John Bolton: All American Chump

So John Bolton is finally just about ready to publish his kiss-and-tell book about the Trump Administration. According to news media reports, in it, he says that not only should Trump have been impeached for his role in Ukraine, but also he could have been removed for similar offenses in incidents all over the world. Ukraine was just one of many.

But, Bolton elected not to co-operate with the investigation into his boss, and waited to reveal the good stuff in his book, long after the impeachment process was dead and buried in the GOP-controlled Senate.

In a word, WTF?

Now he tells us?

Well, that’s three words, actually, but you get the point. If Bolton is telling the truth, and there’s no reason to doubt him, and if he had spoken up sooner, and helped remove Trump from the White House, then he might well have spared the country untold suffering. Who knows? Maybe he would even have saved lives. If competent authorities had been running things, maybe we wouldn’t have had so terribly, terribly many people die of Covid-19.

But Bolton didn’t act. And the country suffered. And many thousands died.

Which brings up an interesting question. To wit, where does being a witness leave off, and being an accessory to murder begin?

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