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“I would’ve written a chapter on it.” — John Bolton

Ten people in the room, including John Bolton, avow Trump didn’t say what the Atlantic magazine contends ... and the president did travel to that military cemetery the next day after the weather had cleared.


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Road to Riches

How does someone get rich quickly? Very simply ... write a tell-more-than-all book bashing President Trump ... joining the ranks of Bob Woodward (Fear), Michael Wolfe (Fire and Fury), James Comey (A Higher Loyalty), Stormy Daniels (Full Disclosure), Omarosa (Unhinged), Andrew McCabe (The Threat), Matt Taibbi (Insane Clown President), John Bolton (The Room Where It Happened), Mary Trump (Too Much and Never Enough) ... and now Trump’s former personal lawyer Michael Cohen (??).

And there are actually many, many more of such junkers by lesser-known authors.

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... Atlanta cops walk out in protest ...

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When was John Bolton’s blockbuster book supposed to come out?

Or, better yet, is the Wuhan virus our punishment for all that impeachment silliness?

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George Soros calls for removal of Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg

Magician

From Powerline blog

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The strangest State of the Union ever

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Bolton

In the current impeachment kerfuffle about witnesses, were I a senator, I might be tempted to call the Democrats’ bluff and vote for witnesses’ testimony ... for four reasons:

- The major damage from Bolton’s allegations has already been done to Trump. It is doubtful that a whole lot more could bee gleaned from Bolton’s actual testmony ... and it is even possible that the expected impact might be diminished by Bolton’s careful phrasings and sour-puss demeanor.

- The Republicans would clearly get at least one reciprocal witnesses ... maybe more. The miasma surrounding the Bidens likely would overwhelm any new allegations by Bolton or others.

- A witness calling tit-for-tat would extend this Senate trial for weeks, maybe months ... severely damaging Senators Warren, Sanders and Klobuchar ... the Dem frontrunners ... because of their curtailed campaigning. This combined with the likely damage to Biden would cripple the top four Dem presidential candidates. Only Buttigieg and Bloomberg would escape.

- Such a revelation and testimony from Bolton might even cut into his book sales ... a just reward for his disloyalty and money grubbing.

Today’s Poser

Apparently the National Security Council has had a copy of John Bolton’s book for security review since the end of December. How come that Bolton’s comments about the Trump linkage between Ukrainian aid and its investigating of the Burisma/Biden scandal was leaked to the New York Times and not to Trump’s legal defense team? Is this a perfect validation of the Deep State?

Afterthought: And was this Deep State created when Obama made hundreds of his political appointments into protected civil servants right before he left office?

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