Bombshell Bolton Report Pressures GOP on Impeachment Witnesses
- Times reports that Trump wanted continued Ukraine aid freeze
- ‘John Bolton has the evidence,’ Schumer says in response
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Senate Republicans are suddenly facing intense new pressure to call witnesses in Donald Trump’s impeachment trial after a new report that the president told his national security adviser in August he wanted to continue freezing aid to Ukraine until the government there investigated a political rival.
The demand was outlined in a New York Times report Sunday evening citing an unpublished manuscript by John Bolton, who was fired by the president in September.