Impeachment witness taunts president with vow to bring 'one thing Trump hates' to Senate
Alex Vindman is leaning into the one thing he knows gets under Donald Trump's skin: the prospect of becoming the president's own home-state senator.
In a fundraising appeal sent to supporters, the Vindman campaign made the geography the whole pitch. It pointed to Mar-a-Lago, Trump's Florida residence, and noted that the state is where Vindman is running for the U.S. Senate. "And if there's one thing Trump hates," the email read, "it's 'Vindman.'"
To prove the point, the appeal resurfaced one of Trump's own social media broadsides against him, in which the president raged that Vindman knew his 2019 call to Ukraine's president was "perfect" and accused him of staying silent about the whistleblower report. The campaign cast a strong fundraising quarter as payback. "A huge FEC report will be seen as a great rebuke to Donald Trump," it told donors. "Imagine … Alex Vindman as Donald Trump's Senator."...