In a Tweet this morning, 1/27/2020, Trump claimed that the House Democrats never asked John Bolton to testify. That's a bald-faced LIE!
The House Democrats asked John Bolton to testify on November 7, 2019, and the White House directed him NOT to appear, citing executive branch privileges. Trump KNOWS he is guilty and didn't want Bolton to appear at the impeachment hearings.
Never, never, never believe a Trump Tweet unless you verify. This was easy to verify and to find out that Trump is a LIAR. Again!
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Explosive revelations from John Bolton's manuscript for his upcoming book point to Trump's lies about his "perfect" call with Ukraine's President Zelensky.
"The New York Times on Sunday reported that the former national security adviser John Bolton had implicated President Donald Trump in an explicit quid pro quo related to Ukrainian military aid.
The Times cited an unpublished manuscript of Bolton's coming book as indicating that Trump told Bolton in August that Trump would withhold military aid from Ukraine until it acceded to Trump's demands for politically motivated investigations."
"Among the Senate Republicans angry at the White House on Monday over revelations about a manuscript submitted for review by John R. Bolton are top allies of President Trump, including Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader.
Just hours before the trial was set to resume, Mr. McConnell, Republican of Kentucky, and Senator Lindsey Graham, Republican of South Carolina, were privately pressing the president’s advisers for an explanation about Mr. Bolton’s account, which undercuts a key White House defense of the president and blindsided the senators, according to people familiar with their thinking."
Well, well, well. What do you suppose the spineless Congressional Republicans who are "angered" by these revelations will do?
My guess is nothing. That, and curl up into a ball, stick their fingers in their ears, and wimper.
P.E. commentater, skudrunner, will comment and say it's President Obama's fault. The rest of the Trump cult will say Bolton is a liar, not the guy who's been documented for telling thousands and thousands of lies. The most recent is the one about Lev Parnas, where Trump says he doesn't know him, never met him, maybe had a photo-op with him, and that's all.
A tape from Parnas's lawyers shows Trump and Parnas having a 45+ minute conversation where Trump tells Parnas and his thug friend to "Take her out!" -- which referred to Ukrain Ambassador, Marie Yavonovich.
Trump has the authority to dismiss any ambassador, they serve at his pleasure.
Why did he yell "Take her out!" to Parnas and Fruman, when those two men aren't part of the Trump administration and have no authority to do so?
And what the hell did Trump mean by "Take her out!" ?
All he had to do is tell the little worm, Pompeo, to fire her. Period.
Bolton MUST testify!
From my fb friend, L.P.:
"A draft of Bolton’s book directly contradicts Trump’s claim that he never tied the hold-up of Ukrainian aid to his demands for investigations:
Trump personally told Bolton he was linking the release of Ukraine military aid to the investigations he sought of Joe and Hunter Biden. Bolton is the first person with direct knowledge of Trump’s orders to come forward.
Bolton, Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark Esper were opposed to Trump’s scheme and spoke to him about it nearly a dozen times.
Pompeo directly told Bolton that Rudy Giuliani’s claims about Amb Yovanovitch being corrupt were not accurate — something he still refuses to say publicly. Bolton warned AG William Barr and White House lawyers that Giuliani was using his relationship with Trump to assist his private clients.
These revelations from Bolton’s could escalate pressure on Senate Republicans to vote to call witnesses in Trump’s impeachment trial. A handful of Republican senators have suggested they might be open to hearing from witnesses but at least four would need to join all the Democrats to allow witnesses.
These bombshells highlight the possibility that new information will come out in the coming months that could backfire on Republicans who attempt to force an early end to the trial. It's impossible to imagine this is the end of what we’re going to learn in this still-unfolding story.
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So. Trump either lied or he's a demented old f**k. Either way, we're f**ked!
Two take-aways from this:
1) it is going to be even harder for Trump’s defense to look credible the next two days
2) reporters need to constantly press Republican senators about Bolton’s comment AND the Parnas “take her out” tape. Make them very uncomfortable.
I bet MS Lindsay's wig slipped a few notches on this news.
The good thing about it being Bolton is that NOBODY can call him a 'lib' and write off his testimony. Let's hope this is the final nail in this administrations coffin.
let me just say it before Skud and the army of Anons show up.
It doesn't matter what Barack Obama, HRC or Pres BJ did...
President Trump has been caught red handed... his chief of staff admitted the quid pro quo and his National Security Advisor has since confirmed it.
President Trump was seeking to trade US AID to an ally against Russia, in exchange for political favors against a potential rival in his reelection.
Period. End. Of. Story.
The simple question is this...
What should the punishment be?
Anyone?
I thought firing squad was the punishment for treason.
Dave, BlueBull, punishment for extorting an ally to get dirt on a political rival should be removal from office. It's not just the Ukraine scandal that merits that. It's the Mueller Report, plus all of Trump's lyimg, cheating, and juvenile behaviors that have embarrassed our country since the day he took office.
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