Vindman Confirms Ukraine Offered Him Defense Minister Post 3 Times

National Security Council official Alexander Vindman testified Tuesday during the third public impeachment inquiry hearing that Ukraine’s then-head of National Security and Defense Council Oleksandr Danylyuk offered him the position of defense minister three times.

Vindman said one of the times came when he was visiting Ukraine for the newly-elected president’s inauguration in May.

“At any point during that trip did Mr. Danylyuk offer you a position of defense minister with the Ukrainian government?” the Republican counsel Steve Castor asked Vindman.

“He did,” Vindman said.

“And how many times did he do that?” Castor asked.

“I believe it was three times,” Vindman.

“And do you have any reason why he asked you to do that?” Castor asked.

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“No, I don’t know, but every single time I dismissed it, upon returning I notified my chain of command and appropriate counterintelligence folks about the offer,” Vindman said.

“That was a big honor, correct?” Castor asked.

Vindman, who immigrated from Ukraine to America as a child, responded:

I think it would be a great honor, and frankly I’m aware of service members that have left service to help nurture the developing democracies in that part of the world.

But, he added, “I’m an American, I came here as a toddler and immediately dismissed these offers, I did not entertain them.”

He called the notion “comical,” since he was just a lieutenant colonel, and he said he did not leave the door open at all.

“These are honorable people, I’m not sure if he meant it as a joke or not,” he said.

Later in the hearing, Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) slammed Castor for asking about it.