Сертифицированное письмо

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HOLT: Can you tell us whether you, your family, your businesses, your surrogates have accepted any investments, any loans from Russian individuals or institutions?
TRUMP: Yeah, in fact, I just sent a letter to Lindsey Graham, one of the most prestigious law firms in the country, tremendous, highly rated law firm. That have nothing to do with Russia. I have no investments in Russia, none whatsoever. I don't have property in Russia. A lot of people thought I owned office buildings in Moscow. I don't have property in Russia, and I am in very, I mean it, in total compliance in every way.
Now, I have to tell you, I file documents, hundreds of pages’ worth of documents with the Federal Elections Bureau, everybody's seen them. I built a great company, but I'm not involved with Russia. I have had dealings over the years where I sold a house to a very wealthy Russian. Many years ago I had the Miss Universe pageant, which I owned for quite a while, I had it in Moscow long time ago, but other than that, I have nothing to do with Russia.
HOLT: And one last question on this matter. Did you ever-
TRUMP: And I have a certified letter, just so you understand. I'm not just saying that. I've given the letter, I've given the letter to Sen. Lindsey Graham, he has the letter, and I think frankly, it's, I assume he's gonna give the letter out, but it says I am not involved in Russia. No loans, no nothing.

Фраза "just so you understand" - один из любимых оборотов Трампа и сигнализирует переход на более высокий уровень BS (про Путина: "...just so you understand, he said very nice things about me, but I have no relationship with him", "He’s not going into Ukraine, just so you understand"; про Trumpcare: "We will take care of our people or I'm not signing it, OK, just so you understand").



Трамп таки опубликовал oбещанное письмо.

With a few exceptions -- as detailed below -- your tax returns do not reflect (1) any income of any type from Russian sources (2) any debt owed by you or TTO to Russian lenders or any interest paid by you or TTO to Russian lenders (3) any equity investments by Russian persons or entities in entities controlled by you or TTO, or (4) any equity or debt investments by you or TTO in Russian entities.

Под "one of the most prestigious law firms in the country, tremendous, highly rated law firm" скрывалась компания Мorgan Lewis, известная своими кремлевскими связями.

The lawyers who wrote a letter saying President Trump had no significant business ties to Russia work for a law firm that has extensive ties to Russia and received a “Russia Law Firm of the Year” award in 2016.
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/donald-trumps-tax-law-firm-deep-ties-russia/story?id=47376041



Метод публикации "сертифицированного письма" в качестве доказательства вместо конкретных документов использовался Трампом до этого по крайней мере дважды: знаменитое письмо от его доктора в качестве свидетельства его здоровья и письмо от иммиграционных адвокатов Мелании Трамп в качестве свидетельства ее легального статуса.

Melania Trump was paid for 10 modeling jobs in the United States worth $20,056 that occurred in the seven weeks before she had legal permission to work in the country, according to detailed accounting ledgers, contracts and related documents from 20 years ago provided to The Associated Press. <...> Since questions arose earlier this year, Mrs. Trump has declined to publicly release her immigration records. Wildes, the immigration lawyer, released a letter in September that laid out the details of what he said Mrs. Trump's immigration records show, including a seven-week window in which Mrs. Trump was in the U.S. before her work visa was issued.
http://www.politico.com/story/2016/11/melania-trump-modeling-visa-jobs-230774