Вопросы и ответы

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Вчера в New York Times опубликовали слитый в прессу список вопросов, который Мюллер подготовил для Трампа.

The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, recently provided President Trump’s lawyers a list of questions he wants answered in an interview. The New York Times obtained the list; here are the questions, along with the context and significance of each. The questions fall into categories based on four broad subjects. They are not quoted verbatim, and some were condensed.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/30/us/politics/questions-mueller-wants-to-ask-trump-russia.html

Четыре категории вопросов: Флинн, Коми, Сешнс (последние два - из расследования попыток помешать правосудию) и российские контакты. В последней категории вопросы вполне ожидаемое, кроме пожалуй "What knowledge did you have of any outreach by your campaign, including by Paul Manafort, to Russia about potential assistance to the campaign?" Хотя контакты Манафорта известны, до сих пор о его попытках запросить российскую помощь не сообщалось.

Вопросы слил некто близкий к адвокатам Трампа, предположительно Руди Джулиани, с тем, чтобы отговорить Трампа давать показания. Действительно, трудно представить, чтобы даже с помощью адвокатов Трамп сумел дать на эти вопросы честные ответы.



Свои ответы на вопросы Рашагейта предложили республиканцы в комиссии Палаты представителей по разведке, во главе с Девином Нунесом, выпустив обещанный финальный отчет.

Репортаж New York Times подробно рассказывает про то, как Трамп культивировал связи с Нунесом во время избирательной кампании 2016 и переходного периода, и как Нунес превратился для Трампа в своего человечка в Конгрессе.

In the beginning, it was Nunes who influenced Trump. During the campaign, he tutored the candidate on water policy — a crucial issue to California agribusiness interests — and Trump heeded his warnings about the perfidy of environmentalists and government bureaucrats who were creating a “man-made drought.” At the Tulare fund-raiser, Trump promised the crowd that he would get their water back for them. Once Trump was elected, he appointed Nunes to the executive committee of his transition team, where Nunes helped shape the nascent Trump administration’s foreign policy. “He just took a very proactive role,” one Trump transition official recalls. “He was very aggressive and assertive about things and people we had to have.” According to the Trump transition official, Nunes was among the strongest advocates for Mike Pompeo, a colleague of his on the Intelligence Committee, to become the C.I.A. director and for James Mattis to become the secretary of defense. He also recommended a number of staff members, including his Intelligence Committee aide Derek Harvey, for positions on the National Security Council. “If we didn’t have Nunes,” the transition official says, “we wouldn’t have had anything stood up. He took the lead and was very important.”
The Trump team was so impressed with Nunes that, according to the transition official, it considered bringing him into the administration. A few weeks after the election, the congressman traveled to Trump Tower, where, according to transition officials, he and Trump discussed the possibility of his becoming the director of national intelligence and overseeing an ambitious reorganization of the intelligence community. But Trump ultimately decided to shelve those plans and appoint as director a less disruptive figure, Dan Coats, a former Indiana senator. Besides, with Pompeo leaving Capitol Hill for Langley, Trump’s circle believed that Nunes would be even more valuable to the administration if he remained in Congress, running the Intelligence Committee.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/magazine/how-devin-nunes-turned-the-house-intelligence-committee-inside-out.html

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