President Donald Trump intends to nominate his former White House legal adviser involved in the handling of a call with Ukraine’s president that led to his impeachment as head of the Justice Department’s National Security Division.
John Eisenberg, a former Kirkland & Ellis partner, was serving as legal adviser to the National Security Council at the time of the July 2019 call between Trump and Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky. National Security Council staffer Lt. Col. Alexander Vindaman who had been listening to the call later testified that Trump’s effort to pressure Zelensky into investigating domestic political rivals so alarmed him ...