Unfounded Attacks Show Limits of Trump’s Impeachment Defense
- White House official Vindman tarred by president’s defenders
- Loyalists seek to discredit corroboration of whistle-blower
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Within hours of new testimony damaging to Donald Trump by a previously unknown White House official on Monday, the president’s conservative allies had accused the witness -- a decorated lieutenant colonel in the Army -- of betraying his country.
The allegations against the official, Alexander Vindman, came without any substantiation. On Fox News, host Laura Ingraham accused him of “working inside the White House, apparently against the president’s interest.” A panelist on her show, former Bush administration lawyer John Yoo, added: “Some people might call that espionage.”