Two days after Senate Republicans acquitted President Trump on both counts of impeachment, the Trump administration fired a number of national-security officials: European Union ambassador Gordon Sondland and Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council staffer, for voluntarily testifying before the House, as well as the latter’s twin brother, Lieutenant Colonel Yevgeny Vindman, for being related to Alexander.

…McCusker is losing her job because she attempted to follow the law. There’s no cover story to rationalize it. That is the cover story. “This administration needs people who are committed to implementing the president’s agenda, specifically on foreign policy, and not trying to thwart it,” a White House official tells the paper.

…The emails show McCusker advising budget officials as to what the law said. She was not acting especially rigid about it.  …That is, she was trying to do everything in her power to give White House officials room to set the policy as they saw fit, without violating the law.

Trump Fires Defense Official for Refusing to Break the Law

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