Posted on 03/04/2020 11:59:07 AM PST by yesthatjallen
The Democratic push to haul former national security adviser John Bolton before the House has fizzled out roughly a month after the Senate acquitted President Trump.
Bolton had emerged as an alluring figure in the Democrats’ Ukraine investigation following revelations that his forthcoming book includes firsthand accounts that Trump withheld security aid to Kyiv to secure political favors — the crux of the Democrats’ impeachment case.
After Senate Republicans refused Bolton’s offer to testify in January, Democratic leaders floated the idea of reclaiming the baton and issuing their own subpoena to compel his appearance before the House — a strategy still being mulled by party leaders.
Yet in interviews with almost 20 Democratic lawmakers on the committees with jurisdiction over Trump’s Ukraine dealings, the predominant view is that “impeachment fatigue” has dulled the appetite for Bolton’s participation, in the words of one lawmaker. Instead, the months-long Ukraine saga has given way to the 2020 campaign season — and many Democrats are only happy to shift the focus to health care, wages and other bread-and-butter issues that won them control of the House in the 2018 midterms.
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Quelle surprise. He was never their star witness. Mittens got snookered.
And who's leaking or pretending to leak??
That ship has sailed. The actual publication of the book shall prove to be completely anticlimactic.
Grasping at straws is no way to avoid drowning.
We’ll find out what he had to say when his book comes out.
“We have not made a decision,” Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.)”
How nuanced of Punchable Clown Face #1.
Do not call a witness if you do not know what they will say.
Bolton is not popular here but it seemed like he was trying to bait the democrats into an ambush. His antipathy for Trump seems genuine but his hatred of the left is real. The democrats probably understood they had far more to lose with his testimony than they could possibly gain.
Dems know that if they resurrect Ukraine again by subpoening Bolton, the Senate Republicans will subpoena the Bidens and drag sleepy Joe, their presumptive candidate, into the corruption scandal. They should do it regardless to reinforce that the Dems will have a crook at the top of their ticket
Why? Does he have exposure to Covid-18?
Bolton In Office Space
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mwq4myUbpNU
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