John Bolton from Satan to Savior: Ukraine aid edition

The left viewed John Bolton as the devil incarnate since he continuously pushed for more foreign involvement, more forever wars.

But now they're labelling him a saint because he claims that Trump explicitly linked aid to Ukraine with Ukraine investigating American corruption. Actually that's not clear. The NYT article which is based on second hand sources, like so many other eventually discredited NYT stories, seems to imply that the investigation that Trump wanted wasn't into Biden but into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

However the Democrats and the #FakeNews media are assuming that the NYT is wrong and that Bolton is talking about the Biden investigation; an investigation that never happened even though aid was delivered.

Apparently the fact that Bolton is using the same book agents, and leaking to the same reporters as Comey did has no bearing on whether or not he's not reliable.  Neither does the fact that this "leak" occurred to help Bolton make more money from the book that's just gone on the market.

This leak ensures that people who would have spit on Bolton will now buy his book.

Further the fact that Trump fired Bolton and publicly bad mouthed him has, according to the #FakeNews media, no bearing on whether or not Bolton might be lying.

So there's a lot of reasons to doubt the veracity of what Bolton says.

But even if Bolton is right and he's talking about the Biden investigation it doesn't matter.

Why?

Well there are a bunch of reasons.

• What Trump wanted doesn't matter.  What Trump did matters.  Trump released the aid to Ukraine without Ukraine even announcing an investigation. Hence Trump didn't hold up the aid until Biden's obvious corruption was investigated
• Trump, as President, has an obligation to investigate corruption by US government officials. Note that not one Democrat or #FakeNews media member has said "An investigation wouldn't be bad since it would show that Biden was innocent" or "Since Biden is innocent why is he afraid of an investigation" because they all know that Biden is guilty as Hell
• Contrary to Democrat desires running for President doesn't give one a get out of jail free card if one engages in acts that are appear to be corrupt.  After all Democrats asked Ukraine to investigate Trump associates. Hence with the clear facts of Biden's corruption no responsible honest President could ignore them.
• The transcript of the phone call shows that Trump didn't in fact condition US aid on an investigation
• The President and the Foreign Minister of the Ukraine say they never felt any pressure to investigate Biden and in fact they didn't even know that the aid had been temporarily held up

Essentially it's Bolton vs facts and the statements of the alleged victims.

We know that Comey lied so simply presuming that Bolton is not is illogical.

Oh and here's a few other tidbits of interest vis a vis this story.

The NYT, whose record of lying is well established, based the report on comments from people who had talked to people who had allegedly seen the manuscript.  Given that that type of sourcing is what the NYT used in story after story about collusion that have been shown to be false means that we have no reason to believe the NYT now.

What's interesting is that the book was being reviewed by....wait for it yes Lt. Col.--don't call me Mr-- Alexander Vindman's brother. So there's a good chance that this is nothing more than a new lie coming out of corrupt leftists entrenched in the government.

Bolton has refused to confirm or deny the leak but he has said that the review process is obviously corrupt.

Finally, and not that it matters to Democrats or the #FakeNews media, Trump says that he never said that and points out that if he wanted to do so the transcript of the phone call with Ukraine President Zelensky would have been very different.

Which of course is why this is all absurd.  Imagine if Trump said in a fit of anger that he'd like to bomb China but didn't really mean it.  Would that be a crime?  Clearly not.

So if Trump out of frustration about how Democrats are treated vs how he's treated said that he'd like to force the Ukrainians to investigate Biden but never actually did that how is that wrong?

Remember that when confronted with the obvious evidence of his corruption Joe Biden said it wasn't so and the entire Democrat and #FakeNews media simply took him at his word and ignored all the evidence.

On the other hand for 3 years Trump has been accused of things that didn't happen and investigated based on lies from Russia paid for by Hillary.

Once again the #FakeNews media are trying to make nothing something.

However if in fact Bolton is talking about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election then that blows the entire Democrat position out of the water unless they're going to say that after they've spent 3 years investigating that it's a crime for Trump to investigate it too.