Newshub’s Claim John Bolton’s Book Blows Open Trump Impeachment

Watching the appalling reporting by our MSM on Trump’s impeachment farce indicates wishful thinking by anti-Trump American media, regurgitated here. Fact-checking and balanced reporting is a lost art of our MSM.

John R Bolton’s unpublished manuscript is yet to go to print but Newshub says it “blows open Trump’s impeachment”. They wish!  They, along with the like-minded New York Times, are grasping at straws to convict Donald Trump – or at the very least, string out the process in the hope some mud might stick.

“President Trump told his national security adviser in August that he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens, according to an unpublished manuscript by the former adviser, John R. Bolton.”

New York Times

Trump’s legal team point out that President Trump was entirely within his rights to discuss exactly this scenario with his national security advisor John R Bolton at the time, but they produced witnesses testifying that Trump never acted on this scenario.

Instead, they argue that Trump and his national security advisors were heavily invested in helping the Ukraine to deal with the corruption, rife under their previous president.  Witnesses testify that when Trump was satisfied the new president had demonstrated he was keeping his preelection promise, the funds were immediately released – all within the allowable time frame and despite the fact that the Ukrainians were unaware that the funding had been frozen for a short time. Surely if the holding back of funds was a lever to produce damaging information on Trump’s political rival Joe Biden, there would be evidence that information was handed over.

This is an important point because the holding back of American aid is the core of the Democrat’s argument that Trump held back funds until he received information on his political rival Joe Biden.

“The president’s statement as described by Mr. Bolton could undercut a key element of his impeachment defense: that the holdup in aid was separate from Mr. Trump’s requests that Ukraine announce investigations into his perceived enemies, including former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and his son Hunter Biden, who had worked for a Ukrainian energy firm while his father was in office.”

At no point did Trump receive information from the Ukrainian President on Joe Biden and while the Democrats love the theory, it is not supported by fact.

“Just after midnight on Monday, Mr. Trump denied telling Mr. Bolton that the aid was tied to investigations. “If John Bolton said this, it was only to sell a book,” he wrote on Twitter, reprising his argument that the Ukrainians themselves felt “no pressure” and falsely asserting that the aid was released ahead of schedule.”

Washington Examiner

Kentucky Senator (Republican) Rand Paul said of Bolton “He’s a disgruntled employee with an axe to grind” and Trump “told reporters in Davos, Switzerland, on Wednesday that testimony from certain administration officials, including Bolton, could threaten national security”

“He knows some of my thoughts. He knows what I think about leaders. What happens if he reveals what I think about a certain leader, and it’s not very positive, and then I have to deal on behalf of the country? It’s going to be very hard. It’s going to make the job very hard. He knows other things. And I don’t know if we left on the best of terms. I would say probably not,” Trump said.

Americans are fed up with the expensive drawn-out impeachment charade; this is demonstrated by Trump’s improved ratings, the longer the shameful saga plays out. American MSM ratings also nose dived. Naturally.

The Nielsen ratings for Wednesday and Thursday showed that ABC, CBS and NBC lost a combined 3 million viewers per day by airing the Senate impeachment trial instead of the daytime soaps, according to TVNewser, despite the impassioned testimony of House impeachment managers like Rep. Adam Schiff.

The conservative Media Research Center called it a “ratings disaster,” while Sen. Ted Cruz, Texas Republican, couldn’t resist a jab at Mr. Schiff and the networks.

The Washington Times

Natural justice in action.

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