Pressure mounted on Republicans on Monday to call former national security advisor John Bolton as a witness at Donald Trump's Senate impeachment trial following explosive new revelations about the US president's dealings with Ukraine. As Clinton impeachment investigator Ken Starr resumed the White House defense of Trump on the Senate floor, at least three Republican senators indicated they would favor hearing testimony from the 71-year-old Bolton.
A lawyer on President Trump's impeachment defense team on Monday called Trump personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani a "minor player" in the Ukraine inquiry who nonetheless came out smelling better than lead House Democratic impeachment manager Adam B. Schiff.
Presidential lawyer Jane Raskin said Democrats have portrayed Mr. Giuliani unfairly ...
WASHINGTON (AP) - A single paper copy in a nondescript envelope arrived at the White House on Dec. 30. Four weeks later, news of John Bolton’s book manuscript about his time as President Donald Trump’s national security adviser has exploded into public view, sending a jolt through the president’s impeachment ...
John Bolton has long been known as the bomb-thrower of US diplomacy, but the former White House national security advisor now threatens to blow a hole in President Donald Trump's impeachment defense. Fired last September, Bolton's coming tell-all book about his 17 months in the Trump administration could contain the strongest evidence yet for charges that the president illicitly held up military aid to Ukraine to help his own reelection campaign. A draft of "The Room Where it Happened," scheduled for publication in March, reportedly says Trump told Bolton last August the money -- almost $400 million -- would remain frozen until Kiev announced an investigation into Trump's potential election rival, Democrat Joe Biden.