Schiff: Bolton Refused To Submit Affidavit To House After Senate Rejected Witnesses

National Security Advisor John Bolton unveils the Trump Administration's Africa Strategy at the Heritage Foundation in Washington, Thursday, Dec. 13, 2018. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
Former National Security Adviser John Bolton (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)
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House Intelligence Committee chair Adam Schiff (D-CA) revealed on Wednesday night that former National Security Adviser John Bolton shot down House investigators’ request for a sworn affidavit detailing President Donald Trump’s Ukraine scheme.

Schiff told MSNBC host Rachel Maddow that while he and his colleagues haven’t yet decided whether to subpoena Bolton, they did ask the former official’s legal counsel if he would submit an affidavit under oath after Republican senators voted to block witnesses in the Senate impeachment trial.

“And he refused,” Schiff said.

The Democrat jabbed at Bolton for dangling his potential testimony in the now-concluded Senate impeachment trial but now “seems intent on saving it for his book.”

“He’ll have to answer for that,” Schiff said.

Democrats’ push for Bolton’s testimony and that of other witnesses in the trial ramped up after the New York Times published several reports on his unpublished manuscript.

The bombshell reports revealed that Trump had tried to rope him in his Ukraine pressure campaign, and that Bolton and Attorney General Bill Barr had fretted over the President’s alleged “personal favors” to autocratic foreign leaders.

Watch Schiff below:

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  1. Well of course not
    You need cameras to sell books.
    A house appearance?
    Free air time
    Golden

  2. Avatar for raph raph says:

    I don’t know exactly what game Bolton is playing, but if your strategy was to sell as many books as possible, it’s hard to come up with a better sequence of actions than what he’s done.

  3. Just one more a hole, AKA Republican.

  4. Avatar for jhand jhand says:

    Can we now safely say that Bolton had a deal with Moscow Mitch? “Sure, I’ll answer a subpoena. Just be sure you don’t issue one, and we can all go home.”

  5. Subpoena him, hold him in contempt of congress when he refuses. Fuck Bolton.

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