Washington — US President Donald Trump unleashed his sharpest attack yet on John Bolton after his former national security adviser depicted Trump as playing a central role in a politically motivated pressure campaign on Ukraine, as the US Senate prepared to enter a new phase in the president’s impeachment trial on Wednesday.

Senators will begin up to two days of posing questions to both Trump’s legal team and the Democrats in the House of Representatives, lawmakers who have served as prosecutors in the trial on charges of abusing power and obstructing Congress arising from his request that Ukraine investigate political rival Joe Biden...

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