BigMike wrote:
Wh**ever Bolton has to say is irrelevant.
Why would Bolton be participating in the Impeachment trial?
The dimocrats said they had a locked tight case.
They held basement mtgs and withheld any Americans ' right to confront witnesses .
They rushed "urgently" to get to this point.
They said they had a case good enuf to bring a duly elected President down.
If these claimed premises are true, why would they need or want Bolton?
If anything, Bolton's submissal date of his manuscript seems edited to fit with what MSNBC was showing as of December 30th 2019...
A johnnyy-Bolton-come-lately into the Schiff conspiracy fray .
According to the New York ( Democrat) Times-Rag, the manuscript implies that Trump did discuss a quid pro quo two weeks or month that before the White House Ukraine call . The possibility. The consequences. Chewing the day with key advisers.
But discussing anything with staff does not mean Trump is committed to any course of action. And Trump has said that he tests the doings and decisions out using conversation.
But Trump does not play by the Eisenhower rulebook. Policy seen from space. He doesn't used the Clinton freewheeling way. Or Kennedy's or Obama's. His style is to play devil's advocate and examine a deal from all sides.
Trump is allowed to test which advisors are giving him the scoop. Telling Bolton, hey I want to see if they really are debunking corruption as much as they say..
Trump's purpose is clear:
To elicit qualified and expert analysis from senior staff.
I think the real blowback from the Ukraine call was that all the apparatchiks pretending to have the President's ear got shown up.
And those likely to depend on foreign service careers and policy effecting aftercareers saw their money revenues go up in smoke.
Because Trump decided to test the waters. Check the deal terms see if Ukraine really had it's post corruption hat on.
Obvious Vindlund and others had lathered up their opposite numbers in corruption land.
the Bolton story seems like ESP , on top of fallacy, on top of assumption. On top of favorably self-serving "convictions".
From a man who doesn't get along with President Trump.
The President now delimits his foreign policy as his conversations vary?
Trump didn't make those rules. Schiff and his Confederates and conspirators ( the Ukraine whisperer ) seem to have backwards engineered the algebra of an impeachment.
But it's not an argument that logically follows.
Bolton got a cemented commitment from Trump about Ukraine policy? Why didn't you say so? Did he miss speaking to this to reporters for the past three months? Why?
Is what really happened? Or is this what will make the book jump on the NYT bestseller list? Is this the whisper campaign that can't come to fruition until MARCH.
And Bolton didn't go on record. If he does witness to the Senate then we get Biden Confesssions. From every Biden we can find.
To really root out nepotism and influence peddling and corruption.
Donald Trump Junior and Ivanka can speak to what the actual rigors of anti corruption journalism looks like. Even though the New York Times dumped any story looking into Biden corruption and influence peddling.
Obama gave the Ukraine blankets. Biden's son set up his own revenue stream..
Then Putin annexed the Crimea.
Trump tried to give millions to Ukraine. And got impeached.
So if Putin annexed the Ukraine using arms or treaties or the promise of a samovar in every pot, what would happen to those Javelin ns?
Would Putin sell them to Iran and Americans would get blown up by their own missiles? Then Trump would get blamed.
Ever wonder if THAT was the deal Trump's question broke up?
Hmn?