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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING NYT: Trump Told Bolton to Help His Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Book Says
More than two months before he asked Ukraines president to investigate his political opponents, President Trump directed John R. Bolton, then his national security adviser, to help with his pressure campaign to extract damaging information on Democrats from Ukrainian officials, according to an unpublished manuscript by Mr. Bolton.
Mr. Trump gave the instruction, Mr. Bolton wrote, during an Oval Office conversation in early May that included the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, the presidents personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, who is now leading the presidents impeachment defense.
Mr. Trump told Mr. Bolton to call Volodymyr Zelensky, who had recently won election as president of Ukraine, to ensure Mr. Zelensky would meet with Mr. Giuliani, who was planning a trip to Ukraine to discuss the investigations that the president sought, in Mr. Boltons account. Mr. Bolton never made the call, he wrote.
The previously undisclosed directive that Mr. Bolton describes would be the earliest known instance of Mr. Trump seeking to harness the power of the United States government to advance his pressure campaign against Ukraine, as he later did on the July call with Mr. Zelensky that triggered a whistle-blower complaint and impeachment proceedings. House Democrats have accused him of abusing his authority and are arguing their case before senators in the impeachment trial of Mr. Trump, whose lawyers have said he did nothing wrong.
Mr. Trump gave the instruction, Mr. Bolton wrote, during an Oval Office conversation in early May that included the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, the presidents personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, who is now leading the presidents impeachment defense.
Mr. Trump told Mr. Bolton to call Volodymyr Zelensky, who had recently won election as president of Ukraine, to ensure Mr. Zelensky would meet with Mr. Giuliani, who was planning a trip to Ukraine to discuss the investigations that the president sought, in Mr. Boltons account. Mr. Bolton never made the call, he wrote.
The previously undisclosed directive that Mr. Bolton describes would be the earliest known instance of Mr. Trump seeking to harness the power of the United States government to advance his pressure campaign against Ukraine, as he later did on the July call with Mr. Zelensky that triggered a whistle-blower complaint and impeachment proceedings. House Democrats have accused him of abusing his authority and are arguing their case before senators in the impeachment trial of Mr. Trump, whose lawyers have said he did nothing wrong.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/politics/trump-bolton-ukraine.html?action=click&module=Top%20Stories&pgtype=Homepage
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BREAKING NYT: Trump Told Bolton to Help His Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Book Says (Original Post)
PA Democrat
Jan 2020
OP
dchill
(38,497 posts)1. ...IN MAY.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)5. Biden announced his presidential run April 25.
Early polls showed him trouncing Trump. Within DAYS Trump started his efforts to shakedown Ukraine's president.
PA Democrat
(13,225 posts)2. YES INDEED: They were ALL involved including Cipollone.
MacKasey
(986 posts)3. EVERYONE
Was In The LOOP!
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)4. Graham is knee deep in it . . .
Watchfoxheadexplodes
(3,496 posts)6. I shout Mr Schiffs quote again
YOU CAN'T MAKE THIS STUFF UP
not fooled
(5,801 posts)7. Who says red don can't focus and concentrate?
Obviously he spent (spends) a lot of time plotting and scheming.
Instead of bolstering his re-election chances through good governance, he does so by concocting plans to slime his political opponents. Of course his machinations work only on the dimwitted and deluded members of his cult.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)8. At an absolute minimum
that fucking Cipollone ought to lose his Law license for violating the Code of Professional Ethics.
colorado_ufo
(5,734 posts)9. Amen.