John Bolton Book Alleges Trump Tied Ukraine Aid Freeze to Biden Investigations

[NYPat]

Former national security adviser John Bolton reportedly claims in his as yet unpublished memoir that President Trump sought to tie hundreds of millions of dollars in aid to Ukraine to his requests for the country's leaders to investigate former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.

Multiple sources familiar with Bolton's book told The New York Times that he writes that President Trump personally told him that $391 million in aid to Ukraine should be frozen until Ukrainian officials announced the investigations, including one into the Democratic National Committee.

https://thehill.com/policy/national-...reeze-to-biden

[NYPat]

Time for Bolton to testify.

[Trapstar4.4]

yeah no way the moderate GOP members can vote against it now.

granted i dont even know why voting NO was ever an option. we all knew this day was coming. whether it would be today, or in a couple months. bolton was always going to come out with this

[Mark1T]

https://thehill.com/policy/national-...reeze-to-biden

Big surprise and he was fired. A revenge book. His version isn't any more important than members of the senate's.

[gachase21]

Bolton is a deep state swamp creature that never should have been anywhere around this administration.


Nothing he says is credible

[~Hades~]

Libs: we love Bolton now

[scheal]

And it's not even written yet, and already Patty has the inside scoop and failed gungrabber trapster agrees with her

[Trapstar4.4]

some puzzle pieces may be coming together. the belief is that mcconnell knew this was on the way (remember he was in lockstep with the WH) and was trying to get the acquittal in before this came out

which would essentially be hanging some of the senate out to dry (murkowski, collins, etc).

[scheal]

Libs: we love Bolton now

first it was Romney, then McCain

[N0rds]

Lol. Trump did what the president was obligated to do. He asked, and found what Biden bragged about on national TV: that Biden committed Quit Pro Quo. And now the mentally unhinged dems are trying to impeach Trump for crimes committed by much of the paedocrats...

We live in clown world.

HONK HONK

[Trapstar4.4]

And it's not even written yet, and already Patty has the inside scoop and failed gungrabber trapster agrees with her

direct your ire to bolton. i dindu nuffin

[NYPat]

Big surprise and he was fired. A revenge book. His version isn't any more important than members of the senate's.

Bolton is a deep state swamp creature that never should have been anywhere around this administration.


Nothing he says is credible

Lmao at this cope, and I don't ever use that word.

John Bolton was right there in the middle of this "drug deal" and wanted nothing to do with it. He wasn't on board the Trump train and he got fired. Now everything he says has no credibility. Just like Parnas..

[ghostfacedup]

Bolton wasn't talking to Ukraine. Irrelevant.

[gixxer0.6g]

Que deep state swamp creature just in time to pull attention away from the republicans going balls deep into this witch hunt

[SillieBazzillie]

As I’ve been saying for months.

Gettin juicy

Tick Tock

[~Hades~]

As I’ve been saying for months.

Gettin juicy

Tick Tock

Only been saying it for 3.5 years right

[Jayarbie]

Inb4 Trump's never even met Bolton.

[gachase21]

Libs: we love Bolton now

it's nuts how they change their mind when convenient

Likely Trump Appointee John Bolton Was Top Iraq-WMD Liar

https://theintercept.com/2016/12/15/...g-john-bolton/

You could plaster this board with the amount of times they called him a liar the past 15 years,


but today....


just lol

[Jayarbie]

Libs: we love Bolton now

Bolton is a warmongering fukktard and has been for decades. That's why he was hired by Trump in the first place and why he's now in a position where he has inside information on the matter at hand. He's still a fukktard, though.

[NYPat]

Inb4 Trump's never even met Bolton.

I don't know Bolton. I might have taken a picture with him.

[Retoaded]

But instead of raising serious concern through the proper channels he wrote a book.

[gachase21]

dems in the past....

Boltonization

But how does this kind of “fixing” play out? Insights leap out of recently declassified e-mail messages from the office of Undersecretary of State John Bolton, archdeacon of politicization. I was particularly struck to learn from the Washington Post that Bolton’s principal aide and chief enforcer, Frederick Fleitz, is actually a CIA analyst on loan to Bolton. In this light, his behavior in trying to cook intelligence to the recipe of high policy is even more inexcusable. CIA analysts, particularly those on detail to policy departments, have no business playing the enforcer of policy judgments, have no business conjuring up “intelligence around the policy.”

Fleitz must have flunked Ethics and Intelligence Analysis 101. Or perhaps the CIA does not offer the course any more. This is the same Fleitz who “explained” to State Department intelligence analyst Christian Westermann that it was “a political judgment as to how to interpret this data [on Cuba’s biological weapons program] and the I.C. [intelligence community] should do as we asked.”

E-mails released more recently show Fleitz acting as stalking horse for Bolton to make sure the intelligence fit the policies Bolton was pushing. Fleitz is furious that State Department intelligence experts feel it their duty to demur on Bolton/Fleitz judgments regarding the efficacy of missile export controls against China. Fleitz, whose home office at CIA is the one which gave us “high confidence” judgments on the presence of WMD in Iraq, apparently ordered up analysis from CIA to suit his boss’ strongly held judgment that the controls on exports to China were deficient.

Not surprisingly, Bolton liked the analysis that was served up by Fleitz’ CIA colleagues and told him to pass it to Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage. But State’s intelligence analysts had the temerity to do their job, and attached a cover memo taking the opposite position, viewing the export controls positively. Questioned on this by Senate staffers last week, Fleitz admitted that his experience in his CIA home office gave him a personal stake in how the analysis was treated. This is doubly inappropriate.

The idea of seconding intelligence analysts to policy departments dates back almost three decades to a time when many analysts found themselves working in a vacuum, blissfully unaware of policymakers’ interests and needs. The analysts’ (otherwise laudable) search for relevance has now swung the pendulum too far in the other direction, with folks like Fleitz “cherry-picked” by folks like Bolton to “support” policy in wholly inappropriate ways. That top CIA officials allow the Boltons of this administration to get away with that shows CIA managers to be weak, witting, and willing accomplices in this corruption of the intelligence process.

Enter the Yellowcake

https://original.antiwar.com/mcgover...ns-yellowcake/

[~Hades~]

Bolton is a warmongering fukktard and has been for decades. That's why he was hired by Trump in the first place and why he's now in a position where he has inside information on the matter at hand. He's still a fukktard, though.

So trump hired him to go to war.......but then never went to war. Got it.

You’re a hypocrite like all the other tds libs

[SillieBazzillie]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

[Mark1T]

Lmao at this cope, and I don't ever use that word.

John Bolton was right there in the middle of this "drug deal" and wanted nothing to do with it. He wasn't on board the Trump train and he got fired. Now everything he says has no credibility. Just like Parnas..

And just like everyone else. Who do you believe and read the transcript.

Cope.

[Chowboy]

Did Ukraine get their aid? Yes. More aid than they did in the previous eight years. Weapons and dollars. Obama and Co sent them blankets while Crimea was being annexed.


Did Trump get his alleged investigation? No.


Is Bolton a useful idiot? Yes. The left loves them some useful idiots. Use 'em, discard 'em.

[gachase21]

Let's just get the obvious thing out of the way up front.

"We are confident that Saddam Hussein has hidden weapons of mass destruction and production facilities in Iraq," Bolton said in 2002 while serving as President George W. Bush's undersecretary of state for Arms Control and International Security. That wasn't true, as we'd later discover after it was too late.

(As an ironic aside: at the same time that Bolton was cheerleading for an American invasion of Iraq over nonexistent WMDs, he was working to derail a UN proposal to allow foreign inspectors to check on the United States' arsenal of biological weapons.)


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Bolton wanted the U.S. to go to war with Cuba over WMDs that also didn't exist

A year before the United States would go to war with Iraq due (at least in part) to falsely believing that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction, Bolton was advocating that the United States should go to war with Cuba because of later debunked reports that Fidel Castro was developing weapons of mass destruction.

In May 2002, during a speech at the Heritage Foundation, Bolton said he believed Cuba was developing biological weapons and was capable of distributing them to Libya and Syria.

The New York Times reported on the speech: "'The United States believes that Cuba has at least a limited offensive biological warfare research and development effort,' Mr. Bolton said, taking aim at the Communist government of Fidel Castro. Cuba, he added, has also 'provided dual-use biotechnology to other rogue states.'"

The Times noted that it was the first time an American official openly accused Cuba of developing biological weapons. When the Times asked Bolton's office to substantiate this historic and potentially bellicose claim, they offered no evidence.

Those intelligence reports about Cuba developing WMDs? They were later debunked.

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Bonus John Bolton awfulness:

He helped cover-up the Iran-Contra scandal.

He founded a political action committee with the goal of electing more hawkish candidates. Donors received this mustachioed coffee mug.

He wants to "cause Putin pain," whatever that means.

He supports the drone warfare program created under Bush and expanded under Obama.

He fears we might miss an opportunity to go to war with North Korea.

https://reason.com/2016/11/15/five-h...gn-policy-ide/

[StoliFun]

Bolton is a deep state swamp creature that never should have been anywhere around this administration.


Nothing he says is credible

This.

Plus, there's no watermarked voice recording, DNA evidence, or stool sample. Literally zero proof Trump said that.

[gachase21]

The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

ironincly, earlier today you argued the oppistie




John Bolton says lies are okay...

[SillieBazzillie]

ironincly, earlier today you argued the oppistie




John Bolton says lies are okay...

lol as you’re doing now.

Tick tock