Bolton and Kupperman oppose acting White House chief of staff Mulvaney's bid to join

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Source: Washington Post



An attorney for former national security adviser John Bolton and his deputy, Charles Kupperman, formally opposed acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney’s last-minute effort to join a lawsuit asking the courts to decide if senior Trump administration officials must testify in Congress’s impeachment inquiry.

The Monday court filing underscored internal divisions among President Trump’s advisers in the probe, with Bolton and Kupperman said by people close to them to consider Mulvaney a key participant in President Trump’s alleged effort to pressure the Ukrainian government to pursue investigations into his political opponents. In an 11-page filing, Kupperman attorney Charles J. Cooper asked a judge to reject Mulvaney’s motion to join the lawsuit, instead suggesting the court hear it “in tandem” as a separate but related case.

Mulvaney went to court Friday seeking to join the separation-of-powers lawsuit filed against both Trump and the House leadership by Kupperman. The latter has asked U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon of Washington D.C. to rule on whether Congress’s constitutional impeachment power takes precedence over the White House’s claim that current and former top executive branch aides are “absolutely immune” from being compelled to testify, as part of the president’s powers.

Bolton and Kupperman have said they are willing to testify if the judge rules in favor of the House, The Washington Post previously reported. Mulvaney’s attempt to join the lawsuit flabbergasted Bolton and Kupperman, people close to them said, with Bolton aides having testified that he derisively referred to the Ukrainian proposal as “a drug deal,” and White House officials saying Bolton and Mulvaney were barely on speaking terms when Bolton left his post in September.

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Full headline: Bolton and Kupperman oppose acting White House chief of staff Mulvaney’s bid to join impeachment lawsuit

[backtoblue]

1. LMAO!!!

As screwed up as this whole "administration" is, is Mickey diving for Bolton's lifeboat?

Or is he trying to spy on him?

What a bunch of idiots.

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3. I think Bolton just cut the rope on Mulvaney's lifeboat

[Faux pas]

2. HA HA HA

[bucolic_frolic]

4. Pretty strange legal maneuver, what is it, Trump-Ukraine Class Action?

Moreover as COS Slick Mick had daily - hourly - knowledge of Trump's schedule and information flow. He's in a class all by himself. But you gotta given him Chutzpah for his swervy driving - trying to sneak through the legal system on the backs of less compromised is a whole new genre.

[Wellstone ruled]

5. Mickey knows the clock is running

on his Career. And,if the Rethugs go the way of the Wigg's,well,Mickey will be spending years fighting legal battles with many of his Rethug friends.

[Zambero]

6. How does it feel?

Ahhh, how does it feel?
To be on your own
Like a complete unknown
Like a rolling stone!