[DoodleDawg]

What it said was just that Trump would have preferred that they had started the investigation before he released the aid, not that he required it. So the “leak” was actually further twisted by the NYT. Any surprised?

Is that what Bolton is saying?

[livius]

Actually, Bolton did make a statement saying that he never said Trump had told him that he was conditioning the aid on it, and even the first NYT leak only said that Bolton thought that Trump would have preferred to see action first. Of course, when other media sources picked it up, they just announced it without that distinction.

[Bob434]

one article claims that someone who worked with bolton is stating that he was present when trump said the aid was connected to investigation