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What Kind Of Game Is John Bolton Playing?
Has Trump finally met his match in terms of “unfairness”, hurt feelings and lashing back?
Sizzling details from Trump’s former National Security Advisor’s soon-to-be-published memoir almost completely undermine the President’s impeachment defense. According to the New York Times, which broke the story, Bolton writes that Trump absolutely tied withholding hundreds of millions of dollars in military aid to Ukraine with investigating the Biden family and the whereabouts of a Hillary Clinton-linked server. That’s something Trump absolutely denies, saying his only concern was corruption in Ukraine and there was no quid-pro-quo. Except a quid-pro-quo is exactly what Bolton describes.
Which really, we all knew happened anyway, but Republicans have been protesting nobody really close to the President has confirmed that first hand so we can’t be sure. Well now they have and now we can. It’s only a matter of getting it onto the record. And Bolton’s said he would testify before the Senate.
But Bolton said he wouldn’t testify before the House unless a judge told him he had to. And so these new details won’t make any difference in Trump’s trial unless Bolton is indeed subpoenaed now to testify before the Senate. Which is something Senators should call for unanimously. But that…