New York Times: Bolton book manuscript
says Trump directed him to help with
Ukraine pressure campaign in early May
CNN,
by
Veronica Stracqualursi
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
1/31/2020 3:22:37 PM
President Donald Trump directed his former national security adviser John Bolton to help with his pressure campaign in Ukraine to dig up dirt on Democrats in early May last year, according to a draft manuscript by Bolton reported on by The New York Times.
According to Bolton's account, Trump told him to call Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to make sure the newly elected leader would meet with his personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani(Snip)
On Friday, Trump denied the allegation in a statement.
"I never instructed John Bolton to set up a meeting for Rudy Giuliani, one of the greatest corruption fighters in America and by far the greatest mayor in the history of N.Y.C.,
Reply 1 - Posted by:
justavoter 1/31/2020 3:35:29 PM (No. 303322)
I agree. If PDT had made the order, Bolton would be talking about the record of the call to Zelensky.
This is fake news on steroids and reeks of desperation.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
HammerDax56 1/31/2020 3:35:33 PM (No. 303323)
Groundhog Day, the movie, was entertaining.
These people are clinical.
BTW. We all know “the definition of insanity”
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
Foghorn 1/31/2020 3:42:02 PM (No. 303333)
Bolton has no credibility. He was accused of chasing a young woman and harassing her in a Russian Hotel in 2005. Other incidents have been reported. He was also fired by GW Bush because of his behavior, not willing to play well with others and failure to perform as required. He is angry at Trump because Trump didn't apply his recommendations in a manner Bolton expected Trump to do what he said would solve a problem.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
mathman 1/31/2020 3:43:42 PM (No. 303334)
Oh, right. Someone saw a manuscript. He/she told someone else. And that person told someone else. And that person told a "journalist". And that "journalist" published a report.
Talk about hearsay. This is hearsay cubed.
What a farrago of nonsense.
If true, then Bolton is guilty of obstruction of justice, in not promptly coming forward to report this felony.
I think it is called misprision of a felony. Why is Bolton not in jail?
As a sworn public servant, Bolton was obliged to act at all times in a manner consistent with U S law.
If he knew about this alleged bribe, he becomes an associate after the fact.
There is no here here.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
edgar 1/31/2020 3:55:21 PM (No. 303352)
It should read, "Adam Schiff knows that PDJT told John Bolton to call and put the squeeze on Ukraine to dig up dirt on his political opponents."
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Supposedly, this leak came today, and a mere couple hours later the Dem managers had neat graphs and charts detailing all of this, but weren't given advance notice of the pending leak?
What I'd like to know, did the Ukraine guy who Biden told to "fire that prosecutor" or I'm leaving in 6 hours, and you're not getting the $1 billion in aide, called President Obama like Biden said he could if he wanted to verify that Biden wasn't kidding.
Did that call take place? There would be records from both Ukraine and the United States, right?
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CNN says the New York slimes said......
Yeah, that's a real credible couple of sources. More the the epicenter of the fake news universe.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
chillijilli 1/31/2020 4:16:06 PM (No. 303371)
Think about the convenience of the NYTimes article and this hearing. Alexander made his decision and the Demos were frantic to try to sway Murkowski. What amazing timing. Wow, a Bolton book leak happens coincidentally at the perfect moment and The Times is there to spread the word. And what a surprise—-10 minutes after the breaking news of the Bolton book, Schiff and the Managers have a completely coordinated presentation prepared, complete with slides. They MUST’VE been notified in advance; they HAD to have known about the leak in order to be fully prepared and coordinated like that.
It’s all fake. These people have ZERO respect for America, our Constitution, their “friends” across the aisle, or any of us. This whole staged and choreographed event makes me sick.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
ronniethek 1/31/2020 5:24:15 PM (No. 303417)
SO WHAT???? There was actual corruption and the Biden family was very involved. Others too but that's a story for later I hope.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
caljeepgirl 1/31/2020 6:02:28 PM (No. 303466)
The timing on this is patently obvious.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
bad-hair 1/31/2020 6:18:19 PM (No. 303496)
There was a time when I might have paid attention to what Bolton said. There was never a time when I cared what the NYT said.
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
JimBob 1/31/2020 8:50:30 PM (No. 303664)
Veronica, sweetie.....
Don't you know that you should NEVER believe Slim's Suckers, AKA the New York Slimes?
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
bighambone 1/31/2020 11:05:01 PM (No. 303750)
Bolton’s career is over as nobody will ever appoint him in a position of trust again. So you can see why it is so important to him that he sells a lot of books. President Trump sure has a knack in “outing” the DC “Swamp” rats.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Newtsche 1/31/2020 11:22:58 PM (No. 303759)
I'm pretty sure the dog passed gas.
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(1) NYT article (not posted because it requires a subscription) says that Bolton was asked to call Zelensky and arrange a meeting to talk about corruption and Democrats. (2) Bolton says he didn’t make the call. (3) The President denies all of this and says that such a meeting never happened.
If PDJT had really asked Bolton to make that call, he’d have made that call.