The brother of a key witness in Donald Trump‘s impeachment stemming from a conversation with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky says there was another ‘problematic’ phone call that needs to see the light of day.
Congressman Eugene Vindman is calling on the White House to release the transcript of a call Trump had with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman after the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi in 2018.
The Virginia Democrat detailed from the House floor on Tuesday that he was aware of the call due to his role on Trump’s first-term National Security Council staff where he reviewed many of his calls with foreign leaders.
Vindman said this call with MBS ‘stood out’ just as much as the one Trump had with Zelensky that served as key evidence to bring the first impeachment charges against him.
And the lawmaker insists that finding out the details of the call has become pertinent after Trump welcomed bin Salman, known colloquially by his initials MBS, to the White House this week.
‘If history is any guide, the receipts will be shocking,’ Vindman said in his remarks on the call.
He added: ‘Honestly, does anyone believe that the Zelensky call was the only problematic conversation Donald Trump had with a foreign leader?’
The White House did not respond to the Daily Mail’s request for comment on the lawmaker’s remarks.
President Donald Trump had a chummy meeting with Mohammed bin Salman at the White Huse on Tuesday, November 18, 2025 where he defended the Saudi Crown Prince against questions about the assassination of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
Meanwhile, Trump launched a full-throated defense of the Saudi Crown Prince during their Oval Office meeting on Tuesday when he was questioned by press about a 2021 U.S. intelligence report concluding he approved an operation to ‘capture or kill’ Khashoggi.
He said the line of questioning was embarrassing and said the murdered Saudi dissident and Washington Post journalist was ‘extremely controversial.’ The president insisted that MBS ‘knew nothing about’ his death.
Khashoggi entered Saudi Arabia’s consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2, 2018 to obtain marriage documents – he never left. Investigators concluded that he was strangled and dismembered with a bonesaw inside the consulate, and that his body was removed in pieces in suitcases.
The CIA concluded in November 2018 that bin Salman ordered Khashoggi’s assassination.
Trump is now disputing those findings.
He dismissed the brutal murder of Khashoggi, who relocated to the U.S. in June 2017, and said on Tuesday alongside MBS that ‘things happen.’
‘Given the president’s distributing and counter-factual defense of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman today, I feel compelled to speak-up on behalf of Mr. Khashoggi and his family and the American people,’ Congressman Vindman said.
‘After the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi, I reviewed a call between the President and the Saudi Crown Prince,’ he added. ‘The American people and the Khashoggi family deserve to know what was said on that call.’
Saudi dissident and Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi (pictured) was assassination in the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul, Turkey on October 2, 2018
The lawmaker received a report from his identical twin brother, Lieutenant Colonel Alexander Vindman, on Trump’s phone call with Zelensky, which he flagged to senior White House lawyers.
The Colonel testified before Congress in 2019 about the Trump-Ukraine scandal. The testimony ultimately helped provide evidence that resulted in a charge of abuse of power against Trump in the first impeachment trial.
