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President Donald Trump on Tuesday said that it would be up to the military to decide on further action on Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, who was removed from the White House on Friday.

Democrats got #LtColVindmanDay to trend on Twitter, to “honor and defend” the former NSC staffer Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.

George Conway, husband to President Donald Trump’s adviser Kellyanne Conway, writes that Trump may need to be impeached a second time — in response to the firing of alleged NSC leaker Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman. Conway’s op-ed in the Washington Post was published a mere five days after the U.S. Senate acquitted President Trump on two articles of impeachment.

The Trump administration has removed 70 Obama holdovers at the National Security Council, a Washington Examiner columnist reported Monday.

Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) during Sunday’s “Face the Nation” on CBS weighed in on the White House’s ousting of Lt. Col Alexander Vindman, a key witness in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) Sunday on MSNBC accused President Donald Trump of having “no respect for people of color.” Reacting to the dismissal of  Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman and US Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland, Waters said, “This

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) on Friday blasted what she called President Trump’s “shameful” removal of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from the National Security Council (NSC), highlighting in her statement that the president is “impeached forever,” despite his full acquittal from the Senate.

Former Vice President Joe Biden on Friday called for the Democrat primary debate audience to give a standing ovation for Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman hours after he was removed from the National Security Council by the White House. 

“I was advised today that the President intends to recall me effective immediately as United States Ambassador to the European Union,” Sondland said in a statement.

Former NSC official Tim Morrison testified that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman had been suspected of leaking information — apart from the Ukraine call.

Lt. Col Alexander Vindman, a key witness in the House Democrats’ partisan impeachment inquiry, was fired from the National Security Council and escorted out of the White House on Friday.

The White House is considering removing Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a key witness in President Donald Trump’s impeachment investigation, as part of a plan to downsize the Trump administration’s foreign policy bureaucracy, according to Bloomberg News. 

Former National Security Advisor John Bolton said Thursday that Trump administration officials who testified in the House impeachment investigation should be free to speak out without “retribution.”

Meadows said Monday that he believes the leak of Bolton’s book manuscript is a “coordinated leak” to change the narrative.

CNN media reporter Brian Stelter tweeted Sunday evening that former National Security Advisor John Bolton’s new memoir went on pre-order sale at Amazon.com right after the New York Times published an article suggesting it would undermine President Donald Trump’s defense against impeachment and removal.

A source close to the Trump administration informed Breitbart News on Sunday evening that Army Lt. Col. Yevgeny Vindman, a senior ethics lawyer for the National Security Council (NSC), is in charge of reviewing all publications by current and former officials.

Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) has drawn fire from across the anti-Donald Trump political spectrum the past few days as she has publicly challenged the fake establishment built around key impeachment figure and Democrat witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.

Guest co-host Ana Navarro on Friday’s broadcast of ABC’s “The View” questioned Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) patriotism and mental state for her criticisms of Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman.

Critics have come out against Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) for not devoting her full attention to the impeachment trial underway in the U.S. Senate, and for daring criticize Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, a national security aide who testified against President Donald Trump in the House’s so-called impeachment inquiry.

“I’ll do whatever they want to do. It doesn’t matter.”

None of the Democrat-called witnesses testifying before the House Intelligence Committee as part of a series of “impeachment inquiry” hearings have been able to identify any impeachable offenses or crimes committed by President Donald Trump, noted Rep. Steve Scalise (R-LA), in a Thursday interview on SiriusXM’s Breitbart News Daily with host Alex Marlow.

Fiona Hill was opposed to the president’s style of diplomacy toward Ukraine. She originally opposed sending weapons to help.

Another star witness of the Democrats’ impeachment inquiry admitted on Wednesday that Hunter Biden’s wheeling and dealing in Ukraine had the appearance of a conflict of interest for his father.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, thank you for your service. Now, please remove your Army Service Uniform.

“I don’t have to justify my loyalty to our military,” said Fox News’ Brian Kilmeade, regarding Democrats naming him during a House hearing.

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) said in an interview Tuesday the impeachment inquiry into President Trump is at the “point of no return,” alleging he “clearly” committed a crime – extortion and bribery – before claiming he has actively “threatened” some of those who have testified.

Morrison said his predecessor Dr. Fiona Hill and other staff at the NSC had raised concerns about Vindman’s judgment.

War heroes slammed Vindman, a National Security Council official who testified Tuesday in the impeachment inquiry’s third public hearing.

Vindman testified Tuesday that a Ukrainian official offered him the position of defense minister three times.

MSNBC’s Ari Melber described Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s testimony as devastating and falsely claimed the witness “saw a bribery plot,” despite the fact that Vindman explicitly denied that.

Congressional Democrats’ impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump backfired again on Tuesday when one of the star witnesses, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, admitted Hunter Biden seemed unqualified to hold an $83,000-per-month job with Burisma Holdings.

Vindman worked on the National Security Council at the White House for President Donald Trump, but his testimony makes clear that his loyalty, trust, and preference were devoted to the “government interagency.”

Adam Schiff falsely claimed Vindman was worried Trump had broken the law. In fact, Vindman admitted his concerns were moral, ethical, and policy-based — not legal.

A bevy of left-wing Hollywood figures showered praise on Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman during his testimony on Tuesday during the House Intelligence Committee’s partisan impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump.

The Democrats’ star impeachment witness Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman refused to characterize former Vice President Joe Biden’s (D) threat — to withhold aid from Ukraine unless it fired a prosecutor investigating Burisma Holdings — as “wrong,” admitting that he viewed the video showing Biden bragging about his threat but refraining from condemning it.

Vindman cut off Devin Nunes (R-CA) during the third public impeachment inquiry hearing and asked him to call him by his military rank.