Bolton Has a Lot To Say That Trump and Republicans Don't Want To Hear...
WSJ - At a meeting of all Republican senators on Tuesday after the White House lawyers wrapped their opening arguments, GOP leaders told their conference they don’t have the votes to prevent witnesses from being called at the impeachment trial of President Trump, people familiar with the matter said.
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell said the vote total wasn’t where it needed to be on blocking witnesses or documents, these people said. He had a card with "yes," "no," and "maybes" marked on it, apparently a whip count, but he did not show it to senators.
Republican Senate leaders and the White House have dismissed the need for new witnesses or documents, and hoped to wrap the trial up by this week.
With sme republican senators leaning toward witnesses and or additional documents it is now within the realm of possibility that the senate might actually decide to do the right thing and call witnesses.
John Bolton's explosive revelations about Trump's pressure campaign on Ukraine to investigate his political rival for the purpose of finding dirt on him (Biden) has upended Trump's attorneys arguments.
Whether the heretofore gutless republican sycophants will actually follow through remains to be seen. What we hope is that republican senators, knowing full well that all of the dirt and slime surrounding Trump and his administration will eventually come out in full bloom. When it does America will hold each and every republican senator who covered for Trump responsible. They very well could find themselves being replaced. Which we must say would NOT be a bad thing at all.
UPDATE 6:30 PM
Asked if Bolton - Trump’s former national security adviser - should testify at Trump’s impeachment trial, Kelly said he supports calling witnesses.
President Donald Trump is denying that he told former National Security Adviser John Bolton he wanted to withhold military aid from Ukraine until the country launched investigations into Joe Biden and his son, allegations that Bolton levies in his new book, according to news reports.
But one of Trump’s former top aides told a Sarasota crowd Monday evening that if the reporting on what Bolton wrote is accurate, he believes Bolton. "If John Bolton says that in the book I believe John Bolton," said retired Gen. John Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff for 18 months. Read more: https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20200128/former-trump-chief-of-staff-john-kelly-tells-sarasota-crowd-rsquoi-believe-john-boltonrsquo |
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