I suspect that it will be more like a 1,000 bed isolation ward than a conventional hospital.

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By arguing that the claims in Bolton's book are "an unsourced allegation", Trump's legal team has just made a very good case for hearing from John Bolton in person, under oath, in front of the entire Senate.

Trump Lawyer Jay Sekulow Argues John Bolton's Book Inadmissible' In Senate Trial

The former national security adviser's manuscript reportedly confirms the key impeachment charge.

So it begins:

Former Trump Chief of Staff John Kelly tells Sarasota crowd I believe John Bolton

Life imitates art...

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Trump is totally clueless when it comes to how things work in the real world.

When asked about the possibility that John Bolton might be subpoenaed by the Senate as a witness during the impeachment trial, Trump said the Republicans should only allow that to happen if they first get an agreement from the Democrats that Bolton must swear to tell the truth.

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Speaking of lies, one of the points that Trump's lawyers opened their case with was their condemnation that this impeachment was being held during an election year, something that has never been done before. Sorry, but the impeachment trial of Andrew Johnson was held in March 1868, A PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION YEAR.

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It also means that Trump and the White House, and I assume his defense team and certain Republican Senators, have known all along what was going to be in Bolton's book and they went ahead anyway with their defense that Trump did nothing wrong.

#59 | Posted by OCUser

I may have been wrong in my assumption. From some reports out there, it appears that Mitch McConnell has indicated in private that he feels he's been misled by the White House. Despite the fact that the White House has known what was in Bolton's book for almost a month now, McConnell seems to be saying that he first heard about this the same time as the rest of us did, that is, when it was disclosed in the NYT over the weekend.

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For years 'Voice of America' got 100% of it funding from taxpayers, and it was very biased.

But getting back to NPR, I'd say if they're able to cover better then 99% of their expenses from private sources, they're already doing pretty good.

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I doubt Trump is worried about him at all. He does not pole at all, after his media blitz has been going on for more than a month.

#5 | Posted by docnjo

Trump doesn't worry about having to run against Mike Bloomberg. He fears having to run against Mike Bloomberg's money, in support of whichever Democratic candidate makes it onto the ticket.

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The irony is that Trump makes an illegal campaign contribution from his charitable foundation to a state attorneys general who then drops an investigation into illegal activity by said charitable foundation. Only in Trumpworld would this be considered a normal situation.

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Trump Lies Again

And this is news how?

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NPR gets less than 1% of the operating budget from government funding.

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Interesting and somewhat disturbing detail is that Bolton's publisher submitted this manuscript to the National Security Council for "standard prepublication security review" (i.e. make certain nothing classified was in it) and it was from there it was leaked to the NY Times. Deep State conspiracists are going to have a field day.

#54 | Posted by MUSTANG

It just goes to show the American people that there are individuals inside the Trump White House who are still willing to put their loyalty to the country ahead of their loyalty to Trump. This should be be seen as good news for us all.

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It's being reported that Bolton got an agreement with the Trump White House in 2018, when he first went to work at the NSC, that if and when he decided to write a future book, that the White House would have ONLY 30 days to review his manuscript and that the review would be confined to only assuring that no classified material was being compromised. So Trump knew from the start that Bolton was going to be a potential problem long term and he hired him anyway. And on top of that, Bolton submitted his manuscript to the White House at the end of December, so the clock is ticking. It also means that Trump and the White House, and I assume his defense team and certain Republican Senators, have known all along what was going to be in Bolton's book and they went ahead anyway with their defense that Trump did nothing wrong. They've set themselves up big time.

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The worst possible thing that could happen, for both Trump and the Republicans, would be for McConnell to get his way and have no witnesses, then vote to not convict Trump. But then spend now until November watching one shoe after another drop showing that everything that was alleged in Article 1 of the impeachment was true.

#16 | Posted by OCUser

It appears that at least one person agrees with me:

John Bolton's bombshell gives the GOP a glimpse of its nightmare scenario

The worst possible thing that could happen, for both Trump and the Republicans, would be for McConnell to get his way and have no witnesses, then vote to not convict Trump. But then spend now until November watching one shoe after another drop showing that everything that was alleged in Article 1 of the impeachment was true. The Republicans will look like idiots, Trump will have to spend all summer explaining how he's the ONLY person in the United States who is not lying. I suspect that by the time of the election, this sort of thing is going to be a weekly event, that is new revelations coming to light.

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Trump has asked Mitch McConnell to have the Senate trial wrapped-up by next Saturday since he's already been scheduled to be interviewed by Sean Hannity before the Superbowl and he promised Hannity that he would be using his show to announce Bill Bar's DOJ investigation in the Biden's and the collusion between Ukraine and the DNC and Hillary's 2016 campaign (he says he also has documents, provided to him by Vladimir Putin, which will show that Russia wasn't even aware that an election was taking place in 2016). He also wants to use the State of the Union on the following Tuesday to announce his post-impeachment program of retribution and revenge against the enemies of the state, starting with Adam Schiff and moving on to NPR and CNN.

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Trump is just making his next concession to the NRA, to help to repay them (and their Russian benefactors) for their help in the 2016 election and as a down-payment toward their 2020 effort.

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Oh, and it seems the Trump White House, after three years, still has leaks...

#18 | Posted by LampLighter

I think that every American should feel better knowing that there are still people in the administration who are putting loyalty to their country ahead of loyalty to an individual.

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I wonder if that copter was overloaded with people and gear.

#58 | Posted by LauraMohr

A Sikorsky S-76 can be configured to carry up to 13 passengers, plus a crew of two pilots.

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Our youngest son, who's the same age as Kobe, literally grew up as Kobe was growing up. He named his cat Kobe and when he set-up my home computer, the administrative password included the letters 'kobe' (and I'm still using that same password today).

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The President was NOT exonerated.

That's not the job of report.

#25 | Posted by AndreaMackris

Perhaps, but that's NOT the spin that Trump and Bill Barr put on it. They've treated it as an exoneration from the get-go, and that's also how Faux News has been telling it ever since the report came out.

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And now Trump is suggesting the perhaps NPR should be shut down, or we should at least cut-off their government funding (which for NPR itself, accounts for less than 1% of its operating budget):

Trump Suggests NPR Shouldn't Exist After Heated Mike Pompeo Interview

The president went on the attack after the secretary of state's
foul-mouthed tirade was reported by the nonprofit media organization.

With such a compressed legislative calendar, they seldom have time to do any thing silly. Like banning plastic straws.

#21 | Posted by docnjo

Or enacting some common sense zoning ordinances which could have prevented something like the West, TX, disaster as well as the flooding of all those homes built on flood planes around Houston.

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The dots on the left and right of the globe are supposed to be stars, I guess, but their positioning in the ecliptic (~23 degrees off the equatorial plane) and lack of them elsewhere in the logo strongly suggest they are not stars, but mere zodiacal dust.

#14 | Posted by goatman

Perhaps they represent a series of weaponized satellites.

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