His other example is about Deborah Birx, who supposedly frustrated Trump's attempts to remove shutdowns. Birx was a Trump appointee, not a civil servant.

Served in the WH…

His examples are bad because he's lying. I'm sure you knew that, but stating it explicitly if it's not clear to anyone else.

Vindman was not a civil servant either. And the fact that he was an active military officer raises related but slightly different questions and obligations.

This is much like the story on Musk and his Dominion conspiracy theories. “Everything is a conspiracy if you don’t know how anything works.” If anyone in the Project 2025 ever talked to a government employee this entire thing would fall apart. But that would assume good faith on their part.