The head of the USA over the summer Donald trump spoke to the senators, insisting to stop the proceedings on the so-called " Russian intervention in the presidential election." About it writes the print edition the new York times citing multiple sources.
according to sources, trump asked the senators from the States of Kentucky and Missouri "without delay" to finish the proceedings. They also told that the head of the White House often complained to the leader of the Republican majority in the Senate Mitch Macconnel that not enough effort is being made to close the proceedings. A source in the administration told the newspaper that trump also made a few phone calls, when there was not occupying a high position of employees of the White House, which addressed the same request to the interlocutors.
According to the Senator from North Carolina Richard Burr, the head was "very persistent" because the trial " was an obstacle to the demonstration of force in foreign policy ".
in the U.S. Congress are independent investigations on the issue as if taking place Russian interference in the elections of the President of the United States, which defeated trump. Such a trial is the FBI. In the American media periodically there are messages, typically, citing unnamed sources, the contacts of the members of the electoral headquarters of the trump with Russian officials and businessmen.
Russia has many times denied the allegations, press Secretary of the President Dmitry Peskov called them " completely unfounded ". Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, speaking on as if the Russian interference in the elections in USA, France and Germany, said that there is no evidence to support this.
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