The impeachment saga is revealing itself to be more of a sitcom than a drama
Crime-time TV. Photo: SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty Images Unable to keep up with the dramatic twists and turns of the ongoing Ukraine saga? Losing the thread of the impeachment-hearing process? We’ll be recapping the latest developments in installments on Intelligencer, from here until we get subpoenaed to appear before Congress. This week: Colonel Vindman’s clear eyes — and Purple Heart — can’t lose.
Thus, the question that animates each new installment of the Ukraine-pot Dome Scandal is less “What bombshells will this week’s depositions reveal?” than “How will our motley crew of fish-out-of-water wriggle their way out of this one?” The plot never thickens. But the joke does sometimes heighten. The basic beats of Vindman’s story will be familiar to anyone who’s tuned in to this program before: An expert on Eastern Europe enters the White House eager to solidify Ukraine’s alignment with the West. His hopes are raised by the election of the reformer Zelensky, and he encourages Trump to welcome Ukraine’s new leader into the Western alliance with open arms. But he finds the president strangely hostile to his new counterpart in Kiev.
Meanwhile, in mid-August, Vindman says, national-security adviser John Bolton instructed him to draft a memo calling for the release of military aid to Ukraine — a memo that Trump refused to sign. That’s significant because the White House’s official story has been that the aid was frozen pending a security review and then promptly released once Bolton gave the all-clear.
Trump himself took a more tactful approach to smearing the Purple Heart recipient. Instead of decrying Vindman as a spy, Trump merely branded him a “Never Trumper” — a term that he had used as a synonym for “human scum” just days earlier.
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