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Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani 'a Hand Grenade'

Source: nytimes

Published Oct. 14, 2019 Updated Oct. 15, 2019, 6:11 a.m. ET 

WASHINGTON — The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, that he told an aide to alert White House lawyers, House investigators were told on Monday. 

Mr. Bolton got into a tense exchange on July 10 with Gordon D. Sondland, the Trump donor turned ambassador to the European Union, who was working with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, to press Ukraine to investigate Democrats, according to three people who heard the testimony. 

The aide, Fiona Hill, testified that Mr. Bolton told her to notify the chief lawyer for the National Security Council about a rogue effort by Mr. Sondland, Mr. Giuliani and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, according to the people familiar with the testimony. 

“I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Mr. Bolton, a Yale-trained lawyer, told Ms. Hill to tell White House lawyers, according to two people at the deposition. (Another person in the room initially said Mr. Bolton referred to Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Mulvaney, but two others said he cited Mr. Sondland.) 

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The testimony revealed in a powerful way just how divisive Mr. Giuliani’s efforts to extract damaging information about Democrats from Ukraine on President Trump’s behalf were within the White House. Ms. Hill, the senior director for European and Russian affairs, testified that Mr. Giuliani and his allies circumvented the usual national security process to run their own foreign policy efforts, leaving the president’s official advisers aware of the rogue operation yet powerless to stop it............................

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/bolton-giuliani-fiona-hill-testimony.html
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6 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

I started a thread about this as well....I hope that lunatic Rudy blows the whole shit house to pieces.

I just noticed your thread. I wonder what Bolton meant when he mentioned drug deal?

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2 minutes ago, DriftBusta said:

Guiliani is probably who Trump gets his weeeeeeeeeeed from!  :lol: 

Is that why Melania looks like she’s squinting all the time? :lol: 

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31 minutes ago, Angry ginger said:

OH so now Boltons opinion matters-  previously he was just an example of a shitty choice by Trump-  SMH

Fiona Hill testified for 10 hours yesterday not Bolton...pay attention Eyore.

BTW Bolton is a war monger but not sure if he is a liar.

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9 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Fiona Hill testified for 10 hours yesterday not Bolton...pay attention Eyore.

BTW Bolton is a war monger but not sure if he is a liar.

wahtever you say layabout she was repeating what he wanted said

Mr. Bolton, a Yale-trained lawyer, told Ms. Hill to tell White House lawyers

 

 

:news:  :bc:   

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21 minutes ago, Angry ginger said:

wahtever you say layabout she was repeating what he wanted said

Mr. Bolton, a Yale-trained lawyer, told Ms. Hill to tell White House lawyers

 

 

:news:  :bc:   

Layabout eh...good to see you parroting your ex pals lines.

Rudy is off the rails and regardless of Bolton or Fiona Hill his role in Trumps Administration is sketchy at best IMO.

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5 minutes ago, Jimmy Snacks said:

Layabout eh...good to see you parroting your ex pals lines.

Rudy is off the rails and regardless of Bolton or Fiona Hill his role in Trumps Administration is sketchy at best IMO.

come on your suppossed to laugh at that one not get all angry.

Rudy is helping drain the swamp-  another fine american.  

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1 minute ago, Angry ginger said:

come on your suppossed to laugh at that one not get all angry.

Rudy is helping drain the swamp-  another fine american.  

I chuckled to myself a little. 

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4 hours ago, Mainecat said:

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Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani 'a Hand Grenade'

Source: nytimes

Published Oct. 14, 2019 Updated Oct. 15, 2019, 6:11 a.m. ET 

WASHINGTON — The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, that he told an aide to alert White House lawyers, House investigators were told on Monday. 

Mr. Bolton got into a tense exchange on July 10 with Gordon D. Sondland, the Trump donor turned ambassador to the European Union, who was working with Rudolph W. Giuliani, the president’s personal lawyer, to press Ukraine to investigate Democrats, according to three people who heard the testimony. 

The aide, Fiona Hill, testified that Mr. Bolton told her to notify the chief lawyer for the National Security Council about a rogue effort by Mr. Sondland, Mr. Giuliani and Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, according to the people familiar with the testimony. 

“I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Mr. Bolton, a Yale-trained lawyer, told Ms. Hill to tell White House lawyers, according to two people at the deposition. (Another person in the room initially said Mr. Bolton referred to Mr. Giuliani and Mr. Mulvaney, but two others said he cited Mr. Sondland.) 

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The testimony revealed in a powerful way just how divisive Mr. Giuliani’s efforts to extract damaging information about Democrats from Ukraine on President Trump’s behalf were within the White House. Ms. Hill, the senior director for European and Russian affairs, testified that Mr. Giuliani and his allies circumvented the usual national security process to run their own foreign policy efforts, leaving the president’s official advisers aware of the rogue operation yet powerless to stop it............................

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/politics/bolton-giuliani-fiona-hill-testimony.html

MC Supports John Bolton now. I've seen it all!!!

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