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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWP: GOP working on Plan B ..classifying Bolton testimony??
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/trumps-lawyers-senate-gop-allies-work-privately-to-ensure-bolton-does-not-testify-publicly/ar-BBZa0RTPresident Trumps legal defense team and Senate GOP allies are quietly gaming out contingency plans should Democrats win enough votes to force witnesses to testify in the impeachment trial, including an effort to keep former national security adviser John Bolton from the spotlight, according to multiple officials familiar with the discussions.
While Republicans continue to express confidence that Democrats will fail to persuade four GOP lawmakers to break ranks with Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has opposed calling any witnesses in the trial, they are readying a Plan B just in case underscoring how uncertain they are about prevailing in a showdown over witnesses and Boltons possible testimony.
One option being discussed, according to a senior administration official, would be to move Boltons testimony to a classified setting because of national security concerns, ensuring that it is not public.
To receive the testimony in a classified session, Trumps attorneys would have to request such a step, according to one official, adding that it would probably need the approval of 51 senators.
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WP: GOP working on Plan B ..classifying Bolton testimony?? (Original Post)
Laura PourMeADrink
Jan 2020
OP
Faux pas
(14,672 posts)1. Assholes
CincyDem
(6,357 posts)2. Gonna make Bolton's book deal a look weaker. n/t
genxlib
(5,526 posts)3. If they do this
It certainly closes the loop on one of the most outrageous aspects of this whole thing.
I think the biggest factor in all of this that has been left in the dust is the fact that the phone call was buried on a classified server in the White House. In my mind, this was a big deal and has been forgotten.
It is a big deal because...
- It speaks to the understanding that they knew it was wrong and needed to be hidden
- It is a misuse of the classification system
- It means they had other things they were burying there as well.
If nothing else, maybe this will bring all that back into the sunshine.