Today we proceed into the second day of Republican Fuhrer Trump’s* defense team attempts to cobble together enough lies to give Republican Senators an excuse to acquit their Fuhrer. It is not going well for them, because every time they stake out a position, more information comes out that blows their case out of the water. In response to the revelations about John Bolton’s book, I predict they will just lie and say the evidence does not exist.
We finally got a taste Sunday night of what former national security adviser John
Bolton might tell President Trump’s Senate impeachment trial — if he’s called to
testify, that is.What we learned reinforced the potential peril for Republicans if they refuse to lethim do so.
The New York Times reported Sunday that Bolton makes a series of very big
Ukraine-related claims in an unpublished manuscript of his upcoming book, which is now slated to be released in March.
Chief among them:
- Bolton writes that he heard Trump say explicitly
that the withholding of military aid would continue until Ukraine announced
an investigation involving the Bidens — implicating Trump directly in a
quid pro quo for the first time and contradicting the Trump team’s
defense.
- He writes that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said
privately that there was nothing to the Trump team’s claims that
then-ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was corrupt — suggesting this
was indeed a smear campaign and that Pompeo recognized it as such, even as
he didn’t defend Yovanovitch publicly.
- He writes that he raised concerns about Rudolph W.
Giuliani’s efforts in Ukraine with Attorney General William P. Barr after
Trump’s July call with Ukraine’s president — despite the Justice Department
saying Barr learned about the call in mid-August.
- He writes that acting White House chief of staff
Mick Mulvaney was present for one of Trump’s calls with Giuliani about
Yovanovtich, even though Mulvaney has told associates that he stayed out of
those conversations to protect Trump’s and Giuliani’s attorney-client
privilege.
In other words: Bolton is naming names — lots of names — and directly contradicting what top administration officials are saying.
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Adam Schiff had more to day about this.
Adam Schiff: John Bolton’s book blasts a hole in Trump defense
Sadly I fear this will do us no good. I ‘d be willing to bet that Republican Senators are far too vile and craven to allow American voters to see this testimony.
RESIST!!
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o.m.g. No Mr. Schiff, they (R’s) don’t want to hear the truth, nor let the citizens hear too.
Kudos to you and the Dems for telling and sharing the veracity!
Boy, how low can the R’s go?? That hole they’ve dug is halfway to the core of the earth…..still lying!
If it has any effect on the trial, it will be to cause Republican Senators to close ranks to disallow Bolton to testify. That won’t help the verdict. It may in the long run help the November election (and it certainly should.)
I can’t help being reminded of the iconic scene in “A Few Good Men.” But in this courtroom, it’s the court which is saying, “we can’t handle the truth!”
Bolton blows holes in the BS! Starr, and Sekulow, however, continue to push BS, as they have nothing else. Starr said that if Dumpy was following DOJ advise, he can’t have been obstructing. However, the DOJ has been compromised by Barrshit, an gives the resident exactly the advice he wants to hear.
Dumpy’s people “scramble to find evidence to make (the) false and slanderous claim(s) ‘real,’ or deny it/they ever happened. “When they (pathological narcissists) can’t let go of their need to be admired or recognized, they they have to BEND or INVENT a reality in which they remain special despite all messages to the contrary.” So, Starr and Sekulow are just doing their jobs, or, if you will are “Just following orders.”
And it is his paranoid character, embedded in his Malignant Narcissism, that explains what he has done and what he will do; his actions will be consistent with it, and there need be no surprise.
The coming State of the Union has potential, especially now, to be full of fireworks. I have trouble not seeing him loose it over the “betrayal’ of that ____ _____ (fill in the blanks) Bolton.
Apparently, all is not going so well for the puppets presenting Dumpy’s defense:
https://www.rawstory.com/2020/01/trumps-legal-team-is-subject-to-criminal-perjury-charges-in-light-of-john-boltons-revelations-whistleblowers-attorney/
While dumpy tries, once again, to have reality bent his way.
The GOP is a house divided against itself.
It’s still too unified for my liking. If Mitt Romney can actually get them to split wide open, I may forgive him for putting his dog on his car.
The ghost of Seamus might have something to say about that.
As my mother would have said: Democrats can stand on their heads and wave their tails, but nothing will change Republican senators to break ranks.
Despicable what the R’s keep trying to block. Plus all of their false words.
We the people deserve the TRUTH. Not all of this flipping B.S.
I’m holding out hope that out of Romney, Collins, Alexander, Gardner & Murkowski we’ll get the four votes we need for witnesses.
Each and every one of the fifteen (15) previous Senate Impeachment Trials has had witnesses.
https://www.politifact.com/wisconsin/statements/2020/jan/21/tammy-baldwin/Trump-every-other-senate-impeachment-had-witnesses/
Thanks and tired hugs to all.