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President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton alleges in his forthcoming book that the president explicitly told him "he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens," the New York Times first reported.

Why this matters: The revelations present a dramatic eleventh-hour turn in Trump's Senate impeachment trial. They directly contradict Trump's claim that he never tied the holdup of Ukrainian aid to his demands for investigations into his political opponent Joe Biden. Trump strongly denied Bolton's claims early Monday.

  • Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer has already seized on the story, tweeting: "John Bolton has the evidence. It's up to four Senate Republicans to ensure that John Bolton, Mick Mulvaney, and the others with direct knowledge of President Trump's actions testify in the Senate trial."
  • The seven House impeachment managers echoed those sentiments, saying in a joint statement: "There is no defensible reason to wait until his book is published, when the information he has to offer is critical to the most important decision senators must now make — whether to convict the president of impeachable offenses."

What's new: Sarah Tinsley, an adviser to Bolton, told me: "The ambassador's manuscript was transmitted to the White House for pre-publication review by the NSC. The ambassador has not passed the draft manuscript to anyone else. Period. It was sent over there, to the NSC, several weeks ago."

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The plot thickens?  Considering Trump responded to this, maybe the defense thinks Bolton will not hurt them in exchange for some other witnesses.  Gotta love political quid pro quos.

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If you pretend that "a speedy trial with no evidence or witnesses" was Trump's only path to success, then you have a point. But because it isn't true, you don't. 

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Lord knows you have played THAT particular card here in CEHST many, many times.  Except it's called a "Trump card".   That, or simply ignoring direct interrogatives.

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Romney says 'increasingly likely' GOP senators will back witnesses at Trump trial after Bolton revelations

 

 

At least four Republicans would need to support Democrats' call for testimony in a vote expected later this week.

 

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump-impeachment-inquiry/gop-senators-under-pressure-witness-testimony-trump-trial-after-bolton-n1123776

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5 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

This will be enough to Garner votes to have him testify. The plot thickens.

The plot thickens?  Considering Trump responded to this, maybe the defense thinks Bolton will not hurt them in exchange for some other witnesses.  Gotta love political quid pro quos.

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The plot thickens?  Considering Trump responded to this, maybe the defense thinks Bolton will not hurt them in exchange for some other witnesses.  Gotta love political quid pro quos.

Didn't we agree that Trump has the propensity to lie on yesterday's thread?

Regardless, Mitch McConnell's wish for a speedy trial with no evidence or witnesses appears to be fading.

 

 

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19 minutes ago, 90DayFinancier said:

Didn't we agree that Trump has the propensity to lie on yesterday's thread?

Regardless, Mitch McConnell's wish for a speedy trial with no evidence or witnesses appears to be fading.

 

 

I would think Sanders, Warren and the other one would also hope for a speedy trial.  Yes, politicians lie, Adam Schiff is the poster boy to that fact as it looks so much worse when one is lying constantly and a conspiracy nut.

 

Btw, how do you know that this will change anything?  The President's defense team has just started, they may use this in their defense, heck, it may have even been orchestrated.  If they call witnesses, fine, you do understand that all testimony from any witness will be behind closed door right? 

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I would think Sanders, Warren and the other one would also hope for a speedy trial.  Yes, politicians lie, Adam Schiff is the poster boy to that fact as it looks so much worse when one is lying constantly and a conspiracy nut.

 

Btw, how do you know that this will change anything?  The President's defense team has just started, they may use this in their defense, heck, it may have even been orchestrated.  If they call witnesses, fine, you do understand that all testimony from any witness will be behind closed door right? 

Well you are right that the leak of the transcript most definitely came from the administration. Whether it  was a rouge agent or a deliberately planted leak is the question.

 

What would Trump gain in having this transcript out early? 

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Well you are right that the leak of the transcript most definitely came from the administration. Whether it  was a rouge agent or a deliberately planted leak is the question.

 

What would Trump gain in having this transcript out early? 

Mary Kay?

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Probably meant agents plural. The star crossed lovers united behind "its her turn" rouge rendezvous. 

 

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Well you are right that the leak of the transcript most definitely came from the administration. Whether it  was a rouge agent or a deliberately planted leak is the question.

 

What would Trump gain in having this transcript out early? 

When you speak of the leak of the call are you talking about the politically biased interpretation that someone made about the call that they heard second hand?  Most of us played Chinese Whispers as a game back in elementary school.

 

The administration actually released the transcript or summary of the call, it really was not a leak.

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When you speak of the leak of the call are you talking about the politically biased interpretation that someone made about the call that they heard second hand?  Most of us played Chinese Whispers as a game back in elementary school.

 

The administration actually released the transcript or summary of the call, it really was not a leak.

The transcript of Bolton's book. It was under review by the Whitehouse for security purposes. It was not meant to be put in the hands of the Times.

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