A decorated Army officer who was on Donald Trump's infamous July phone call with the leader of
Ukraine says he was instructed by a
White House lawyer not to tell anyone about that call, days after he brought forward his concerns about that conversation.Lt Col Alexander Vindman, a decorated Army officer who was previously the National Security Council director for Ukraine, told
Congress during closed-door testimony this week that he had originally gone to White House lawyer John Eisenberg to express concerns about the 25 July phone call, in which Mr Trump appeared to ask Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate
Joe Biden in exchange for the release of
American security aide for the country.