New impeachment lawyer Alan Dershowitz predicted Trump will block Bolton testimony

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The newest member of President Trump’s impeachment defense team predicted earlier this week that former national security adviser John Bolton won’t be allowed to testify in the upcoming Senate trial but that the anonymous whistleblower could.

The 81-year-old Harvard law professor emeritus sketched out a possible impeachment strategy in a conversation with the Washington Examiner earlier this week, before he joined Trump’s defense effort. Dershowitz, the author of The Case Against Impeaching Trump, became the newest member of Trump’s legal team along with former independent counsels Ken Starr and Robert Ray on Friday, joining White House counsel Pat Cipollone and Trump lawyer Jay Sekulow, whom Dershowitz heaped praise on earlier in the week.

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