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bdamomma

(63,875 posts) Wed Jan 29, 2020, 02:41 PM Jan 2020

Republicans push a risky plot to block witnesses -- but public pressure is building against them

https://www.alternet.org/2020/01/republicans-push-a-risky-plot-to-block-witnesses-but-public-pressure-is-building-against-them/?utm_source=&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=3603

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Today was another short day in the Senate impeachment trial of Donald Trump. Originally scheduled to go for many more hours, the Trump defense wrapped on one long, confusing, and dishonest spray of conspiracy theories and Trump talking points by lawyer Jay Sekulow and one remarkably short summation by White House counsel Pat Cipollone. A brief roundup of today’s events:

• More leaks of the contents of former Trump national security adviser and ultrahawk John Bolton’s forthcoming book have emerged. The New York Times reports Bolton wrote that Trump was weakening national security policies to boost his personal standing with Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan and Chinese leader Xi Jinping. Bolton also writes that he discussed his concerns with, yes, Trump Attorney General William Barr, who was himself aware that Trump’s actions were touching too closely to Department of Justice investigations into the two countries, possibly including Trump leaking information on the status of those investigations to those leaders.

Let's keep the pressure on!!!

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Republicans push a risky plot to block witnesses -- but public pressure is building against them (Original Post) bdamomma Jan 2020 OP

Another hole in trump defensive crap dike. More to come. empedocles Jan 2020 #1

Does anyone get the feeling that something big is still coming? WyattKansas Jan 2020 #2

oh my... stillcool Jan 2020 #3

empedocles

(15,751 posts)

1. Another hole in trump defensive crap dike. More to come.

Reply to bdamomma (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 02:46 PM

Jan 2020

WyattKansas

(1,648 posts)

2. Does anyone get the feeling that something big is still coming?

Reply to bdamomma (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 02:51 PM

Jan 2020

Somehow, I have this feeling that tRUMP is about to get crushed by something that is even bigger. Like they have been titillating with previous leaks to get the public's attention until they lower the BOOM.

stillcool

(32,626 posts)

3. oh my...

Reply to bdamomma (Original post)

Wed Jan 29, 2020, 02:51 PM

Jan 2020

Bolton also writes that he discussed his concerns with, yes, Trump Attorney General William Barr, who was himself aware that Trump’s actions were touching too closely to Department of Justice investigations into the two countries, possibly including Trump leaking information on the status of those investigations to those leaders.

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