I have been following the impeachment proceedings the past few months. Generally, a very sad time for our country. An exception from the sad affairs of state has been the public servants. Public servants defying dictates about not testifying to testify about their concern regarding the president’s security compromising actions. These public servants did so at great risk personally, legally and professionally.
From my perspective, these public servants put country over political affiliation and certainly above dollars in their jeans. Of course, the exception to the public servants is John Bolton. Mr. Bolton has hewed a career from alleged concern for the security of our country. He was so concerned about our country’s security that he did not want to be involved in, his words, “a drug deal” conjured up by President Donald Trump to smear a domestic political rival with help from a leader of a country under attack by the Russians.
And Mr. Bolton did not want to speak of the “drug deal” to anyone other than his publisher. Yes, I just wrote that. Sounds crazy. Gets better. Mr. Bolton has been so concerned about the security of the United States that he has done the following: Received multiple deferments from his involvement in fighting the communists (read: Russia); advocated for confrontation at the drop of a hat; demurred from testifying in the impeachment proceedings, unlike his fellow public servants, under the fog of executive privilege; resisted testifying due to potential loss of future income — being on Fox News as another overpaid bloviator and/or pending book deal.
Mr. Bolton refused to testify about the “drug deal” under various smokescreens. His primary drivers seem to be party over country and money over party. Give me Col. Vindman all day, every day before you send me a “serious” person like Mr. Bolton to do anything for our security. I dream of the return to the time when highly educated people such as Mr. Bolton know what the term “better angels within us” means. I am sure the other public servants who came forward to testify know of better angels. They were more concerned about decency than future Mar-a-Lago retirement fees.
— Jeff Powers
Palmer
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