The House should be spending this year in court trying to get that information, because the Senate can't afford to wait for the courts to decline to review a subpoena issued in an impeachment (as impeachments are not subject to judicial review or even oversight). Just to be clear, this is what Ms. Haberman wrote in the NYTimes:SCOOP: Bolton book draft, circulated to associates and sent to WH for review process, describes a convo w POTUS where he says he doesn't want to release withheld aid till Ukraine turned over material related to investigations @nytmike and me https://t.co/N3Tsce4gR7— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 26, 2020
“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."Now, the Senate could still hear from Bolton, and still say it's not worth removing the President over; but why mess up a good thing? IOW, Bolton's chances of ever testifying before the Senate just dropped below zero. His chances of being asked to speak to the House, however?
Besides, there was corruption!
Oh, wait! The corruption was between Trump's incompetence and Giuliani's venality! Whew! Could think we kept that off the TV cameras!Bolton claims in drafts of manuscript that Pompeo privately told him that there was no basis to what Giuliani said about Yovanovitch and that he questioned whether she was going after his other clients in her corruption crackdown https://t.co/N3Tsce4gR7— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 26, 2020
Absolute immunity is an even better dodge than executive privilege!Bolton claims Mulvaney was present for at least one meeting Trump had by phone with Giuliani where Giuliani was talking about why Yovanovitch should be fired https://t.co/N3Tsce4gR7— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 26, 2020
But that would be corruption! Which is what Trump wanted to investigate, maybe! See? He found it!Bolton writes that he told White House lawyers he was worried about Giuliani leveraging his Trump relationship for other clients https://t.co/N3Tsce4gR7— Maggie Haberman (@maggieNYT) January 26, 2020
But is it "crime-like"? Because that's the new standard! And only Alan Dershowitz knows what it means!This seems sort of ... high crimey and misdemeanory. https://t.co/HnqoL9scjR— George Conway (@gtconway3d) January 26, 2020
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