Рорабейкер

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Республиканский конгерссмен из Калифорнии Дейна Рорабейкер (Dana Rohrabacher) известен своими пропутинскими взглядами. В 2014 он без стеснения поддерживал оккупацию Крыма, а в 2016 боролся за отмену закона Магнитского.

When Russia invaded and annexed the Ukrainian peninsula of Crimea in March, Rohrabacher warned fellow conservatives against settling into a familiar foreign policy worldview. “The Cold War is over,” he said. “Putin is not Satan.”
That month, he was one of just 23 House members to vote against a $1 billion aid package to the wobbly Ukrainian government. The following week, he voted “present” on a resolution condemning Russia’s violation of Ukrainian sovereignty, a measure that earned the backing of 402 House members.
“Starting with our own American Revolution, groups of people have declared themselves, rightfully, to be under a different government or a government of their choosing,” Rohrabacher said, comparing the Russian-backed thugs who took control over the Crimean peninsula to America’s founding fathers. American sanctions on Russia, he said, were an “abomination of hypocrisy.”
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/20/meet-the-putin-loving-congressman-who-s-worried-about-fluoride-in-our-drinking-water

New York Times сообщает, что ещё в 2012 ФБР официально уведомило Ропабейкера, что он является объектом вербовки российских спецслужб в качестве "агента влияния".

In a secure room at the Capitol, an F.B.I. agent told Mr. Rohrabacher in 2012 that Russian spies were trying to recruit him as an “agent of influence” — someone the Russian government might be able to use to steer Washington policy-making, former officials said.
Mr. Rohrabacher said in a telephone interview on Thursday that the meeting had focused on his contact with one member of the Russian Foreign Ministry, whom he recalled meeting on a trip to Moscow. “They were telling me he had something to do with some kind of Russian intelligence,” Mr. Rohrabacher said. He recalled the F.B.I. agent saying that Moscow “looked at me as someone who could be influenced.”
https://mobile.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/dana-rohrabacher-russia-spies.html

Судя по его дальнейшему поведению, вербовка прошла успешно.



Имя Рорабейкера всплыло на днях в связи с публикацией записи разговора между республиканскими конгрессменами летом 2016. Kevin McCarthy, лидер республиканского большинства, (по его словам) пошутил, что Путин проплачивает двух людей - Рорабейкера и Трампа. После чего Пол Райан пошутил, что присутствующие должны держать эту информацию в секрете.

“There’s . . . there’s two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump,” McCarthy said, drawing some laughter. “Swear to God,” McCarthy added.
“This is an off the record,” Ryan said.
Some lawmakers laughed at that.
“No leaks, all right?,” Ryan said, adding: “This is how we know we’re a real family here.”
“That’s how you know that we’re tight,” Scalise said.
“What’s said in the family stays in the family,” Ryan added.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/house-majority-leader-to-colleagues-in-2016-i-think-putin-pays-trump/2017/05/17/515f6f8a-3aff-11e7-8854-21f359183e8c_story.html

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Ботинки

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Обращаясь к репортерам после сегодняшнего закрытого заседания в Конгрессе, Elijah Cummings сказал:

If there is any moment that the press, in our country’s history, has a major role, it is this moment. This is your moment. You have got to put it out there so people can understand what is going on. I have said it before and I’ll say it again: This is about the fight for the soul of our democracy. We cannot afford to lose this one.

Похоже, что в прессе начинают осознавать свою роль четвертой ветви власти и задают повестку дня убийственными репортажами.

Сегодня появилось еще две таких публикации.



1. Из репортажа New York Times: новая подпись под ныне знаменитой фотографией:

“I just fired the head of the F.B.I. He was crazy, a real nut job. I faced great pressure because of Russia. That’s taken off.”

Именно такими словами Трамп сообщил Лаврову и Кисляку о том, как он избавился от Коми.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/19/us/politics/trump-russia-comey.html

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