Где мой Рой Кон?

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Выходящая сегодня в продажу книга Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House произвела фурор и моментально пробилась в бестселлеры. Главы из книги публикуют New York Magazine, Hollywood Reporter и британское издание GQ.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2018/01/michael-wolff-fire-and-fury-book-donald-trump.html
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/michael-wolff-my-insane-year-inside-trumps-white-house-1071504
http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/michael-wolff-book-trump



Уникальный доступ в Белый дом в течении первого года администрации Трампа автор получил благодаря тому, что Трампу понравилось интервью, которое тот взял для Hollywood Reporter в июне 2016. Не будучи читателем, Трамп оценил картинку на обложке, но не распознал издевательского характера интервью.

Before Trump trundles off to bed - actually, before that, never too tired, he plans to watch himself on Kimmel - I ask that de rigeur presidential question, which does not seem yet to have been asked of him. "What books are you reading?"
He knows he's caught (it's a question that all politicians are prepped on, but who among his not-bookish coterie would have prepped him even with the standard GOP politician answer: the Bible?). But he goes for it.
"I'm reading the Ed Klein book on Hillary Clinton" - a particular hatchet job, which at the very least has certainly been digested for him. "And I'm reading the book on Richard Nixon that was, well, I'll get you the exact information on it. I'm reading a book that I've read before, it's one of my favorite books, All Quiet on the Western Front, which is one of the greatest books of all time." And one I suspect he's suddenly remembering from high school. But what the hell.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/features/donald-trump-conversation-politics-dark-898465



Книжку «На западном фронте без перемен» Трамп по всей видимости действительно запомнил со школы.

Asked by Megyn Kelly what his favorite book is besides The Art of the Deal, Trump chose All Quiet on the Western Front. (Not sure what happened to the Bible!) Kelly, perhaps sensing that Trump may not have read a book since sixth grade, asked him to name the last book he read. “I read passages, I read areas, chapters, I don’t have the time,” Trump said.
https://newrepublic.com/minutes/133566/donald-trump-doesnt-read-books

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О его проблеме с чтением говорится и в новой книжке.

Trump didn’t read. He didn’t really even skim. If it was print, it might as well not exist. Some believed that for all practical purposes he was no more than semiliterate . . . . Some thought him dyslexic; certainly his comprehension was limited. Others concluded that he didn’t read because he didn’t have to, and that in fact this was one of his key attributes as a populist. He was postliterate-total television.
But not only didn’t he read, he didn’t listen. He preferred to be the person talking. And he trusted his own expertise-no matter how paltry or irrelevant-more than anyone else’s. What’s more, he had an extremely short attention span, even when he thought you were worthy of attention.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/our-columnists/michael-wolffs-withering-portrait-of-president-donald-trump



Подобным же образом, оценивая статью о себе по картинке на обложке, а не по тексту, Трамп 30 лет назад подцепил Тони Шварца, написавшего доя него книжку “The art of the deal”.

In 1985, he’d published a piece in New York called “A Different Kind of Donald Trump Story,” which portrayed him not as a brilliant mogul but as a ham-fisted thug who had unsuccessfully tried to evict rent-controlled and rent-stabilized tenants from a building that he had bought on Central Park South. Trump’s efforts-which included a plan to house homeless people in the building in order to harass the tenants-became what Schwartz described as a “fugue of failure, a farce of fumbling and bumbling.” An accompanying cover portrait depicted Trump as unshaven, unpleasant-looking, and shiny with sweat. Yet, to Schwartz’s amazement, Trump loved the article. He hung the cover on a wall of his office, and sent a fan note to Schwartz, on his gold-embossed personal stationery. “Everybody seems to have read it,” Trump enthused in the note, which Schwartz has kept.
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2016/07/25/donald-trumps-ghostwriter-tells-all

Посмотрим, ждёт ли книжку “Fire and fury” похожий успех.



В новой книжке помимо уничтожительных цитат содержатся и некоторые свидетельства преступлений. Там, например, рассказывается, что пресс-секретарь адвокатов Трампа ушел в отставку после того, как решил, что стал свидетелем попытки помешать правосудию.

Wolff reports that a spokesman for Trump's legal team left the job because he feared possible obstruction of justice related to a statement drafted aboard Air Force One that defended Donald Trump Jr.'s meeting with a Russian lawyer in June 2016. "Mark Corallo was instructed not to speak to the press, indeed not to even answer his phone. Later that week, Corallo, seeing no good outcome-and privately confiding that he believed the meeting on Air Force One represented a likely obstruction of justice-quit. (The Jarvanka side would put it out that Corallo was fired.)"
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/01/03/the-wildest-claims-about-trump-from-michael-wolffs-fire-and-fury.html

Независимо от книжки о дополнительных свидетельствах "obstruction of justice" рассказывается в новом взрывоопасном репортаже New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/04/us/politics/trump-sessions-russia-mcgahn.html.

1. Через адвоката Белого дома Дона Макгана Трамп пытался надавить на Сешнса, чтобы тот не брал самоотвода в расследовании Рашагейта.

Public pressure was building for Mr. Sessions, who had been a senior member of the Trump campaign, to step aside. But the White House counsel, Donald F. McGahn II, carried out the president’s orders and lobbied Mr. Sessions to remain in charge of the inquiry, according to two people with knowledge of the episode.

После того, как попытка провалилась, возмущенный Трамп кричал “Where’s my Roy Cohn?”, ожидая, что Сешнс и Макган будут защищать его с тем же рвением, как когда-то это делал Рой Кон.

2. В первоначальной версии письма об увольнении Коми прямо говорилось о Рашагейте.

Among the other episodes, Mr. Trump described the Russia investigation as “fabricated and politically motivated” in a letter that he intended to send to the F.B.I. director at the time, James B. Comey, but that White House aides stopped him from sending. <...> He had decided he would fire Mr. Comey, and asked Mr. Miller to help put together a letter the president intended to send to Mr. Comey. In interviews with The Times, White House officials have said the letter contained no references to Russia or the F.B.I.’s investigation. According to two people who have read it, however, the letter’s first sentence said the Russia investigation had been “fabricated and politically motivated.”

3. Сешнс через помощника пытался раскопать компромат на Коми, чтобы оправдать его увольнение.

The New York Times has also learned that four days before Mr. Comey was fired, one of Mr. Sessions’s aides asked a congressional staff member whether he had damaging information about Mr. Comey, part of an apparent effort to undermine the F.B.I. director. <...> Two days after Mr. Comey’s testimony, an aide to Mr. Sessions approached a Capitol Hill staff member asking whether the staffer had any derogatory information about the F.B.I. director. The attorney general wanted one negative article a day in the news media about Mr. Comey, according to a person with knowledge of the meeting.

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