“Not a single witness testified that the president himself said that there was any connection between any investigations and security assistance, a presidential meeting or anything else.' The revelations made in Bolton’s book blew a hole in that claim
Lawyers for President Trump on Monday sought to lessen the impact of the news of former national security adviser John Bolton’s firsthand account of a conversation in which the president linked U.S. military aid to Ukraine with an announcement of an investigation into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter.
Bolton’s bombshell, which he makes in a forthcoming book titled “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir” about his year and a half serving in the Trump administration, has increased pressure on Senate Republicans to allow new witness testimony, including from Bolton himself.“The House managers’ record reflects that anyone who spoke with the president said that the president made clear that there was no linkage,” Purpura said.
House Democrats impeached Trump based on their case that he used the congressionally appropriated aid as an inducement to Ukraine to announce an investigation that would be damaging to one of his chief political rivals. House managers making the case for witness testimony have argued that Bolton and acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney need to be questioned in the Senate trial because the White House blocked them from testifying before the House.
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