Вопрос к залу.
У меня сложилось впечатление, что если сервильные сенаторы и соберутся кого-то прокатить из одиозных трамповых номинантов, то их хватит только на одну кандидатуру. Вообще-то я думаю, что и на одну не осмелятся, но все же вдруг
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35-летний Гэтц был избран в Конгресс в 2017 и целиком посвятил себя нападкам на ФБР и министерство юстиции за расследование путинской атаки на выборы 2016. Потом к нему присоединилось несколько других конгрессменов. Трамповское "no collusion" держалось на молчании двух свидетелей в обмен на президентское помилование - Роджера Стоуна и Пола Манафорта. С Манафортом договаривался Джулиани, а со Стоуном - Гэтц.
As Roger Stone prepared to stand trial in 2019, complaining he was under pressure from federal prosecutors to incriminate Donald Trump, a close ally of the president repeatedly assured Stone that “the boss” would likely grant him clemency if he were convicted, a recording shows.
At an event at a Trump property that October, Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) predicted that Stone would be found guilty at his trial in Washington the following month but would not “do a day” in prison. Gaetz was apparently unaware they were being recorded by documentary filmmakers following Stone, whom special counsel Robert S. Mueller III had charged with obstruction of a congressional investigation.
“The boss still has a very favorable view of you,” said Gaetz, stressing that the president had “said it directly.” He also said, “I don’t think the big guy can let you go down for this.”
Gaetz at one point told Stone he was working on getting him a pardon but was hesitant to say more backstage at the event, in which speakers were being filmed for online broadcast. “Since there are many, many recording devices around right now, I do not feel in a position to speak freely about the work I’ve already done on that subject,” Gaetz said.
The lawmaker also told Stone during their conversation that Stone was mentioned “a lot” in redacted portions of Mueller’s report, appearing to refer to portions that the Justice Department had shown to select members of Congress confidentially in a secure room. “They’re going to do you, because you’re not going to have a defense,” Gaetz told Stone.
Давление на свидетелей - преступление, за которое полагается 20 лет тюрьмы, но заговорщикам все сошло с рук.
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