Blog 3.5
1. What was Lt Colonol Alexander Vindman's job in the bureaucracy?
He was an Ukraine expert on the National Security Council.
2. What did Vindman testify during the impeachment investigation?
According to the article, “ He testified that he found the call inappropriate and that he saw it as “improper for the president of the United States to demand a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen and political opponent.”
3. What did the White House do to Vindman and his brother?
Vindman was removed from his post in the White House , and his twin brother was reassigned.
4. How is the White House justifying this action?
5. Why does the author argue that this creates a danger for other civil servants?
In the article, the author argues that “ officials will be even more fearful to speak out or testify against the president if he acts inappropriately again”.
6. What was Gordon Sondland's job in the Trump Administration?
He was the United States Ambassador to the EU.
7. What did Ambassador Sondland testify during the impeachment investigation?
Not only did he testify that there was indeed a quid pro quo, he testified that “ his own personal efforts in service of arranging the quid pro quo were authorized at the highest levels of the administration”.
8. What was Sondland's background before becoming the ambassador?
He was a major Trump donor before becoming an ambassador.
9. Who else might the Trump Administration take action against, according to this article?
Secretary of State
George Kent and Laura Cooper could possibly be targeted.
He was an Ukraine expert on the National Security Council.
2. What did Vindman testify during the impeachment investigation?
According to the article, “ He testified that he found the call inappropriate and that he saw it as “improper for the president of the United States to demand a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen and political opponent.”
3. What did the White House do to Vindman and his brother?
Vindman was removed from his post in the White House , and his twin brother was reassigned.
4. How is the White House justifying this action?
The White House is selling their removal as an attempt to shrink NSC staff.
In the article, the author argues that “ officials will be even more fearful to speak out or testify against the president if he acts inappropriately again”.
He was the United States Ambassador to the EU.
7. What did Ambassador Sondland testify during the impeachment investigation?
Not only did he testify that there was indeed a quid pro quo, he testified that “ his own personal efforts in service of arranging the quid pro quo were authorized at the highest levels of the administration”.
He was a major Trump donor before becoming an ambassador.
9. Who else might the Trump Administration take action against, according to this article?
Secretary of State
George Kent and Laura Cooper could possibly be targeted.
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