Donald Trump Jr. just shattered the White House's flimsy justification for firing the witnesses who testified against Trump

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• Donald Trump Jr. blasted out a tweet Friday sarcastically thanking House Intelligence Committee chairman Adam Schiff for helping President Donald Trump unearth "who all needed to be fired" for testifying against Trump in his impeachment inquiry.
• The tweet shatters the White House's flimsy defense that Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, an impeachment witness who listened to Trump's Ukraine call, was removed from the National Security Council as part of a "broader effort to shrink" the Trump administration's foreign policy bureaucracy.
• Trump Jr.'s tweet confirms, as it was already been suspected, that the president's motivation in firing Vindman — and later Gordon Sondland, the US's ambassador to the EU and another impeachment witness — was rooted in personal vengeance.
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When Bloomberg News first reported late Thursday that the White House planned to reassign Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman from his post as the top Ukraine expert on the National Security Council, the outlet cited sources as saying the decision would be portrayed as part of a "broader effort to shrink" the Trump administration's foreign-policy bureaucracy.

A day later, Trump's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr., blew up that flimsy defense, tweeting, "Allow me a moment to thank—and this may be a bit of a surprise—Adam Schiff," referring to the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and the lead House manager who oversaw witness testimony in Trump's impeachment hearings.

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