Trump misstates the record on John Bolton
Source: AP
WASHINGTON (AP) President Donald Trump stated falsely Monday that House Democrats never called his former national security adviser to testify in their impeachment inquiry. Actually they did.
Trumps tweet about John Bolton came as the Senate enters the second week of the impeachment trial and followed a fresh disclosure that Bolton claims Trump told him directly that he wanted to withhold hundreds of millions of dollars in security aid from Ukraine until it helped with investigations into Joe Biden and Democrats.
Boltons assertion, in his forthcoming book, contradicts key assertions by Trump and his defense teams argument that there is no evidence the president conditioned aid to Ukraine on an investigation of his political rivals. The disclosure prompted Trump to strike out on Twitter, where he misrepresented what happened in the impeachment inquiry.
As well, in their opening defense arguments on the weekend, Trumps attorneys perpetuated a baseless claim that Ukraine interfered in the 2016 election as they argued that Trump had good reason to withhold military aid to the country.
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mac56
(17,557 posts)denem
(11,045 posts)Mr.Bill
(24,031 posts)to quote the Mueller report when we have not yet seen what was redacted from the only version the House committees have seen.
Miguelito Loveless
(4,427 posts)"Trump stated falsely..."
"Trumps attorneys perpetuated a baseless claim..."
Such direct language in so unlike the AP.
sdfernando
(4,892 posts)He didn't "mis-state", he didn't "falsly state"....He LIED!....He LIED!...LIED, LIED, LIED!!!!!! Why can't you just say so?
Javaman
(62,394 posts)TeamPooka
(24,123 posts)lark
(22,941 posts)Damn sick of all the pussyfooting around the truth - drumpf is a serial and non-stop liar.
JustABozoOnThisBus
(23,266 posts)I take photos with lots of people. Lots. Maybe this John character, whoever he is, was at my inauguration, it was so huge, do you remember how huge it was?