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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
(60,019 posts)PJMcK
(22,048 posts)Sucks to be you, McConnell.
And you thought you had Trump figured out.
You're both assholes and idiots.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)Blue_true
(31,261 posts)Not that Moscow Mitch is a saint.
BeckyDem
(8,361 posts)loyalty to Trump.
Ohiogal
(32,055 posts)If they gave a book to the orange turd, he probably didnt know what to do with it so he just threw it aside somewhere.
Blue_true
(31,261 posts)too bad moscow mitch.
dweller
(23,658 posts)to pout... sad
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Botany
(70,578 posts)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
(51,284 posts)wackadoo wabbit
(1,167 posts)nomination to come up for a vote.
The Genealogist
(4,723 posts)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
(23,018 posts)11 Bravo
(23,926 posts)Botany
(70,578 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,413 posts)yellowcanine
(35,701 posts)Assuming it is still intact from all of the clutching.
2naSalit
(86,775 posts)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
(153,185 posts)FUCK YOU MITCH, YOU TRAITOROUS FUCK
calimary
(81,454 posts)gratuitous
(82,849 posts)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
(2,025 posts)global1
(25,270 posts)Trump only thinks of himself and has no loyalty to anyone. You just got Trumped. Ha, Ha.
Mike Nelson
(9,966 posts)... 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
(27,453 posts)Whoever was in charge probably figured Boltons book was another obsequious homage to Trump.
Coventina
(27,172 posts)Jade Fox
(10,030 posts)That will be their downfall.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)TeamPooka
(24,253 posts)shocked and upset tells me what a sucker you are.
lol
Mr. Ected
(9,670 posts)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
(34,491 posts)What bs.
bucolic_frolic
(43,280 posts)Get with the program, Mitch! An old Merrick Garland operative ought to understand that, no?
colorado_ufo
(5,737 posts)it rolleth over thee!
Dem2theMax
(9,653 posts)matt819
(10,749 posts)To confirm that the reporting about the content of the book is accurate.
WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Come on! Come on! Tell him how you really feel Mitch.
Evolve Dammit
(16,763 posts)Show 'em you can't be made angwy...
spike jones
(1,686 posts)to bail on Trump and save a little of their honor.
iluvtennis
(19,871 posts)0rganism
(23,969 posts)quick refresher Mitch:
Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin
(108,187 posts)for hitching up to the Trump train.
Ponietz
(3,004 posts)Thats from Turleys poison pen at WP.
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)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.