President Donald Trump used retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman’s Florida primary loss to revive his grievances about his first impeachment and to call for Vindman’s prosecution.
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Trump wrote on Truth Social Wednesday morning after Vindman lost Tuesday’s Florida Democratic Senate primary to state Rep. Angie Nixon.
The post reprised Trump’s years-long insistence that his July 2019 call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky was a “Perfect Call” and that his first impeachment was a political failure.
“The most gratifying loss last night was that of a real treasonous creep, Alexander Vindman,” Trump wrote.
Vindman entered the primary as the heavy favorite. He raised roughly $16 million — 16 times Nixon’s war chest — but still lost by 12 points, NOTUS reported.
Trump predicted Nixon would lose to Sen. Ashley Moody (R-FL) in November, according to the post. The election, though, was not Trump’s main subject.
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“Vindman, if you remember, was the one who lied about my ‘Perfect Call’ with President Zelenskyy of Ukraine,” Trump wrote, “only to find out that the conversation was routinely recorded… and proved that I was 100% in the right (Completely Innocent!),” Trump added.
“Vindman should be prosecuted for what he did!” the president added.
Vindman had been one of the most visible witnesses in Trump’s first impeachment inquiry.
The retired Army officer testified before the House Intelligence Committee in November 2019 that he believed Trump’s pressure on Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden was “improper,” NBC News reported.
Two days after the Senate acquitted Trump in February 2020, Trump fired Vindman from the National Security Council. Vindman was escorted off the White House grounds and later retired from the Army, NBC News reported.
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“The Dumocrats Fake Impeachment effort massively failed,” Trump wrote.
