Posted on 02/19/2020 10:12:54 PM PST by bitt
But former Obama administration national security adviser Susan Rice Rice challenged his decision not to publicly discuss Trump's Ukraine pressure campaign.
Former national security adviser John Bolton said Wednesday he was surprised that Senate Republicans rejected his offer to testify in President Donald Trump's impeachment trial. But he said that even if he had testified, it wouldn't have changed the outcome of the trial because of how House Democrats handled their investigation.
"I think the House committed impeachment malpractice," Bolton said at an event at Vanderbilt University with Susan Rice, who was national security adviser during the administration of former President Barack Obama. "The process drove Republicans who might have voted for impeachment away" because "it was so partisan," he said.
But, he added, "my testimony would have made no difference to the ultimate outcome."
All but one Senate Republican voted to acquit Trump of abusing the power of his office by pressuring Ukraine to investigate a political opponent.
Rice challenged Bolton repeatedly over his decision not to testify in the House or publicly discuss what he knows about the president's Ukraine pressure campaign, particularly as officials who worked for him on the National Security Council have done so and have since endured Trump's wrath.
"I can't imagine withholding my testimony, with or without a subpoena," Rice said. "I also can't imagine, frankly, in the absence of being able to provide the information directly to Congress, not having exercised my First Amendment right to speak publicly at a time when my testimony or my experience would be relevant. And, frankly, when my subordinates ... were doing their duty and responding in a fashion consistent with their legal obligations to provide information."
Rice specifically mentioned two former National Security Council officials, Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman
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Bill Kristol will buy it, and the pages of his copy will stick together...
GOOD ONE he he he
For Bolton to allow himself to be shamed by such a discredited hack as Rice shows us he is a shell of the man we thought he was. He will lay on his deathbed fantasizing of how he could have beaten Trump, if only Schiff had done his job...
And this is from the lying bitch Rice who wanted tell the public why she lied about the Benghazi attacks and who told her (hint, hint, Hillary/Obama) to lie about a video.
Bolton lowered himself by being on the same stage with Rice. I had a high opinion of Bolton over the years, along with that of Sebastian Gorka. Looks like Sebastian is the winner of my trust.
#24. Wrong word - correction. Should be “And this is from the lying bitch who WON’T tell the public....”
Huh?
Isn’t Bolton one of the guys that got all of our people kill and maimed after he help fire everyone in the Iraqi army?
Go back and take a look with new eyes.
He was "fired" on Sept. 10th. The money was released Sept. 11th.
My gut says the President Trump got him out of there before the SHTF.
As far as Bolton...The man is a Patriot. He also believes the President is special...with powers greater that Congress.
My gut has a lot to say. Bolton was fired on Sept 10th. The money was released Sept 11th. I believe his departure was to get him out of the rumbling that was amiss.
This little debate tells me that my gut is right on.
Rice is an a**.
Rice had absolutely no qualms about blaming the Benghazi attack on a video. She's a phony.
Bolton is a Patriot. You have to go back in his history. A war monger?? There's a lot of them. Take it for what it's worth.
NBC bust be at the end of its tether and at the bottom of the news barrel. Both Rice and Bolton are so insignificant and meaningless on today’s news scene.
Who peed in his cheerios?
"I can't imagine withholding my testimony, with or without a subpoena," Rice said.Hold that thought. A day will come that she reverses. Total partisan hack.
I once liked Bolton. These past three years have been a revelation to me. It seems anyone who has made a career out of government or politics, even on the right, is a disappointment. Invariably they act out of self interest and are willing to sleep with the enemy.
Susan Rice: “By the book”
John Bolton: “Buy my book”
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