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Democrats Now Have An Unlikely Ally In Trump Impeachment Inquiry – John Bolton

He doesn't cut the profile of a member of The Resistance, but Bolton's opposition to a pressure campaign in Ukraine to investigate conspiracy theories may pit him against his former boss.

Former Trump National Security Adviser John Bolton is known as a conservative foreign-policy hawk. But he is turning into a key figure in the Democratic-led impeachment inquiry of President Trump.

"All administrations are tempted to do bad things and have people who have bad instincts or wrong instincts," said Danielle Pletka, who oversees the conservative American Enterprise Institute's work on foreign policy and defense.

"And then there are people who just have judgment," she said, noting there are "white hats and black hats" in every administration, people who try to do the right or wrong thing. "And I would say that John Bolton comes out of this with a white hat of judgment."

Investigators in the impeachment inquiry on Capitol Hill have heard from U.S. diplomats and former

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