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demmiblue

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Tue Jan 28, 2020, 01:58 PM Jan 2020

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

Source: Herald-Tribune

Asked if Bolton - Trump’s former national security adviser - should testify at Trump’s impeachment trial, Kelly said he supports calling witnesses.

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.

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

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