'He tweets, but I can't talk about it—how fair is that?'
's impeachment trial, discussed his upcoming book and expressed serious concerns about the White House review process that he claimed is holding up its publication."I say things in the manuscript about what [Trump] said to me; I hope they become public someday," Bolton said during an interview in front of an audience at Duke University on Monday evening.
Bolton said Monday night that it has"not been [his] intention to reveal any classified information, but to tell people what actually went on so that they can judge for themselves whether it's appropriate.”Yet despite Bolton's stated desire to share his knowledge of the president's personal involvement with Ukraine, he refrained from offering up any new information Monday night. Instead, he encouraged people to read his book.
National Security Advisor John Bolton speaks during a briefing in the Brady Briefing Room of the White House in Washington, DC, Jan. 28, 2019.The audience applauded when the moderator asked why Bolton doesn't just simply reveal what he knows, despite not being subpoenaed to testify in the Senate impeachment trial. Bolton cited"the prepublication review process and the threat of possible legal action by the executive branch" as the main reasons.
“I never instructed John Bolton to set up a meeting for Rudy Giuliani, one of the greatest corruption fighters in America and by far the greatest mayor in the history of N.Y.C., to meet with President Zelenskiy," Trump said in a statement to the New York Times after the article was published."That meeting never happened.”
"I am not part of whatever drug deal [former U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon] Sondland and [acting White House Chief of Staff Mick] Mulvaney are cooking up,” Hill testified that Bolton asked her to relay to the White House legal counsel on his behalf. Bolton, a long-standing Washington figure and lawyer who served under the Reagan administration and both Bush administrations, left the Trump administration in September 2019, in an exit that appeared contentious.
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