TOP TRUMP RUSSIA NSC ADVISOR ESCORTED FROM WH (the 2 previous TESTIFIED)

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Who's left? Remember, he's leaving for Davos SOON!

Trump Loses Another Russia Adviser, Adding to NSC Turnover

By Jennifer Jacobs
Nick Wadhams
and Justin Sink
January 18, 2020, 8:50 PM EST Updated on January 18, 2020, 9:07 PM EST

• Andrew Peek was top Russia hand on National Security Council
• Peek’s two predecessors testified in impeachment inquiry

The top Russia expert on President Donald Trump’s National Security Council has left his post after about three months, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Andrew Peek, the NSC’s senior director for European and Russian affairs, was escorted from the White House grounds on Friday, two of the people said, asking not to be identified because they weren’t authorized to discuss personnel matters. A spokesman for the NSC declined to comment, citing the same reason. Peek also declined to comment.

Peek assumed the top Russia job on the NSC in November, according to his LinkedIn page. The position and the people who have occupied it have featured prominently in the Ukraine scandal that led to Trump’s impeachment by the House of Representatives last year.

Peek replaced Tim Morrison, who left the position late last year. Morrison testified in the impeachment inquiry that the U.S. Ambassador to the EU, Gordon Sondland, had told him there was a quid pro quo in which U.S. aid to Ukraine was conditioned on the country’s government opening an investigation into Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company that employed the son of former Vice President Joe Biden.

Axios reported earlier Saturday that Peek was placed on administrative leave pending a security-related investigation.

Peek is the third departure from the position in less than a year. The NSC has been marked by turbulence and turnover over Trump’s three years in office, as the president has repeatedly sought national security advisers more in-line with his own ideology...

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