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babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 06:21 AM Oct 2019

John Bolton Called Rudy Giuliani 'a Hand Grenade': Report

Who knew Bolton would be more ethical than most anyone else involved?

https://www.thedailybeast.com/john-bolton-called-rudy-giuliani-a-hand-grenade-according-to-fiona-hill

‘GOING TO BLOW’
John Bolton Called Rudy Giuliani ‘a Hand Grenade’: Report
Anna Kaplan
Published 10.14.19 11:28PM ET


Former national security adviser John Bolton told an aide to alert White House lawyers over the Trump administration’s effort to pressure Ukraine to investigate Democrats, and called President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani “a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up,” The New York Times reports. During senior director for Russian and Eurasian affairs Fiona Hill’s Monday testimony, she reportedly told House investigators that Bolton told her to alert the chief lawyer for the National Security Council that Giuliani was working with Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, on an operation with legal implications. “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton told Hill to tell White House lawyers, according to sources familiar with the testimony. The Times reports that Bolton said this after he reportedly got into a heated exchange in July with Gordon Sondland, a former Trump donor and current ambassador to the European Union, who reportedly was working with Giuliani to pressure Ukraine for political help.
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John Bolton Called Rudy Giuliani 'a Hand Grenade': Report (Original Post) babylonsister Oct 2019 OP
He's a drug dealing hand grenade. Mc Mike Oct 2019 #1
So what are Murdoch's goons saying about these new revelations? malaise Oct 2019 #2
You heard Joe S? How can anyone blame Bolton babylonsister Oct 2019 #3
That's why I asked malaise Oct 2019 #4
Is this perhaps setting up Giullani Sherman A1 Oct 2019 #5
I doubt it. Rudy was working for the orange one, babylonsister Oct 2019 #6

babylonsister

(171,070 posts)
3. You heard Joe S? How can anyone blame Bolton
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 06:32 AM
Oct 2019

being part of the deep state which this is all a result of?

Sherman A1

(38,958 posts)
5. Is this perhaps setting up Giullani
Tue Oct 15, 2019, 06:39 AM
Oct 2019

To take the blame for the entire Ukraine fiasco and giving the “President” bad advice?

Nothing would surprise me with the GOP.

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