{"id":38801,"date":"2020-01-27T08:55:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:55:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=38801"},"modified":"2020-01-27T08:59:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-27T16:59:52","slug":"bolton-busts-his-fuhrer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/27\/bolton-busts-his-fuhrer\/","title":{"rendered":"Bolton Busts His Fuhrer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Today we proceed into the second day of Republican Fuhrer Trump\u2019s* defense team attempts to cobble together enough lies to give Republican Senators an excuse to acquit their Fuhrer.\u00a0 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.\u00a0 In response to the revelations about John Bolton\u2019s book, I predict they will just lie and say the evidence does not exist.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0127Bolton.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto; float: none; display: block; background-image: none;\" title=\"0127Bolton\" src=\"https:\/\/www.7thstep.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/0127Bolton_thumb.jpg\" alt=\"0127Bolton\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">We finally got a taste Sunday night of what former national security adviser John<br \/>\nBolton might tell President Trump\u2019s Senate impeachment trial \u2014 if he\u2019s called to<br \/>\ntestify, that is.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">What we learned reinforced the potential peril for Republicans if they refuse to lethim do so.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">The New York Times reported Sunday that Bolton makes a series of very big<br \/>\nUkraine-related claims in an unpublished manuscript of his upcoming book, which is now slated to be released in March.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Chief among them:<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; padding-left: 30pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; padding-left: 30pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">Bolton writes that he heard Trump say explicitly<br \/>\nthat the withholding of military aid would continue until Ukraine announced<br \/>\nan investigation involving the Bidens \u2014 implicating Trump directly in a<br \/>\nquid pro quo for the first time and contradicting the Trump team\u2019s<br \/>\ndefense.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; padding-left: 30pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; padding-left: 30pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">He writes that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said<br \/>\nprivately that there was nothing to the Trump team\u2019s claims that<br \/>\nthen-ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was corrupt \u2014 suggesting this<br \/>\nwas indeed a smear campaign and that Pompeo recognized it as such, even as<br \/>\nhe didn\u2019t defend Yovanovitch publicly.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; padding-left: 30pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; padding-left: 30pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">He writes that he raised concerns about Rudolph W.<br \/>\nGiuliani\u2019s efforts in Ukraine with Attorney General William P. Barr after<br \/>\nTrump\u2019s July call with Ukraine\u2019s president \u2014 despite the Justice Department<br \/>\nsaying Barr learned about the call in mid-August.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; padding-left: 30pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul style=\"line-height: normal; padding-left: 30pt; margin-top: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 0.375in; unicode-bidi: embed; direction: ltr;\" type=\"disc\">\n<li style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; vertical-align: middle;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">He writes that acting White House chief of staff<br \/>\nMick Mulvaney was present for one of Trump\u2019s calls with Giuliani about<br \/>\nYovanovtich, even though Mulvaney has told associates that he stayed out of<br \/>\nthose conversations to protect Trump\u2019s and Giuliani\u2019s attorney-client<br \/>\nprivilege.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0in; line-height: normal;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt;\">In other words: Bolton is naming names \u2014 lots of names \u2014 and directly contradicting what top administration officials are saying.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Inserted from &lt;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2020\/01\/27\/john-boltons-bombshell-gives-gop-glimpse-its-nightmare-scenario\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Washington Post<\/a>&gt;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Adam Schiff had more to day about this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kFBZHgHmR7c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adam Schiff: John Bolton&#8217;s book blasts a hole in Trump defense<\/a><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/embed\/kFBZHgHmR7c\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Sadly I fear this will do us no good.\u00a0 I &#8216;d be willing to bet that Republican Senators are far too vile and craven to allow American voters to see this testimony.<\/span><\/p>\n<h1 align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-weight: bold; color: #0000ff;\">RESIST!!<\/span><\/h1>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today we proceed into the second day of Republican Fuhrer Trump\u2019s* defense team attempts to cobble together enough lies to give Republican Senators an excuse to acquit their Fuhrer.\u00a0 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 <a href='https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2020\/01\/27\/bolton-busts-his-fuhrer\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3712,3711,3721,3722,3714],"class_list":["post-38801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-crimes","tag-gop-lies","tag-impeachment","tag-video","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}