The Morning Dispatch: A Bolton Bombshell

What it means for the fight over whether to have witnesses in the Senate.

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Happy Monday. This is gearing up to be another monumental week in the nation’s capital, for reasons we’ll get into soon.

But first, some unbearably tragic news.

Quick Hits: Today’s Top Stories

  • NBA legend Kobe Bryant and his 13-year-old daughter Gianna died in a helicopter crash yesterday in Calabasas, California.

  • As of Sunday morning, the mysterious coronavirus has claimed at least 80 lives in China, with 2,744 confirmed cases across the country. There are now five confirmed cases in the United States.

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      Jenny

      Interesting way of thinking of the Trump narrative. I'll be keeping this in mind when I listen to him speak.

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    Bill Nelson

    On hearing Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower", Bob Dylan said it was clear that he had written it for Hendrix.

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    Jenny

    Mike Pompeo's assertion that NPR's Marie Louise Kelly pointed to Bangladesh instead of Ukraine is ridiculous. I might have given his account of the interaction some consideration if he said she pointed to someplace like Belarus or Romania instead of Ukraine, but there is no way she picked a subtropical country along the Indian Ocean as the location of Ukraine. What rubish! Such a dumb lie on his part tells me Kelly's account of the situation is probably spot on.

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      Jenny

      Mary Louise Kelly.

      I'm begining to wonder if the lack of an edit button is really a sneaky trick to train us to read our comments harder before posting. Is encouraging greater reflection in how we articulate our thoughts one of The Dispatch's secret goals?

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    CynthiaW

    Seven other people died in that helicopter crash. God sees them and their families.

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    Paul Montagu

    Paula White's job as Trump's spiritual advisor should have a miscarriage.

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      Theirn Scott

      LOL. I religious heretic giving advice to a political heretic. There is a certain symmetry.

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    Paul Montagu

    Paula White's job as Trump's spiritual advisor should have a miscarriage.

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      CynthiaW

      I'm trying to think of a context in which that line wouldn't be utterly insane. A comedy skit that went a little off course?

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        Paul Montagu

        In the context of her position in Trump’s orbit and her loony tune theology, I thought I nailed it.
        The real question is why more evangelical leaders aren’t calling for her job to miscarry.

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          CynthiaW

          I don't know. It's not my milieu. I was just sufficiently interested, because it was such a crazy remark, to see what the context was.

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        CynthiaW

        Research shows that she says that by "satanic pregnancies," she meant, "evil plans." I can see a situation in which a person who is used to developing certain metaphors doesn't realize that people other than herself might not get the point.

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            CynthiaW

            No, I doubt it. This is just what she said, afterward, that she was intending to convey.

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          Jenny

          I would think that the crowd she was preaching in front of might not have liked that comment. Very strange.

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    Tele

    I’m much less impeachment agnostic after this article than before. I can’t see our President “going forth and sinning no more.” If re-elected the wack a mole will continue (some of it fainting couch vapors from the other side, some of it unforced errors from a President who couldn’t pass the marshmallow test).
    Is there a modern equivalent of the Rhodes/Goldwater/Scott trio, and would Trump even listen?

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      Butch Earl

      "I’m much less impeachment agnostic after this article than before."
      Me too. I was raised in a very Nixon friendly house but, it did not take a genius to realize what was on the Watergate tapes when the White House went to the mattresses after the existence of those tapes was revealed. I'm not quite ready to say John Bolton could be the Alexander Butterfield here but, I'm getting closer. Note to GOP senators: if Bolton does not appear under oath, it won't take a genius to figure out who's version of events is the truth and your vote whether or not to hear his testimony will be on the record.

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    Kevin Durant?

    President Trump told Bolton “he wanted to continue freezing $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine until officials there helped with investigations into Democrats including the Bidens.”
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    Republicans basically need Bolton to testify now, just so they can ask him
    “Did Trump actually believe corruption was taking place”
    And then Bolton can say
    “Yes”
    And then we can move on with our lives

    Oh and also they should call Chris Heinz, not Hunter Biden. Chris Heinz immediately expressed concern over the deal and then exited his position at Rosemont Seneca which is one of Hunter’s influence peddling enterprises

    I’m sure Chris Heinz will.....relish the opportunity to clear his name

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      Jenny

      Oh, how I wish we could move on. I don't see it happening. There is always a new cliff-hanger right when the last one is resolved (or forgotten). Us political junkies are going to be in for some serious withdrawal if someone boring ever gets elected again.

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        Kevin Durant?

        Considering it’s probably going to be Bernie vs Trump, I think we are locked in for at least another four years of excitement!!

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  9. Ken Bashford

    The NYT is reporting *descriptions* of a draft manuscript from unnamed sources, but no direct quotes from the manuscript. And this is a ‘bombshell’. Interesting.

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      Kevin Durant?

      bombshell Version 9.02.011.34

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