Like every other ousted Trump cabinet member, former national security advisor/human mustache John Bolton got a book deal. In it, Bolton reportedly writes that Trump did, in fact, want to keep withholding aid to Ukraine until the Ukrainian government agreed to investigate the Bidens, which seems like information he might want to share more publicly?
, in a draft of the yet-to-be-published memoir, Bolton claims Trump personally told him the president wanted to withhold $391 million promised in aid to Ukraine, in an apparent effort to bully officials in Ukraine to look into Hunter Biden’s employment at Ukrainian natural gas producer Burisma Holdings. If Bolton’s accounting is correct, it, uh certainly bolsters the Democrats’ impeachmentBolton also reportedly implicated some other Team Trump members, not that any of it should be surprising.
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. Note that the public may never get to read Bolton’s account, not that they should pay for this book anyway (Bolton got Bolton reportedly sent the manuscript to the White House for prepublication review, which means there’s plenty of time for pushback and revisions.sources say the manuscript is a rough outline of what Bolton would say under oath if called upon to testify at the impeachment trial.
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