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The "hawk claw" was bogged down
The White House has another loud resignation. Donald Trump fired John Bolton - National Security Advisor
One of the main "hawks" of the administration unacceptably argued with the president, speaking:
against the idea of negotiations with the Afghan “Taliban” ( representatives of the Taliban Organization recognized in the Russian Federation - approx. Ed. ) In the residence of the Camp David (Trump proposed to hold them on the eve of the anniversary of September 11) and against the full withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan in 2020;
against negotiations with the Iranian President Hassan Rukhani (on the fields of the UN General Assembly) and for the most stringent approach to Tehran (the famous phrase of Bolton: “Stop Iran is to bomb Iran”);
For the overthrow of the Venezuelan President Maduro (in the “forgotten on the table”, the journalists discovered the record: 5,000 soldiers in Venezuela);
“For the Libyan scenario” in relation to the DPRK (after Libya was refused the production of his own nuclear weapons, a coup occurred in the country, Muammar Gaddafi was brutally killed by rebels without trial and investigation);
Against the idea of the return of Russia to the "big eight".
The list is easy to continue.
"He wants to follow only his instincts"
John Bolton informed the press that he did not fire him, but he himself told the president on Monday that he would resign, to which the head of the White House allegedly said: "We will discuss tomorrow." Their meeting did not take place on Tuesday, instead Trump announced on Twitter that he fired Bolton, because the president and others in the administration “decisively disagree” with many proposals of the adviser.
Bolton did not appear at the Pompeo Secretary of State and the Minister of Finance by Mnuchin, a press conference on the new decree on the fight against terrorism. Everything happened rapidly. When the Secretary of State was asked if he knew about Bolton's remaining (these two were barely talking to each other recently, the media noted), Pompeo joked: “I am never surprised.” The Secretary of State, who in Washington is called the “favorite nominee of the President” (the congressman from Kansas Trump first proposed to the post of director of the CIA, and then the Secretary of State to replace Rex Tillerson), at a press conference on Tuesday, stated that the president’s right to select members of the administration. Pompeo emphasized that Bolton’s departure will not affect the foreign policy.
Bolton, as one of the most striking representatives of the conservatives of America and the former Ambassador to the UN, was the welcome guest on the Fox News TV channel. The ex-adviser sent a text message to the leading news to Brian Kilmid: "Let's make clarity-I resigned (myself)." He also wrote to the Washington Post reporter Robert Costa "I will say my word when the time comes."
On Wednesday in the White House, the president gave “explanations for resignation”: the adviser made “very serious mistakes”: “As soon as he (Bolton) said about the“ Libyan model ”, this became a disaster.
Look what happened to Gaddafi ... I do not blame Kim Jong -un for saying that he did not want to have anything to do with John Bolton.
The question is not to be tough. The question is to be smart and not say such things. ”
The representative of the Iranian government said that Bolton’s resignation could allow the Trump administration to interact with Iran in the “less biased manner”. Legislators from the Democratic Party supported the President’s step (a unique case). And among the Republicans, opinions were divided. Utah Senator Mitt Romni (Bolton was his adviser in the 2012 presidential campaign) called it “a big loss”: “The fact that the point of view of John Bolton was not always the same as everyone was only the benefit of the matter.” In turn, the most “loyal” Kremlin, who voted against the sanctions, Senator Rand Paul called the resignation “the necessary step”: “The president has well developed instincts in matters of foreign policy and the cessation of our endless wars. Those who share his views should work on him. ”
The 45th president set an absolute record: in three years he fired three national security advisers.
This post is one of the key in the presidential administration. The personnel turnover (and she has been coming from the very beginning of Trump’s presidency), according to the senior employee of the Washington Institute of Brukings Tom Wright, is that “Trump himself is the most influential person in Trump’s foreign policy”: “I think the longer (the president) takes his post, the more he wants to follow his instincts.”
The President will announce the candidacy of the fourth national security adviser next week.
“It seems that for the current administration this is a common thing,” said James Clapper, former national intelligence director. “Foreign states observe the chaos that the president enjoys with a joyful or gloomy mood, depending on their attitude to the United States.”
Smolenkovs left the building
Meanwhile, the conflict between the special services and the president, whose counting media leads from the Summit to Helsinki, is flared up with renewed vigor, when Trump made it clear that he believes in Vladimir Putin’s assurances of Russian non -interference in the USA, and not the report of American intelligence. CNN and the New York Times reported the secret operation of the CIA in 2017. According to the sources of the TV channel, intelligence managed to remove one of his “high -ranking agents” from Russia.
The decision was made after the meeting of Donald Trump with the Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov and the ambassador to the United States Sergey Kislyak in the White House in May 2017, during which the American president unexpectedly revealed to the Russians a top secret information on Syria received by Washington from Israeli special services.
According to the sources in the administration, before Trump stated that he did not trust foreign spies because their information was received for money and annoyed that intelligence data prevent him from establishing contacts with foreign leaders. Trump called the very first messages about Moscow’s intervention in the presidential election “unreasonable rumors”. New York Times said that the CIA recruited the agent several decades ago.
He gradually grew up in the hierarchy of Russian bureaucracy to the level of one “of the most important and most well -protected agents” of the United States with access to Putin.
The Moscow Informant played an important role in the conclusions of the CIA that the President of the Russian Federation gave an order to interfere in the elections, approved the election of Trump and the theft of the data of the National Democratic Committee.
The Secretary of State Pompeo, the White House and the CIA reported that these publications contain “serious inaccuracies”, and the disclosure of such information is at great risk of not only the participants in the operation, but also the United States as a whole. In an interview with FOX, the former CIA agent Daniel Hoffman called the “Kremlin Mole” leakage “a serious crime”. Officials, experts, journalists recall an attempt to kill Sergei Skripal and his daughter in Salisbury.
The American media did not name the name of the agent right up to Wednesday, although Russian publications have already reported that it was allegedly about the former employee of the Presidential Administration of the Presidential Administration Oleg Smolenkov. In the past, he worked as a second adviser at the embassy in Washington, when the ambassador was Yuri Ushakov, the current adviser to Putin on foreign policy issues. In 2010, Smolenkov was awarded the rank of state -based counselor of the third grade (corresponds to the military rank of major).
In Sentenb 2017, Russian Internet publications reported that the family of a Russian official disappeared in Montenegro.
Smolenkov and his wife Antonin, along with three children, left Moscow in mid -July, flying into Tivat to rest. And they were gone there.
From the official sources, Kommersant, the newspaper, found out that on June 5, 2018, the married couple Oleg Smolenkov and Antonina Smolenkova paid 925 thousand dollars for a three -story house with six bedrooms, six bathrooms and three fireplaces in the town of Stafford, about about an hour from Washington.
American television groups rushed to the house. When the NBC correspondent called the doorbell, he was not opened. But after a few minutes two black SUVs appeared, “people in black”, who were “friends of the owner’s family”, approached the reporters. They persistently recommended that the filming group immediately leave "someone else's private property." According to BBC, late on Monday the Smolenkov family left in an unknown direction. The most possible option is the program for protecting witnesses, new surnames, addresses, and maybe a new appearance.