The case of collusion between Russia and the team of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign poisons the mandate of the American president, writes journalist Le Journal du Dimanche Alexis Bouasselier.
On Wednesday, in his tweet, the US president called the situation in connection with the investigation of the special prosecutor Robert Mueller, whose object he became, "disgusting". "Attorney General Jeff Sessions should stop this tuned witch-hunt right now before it spoils our country," he continued in a statement that suggests that he seeks to obstruct justice, article says..
"For several months now, Donald Trump has been trying to discredit this investigation, which he considers a manifestation of a conflict of interest on the part of Mueller. However, this new statement reveals at best impatience, and at worst - the concern of the American president, besieged by the deed, which spoils his presidency, "notes Boisselier.
Special prosecutor Muller is investigating possible collusion with Russia during Trump's presidential campaign and would like to interrogate the president, the article says.
Trump's lawyer Rudolph Giuliani on Wednesday assured journalists that Trump's legal team "always negotiated" with special prosecutor Mueller, the author. From an article in The Washington Post it follows that Mueller is ready to reduce the number of questions to the president if Trump agrees to be questioned and to focus on alleged attempts to obstruct justice.
CNN, for its part, claims that Trump's lawyers want a face-to-face meeting between Trump and Mueller to deal only with accusations of collusion with the Russians, and the issues of obstruction of justice were set out in writing. Trump, as usual, on Thursday, was generous with a diabetic tweet about CNN: "Too much hatred and misdirected stories".
In addition, Trump's defense of the Russian case was undermined by statements by his former lawyer, Michael Cohen. When Trump was a Republican candidate, Cohen asserts, during the 2016 campaign he approved a meeting between his son, his son-in-law and a Russian female lawyer who offered compromising information to Hillary Clinton, continues the author of the article.
Meanwhile, the trial of Paul Manaforta. The former director of Donald Trump's campaign headquarters is accused of laundering the millions of dollars earned in Ukraine through lobbying in favor of Ukrainian ex-president Viktor Yanukovych, pro-Russian, like Boisselier.
Someone can count on the fact that Manafort will disclose some information about Donald Trump, in particular, about his meeting with a Russian lawyer. The members of the special prosecutor's team were present at the beginning of the trial, the author of the article.
Trump, for his part, criticized the treatment of Manafort as if he were Al Capone. "Let's take a look at the story of who was worse off, the legendary leader of the criminal group, the murderer and the" public enemy number one "Alfonse Capone or Paul Manafort, the political technician and the pet (Ronald) Reagan and (Bob) Dole, who is now in solitary confinement, although not guilty of anything? Where is the conspiracy with Russia? "- wrote Trump on his Twitter.