GOP Leaders, Trump’s Defense Team Grasp at Weak Defenses After Bolton Leak

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Wyoming Senator John Barrasso. Photo: Drew Angerer/Getty Images In the wake of a report on Sunday revealing that John Bolton’s account of the Ukraine scandal directly undermines the argument of the president’s legal team, GOP leaders spent the second day of the impeachment defense team’s opening statements side-stepping the minefield of potential testimony from the former national security adviser.

The award for the defense with the least amount of credible evidence goes to Jane Raskin, who claimed that Trump surrogate Rudy Giuliani was a “minor player” in the Ukraine scandal, serving as a “shiny object” for Democrats to focus on. Her depiction of Giuliani acting solely as the president’s personal lawyer — rather than as a one-man, parallel State department — certainly goes against the record of multiple impeachment inquiry witnesses.

 

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