President Donald Trump lashed out Wednesday at retired Army Lt. Col. Alex Vindman, celebrating his upset loss in Florida’s Democrat Senate primary and calling for him to be prosecuted.
Vindman, a key witness in Trump’s first impeachment who later emerged as a prominent critic of the president, lost Tuesday’s primary to hard-left state Rep. Angie Nixon, who won 56% of the vote despite being heavily outraised by Vindman.
Nixon will face Republican Sen. Ashley Moody in November’s election.
Trump seized on the defeat Wednesday, calling Vindman a “treasonous creep” and attacking his role in the events that led to Trump’s 2019 impeachment.
“The most gratifying loss last night was that of a real treasonous creep, Alexander Vindman, to a Radical Left Lunatic, who can’t speak or think properly, and who will go down to certain defeat at the hands of Ashley Moody, a truly Fantastic Senator, from the Great State Florida,” Trump wrote in a post on Truth Social.
Vindman, a combat veteran wounded in Iraq, lost big to Nixon despite raising $20 million to her $1 million.
“Vindman, if you remember, was the one who lied about my ‘Perfect Call’ with President [Volodymyr] Zelenskyy of Ukraine, only to find out that the conversation was routinely recorded and proved that I was 100% in the right (Completely Innocent!). It was, indeed, a Perfect Call, and the Dumocrats Fake Impeachment effort massively failed,” Trump continued.
“Vindman should be prosecuted for what he did!”
Vindman, who was serving on the National Security Council, was a key witness in the impeachment inquiry that led to Trump’s first impeachment.
Vindman testified about Trump’s July 2019 phone call with Zelenskyy, during which Trump asked Zelenskyy to investigate Joe Biden, then a Democrat presidential candidate.