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Во вчерашнем эмоциональном выступлении конгрессмен Каммингс обратился к своим республиканским коллегам:

I am talking directly to my Republican colleagues. We need you to stand up to President Trump. We need you to join us in telling him that we reject this mean policy. We need you to tell him to abandon this policy. We need you to remind him that this is the United States of America - and it is a great country. And we need you to stand up for those children.
https://democrats-oversight.house.gov/news/press-releases/elijah-cummings-issues-blistering-condemnation-of-president-trump-s-child

Сегодня утром партию покинул Стив Шмидт по прозвищу "The Bullet", который 10 лет назад, возглавляя избирательную кампанию Джона Маккейна, был самым влиятельным республиканским политтехнологом.

29 years and nine months ago I registered to vote and became a member of The Republican Party which was founded in 1854 to oppose slavery and stand for the dignity of human life. Today I renounce my membership in the Republican Party. It is fully the party of Trump.
- Steve Schmidt (@SteveSchmidtSES) June 20, 2018



Оставаясь до сих пор республиканцем, Шмидт не утратил морального компаса и неоднократно высказывал сожаление за бесов, которых он выпустил из пробирки вместе с Сарой Пэйлин. В 2013 он говорил:

“You finally you saw it with Ted Cruz. Maybe he was the one that who’s got a bridge too far. Maybe we’ll start seeing our elected leaders stop being intimidated by this nonsense, have the nerve, have the guts to stand up and … to fight to take conservatism’s good name back from the freak show that’s been running wild for four years and that I have deep regret in my part, certainly, in initiating.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2013/09/steve-schmidt-republicans-097250

The administration’s current family separation policy is an affront to the decency of the American people, and contrary to principles and values upon which our nation was founded. The administration has the power to rescind this policy. It should do so now.
- John McCain (@SenJohnMcCain) June 18, 2018



Сегодня же свою партийную должность покинул хорошо знакомый нам Майкл Коэн. Вплоть до 2017 Коэн, как и многие другие жители Нью-Йорка, был зарегистрированным демократом.

COHEN: Me personally, I'm a registered Democrat. So, I don't really care about Reince Priebus --
BERMAN: You can't vote. Can you vote --
BOLDUAN: You're not voting for Donald Trump?
COHEN: Not in the primary.
BERMAN: So his kids can't vote and you can't vote in the primary tomorrow?
COHEN: (INAUDIBLE) tomorrow?
BOLDUAN: Tuesday.
COHEN: I'd like to be one of them, but no, I'm not voting in the primary. I'm a registered Democrat.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/1604/14/ath.01.html

В 2017 он не только стал республиканцем, но и вошел в руководство республиканской партии, получив, на пару с Элиоттом Бройди, должность "RNC national deputy finance chairman". Выходя сегодня из этой должности, Коэн хлопнул дверью, раскритиковав иммиграционную политику Трампа:

"As the son of a Polish holocaust survivor, the images and sounds of this family separation policy is heart wrenching. While I strongly support measures that will secure our porous borders, children should never be used as bargaining chips."
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/michael-cohen-resigns-rnc-committee-post/story?id=56033406

Комментаторы усматривают в этом жесте дополнительный знак его готовности на сотрудничество со следствием.