John Bolton memoir pollutes Senate Republicans

Published June 18, 2020 9:29pm ET



Every Senate Republican except for Mitt Romney now owns every single damaging revelation about President Trump reported in the memoir of former national security adviser John Bolton.

Those revelations should stick to the GOP senators like Velcro. They have covered for Trump, ignored his instability and indecency, excused his lies and ignorance, and willfully pretended his corruptions don’t exist. And they had every chance to examine much of this, especially the corruption, from Bolton while he was under pain of perjury. Instead, they cowered, told Bolton to stay away, and made a mockery of their oaths to try an impeachment trial in (anything approaching) an unbiased fashion.

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