John Podesta, chief strategist headquarters of presidential candidate Hillary Clinton said that the security services of Russia for the first time interfering in the American election process, and told about the FBI investigation. A card called the “Hand of Moscow” plays one of the most experienced political strategists of the United States, which settled the scandal surrounding bill Clinton and Monica Lewinsky.
“I do politics for about five decades, said Podesta pool of American journalists on Board Clinton on October 11. Is definitely the first campaign with my participation in which I have to deal with the Russian special services, which seem to do everything possible to help our opponents”.
Podesta was referring to the Republican candidate Donald trump, who has repeatedly expressed respect for Russian President Vladimir Putin and claimed to agree with the Kremlin and in conjunction with the Federation to destroy the middle East, not a terrorist organization called “Islamic state” .
Earlier trump directly appealed to Russia to “find the missing correspondence Clinton,” which, according to the Republican, “will be very helpful to American journalism” and expose all the hypocrisy of his rival, and her carelessness — she used homemade unprotected mail for business correspondence.
The FBI catches the bears
Letters Clinton still has not showed up since they were erased. However, on the website WikiLeaks, meanwhile, had already appeared three packets of confidential correspondence of the US Democratic party. Earlier, party servers have been repeatedly attacked by hackers.
Leaks have already caused significant reputational damage to the Democratic party. On the weekends, for example, from the documents made public, it became clear that speech that Clinton made at the meetings with the financial elite of the United States in the course of private activities does not correlate with its pre-election promises. The democratic candidate had to justify it in a debate with trump 9 Oct.
John Podesta said he was already talking about electronic hacking with representatives of the FBI as a victim of a hacker attack.
While there is no evidence that Russian special services were behind the hacking of the databases of the American Democrats. If the investigation of U.S. intelligence will directly link Russia to the attack by a group of hackers called “Elegant bear” (Fancy Bear), the response of Washington is guaranteed, said Columbia University Professor Robert Legvold.
As he said in an interview “Газете.Ru” the United States will have to tighten the sanctions regime — and this is just one of the obvious measures. The white house has already warned that the US is possible “symmetrical response” to the hacking attack.
However, the Podestà statements about the FBI investigation until just mean that the campaign headquarters, Clinton decided to withdraw the accusations against the “Putin sympathizers” trump to a new level.
If the FBI is investigating a hacker attack on Russia, States, that in their view might not be Donald trump, who has previously gloated over her and was actually urged Russia to continue this work.
The third strike against trump
John Podesta is one of the most experienced political strategists-Democrats, who once helped the politicians of the party to get out of a seemingly hopeless situation. He worked as an Advisor and current President Barack Obama and former us leader bill Clinton.
The biggest “operation” Podestà as a lobbyist and political consultant — the settlement of a sex scandal with Monica Lewinsky, which in 1998 had nearly ended with the impeachment of President Clinton. The results of the strategist can be observed. Bill Clinton meets with voters and breaks a storm of applause, campaigning in support of the campaign wife Hillary.
Trump has already tried to pull this “skeleton in the closet”. Before the debate on October 9 he held a press conference with three women who previously accused bill Clinton of sexual violence. On the debate, trump called wife Hillary “a rapist.”
However, while the pre-election PR Clinton overplayed by the Republicans. On account of the Podestà or two of a scandal, a painful blow to the image of trump. The first — investigation about the relationships Paul Manafort, the chief election strategist of trump, with a corrupt regime of former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych. After this scandal Manafort had to leave his post at the headquarters of the Republican, at least nominally.
The second scandal, published last week in the Washington Post the audio recording of 2005, which trump claims that women can suffice for the genitals, if you’re a “superstar”. As a result, the withdrawal of the candidacy of Republican favor Senator John McCain and former U.S. Secretary of state Condoleezza rice.
Now, with the beginning of the FBI investigation, Podesta has the chance to show trump is not only a woman hater — an ally of Putin and Yanukovych, but full-fledged national security threat for the United States.
