Хеллоуин

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Примечательный день истории - понедельник, 31 октября 2016. Десять дней остаётся до выборов, во многих штатах идёт досрочное голосование.

В этот день Mother Jones публикует заметку о досье Стила (не называя его по имени), а Slate публикует заметку о коммуникации между российскими банками и сервером Trump Organization.

Накануне Гарри Рид, лидер демократического меньшинства в Сенате, пишет открытое письмо директору ФБР Коми, в котором говорится:

In my communications with you and other top officials in the national security community, it has become clear that you possess explosive information about close ties and coordination between Donald Trump, his top advisors, and the Russian government — a foreign interest openly hostile to the United States, which Trump praises at every opportunity. The public has a right to know this information. I wrote to you months ago calling for this information to be released to the public.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2016/10/31/harry-reid-just-made-a-huge-incendiary-evidence-free-claim-about-trump-and-russia/

Ответа на письмо не поступает, комментаторы продолжают обсуждать расследование ФБР по поводу емайлов Клинтон.



Doug Schoen, ручной демократ Fox News и автор книжки "Putin's Master Plan: To Destroy Europe, Divide NATO, and Restore Russian Power and Global Influence" (сентябрь 2016), пишет, что теперь он не сможет голосовать за Клинтон, потому что ее расследование создаст конституционный кризис.
http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/presidential-campaign/303542-doug-schoen-reassessing-my-support-for-hillary

Его слова подхватывает и цитирует Трамп на своём митинге в Мичигане:

This is the biggest scandal since Watergate. <...> Hillary is likely to be under investigation for a very long time. One of her longtime supporters, a top Democratic Pollster, Doug Schoen, is now totally withdrawing his support. He wrote an article entitled “I’m a Democrat, I worked for Bill Clinton, but I can’t vote for Hillary.” Schoen writes: “I am now convinced that we will be facing the very real possibility of a constitutional crisis with many dimensions and deleterious consequences should Secretary Clinton win the election.” Schoen warns that if Hillary is elected, she would be under protracted criminal investigation – and probably a trial of a sitting President. The investigation will last for years, a trial will probably start, nothing will get done, and our country will continue to suffer. She is unfit and unqualified to be President, and her election would mire our government and our country in a constitutional crisis we cannot afford. We need to be going to work for the American people – we can’t do that with Hillary in the White House trying to avoid prosecution.
https://www.donaldjtrump.com/press-releases/in-michigan-donald-trump-outlines-his-urban-renewal-agenda-promises-to-brin

Сама Клинтон проводит митинги в Огайо. Выступая в городе Кент, она затрагивает вопросы внешней политики и национальной безопасности.

...what's most striking about all of this -- and I would argue most important for voters to consider – is the relationship between Donald Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin. As former Secretary Madeleine Albright put it, and I quote her, ‘We have never seen a mind meld of the kind between the Russian leadership and a candidate for the presidency of the United States.’ Michael Morell, who ran the CIA and grew up just a few miles from here, has said that Putin is manipulating Donald. Putin is a trained intelligence officer from the old KGB. He knows he can use flattery to get into Donald’s head -- to make Donald the Kremlin’s puppet. And It seems to be working. Donald has signaled to Putin that he will let Russia do whatever it wants, from Ukraine to Syria and beyond. He’s even said Putin is a stronger leader than President Obama. And it gets worse. The U.S. intelligence community has now confirmed that the Russian government, which means Putin, is directing cyber-attacks against targets in the United States to influence the outcome of our election. So ask yourself, why would Putin be trying to get Donald Trump elected President? Could it be because of all of the nice things Donald has said about him, or the fact that he’s promised to adopt pro-Kremlin policies, or maybe because of his extensive business dealings with Russian oligarchs with ties to Putin? Since Donald still won’t release his tax returns, and don't hold your breath, we don’t the full extent of his business relationships --but what we do know is disturbing. And we know this: We are dealing with something unprecedented in the history of our country. A foreign adversary trying to influence our presidential election. That should scare everyone, Democrat, Republican, and Independent. With the election just eight days away, this can’t wait any longer. Donald Trump should immediately disclose all of his ties and connections to the Kremlin and its associates. The American people deserve to know the full extent of these links and how they relate to what the Russians are doing in our election.
https://www.hillaryclinton.com/briefing/updates/2016/10/31/in-kent-clinton-says-trump-cannot-be-trusted-with-our-national-security-lays-out-vision-for-an-america-that-is-stronger-together/

В тот же день губернатор Огайо Джон Кейсик на досрочном голосовании демонстративно вписывает в бюллетень имя Джона Маккейна.



Трамп выступал в Огайо за несколько дней до этого и говорил следующее:

Now Hillary wants to start a shooting war in Syria, conflict with a nuclear power – Russia – which could very well lead to World War III.
And the way she talks about Putin. She’s always said she has no idea, but she’s always saying — WikiLeaks, it’s Russia and Donald Trump — I have nothing to do with Russia.
She said maybe Donald Trump is involved in projects with the Russians. The answer’s no, no.
But what she does, she says Donald Trump and Russia.
Look, look, she speaks so badly of Putin, nuclear country, she speaks so badly, I say — and she uses it to try and get votes.
I said to myself you know, how do you speak so badly of somebody, I mean how are they going to ever get along? Wouldn’t it be great if we actually got along with Russia and other countries?
And we together went after ISIS and knocked the hell out of them? Wouldn’t that be a good thing? Because they want to get them out also.
But she speaks very badly of Putin, and I don’t think that’s smart, you know.
http://www.whatthefolly.com/2016/10/31/transcript-donald-trumps-speech-in-springfield-ohio-part-5/

Вскоре он выиграет и Мичиган, и Огайо. Графство в Огайо, в котором выступала Клинтон, голосовало, как и штат Мичиган, за Обаму в 2008 и 2012 и за всех демократических кандидатов до этого, начиная с Билла Клинтона в 1992. Трамп выиграет его с перевесом в 10%.

Символом Хеллоуина 2016 стал странный персонаж David S. Pumpkins в исполнении Тома Хэнкса на SNL.