John Bolton Forthcoming Book Could Be Permissible In Senate Trial
Trump Defense Can No Longer Avoid John Bolton's testimony in the impeachment trial
Former national security advisor, John Bolton has disclosed in his forthcoming book that it is for a fact that Mr. Donald Trump had disclosed to him about his intent to withhold funds from Ukraine as a pressure tactic to ensure the country’s leader aided investigations into Democrats, especially the Bidens.
With
this revelation, the need to investigate into witness testimony has become
evidently clear, a fact, that the Republican dominated senate also may not be
able to ignore.
Trump
has denied telling Bolton anything of this sort. The impeachment centered around
the allegation that it was indeed a pressure tactic used by Trump to bend the Ukrainian
PM to investigate the Bidens to suit his election campaign strategy. Later on,
Trump decided to withhold the aid money that had been duly sanctioned by the Congress
in a unanimous vote.
This
could be a possible reason as to why Trump got rid of Bolton in September 2019,
someone who had been his iron-man to get hard decisions through. Trump got rid
of Bolton due to the latter’s firm stands. He had initially stated John Bolton to
his office replacing two other successors very quickly, to take advantage of
what the media termed as “ one of Washington's most vocal war hawks” to work
beside him in the West Wing. But Bolton’s own sense of reasoning had not gone
well with Trump.
His termination
was done rather rudely over a tweet in which Trump said that Bolton’s services
were of no longer needed at the Oval office. Ironically, an hour before that
the Press Office had already announced that Bolton was to join Secretary of
State Mike Pompeo and Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a briefing.
Trump’s
defense is now in a spot. They will have for the possibility of the Senate
voting in favor of calling more witnesses, especially with Bolton being the
first ones to be called on stands.
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