Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was the latest figure to testify in the House of Representatives’ impeachment investigation on Tuesday. He recounted to congressional investigators that he had been troubled by President Trump’s conduct in connection to Ukraine policy. Here’s what you need to know about him: He’s a Ukrainian Jewish refugee: Alexander and his twin…
After reports emerged that National Security Council member Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was set to testify to Congress about his discomfort with President Trump’s Ukraine policy and actions, conservative commentators began implying that Vindman, a Jewish former refugee from Ukraine, was disloyal to the United States. “Here we have a U.S. national security official, who…
WASHINGTON (JTA) — Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council staffer set to deliver dramatic testimony confirming that President Donald Trump sought dirt on a political rival from Ukraine, is a Jewish refugee from that country when it was part of the Soviet Union. “I did not think it was proper to demand that…
The saga of the two Soviet-born associates of Rudy Giuliani, arrested last week for alleged campaign finance violations, has a head-scratching footnote connected to both Yiddishkeit and a classic American Broadway musical. As the news of the indictments of Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman spread, so did a video of the two men lounging with…
On Saturday, President Donald Trump appeared before a crowd at the Values Voter Summit in Washington, D.C. and let loose at House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff. “Maybe we should just impeach them, because they’re lying and what they’re doing is a terrible thing for our country,” Trump said, according to…
Two Soviet-born, Florida-based men were indicted Thursday for suspicion of campaign finance violations, allegedly performed to benefit President Trump and his Republican allies and tied to a larger dirt-gathering campaign on his Democratic challenger Joe Biden and Biden’s son Hunter. The men, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, are known as Giuliani’s “Florida Fixers” by the…
Rep. Lee Zeldin (R-NY) is emerging as one of Rep. Adam Schiff’s (D-CA) harshest critics as the latter pursues an impeachment inquiry against President Trump. it’s not a storybook kind. Though fairy tales have been invoked. On Tuesday at the Capitol, Zeldin accused Schiff, the Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, of forwarding a “Fairy…
House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff is expected to face a vote of condemnation when Congress resumes after the high holidays, whether he does teshuvah or not. House Republicans, led by Rep. Andy Biggs of Arizona, are planning to take a vote to formally condemn Schiff, one of the leaders of the Trump impeachment probe, Politico…
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