President Trump in August told then-national security adviser John Bolton that he wanted to continue holding military aid to Ukraine until it helped with investigations into Democrats — including former Vice President Joe Biden — the New York Times reports
Trump's purported statement, as described by Bolton, would directly tie the US military aid freeze with the President's requests that Ukraine announce investigations into his political rivals -- undermining a key pillar of the President's impeachment defense that the two circumstances are unrelated.There is no evidence of wrongdoing by either Joe Biden or his son, Hunter Biden, in Ukraine, and Joe Biden has repeatedly defended his son and himself.
Bolton directly contradicts the heart of the President's defense and therefore must be called as a witness at the impeachment trial of President Trump," the statement said, adding"There is no defensible reason to wait until his book is published, when the information he has to offer is critical to the most important decision Senators must now make — whether to convict the President of impeachable offenses.
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