Удавка для Манафорта

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Пол Манафорт - талантливый политтехнолог, сыгравший ключевую роль в приходе к власти Януковича в 2010 и Трампа в 2016. В августе 2016, на фоне скандала о его украинских и российских связях Манафорт оставил пост председателя избирательной кампании Трампа, но продолжал работать на Трампа в тени, включая советы по выбору сотрудников администрации президента после выборов.

According to two sources with knowledge of the Trump presidential transition process, Manafort—whose formal association with the president-elect ended in August—is heavily involved with the staffing of the nascent administration.
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/11/30/torture-lobbyist-paul-manafort-still-advising-donald-trump-on-cabinet-picks.html



На этой неделе кольцо обвинений вокруг Манафорта стало сужаться. Во вторник Австрия взяла под стражу и согласилась экстрадировать в США миллиардера Дмитрия Фирташа, которому по линии ФБР выдвигаются серьёзные обвинения. Фирташ хорошо знаком не только с политической верхушкой России и Украины, но и с миром организованной преступности, в частности Семёном Могилевичем. Он также был партнером Манафорта по подозрительной сделке в Нью Йорке, которая по утверждению Юлии Тимошенко сводилась к отмыванию денег.

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Починка Прибуса

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Райнс Прибус, глава аппарата Белого дома, был гостем на воскресной передаче NBC и сделал интересные заявления:

CHUCK TODD:

Okay. I want to go to the press conference on the issue of Russia. The president never seemed to answer the question that was asked three or four times there, which is, "Did anybody-- Does he know for sure that anybody on his campaign, does he, can he say definitively that nobody in his campaign, nobody that he's been associated with, had any contacts with any Russian agents?"

REINCE PRIEBUS:

No. First of all, the answer is no. And we don't know of any contacts with Russian agents. And that gets to that New York Times story, Chuck. I mean we've spent days talking about a story that says that our campaign had constant contacts with Russian spies. And I can tell you, I've talked to the top levels of the intelligence community. And they've assured me that that New York Times story was grossly overstated, and inaccurate and totally wrong.

I know what the intelligence committees in the House and the Senate were told by the F.B.I. and I know what I was told. And what I will tell you is that story was total baloney.

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CHUCK TODD:

The Associated Press has a story this morning that the Senate Intelligence Committee has sent a letter to the White House counsel asking for a preservation of any communication, anything that could have any ties, either during, right now since you've taken office, during the transition of the campaign, to make sure there are no-- all records are preserved regarding Russia. Are you aware of this letter? And have you already acted upon it?

REINCE PRIEBUS:

Yeah, I'm aware of it. And I think they're going to do their job. And they have to do that. Those are things that Richard Burr and that team have to do. And that doesn't mean that there's anything there. It just means they need to do some things that satisfy their committee, that they've looked into something. And then they can have meetings behind closed doors that they always do in the Intel Committee, and then they'll issue a report.

And as long as they do their job, and we cooperate with them, they'll issue a report, and the report will say there's nothing there. I know what they were told by the F.B.I., because I've talked to the F.B.I.. I know what they're saying.
http://www.nbcnews.com/meet-the-press/meet-press-02-19-17-n722976



Эти заявления сами по себе достаточно экстраординарны. Откуда работник Белого дома может знать о том, что говорилось за закрытыми дверями на совершенно секретных заседаниях комиссий Конгресса?

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