SkepticThinker
Veteran Member
Here is some interesting new information:I understand what you are trying to say but it’s not applicable in this particular instance. Please bear with me so I can explain.
I was asking you a simple question, if the reason the aid was released was because Zelensky “made the grade”, as you claimed, then why was the aid released on Sept 11. I noted this was 50 days after the call, two days after the issue blew up publicly for the President, and about a week before Zelensky canceled a planned CNN interview, which WH officials were concerned he was going to use to announce the investigations.
In addition, I mentioned it was incidentally a day after John Bolton resigned. It was here that I mentioned Bolton called Rudy’s a “hand grenade” and the whole thing a “drug deal”.
Shad, in his typical flippant manner, parachuted in to question whether Bolton used those words. Ignoring, for obvious reasons, the thrust of my question (which wasn’t about Bolton) and even the thrust of my side comment (which doesn’t depend on which phrase Bolton used). I said, ok, whether Bolton used those words or not Fiona Hill testified that Bolton was so alarmed he instructed her to report it to the NSC lawyers, which she did.
Shad’s response, naturally, is not to engage his intellect with that information or accept the clarification I made and circle back to the thrust of my question; but simply to dismiss the information it as “more hearsay”.
It is not, not the way I’m using it in this conversation. Because this isn’t a court of law and I’m not using Bolton’s statement via Fiona Hill as evidence of Trumps guilt; rather, I’m asking YOU what you think about the timing of the aid release - Bolton’s resignation as part of that. I’m using Fiona’s sworn testimony of what BOLTON told her directly as evidence of how BOLTON felt - which involves two parties, not three, as in your example. Obviously if we had Bolton’s testimony directly that would be even better but this is a far cry from hearsay the way I’m using it in the conversation we are having at this moment.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/poli...f19ae0-24d5-11ea-a14c-412f7b9e2717_story.html