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Post by Admin on Oct 25, 2019 18:49:48 GMT
John Bolton, the ex-White House security chief who was fired by President Trump, is reportedly set to get the last laugh by spilling the beans to the impeachment inquiry. The walrus-mustached hawk is in talks over giving testimony to the Democratic-led investigation, CNN reported, in what would be a bombshell appearance that could be most devastating blow yet to Trump. Bolton, a blunt-spoken proponent of a hard line on Russia and other geopolitical rivals, fiercely resisted Trump’s suspension of defense aid to Ukraine in a scheme to force Ukraine to open sham investigations into his Democratic rivals. Impeachment witnesses have quoted Bolton as deriding Rudy Giuliani’s efforts to dig up dirt on Joe Biden as “drug deals” and urged staffers at the National Security Administration to report the improper trade-off to administration lawyers. Bolton would bring a serious dose of conservative star power to the impeachment drama that has so far been dominated by little-known diplomats.
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Post by Admin on Oct 26, 2019 21:23:09 GMT
Democratic strategist Doug Schoen and GOP strategist David Avella weigh in on Democrats' impeachment inquiry. #FoxNews A US judge on Friday handed a major victory to House Democrats investigating US President Donald Trump and directed his administration to hand over an unredacted copy of secret grand jury testimony from special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation. US District Judge Beryl Howell also found that House Democrats are engaged in a legal impeachment inquiry, undercutting arguments from House Republicans and the administration that launching the probe was illegitimate without an initial vote. The judge said the House does not need to vote on a resolution before formally initiating an impeachment inquiry, confirming the wide powers of Congress to carry out its constitutional role of conducting oversight. "Blocking access to evidence collected by a grand jury relevant to an impeachment inquiry, as DOJ urges, undermines the House's ability to carry out its constitutional responsibility with due diligence," the judge said, using an abbreviation for the Department of Justice.
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