Out of Ukraine this week came audio recordings that have every appearance of a Kremlin scheme to tar presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden. The president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., who welcomed Russian aid against Hillary Clinton in 2016, tweeted them out and implied they were damning — though in fact there is absolutely nothing damning about them.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/no-theres-still-no-biden-ukraine-scandal/2020/05/22/628ce78e-9c5d-11ea-ad09-8da7ec214672_story.html

Putin Speaks, Officials Shrug, and Doctors Are Caught in the Middle

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The conversations were secretly monitored by U.S. agents as part of intelligence-gathering on then-Russian ambassador to the U.S. Sergey Kislyak. Flynn pleaded guilty to lying to FBI agents in early 2017 when he was asked if he discussed sanctions with the ambassador. He has since argued he was unfairly targeted by the FBI, and earlier this month the Justice Department asked a judge to toss out his guilty plea.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national-security/transcripts-of-calls-between-flynn-russian-diplomat-show-they-discussed-sanctions/2020/05/29/cc3d29c6-a1f0-11ea-b5c9-570a91917d8d_story.html

New tough sanctions proposed in US for Russia https://rsc-johnson.house.gov/sites/republicanstudycommittee.house.gov/files/%5BFINAL%5D%20NSTF%20Report.pdf

It’s Trump’s Revolution

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Книга Джона Болтона на английском языке

Biden Criticizes Trump Over Intelligence on Russian Bounties on U.S. Troops

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