Retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman revealed on Sunday that he went 'straight upstairs' to his twin brother's White House office after Donald Trump crossed 'the brightest of bright lines' in his infamous call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky where he asked for an investigation into Joe and Hunter Biden.
'I go straight upstairs into the legal suite, and my twin brother's office is almost as soon as you walk in. I go in, close the door and I tell him "Eugene, If what I'm about to tell you becomes public, the President will be impeached,"' Vindman told CBS Sunday Morning.
Yevgeny Vindman was serving as chief ethics officer on the White House National Security Council when his brother led the Eastern Europe, Caucasus and Russia office of the NSC.
Alexander Vindman told CBS Sunday Morning he was the 'driving force' behind Trump's impeachment
He (right) sat down for an interview with his twin brother Yevgeny Vindman (left) and father Semyon (center). All three had immigrated from Ukraine along with their older brother when the twins were children
Following Trump's request that Zelensky 'look into' the Bidens Vindman said he immediately told his twin brother Yevgeny, who was an ethics lawyer for the National Security Council (pictured: Military veterans Alexander (left) and Yevgeny Vindman (right) at the Pentagon in 2016)
He told CBS the pair's minds were 'quickly made up about what actions we would take and what our duty was' after a conversation that lasted five minutes.
Vindman also said he was the 'driving force' behind Donald Trump's first impeachment proceedings in an interview ahead of the Tuesday release of his memoir, Here, Right Matters.
Vindman made his bombshell statements on a media tour promoting his memoir Here, Right Matters, which goes on sale August 3
'I was the driving force behind this whole thing,' the former national security official and star hearing witness said. 'I'm getting some chills thinking about it right now.'
However he maintained he 'had no thoughts about this ever becoming public.'
In a Sunday op-ed Vindman revealed he sensed something was wrong when Trump's phone call with Zelensky, which was expected to be a routine call to congratulate a fellow head of state on the previous day's parliamentary election, 'was abruptly rescheduled for
