Ход конем

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Вчера был один из самых тяжелых дней в истории Рашагейта.

1. Санкций, о которых так долго ломали копья, не будет. Администрация Трампа тупо положила на решение Конгресса и решила, что в новых санкциях нет нужны.

President Donald Trump’s administration signaled it was not imposing new sanctions under a bill he reluctantly signed into law in August, just six months into his presidency.
Members of Congress, including Democrats and some of Trump’s fellow Republicans, have been clamoring for his administration to use sanctions to punish Moscow for past election interference and prevent future meddling in U.S. polls.
“Given the long timeframes generally associated with major defense deals, the results of this effort are only beginning to become apparent,” Nauert said. “From that perspective, if the law is working, sanctions on specific entities or individuals will not need to be imposed because the legislation is, in fact, serving as a deterrent.”
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-sanctions/u-s-says-sanctions-law-deters-billions-in-russian-defense-sales-idUSKBN1FI2V7



2. Вчера истекал положенный по закону о санкциях срок предоставления Конгрессу докладу о российских олигархах, включая их близость к Путину, коррупционность, источники состояния и зарубежные активы. Неизвестно, что вошло в закрытую часть доклада, то в опубликованной части никакой этой информации нет - просто тупой список членов российского правительства и всех российских миллиардеров по версии журнала Форбс. Похоже на издевательскую отписку.

The U.S. Treasury Department's list released Monday detailing 210 Russian oligarchs and close political affiliates of President Vladimir Putin bears a striking similarity to a list of Russia's richest citizens published in Forbes Magazine in 2017.
In fact, almost all 96 oligarchs listed in the unclassified annex of the report, who have a net worth of at least $1 billion, can be found in Forbes' ranking of the "200 richest businessmen in Russia 2017."
The department made clear that this was not a sanctions list, though many of the individuals on the list are already subject to U.S. sanctions. Now it appears that the list is simply a who's who of Russia's rich, seemingly giving it less significance than originally thought.
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/30/us-treasury-oligarch-list-is-strikingly-similar-to-forbes-richest-russians-ranking.html

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Главная опасность пресловутого доклада Нунеса - создание повода для увольнения Рода Розенштейна и назначения на его место человека, который мог бы пустить под откос расследование Мюллера.

A secret, highly contentious Republican memo reveals that Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein approved an application to extend surveillance of a former Trump campaign associate shortly after taking office last spring, according to three people familiar with it.
The renewal shows that the Justice Department under President Trump saw reason to believe that the associate, Carter Page, was acting as a Russian agent. But the reference to Mr. Rosenstein’s actions in the memo — a much-disputed document that paints the investigation into Russian election meddling as tainted from the start — indicates that Republicans may be moving to seize on his role as they seek to undermine the inquiry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/28/us/politics/rod-rosenstein-carter-page-secret-memo.html

О том, что Трамп раздражен Розенштейном и ищет удобного повода его убрать, ранее сообщалось CNN:

The President has been venting about Rosenstein -- who oversees Mueller and the special counsel investigation -- in recent weeks, according to four sources familiar with the situation. At times, Trump even gripes about wanting Rosenstein removed, two of those sources said. One source said the President makes comments like "let's fire him, let's get rid of him" before his advisers convince him it's an ill-fated idea.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/01/26/politics/donald-trump-rod-rosenstein-frustration/index.html



Пропагандистскую артподготовку обеспечивают обычные каналы, в частности Шон Хэннити на Fox News.

Hannity, a sometime presidential adviser who has turned his show into a nightly assault on the rule of law in an effort to protect Trump from the Russia investigation, said the night after the memo story first gained credence: “Rod Rosenstein, you need to explain your role in all of this and specifically if you were involved in extending this FISA warrant. And, frankly, Rod Rosenstein needs to be fired.” Hannity again called for Rosenstein to be “fired and investigated” on January 22. He has described the deputy attorney general as “corrupt,” suggesting he was part of a “rogue group of Obama administration holdovers that despise Donald Trump” that were “abus[ing] the powerful, unmatched tools of intelligence that we give our government to protect us” in order to “influence first the election and then undermine the choice of the American people.” He also questioned whether Rosenstein might be part of a non-existent anti-Trump “secret society.”
https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2018/01/29/amid-reports-trump-may-fire-rosenstein-over-mueller-inquiry-fox-news-drumbeat-urges-him/219195

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