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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forumssooooo, what else does bolton know that he is dying to spill? my pick for biggest bombshell-
2 words- saudi arabia
toss in eric prince for good measure.
what's your pick?
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)he would make a date with the investigators. He is a private citizen and speak anytime he wants. I don't trust any republicon. I'm still trying to suss out his ulterior motives.
Buckeyeblue
(5,500 posts)We are dealing with huge egos. But he wants cover from the court so Trump's people can't tag him as a bitter former employee.
AnotherMother4Peace
(4,251 posts)that others cannot obey a subpoena from Congress (or the courts) if forbidden by the president.
Just my trying to think like a traitor.
If he wanted to testify he would testify.
WhiteTara
(29,721 posts)Yes, you really have to sit with being a traitor to have those kinds of thoughts. I'm sure they are as natural as breathing for him.
tavernier
(12,396 posts)but only if he really has nothing to say about Rumps treachery, and I believe he does. And he isnt the type to forgive and forget.
He may be in a quandary though trying to think of a way to screw both Rump and Democrats.
erronis
(15,328 posts)There's a lot of play-acting going on all the time.
And Bannon, just like lil lindsay or jeb sessions, or any other (r)epuglicon, can change stories and sides when they hear the sound of real money.
Pepsidog
(6,254 posts)The empressof all
(29,098 posts)If he's "forced" to testify he won't lose the right wing book buyers when it gets published. It's more money in the bank.
Callmecrazy
(3,065 posts)His lawyer said as much.
SleeplessinSoCal
(9,135 posts)Making money regardless of consequences.
PNW-Dem
(244 posts)I agree. Can't trust them. Could be that he just wants to get on TV and he's self promoting beforehand.
hadEnuf
(2,211 posts)of his testimony?
That would be good if he is honest, but if he is acting like the lying Neo-con bastard he has always been it may not be so good.
I wouldn't rule out that he may be a mole for Trump. Hard to trust someone with his record.
getagrip_already
(14,825 posts)One theory is that he wants the cover of judicial order so it doesn't look like he is doing the libs bidding by knifing a gop potus.
But I think once he gets the court order, anything he mentions to the house will automatically be cleared for him to put in his book. He is under both NDA and nat sec restrictions on what he can disclose. With a court order, anything he even mentions in the house can be fully covered in a book.
It's money in the bank for him.
Alithea
(99 posts)The empressof all
(29,098 posts)He avoids looking like a "stoolie" to the Right Wing while still offering info for the left.... More money in his pocket.
hadEnuf
(2,211 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)khasshogi story to see the light of day. I remember the rumors back when it happened, coupled with the the whistleblower story from this week. This story has to have legs.
I pray Khasshogi's family sees justice.
mopinko
(70,197 posts)dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)years to unravel.
OnDoutside
(19,969 posts)sop
(10,233 posts)Or he knows what Kompromat Putin has on Trump?
NightWatcher
(39,343 posts)H2O Man
(73,592 posts)Bolton can provide documents about efforts to get Trump to end the foolish Ukraine plot. For more details, please see:
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100212669038
NBachers
(17,135 posts)gordianot
(15,242 posts)Odd no attacks from the Orange Dictator.
erronis
(15,328 posts)if provoked.
PufPuf23
(8,815 posts)by all (or at least most) of us at DU.
Certainly Bolton has info that would surprise and negative towards Trump but what he will offer will aid the GOP, aid warmongering, harm the Democratic party, and be Bolton self-serving. Bolton is that type o guy.
We and the nation and the World are better off the less Bolton has any influence on anything. He is a nasty asshole.
mopinko
(70,197 posts)desperate times and all that.
PufPuf23
(8,815 posts)The sooner Bolton is removed forever from any public influence the better.
Bolton in the impeachment / anti-Trump mix seems a risk factor to me rather than a plus.
Tis opinion is based upon decades of Bolton plus the history of his presence in the media; Bolton's role ofttimes appears just to mess with our heads, to make the unacceptable palatable, and to pander to other assholes.
Don't like nor trust the guy or anyone who gives him a platform for influence.
BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)MONEY BEFORE COUNTRY, the Republican mantra.
he figures being the star of the impeachment hearings will make his book a billion seller. he'd prolly be right.
BamaRefugee
(3,487 posts)mopinko
(70,197 posts)all the right people will be protected, and those against whom yosemite has a personal grudge will die. maybe literally.
maybe someone who did him dirty at an orgy w the manafort's or the epsteins' for all i know.
but there is no doubt he would love to have spanky's liver w some fava beans and a nice chianti, and i think we should put that on ppv, and retire the national dept.
wiggs
(7,817 posts)that Trump has leverage over. Bolton is not insider enough to have the goods on corruption like Saudi Arabia, Israel, Qatar conspiracies. They exist, IMHO, but Bolton would not have been in on the super secret stuff.
He may have been witness to corroborating evidence on SA and Prince and Ukraine...but doubt he partook in backchannel discussions. He's no fan of Russia, so would have been kept away from all that.
DallasNE
(7,403 posts)It wasn't widely picked up so keep that in mind but it is damning.