New reporting from the New York Times:
The newest revelations from the book by President Trump’s former national security adviser, John R. Bolton, put top aides in the room when Mr. Trump asked Mr. Bolton to help with his pressure campaign on Ukraine.
Mr. Trump gave the instruction, Mr. Bolton wrote, in the Oval Office in early May and in front of 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.
The account supports testimony from witnesses who testified in the House impeachment inquiry, including Gordon D. Sondland, who said that “everyone was in the loop.”
This means Pat Cipollone is one unethical lawyer. Not that it matters. He’ll be a hero.
If you think this means any GOP Senator will change his or her mind, think again. Tim Alberta is a wingnut-friendly political reporter for Politico who wrote a sympathetic book about the Republican Party called, “American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump “
Here’s how he explains the 79 year old Senator and ex-Governor, Lamar Alexander’s decision.
Basically, they are all pathetic, self-interested, cowards. No wonder they happily kowtow to the likes of Donald Trump. It relieves them of having to pretend they have any integrity at all.