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Vindman twin calls for constitutional amendment to ‘curtail’ president’s pardon powers

December 2, 2025 | | Print Article

After he himself was snubbed, an impeachment inciter is now seeking to “curtail” a key power of the president, much to the delight of social media.

“That’s hilarious coming from a proud supporter of the autopen administration.”

Little more than six years after appearing on the national stage as a star for the Democrats’ first failed impeachment of President Donald Trump, retired Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman proved to be the “grift” that keeps on giving. The latest example of the left’s insistence that everything Trump does must be opposed found the Ukrainian-born twin of a sitting congressman calling for a constitutional amendment requiring Senate approval for presidential pardons.

“We are rapidly approaching the need to curtail @realDonaldTrump’s (and future president’s) pardon/amnesty powers. A constitutional amendment that requires Senate consent would make a great deal of sense,” wrote Vindman on X in response to reports that Trump had commuted the seven-year prison sentence of GPB Capital founder and CEO David Gentile.

Gentile was convicted on fraud charges after prosecutors said he’d raised around $1.6 billion by misrepresenting his private equity fund’s success to investors. He had served only 12 days of his sentence when the clemency was approved.

Notably, as then-President Joe Biden shuffle-stepped his way out of the White House, the bevy of blanket preemptive pardons that came from the sundowner administration did not include Vindman. As had been reported at the time, ahead of Trump’s second inauguration, the retired lieutenant colonel’s wife posted to social media, “Whatever happens to my family, know this: No pardons were offered or discussed. I cannot begin to describe the level of betrayal and hurt I feel.”

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Of course, Vindman’s gripe over the executive power came only days after the president declared not only the pardons of Biden, but, “Any document signed by Sleepy Joe Biden with the Autopen, which was approximately 92% of them, [as] hereby terminated, and of no further force or effect.”

Among the issues called out with the proposal from the impeachment witness was the fact that the system of checks and balances was not designed to route everything back to the legislative branch. As one user pointed out on X in response to the assertion that the call for change was “One administration too late” over an image of Hunter Biden, “Pardoning is an executive check on the judicial branch. Why involve the legislative? And why the Senate? Alex here doesn’t really get how America works.”

Meanwhile, others were more than happy to call out the lack of qualms Vindman had when Biden’s name was getting applied to pardons that included the career politician’s own family members, as still more suggestive an alternative focus might be on the “need to imprison treasonous actors, deep staters and traitors against a sitting and former President.”

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