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#Rep. Nadler says he’s ‘not interested’ in John Bolton’s testimony

#Rep. Nadler says he’s ‘not interested’ in John Bolton’s testimony

June 21, 2020 | 10:57am

Rep. Jerrold Nadler, the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, said he is “not interested” in having John Bolton testify about explosive new claims in his book that President Trump sought election help from China.

“No, we’re not interested in Bolton’s testimony,” the New York Democrat said on CNN’s “State of the Union.”

After being pressed by host Jake Tapper, Nadler acknowledged that “we may, but we’ll see about that.”

Among the allegations in Bolton’s memoir, “The Room Where It Happened,” Bolton writes that Trump sought Chinese President Xi Jinping’s help in winning a second term by buying more products from American farmers during the G-20 summit in Osaka, Japan, in June 2019.

Bolton, a former White House national security adviser, also claimed in reported excerpts before Tuesday’s scheduled publication that he informed Attorney General William Barr about Trump’s apparent desire to thwart investigations into the Chinese telecom company ZTE and Turkey’s state-owned Halkbank.

Bolton wrote that the Democrats committed “impeachment malpractice” by failing to broaden their investigation into Trump beyond his call with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelensky.

“Well, the fact is the president could have been impeached on other grounds, too, such as obstruction of justice in the Russia investigation,” Nadler said. “We chose to try to keep it simple, but Bolton, who has as we now know evidence that he could have offered but refused to offer is certainly no one to talk.”

Bolton did not testify in the Democratic-majority House’s impeachment investigation and was not called to appear in the GOP-led Senate trial.

Nadler was asked if Bolton’s new allegations are impeachable or whether he has closed the door on making another attempt.

“I think the president has done a lot of impeachable things including what Bolton is talking about. But we have an election coming up, and we know the Republicans in the Senate will not entertain impeachment in any event. So that would be at this point, a waste of time and effort,” he said.

Trump was impeached in the House in December, but acquitted in a Senate trial in January.

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