Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the whistleblower who sparked the first impeachment of Donald Trump, filed suit in Washington, D.C., against the former president, his personal attorney Rudy Giuliani, and two other Trump associates, alleging a “concerted campaign of unlawful intimidation.”
“Purposefully attacking witnesses for participating in an official proceeding and telling the truth cannot” be “tolerated in a nation built on the rule of law,” the lawsuit says. “This kind of unlawful conduct must not be accepted as ‘normal’ in any healthy democracy.”
The suit, filed Wednesday, stems from Vindman’s role in Trump’s impeachment in late 2019 for allegedly attempting to bully and cajole Ukraine’s president into digging up or making up dirt on Joe Biden’s son Hunter as part of a scheme to influence the 2020 presidential election.
Trump was acquitted by the Senate in early 2020. He was impeached and acquitted a second time a year later for his alleged role in inciting the Jan. 6 insurrection by a mob of his supporters, who stormed the U.S. Capitol in an effort to stop Congress from certifying Biden’s election victory.
The former president’s office didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment Wednesday.
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