WASHINGTON - John Bolton, the former White House national security adviser, said Monday that he was willing to testify at US President Donald Trump's impeachment trial if he was subpoenaed.
The development is a dramatic turn in the impeachment proceeding, which has been stalled over Democrats' insistence on hearing from critical witnesses Trump blocked from testifying in the House inquiry into his pressure campaign on Ukraine. His willingness to tell the Senate what he knows ratchets up pressure on Senator Mitch McConnell, the majority leader, who has refused to commit to calling witnesses at the impeachment trial, to change his stance."It now falls to the Senate to fulfil its constitutional obligation to try impeachments, and it does not appear possible that a final judicial resolution of the still-unanswered constitutional questions can be obtained before the Senate acts," Bolton wrote.
If he did appear under oath in the Senate, Bolton would be the closest adviser to the president to testify about what Trump said behind closed doors as he pressured the Ukranians to investigate his political rivals as he was withholding nearly US$400 million in military aid from the country.
Bullshit. He says he will testify in the Senate hearings not the House hearings. Why? Because he knows the Senate will never call him to testify because they’re controlled by Republicans hell-bent on protecting Trump. I bet he won’t testify in the House.