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RYAN: We’ve heard you’re going to be announcing your foreign policy team shortly… Any you can share with us?
TRUMP: Well, I hadn’t thought of doing it, but if you want I can give you some of the names… Walid Phares, who you probably know, PhD, adviser to the House of Representatives caucus, and counter-terrorism expert; Carter Page, PhD; George Papadopoulos, he’s an energy and oil consultant, excellent guy; the Honorable Joe Schmitz, [former] inspector general at the Department of Defense; [retired] Lt. Gen. Keith Kellogg; and I have quite a few more. But that’s a group of some of the people that we are dealing with. We have many other people in different aspects of what we do, but that’s a representative group.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/03/21/a-transcript-of-donald-trumps-meeting-with-the-washington-post-editorial-board/

Из числа советников Трампа, именами которых он поделился с Washington Post 21 марта 2016, мы с тех пор близко познакомились с Джорджем Пападопулосом и Картером Пейджем. Теперь настало время еще одного советника, Джо Шмитца. CNN сообщает, что Шмитц занимался тем же, что и целый ряд других деятелей - пытался раздобыть в "темном интернете" похищенные емайлы Хиллари Клинтон.

Schmitz met with officials at the FBI, the State Department and the Intelligence Community Inspector General -- the watchdog tasked with investigating Clinton's alleged mishandling of classified information. He claimed a source he called "PATRIOT," an unidentified contractor he was representing, had discovered what he believed was likely material stolen from Clinton that could contain classified information. Both the client and Schmitz were afraid that going through the material without permission could jeopardize their security clearances, though there is no indication their actions were illegal.
While officials at the State Department and Inspector General briefly interviewed Schmitz, they declined to review or accept the information, according to sources familiar with the process. The FBI interviewed him as a part of its ongoing criminal investigation into Clinton's emails, sources said. It is not clear whether special counsel Robert Mueller is pursuing information about Schmitz's efforts.
Schmitz then took a memo outlining his claims and concerns to the House Intelligence Committee. One cybersecurity expert outside the government who also saw the material on the dark web said the emails appeared to be fake, based on his review and the forum where they were posted.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/06/politics/joseph-schmitz-trump-adviser-clinton-emails/index.html



Хотя Шмитц намного более опытен, чем Пападопулос и Пейдж, выбор его в качестве советника по международным отношениям вызвал в Вашингтоне недоумение. Консервативный National Review писал:

Joseph Schmitz, a former Defense Department inspector general revealed as one of Trump’s top global advisers this week, doesn’t run in the same circles as Washington’s foreign-policy crowd. In fact, since his resignation from his Pentagon position due to a slew of corruption allegations in 2005, he’s largely been off the grid. So it wasn’t easy finding someone to help explain the thought process of a man now helping to shape the worldview of the likely Republican nominee.
One well-respected expert at a conservative think tank tells National Review that neither she nor her co-workers had heard of most of the names on the list. But she did know Schmitz. “He’s just a nut,” she says, requesting anonymity in order to speak freely. “I mean, he’s just widely held in contempt throughout Washington. And he was held in contempt when he was at DOD.”
‘Either [Trump] doesn’t care about experience . . . or no one wants to taint his reputation by working for a guy whose views are often so harsh and unthinking.’ - Michael O’Hanlon
She details an apparent obsession Schmitz has with Baron von Steuben, a Prussian noble and founder of the modern office of inspector general. Schmitz once replaced all inspector-general seals in his offices with the Steuben family motto, and in 2005 he tried to use taxpayer dollars to attend a ceremony honoring the baron in Potsdam, Germany. She says that’s part of a strange preoccupation his family has with all things German. “They’re obsessed with Germany in a way that’s really unhealthy,” she says. “His father was a member of the John Birch Society. There’s just a lot of weirdness there.”
As an afterthought, she adds: “He’s also not a foreign-policy expert by any standard - doesn’t really know anything about foreign policy. Previously, he was in the field of aviation law. The whole thing is just bizarro.”
Other than this one think-tank scholar, few in D.C.’s foreign-policy establishment seem to know much about Schmitz.
https://www.nationalreview.com/2016/03/donald-trumps-foreign-policy-advisers-skeptical-reviews/

В августе 2016 всплыла информация о том, что во время работы Шмитца в Пентагоне подчиненные обращались с официальными жалобами на его антисемитизм.

Daniel Meyer, a senior official within the intelligence community, described Schmitz’s remarks in his complaint file.
“His summary of his tenure’s achievement reported as ‘…I fired the Jews,’ ” wrote Meyer, a former official in the Pentagon inspector general’s office whose grievance was obtained by McClatchy.
Meyer, who declined to comment about the matter, cited in his complaint another former top Pentagon official, John Crane, as the source and witness to the remarks. Crane worked with Schmitz, who served as inspector general between April 2002 and September 2005.
In his complaint, Meyer said Crane also said Schmitz played down the extent of the Holocaust.
“In his final days, he allegedly lectured Mr. Crane on the details of concentration camps and how the ovens were too small to kill 6 million Jews,” wrote Meyer, whose complaint is before the Merit Systems Protection Board (MSPB).
http://www.mcclatchydc.com/news/politics-government/election/article96421087.html

Но на фоне всего остального этот мелкий скандал удалось замять.



После выборов Шмитца одно время прочили на пост министра военно-морских сил.

Former Pentagon Inspector General Joseph Schmitz is “in consideration” to be nominated as the next secretary of the navy should President Donald Trump’s current pick drop out, a source told The Daily Caller News Foundation Saturday.
“Joe Schmitz is in strong consideration to be nominated if Bilden backs out for [Secretary of the Navy],” an advisor on national security appointments within the Trump transition team told TheDCNF. The source spoke to TheDCNF on the condition of anonymity.
http://dailycaller.com/2017/02/19/exclusive-joseph-schmitz-under-consideration-for-secretary-of-the-navy-should-bilden-drop-out/

Но в итоге выбор пал на банкира Ричарда Спенсера.

Другого участника встреч международных советников, конгрессмена из Пенсильвании Тома Марино, Трамп в благодарность назначил ответсвенным за борьбу с наркотиками. Но после всплывших скандалов тот был вынужден снять свою кандидатуру.

Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Tom Marino, a Trump supporter and member of the House Homeland Security and House Foreign Affairs committees, defended Trump’s advisers.
“I have the utmost confidence in that foreign policy group,” said Marino, who attended a two-hour meeting with Trump’s foreign policy brain trust Wednesday at New York’s Trump Tower. “We just finished a meeting with 25 men and women who are experts, expert-ish in foreign policy,” Marino added. “There were some real heavyweight people.”

Rep.Tom Marino has informed me that he is withdrawing his name from consideration as drug czar. Tom is a fine man and a great Congressman!
- Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2017

Говоря про емайлы, следует упомянуть продолжающую поступать информацию о контактах Джулиана Ассанжа, Гуччифера/ГРУ и Роджера Стоуна.

Roger Stone, trolling Democrats, again. pic.twitter.com/5pJEsZpmvn
- Julian Assange ⌛ (@JulianAssange) March 5, 2018

Стало известно, что в начале августа 2016 Ассанж активно выходил на связь с Гуччифером.

Twitter DMs obtained by BuzzFeed News show that in the summer of 2016, WikiLeaks was working to obtain files from Guccifer 2.0, an online hacktivist persona linked to by Russian military intelligence, the clearest evidence to date of WikiLeaks admitting its pursuit of Guccifer 2.0.
“[P]lease ‘leave,’ their conversation with them and us,” WikiLeaks asked journalist Emma Best, who was also negotiating with Guccifer 2.0 for access to what it had teased on its blog as “exclusive access” to hacked Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee files. “[W]e would appreciate it if you did not dump the docs and obviously archive.org will delete them anyway.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/kevincollier/assange-seth-rich-lies-guccifer-wikileaks-hannity

При этом для отвода глаз он одновременно тиражировал липовую историю про Сета Рича, отводящую подозрение от российских хакеров.

ANNOUNCE: WikiLeaks has decided to issue a US$20k reward for information leading to conviction for the murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich.
- WikiLeaks (@wikileaks) August 9, 2016

Daily Beast писал раннне про прокол Гуччифера, благодаря которому была вычислена его персона. Товарищ из ГРУ забыл залогиниться через VPN.

Ehmke eventually uncovered that Guccifer was connecting through an anonymizing service called Elite VPN, a virtual private networking service that had an exit point in France but was headquartered in Russia.
But on one occasion, The Daily Beast has learned, Guccifer failed to activate the VPN client before logging on. As a result, he left a real, Moscow-based Internet Protocol address in the server logs of an American social media company, according to a source familiar with the government’s Guccifer investigation. Twitter and WordPress were Guccifer 2.0’s favored outlets. Neither company would comment for this story, and Guccifer did not respond to a direct message on Twitter.
Working off the IP address, U.S. investigators identified Guccifer 2.0 as a particular GRU officer working out of the agency’s headquarters on Grizodubovoy Street in Moscow.
https://amp.thedailybeast.com/exclusive-lone-dnc-hacker-guccifer-20-slipped-up-and-revealed-he-was-a-russian-intelligence-officer

В итоге можно составить сравнительную хронологию.

3 августа 2016 самолет Дерипаски вылетает из Нью-Йорка в Москву.

В тот же день, по его словам, Стоун разговаривал с Трампом.

4 августа 2016 Стоун посылает сообщает своему протеже Нунбергу о том, что он накануне ужинал с Ассанжем. В тот же день на передаче Infowars он говорит, что Викиликс скоро выложит новые взломанные емайлы.

EXCLUSIVE: Roger Stone's email to Sam Nunberg saying he dined with @JulianAssange pic.twitter.com/bBYY9CPcWe
- Trey Yingst (@TreyYingst) April 4, 2018

Теперь он утверждает, что это была шутка.

5 августа 2016 Стоун публикует статью в Breitbart, в которой пытается отвести подозрения о связи Гуччифера с российскими спецслужбами. Статья называется Dear Hillary: DNC Hack Solved, So Now Stop Blaming Russia:
http://www.breitbart.com/2016-presidential-race/2016/08/05/dear-hillary-dnc-hack-solved-so-now-stop-blaming-russia/

Публикацию курирует Ли Станахан, ныне прямо работающий на российскую пропаганду в Sputnik. Страханан признавался, что свел Стоуна с Гуччифером.

Hey @RepAdamSchiff

I'm the guy who introduced @RogerJStoneJr to @GUCCIFER_2.

Bring it.
- Lee Stranahan (@stranahan) March 21, 2017

5-7 августа 2016 На яхте у берегов Норвегии Дерипаска встречается с Приходько.

8 августа 2016 В публичном выступлении Стоун признается, что был в контакте с Ассанжем.

QUESTIONER: With regard to the October surprise, what would be your forecast on that given what Julian Assange has intimated he's going to do?
ROGER STONE: Well, it could be any number of things. I actually have communicated with Assange. I believe the next tranche of his documents pertain to the Clinton Foundation but there's no telling what the October surprise may be.
https://www.mediamatters.org/video/2016/08/09/roger-stone-confirms-hes-communication-julian-assange/212261

9 августа 2016 Ассанж запускает утку про Сета Рича.

12 августа 2016 ГРУ/Гуччифер передает порцию ворованных емайлов Ассанжу/Викиликс.

#Guccifer2 I'll send the major trove of the #DCCC materials and emails to #wikileaks
keep following...
- GUCCIFER 2.0 (@GUCCIFER_2) August 13, 2016

В другой раз Стоун засветился в октябре, предупредив о появлении в Викиликс взломанной почты Джона Подесты. На Infowars и в Твиттере он предсказывал появление новых утечек в среду, 5 октября, но они появились с небольшой задержкой в пятницу, 7 октября.

On CNN, Stone, while discussing comments he had made claiming to have had dinner with Julian Assange in August 2016, also "categorically" denied having advance knowledge of the contents of the hacked emails.
Those comments stand in sharp contrast with ones he made on the October 2, 2016, episode of InfoWars' radio show, to discuss a tweet he had sent a day earlier that read, "Wednesday @HillaryClinton is done. #Wikileaks."
"Now, an intermediary met with him (Assange) in London recently -- who is a friend of mine and a friend of his, a believer in freedom," Stone said. "I am assured that the motherlode is coming Wednesday. It wouldn't be an October surprise if I told you what it was, but I have reason to believe that it is devastating because people with political judgment who are aware of the subject matter tell me this. So right now, you see a terrible scrambling by the Clintonites to attempt to discredit Assange, to try to soften the blow."
https://www.cnn.com/2018/04/07/politics/kfile-roger-stone-wikileaks-comments/index.html