McConnell's coverup for Trump cannot make this one thing disappear

[Zorro]

We live in endlessly absurd times. And one peril of being surrounded by full-saturation absurdity is that we often fail to register just how monumentally ridiculous each individual absurdity that confronts us really is.

Case in point: Now that former national security adviser John Bolton has announced that he’d testify at President Trump’s impeachment trial if subpoenaed, Senate Republicans are gravitating toward a see-no-evil, hear-no-evil defense: We don’t need Bolton’s testimony, because we already know Trump is innocent — and we already know we’re acquitting him.

That’s ridiculous enough on its own. But at the core of this emerging defense is another absurdity so spectacular that it’s almost impossible to do it justice with mere words.

It is a reasonable possibility that Bolton has a level of direct knowledge of Trump’s thinking and motives in freezing military aid to Ukraine — one of the most corrupt acts at the core of this whole scandal — that exceeds that of any other living human being.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/01/07/mcconnells-coverup-trump-cannot-make-this-one-thing-disappear/

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Bolton could show up with video of rump taking orders from putin to destroy our

intelligence services and do this and that and nothing will happen.

We are at war now in the ME, are nukes coming any hour now?

All because racists hated the skin of Obama.

[Dennis Donovan]

2. He took the much more dangerous option

Whatever Bolton has to say will come out eventually (because he's Bolton and doesn't know how to STFU) - likely before the 2020 election. When it comes out that the sham senate trial was a huge coverup on the turtle's part, it will impact hard in November.

Deliciously ironic that it will be Moscow Mitch who delivers the final nail in the GOP coffin...