Anton Petrunin: The game is over

The public version of the report of the special prosecutor Müller on the intervention of Moscow in the American elections has been published. It follows that no American was conspiring with the Russian authorities during the 2016 election campaign. Donald Trump answered the publication with a meme based on the Game of Thrones.

“Immediately after the election on November 8 [2016], officials of the Russian government and prominent Russian businessmen began attempts to make contacts within the future administration. These efforts were encouraged at the highest levels in the Russian government, ” says in the document from which confidential information was excluded. - The Russian Embassy made contact a few hours after the election to congratulate the elected president and organize a telephone conversation with President Putin. Several Russian businessmen after that continued such efforts. ”

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Full text can be found on the website of the US Ministry of Justice. The 448-page report was previously presented by US Prosecutor General William Barr in the form of the main theses. But the general conclusion is one: there was a fact of intervention, but there is no conspiracy of Donald Trump and Moscow.

A more detailed version of the document refers, among other things, to the testimony of the Alfa-Group co-owner, Peter Aven that in 2016 he promised Putin to try to establish a communication channel with the new administration of Donald Trump who won the US elections.

According to the special prosecutor, after the election of Trump, Aven instructed a member of the Board of Directors of Letter One Richard Bart (the former American diplomat, who helps the company to establish communications in the West) find contacts in the transition administration. This happened shortly after Putin’s meeting with the largest businessmen in the Kremlin and a few weeks after Aven's meeting with the Russian leader one -on -one, when the president warned him about the possible introduction of additional economic sanctions against Russia. In addition, it is also reported that in early 2017, Putin in the presence of other officials asked the banker about the results of the work. Aven admitted that negotiations were unsuccessful. According to Müller, Putin has repeatedly asked the banker questions about this.

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The report mentions the conversations of the head of the Russian Direct Investments of Kirill Dmitriev, with the surroundings of Trump after the elections, during which the opportunity to establish the unofficial communication channel Washington and Moscow was discussed. The report says that this also happened on behalf of Putin. In addition, it tells about the communication of the Russian ambassador Sergei Kislyak with the Americans, meetings in Moscow of Deputy Prime Minister Arkady Dvorkovich with Trump adviser to Carter Page, a meeting of Kushner with the head of Vneseconobank Sergey Gorkov.

In the Kremlin, from the comments, on the merits of the mercy, the press secretary of the Russian President Dmitry Peskov said that Müller’s report “first has to flip out and understand whether there is anything that deserves the analysis,” TASS reports. Donald Trump published on his Twitter a picture in the style of the series “Game of Thrones”, which was already outraged by the leadership of the HBO channel. In this image, Trump stands with his back to the viewer in front of the fog cloud, and the font characteristic of the series says “The game is over”. Müller’s team criticized the written answers of the head of state Donald Trump received during the investigation, calling them “inadequate”.

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Many publishers are ready to publish in the form of a book the report of the US special prosecutor Robert Muller about the “Russian intervention” in the election of the American president. Such a book can be released only on April 30, but in the largest Amazon online store it has become a bestseller before the publication, Reuters reports.