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Norbert

(6,040 posts)
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:13 PM Jan 2020

Former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly tells Sarasota crowd 'I believe John Bolton'

President Donald Trump is denying that he told former National Security Adviser John Bolton he wanted to withhold military aid from Ukraine until the country launched investigations into Joe Biden and his son, allegations that Bolton levies in his new book, according to news reports.

But one of Trump’s former top aides told a Sarasota crowd Monday evening that if the reporting on what Bolton wrote is accurate, he believes Bolton.

“If John Bolton says that in the book I believe John Bolton,” said retired Gen. John Kelly, who served as Trump’s chief of staff for 18 months.


Hopefully the drip...drip...drip is getting more frequent.

https://www.heraldtribune.com/news/20200128/former-trump-chief-of-staff-john-kelly-tells-sarasota-crowd-rsquoi-believe-john-boltonrsquo

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Former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly tells Sarasota crowd 'I believe John Bolton' (Original Post) Norbert Jan 2020 OP
much more to the story- full throated call for a real trial. mopinko Jan 2020 #1
Just heard that True Blue American Jan 2020 #2
IF dweller Jan 2020 #3
It's in his new book. brush Jan 2020 #4
what's in his new book ? dweller Jan 2020 #5
He wrote the book. Someone in the WH leaked it...thank God. brush Jan 2020 #6
and you believe the white house? dweller Jan 2020 #7
It's not about believing the WH. Someone has been leaking since turd tookover. brush Jan 2020 #8
do mean NYT ? dweller Jan 2020 #9
Do you ackowledge the leaking that's been going on? I doubt anyone taking... brush Jan 2020 #10
sure, a leaker... fatnixon never shuts up about it dweller Jan 2020 #11

dweller

(23,648 posts)
3. IF
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:20 PM
Jan 2020

interesting the way Kelly prefaces that “If John Bolton says that..."

Bolton hasn't spoken yet to say if the words are his, has he ?
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dweller

(23,648 posts)
5. what's in his new book ?
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:53 PM
Jan 2020

has Bolton said he wrote that part leaked?
i haven't seen that news

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dweller

(23,648 posts)
7. and you believe the white house?
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:11 PM
Jan 2020

see there's the rub ...

i just want to know if those are bolton's actual words, and not changed at all

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brush

(53,815 posts)
8. It's not about believing the WH. Someone has been leaking since turd tookover.
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:28 PM
Jan 2020

I'm sure you know that, right? How do you think all those 'tell-all books got their info?

The NYT has the book also.

dweller

(23,648 posts)
9. do mean NYT ?
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:33 PM
Jan 2020

what i've read, the only copy that has gone out from publisher is
1 to the white house for classified info check

no other copies released, so NYTimes doesn't have a copy, just what was leaked to them... could be the whole book, maybe just excerpts


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brush

(53,815 posts)
10. Do you ackowledge the leaking that's been going on? I doubt anyone taking...
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 02:44 PM
Jan 2020

that risk would falsify their leaks.

dweller

(23,648 posts)
11. sure, a leaker... fatnixon never shuts up about it
Tue Jan 28, 2020, 03:21 PM
Jan 2020

i just don't trust info coming from anonymous sources,
and not sure i trust Bolton either, he's had ample opportunity to speak

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