I think Bolton is a piece of shit that is going out of his way through these actions to demonstrate that as much as he hates Trump, he has more contempt for Democrats/liberals/etc. because he hasn't forgiven them for calling him out as the warmongering piece of trash he fundamentally is.
So it wouldn't surprise me if this were actually Bolton trolling both sides. Or it could just be a neat coincidence - it's not like the Trump administration has to go out of its way to fuck up.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi
White House allies say Trump lawyers bungled defense
One Republican operative who advises the White House said he was “flabbergasted at how stupidly they have handled this.”
The disclosure in the New York Times Sunday night directly contradicts the arguments of the president’s lawyers, who said in their brief that this is “the central fact in this case.” Bolton, Trump’s former security adviser, has written in his forthcoming memoir about having just such a conversation with the president last August.
“This just completely washes away Purpura’s whole argument,” the White House adviser said. “WTF. He misled the Senate.”
The Republican who advises the White House predicted there now may be no way for the White House to prevent Bolton from testifying. The adviser said the cardinal sin by the president's lawyers was not finding out what was in Bolton's book and addressing it in their opening remarks on Saturday.
Another Republican operative who speaks regularly with the White House said the upshot of Bolton’s revelations will be to increase momentum toward calls for him to testify.
“I think it pushes at least four GOP senators to vote to call witnesses. They were soft before this little bombshell,” the Republican operative said.
There are 47 Democrats in the Senate. Together with at least four Republicans, they would make up a majority.
On the question of why the president’s lawyers relied so heavily on the absence of a firsthand account tying the president to the pressure on Ukraine, this operative said: “They all represent a serial liar. [You] never know what is really going on. This is how he ran his businesses.”
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If Bolton wants to make history, he can easily go down as the man that delivered the testimony that saw a president removed from office for the first time ever.
Bolton doesn't seem to have any real love for Trump, so I wouldn't be surprised if this was all part of his vindictive plans after leaving the administration.
He's hoping for a nice little PR bump off this, but it ain't happening. He has been, and will always be, human garbage. He's just human garbage that doesn't flagrantly violate the law and, unfortunately for Trump, human garbage that leaves copious paper trails.
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Last edited by Rozz; 2020-01-28 at 12:03 AM. Reason: Minor Trolling
"It doesn't matter if you believe me or not but common sense doesn't really work here. You're mad, I'm mad. We're all MAD here."
Of course its not a court of law. if it was every single democrat would be sanctioned by now. but why do you call it a crime?
Oh yes! to give legitimacy to this sham of an impeachment . So you and a whole slew of left-wingers are desperate trying to convince yourself that trump has committed a crime despite having no evidence what so ever.
Trump supporters are so, so desperate to be victims.
I suspect it's because they see formerly disenfranchised minorities getting attention and assume that because the narrative isn't focused on them, they must have it bad as the people they've been oppressing for centuries.
Originally Posted by Marjane Satrapi