John Bolton’s impeachment role shouldn’t whitewash his awful legacy

Published January 31, 2020 8:48pm ET



Amid all the impeachment drama, the New York Times just dropped another bombshell. According to newly released accounts of former national security adviser John Bolton’s memoir, Trump asked Bolton as early as May, two months before the infamous call between Trump and Volodymyr Zelensky, to help Rudy Giuliani score a meeting with the Ukrainian president.

The latest leak from Bolton’s book comes a day after House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Eliot Engel revealed that he received a call from the career foreign-policy hawk expressing concern about the dismissal of U.S. Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch.

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