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White House Counsel Has Cooperated Extensively With Mueller’s Obstruction Inquiry
Конечно, прочитайте саму статью. Мое понимание такое. Трамп по совету первой своей команды адвокатов, которые были настроены на сотрудничество с Мюллером, отказался использовать executive privilege, в случае Макгэна. Макгэн (видимо, ошибочно) воспринял это решение так, что Трамп собирается сделать его крайним, и, чтобы этого не случилось, решил полностью сотрудничать с Мюллером.
Краткий комментарий Asha Rangappa, описывающий суть дела:
Update: Критика этой статьи в NYT -- THE NYT’S LATEST MCGAHNOBSTRUCTAPALOOZA: SOMETIMES “COOPERATION” IS JUST COVER YOUR ASS
И реакция John Dean:
Конечно, прочитайте саму статью. Мое понимание такое. Трамп по совету первой своей команды адвокатов, которые были настроены на сотрудничество с Мюллером, отказался использовать executive privilege, в случае Макгэна. Макгэн (видимо, ошибочно) воспринял это решение так, что Трамп собирается сделать его крайним, и, чтобы этого не случилось, решил полностью сотрудничать с Мюллером.
Краткий комментарий Asha Rangappa, описывающий суть дела:
Daaaang POTUS just got omarosa'd by his own White House counselТеперь из статьи:
The White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, has cooperated extensively in the special counsel investigation, sharing detailed accounts about the episodes at the heart of the inquiry into whether President Trump obstructed justice, including some that investigators would not have learned of otherwise, according to a dozen current and former White House officials and others briefed on the matter.
In at least three voluntary interviews with investigators that totaled 30 hours over the past nine months, Mr. McGahn described the president’s furor toward the Russia investigation and the ways in which he urged Mr. McGahn to respond to it. He provided the investigators examining whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice a clear view of the president’s most intimate moments with his lawyer.
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Mr. McGahn’s cooperation began in part as a result of a decision by Mr. Trump’s first team of criminal lawyers to collaborate fully with Mr. Mueller. The president’s lawyers have explained that they believed their client had nothing to hide and that they could bring the investigation to an end quickly.
Mr. McGahn and his lawyer, William A. Burck, could not understand why Mr. Trump was so willing to allow Mr. McGahn to speak freely to the special counsel and feared Mr. Trump was setting up Mr. McGahn to take the blame for any possible illegal acts of obstruction, according to people close to him. So he and Mr. Burck devised their own strategy to do as much as possible to cooperate with Mr. Mueller to demonstrate that Mr. McGahn did nothing wrong.
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Worried that Mr. Trump would ultimately blame him in the inquiry, Mr. McGahn told people he was determined to avoid the fate of the White House counsel for President Richard M. Nixon, John W. Dean, who was imprisoned in the Watergate scandal.
Mr. McGahn decided to fully cooperate with Mr. Mueller. It was, he believed, the only choice he had to protect himself.
“This sure has echoes of Richard Nixon’s White House counsel, John Dean, who in 1973 feared that Nixon was setting him up as a fall guy for Watergate and secretly gave investigators crucial help while still in his job,” said the historian Michael Beschloss.
Update: Критика этой статьи в NYT -- THE NYT’S LATEST MCGAHNOBSTRUCTAPALOOZA: SOMETIMES “COOPERATION” IS JUST COVER YOUR ASS
И реакция John Dean:
McGahn is doing right!