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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rice and bolton together. My, how the world has changed.
Ok, Lefties, you can go back to hating Bolton again.
You chose to lie down with dogs, enjoy the fleas.
Bolton should have blamed an Internet video.
That last paragraph has problems.
That’s why you weren’t subpoenaed.
[rice and bolton together. My, how the world has changed.]
No kidding.
“”I can’t imagine withholding my testimony, with or without a subpoena,” Rice said.”
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Well, get ready, sista, because your whole cabal is goin’ down and you’ll get one chance, and once chance only, to sing for your life.
Are we talking “Arab Spring” Susan Rice, responsible for the destruction of Western Europe and Middle Eastern Christianity?
FO, Bolton.
You’re not a man of character.
G’Damn Susan Rice needs to be charged and tried for being a POS among other crimes.
“I can’t imagine withholding my testimony, with or without a subpoena,” Rice said.
Some how I don’t believe her.
I’m proud to have quit Netflix when they hired Susan Rice—NOT when they hired the Obamas later on.
“Somehow I don’t believe her”
YA THINK!!!!
Swamp creatures hanging out together
Then why didn’t she go before the House and the Senate when subpoenaed by them over the unmasking of Trump officials?
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