Very curious what John Bolton’s game here is. He and his protege who are repped by the same lawyer basically put their testimony before a federal judge who was going to take his time reviewing the matter. So Schiff and Co say, whatever, we don’t have time for that ...
2/ and in any case we already have enough of the story from the White House. So we’ll just put your antics down as part of the obstruction article of impeachment. So then Bolton, through his lawyer, chimes in with: no no no, believe me, you REALLY want me because ...
3/ I know a bunch of stuff you don’t know anything about yet. (Give he’s the Nat Sec Advisor with all the access to the President and information that goes with that, this is not an implausible claim.) He clearly doesn’t want to be ignored or overlooked and seemed ...
4/ disappointed that Schiff basically said whatever, we don’t need you. He seems to want to have a drawn out process in which a federal judge blesses the congressional subpoena and instructs his to shiv Trump and Rudes. I’m not quite sure what the point of that ...
5/ elaborate dance is. But that’s the best sense I can make of it.
