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Can't say that I blame A Vindman.
Filed in federal district court in Washington, Vindman alleges that he was the target of a "dangerous campaign of witness intimidation" that sought to punish him for his role in the impeachment investigation and deter other potential witnesses from speaking out against Trump.
The suit names Trump Jr., the former president's oldest son, Giuliani, his personal attorney, and White House aides Dan Scavino and Julia Hahn. Vindman and his lawmakers argue the group conspired with one another "with a shared purpose of preventing, by force, intimidation, or threat, Lt. Col. Vindman from holding and discharging the duties of his office" in violation of federal civil rights law.
"Whatever one thinks of the merits of the underlying impeachment, purposefully attacking witnesses for participating in an official proceeding and telling the truth cannot be dismissed as politics as usual and cannot be tolerated in a nation built on the rule of law," Vindman's lawyers wrote in their complaint. "However toxic our politics may have become, this kind of unlawful conduct must not be accepted as 'normal' in any healthy democracy."
Filed in federal district court in Washington, Vindman alleges that he was the target of a "dangerous campaign of witness intimidation" that sought to punish him for his role in the impeachment investigation and deter other potential witnesses from speaking out against Trump.
The suit names Trump Jr., the former president's oldest son, Giuliani, his personal attorney, and White House aides Dan Scavino and Julia Hahn. Vindman and his lawmakers argue the group conspired with one another "with a shared purpose of preventing, by force, intimidation, or threat, Lt. Col. Vindman from holding and discharging the duties of his office" in violation of federal civil rights law.
"Whatever one thinks of the merits of the underlying impeachment, purposefully attacking witnesses for participating in an official proceeding and telling the truth cannot be dismissed as politics as usual and cannot be tolerated in a nation built on the rule of law," Vindman's lawyers wrote in their complaint. "However toxic our politics may have become, this kind of unlawful conduct must not be accepted as 'normal' in any healthy democracy."