‘We’re not some banana republic’: National security advisor defends removal of Trump impeachment witness from White House job by SeanDNaylor
Vindman, who had been the NSC’s director of European affairs, testified in November during the impeachment proceedings against the president, saying he considered Trump’s efforts to have Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky investigate Joe Biden and his son Hunter “inappropriate.” With his twin brother, Yevgeny, also an Army lieutenant colonel on the NSC staff, Vindman was escorted from the White House grounds Friday.
However, later in the day, O’Brien denied that there had been any retribution involved in the ouster of the Vindman brothers. “There’s absolutely no retaliation with respect to the Vindmans as far as impeachment goes,” O’Brien told CBS journalist Margaret Brennan during a question-and-answer session at the Atlantic Council in Washington. “But the president is entitled to a staff that he has confidence in and that he believes will execute his policies.
“It’s really a privilege to work at the White House, it’s not a right,” O’Brien said, adding that the Vindmans had each served at the NSC for more than a year. “It was just time for them to go back,” he said. “Their services were no longer needed.” Some of those cuts are already happening. He said that by the end of the week the number of people on the NSC will be down to about 115 to 120.
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