It was entirely predictable that the President Trump impeachment trial would feature a January surprise, and now it has arrived. It came in the form of a New York Times report that former national security adviser John Bolton, in a new book, writes that the president told him that he “wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats, including the Bidens.”

The words are from the New York Times, not Bolton. Neither the report nor any other has quoted even a word from the Bolton book.