"I let them go"

Over the incomplete three years of Trump's reign, the White House left 78 percent of category A officials. They were not loyal enough

The special representative of the US State Department for Ukraine Kurt Walker resigned due to the scandal around the telephone conversation of the presidents of the United States and Ukraine. The famous American diplomat, who in the past worked as an ambassador at NATO, is repeatedly mentioned in the official note of the informant from the special services, who told about the pressure of the White House’s owner at the Ukrainian colleague for Ukraine to provide a compromise for Joseph Biden and his son Hunter, who worked in 2014-19. The Council of Directors of the Burisma gas company (the contract ended in April this year).

Trump claims that the former Vice President removed Ukraine from the post of Prosecutor General, threatening to refuse to provide American guarantees of a loan from Kyiv at $ 1 billion.

The prosecutor Shokin allegedly paid for the fact that he began an investigation of corruption facts in the company where Biden Jr. worked.

Democrats initiated the impeachment process based on the fact that the US president turned to a foreign power for help in order to influence the outcome of the presidential election-2020. Now they demand from the White House the decoding of conversations of Trump and Putin. It was reported that Trump personally took the notebook from the translator after one of these meetings.

In the epicenter of the scandal

Kurt Walker told the Secretary of State Mike Pompeo about his resignation last Friday. According to the media, with reference to people close to Volker, he came to the conclusion that “given the events of the last days, it is impossible to remain effective in the position” of the special representative in Ukraine. Walker has occupied it since July 2017. The leaders of the lower house of the Congress announced that they plan to call a diplomat for testimony on Thursday, October 3.

As noted in the Informer’s note, Volker was among officials trying to “minimize damage” from the scandal. Even before the presidential telephone conversation, people from the President of Zelensky, preoccupied with the prospect of deterioration of relations with the United States, came to the special representative after the personal lawyer Trump Rudy Juliani canceled the visit to Kyiv, saying that there was “enemies of America” surrounded by Zelensky.

Andrei Ermak, the “close assistant” of Zelensky, asked the Volker to connect him with Rudy Juliani so that the Ukrainian government could “listen to issues”. Walker agreed to talk with the former mayor of New York. Walker and Juliani met to discuss Ukraine at breakfast. Walker left a record of this on Twitter, and Juliani posted it on his only now to prove that he, contacting the Ukrainians, acted not as a private person, and not even as a personal representative of Trump, but with the knowledge and consent of the US State Department. Kurt Walker organized a telephone conversation between Juliani and Yermak, who then met in Madrid on August 2, after Trump’s conversation with Zelensky.

The reconnaissance informant’s complaint reports that the US President ordered to freeze assistance to Ukraine ($ 391 million) until Kyiv provides incriminating evidence for Baydenov. The informant, whose name has not yet been disclosed, suggested that the Special Supervisor Volker flew to Kyiv to explain to the Ukrainian authorities what Trump wanted.

Rudy Juliani claims that he had a total of eight times with a Volker. On Thursday evening (on the eve of the resignation of a special representative), Lawyer Trump demonstrated correspondence during the Laura Ingrem show on Fox News Trump's favorite channel, urging Volker to confirm that the State Department initiated contact with Ukrainians.

“He (Volker) must explain what he did,” Juliani said on the body. - The informant falsely claims that I acted on my own. But I did not act on my own! "

Walker preferred to resign, and not to comment on the words of Juliani, who, in fact, transferred the arrows to the special representative, removing responsibility from Trump.

“Kurt was one of the good guys who came to this administration (Trump) to prevent disasters,” says Thomas Wright, a senior researcher at the Bruckings of the Washington Institute. “Now they should tell about everything that they know, and let the fragments fly as far as possible.”

Volker will have the opportunity to tell Congress about this story, but does he want to do this?

The Politico publication reported that Kurt Volker had his own “conflict of interests”. He played the role of the special representative on voluntary public principles, without salary. The main work of Volker is the performing director of the John McCain International Leadership Institute of International Leadership, created by the University of Arizona. In addition, he is the director of the international department of the BGR Group-a lobbying company and an investment bank. Special representative Volker strongly supported the sending of weapons to Ukraine (which the Obama administration was opposed), including the portable Javelin anti -tank missile system. According to Politico, both firms in which Volker - BGR and the McCain Institute operates are financially connected with RayTheon - a company producing Javelina and earned millions of dollars on Trump’s decision on their supplies to Ukraine.

The Volker was not charged with violations of the rules due to the "conflict of interests." BGR said that the work of a special bearer had no influence on the company's policy in relation to Kyiv, Volker did not participate in decision -making.

Personnel flow

Another resignation here does not surprise anyone. In recent months, the administration has left John Bolton, a national security adviser; Fiona Hill, in the National Security Council “responsible for Europe”; Dan Cowts, Director of National Intelligence. All of them were on the side of Ukraine in its conflict with Russia. The Embassy of the United States in Kyiv is still without the head of the diplomatic mission after the administration sent home Maria Jovanovich, a career diplomat, which was criticized by President Trump (and Zelensky, who joined him), as well as Juliani. For the fact that she was allegedly not professional enough (read, loyal).

78 percent - this is how the researcher of the Brooklyn Institute Katherine Dunn Tenpas evaluates the personnel of category officials in the Trump administration.

This indicator is higher than the five predecessors of Trump. Above, he was only with Democrat Jimmy Carter.

For the incomplete three years, Trump had been replaced by five directors for relations at the White House and the deputy adviser on national security. Four National Security Advisers and deputy head of the White House staff. Three spokesman for the president and the head of the apparatus of the White House, etc.

Two national security ministers and two directors of the FBI, Secretary of State, Minister of Defense, Prosecutor General, Minister for Veterans, Minister of Labor, Minister of Internal Affairs, Minister of Health and Human Resources, Director of the National Intelligence, and the Director of the CIA, and the CIA Director, were retired.

Today, the president glorifies the next official on Twitter, then literally destroy him, as was the case with the Prosecutor General of Seshns and Secretary of State Tillerson. Recently, the reporter asked Trump about the “lack of stability” in his administration. The president replied: “We have people who acts. The reason they perform them is that I like them, and many like them very, very.

There are people who did the job poorly, I let them go. You call it a turnover, not me. I say: what we do is very smart. ”

There is only one recipe to be in the team of Trump - full of loyalty to him. Like the Secretary of State Pompeo, Prosecutor General Barra or Minister of Finance Mnuchin. The only politician in the White House is the president who had never been engaged in politics before the election and was not elected to any positions; A person spending a record time in social networks and watching television.