Alexander Vindman Publicly Shames Trump For Jan 6 Guilt

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During a new appearance on MSNBC, ret. Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman tore into Donald Trump and some of the goons around him for the witness intimidation in which they’ve engaged when faced with pressure. Vindman himself was a target, and so was former Trump W.H. aide Cassidy Hutchinson, who recently publicly testified.

Vindman also spoke during his time on MSNBC to some of his personal experience with witness intimidation. “Unfortunately, this is like some sort of bad mafia movie, except unfortunately these are real-life characters that are in leadership positions,” Vindman remarked. “In my case, I didn’t have a vast amount of experience with the Trump administration. I was a professional staffer coming out of the Department of Defense.” He spoke of the “lawyers that were hired by Trump and were senior members of the Trump team” questioning his recollection of an infamous phone conversation between Donald and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, although the call transcript, Vindman indicated, backed up his account.

Vindman’s brother, Col. Yevgeny Vindman, also faced intimidation. “He worked for an attorney team — the same one that tried to get me to walk back or rethink my own observations about Trump corruption, and this particular team retaliated against my brother,” Alexander remarked. The team provided a “terrible performance review” for Yevgeny that threatened to “harm his military career,” Alexander said on MSNBC. Like Alexander, Yevgeny also raised concerns about Trump’s actions towards Ukrainian leadership before the retaliation. The inspector general’s office overseeing the Defense Department found it to be “more likely than not” that Yevgeny “was the subject of unfavorable personnel actions and that these were in reprisal for his protected communications” with higher-ups. That negative performance review — issued by National Security Council attorneys John Eisenberg and Michael Ellis — was struck from his record.

“This is the way they operate,” Alexander added, continuing:

‘We will see more of this now. God forbid there’s ever a second Trump administration or any kind of Trump-like figure that emerges after 2024. We’re gonna see even more blatantly: nobody will be safe. Anybody that runs afoul of the administration, it won’t be rule of law, it will be rule by law, and they’ll use legal means or any other means of intimidation.’

Witness intimidation is a crime. Check out Vindman’s comments below:

A message shared at the end of the recent public hearing featuring Hutchinson displayed an apparent attempt at witness intimidation targeting her. During the hearing, members of the House riot investigation committee didn’t name who got the message, but later reporting identified the target to be Hutchinson. “[A person] let me know you have your deposition tomorrow. He wants me to let you know that he’s thinking about you. He knows you’re loyal, and you’re going to do the right thing when you go in for your deposition,” the message said. The referenced person — whose name was excluded in the panel’s public presentation of the message — was reportedly former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, with whom Hutchinson worked. She got it before a March appearance before the panel, which was private.

Trump himself has engaged in days of essentially targeted harassment of Hutchinson following her public testimony to the riot committee. He’s slung all sorts of wild claims about her, including that she was rejected from some kind of role with the Trump team after D.C., ostensibly sparking some kind of resentment behind her decision to testify publicly. There’s no apparent evidence that supposed rejection actually took place.