Section: TPM (USA)
Bolton Book Reveal Seems To Sway Some GOP Senators On Witnesses
An episode in former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s unpublished manuscript seems to be swaying at least a couple moderate Republicans to call for witnesses’ inclusion in the Senate impeachment trial. Bolton wrote of a meeting with President Donald Trump last August, where the President directly tied the Ukraine financial aid...
Romney Says It’s ‘Increasingly Important’ For Senate To Hear From Bolton
Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT), who is among a handful of Republicans who could cast a deciding vote to hear witnesses in the impeachment trial, said Monday that it’s “increasingly important” for the Senate to hear from John Bolton. Speaking to reporters on Capitol Hill, Romney said that he would “make a final decision on witnesses” after hearing...
Schiff Says GOP Senators Are ‘Now Really Hard-Pressed’ To Reject Bolton Testimony
House impeachment manager Adam Schiff (D-CA) said on Monday morning that Republican senators are in a bind after the New York Times published allegations of former National Security Adviser’s book, which gave a firsthand account of President Donald Trump’s involvement in the pressure campaign on Ukraine. “At the end of the day,...
Reports: GOP Senators Shaken By Bolton Allegations Of Trump’s Ukraine Scheme
Republican senators, who have refused to allow witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump thus far, are reportedly shaken in their resolve after the New York Times published claims from an unpublished manuscript of Bolton’s book, which contains explosive accounts of Trump’s direct involvement in the Ukraine...
Bolton’s Book Ties Ukraine Aid To Biden Probe. Trump Howls It Isn’t True.
On early Monday morning, President Donald Trump denied former National Security Adviser John Bolton’s allegation that he directly connected aid to Ukraine to his push for Ukrainian officials to help his efforts to have Joe Biden investigated. According to an unpublished manuscript of Bolton’s upcoming book obtained by the New York...
A Disgrace
The New York Times is reporting that John Bolton recently began circulating the manuscript of this forthcoming book to associates in DC. Critically, he also sent a copy to the White House for a pre-publication review. (In theory that is to review it for any classified information.) In it Bolton reportedly writes that in August 2019 President...
Cotton Calls GOP Leader’s Trump Team Criticism A ‘Democratic Talking Point’
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) dismissed the criticism President Trump’s lawyers received for floating Ukraine conspiracy theories during the Senate impeachment trial as a “Democratic talking point” in an interview on CBS Sunday morning. When asked by CBS’ Margaret Brennan on whether he thinks it was a “misstep” for Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow...
Cotton: ‘Badmouthing The President’ Is ‘Pretty Sound Reason To Remove An Ambassador’
Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) believes that “badmouthing” President Trump was enough to justify Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch’s ouster. In an interview Sunday morning on CBS’ “Face the Nation,” Margaret Brennan pressed Cotton on the April 2018 recording of Trump telling Rudy Giuliani associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman to “take...
Democrats Hammer Need For Witnesses After Trump Lawyers Begin Defense
Democrats coalesced behind one central argument after President Donald Trump’s lawyers wrapped up their first round of presentations Saturday, saying that the lawyers’ complaints about lack of first-hand knowledge could be easily solved by including witnesses and documents in the proceedings. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer...
Closing Dems’ Opening Argument, Schiff Says That Trump Is Threat To Republic
President Trump presents an unprecedented threat to the country’s Constitutional structure and would “make himself a monarch,” said lead impeachment manager Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) as he closed his opening argument Friday night. “That has been proved,” the House Intelligence Committee chief added. He repeated that sentence — “that has been...
