SUBPOENA BOLTON! NYT: Bolton book excerpt show depth of WH staff + TRUMP

[Centerleftfl]

I know BOLTON was running his book past the WH, why did he? Still trying to balance his ass on the REPUBLICAN 'head of a pin'? He'll be a pariah so fuck his country? Did he even have to run it past the WH? How long has the WH had it?

SUBPOENA BOLTON TOMORROW. #1 witness ON DECK. Fucking REPS are terrified! Trump is INNOCENT and made the 'perfect' call and all his people involved and all the documents could exonerate him but they won't ALLOW IT. That's logical, right? He's so innocent, investigators may not have one document requested! He's so innocent they refuse to give the FULL readout of the Zelensky phone call. More logic?

Anyone else getting whiplash?

Democratic senator: Subpoena Bolton's book after Times report

BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 01/26/20 07:56 PM EST 74

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...r-times-report



Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) on Sunday floated subpoenaing former national security adviser John Bolton's forthcoming memoir if the former official isn't called to testify himself.

"The Senate needs to hear from Bolton. The American people deserve to hear from Bolton. If we can’t get Bolton let’s get a subpoena for the book!" Jones tweeted.

Jones hasn't said if he will vote to convict or acquit Trump at the end of the trial, but has thrown his support behind the call for more witnesses and documents.
His suggestion comes after The New York Times, citing sources familiar with Boltons writing, reported that Bolton claims in his book that Trump sought to tie up $391 million in aid to Ukraine to his requests for the country's leaders to help with investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

The report comes as the Senate is expected to vote this week on whether or not to allow calling new witnesses or documents.

Democrats immediately seized on the Times report to double down on their demand that Bolton testify.

"Senators should insist that Mr. Bolton be called as a witness, and provide his notes and other relevant documents. The Senate trial must seek the full truth and Mr. Bolton has vital information to provide," the House managers said in a statement.

Democrats need four Republicans to vote with them to allow for additional witnesses...


https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...r-times-report

[Centerleftfl]

DUH! But here it is AGAIN! Remember BOLTON said he didn't want to be part of the DRUG DEAL!

Trump Tied Ukraine Aid to Inquiries He Sought, Bolton Book Says


Drafts of the book outline the potential testimony of the former national security adviser if he were called as a witness in the president’s impeachment trial.



Democrats managing President Trump’s impeachment trial have long sought testimony from John R. Bolton, his former national security adviser.Credit...Doug Mills/The New York Times


By Maggie Haberman and Michael S. Schmidt

raine trying to damage him and mentioned a conspiracy theory about a hacked Democratic server, according to Mr. Bolton.

• Jan. 26, 2020Updated 7:28 p.m. EDT

WASHINGTON — President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens, according to an unpublished manuscript by the former adviser, John R. Bolton.
The president’s statement as described by Mr. Bolton could undercut a key element of his impeachment defense: that the holdup in aid was separate from Mr. Trump’s requests that Ukraine announce investigations into his perceived enemies, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden, who had worked for a Ukrainian energy firm while his father was in office.

Mr. Bolton’s explosive account of the matter at the center of Mr. Trump’s impeachment trial, the third in American history, was included in drafts of a manuscript he has circulated in recent weeks to close associates. He also sent a draft to the White House for a standard review process for some current and former administration officials who write books.

Multiple people described Mr. Bolton’s account of the Ukraine affair.

The book presents an outline of what Mr. Bolton might testify to if he is called as a witness in the Senate impeachment trial, the people said. The White House could use the pre-publication review process, which has no set time frame, to delay or even kill the book’s publication or omit key passages.

Over dozens of pages, Mr. Bolton described how the Ukraine affair unfolded over several months until he departed the White House in September. He described not only the president’s private disparagement of Ukraine but also new details about senior cabinet officials who have publicly tried to sidestep involvement.

For example, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo acknowledged privately that there was no basis to claims by the president’s lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani that the ambassador to Ukraine was corrupt and believed Mr. Giuliani may have been acting on behalf of other clients, Mr. Bolton wrote.

Mr. Bolton also said that after the president’s July phone call with the president of Ukraine, he raised with Attorney General William P. Barr his concerns about Mr. Giuliani, who was pursuing a shadow Ukraine policy encouraged by the president, and told Mr. Barr that the president had mentioned him on the call. A spokeswoman for Mr. Barr denied that he learned of the call from Mr. Bolton; the Justice Department has said he learned about it only in mid-August.

And the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, was present for at least one phone call where the president and Mr. Giuliani discussed the
ambassador, Mr. Bolton wrote. Mr. Mulvaney has told associates he would always step away when the president spoke with his lawyer to protect their attorney-client privilege.


Marie L. Yovanovitch, the former United States ambassador to Ukraine, testified that she was “devastated” that the president vilified her.Credit...Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times

During a previously reported May 23 meeting where top advisers and Senator Ron Johnson, Republican of Wisconsin, briefed him about their trip to Kyiv for the inauguration of President Volodymyr Zelensky, Mr. Trump railed about Ukraine trying to damage him and mentioned a conspiracy theory about a hacked Democratic server, according to Mr. Bolton.

Charles J. Cooper, a lawyer for Mr. Bolton, declined to comment. The White House did not provide responses to questions about Mr. Bolton’s assertions, and representatives for Mr. Johnson, Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Mulvaney did not respond to emails and calls seeking comment on Sunday afternoon.
Mr. Bolton’s submission of the book to the White House may have given the White House lawyers direct insight into what Mr. Bolton would say if he were called to testify at Mr. Trump’s impeachment trial. It also intensified concerns among some of his advisers that they needed to block Mr. Bolton from testifying, according to two people familiar with their concerns.
The White House has ordered Mr. Bolton and other key officials with firsthand knowledge of Mr. Trump’s dealings not to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry. Mr. Bolton said in a statement this month that he would testify if subpoenaed.

EXECUTIVE PRIVILEGE
Can Trump muzzle John Bolton?

In recent days, some White House officials have described Mr. Bolton as a disgruntled former employee, and have said he took notes that he should have left behind when he departed the administration.

Mr. Trump told reporters last week that he did not want Mr. Bolton to testify and said that even if he simply spoke out publicly, he could damage national security.

“The problem with John is it’s a national security problem,” Mr. Trump said at a news conference in Davos, Switzerland. “He knows some of my thoughts. He knows what I think about leaders. What happens if he reveals what I think about a certain leader and it’s not very positive?”

“It’s going to make the job very hard,” he added.
The Senate impeachment trial could end as early as Friday without witness testimony. Democrats in both the House and Senate have pressed for weeks to include any new witnesses and documents that did not surface during the House impeachment hearings to be fair, focusing on persuading the handful of Republican senators they would need to join them to succeed.
But a week into the trial, most lawmakers say the chances of 51 senators agreeing to call witnesses are dwindling, not growing.
Democrats, including Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senator Chuck Schumer, the minority leader, said the Bolton manuscript underscores the need for him to testify, and the House impeachment managers demanded after this article was published that the Senate vote to call him. “There can be no doubt now that Mr. Bolton directly contradicts the heart of the president’s defense,” they said in a statement.
Republicans, though, were mostly silent; a spokesman for the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, declined to comment.
Mr. Bolton would like to testify for several reasons, according to associates. He believes he has relevant information, and he has also expressed concern that if his account of the Ukraine affair emerges only after the trial, he will be accused of holding back to increase his book sales.
Mr. Bolton, 71, a fixture in conservative national security circles since his days in the Reagan administration, joined the White House in 2018 after several people recommended him to the president, including the Republican megadonor Sheldon Adelson.

But Mr. Bolton and Mr. Trump soured on each other over several global crises, including Iranian aggression, Mr. Trump’s posture toward Russia and, ultimately, the Ukraine matter. Mr. Bolton was also often at odds with Mr. Pompeo and Mr. Mulvaney throughout his time in the administration.
Key to Mr. Bolton’s account about Ukraine is an exchange during a meeting in August with the president after Mr. Trump returned from vacation at his golf club in Bedminster, N.J. Mr. Bolton raised the $391 million in congressionally appropriated assistance to Ukraine for its war in the country’s east against Russian-backed separatists. Officials had frozen the aid, and a deadline was looming to begin sending it to Kyiv, Mr. Bolton noted.
He, Mr. Pompeo and Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper had collectively pressed the president about releasing the aid nearly a dozen times in the preceding weeks after lower-level officials who worked on Ukraine issues began complaining about the holdup, Mr. Bolton wrote. Mr. Trump had effectively rebuffed them, airing his longstanding grievances about Ukraine, which mixed legitimate efforts by some Ukrainians to back his Democratic 2016 opponent, Hillary Clinton, with unsupported accusations and outright conspiracy theories about the country, a key American ally.

[Centerleftfl]

Several people are calling for SUBPOENA of Bolton and or his BOOK. I have no idea how one subpoenas a book. Bolton, the publisher, the WH (t's holding the manuscript). WHERE IS ROBERTS' SPINE?

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Democratic senator: Subpoena Bolton's book after Times ...

13 hours ago - Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) on Sunday floated subpoenaing former national security adviser John Bolton's forthcoming memoir if the former ...

[dukkha]

[SIZE=3]I know BOLTON was running his book past the WH, why did he? Still trying to balance his ass on the REPUBLICAN 'head of a pin'? He'll be a pariah so fuck his country? Did he even have to run it past the WH? How long has the WH had it?

you blithering idiot;
He has it reviewed by the NSC -not the "White House"(Potus)

[Celticguy]

John is selling a book. Just buggered his credibility.

[Ralph]

I know BOLTON was running his book past the WH, why did he? Still trying to balance his ass on the REPUBLICAN 'head of a pin'? He'll be a pariah so fuck his country? Did he even have to run it past the WH? How long has the WH had it?

SUBPOENA BOLTON TOMORROW. #1 witness ON DECK. Fucking REPS are terrified! Trump is INNOCENT and made the 'perfect' call and all his people involved and all the documents could exonerate him but they won't ALLOW IT. That's logical, right? He's so innocent, investigators may not have one document requested! He's so innocent they refuse to give the FULL readout of the Zelensky phone call. More logic?

Anyone else getting whiplash?

Democratic senator: Subpoena Bolton's book after Times report

BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 01/26/20 07:56 PM EST 74

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...r-times-report



Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) on Sunday floated subpoenaing former national security adviser John Bolton's forthcoming memoir if the former official isn't called to testify himself.

"The Senate needs to hear from Bolton. The American people deserve to hear from Bolton. If we can’t get Bolton let’s get a subpoena for the book!" Jones tweeted.

Jones hasn't said if he will vote to convict or acquit Trump at the end of the trial, but has thrown his support behind the call for more witnesses and documents.
His suggestion comes after The New York Times, citing sources familiar with Boltons writing, reported that Bolton claims in his book that Trump sought to tie up $391 million in aid to Ukraine to his requests for the country's leaders to help with investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

The report comes as the Senate is expected to vote this week on whether or not to allow calling new witnesses or documents.

Democrats immediately seized on the Times report to double down on their demand that Bolton testify.

"Senators should insist that Mr. Bolton be called as a witness, and provide his notes and other relevant documents. The Senate trial must seek the full truth and Mr. Bolton has vital information to provide," the House managers said in a statement.

Democrats need four Republicans to vote with them to allow for additional witnesses...


https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...r-times-report

Only "idiots" fall for this type of yellow journalism. As soon as the defense takes the stage......its just a quinky dink, a NEW TAPE between an indicted liar and Trump surfaces.....of course tapes can never be edited and spliced......then on the weekend where the defense made Shitforbrains look like the lying ass he is.....another quinky dink from the TIMES (who should go into the plumbing business because they sure can find the supposed leaks from mr./mrs. anonymous)…..another supposed BOMBSHELL, Bolton reveals Trump ordered quid pro quo deal with Ukraine. Only problem? Bolton has already declared if such words actually existed in his book transcript (it would have been edited due to national security).

Thus the NY times fake leaker. The only place such information could have came from was from the inside NSC or NSA, another BHO mole still working for the white house. It takes an ass to take a paycheck from someone paying your bills and then reveal national security events to a piece of shit rag like the NY times.

Reality? Another made up piece of propaganda in an attempt to deflect away from the ass kicking taking place in the Senate Trial.


How many instances have the fake media outlets such as the Times, the Post, CNN, NBC, ABC, CBS...MSNBC...etc., TOLD YOU AN OUTRIGHT BLATANT LIE.....and lead you to believe that, "WE GOT' HIM THIS TIME....Trump is going down"? Don't you get tired of getting your fascist chain jerked around by those who only want to make money from fake books and news articles.

Look at the way you followed the PORN lawyer around locking your lips around his asshole, the same for porn whore, the same for Trump's lawyer, the same Carter Page, the same Paul Manafort.....all the BREAKING BOMBSHELL STORIES were sure to land TRUMP in prison...…yeah, I bet your lips are chapped.

[countryboy]

I know BOLTON was running his book past the WH, why did he? Still trying to balance his ass on the REPUBLICAN 'head of a pin'? He'll be a pariah so fuck his country? Did he even have to run it past the WH? How long has the WH had it?

SUBPOENA BOLTON TOMORROW. #1 witness ON DECK. Fucking REPS are terrified! Trump is INNOCENT and made the 'perfect' call and all his people involved and all the documents could exonerate him but they won't ALLOW IT. That's logical, right? He's so innocent, investigators may not have one document requested! He's so innocent they refuse to give the FULL readout of the Zelensky phone call. More logic?

Anyone else getting whiplash?

Democratic senator: Subpoena Bolton's book after Times report

BY JORDAIN CARNEY - 01/26/20 07:56 PM EST 74

https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...r-times-report



Sen. Doug Jones (D-Ala.) on Sunday floated subpoenaing former national security adviser John Bolton's forthcoming memoir if the former official isn't called to testify himself.

"The Senate needs to hear from Bolton. The American people deserve to hear from Bolton. If we can’t get Bolton let’s get a subpoena for the book!" Jones tweeted.

Jones hasn't said if he will vote to convict or acquit Trump at the end of the trial, but has thrown his support behind the call for more witnesses and documents.
His suggestion comes after The New York Times, citing sources familiar with Boltons writing, reported that Bolton claims in his book that Trump sought to tie up $391 million in aid to Ukraine to his requests for the country's leaders to help with investigations into Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

The report comes as the Senate is expected to vote this week on whether or not to allow calling new witnesses or documents.

Democrats immediately seized on the Times report to double down on their demand that Bolton testify.

"Senators should insist that Mr. Bolton be called as a witness, and provide his notes and other relevant documents. The Senate trial must seek the full truth and Mr. Bolton has vital information to provide," the House managers said in a statement.

Democrats need four Republicans to vote with them to allow for additional witnesses...


https://thehill.com/homenews/senate/...r-times-report

The aid was released, period, end of story.

[canceled.2021.2]

Does Bolton have proof? Or is it he said she said?

You have to love that Trump makes lefties love Bolton

[Earl]

An anonymous source saying what they have seen from a draft manuscript...lol

Sound familiar?

[Walt]

He has it reviewed by the NSC -not the "White House"(Potus)

The National Security Council is part of the administration, and would be considered part of the White House. The White House is more than just the president... Or is more than just the president in a normal administration. Maybe by the end of this administration, the white house will just be one old man lying in bed for days on end watching FoxNews and tweeting about teen celebrity gossip.

[Walt]

John is selling a book. Just buggered his credibility.

The sad part about the defense of trump is that it can only be done by attacking everyone trump has ever appointed. The defense of trump is an indictment of trump.

[Walt]

the same for porn whore

Which "porn whore"? Is it the illegal alien porn whore that trump married, or one of the porn whores trump hired for sex? Or maybe one of the underage illegal alien porn whores trump brought into the country? Could you be talking about trump himself? trump did appear as an extra in a porno.

Just disgusting

[Walt]

Does Bolton have proof? Or is it he said she said?

You think trump is a "she"? Your defense of trump is he surrounds himself with liars?

[Stretch]

It's over. Dims blew it. It was up to the House to call Bolton at their hearing. They didn't. Over.

[canceled.2021.2]

The House had a chance to do it but they didn’t.

Guess it wasn’t important to them