Washington — Former national security adviser John Bolton said Monday that he’s willing to testify in President Trump’s impeachment trial if the Senate subpoenas him.
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Bolton has firsthand knowledge of the events at the center of Mr. Trump’s impeachment, namely efforts to pressure Ukraine to announce investigations that would benefit the president politically. He pushed back against the pressure campaign and at one point likened it to a “drug deal,” according to earlier testimony by other officials.
The former national security adviser’s statement comes a week after a federal judge scrapped a case brought by Charles Kupperman, one of his former aides, to determine whether the House could compel him to testify. Bolton, who had been watching the case, was not formally subpoenaed by the House in the impeachment inquiry, and his lawyer threatened to go to court if he was.
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The Secular Jurist 
Bolton is filth. I wouldn’t trust him to breathe air.
What angle do you think he would pursue in testimony? He surely wants war so my “not very informed” opinion of him is that pushing for war might be his primary motivation.
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Bolton has already expressed support for Trump’s assassination of the Iranian general, and that’s no surprise because he is a premier war-hawk.
But, his offer to testify in the impeachment trial is a different matter. As National Security Advisor, Bolton opposed Trump’s attempted coercion of the Ukrainian president (i.e. the withholding of military aid to elicit interference in the 2020 election). He even wrote a book about it to be published this year. From what I’ve been able to discern, Bolton doesn’t want to be stained by Trump’s crime because he has future political ambitions. Therefore, he wants his account of it to be told. However, he also doesn’t want to anger the GOP by appearing to help Democrats. So, he’s trying to walk a fine line between those conflicting motives.
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Hmmm, that will be tricky. He might also not want to piss trump off too much since trump is such a “wannabe” gangster type who lashes out at anyone who doesn’t obey him. I didn’t know about Bolton’s book. I often stick my head in the sand to avoid going insane. It should be interesting.
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Yes, it should be interesting. I follow politics fairly closely, and I can say with confidence that Bolton is not at all afraid of Trump. He has been entrenched within the GOP’s foreign policy inner circle for decades, and he isn’t holding an elected office which Trump could use to exact retribution.
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Let the house subpoena him, call his bluff.
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If, like Robert says, Bolton isn’t afraid of trump, then he probably isn’t bluffing. He’ll try to make himself out to be the sane, knowledgeable one who attempted to dissuade an inexperienced but “well-intentioned” president from making a mistake. These people have absolutely no conscience. They can lie as if it’s breathing the air.
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People who can lie like that frighten me.
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Then you are sane.
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🙂
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Hopefully this happens, but I’m certain li’l Mitchy McDickel will do EVERYTHING he can to prevent it from happening. Mitchy’s lips are firmly planted on the hairs hanging out of Trump’s fat, orange rectal cavity because he NEEDS Trump’s base to lead him to his re-election next Nov. Whatever helps li’l Donny helpls li’l Mitchy McDickel. The two of em are raging friggin’ sissies. (BTW, ain’t no way better to cheese off Trumpanzees than to emasculate or feminize their hero. They HATE it when I do it. Therefor, I do it every chance I can. It makes me smile to trigger Trumpanzees!)
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I suspect Adam Schiff is considering it.
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