.MaddowBlog: Pres. Trump pushes back against Bolton report
Donald Trump helped get his day started the usual way: with an odd tweet. With the political world jolted by a report on former White House National Security Advisor John Bolton’s book, which appears to directly contradict the president’s impeachment defense, Trump published an item that read in part, “The Democrat controlled House never even asked John Bolton to testify.”
Alas, it wasn’t the only one. Shortly after midnight this morning, Trump had some similarly mendacious missives. Obviously, the point of publishing tweets like these is to push back against the New York Times’ reporting on Bolton’s upcoming book. The president’s impeachment defense rests in large part on a simple assertion – Trump didn’t connect military aid to a demand for political investigations – and the former White House national security advisor appears ready to expose the defense as a lie.
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