Army Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, an NSC lawyer specializing in ethics, may be asked to testify in the wake of his twin brother’s, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s, bombshell hearing this week.
I’m kinda fascinated by these two very impressive men. From all the coverage of them I’ve consumed, THEY are such an American success story. I hope one of the results of what may become known in our history as the very dark years is that two immigrants who fled the country that tried to take our democracy away where responsible for helping to remove the asset placed in power by that same country.
Thanks to courageous government officials. It is important for the American public to hear and know the truth.
Just an aside…Thugs-R-Us had been whining and defending the Orange Impeachiness for lack of due process and transparency for 36+ days, but when they were asked to vote for impeachment process yesterday…guess what - except for Amash, all of them voted NO to the due process they were complaining about!
I’m old enough to remember when Republicans would have celebrated twin brothers whose family emigrated from the Soviet Union to escape religious persecution, and both of them ended up as honorably serving military officers. Real American heroes.
Splitting hairs here, but the political situation has changed since they left. Russia and Ukraine are adversarial now; Putin has yet to reassemble the USSR.
That aside, you’re right.
We thought we’d seen Trump endorse conspiracy theories before, but now we have identical twins. Hold onto your hat. “How do we even know which of them does what?! Is there a third? Are they part of a cold war-era Russo-Ukrainian cloning program? People are saying it’s possible!”
All this is good stuff to follow, but good things will come to those who wait.
By that I mean that the full memo on the secure server will absolutely have to come out eventually, maybe during the impeachment trial.
In all events, it’s very important that every witness, during the public hearings, be asked if they are aware of any recordings or other documentation of this conversation or other, similar ones. The existence of tapes was a revelation during Watergate. It could be so here, and it’s important not to let opportunities go for asking this question of each person under oath. A kind of checklist question I can imagine AOC going through, based on her clear approach to getting at fundamentals.
The Onion will report that there is just one Vindman, posing as twins to collect two salaries.
Fox and Friends will report one-Vindman notion as one of the rumors they are hearing, but express some skepticism, “because Vindman has a distinctive accent, and the sharp guys Trump hires would notice that two supposedly different people had the exact same accent.”