Report: Several Senate Democrats are talking about trading the testimony of Hunter Biden for John Bolton

John Bolton.
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Some Democratic senators are privately discussing what would happen if they told Republicans that former Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter Biden should testify in President Trump's impeachment trial — so long as former National Security Adviser John Bolton does, too.

Multiple Democratic officials told The Washington Post that lawmakers are discussing trading Bolton for Biden, as they feel having Bolton testify in the trial is that important. The impeachment charges allege that Trump froze approved military aid and withheld a meeting from Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky as a way to pressure Zelensky into announcing an investigation into the Bidens. Hunter Biden once served on the board of Burisma, a Ukrainian gas company, and Trump allies like Rudy Giuliani have pushed unfounded allegations that Joe Biden protected his son from a corruption probe. Hunter Biden was never accused of any wrongdoing during his time at Burisma.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.