Дедушка Кушнера

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У Джареда Кушнера неплохие адвокаты, и его письменные показания были составлены грамотно. Новых сведений в них нет, кроме интересных деталей о дарах Горкова:

The meeting with Mr. Gorkov lasted twenty to twenty-five minutes. He introduced himself and gave me two gifts -- one was a piece of art from Nvgorod, the village where my grandparents were from in Belarus, and the other was a bag of dirt from that same village.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/07/24/politics/jared-kushner-statement-russia-2016-election/index.html

Под странным "Nvgorod" очевидно имеется в виду Новогрудок, районный центр в Гродненской области. По-английски пишется Navahrudak. Зачем в тщательно выверенном заявлении понадобилось перевирать это название?

До войны Новогрудок был еврейским местечком с населением в 20 тысяч человек. До присоединения к СССР в результате пакта Риббентропа-Молотова находился в Польше. После войны Новогрудок был использован для создания лагеря НКВД:

В июле 1944 года, после освобождения города советскими войсками, в районе Новогрудка был образован фильтрораспределительный лагерь НКВД, функционировавший до 1947 года[20]. Охрана лагеря осуществлялась 3-м стрелковым батальоном 287-го стрелкового полка НКВД. Сюда свозили арестованных жителей Белоруссии, обвиняемых в сотрудничестве с нацистами и антисоветских настроениях. По оценке историка, подполковника Александра Татаренко, в 1944—1947 годах было расстреляно около 35 000 заключённых лагеря[21]. Казни проводили в глухих, отдалённых и недоступных местах Новогрудского и Дятловского районов.
https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%9D%D0%BE%D0%B2%D0%BE%D0%B3%D1%80%D1%83%D0%B4%D0%BE%D0%BA



Во время войны бабушка Кушнера (Рая Кушнер) оказалась в числе тех, кто сбежал из новогрудского гетто к партизанам (братьям Бельским), прорыв тоннель.

A number of ghetto inhabitants managed to escape, primarily with the assistance of Jewish emissaries sent from the partisan battalion of the Bielski brothers. The underground planned and organized an escape, and for three months a 250-meter-long tunnel was dug, through which the 233 Jews remaining in the ghetto tried to escape on September 26, 1943. About 170 of them succeeded in reaching the forests, where they joined the Bielski partisans’ brigade.
http://www.yadvashem.org/untoldstories/database/index.asp?cid=502

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Прищемленный хвост

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With respect Mr. President, the problem is how often you watch TV, and that your comments and actions are beneath the dignity of the office. https://t.co/NvZydYbnyW

— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) July 24, 2017

Новые нападки Трампа на Адама Шиффа связаны с неплохим воскресным интервью на CBS.

JOHN DICKERSON: Congressman, you are a former prosecutor. What did you make of the president's comments to the New York Times that he thought it would be a violation if the special counsel went looking into his finances?
ADAM SCHIFF: Well, I had a couple impressions. First, the president is clearly worried that Bob Mueller's going to be looking into allegations, for example, that the Russians may have laundered money through the Trump organization. That is really something in my opinion he needs to look at. Because what concerns me the most is anything that could be held over the president's head that could influence U.S. policy. That would be among the most powerful form of kompromat. So I think it is something he needs to look at. It's something plainly the president is very concerned about but clearly within the scope of Bob Mueller's investigation. And I'll say this in light of all the talk about Jeff Sessions lately. It does concern me that the president should bring this up now if it's an indication that he wants to somehow push Sessions out and get in a new attorney general who would then take Rod Rosenstein's place as supervising the Mueller investigation. If this is part of a longer-term stratagem to define or confine the scope of the Mueller investigation, that would be very concerning.
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JOHN DICKERSON: Has what you've looked at in the course of your work suggested that that pattern has more than just a possibility but that there's some evidence behind it?
ADAM SCHIFF: Well, I don't want to comment on the evidence. But I do think we need to look at each and every instrumentality the Russians have used elsewhere, some that we know that were used here, and determine, are there other ways that the Russians have sought to exercise influence? Because at the end of the day we need to make sure that our president is operating not in his personal best interests and not because he's worried about what the Russians might have but because what he is doing is in America's best interest. The fact that we have questions about this is in itself harmful. But we need to get answers to them so that the country can be confident that the chief executive's doing the nation's business first and foremost.
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/transcript-rep-adam-schiff-on-face-the-nation-july-23-2017/



Пока Трамп нападает на Шиффа, канал RT ополчился против республиканского конгрессмена Эда Ройса, председателя комиссии по международным отношениям. В обоснование новых санкций против России Ройс пишет:

Vladimir Putin’s Russia has actively undermined U.S. national security for years. Putin has a long record of aggressive acts that threaten global stability. Russia’s disgraceful bombing campaign shored up the Assad regime, lengthening a civil war that has killed or displaced millions of people. It also continues to prevent peace by helping rebels in eastern Ukraine. While doing all of this, Putin has used disinformation and cyberattacks as weapons against democratic states, seeking to undermine elections – including here in the United States – and splinter the NATO alliance. Putin and his cronies must face serious consequences for these dangerous and threatening acts.
https://foreignaffairs.house.gov/blog/week-house-set-ratchet-sanctions-north-korea-russia-iran/

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