BloombergUS President Donald Trump on Friday removed two witnesses from his administration who testified against him in the US House of Representatives impeachment inquiry. Two days after Trump’s acquittal by the US Senate, Gordon Sondland announced he had been ousted as US ambassador to the EU just hours after the White House dismissed US Army Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman from the US National Security Council. Vindman was escorted from the White House in the afternoon, along with his twin brother, Yevgeny, a senior lawyer and ethics official on the council, Alexander Vindman’s lawyer David Pressman said. Pressman said that Alexander Vindman “was asked to leave for telling the truth.”“The truth has cost Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman his job, his career and his privacy,” Pressman said in a statement. Hours later, Sondland announced that he too was no longer a member of the Trump administration.

Source: Taipei Times February 08, 2020 15:56 UTC