Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman — who testified against President Trump during the House impeachment proceedings — was booted from the White House Friday along with his brother, who is also an Army officer.
Vindman — one of the top Ukraine experts at the National Security Council — was not expected to leave until July but left the building Friday accompanied by his twin brother, Lt. Col. Yevgeny S. Vindman, a lawyer and fellow Army officer assigned to the NSC, who was also let go.
President Trump earlier Friday, asked about a report that Vindman was on his way out, didn’t confirm it but didn’t defend Vindman either.
“I’m not happy with him. You think I’m supposed to be happy with him? I’m not,” Trump said before traveling to an event in North Carolina. “They’ll make a decision.”
“LTC Vindman was asked to leave for telling the truth,” Alexander Vindman’s lawyer, David Pressman, said in a statement.
“The truth has cost LTC Alexander Vindman his job, his career and his privacy.”
Pressman asserted that “the most powerful man in the world — buoyed by the silent, the pliable, and the complicit” had “decided to exact revenge” on Vindman.
A White House spokesman said they do not comment on personnel matters.
With Post wires