So, when the book comes out will anyone who wants the thing have to get classifies clearance to read it?
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Putting pressure on the Republican Senators to grab this chance or go down the crapper with their messiah. One way or another Bolton will be heard. Squeeze 'em, Nancy, squeeze 'em.
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Do Republicans in Congress think once Trump is acquitted in this impeachment trial his troubles vis-a-vis House oversight are over? As if this is all a “You had your chance, now you have to leave him alone! Rules are rules! It says so in the book!” situation? Once this is all over there are still dozens of criminal events left unexplored, and surely more to come. If Trump does win a second term, and Dems retain the House, the GOP is in for four more years of grueling oversight, hearings, etc. Acquitting Trump will be just the closing of one book, with the rest of the library waiting to be read.
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He doesn’t need to testify. Everything he has to say has already been leaked. As for tRump…Impeach, Remove, and Lock Him Up!
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They should have done it after the Kupperman decision.
It is astonishing that people still think GOP voters give a shit about any of this. Almost every single GOP voter will walk into the voting booth and vote ‘against the liberal’ next election.
It’s NEW voters the Dems need to engage to win. Not naively relying on voters who didn’t reason themselves into a political position, to reason themselves out of it.
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Well, here we are, with a defendant who happens to be the president of the United States so obviously guilty of the actual charges and many other unprecedented crimes, and whose chances of exoneration are so astrally remote, that his defenders don’t dare call any witnesses at all. It speaks for itself.
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It goes both ways. If the Dem Prez nominee was a convicted ax murdering pedophile I’d cast my ballot for them over Trump.
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this is good news, because a joker like Langford would not be floating this proposal unless there were at least 7 or 8 GOP Senators willing to call Bolton as a witness (if it was just four, they wouldn’t be panicking, given the spinelessness of Collins, Romney, etc).
But I suspect that its more than just Bolton – because Bolton is going to have some scores to settle. They all know that Bolton will implicate Mulvaney, Barr, Esper, Pompeo etc – and that will result in more calls for more testimony.
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He proposed Tuesday that Bolton’s manuscript be given to the senators in a classified setting for individual review. He also urged Bolton to speak out publicly about his experiences — just not in the Senate.
Testimony under oath, or nothing, beeeeyotchen. Also, cross-examination and followup questions.
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Every American who’s watched Law and Order (and/or Perry Mason, depending on your cohort) knows that a trial requires witnesses!!! This is a slow moving train. It’ll put into a few stations and stop, but it’ll keep on going. The Articles of Impeachment are clear that there would have been witnesses, but for the obstruction. How can anyone say with a straight face that Congress doesn’t want things too take too long. Everything they do takes too long!
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Bolton testifying under oath in the House would be a useful end-run around the Senate if they manage to block his testimony there. The question is whether Bolton would show up.
He wants to do this in the Senate. Presumably, that’s because he wants to control the narrative, and he can do that better under more restrictive Senate rules with no realtime cross-examination, written questions only, etc. He may refuse to show up in the House, and they’re not going to go through a protracted court fight to force it.
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And what’s astonishing is, the overwhelming majority of Americans WANT to hear from witnesses, even Republicans do (though they probably think witnesses will corroborate their view that Dump is da Genius King). But still they won’t do it.
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True, but it’s still an open question whether there are enough Americans who still value basic fairness in Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Georgia, Iowa, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina, or (dare I say it? I probably shouldn’t) Texas.
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If enough americans cared about fairness those morons would not even be in office.
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Yesterday Angus King said it was 5-10 in favor of witnesses. They are in the bargaining stage.
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What is it about “under oath” that these people don’t understand?
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Off the bat, certainly not in Kentucky musch less Alabama, they pride themselves of being POSs there .
The world can only hope. Whatever happens, it will take years to recover American reputation on the world stage. For Republicans, hopefully at least a generation will be needed for them to recover any semblance of respectability.
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“I think getting that information first-hand would be really important for us,” Lankford said, per the Oklahoman. “My encouragement would be: If John Bolton’s got something to say, there’s plenty of microphones all over the country that he should step forward and start talking about it right now.”
“Hey, legal eagles. Exciting new developments in the practice of law - the republican anti-gag order, where an ostensible republican jury asks witnesses to blab publicly so they can deny they heard it.”
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