TRUMP ‘BULLYING’ SPURS IMPEACHMENT WITNESS TO RETIRE

Former White House aide Lt.-col. Alexander Vindman, a key figure in the impeachment of President donald Trump, said Wednesday he was retiring from the army after what his attorney described as a “campaign of bullying, intimidation and retaliation” by the president. Vindman, who had been due for a promotion to colonel, provided some of the most damaging testimony during a house probe into

Trump’s dealings with ukraine. Vindman, 45, wrote on Twitter that he and his family “look forward to the next chapter of our lives.” Vindman, then the White house National Security Council’s top ukraine expert, testified in November that Trump’s request for a probe into Joe Biden and his son hunter during a July 2019 phone call with ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskiy was improper.