New Bolton revelation: 'The kind of bombshell Mitch McConnell has been afraid of all along'

[babylonsister]

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2020/1/31/1915434/-New-Bolton-revelation-The-kind-of-bombshell-Mitch-McConnell-has-been-afraid-of-all-along#read-more


New Bolton revelation: 'The kind of bombshell Mitch McConnell has been afraid of all along'
Kerry Eleveld
Daily Kos Staff
Friday January 31, 2020 · 1:02 PM EST


Former national security adviser John Bolton’s new revelation about White House counsel Pat Cipollone being in on Trump’s Ukraine conspiracy as early as May 2019 is dropping like a bomb on Washington. "This is the kind of bombshell that Mitch McConnell has been afraid of all along," reporter Kasie Hunt said on MSNBC.


Indeed, a day that seemed almost certainly headed toward a no-witness vote and fast acquittal just in time for Donald Trump’s victory laps on Fox News and at next week’s State of the Union address now holds a slew of question marks. Hill reporters are now musing that the Senate trial could go into next week, “maybe even mid-week,” tweeted Politico’s John Bresnahan. Trump’s already in damage control, tweeting out fantasies like a drunken sailor on hallucinogens. Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski still hasn’t announced her vote on witnesses, which is bad news for McConnell because she hasn’t owed the GOP caucus anything since 2010, when she won reelection as a write-in candidate. Murkowski’s now a “no” on witnesses.

As Americans, we should still be rooting for witnesses. The citizenry deserves to hear from Bolton in his own words, among others.

But as Democrats, we can also feast on the political peril this represents for Republicans, who have now admitted that Trump did everything House managers said he did and that they just don’t care. As commentators on MSNBC absorbed the new Bolton bombshell, they almost unanimously declared it an electoral disaster in the making for Senate Republicans, especially given where public opinion has been on witnesses all along.

"This makes that vote against witnesses political suicide,” former GOP operative Nicolle Wallace observed, adding, “I hope they take it."

Even former Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill was bullish on the prospects for Democrats. “If these Republicans shut this trial down and say, No more,” she said, “it is a great gift to the Democrats in November.”

As Sen. Kamala Harris noted before the news dropped, "There can be no true exoneration if there's not been a fair trial. Period." Now more than ever, Senate Republicans are also on trial. At least some of them seem to know it.

[spanone]

1. The steady drip of the bolton book....and mitch has no idea when it ends.

or if it does

[Leghorn21]

2. Just

HELL’S COMIN FOR YOU, TRUMPERS

[dalton99a]

3. Kick

[katmondoo]

4. She said NO.

[SWBTATTReg]

5. Now I truly believe that we are (as democrats) seriously in the run for control of the Senate ...

now and forevermore (while increasing our lead in the House). The Gop, opening its doors to white supremacists, racists, extreme right wing radicals, thugs who trample on the rights of everyday Americans, etc. has deliberately lost its way in order to gain and retain power at any cost, but mostly to retain the 2017 Tax Cuts for its sole donors, the $billionaires and $millionaires, where money is everything to them (and who object to paying one thin dime for anything, let alone taxes or their fair share).

Time to push all of the right buttons and keep up the attacks on the republican thugs until election day, November 2020 (all while totally ignoring the presidential orange chimp in office).

[0rganism]

6. mmhmm we'll see soon enough

so far, the senate has not failed to disappoint

[2naSalit]

7. K&R

[denem]

8. NeoCons are sweet kindly people, slow to anger, quick to forgive,

overflowing with a generosity of spirit and humility unmatched in human history.

[Wellstone ruled]

9. Murkowski will

have to face all those Write In Voters once again,and if as forecast,Medicare or Medicaid as well as SNAP or other Social Service Programs are cut,she will be toast. The Natives got her elected and they do depend on all these programs just to get through the day.

[Hekate]

10. Kick!

[bucolic_frolic]

11. GOP Senators fear Trump, know the writing's on the wall, don't want to deal with the fallout

and are content to let voters do the deed that they cannot or will not.

I will give them one point: MAGAt's will be a lot less pissed if voters reject Trump than if Republican Senators do.

And who can say severe health problems won't be manifest just a handful of months from now?

Impeachment is failing to summon patriots of the Revolutionary War caliber who can do impartial justice. But a simple majority in the House would have gotten 'er done.

[KPN]

17. I'm not sure that's true about a lot less pissed.

There’s no question in my mind that the right wing propaganda machine, led by the orange anus, will cast doubt on the legitimacy of any Democratic Party victory. What’s to make one think their legion of mindless deplorables will not follow their lead once again. We are headed for a long period of tribal warfare. This isn’t going to go away or die down easily regardless of how it plays out.

[Kablooie]

12. I don't get why this is so big.

So Trumps lead lawyer was in on it. Why does that change anything ?

[maxsolomon]

13. Well, Cippolone represents the Office of the President

not Trump per se, like Sekulow and Guiliani do.

He should have acted to dissuade Narcissistic Sociopath from breaking the law and committing impeachable offenses.

Regardless, this article is pure speculation on the impact of these revelations (which everyone in the WH has known about for a month).

[Chakaconcarne]

14. but apparently these weren't impeachable offenses....all along.

[DallasNE]

15. Another One Day Story

Right now the only hope remaining is extremely low and that would be for CJ Roberts to call witnesses and I seriously doubt that even this will move his needle. Next up, Trump's free half-time interview by Hannity at the Super Bowl. Time to boycott the entire half-time show -- just take a very long potty break with the TV turned off.

[AllyCat]

16. It's not a bombshell and Mitch is not afraid of anything.

Putin will protect them and probably promote them.

[angrychair]

18. Sorry but it doesnt matter at all

No matter the scandal or crimes its completely irrelevant.
Trump is completely immune.
Bolton could literally come up with video of trump eating babies and 10 witnesses and it would not matter.

The house literally cannot investigate anything. Trump can just ignore the subpoenas with zero consequence.
Never have to appear or answer to anybody about anything.

Yes there is the courts but that is literally years, if ever to resolve. The USSC may never touch it given the conservative majority.

[krkaufman]

19. Re: hearing from Bolton

> The citizenry deserves to hear from Bolton in his own words

More importantly, under oath under penalty of perjury.