Senators voted not to allow witnesses in the impeachment trial
report on former national security advisor John Bolton’s forthcoming book.
In a leaked manuscript, Bolton, who was expected to testify if witnesses were allowed, wrote that Trump asked him to convince Ukraine president Volodymyr Zelensky to meet with Trump’s personal attorney, Rudy Giuliani, in order to convince him to announce an investigation into his political opponent, former vice president Joe Biden. Trump’s request, according to Bolton, took place in May 2019, two months before the phone call to Zelensky for which he was impeached.
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