555008?s=21

Looks like Gordon Sondland may have LIED to Congress during his testimony **under oarh**.🤬

#Ukrainegate

https://twitter.com/olivia_gazis/status/1189002142989901824?s=21