The White Counsel is not one of Trump’s personal attorneys: he represents the office of the president, and it is debatable if the privilege ever applies to his conversations with Trump. Ask John Dean about this topic.

And the presence of Bolton in this meeting destroys attorney privilege if it ever existed. […]

NYTimes Reader:
Anything is deniable, even the truth is deniable. Denials, however, when they are not true, are difficult to sustain. Ultimately, what is true will become undeniable. When that happens, one can hope that the voters will render the verdict that the Senate continues to avoid hoping that we will all “move on” because there is “nothing to be seen here”. It’s clear that there is a great deal to be seen here and there are those who are not willing to deny it. […]

The president asked his national security adviser last spring in front of other senior advisers to pave the way for a meeting between Rudolph Giuliani and Ukraine’s new leader.

[ WASHINGTON — More than two months before he asked Ukraine’s president to investigate his political opponents, President Trump directed John R. Bolton, then his national security adviser, to help with his pressure campaign to extract damaging information on Democrats from Ukrainian officials, according to an unpublished manuscript by Mr. Bolton.

Mr. Trump gave the instruction, Mr. Bolton wrote, during an Oval Office conversation in early May that included the acting White House chief of staff, Mick Mulvaney, the president’s personal lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and the White House counsel, Pat A. Cipollone, who is now leading the president’s impeachment defense.

Mr. Trump told Mr. Bolton to call Volodymyr Zelensky, who had recently won election as president of Ukraine, to ensure Mr. Zelensky would meet with Mr. Giuliani, who was planning a trip to Ukraine to discuss the investigations that the president sought, in Mr. Bolton’s account. Mr. Bolton never made the call, he wrote.

The account in Mr. Bolton’s manuscript portrays the most senior White House advisers as early witnesses in the effort that they have sought to distance the president from. And disclosure of the meeting underscores the kind of information Democrats were looking for in seeking testimony from his top advisers in their impeachment investigation, including Mr. Bolton and Mr. Mulvaney, only to be blocked by the White House.

In a statement after this article was published, Mr. Trump denied the discussion that Mr. Bolton described. ] Posted Jan. 31, 2020 (Updated 12:31 pm)

Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/31/us/politics/trump-bolton-ukraine.html?auth=login-email&login=email

Well now….this may “move the needle” towards at least having Bolton testify.

I’ll have to see it (him testify) to believe it.

There ins’t going to be any witnesses…especially Not Bolton. The Repubs aren’t even pretending to give fig about the Constitution or to their oath to uphold it.

WE, People of Color (who are black and brown) had better take note. Frightened and desperate people carry out frighteningly desperate acts. A good chunk of White America is frightened and desperate to hold onto white dominance, in this country, by any means necessary. Time is running out.

Trump is their last hope.

TGIF!