The wife of retired Army lieutenant colonel Alexander Vindman is “apologizing” after a social media post making fun of the second assassination attempt against former President Donald Trump.
Rachel Vindman is married to Alexander, a critic of Trump’s who testified against him in the first unsuccessful impeachment hearings against the former President. On Monday, September, 16, Rachel was in full reverse mode after getting serious backlash for a mocking post she put on X (formerly Twitter).
Her post on X said “No ears were harmed. Carry on with your Sunday afternoon.” The message was a reference to the fact that Trump’s ear was grazed by an assassin’s bullet at a July 13 rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. On that day, Thomas Matthew Crooks tried to kill the president by firing from the roof of an unsecured building. A bullet grazed Trump’s ear, but another killed firefighter and rally attendee Corey Comperatore.
Since that first assassination attempt, far-left figures have not been shy about either openly wishing the shooter had killed Trump, or about mocking him and calling him “weak” for “only” getting nicked in the ear.
Then on Sunday, September 15, far-left activist Ryan Routh was arrested after the Secret Service fired on him as Routh allegedly stuck a rifle through the fence at a gold course where Trump was playing in a clear attempt to kill him.
Not only did Rachel Vindman put out the first mocking post, but she stuck to her attitude when she got pushback, writing on X/Twitter that she was not sorry for “triggering” people with her comment. But then came the deluge of angry users pushing back. Donald Trump Jr. called her “demented.”
By Monday, September 16, Rachel Vindman said she deleted her initial post, calling it “flippant” and inappropriate to the “serious issue” of political violence. She continued on using a tone that sounded serious and remorseful, but most people seem to believe she meant what she originally said and was only apologizing after provoking widespread outrage.
Not many people on the platform believed Vindman was sincere. One user, Mark Hemingway, wrote that while he was usually forgiving, he did not believe her. He called Alexander and Rachel Vindman “supremely narcissistic,” and pointed out that both of them defended her original post aggressively.
