There are so many issues embedded in this one HCR post. I admire the way you can distill information into such a concise package! The insane claim that all conversations with a president are "highly classified" is proof that Trump is in a panic about this book--probably because when they tried to bury it in January no one actually bother…
There are so many issues embedded in this one HCR post. I admire the way you can distill information into such a concise package! The insane claim that all conversations with a president are "highly classified" is proof that Trump is in a panic about this book--probably because when they tried to bury it in January no one actually bothered to read it, least of all H/T.TrumpDoesn'tRead. As a result they have no idea what the book actually contains. I have no confidence in the motives of Bolton, who is a warmongering, mendacious, self-aggrandizer whose career has been spent boosting himself by denigrating others. Even if what he writes are lists of provably impeachable offenses, the fact that he refused to testify without tying Congress up in knots for months with subpoena challenges suggests that he is not acting in good faith. Perhaps what he wanted was for his testimony and the book to be produced simultaneously--which would make the timing right in terms of court challenges to congressional subpoenas being completed by around this time had they been introduced in November/December. He would certainly have made more money that way.
This is the single best concise definition of Bolton I have ever read. :) And yes, I think he expected to be begged for his testimony, and then when the House declined, he hoped the Senate would demand it. And then THEY declined, and he was sort of twisting in the wind.
There are so many issues embedded in this one HCR post. I admire the way you can distill information into such a concise package! The insane claim that all conversations with a president are "highly classified" is proof that Trump is in a panic about this book--probably because when they tried to bury it in January no one actually bothered to read it, least of all H/T.TrumpDoesn'tRead. As a result they have no idea what the book actually contains. I have no confidence in the motives of Bolton, who is a warmongering, mendacious, self-aggrandizer whose career has been spent boosting himself by denigrating others. Even if what he writes are lists of provably impeachable offenses, the fact that he refused to testify without tying Congress up in knots for months with subpoena challenges suggests that he is not acting in good faith. Perhaps what he wanted was for his testimony and the book to be produced simultaneously--which would make the timing right in terms of court challenges to congressional subpoenas being completed by around this time had they been introduced in November/December. He would certainly have made more money that way.
This is the single best concise definition of Bolton I have ever read. :) And yes, I think he expected to be begged for his testimony, and then when the House declined, he hoped the Senate would demand it. And then THEY declined, and he was sort of twisting in the wind.
Exactly what George Conway says in a piece in today’s Washington Post!