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So the Impeachment trial is underway in the Senate and the Dems are pushing hard to get the Senate to agree to call witnesses that they didn't call in the House. They made the decision to not call certain witnesses because Trump would invoke executive privilege and their requests would have to go to the Supreme Court for review and they claimed they didn't have the time. They had to get this done and it had to be done before Christmas. Of course, once it was done, it just sat for over 30 days in limbo while they tried to coerce the Senate into doing their bidding.
I'm not sure why the Dems think anything different will happen in the Senate if they can coerce them into calling witnesses. The President will invoke privilege, as he should, and the court will decide. But somehow now that Bolton's book is in pre-publication, he wants to talk and the Dems are salivating because they are certain he'll say something damaging to the President. I'm sure he will also. He's really pissed that the President fired him. I don't understand why the President hired him in the first place because Bolton has never seen a war he didn't want to be part of or a government he didn't want to overthrow and that has never been Trump's position. I also don't understand why we care what Bolton thinks of Trump. Do we need someone to tell us how we should think of the President? Are we not capable of making our own decision?
I am really bothered by the disloyal people who went to work in the White House and on leaving have no compunction against talking about what went on behind closed doors. Their first stop after their exit interview is a local publisher. How can a president make decisions if he can't say crazy stuff out loud? Haven't you ever been in meetings where people were encouraged to just say whatever comes to mind. It doesn't mean that you are going to act on the crazy idea. But you have to just say them because sometimes the thought jogs something that is actually reasonable. Think about how alone Trump is. It is horrifying to think about and I'm not even a fan. The longer he is in office the more I appreciate his integrity and work ethic. I even like a lot of his policies and I especially like his approach to foreign relations. His personality offends me also but I don't see that it interferes with anything except his relationship with the press.
I'm not sure why the Dems think anything different will happen in the Senate if they can coerce them into calling witnesses. The President will invoke privilege, as he should, and the court will decide. But somehow now that Bolton's book is in pre-publication, he wants to talk and the Dems are salivating because they are certain he'll say something damaging to the President. I'm sure he will also. He's really pissed that the President fired him. I don't understand why the President hired him in the first place because Bolton has never seen a war he didn't want to be part of or a government he didn't want to overthrow and that has never been Trump's position. I also don't understand why we care what Bolton thinks of Trump. Do we need someone to tell us how we should think of the President? Are we not capable of making our own decision?
I am really bothered by the disloyal people who went to work in the White House and on leaving have no compunction against talking about what went on behind closed doors. Their first stop after their exit interview is a local publisher. How can a president make decisions if he can't say crazy stuff out loud? Haven't you ever been in meetings where people were encouraged to just say whatever comes to mind. It doesn't mean that you are going to act on the crazy idea. But you have to just say them because sometimes the thought jogs something that is actually reasonable. Think about how alone Trump is. It is horrifying to think about and I'm not even a fan. The longer he is in office the more I appreciate his integrity and work ethic. I even like a lot of his policies and I especially like his approach to foreign relations. His personality offends me also but I don't see that it interferes with anything except his relationship with the press.