So if it was leaked, it was leaked by a Trump staffer.

Still, there's a lot of questions. How come this leak occurred at such a critical point in the Senate trial? So did, by the way, the damaging revelations by Parnas.

Could this all be an elaborate conspiracy by the Democrats to turn the trial around? Could it be a Republican ambush, that Bolton's eventual under-oath testimony is totally exonerating for the President and the whole Democratic case is discredited once and for all?

Can Bolton be trusted? His entire career as a right wing politician, official, and writer would be destroyed if the GOP saw him as a traitor. He has every incentive to lie. Then again, he, the ultimate uber-security hawk, knows Trump is a national security threat and a Russian asset.

Nobody knows what to think any more. Uncle Vlad's plan is working perfectly.