Monday, January 27, 2020

Axios: Republicans fear "floodgates" if Bolton testifies - Spend 3 years appointing neocons and Swamp Creatures to the White House and--shockingly!--you are surrounded by leakers, liars and betrayers. '4-D chess'? --tma


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There may be enough new pressure on Senate Republicans to allow witnesses at President Trump's impeachment trial, after the leak from a forthcoming book by former national security adviser John Bolton that contradicts what the White House has been telling the country.
Why it matters: This is a dramatic, 11th-hour inflection point for the trial, with an eyewitness rebuttal to Trump's claim that he never tied the hold-up of Ukrainian aid to investigations into Joe Biden. ...
  • GOP sources say the revelation could be enough to sway the four Republican senators needed for witnesses — especially since Sens. Mitt Romney of Utah and Susan Collins of Maine have already strongly signaled they’d vote for witnesses. ...
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