Герои прошлого

Трамписты-республиканцы в Конгрессе во главе с Нунесом продолжают атаки на Министерство юстиции с целью пустить под откос расследование Мюллера. Новая тактика - запрашивать по повестке секретные документы из расследования с тем, чтобы либо слить их Трампу, либо получить повод для импичмента Рода Розенштейна в случае отказа.

House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.), one of Trump’s leading allies on the Hill, privately urged Republican colleagues Tuesday to consider holding Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher A. Wray in contempt of Congress if the Justice Department does not provide him with documents he has sought about the Russia probe in coming days.
Nunes is readying proceedings and keeping several House Republicans briefed on his plans, including members of the Judiciary Committee and the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, according to two people familiar with the discussions.
Nunes has also spoken in the past week with members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus, which has been supportive of Trump, about how a potential contempt effort could unfold.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/federal-probe-into-trumps-lawyer-seeks-records-about-two-women-who-alleged-affairs-with-the-president/2018/04/10/624104a2-3cda-11e8-a7d1-e4efec6389f0_story.html

Получив доступ к секретным документам, Нунес не удосуживается их читать.

Facing the growing pressure, and outrage from President Donald Trump, Rosenstein finally relented in early April -- and granted Nunes and Rep. Trey Gowdy of South Carolina access to the document with only minimal redactions to protect the name of a foreign country and agent, along with all members of the House Intelligence Committee. But when the pair arrived at the Justice Department to review the electronic communication, officials were caught off-guard by his next move. Nunes -- sitting with a copy of the document in an unopened folder directly in front of him -- opted not to read it, according to four sources with knowledge of the situation.
https://edition.cnn.com/2018/05/04/politics/devin-nunes-electronic-communication/index.html

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— Matt Gaetz (@mattgaetz) July 9, 2017

Нунес не одинок. Среди конгрессменов образовалась целая команда "цепных псов" Трампа, которые за подачки с президентского стола пытаются расправиться с Мюллером и Розенштейном.

President Donald Trump calls them his "warriors": a band of four House Republicans defending Trump with a relentless counterattack against the Justice Department’s Russia investigation that thrills the president even as it unsettles some House GOP colleagues who think they’re going too far.
This crew of hard-charging conservatives, whom Trump singled out by name in late April, have emerged as some of Washington’s most prominent Republicans, enjoying direct lines to the Trump White House and flights on Air Force One.
"Look, we have some absolute warriors," Trump told Fox News on April 26 when asked about his relationship with Congress, name-checking "Jim Jordan and Mark Meadows and Matt Gaetz and [Ron] DeSantis.”
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/07/trump-mueller-republican-warriors-congress-571562

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