Donald Trump has had his lawyers try to do a indirect bum’s rush defense against his obstruction of justice and abuse of power charges…
It seems that the the jury of Senate Republicans may hold out for witnesses after the John Bolton book revelations …
A sense of uncertainty hung over the Capitol Tuesday as President Donald Trump’s impeachment finale arrived.
It’s the last uninterrupted chance for his lawyers to persuade senators to summarily reject the House’s case for his removal — without the drama that would result from demanding new evidence. But it arrived amid a creeping anxiety that new revelations, like the one late Sunday from former national security adviser John Bolton that exploded a core premise of Trump’s defense, could be in store.
And Democrats are counting on it.
“In a few weeks or a few months do my Republican colleagues want to pick up the paper and read that one of the witnesses they blocked had crucial information about the president’s misconduct?” Senate Democratic leader Chuck Schumer said Tuesday morning. “At this point, how can Senate Republicans not vote for the witnesses and documents we’re seeking?”
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“Nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true would rise to the level of an abuse of power or an impeachable offense,” Dershowitz argued Monday night, leading some Democratic senators to look around the room or joke to their colleagues.
But by Tuesday, Dershowitz’s diversion gave way to the more pressing question of the Senate’s plans to call witnesses, a rare moment of genuine uncertainty in a chamber typically tightly controlled by Majority Leader Mitch McConnell…..
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Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) hinted to Politico that she might support calling former National Security Adviser John Bolton as a witness in President Trump’s impeachment trial.
Said Murkowski: “I think that Bolton probably has something to offer us so we’ll figure out how we’re going to learn more.”
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President Trump believes the chances that witnesses will be called at his impeachment trial in the Senate have grown, even as advisers believed they might be able to allay concerns from senators after reports about assertions made by his former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, in an unpublished manuscript….
I am really excited about the prospect of John Bolton being Time’s 2020 Person of the Year.
Maybe he will wind up being my Presidential write-in!
He ought to express plans to run. It will help him sell books.
Somebody wrote if Trump gets kicked out of office BOLTON would be the man of the Century so far?
That’s silly:: would John Dean replace a hypothetical Nixon as TIME’s Man of the Year 1973 or 1974 ?
Won those years by John Sirica and King Faisal.