The head of the White house distanced himself from the ties of the team trump with agents of the Russian Federation
The electoral team of the current American President Donald trump had no ties with Russia.
This was stated by the head of the White house, Raines pribus the broadcast channel NBC, reports DW.com.
The FBI did not conduct interviews with any of the employees of the administration of Donald trump, except for Michael Flynn, he said.
“We don’t know about any contacts with the Russian agents,” – said Priebus, calling reports about it in the newspaper The New York Times “absolute nonsense”. Speaking about the resignation of national security Advisor Michael Flynn, Primus noticed that the first Flynn “insisted on the fact that he never spoke with the Ambassador of Russia on sanctions (against Russia. – ed.). But, nevertheless, something didn’t add up. Finally , we found that in fact they had a conversation about sanctions, although we didn’t think it was something illegal.”
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The Ukrainian plan: trump and Flynn didn’t know about the idea of a referendum in Crimea and the lifting of sanctions with Russia – NYT
The President’s chief of staff has denied reports of tensions within the entourage of trump. Supposedly, they are a close – knit team.
We will remind, the adviser of the President of the United States Donald trump on national security, Michael Flynn, resigned.
In his statement on the dismissal Flynn pointed out that “not fully informed Vice-President Mike Pence and others about his conversations with the Russian Ambassador”.
“I sincerely apologized to the President and Vice President, they accepted my apology,” — said in a statement. Acting in this position appointed a retired General Keith Kellogg.