Bolton revelation could scramble Trump's defense
President Donald Trump's impeachment defense team is confronting a John Bolton-sized crisis.
Trump's lawyers, led by White House counsel Pat Cipollone, will regroup Monday and continue presenting a defense of Trump's conduct toward Ukraine — batting aside the House's charges that Trump pressured Ukrainian officials to launch baseless investigations of his Democratic adversaries.
But details of the former national security adviser's forthcoming book, obtained by The New York Times, suggest Bolton will claim that Trump told him in August he wanted to withhold $391 million in military assistance to Ukraine until the country's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, agreed to share information pertaining to the investigations.
That revelation presents an existential threat to the Trump defense, which has maintained for months that Democrats couldn't produce a single witness who could claim with firsthand knowledge that Trump linked the aid freeze to the investigations he sought. Bolton’s reported account also undercuts the White House’s justification for the hold on aid — that Trump wanted to pressure other countries to contribute to Ukraine’s defense, too.
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