The New York Times leaked what President Trump's former national security adviser John Bolton allegedly claimed in his forthcoming book about an August 2019 meeting he held with President Trump regarding Ukraine.
Bolton is said to have written that President Trump "Wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens." Senate Democrats and a few Republicans such as Senator Mitt Romney would like to hear Bolton's first-hand testimony.
One can argue, as Robert Spencer has done, that Bolton sold the president out because "Trump represents a strong challenge to the foreign policy establishment views that have failed again and again, and of which Bolton is a foremost exponent." But it does not really matter.
Professor Dershowitz aimed his analysis directly at what Bolton claimed he heard President Trump say that he wanted Ukraine to do before he would lift the temporary hold on the security assistance.
Professor Dershowitz explained that "If a president, any president were to have done with the Times reported about the context of the Bolton manuscript, that would not constitute an impeachable offense. Let me repeat, nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true would rise to the level of an abusive power or an impeachable offense. That is clear from the history, that is clear from the language of the constitution, you cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like quid pro quo and personal benefit."
In short, we know what happened - the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma was fired following Vice President Biden's demand at a time that his son was serving on Burisma's board for a nice piece of change.
President Trump has the constitutional authority as the nation's chief executive officer to determine foreign policy priorities - not the House of Representatives impeachment managers, not career bureaucrats, and not presidential appointees advising him such as former national security adviser John Bolton.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/john-boltons-testimony-quid-pro-quo-waste-time-joseph-klein/
Bolton is said to have written that President Trump "Wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens." Senate Democrats and a few Republicans such as Senator Mitt Romney would like to hear Bolton's first-hand testimony.
One can argue, as Robert Spencer has done, that Bolton sold the president out because "Trump represents a strong challenge to the foreign policy establishment views that have failed again and again, and of which Bolton is a foremost exponent." But it does not really matter.
Professor Dershowitz aimed his analysis directly at what Bolton claimed he heard President Trump say that he wanted Ukraine to do before he would lift the temporary hold on the security assistance.
Professor Dershowitz explained that "If a president, any president were to have done with the Times reported about the context of the Bolton manuscript, that would not constitute an impeachable offense. Let me repeat, nothing in the Bolton revelations, even if true would rise to the level of an abusive power or an impeachable offense. That is clear from the history, that is clear from the language of the constitution, you cannot turn conduct that is not impeachable into impeachable conduct simply by using words like quid pro quo and personal benefit."
In short, we know what happened - the Ukrainian prosecutor investigating Burisma was fired following Vice President Biden's demand at a time that his son was serving on Burisma's board for a nice piece of change.
President Trump has the constitutional authority as the nation's chief executive officer to determine foreign policy priorities - not the House of Representatives impeachment managers, not career bureaucrats, and not presidential appointees advising him such as former national security adviser John Bolton.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2020/01/john-boltons-testimony-quid-pro-quo-waste-time-joseph-klein/
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