Like they leaked this intentionally to get Bolton as the priority witness. If there's any witnesses, it will be Bolton and he'll say I made it all up ;there's no quid pro quo. Then suddenly, He gets a pay out from somewhere (we'll never know). Nothing Happens to Trump, Bolton gets another book deal, and GOP looks impartial still having brought in witnesses and heard the goose(bolton)sing. GOP Congress pulls off ....I don't know what that scheme is called... I am sure there's a chest move about this.

Let me go make a tin foil hat, but I think it is a plausible theory. 1 thing is for certain, Trump isn't the mastermind of such a scheme.

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He'll go from on the outs with Republicans now, to pretty much entering the Rick Santorum zone.

He'll only be hired by CNN, who seems to like to hiring mendacious and hypocritical GOP motherfuckers.

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a vindictive SOB. I'd guess he is really more interested in screwing Trump than in screwing the Democrats, not only because Trump fired him but because he clearly believes Trump is an incompetent lunatic who is incapable of advancing Bolton's neocon foreign policy and is more likely to make matters exponentially worse for conservatives.

The thinking was that there are things in his book which he can't release because the White House has deemed them to be damaging to national security. The minute he testifies under oath about those things in an open hearing they're in the public domain and therefore book fodder.

I have no idea how true this is, but knowing that Bolton only cares about Bolton it makes perfect sense.

for the moment, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. After all we were allied with Joseph Stalin and the Soviet Union in WW2. And rightly so.

GOP plant? maybe

It's not hard to imagine he was insulted by a carnival barker who professed to know more than him. Probably called Bolton stupid more than once.

Let him be a lobbyist for defense contractors but keep him away from anything to do with policy. He's just got too big a bug up his ass about Iran.

However, if this is making the whole coverup collapse we owe him some gratitude, even if he's not the one who leaked the contents.

Of course he's got an angle. It might simply be deodorant after participating in a criminal administration. It might be more complex.

I honestly don't care as long as he's not in government.

he met with Moscow Mitch. I am sure they discussed the possibility of him testifying. Mitch and Trump's lawyers want to make Hunter and/or Joe testify in order to deflect attention from Trump's guilt and justify the investigation.

The leak of the Bolton manuscript provokes calls for Bolton to testify. So far, all we know about the manuscript is that Bolton confirmed that Trump told him about the Biden investigation. For all we know, Bolton might play both sides against each other by claiming that the Biden investigation was valid, but he disagreed with the aid being withheld.

At any rate, the call for Bolton to testify will create an equal call for one or both Bidens to testify.

I just do not think that Bolton is a reliable person to count on.

Russia hacked into Burisma. Watch "information" come out about the Bidens - planted of course - and the timing of that with Bolton's wishy washy testimony

I don’t trust him at all either.

But Occam's Razor tells me it is what it looks like. Bolton doesn’t like DJT and is angry about being pushed out. He is also not crazy about the way he cozies you to dictators. While Bolton has a particular issue with Iran, he is a hardliner across the board.

Bear in mind that worse case for him right now is that he gets Pence. More likely, the Senate will still acquit and he comes out smelling like a rose.

I suspect that He saw two options; sit on the info and eat the book or come out with the relevant information now. If he held and published later, he would have been hated by everyone. And he would have been responsible for anything that happens in the next year ( or five god forbid)

so that might be a good sign.

I don't trust any of them.

..... but he's got no reason to lie about tRump. The unvarnished truth is always
enough when you're talking about Putin's plaything.

Bolton is a rightwing lunatic.Can't imagine what he's raly up to. But it can't be good,

He is going to either find himself in prison or will need immunity from Democrats to stay out. He is in on the crimes of this administration and he thinks that because he got fired by Trump, no one cares about his hide. He's sticking it out there, though.

But when those who testified he told them to "lawyer up". He's a slime case, he was not going to say anything until his book came out, he wants profits from how many buy his book. Sneaky thing.

and maybe he wants to throw Rudy under the bus.

I don't think Bolton is doing what he's doing to curry favor with the Dems. I believe that Bolton sees Trump as in uninformed, incurious, and impulsive person who often doesn't have the good of the nation in mind when he treats with foreign officials. Bolton likely sees himself as the anti-thesis to this and doesn't want to be tarnished by Trump's foreign policy blunders (e.g., the Kurdish blunder in Syria, the North Korean blunder, the Ukraine cluster, etc.).

Bolton has played coy when it comes to testifying. I think he has been calculating the costs/benefits of doing so, which to some extent, could place his own self-interest ahead of the nation's.

But courts are full of slimy witnesses.

but yeah, i still don't trust him either.

but if he can put a dent in Comrade President Bone Spurs, I'll take it.

I don't trust him either, but he's got his own version already in print and has the self interest of wanting to make as much money as possible off the book. To contradict his own book now would cost him a lot of money.

If he changes a word now, it'll be too late! Only the "original" will actually sell.

Something is up.

But I'd lay odds the cheeto is the prime target. He's not a captive house/senate member scared shitless about re-election. However I'd not trust him farther than I could throw him.

But if he and the GOP want to do some kind of gladiator death match on the floor of the Senate, it's okay by me.

simple. The other reason to trust him is that he is doing this for profit. No way he'd risk losing all the book money by refusing to support what's in the book. Motive, my man, motive.