Tricks on trust

From the meeting of Donald Trump with Vladimir Putin, no one in America was waiting for breakthroughs, but everyone was in anxious expectation. The 45th US President never prepares for negotiations, improvises along the way, and not a single adviser can vouch that the president will adhere to a certain line or at least a agenda. On the eve of the meeting, already in Helsinki, Trump himself reduced the bar in an interview with CBS News.

He was asked what he expects from a conversation with Putin. “I don’t wait for anything,” he answered . “I’m going there without great hopes. It would be good to get along with Russia, but maybe we won’t get along. I think we were very disturbed by this whole hunt for witches, which was arranged in the United States, a hunting for Russian witches, a fabricated story.” And then he uttered a long tirade that the democrats themselves were to blame, that their computers were hacked (it was better to protect them - the republican did not hack them) that all this was in Obama’s presidency and that it was a shame for the FBI, that employees who do not like Trump work there.

The presidential adviser to National Security, John Bolton (the president forbade him to give an interview with the "false" CNN), participating in the ABC News current show, showed himself an exceptionally clever adapted man. He said that the special prosecutor Robert Müller, having charged 12 GRU employees, handed Trump a large trump card with whom it would be easier for the president to talk with Putin. "Did you say it that for Trump to meet with Putin means to take a lot?" - reminded him. “I always like it when I am presented to the statements made at a time when I was a private person,” Bolton sardonically grinned. “Well then, I ask you as an adviser in national security,” the interviewer did not lag. “Do you think that Trump should believe Putin?” “I am an adviser,” said Bolton. “I do not make decisions. I have a privilege to give advice to the president, but I do not discuss them publicly.”

From these evasive answers it became clear that even Bolton, who used the president’s special trust (judging by many signs, he even pushed the head of the White House apparatus John Kelly), was not able to predict the result of the meeting or at least its content.

But one topic dominated the press, and Trump could not have evaded it from its discussion. This topic is the subject of the investigation of the special prosecutor - Russian intervention in the 2016 election and the possible conspiracy of the Kremlin with the Trump election headquarters.

Both presidents, each in their own way, prepared for her. Trump, as usual, dismissed. There was no conspiracy - this is all Fake News, fabricated by Hillary Clinton and the FBI officers sympathizing with her. “I think the investigation of a disaster for our country,” he said . “This is what is sharing us. There was no conspiracy at all. Everyone knows this. It is ridiculous.” As for the intervention, President Putin told him that this is not Russia. "I see no reason why it should be." "Who do you believe: President Putin or his own intelligence?" - asked him. “I believe in both side,” he answered. And besides, President Putin made him an “incredible proposal”: “He invited people who work on business, come and work with their investigators about these 12 people.”

There is nothing incredible in Putin’s proposal - the procedure for joint interrogation of the suspects is provided for by a bilateral agreement on mutual legal assistance in criminal cases of 1999. In accordance with Article 10 of the Agreement, representatives of the requesting party "are allowed to directly ask questions to the interviewed person or formulate the questions that should be asked to him." Under the terms of a similar agreement with the UK, British investigators took part in the interrogations of the suspects of the murder of Alexander Litvinenko. According to The Times, they then failed to get answers to a number of questions that interested them - Russian investigators simply ignored them. But President Putin portrayed the fulfillment of the agreement as a great favor to Trump and arranged it with additional conditions, while carefully demonstrating that he forgot the name of such a small bipod as Robert Müller:

*We can suggest that your relevant commission, which is headed by the special prosecutor ... What is the surname - Mr. Müller? Within the framework of this agreement, he can send us an official request in order to interrogate those people whom he considers guilty of committing some offenses. Employees of our prosecutor's office and investigating authorities can conduct and send the relevant materials to the United States.

Moreover, we can take another step towards. We can allow official representatives of the United States, including this commission of Mr. Muller, to attend these interrogations. But then, in this case, we will certainly raise the question that these actions are mutual.*

Who does he want to interrogate in America?

What do I mean? The well -known business of Hermitage Capital Mr. Brauder. According to our investigation, a group of persons, business partners of Mr. Brauder illegally earned more than one and a half billion dollars in Russia, did not pay taxes either in Russia or in the United States, but these money to the United States transferred: $ 400 million was sent to the election campaign of Ms. Clinton .

Vladimir Putin is not charging this charge for the first time. This is the same compromising evidence , which was brought on June 9, 2016 by Donald Trump Jr., lawyer Natalya Veselnitskaya, and before that, on May 16 of the same year, it was posted on the website of the General Prosecutor's Office of the Russian Federation. But neither the Donald-Sin, nor at the meeting with Veselnitskaya, head of the headquarters of the Donald Father Paul Manafort and his senior adviser and son-in-law, Jared Kushner, were not seduced by a gift, since the information was not supported by any documents.

The revelation of the Helsinki meeting can be considered the recognition of Putin that he wished Trump's victory - so far he has invariably repeated that he respects the choice of the American people and is ready to work with any president that they would be elected. Not to mention the fact that he constantly insisted that the college of electors is a relic of the past, which does not provide democratic will. And Trump just won the board of electors.

In general, regarding the intervention in the election, the President of Russia remained in their former positions: Evgeny Prigozhin and his subordinates from the "troll factory" "do not represent the Russian state", about the incriminating evidence on Trump - "throw this husk out of the head", about pears who are not private individuals - "I do not know anything about it yet," and finally - "call me at least one fact that is one fact that is, which is, which is, which He talks about some kind of conspiracy. " It is difficult to object to a person who alone does not know the facts known to everyone.

Putin is right when he says that "the final instance is always only a court", at least in the USA. But it is there that the evidence is presented, which he thirsts so long. Both indictments against Russian citizens passed through a large jury. These are court hearings with the jury of the jury, during which the prosecution makes its evidence and interrogates witnesses. In both cases, the jury decided that in the case there was enough evidence of the crimes sane by the suspect - enough to send the case to the court.

Putin is mistaken when he claims that “all accusations” against Prigozhin and his company “scatter in an American court”. In May, the American lawyers of Prigozhinsk company Concord Management and Consulting Eric Dubelle and Katherine Sikali said in the federal court in Washington that the company does not plead guilty. And not further, as yesterday it became known that they filed a petition with the court to recognize the crimes of the “imaginary” crimes. So no evidence has yet scattered. Moreover, we are only talking about the “Concord”, which only financed the “troll factory”, but not about the “factory” itself - the St. Petersburg Agency for Internet Research.

Moreover. A few hours after the meeting of the presidents, it became known that Maria Butina was detained in the United States, the closest assistant and ally of the deputy chairman of the Bank of Russia Alexander Torshin. Torshin is one of the defendants in Rashagate. He contacted Trump, using his ties in the National Rifle Association, and Maria Butina helped him in this. In particular, she organized a video of the appeal of the aforementioned John Bolton to the Federation Council with an appeal to expand the rights of Russian citizens to own weapons. Maria Butina was detained for entering the United States on a student visa, she worked as an agent of the Russian state.

To say that Tampa’s statements at a press conference in Helsinki disappointed American observers is to say nothing. The press conference was called a shame even by the media loyal to him, such as Fox News, which granted the right to answer to William Brauder. He called Putin a "cold -blooded killer" and "arrogant liar." Now, presumably, Fox will become a "false news manufacturer" for Trump. Well, the former CIA director John Brennan wrote on Twitter that Trump did not just behave at an idiotic press conference, but that he was "entirely in Putin's pocket" and this is "nothing but betrayal."