{"id":40990,"date":"2020-01-30T16:37:49","date_gmt":"2020-01-30T16:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40990"},"modified":"2020-01-30T16:37:49","modified_gmt":"2020-01-30T16:37:49","slug":"say-this-about-bolton-he-tells-the-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=40990","title":{"rendered":"Say this about Bolton: He tells the truth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The chances of U.S. Senate Democrats being able to call witnesses in the trial of Donald John Trump seem to be vanishing.<\/p>\n

It’s a shame. One of the witnesses, ex-national security adviser John Bolton, has first-hand knowledge of what Trump said to the Ukrainian president on that fateful July 25, 2019 phone call.<\/p>\n

He has expressed concern about the nature of the request Trump made to his Ukrainian colleague: the favor of political help, a request to Trump dig up dirt on Joe Biden, a potential 2020 campaign foe. I consider that an abuse of power. So did most of the House of Representatives when it voted to impeach Trump.<\/p>\n

Well, if the Senate Republican leadership has its way and the Senate proceeds without hearing from Bolton and others who were in the room that day, then the impeachment “trial” will need a historical asterisk as we refer to it in the future.<\/p>\n

I do not consider John Bolton to be a liar. He is a man of principle. He is too hawkish for my taste, but I tend to believe him over anything that comes forth from his former boss, the current president.<\/p>\n

Accordingly, I wish we could hear from him.<\/p>\n

But \u2026 it likely won’t occur. Too bad. The nation will likely suffer the consequence of the absence of this man’s Senate testimony.<\/p>\n\n

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The chances of U.S. Senate Democrats being able to call witnesses in the trial of Donald John Trump seem to be vanishing. It’s a shame. One of the witnesses, ex-national security adviser John Bolton, has first-hand knowledge of what Trump said to the Ukrainian president on that fateful July 25, 2019 phone call. He has … Continue reading Say this about Bolton: He tells the truth<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[2253,6747,9196,8655],"class_list":["post-40990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-impeachment","tag-john-bolton","tag-national-securit-adviser","tag-senate-trial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40990"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40991,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40990\/revisions\/40991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}