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Bolton's might be to sell copies of a book. Democrats might be to avoid looking bad, to hopefully win the next election.

Somewhere in there, one side or the other (or even both) might care about the truth, or about doing what is good for America. Maybe.

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I can understand someone wanting to make money by selling a book. And I can understand someone not wanting to do the heroic thing to save the country if it looked too personally costly. But at some point, it looks from afar like it would have been easier to just take him down, which makes a paranoid mind ask what's really going on and is there hidden protection?

I think if the House had subpoenaed Bolton, he would have refused to show up. This would have opened him up to be sued, but it would have been a long, drawn out process in the courts, which would have prolonged the impeachment proceedings by several months, by which time public opinion on the impeachment proceedings could have become negative.

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