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Rudy Giuliani unloads on John Bolton, calls him a ‘backstabber’
By Emily Jacobs January 29, 2020 | 10:36am | Updated NEW YORK POST President Trump’s personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani slammed John Bolton in a new interview, describing him as a “backstabber” and rejecting claims about the commander-in-chief allegedly made by the former national security adviser in his tell-all book. “[Bolton] never said to me, ‘I’ve got a problem with what you are doing in Ukraine,'” Giuliani told CBS News in an interview airing Wednesday, “ever once, never winked, never sent me a little note. He is a personal friend, I thought.” “So here’s the only conclusion I can come to, and it’s a harsh one, and I feel very bad about it: He’s a backstabber.” Giuliani, who finds himself a key player in the Ukraine scandal at the heart of Trump’s impeachment, continued to unload on the man he referred to as a “friend.” “If your friend was complaining about you behind your back and didn’t have the guts to come up to your face and tell you, ‘I think you’re screwing up’ … that’d be a backstabber. That’s classic backstabber. So I feel I got a swamp character here,” the former New York City mayor griped. During his final months in the Trump administration, Bolton became incensed after learning that Giuliani, along with two other administration officials, had begun conducting shadow foreign policy to pressure Ukraine to open investigations into former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter, according to testimony by former National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director Fiona Hill to House impeachment investigators. Bolton was so disturbed that he instructed Hill, who reported to him, to keep tabs on the situation and deliver her findings to the NSC’s chief lawyer. Hill told the House that Bolton referred to Giuliani as a “hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up.” As the Ukraine pressure campaign by Giuliani and others ramped up, Hill testified, Bolton ordered her to go speak with White House lawyer John Eisenberg. Hill added that Bolton told her to tell Eisenberg, “I am not part of whatever drug deal [US Ambassador to the EU Gordon] Sondland and [acting White House chief of staff Mick] Mulvaney are cooking up.” Giuliani’s interview marks the first time he has spoken about Bolton since that testimony was made publicly. read more
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Target Trump Forever
Destroying the president is not just the only viable trajectory for the Left, but it is also the only possible narrative given that focus on the current left-wing agenda is slow-motion suicide. Victor Davis Hanson. - January 26th, 2020. AMERICAN GREATNESS The Left has shown that the collusion exoneration last year by the heralded Robert Mueller investigation—all 22-months, the “dream team,” and $34 million of it—meant absolutely nothing. Nor did it matter that Department of Justice Inspector General Michael Horowitz found no justification of “collusion” in the Steele dossier to justify the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act warrants it issued to spy on Carter Page. Both the Mueller and Horowitz investigations confirmed that even the partisan and warped FBI “Crossfire Hurricane” intrigues could find no Russian-Trump collusion. And yet the House impeachment managers cannot finish a sentence without exclaiming “Russian collusion,” as if it has now transmogrified into some exotic foundational myth. Remember, no sooner had Mueller found no collusion between Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and the Kremlin and no actionable obstruction than the progressives narrative was recalibrated into Ukrainian quid pro quo—albeit after brief detours in “Recession!” and “Racism!” Yet it is now as if neither Mueller nor Horowitz ever existed, as if we have forgotten the thousands of hours of investigation that found no Russian collusion, but indeed discovered the systematic warping of the FISA court by allegations of such falsities. As if to prove that the Mueller investigation was never biased, Andrew Weissmann now appears on MSNBC as a legal analyst to continue what he once did for Mueller, in the manner of the post-Russian “collusion” careers of Andrew McCabe, James Comey, and James Clapper. The Left is hooked on Trump and cannot quit him. If they cannot destroy him politically, they hope to destroy him physically. In truth, impeachment started the very week Donald Trump was inaugurated by articles of impeachment introduced in the House of Representatives by 58 Democrats. Between 2017 and 2019, one effort to remove Trump or members of his administration before the 2020 election followed rapidly and furiously upon another. Reason, logic, moderation, and common sense vanished, replaced by a shrill directive that Trump was evil and thus his administration had to be aborted by the good people, and by any means possible. read more from this essay at American Greatness
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