The campaign of the representative Eugene Vindman disbursed $ 38,783 in which he described a “fund collection expense” last month in a Florida bookstore where Brother held signature events for his best -selling book that criticized Western policy, financial revelations.
Vindman’s twin brother, Alexander, a lieutenant colonel retired from the army who was a key figure in the first accusation of President Trump, boasted of signing hundreds of copies of his volume “The madness of realism” in Books & Books campaign the time of his.
Books & Books has several stores in the Miami area, but an employee of the Gable Coral store confirmed to the publication on Wednesday that Alexander Vindman had book signs in that place, which is where the campaign payments were directed.
That individual also said that Eugene Vindman’s team had asked earlier in the day what the store would do if a journalist asked asking questions.
The records of the Federal Electoral Commission do not specify what the alleged “fund collection expense” implied, or if those funds went to bulk purchases of Alexander Vindman’s book, which created letters the New York Times “No fiction” Non fiction “.
“The Folly of Realism” was launched on February 25 of Hachette Book Group at an initial cost of $ 30. Ten days later, on March 7, the Eugene Vindman campaign made a payment of $ 7,809.55 to books and books. A second payment was processed, for $ 30,972.97, March 20.
In the last 15 years, there has not been a record of FEC for the main political funds collectors in Books & Books, with only a few expenses for meals for a total of no more than $ 54 listed by groups such as Emily’s list and former mayor of Miami, Maurice Ferré, the 2010 campaign for the Senate of the United States.
The FEC records show that Books & Books was the only Florida -based company that received payments of the duration of the Vindman campaign the first quarter of 2025.
On March 9, two days after the payment of $ 7,810 to Books & Books, Alexander Vindman published a photo of his copies firm or “the madness of realism.”
On March 21, one day after the second payment of $ 30,973, Eugene Vindman published photos on social networks that show it in a Cookoff Chile in Caroline County, VA. The day before.
On April 12, Alexander Vindman announced that he had signed 800 more copies of his book in the Florida store.
The publication contacted the representatives of both Vindman brothers to comment. The publication also contacted Books & Books Management to ask about whether a place of collection of political funds in the store.
Eugene Vindman won the races little to represent the seventh district of Virginia in a message to fight corruption, promoting her efforts to help her twin brother against Trump.
“The hypocrisy of Eugene Vindman is rich,” he told The Post, spokesman for the National Committee of the Republican Congress, Maureen O’Toole.
“Vindman is in Congress to advance in his own out of contact and, apparently, rescue his family’s abysmal literary efforts,” he added. “The Virginians will kick this liar loser on the sidewalk next November.”
The publication previously reported that the now congressman refused to answer questions last year about whether the trips financed by taxpayers to Ukraine played a role in their businesses to try to sell weapons to kyiv.
Eugene Vindman had boasted Prince William Times at the end of 2023 on making 14 trips to the country devastated by the war, financed by the State Department of the “Crime Advisory Group of Atrocity”.
Duration that the deadline, his company, Trident Support LLC worked to sell to the Ukrainian government a weapons system. That company also used the same box PO as the Vindman Congress campaign.
Vindman entered Trident $ 125,000 in early 2024 despite the reports that he did not earn a salary of the company, according to financial disseminations.
