Former national security adviser John Bolton and his forthcoming book are threatening to draw Attorney General William Barr into the impeachment political fight that Barr has deftly avoided for months.
Private conversations between Bolton and Barr, who have known each other for decades, are featured in Bolton's draft manuscript for his book, appearing to lend credibility to some of Bolton's sharpest critiques of the president who fired him. That credibility is key if Bolton is to be called as a witness in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
A Justice official confirms that during their own call Bolton complained to Barr that Giuliani was acting like a secretary of state and an attorney general, causing confusion about the official US government policy in the country.Their call would have come around the time the whistleblower first raised concerns about the Trump-Ukraine call at the CIA. It came weeks before the Justice Department received a criminal referral based on the whistleblower complaint.
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