‘I am ready to testify at Trump impeachment trial': John Bolton

Washington: John Bolton, the former US National Security Adviser (NSA), has said that he was ready and willing to testify at the pending Senate impeachment trial against President Donald Trump if he received a subpoena from the Republican-majority Upper House.

“I have concluded that, if the Senate issues a subpoena for my testimony, I am prepared to testify,” Efe news quoted Bolton as saying in a statement on Monday.

The interest regarding what Bolton may know about the Ukraine aid suspension case that has led to Trump’s impeachment skyrocketed during the House impeachment investigation launched by Democrats because he was in the forefront of foreign policymaking in the White House when the President pressured Kiev to launch an investigation of his main political rival, former Vice President and Democratic frontrunner Joe Biden.

According to Fiona Hill, a former subordinate of Bolton when he headed the National Security Council, the former NSA said on one occasion that he had nothing to do with the “drug deal” that other Trump advisers were “cooking up” regarding Ukraine.

Bolton had left it to a court to decide whether or not he would be required to testify in the House impeachment investigation, asking a judge to rule on whether he had to obey a congressional subpoena to testify or adhere to standing administration policy that all White House officials were prohibited from revealing anything they might have heard on Ukraine - or any other - matter. (IANS)

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