Kim Strassel: ‘Deliberately Timed Release’ About Bolton Was Designed to ‘Rattle’ GOP

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STRASSEL: “Well, look. I think part of this is what’s saw happen this week is we had a very deliberately timed release about John Bolton. It was put out there specifically to rattle Republicans and make them believe the democratic media narrative that it was their obligation to call witness and keep going or it will hurt them politically. What you saw happen was the Republicans came back to some core truths that had been there since the very beginning. One was this was a fundamentally flawed process that had come to them from the house. And no amount of witnesses would correct that, the secret hearings, et cetera. I think they realize as voiced by Lamar Alexander, even if you took the scenario about what people were claiming John Bolton would say, it didn’t rise to the level of being something that was impeachable. That’s — that was impeachable. That’s why you saw the Republicans do the right thing.”