A CNN report indicates that President Donald Trump is considering sending impeachment witnesses, who are currently on loan from other agencies, back to their own departments before they were due to leave the White House. In the case of others, he is indicating he has already fired them, when in fact he has not.
Trump is reportedly flying in the face of advice from aides who tell him the moves will be viewed as vindictive. His actions could even be used by Democrats as further evidence that he should in fact be impeached, CNN says.
Among the witnesses targeted for an early switch because of their impeachment testimony, CNN reports, is Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, whom Trump has attacked as a “Never Trumper.” Vindman, director of European affairs at the national security council, testifies in public over Ukraine today. He has already said, in private testimony, that he had concerns about Trump’s behaviour in regard to Ukraine.
