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Bolton Takes Centre Stage in Trump’s Impeachment Trial
US Senators faced mounting pressure on Monday to summon former National Security Advisor John Bolton to testify at President Donald Trump’s impeachment trial even as Trump’s lawyers brushed past extraordinary new allegations from Bolton and focused instead on corruption in Ukraine and historical arguments for acquittal.
Bolton took centre stage on the seventh day of the trial, even though he was nowhere near the United States Capitol building.
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Inside the Senate chamber, Trump’s defence team mounted more than seven hours of arguments in favour of the president, but outside, Republicans grappled with claims in a forthcoming book from Bolton that Trump had wanted to withhold military aid from Ukraine until it committed to helping with investigations into Democratic rival Joe Biden.
The revelation clouded White House hopes for a swift end to the impeachment trial, heightening Democratic demands for witnesses and possibly pushing more Republican legislators to agree. It also distracted from hours of arguments from Trump’s lawyers, who declared anew that no witness has testified to direct knowledge that Trump’s delivery of aid was contingent on investigations into Democrats. Bolton appeared poised to say exactly that if called on by the Senate to appear.
Trump is charged with abusing his presidential powers by asking Ukraine’s leader to help investigate Biden at the same Trump was ordering that millions of dollars in aid be withheld.
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