Removed from the White House: Trump fired a key witness in the impeachment lawsuit against him

Alexander Windman's lawyer, a member of the National Security Council, announced that he had shown him the way out after he testified about the US president's conversation with his Ukrainian counterpart. US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sunland also said Trump intends to fire him Because he testified against him

Removed from the White House: Trump fired a key witness in the impeachment lawsuit against him

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US officer Alexander Windman, who testified at the impeachment trial of US President Donald Trump, "borrowed" from the White House - his lawyer announced Friday. "Windman was asked to leave because he was telling the truth," said defense attorney David Pressman. "The truth went up to Officer Alexander Windman in his work, career and privacy." According to him, "the world's strongest man" decided to take revenge.

Windman, a lieutenant-colonel officer in the U.S. military and a member of the National Security Committee, listened as part of Trump's conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zalansky on July 25, which was at the heart of the impeachment process. According to a report in the Washington Post, efforts have been made to remove Windman, according to two sources involved in the move, as part of a broader trend of marking Trump's enemies after being acquitted of the two-week Senate impeachment trial. Reportedly, Windman will be reassigned to the Department of Defense position.

Beyond Windman, the US ambassador to the European Union, Gordon Sunderland, also said tonight that President Trump intends to fire him because he testified against him in the impeachment trial. "I was warned today that President Trump wants to move me out of my position," Sundland said.

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"The truth cost him his job and his privacy." Windman testifies to Trump-Zalansky call (Photo: Reuters)

Alexander Windman during his testimony during the public hearings phase of the impeachment investigation against US President Donald Trump in November 19, 2019 (Photo: Reuters)

Windman was summoned to testify before the House of Representatives in November, telling members of Congress that he was "worried" about what he heard on the phone, and felt it was "inappropriate for the United States president to demand a foreign government investigate an American citizen and a political rival." Windman also testified that the summary of the telephone conversation in question was transferred to a more classified and private system, "to prevent leaks" and to help "preserve the integrity of the transcript."

During his testimony to Windman, a lieutenant-general in the Army who received a crimson heart decoration after being wounded by an improvised explosive device in Iraq in 2004, he faced repeated character attacks by several Republicans on the House House Intelligence Committee, including for his allegiance to the state.

Windman was born in Kiev, then part of the Soviet Union, and fled with his family to the United States as a child. He is not the only government official involved in Trump's impeachment trial and pays for it in his workplace.

Former U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Jovanovich, a key figure in the impeachment investigation called back from office last year, resigned from the Foreign Office last month.

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Windman is not the first to lose his job after the trial. President Trump (Photo: Reuters)

US President Donald Trump, February 6, 2020 (Photo: Reuters)

Windman, in his opening remarks to his public appearance before Congress, said an incredible personal message about how his family came to America for a better life and how the escape from an authoritarian regime and his brother had a sense of duty to serve in the military. He said he had never expected to witness the president's actions, but he did so out of "a sense of duty" and said he acknowledged that his actions "would not suffer in many places in the world."

"In Russia, my act of expressing my concern for the chain of command on an official and private channel has had serious personal and professional implications and offering public testimony in which the president is involved will certainly cost me my life," he said. When contacted by his father, Windman concluded his statement by saying that "you made the right decision 40 years ago to leave the USSR and come here to the United States in search of a better life for our family." "Don't worry, I'll be okay to tell the truth," Windman said.

(First Update 7/2 23:18)