[janetjanet998]

as predicted here is the "Bolton bombshell" media leak

[PJ-Comix]

Actually the Times story said that Bolton claimed that Trump PREFERRED that Ukraine conduct investigations. However, aid was provided. You can’t impeach for having a THOUGHT.

[LeoTDB69]

I will not comment and any other comments attributed to me can be considered fake news.

--Sincerely, Anonymous source

[mrsmith]

"criminal investigations" not "political investigations".

Th Big Lie continues.

[sourcery]

The President is Constitutionally required to ensure that US laws are faithfully executed. Asking a foreign country to investigate whether a US politician broke US laws in that nation’s territorial jurisdiction clearly falls under that Constitutional mandate.

[tired&retired]

Is NYT quoting CNN or CNN quoting NYT?

CNN has gone into a bombshell feeding frenzy on this.

[JudyinCanada]

I think the president paused numerous aid packages until he felt the corruption was in check. Holding up aid to deal with corruption is the president’s job. I think the issue the dems are trying to make is that he held up aid to try and get dirt on Biden because he is a political opponent. There’s a difference.

[Solson]

and already denied by his publisher and by him.....

[Mariner]

I’m bettin’ a million bucks that Trump never used the word “democrat”, no once indicated “political”.

I bet another million he said “corruption” a dozen times.

[griswold3]

Investigation into “ Crowdstrike” 2016

[wastedyears]

That was awfully quick. Usually only real authors can come up with stories that fast. One of my top guys, B.V. Larson puts out a few books each year.

[a fool in paradise]

Is his book as genuine as Schiff’s embellished transcript of the phone call?

[JudyinCanada]

I guess the dems have watched Rudy’s report on OAN, and watched his podcast about what’s coming on Biden. Time to muddy the waters.

[txrefugee]

Or maybe the President just wanted them to investigate all the corruption that Hillary, Obama, the Bidens, the Pelosi clan and the Kerry family were involved in in Ukraine. Seems reasonable after what Joe Biden told the Ukrainian prosecutor about dropping the investigation into Hunter’s shady gas deal.

[NImerc]

Replace *political* with *corruption* and the truth emerges. DJT can’t help that a corrupt Biden announced his candidacy to cover his ass.

[reasonisfaith]

This comes from the Council on Foreign Relations John Bolton, not the honest John Bolton he portrays in public.

What have you gained for this price, John?

[Theo]

OK. Not a crime. Financial aid *should* be contingent on investigations of fraud. Right?

[babble-on]

Republicans need to get this impeachment over with fast before any more facts come out.

[Jeff Chandler]

I read somewhere the Pubs are going after Biden tomorrow. I truly believe destroying Slow Joe is crucial to the defense.

Take him out.

[Alberta's Child]

If there is any witness to be called here it’s the New York Times reporter who wrote the story.

Let the Trump defense team list the NYT reporter as a witness and watch the Democrats go ballistic. In an evidentiary process, it is necessary to determine the validity of the evidence and the chain of transmission before it goes back to the source.

A news report about an “unpublished manuscript” is not evidence.

[Jim Noble]

AS I have said from the very beginning, back in August - the only correct defense, the only one with a chance to prevail, was "You're Goddam right I ordered the Code Red!"

"Quid pro quo" is not only not illegal, it is the essence of affairs between States that do not involve warfare. When FDR traded destroyers for bases in the Caribbean, should he have been impeached?