Donald Trump Jr. and Rudy Giuliani are defendants in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the whistleblower who sparked the first impeachment of former President Donald Trump.
Vindman sued the former president’s eldest son, Giuliani, and two other Trump associates in D.C. federal court, 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 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.
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