“I’m not @SenTedCruz. I will not allow attacks on my wife and family go unanswered. Your attacks are even more pathetic than your pitiful attempts at notoriety @gregkellyusa,” Vindman tweeted Monday.
Vindman’s Monday remarks had been in response to Kelly’s comments on Twitter a day earlier. Kelly posted an image of Vindman, his twin brother Eugene and father Semyon, and stated, “what a bunch of Schlubs. IS this the waiting room at Jiffy Lube? No, it’s the Vindman family — you know, that drama Queen who colluded with the Deep State to get TRUMP. He’s now running around trying to remind everyone who he is. Today Fake News @CBSNews hype his ‘book.’”
Vindman managed to incorporate a dig at Texas Sen. Ted Cruz in his reply. He alluded to Cruz’s observe file of failing to defend himself and his household towards private assaults even from inside his personal get together — Cruz famously refused to retort after former president Donald Trump insinuated his spouse Heidi was unattractive and threatened to “spill the beans” on her. Cruz additionally did nothing after Trump steered Cruz’s father Rafael Cruz was involved in the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy.
Vindman was the star witness at Trump’s first impeachment trial; he witnessed Trump’s infamous Ukraine call as a White House staffer and reported it, resulting in the inquiry and eventual court docket proceedings.