The first days of Pompeo

After a week of relative lull, Donald Trump called the key players of his future team, who will begin to fulfill his duties after the inauguration of President Trump January 20, 2017

On the eight of November, the names of the new key players of the future administration Trump became known. Retired General Michael Flynn, ex-head of the US Ministry of Defense (NSA), received the post of presidential adviser on national security (he became widely known due to the fact that he turned out to be a paid guest of the Russian propagandist Channel RT-Flynn sat at the same table with Vladimir Putin), the Republican of Alabam Jeffers Seshns was invited to occupy The post of general prosecutor, and the Congressman Mike Pompeo is the director of the CIA. But if Flynn and Seshns are key members of the Trump team, from the very beginning important positions in the new administration of the United States were read, then the appointment of Pompeo for many was a surprise: they read a completely different congressman to the post of director of the CIA. Pompeo, who was chosen three times in the House of Congress from the Republican Party, worked for many years in business, founded a number of companies related to military aircraft, as well as equipment for oil companies. In the House of Representatives, he worked in the intelligence committee and was one of Obama’s most sharp critics to sign an agreement with Iran.

Internal intrigue

The White House staff should already look for a replacement, and this is not done in one evening. The Hillary Clinton team was sure that she would win, and was preparing to receive power for a long time. Tampists did not really believe in their victory, and therefore they did not prepare for it - such is at least a version of the media. One way or another, and Trump’s transition team will have to find 4 thousand people who will take key positions in the bureaucratic offices of the federal government.

A team under the leadership of the governor of New Jersey Chris Christie, who himself ran up to the presidency, was working on preparation for the reception of power in the republican camp, but quickly left the ski, unable to withstand the ruthless onslaught of Trump, and then one of the first to publicly support him.

Having won the election, Trump lowered Christie in his position - what happened in the media was characterized as “Stalin's cleaning” and explained by the fact that Christie did not passionately defend the leader.

A more adventurous version states that a billionaire and son of a billionaire, working in the construction business, Jared Kushner, who is married to Ivanka Trump (it was one of the leaders of his election campaign), was reduced with Christie. When he was the chief federal prosecutor of New Jersey Christie in 2004, he planted the Kushnerovsky priest Charles, who admitted the whole bouquet of crimes-from tax evasion to an attempt to influence the witness-and was sentenced to two years in prison.

Republican Senator Rand Paul has already warned that he would not vote for the approval of one of Trump's advisers, the former New York mayor Rudy Juliani or former US representative to the UN John Bolton to the post of Secretary

In addition to the giant staff of the White House, Trump will have to appoint more than 4 thousand federal employees and push about 300 of them through the Senate, which must approve them. If Trump wins in Louisian, where the counting of votes is not yet completed, then there will be 52 Republican and 48 democrats in the Senate. Meanwhile, the Republican Senator Rand Paul has already warned that he would not vote for the approval of one of the advisers of Trump, the former New York mayor Rudy Juliani or the former US representative to the UN John Bolton to the post of State Secretary-Paul sees in them knights of the Cold War. If at least one party comrade joins the floor, then Trump will have problems.

But the press is already losing these difficulties. The left journalist Paul Waldman, who did not stand Trump, 4 days after the elections, published an article under the heading “Trump administration has not yet begun in The Washington Post, but it has already suffered a fiasco”.

Two of the clip

Before appointing Flynn, Seshns and Pompeo, the Trump triumph made a more modest order. On November 14, the names of the first two dignitaries of the White House were identified: the current head of the National Committee of the Republican Party, 44-year-old Rains Subus, will lead the apparatus of the White House, and the 62-year-old political strategist Stephen Bennon was made to the main advisers and strategists of Trump.

A less sweet couple is hard to imagine. The Wisconsets Pribus - the embodiment of the Washington establishment, which Trump before the election constantly likened the swamp and threatened to drain. The enthusiasm headed the Republican Central Committee for six years and is closely connected with party bonzes and financial sponsors. He is a fellow countryman and old friend of the speaker of the House of Republican Paul Ryan, who, in fact, recommended him to Trump. Therefore, the snap will help the new president negotiate with Congress.

Bennon is different: he is configured against the establishment and made plans for Ryan’s displacement, which, according to The Washington Post, will now deal with the reforms of the Tax Code and Health, but Ryan is still in his post. Trump hired Bannon in the summer - to head his election campaign. Prior to this, Bannon headed the conservative portal Breitbart News, and used to be a naval officer, then an investor. He earned millions by investing money in the comedy television series Seinfeld.

Before the appointment of Bannon, they were not particularly interested in the main adviser to the White House, but now the cloth of heaven has opened. The media exciting quotes a number of liberal organizations that, among other things, accuse Bannon of National Fobility.

There are two evidence at the moment. 20 years ago, Bannon's wife called the police and accused her husband of domestic violence - the author of these lines has a copy of the then police report. In the end, the case against Bennon fell apart. But now the press gives the words of this woman that Bannon “does not like Jews”, although it is clear that his wife is not the most reliable source.

The second evidence: on the Breitbart website, which was in charge of Bannon, Conservative Bill Christol in May 2016 called the Jewish Jew. This was also interpreted as a sign of Bannon's hostility towards the Jews.

The problem, however, was that Cristol called not Bannon, but another Jew, David Khorovitz, who was in the 1960s a large leftist, but then he was in large right. Khorovitz accused Christol of giving up against Trump, he betrayed the interests of the Jews, since Trump was a faithful friend of Israel.

Be that as it may, no one seriously expects Trump to now think about taking Bannon to his main advisers.

Neither Shatko nor Valkko

Retired General Michael Flynn, who was seen at the video shot at a reception in Moscow at the end of 2015 in honor of the 10th anniversary of the RT television company almost in Putin’s company, the Russian expert, director of the Institute of USA and Canada, Sergei Rogov, in a conversation with NT, called the “strange man”. Flynn's views on the problems of national security, what he will have to do now, by and large remain a mystery. Although, if you believe the journalist Seymur Hershu, who not so long ago the article in The London Review of Books about the General of Front in the bowels of the US Ministry of Defense, Flynn, even when the head of military intelligence, questioned the policy of the Obama administration in the Middle East, including Syria.

The sequencers, who, after November 8, was forgiven the post of Minister of Defense, has a reputation as a “hawk” and an extreme conservative, but now at least it is clear that he will not have a relationship to foreign policy and defense. To the post of chief of the Pentagon, for example, they have already been able to see a sector of Senat Kelly Autt-she has just lost the elections in New Hampshire by the democracy Maggie Hassan and in January 2017 will remain out of business. There are also rumors that Trump will appoint Richard Grenell, a former press secretary of the American mission in the Commonwealth of Nations, as well as the foreign policy adviser to Republican Mitt Romny, who ran for the presidency in the presidential, as well as the presidency in the UN of the UN. Romni himself is sent to the Secretary of State.

The press roots Trump for the fact that the appointment process is neither shaky nor fluel. The intercessors of the elected president recall that, for example, Barack Obama, first elected US President on November 4, 2008, appointed Hillary Clinton Secretary of State only on December 1

The press is still in Trump for the fact that the appointment process is neither shaky nor fluke. The intercessors of the chosen president are worted away: it always happens. And they recall that, for example, Barack Obama, first elected by the US President on November 4, 2008, appointed Hillary Clinton by the Secretary of State only on December 1.

Voices in Congress

The key places in the new US administration, which, as the population of domestic state propagandists did not get tired of convincing the population, is tuned to improve the relations of Moscow and Washington, have already received two members of the congress. Alabama Senator Jeff Sehns - the post of Minister of Justice and Prosecutor General, Congressman Michael Pompeo agreed to head the CIA. In addition, Senator Kelly Iott, who has just lost the elections in the state of New Gampshire, is considered as a candidate for the post of Minister of Defense, and the Senator from Tennessi Bob Corker, heading the Senate Committee on External Affairs, was forgiven in the Secretary of State. In this regard, NT decided to find out how the mentioned persons voted according to bills that became almost the main stimuli in relations with Moscow. This is primarily the “Magnitsky Law” (signed by President Obama on December 14, 2012), which introduced personal sanctions against violators of human rights, as well as the “law in support of independence, integrity, democracy and economic independence of Ukraine” (signed on April 3, 2014) and the “Law on Support for Liberty of Ukraine” (signed on December 18, 2014) - these documents authorized Kyiv to $ 1 billion as aid. Zayov, the possibility of imposing new sanctions against Russia by the United States, and the same supply of the Ukrainian army of lethal weapons.

Boris Yunanov took part in the preparation of the material