Mitch McConnell is angry at White House over John Bolton manuscript, report says

[BeckyDem]

Louisville Courier Journal Published 2:28 p.m. ET Jan. 27, 2020 | Updated 5:19 p.m. ET Jan. 27, 2020


Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell did not know that President Donald Trump's administration had a copy of an explosive manuscript by ex-national security adviser John Bolton, a spokesman said.

And Kentucky's longtime senator, who has said he's in "total coordination" with the White House on the impeachment trial, reportedly isn't happy.

The New York Times reported Sunday that in his upcoming book, Bolton says Trump told him he did not want to release military aid to Ukraine until that country helped with investigations that could damage Democrats, including former Vice President Joe Biden.

Bolton's lawyer, Charles J. Cooper, told The Times he provided a copy of the book to the Trump administration on Dec. 30 to be reviewed for classified information.

A McConnell spokesman told The Courier Journal on Monday that the Senate majority leader "did not have any advance notice" that the National Security Council reportedly had a copy of Bolton's manuscript for weeks.
https://www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/mitch-mcconnell/2020/01/27/trump-impeachment-mcconnell-angry-white-house-over-john-bolton-book/4589461002/

[NRaleighLiberal]

1. turtle unhappy, collins concerned. so tragic.

[PJMcK]

2. Ha! Ha!

Sucks to be you, McConnell.

And you thought you had Trump figured out.

You're both assholes and idiots.

[BeckyDem]

5. +1. Trusting Trump on anything is a mistake.

[Blue_true]

15. Sort of like in the movies when the devil screws someone that trusted it.

Not that Moscow Mitch is a saint.

[BeckyDem]

20. Yep. I guess Mitch figured they would convey any issues, since he had already pledged his

loyalty to Trump.

[Ohiogal]

3. Well, in all honesty,

If they gave a book to the orange turd, he probably didn’t know what to do with it so he just threw it aside somewhere.

[Blue_true]

18. The letters were not big enough and written in sharpie. nt

[Faux pas]

4. Aw

too bad moscow mitch.

[dweller]

6. Turtle withdraws into his PortaPotty shell

to pout... sad
☹️

✌🏼

[Botany]

7. Mitch has known the fix was in ever since the 2016 RNC convention

He was either in the room or close by when the Trump Campaign/Manafort rewrote the party
platform on the Ukraine to make it more Vlad/Ukrainian Mob/Russian Mob more friendly.

This Ukraine 2019 stuff is just an extension of 2015 and 2016 Russian Rat Fucking of America
and our elections. Moscow Mitch is just pissed off now that he is caught. Lock 'em up.

And lock up Hannity too.

[UpInArms]

21. Well said

[wackadoo wabbit]

34. I always assumed that he's known since at least the time he wouldn't allow Merrick Garland's

nomination to come up for a vote.

[OMGWTF]

38. AOT, K!

[The Genealogist]

8. Maybe Paula White can come in and pray with him

Surely Supply Side Jesus will then look down favorably upon him and save him from his suffering.

This is certainly one big fat inept cluster he has created. What a vile excuse for a human he is.

[berni_mccoy]

9. Defense attorneys can't protect their clients when their clients lie or withhold info from them

[11 Bravo]

10. Pond creatures are terrified. (Turtles get snappish when they're annoyed.)

[Botany]

13. Moscow Mitch has been in on the fix since 2016 ... he was told by the CIA, the FBI, and the NSA

[Hermit-The-Prog]

24. Moscow Mitch may need Billy Barr's Dirt Services to clean this up.

[yellowcanine]

11. Maybe Susan Collins will loan him her string of pearls.

Assuming it is still intact from all of the clutching.

[2naSalit]

12. Hahhahahahhaaa!

You bumbling, self absorbed POS! You agreed to do business with a known backstabber! He stabs everyone in the back! Unless you're the czarina. So once again you've been stabbed and NOW is your chance to rid all of us of this cancer in the WH!

[Skittles]

14. GOOD

FUCK YOU MITCH, YOU TRAITOROUS FUCK

[calimary]

45. That works for me!

[gratuitous]

16. So what does that mean?

Is McConnell going to reconsider his suicide pact with the administration? No? He's just mad because this leak makes him look even worse? Does McConnell not mind being identified with Judas Iscariot, but he really doesn't want to be Marcus Junius Brutus or Gaius Cassius Longinus?

[Jirel]

17. Die mad, Moscow Mitch!

[global1]

19. You Were Warned Moscow Mitch.....

Trump only thinks of himself and has no loyalty to anyone. You just got Trumped. Ha, Ha.

[Mike Nelson]

22. Mitch is in the loop...

... maybe he did not know about the manuscript, but he surely knows Trump is guilty and Bolton must have relayed to Mitch his info, in some off-the-record way...

[Mz Pip]

23. I doubt anyone in the White House read it.

Whoever was in charge probably figured Bolton’s book was another obsequious homage to Trump.

[Coventina]

25. Uh-huh, sure sure....

[Jade Fox]

26. These guys are so dumb!

That will be their downfall.

[rockfordfile]

27. Moscow Mitch is lying hiss butt off. You really think he didn't know

[TeamPooka]

28. Oh, did President Sandbag surprise you with facts withheld Mitch? The fact that your

shocked and upset tells me what a sucker you are.
lol

[Mr. Ected]

29. Mitch is pissed he's going to have to heavy lobby 3 or 4 outliers now

He's dedicated to the overarching purpose: protect every single member of the GOP from the top down, because they are with few exceptions collectively and collaboratively involved in a conspiracy against the American people, and if one brick is removed, the entire facade becomes dangerously unstable.

[Catherine Vincent]

30. Sure, Mitch.

What bs.

[bucolic_frolic]

31. Mitch is not displaying sufficient loyalty

Get with the program, Mitch! An old Merrick Garland operative ought to understand that, no?

[colorado_ufo]

32. Mitch, do not ask over whom the bus rolls;

it rolleth over thee!

[Dem2theMax]

33. .

[matt819]

35. I would like Bolton or his publisher

To confirm that the reporting about the content of the book is accurate.

[WyattKansas]

36. Oh come on McConnell, please scream and rant at donnie for being the dumbest dipshit in the world.

Come on! Come on! Tell him how you really feel Mitch.

[Evolve Dammit]

37. Aw. Mocsow Mitchell is angwy. Wipe your sniffles and call for some fucking witnesses!

Show 'em you can't be made angwy...

[spike jones]

39. It would be nice to see Senators use the Bolton news as an excuse

to bail on Trump and save a little of their honor.

[iluvtennis]

40. so what will his reply back to White House be - absolutely nothing.nt

[0rganism]

41. did he just re-learn the lesson about honor and thieves?

quick refresher Mitch:

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

42. That's what you get

for hitching up to the Trump train.

[Ponietz]

43. The best they can do now is "Revelations may not be so devastating"

That’s from Turley’s poison pen at WP.

[warmfeet]

44. Po, widdle, snowfwake.

I truly hope, with all my heart, that he is seething with anger, and realizes that the end is very near.

Fuck him, and the rest.

[PandoraAwakened]

46. K&R! n/t