With his memoir, John Bolton has rolled a hand grenade into Trump's impeachment trial.
Why did John Bolton, President Trump’s former national security advisor, offer to become a witness against the president?
But Bolton does. In his manuscript, he reportedly writes that he asked Trump to release $391 million inlast August, but the president replied that he wanted Ukraine to start investigating Joe Biden and other Democrats first. Simply put, a quid pro quo. Bolton isn’t a liberal Democrat or even a moderate “NeverTrump” Republican. His conservative credentials are impeccable.
“John sees everything in black and white,” one former associate said. “That makes him hard for a lot of people to deal with.” He publicly contradicted Bolton’s promises that troops would stay in Syria and Iraq. He told visitors, in a comment that quickly leaked, that if Bolton had his way, “we’d be in four wars by now.”Bolton in a tweet. Bolton, stung, fired back that he had offered to resign first.
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