Mr Bolton, a long-time Republican adviser, abruptly departed the Trump administration this summer. The possible co-operation of Mr Bolton with the inquiry significantly raises the stakes in the inquiry which is now in its fourth week. House speaker Nancy Pelosi opened the impeachment inquiry last month after details of a phone call between Mr Trump and Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelenskiy were published. Leaving for an event in South Carolina on Friday, Mr Trump denounced the impeachment inquiry as a “hoax,” perpetrated by the “do-nothing Democrats”. While Mr Trump said he would “leave it all up to the attorney general”, he said: “I think you’ll see things nobody would believe.

Source: The Irish Times October 25, 2019 19:41 UTC