Сотрудничество со следствием

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Вчерашний репортаж New York Times рассказывает, что адвокат Белого дома Дон Макган сотрудничает с расследованием Мюллера и, по глупости освобожденный Трампом от привилегии сохранения тайны разговоров с президентом, дал детальные показания по делу о попытках помешать правосудию. Макган принимал непосредственное участие в дискуссиях вокруг увольнения Коми. По приказу Трампа он также давил на Сешнса, чтобы тот не брал самоотвода, и рассматривал возможность уволить Мюллера.

In at least three voluntary interviews with investigators that totaled 30 hours over the past nine months, Mr. McGahn described the president’s fury toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr. McGahn to respond to it. He provided the investigators examining whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice a clear view of the president’s most intimate moments with his lawyer.
Among them were Mr. Trump’s comments and actions during the firing of the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, and Mr. Trump’s obsession with putting a loyalist in charge of the inquiry, including his repeated urging of Attorney General Jeff Sessions to claim oversight of it. Mr. McGahn was also centrally involved in Mr. Trump’s attempts to fire the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, which investigators might not have discovered without him.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/us/politics/don-mcgahn-mueller-investigation.html

Запахло Уотергейтем и ролью в нем Джона Дина, адвоката Белого дома при Никсоне.

McGahn is doing right! https://t.co/qqzhZRAFlY

— John Dean (@JohnWDean) August 18, 2018

В книге Fire and Fury описывается обсцессия Трампа с Дином:

Trump, who saw history through personalities—people he might have liked or disliked—was a John Dean freak. He went bananas when a now gray and much aged Dean appeared on talk shows to compare the Trump-Russia investigation to Watergate. That would bring the president to instant attention and launch an inevitable talk-back monologue to the screen about loyalty and what people would do for media attention. It might also be accompanied by several revisionist theories Trump had about Watergate and how Nixon had been framed. And always there were rats. A rat was someone who would take you down for his own advantage. If you had a rat, you needed to kill it. And there were rats all around.

Как бы подтверждая это описание, в ответ на публикацию статьи Трамп сам заговорил про "крысу" Джона Дина, в очередной раз написав слово "counsel" с ошибкой.

The failing @nytimes wrote a Fake piece today implying that because White House Councel Don McGahn was giving hours of testimony to the Special Councel, he must be a John Dean type “RAT.” But I allowed him and all others to testify - I didn’t have to. I have nothing to hide......

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 19, 2018

Но история Макганом и Рашагейт не заканчивается на его участием в обструкции (попытках помешать правосудию).

Марси Уилер указывает на два дополнительных обстоятельства:

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