“This looks like book sales more than anything else,” Sen. James Lankford (R-Okla.) told reporters on Capitol Hill.
Not even an explosive tell-all book from former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton, a popular mainstay in conservative politics for decades, was enough to dislodge Republicans from their support for President Donald Trump.
According to Bolton, Trump asked China’s President Xi Jinping for reelection help and told him to keep building concentration camps for the mass detention of Uighur Muslims, “which he thought was exactly the right thing to do.” “I’ve been around here when people try to sell books, so I don’t have anything to contribute on that front,” Sen. John Cornyn said.Story continuesSen. Kevin Cramer , meanwhile, said Bolton’s book and his claim that Trump sought Xi’s assistance in his reelection bid “sort of validates the dealmaking part of Donald Trump.”
Senate Republicans also blocked requests for new evidence during the trial, including ones seeking Bolton’s testimony.
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