So much for the plan to wait till impeachment gets boring.
that former national security adviser John Bolton, in the manuscript of his upcoming book, wrote that President Donald Trump had frozen $391 million in military aid to Ukraine specifically to pressure the country’s officials to announce investigations into the Biden family and a conspiracy theory about a Democratic Party email server. This was precisely what the president’s lawyers had begun arguing the day before, in the ongoing Senate impeachment trial, that Trump did not do.
Where Bolton had been a potential impeachment witness who might hypothetically have something relevant to say about the president’s behavior, he is now a potential witness who almost certainly would have something to say. This is a problem for the Republican caucus, which has voted repeatedly to put off the question of whether to call witnesses till later in the proceedings.
But now Bolton has made impeachment indisputably interesting. According to ABC, White House sources described the president’s legal team as gearing up for an “Will Republicans have to fight anyone from their own party to keep this impeachment trial witness-free? On Monday, Utah Sen. Mitt Romney, said it was “Maine Sen.
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