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Purge the Scourge

1.  What was Lt Colonol Alexander Vindman's job in the bureaucracy?
He was a top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council.

2. What did Vindman testify during the impeachment investigation?
He testified that, while listening in on Trump's call with Zelensky, he found the call inappropriate and that Trump should not have asked Ukraine to investigate Biden, a political opponent of Trump.

3. What did the White House do to Vindman and his brother?
Vindman was removed from his post and detailed to the Defense Department; his brother was reassigned.

4. How is the White House justifying this action?
The White House claimed this was just part of a larger shrinking of the National Security Counsel staff.

5. Why does the author argue that this creates a danger for other civil servants?
Other officials are even more scared to testify against the president should he act inappropriately again.

6. What was Gordon Sondland's job in the Trump Administration?
He was the ambassador to the EU.

7. What did Ambassador Sondland testify during the impeachment investigation?
He stated that there was indeed a quid pro quo offered by Trump to Ukraine.

8. What was Sondland's background before becoming the ambassador?
He was a major Trump donor.

9. Who else might the Trump Administration take action against, according to this article?
George Kent, a Ukraine expert for the diplomatic corps, and Laura Cooper, the Defense Department's deputy assistant secretary for Ukraine.

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