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Breaking: Bolton instructed aide to report Giuliani pressure campaign to White House lawyer. “I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton said, according to testimony to House investigators. @npfandos nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/…
@npfandos On another occasion, he said, "Giuliani’s a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up,” according to testimony by Fiona Hill.
@npfandos One person in the room during Hill’s testimony initially said Bolton mentioned Rudy in the quote, but two others have now said he cited Sondland: “I am not part of whatever drug deal Sondland and Mulvaney are cooking up."
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Peter Baker
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When Obama’s Justice Department tried to pressure reporters to reveal sources or obtain their records, including our colleagues at the @nytimes, we fought it vigorously. We believed those actions were outrageous and chilling to First Amendment coverage. (1)
@nytimes Those were disputes over the publication of classified information. In today’s case, the president is seeking “retribution” because an actor made fun of him, not because national security was jeopardized. (2)
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“I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up.”

The other dynamite John Bolton quote in this story's in the headline. nyti.ms/2ISjLqG
Update, with a discrepancy on the quote: I wonder how the names “Rudy” and “Sondland” get mixed up?
Rather, how do three people hear a name, and one hears “Sondland” as “Rudy”?
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🔥🔥🔥“I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up"....“Giuliani’s a hand grenade who’s going to blow everybody up” - Fiona Hill on John Bolton who told aide to alert White House lawyers about Giuliani's pressure campaign🔥🔥🔥
nytimes.com/2019/10/14/us/…
Mulvaney knew too. The whole House of Cards is going to fall. And FYI: Bolton is still a horrible warmonger but he's not a foreign asset & clearly canny enough to think about self preservation.
I maintain that the mustached loon is still a mustached loon. But at least he's not a foreign asset willing to sell out the country for personal benefit or engage in a shakedown.
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Bolton Objected to Ukraine Pressure Campaign, Calling Giuliani ‘a Hand Grenade’ nyti.ms/2ISjLqG
The effort to pressure Ukraine for political help provoked a heated confrontation inside the White House last summer that so alarmed John R. Bolton, then the national security adviser, that he told an aide to alert White House lawyers, House investigators were told on Monday.
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I'm waiting for the other shoe to drop that Bolton is whistleblower #2...
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"I am not part of whatever drug deal Rudy and Mulvaney are cooking up,” Bolton, a Yale-trained lawyer, told Ms. Hill to tell White House lawyers.
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