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Движение "Never Trump" среди республиканцев скукожилось до небольшой горсткилюдей, которых можно пересчитать на пальцах одной руки. Но они не сдаются. Evan McMullin и Mindy Finn, которые сделали отчаянную попытку создать альтернативу на президентский выборах, после воцарения Трампа создали некоммерческую организацию Stand Up Republic https://standuprepublic.com/about-us. Сегодня они запустили рекламный ролик с тем, чтобы оказать давление на Конгресс для создания независимой комиссии о расследовании связей Трампа с Россией. Ролик будут крутить в Вашингтоне на новостных каналах (Fox News, MSNBC, CNN) и запустят в социальные сети.

Между тем Комиссия по разведке, которая готовит заседание 20 марта, пригрозила прислать официальные повестки в Министерство юстиции, если она не получит свидетельства обвинений в прослушке, выдвинутых Трампом.

The House intelligence committee says it could resort to subpoenaing the Justice Department if it fails to answer its request for any evidence that President Donald Trump was wiretapped during the election.
The committee set Monday as the deadline for getting the information, but the Justice Department says it needs more time.
The committee now says it wants the information in hand before March 20 when it holds its first public hearing on its investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.
A spokesman for committee chairman Devin Nunes of California, Jack Langer, says the committee might subpoena the information if the Justice Department fails to answer its questions.
https://apnews.com/23ef59552e4b46a2b3c90f5ea6aba400/The-Latest:-Panel-says-it-could-subpoena-wiretap-evidence

Впрочем, судя по последнему брифингу Шона Спайсера, эти обвинения обернулись пшиком.

1. Q Does he have an obligation, as Senator McCain said, to clear this up?

MR. SPICER: And I think if you look at the President’s tweet, he said very clearly “wiretapping” in quotes. There’s been substantial discussion in several reports that Bret Baier from Fox on March 3rd talked about evidence of wiretapping. There’s been reports in The New York Times and the BBC and other outlets about other aspects of surveillance that have occurred. The President was very clear in his tweet that it was wiretapping, that that spans a whole host of surveillance types of options. <...> But I think that there has been numerous reports from a variety of outlets over the last couple months that seem to indicate that there has been different types of surveillance that occurred during the 2016 election.

2. Q Did you ask about this tweet?

MR. SPICER: I did.

Q And what did he say?

MR. SPICER: He said they were in quotes, I was referring to surveillance overall. It's something that had been referred to in other reports.

Q So he cited other reports in his conversation with you?

MR. SPICER: He did, yes.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/03/13/press-briefing-press-secretary-sean-spicer-3132017-22

Когда Спайсер говорит "Bret Baier from Fox on March 3rd talked about evidence of wiretapping", он имеет в виду эпизод из интервью Пола Райана:

BAIER: Right, but there’s a report, June 2016, there’s a FISA request by the Obama administration Foreign Intelligence Surveillance court to monitor communications involving Donald Trump and several other campaign officials. They get turned down. And then in October they renew it and they do start a wiretap with some computer and Russian banks and it doesn’t show up anything, by reporting. Have you heard that?

RYAN: Well, again, and like I said, none of us in Congress, or anybody I know in Congress, has been presented with evidence to the contrary of what you just said.

BAIER: So you believe it to be true?

RYAN: Yes.

Очевидно, что Брет Байер здесь просто пересказывает сообщение BBC, а Райан его подтверждает. То есть, как и предполагалось, никакой отдельной информации у Трампа нет.