Ut-oh. A little Bolton shot across the bow:
all of a sudden Dems are fans of Bolton. 
He’s a vicious, rabid warmonger. But he’s not as near as I can tell a pathological liar. And that’s propelling him to the top of the Republican shitheap.
Nothing wrong with the loyal opposition. It’s just the psychopathic, lying, racist shitheel and his enablers I’m not a fan of. If the Senate refuses to call Bolton, I hope he immediately goes on CNN, MSNBC, BBC, ABC, and yes, even FOX immediately to tell everything he knows before they wrap up the official cover-up. If he’s worried about his book contract, I’m sure there’s a billionaire or two who would gladly make him whole.
For Bolton I guess the enemy of my enemy is my friend .
So Bolton has confirmed what everybody already knew. But (a) will he testify and (b) would it matter if he did?
There are fewer of the My Own Good advocates, but they have a power advantage, now, over the Greater Good side. And there’s no USA to come over to beat back the fascist MOG threat.
Bolton basically verified the reporting about his book containing information about Trump saying he was specifically holding aid to Ukraine in exchange for announcing investigations into the Bidens. He disputed that he himself leaked the information in advance id his book coming out, but:
GOP will just say Bolton is a liar , stupid, hates Trump because he was fired, etc. Won’t matter what he says.
Think about how low we all regard the GOP at this point. We aren’t hoping that there are 20 of them who are patriotic enough to remove Trump from office. We are hoping that there are four of them who are willing to allow evidence to support that removal even be heard. And they’re still likely to come up short.
Bolton will be talking about other peoples behavior too, Mulvaney, Perry, etc. We’ll see how smart Nancy Pelosi was when the chief justice says you need to hear from them too.
They won’t get 4 , maybe they get Romney.
Not me. I just found it interesting that this got leaked when it did.
^ This.
He kind of has to testify to it if he wants to publish it in his book later on. As to whether it will matter, probably not to the MAGA crowd, but maybe to the 10-15% of those whose minds are (incredibly) not yet made up.
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Exactly this. I’d wondered in this or another thread why we weren’t seeing more strategic leaks from Bolton’s camp if he really wanted to testify. This leak seems like just that: strategic. I don’t know what is Bolton’s angle, but he’s angling. Could be book sales, could be something else.
If I were Bolton I would be worrying about how to “land the plane” amidst this.
If that’s true he probably wants to be forced to testify. If he doesn’t testify then he will look like a traitor, given the story he has to tell. And square the effect of that if he is selling his story to be timed after the trial.
As far as testifying voluntarily: he might not want to be the guy to bring down the potus. It would change the book he’s writing for sure. He might not want to write a tell all from the person who sunk his and the republicans hold on power forever, and it might be that by default.
I predict he pitches a fit and melts down over the fact that he, a white rebupki, can’t turn this thing into a total grift for himself, and remain above the fray.
The tough part is going to be the gloating. Even if this thing winds up with ninety percent of the American public eager to tar and feather every Republican we can get our hands on …he’s going to gloat. He’s a ham-fisted bully who thinks he’s a genius of subtle cunning. Given every advantage money and power have to offer, he will still fuck it up. Keep an eye on his shovel, if it looks like its getting worn out, give him a new one.
Right now, roughly seventy percent of American voters want more witnesses. They are not going to get them, and Il Douche is going to sneer and gloat. Thank you, Jesus.
I heard that Bolton had given a copy of the book to the White House. If that is true, then I think that someone in the White House leaked what came out yesterday. They see that the fucker is going to walk and they fired one last shot to stop that from happening.
The best strategy at this point would be to appeal to Roberts. If we could get a bunch of big rallies around the US, I think he’d call witnesses in light of these new Bolton allegations.
Roberts will never insert himself into struggle between Republicans and Democrats. He is a ceremonial figurehead at best.