Bolton Book Reportedly Contradicts DOJ Claims About Barr’s Knowledge Of Trump-Zelensky Call | Talking Points Memo

…and it looks like the rats are lining up at the microphones to INSIST DAMMIT that Bolton’s Book does not change the way they’ll vote. They will stay bought and afraid.

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watching professor impeachment rattling about history is just begging for a brutal beating with a bat then bagged up and thrown out the back door.
but that is just me.

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Fuck yeah!

Have we convicted the motherfucker yet?

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Brain bleach top of the thread stat

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But that would imply that Barr was lying!

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Is anyone allowed to feel disgusted

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Sure, it’s a big tent.

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It just goes to show there’s no such thing as a free mustache ride.

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“The POTUS only knows that Bolton was a neo-con war hawk who helped create the lies that led to the illegal invasion of Iraq that president dotard has always opposed” Presidential spokesperson of the day. “Has no idea how this known liar could have gotten on the NSC to begin with. Whoever did that will have his head on a pike”.

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It’s raining, it’s pouring.

ETA: as @littlegirlblue precisely shows below!

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In case anyone wants to get past jokes and dicks in cheeks, here’s what Bolton wrote

  • Bolton writes that he heard Trump say explicitly that the withholding of military aid would continue until Ukraine announced an investigation involving the Bidens — implicating Trump directly in a quid pro quo for the first time and contradicting the Trump team’s defense.
  • He writes that Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said privately that there was nothing to the Trump team’s claims that then-Ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch was corrupt — suggesting that this was indeed a smear campaign and that Pompeo recognized it as such, even as he didn’t defend Yovanovitch publicly.
  • He writes that he raised concerns about Rudolph W. Giuliani’s efforts in Ukraine with Attorney General William P. Barr after Trump’s July call with Ukraine’s president — despite the Justice Department saying Barr learned about the call in mid-August.
    He writes that acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney was present for one of Trump’s calls with Giuliani about Yovanovitch, even though Mulvaney has told associates that he stayed out of those conversations to protect Trump and Giuliani’s attorney-client privilege.
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But at this point it’s not just Barr, it’s their underlings, it’s their, dare I say spokespeople?
There’s a whole lot of crimin’ and lyin’ going on around here. And the biggest problem seems to be that not even the epicenter of this shit show is honest with his bestest buds.
Oh and do we know who is currently occupying the DoJ’s Office of Legal Counsel? It seems that Barr’s tame referees are not good at this lyin’ to cover up the crimin’.

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Indecision, indecision…

Lordy but I hope he too has tapes.

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Actually since this is all a witch hunt, it is more aptly called a “coven”…

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Trump, Barr, Pompeo: The Axis of Evil

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Let’s not drag my avatar into this.

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To insult by telling the truth, that is the question.

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For sure Bolton has notes, but possibly tapes too. He didn’t start this book yesterday and I really do wonder when he decided he was going to go after Michael Wolff’s spot on the best seller list. I’d like to know what made him decide it too, because he has to know he’s done after this. He’s a mole and a rat from this point forward.

Year of the Rat! Hear, hear!!

@paulw

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