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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 00:17 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Het lekken van de tape waarop Ryan zegt Trump nooit te steunen vind ik wel echt heel opvallend.

twitter:

RawStory twitterde op dinsdag 14-03-2017 om 22:00:25 Top Trump backer: It's time to throw Paul Ryan and his health care 'death wish' under the bus... https://t.co/UV62Mn0BFW reageer retweet

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RawStory twitterde op woensdag 15-03-2017 om 00:32:22 Bannon behind Ryan audio so Trump can throw Ryan's health care flop under the bus: conservative pundit... https://t.co/0A7UmSeY1Q reageer retweet

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LouDobbs twitterde op woensdag 15-03-2017 om 00:00:00 Speaker Ryan a disgrace - Leaked audio shows shameful disloyalty to @POTUS. Join #Dobbs Now #MAGA #TrumpTrain reageer retweet

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LouDobbs twitterde op woensdag 15-03-2017 om 00:14:18 #LDTPoll Should the GOP remove Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House? reageer retweet

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LouDobbs twitterde op dinsdag 14-03-2017 om 21:30:00 RyanCare could die on Thursday - Will House Budget Cmte derail O'Care replacement bill? @RepChrisCollins joins #Dobbs FBN7p #MAGA reageer retweet

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BREAKING: We've got Trump tax returns. Tonight, 9pm ET. MSNBC.

(Seriously).

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 00:42 schreef Stabiel het volgende:

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JAAAHAA WE GOT HIM

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 00:42 schreef Stabiel het volgende:

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https://twitter.com/maddow/status/841795163664089089

JAAAHAA WE GOT HIM

Ladies and gentlemen we got him

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 00:33 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Ook de reden dat het White House niet wil dat het bekend staat als Trumpcare.

Overigens pushed conservative talk radio op dit moment single player healthcare ipv Ryan's plan en dan zonder de Freedom Caucus lijkt erop dat Team Trump een power play doet tegen het R establishment.

twitter:

RawStory twitterde op dinsdag 14-03-2017 om 22:00:25 Top Trump backer: It's time to throw Paul Ryan and his health care 'death wish' under the bus... https://t.co/UV62Mn0BFW reageer retweet

twitter:

RawStory twitterde op woensdag 15-03-2017 om 00:32:22 Bannon behind Ryan audio so Trump can throw Ryan's health care flop under the bus: conservative pundit... https://t.co/0A7UmSeY1Q reageer retweet

Ook Fox News doet mee:

twitter:

LouDobbs twitterde op woensdag 15-03-2017 om 00:00:00 Speaker Ryan a disgrace - Leaked audio shows shameful disloyalty to @POTUS. Join #Dobbs Now #MAGA #TrumpTrain reageer retweet

twitter:

LouDobbs twitterde op woensdag 15-03-2017 om 00:14:18 #LDTPoll Should the GOP remove Paul Ryan as Speaker of the House? reageer retweet

twitter:

LouDobbs twitterde op dinsdag 14-03-2017 om 21:30:00 RyanCare could die on Thursday - Will House Budget Cmte derail O'Care replacement bill? @RepChrisCollins joins #Dobbs FBN7p #MAGA reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 00:45 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Feit dat Maddow het in haar show gaat presenteren en niet direct naar bijv. de FBI of CIA is gegaan toont aan dat er weinig boeiends in zal staan. Trump betaald geen belasting door een loophole bijv. (wisten wel al schept hij over op)

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 00:45 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Feit dat Maddow het in haar show gaat presenteren en niet direct naar bijv. de FBI of CIA is gegaan toont aan dat er weinig boeiends in zal staan. Trump betaald geen belasting door een loophole bijv. (wisten wel al schept hij over op)

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 00:45 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Feit dat Maddow het in haar show gaat presenteren en niet direct naar bijv. de FBI of CIA is gegaan toont aan dat er weinig boeiends in zal staan. Trump betaald geen belasting door een loophole bijv. (wisten wel al schept hij over op)

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 00:49 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Wat heeft de FBI of CIA te maken met belasting aangiftes? Daar is de IRS voor.

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 00:51 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Critici van Trump zijn vooral op zoek naar bewijzen voor zijn banden met Rusland. De tax returns zouden daar bijv. een bewijs van kunnen zijn (bepaalde Russische investeringen of Assets).

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It's almost as though Republicans are tired of having President Trump's evidence-free allegations laid at their feet. Almost.

Late Monday, a spokesman for House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) threatened to subpoena the Trump administration to produce evidence of Trump's claim that President Barack Obama wiretapped Trump Tower during the campaign. The White House has declined to produce this evidence publicly, offering various excuses, including the Constitution's separation of powers and — most recently on Monday — arguing that Trump wasn't speaking literally when he made the claim.

The Justice Department missed Nunes's deadline to provide evidence Monday, which drew Nunes's subpoena threat.

“If the committee does not receive a response, the committee will ask for this information during the March 20 hearing and may resort to a compulsory process if our questions continue to go unanswered,” Nunes spokesman Jack Langer said.

Then, on Tuesday, Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) made his own threat. Last week, Graham — who is clearly skeptical of the wiretapping claim and chairs a subcommittee looking into it — asked the Justice Department and the FBI to provide copies of any warrants or court orders related to the alleged wiretapping. Having not received anything, Graham said Tuesday that he would announce his next steps Wednesday and may push for a special committee.

“They're about to screw up big time if they keep running to the intel committee and not answer that letter,” Graham said, according to CBS's Alan He. He added: “If they don't honor this request and give us an answer, then I would say that we need a joint select committee because regular order is not working.”

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alanhe twitterde op dinsdag 14-03-2017 om 17:57:21 Senator Graham warns that the FBI is "about to screw up big time" by not responding to the letter from his subcommi… https://t.co/VyWbUDXC7X reageer retweet

It's clear as day what's going on here.

The White House's reactions to Trump's evidence-free claims — be it this one or the one about millions of illegal votes in 2016 — is to call for investigations. That has the triple benefit of putting the onus on someone else to look into it, to buy some time and hope people forget that the president is making such wild allegations, and, in this case, to give themselves an excuse to clam up. The White House initially said it wouldn't comment on Trump's wiretapping claim while it was being investigated and then it said it couldn't provide evidence because of separation of powers — another claim that strained credulity.

But that also puts Republicans such as Nunes and Graham in the position of having to account for these claims — and calling on Trump and his team to put up or shut up. By pushing the administration to produce evidence — or else — they are effectively putting the ball back in the executive branch's court. The subtext: You can't just make these claims and then ask us to deal with the fallout.

Nunes in particular has faced some very tough questions from reporters, and he must feel as though he's being hung out to dry. Graham's angle is slightly different, in that he clearly doesn't think Trump's claim is accurate and wants to prove it. “If there is no warrant, then we’ll have solved this problem: There was no wiretapping,” he said this week.

Whether this will actually give Trump any pause in the future when making such allegations is an open question. But these members want to make sure he and the people around him at least think twice before saddling them and their GOP colleagues with another evidence-free Trump claim.

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BREAKING: Trump to nominate Goldman Sachs managing director James Donovan as deputy Treasury secretary - White House

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What we've got is from 2005... the President's 1040 form... details to come tonight 9PM ET, MSNBC.

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Before being elected President, Mr. Trump was one of the most successful businessmen in the world with a responsibility to his company, his family and his employees to pay no more tax than legally required. That being said, Mr. Trump paid $38 million dollars even after taking into account large scale depreciation for construction, on an income of more than $150 million dollars, as well as paying tens of millions of dollars in other taxes such as sales and excise taxes and employment taxes and this illegally published return proves just that. Despite this substantial income figure and tax paid, it is totally illegal to steal and publish tax returns. The dishonest media can continue to make this part of their agenda, while the President will focus on his, which includes tax reform that will benefit all Americans.

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 00:33 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Overigens pushed conservative talk radio op dit moment single player healthcare ipv Ryan's plan en dan zonder de Freedom Caucus lijkt erop dat Team Trump een power play doet tegen het R establishment.

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French Hill
* Rep. from Arkansas
* Fmr. Executive Secretary to the President’s Economic Policy Council
* Fmr. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance
* Fmr. CEO and Chairman of Delta Trust & Banking Corp.
* Fmr. Executive Officer of First Commerical Corp.
* Fmr. Director Mason Best Private Equity
* Fmr. Member of the Structural Impediments Initiative
* Recipient of the Distinguished Service Award by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
* B.S in Economics from Vanderbilt University

Justin Muzinich
* President and Founder of Muzinich & Co. Credit Investments
* Adjunct Professor of Credit Market Investments at Columbia Business School
* Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
* Fmr. Partner at EMS Capital Equity & Equity-Derivatives
* Fmr. Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley
* Fmr. Analyst at CR Intrinsic
* B.A. from Harvard College, MBA from Harvard Business School, J.D. from Yale Law School

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 15-03-2017 om 12:02:40 Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time! reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 12:05 schreef Mani89 het volgende:
Genoeg inhoud, nu weer even randzaken.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 15-03-2017 om 12:02:40 Can you imagine what the outcry would be if @SnoopDogg, failing career and all, had aimed and fired the gun at President Obama? Jail time! reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 13:03 schreef Re het volgende:
ik snap niet dat een single payer insuranceer zo makkelijk doorheen komt, zelfs de democraten zijn het niet unaniem eens met zo'n systeem

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 13:07 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Gaat het ook nooit worden natuurlijk.

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 13:08 schreef Re het volgende:

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het is alleen de enige manier dat Trump zijn nummer 1 speerpunt kan waarmaken

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 13:10 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Punt is dat dat hele nummer 1 speerpunt van Trump niet waar te maken is, in ieder geval niet binnen de huidige Republikeinse partij.

Ik wil verder niet te veel spoileren voor de komende jaren, maar er zijn wel meer speerpunten van Trump die met dit euvel kampen.

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'People are scared’: Paranoia seizes Trump’s White House
Staffers are leaving their phones at home, using secret apps and monitoring each other’s social media.

A culture of paranoia is consuming the Trump administration, with staffers increasingly preoccupied with perceived enemies—inside their own government.

In interviews, nearly a dozen White House aides and federal agency staffers described a litany of suspicions: that rival factions in the administration are trying to embarrass them, that civil servants opposed to President Donald Trump are trying to undermine him, and even that a “deep state” of career military and intelligence officials is out to destroy them.

Aides are going to great lengths to protect themselves. They’re turning off work-issued smartphones and putting them in drawers when they arrive home from work out of fear that they could be used to eavesdrop. They’re staying mum in meetings out of concern that their comments could be leaked to the press by foes.

Many are using encrypted apps that automatically delete messages once they’ve been read, or are leaving their personal cell phones at home in case their bosses initiate phone checks of the sort that press secretary Sean Spicer deployed last month to identify leakers on his team.

It’s an environment of fear that has hamstrung the routine functioning of the executive branch. Senior advisers are spending much of their time trying to protect turf, key positions have remained vacant due to a reluctance to hire people deemed insufficiently loyal, and Trump’s ambitious agenda has been eclipsed by headlines surrounding his unproven claim that former President Barack Obama tapped his phone lines.

One senior administration aide, who like most others interviewed for this story spoke on the condition of anonymity, said the degree of suspicion had created a toxicity that was unsustainable.

“People are scared,” he said, adding that the Trump White House had become “a pretty hostile environment to work in.”

A White House official rejected the notion that there’s a culture of paranoia.

Spicer on Tuesday emphasized that cell phone checks are not White House policy, and said that neither he nor others are still conducting them. “The only incident in which that occurred was limited to the one involving myself,” he said.

Trump has a history of overseeing pressure-cooker organizations rife with suspicion, setting up sophisticated surveillance partly to monitor employees at his properties, including at his campaign headquarters, where some campaign aides suspected their offices were bugged.

One widespread concern in the Trump White House: That career intelligence operatives are working to undermine the new president through a series of leaks of classified information.

Much of the suspicion is directed at the Central Intelligence Agency, which many Trump loyalists believe is targeting CIA skeptics who sit on the National Security Council. Some of them allege that the CIA was behind the damaging leaks to the press that culminated in the resignation of National Security Adviser Michael Flynn in February, and that the agency has pushed for the removal of other staffers.

They also believe the CIA exaggerated security clearance concerns that led to the removal of a top Flynn deputy, Robin Townley, from the NSC. Last week, another top NSC staffer who had drawn opposition from some within the CIA, intelligence director Ezra Cohen-Watnick, was told he was being removed, only to have Trump overrule the decision, after Trump advisers Steve Bannon and Jared Kushner intervened, two people familiar with the episode said.

Some rank-and-file White House aides, meanwhile, have become convinced that intelligence agents may be monitoring their phone calls, emails, and text messages. Those fears intensified last week when WikiLeaks released a trove of CIA documents outlining how the agency can break into phones and computers.

In an interview, one White House aide described the elaborate steps he was taking to shield himself. Once he gets home in the evening, he turns off his work phone and stores it in a drawer because, he said, he believes it could be used to listen to him even when it’s off. If he makes a call during off-hours, he uses a separate, personal phone in an adjoining room, where the stowed work device wouldn’t be able to pick up his voice as clearly.

The fact that so much sensitive information from the White House was making its way to news outlets, he said, had raised suspicions that national security officials were listening in.

“I’m paranoid,” said the aide. “Anything significant seems to be on the front page the next day.”

One prominent Republican strategist who is close to the administration marveled at the amount of sensitivity over phones. “It’s always a, ’you never know who’s listening’ kind of thing,” this person said. “It’s a general concern that people have over there.”

Some staffers have even expressed concern about messages that appear on digital faces of the White House’s landline phones, indicating that calls could be monitored. The White House official, however, said those messages have been a feature of the building’s phone system for years.

Yet the perception among some staff that monitoring is widespread has engendered even greater suspicion and anxiety. “We’ve got strict instructions not to talk to talk to the press,” said one White House aide. “I assume I would get fired immediately.”

One senior aide said staffers have become almost obsessed by daily palace intrigue news accounts, spending hours dissecting in the office in hopes of deciphering who is dishing — and who is trying to hurt whom.

Another Republican who is close to the White House said junior-level staffers were simply “mimicking what they’re seeing at the top … Everyone at the top is so suspicious that it trickles down the org chart, so everyone has become paranoid and suspicious.”

The distrust, some contend, isn’t unfounded.

“I wouldn't call it paranoia under the circumstances,” said a Republican who communicates with many administration aides through encrypted apps. “It’s not paranoia if people really are out to get you, and everybody actually is out to get everyone else.”

Many staffers say they don’t like the idea that supervisors – or anyone else – could have access to their emails. Some have taken to using secure messengers like Confide and Signal in order to communicate on their personal phones. One program gaining popularity within the administration is Wickr, which allows users to set an expiration time on how long an unread message can remain in a recipient’s inbox before it self-destructs.

The encryption programs can’t be accessed from White House-issued phones, which prevent users from downloading most apps. There are no restrictions on employees using encrypted apps on their personal phones, the White House official said, as long as they’re not being used to conduct official business.

The most stress, however, may be outside the West Wing, in executive branch agencies, where staffers worry about career bureaucrats who are hostile to Trump.

Fears grew on Friday, when Sid Bowdidge, a Trump appointee to the Department of Energy who worked on the campaign, was ousted amid reports that he’d expressed anti-Muslim views and argued that Obama had relatives who were terrorists in Twitter posts from over a year ago.

In an interview, Bowdidge blamed the disclosure on an anti-Trump department staffer who had picked through his background. He called the incident “character assassination” and said that Obama allies were sending a warning shot to Trump loyalists in agencies.

“A lot of these career folks were put in there over the last eight years, they’re Obama supporters,” he said. “By and large, they hate Trump.”

Spokespeople for the Department of Energy did not respond to a request for comment.

To inoculate themselves, staffers at agencies have begun scrubbing their social media accounts for anything that could be perceived as controversial. They are also operating on the assumption that anything they say in the office could be leaked.

One agency aide said he had become particularly circumspect in meetings and was taking additional steps to protect himself, like keeping his office door closed during the day. He has used his off-time to catalogue the Twitter and Facebook postings of co-workers who he suspects harbor anti-Trump views and could be a threat.

“I do think there’s a concerted effort to disrupt us," the aide said. “We’re professional, we’re courteous. But it’s a one-way street. The [anti-Trump staffers] out to hurt the administration, and you have to handle yourself accordingly.”

In recent days, the administration has given credence to the idea that Obama loyalists are working against them. When Spicer was asked during a briefing last week about the idea that a deep state is working to undermine the president, he did not reject the premise.

“I don’t think it should come as any surprise that there are people that burrowed into government during eight years of the last administration, and may have believed in that agenda and what to continue to seek it,” he said.

Obama White House veterans are skeptical.

Tommy Vietor, who was an NSC spokesman during the Obama years, rejected the current administration’s deep state concerns as “overstated and ridiculous.”

“The idea that there are career officials who are holdovers who may not agree with Trump is neither new nor remarkable,” he said. “That’s not the deep state.”

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 13:13 schreef Re het volgende:

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nee dat was wel duidelijk, maar dit raakt de amerikaan wel het hardst denk ik

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 13:10 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Punt is dat dat hele nummer 1 speerpunt van Trump niet waar te maken is, in ieder geval niet binnen de huidige Republikeinse partij.

Ik wil verder niet te veel spoileren voor de komende jaren, maar er zijn wel meer speerpunten van Trump die met dit euvel kampen.

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 13:51 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Wel opvallend van Mattis: US Defence Secretary James Mattis says climate change is already destabilising the world

Althans, op zichzelf natuurlijk niet heel opvallend, maar in het licht van Trump en de rest van zijn administration wel.

twitter:

BraddJaffy twitterde op woensdag 15-03-2017 om 13:49:43 Paul Ryan moments ago on the GOP health plan: “This is something we wrote with President Trump...” https://t.co/NRDwJbuIL9 reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 13:23 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Zoals ik voor de verkiezingen al zei, met Trump in het Witte Huis krijg je gewoon hoofdzakelijk doorsnee Republikeins beleid. Hij kan hier en daar wat blaffen met EOs, maar het daadwerkelijke werk vereist medewerking van het congres. En dan zie je al dat zo'n zorgplan redelijk haaks staat op alles wat hij toezegde in de campagne.

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Obamacare is a disaster. We are going to come up with a new plan ideally not an amended plan because right now if you look at the pages they're this high. We're gonna come up with a new plan that's going to be better health care for more people at a lesser cost.

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 10:47 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
dagelijks hoekje Trump personeelszaken

Nieuwe nominaties voor de Treasury Department :

Deputy Secretary of the Treasury:
James Donovan
* Partner and Managing Director of the Private Wealth Management division at Goldman Sachs
* Adjunct Professor at the University of Virginia School of Law
* Director at the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health
* Member of the Corporation Development Committee at MIT
* Founder of the MIT Scholarship Fund for incoming students from financially disadvantaged backgrounds
* B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), J.D. from Harvard Law School

andere namen op de shortlist waren:

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French Hill
* Rep. from Arkansas
* Fmr. Executive Secretary to the President’s Economic Policy Council
* Fmr. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Corporate Finance
* Fmr. CEO and Chairman of Delta Trust & Banking Corp.
* Fmr. Executive Officer of First Commerical Corp.
* Fmr. Director Mason Best Private Equity
* Fmr. Member of the Structural Impediments Initiative
* Recipient of the Distinguished Service Award by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury
* B.S in Economics from Vanderbilt University

Justin Muzinich
* President and Founder of Muzinich & Co. Credit Investments
* Adjunct Professor of Credit Market Investments at Columbia Business School
* Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
* Fmr. Partner at EMS Capital Equity & Equity-Derivatives
* Fmr. Head of Mergers & Acquisitions at Morgan Stanley
* Fmr. Analyst at CR Intrinsic
* B.A. from Harvard College, MBA from Harvard Business School, J.D. from Yale Law School

Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence:
Sigal Mandelker
* Partner, Attorney in Litigation Department and White Collar Defense & Investigations Group at Proskauer
* Fmr. Deputy Assistant Attorney General for Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section, the Domestic Security Section, the Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, and the Office of Special Investigations in the Criminal Division at the Department of Justice
* Fmr. Counsel to the Secretary of Homeland Security
* Fmr. Counsel to the Deputy Attorney General at the Department of Justice
* Fmr. Special Assistant on counter-terrorism and national security to the Assistant Attorney General for the Criminal Division of the Department of Justice
* Fmr. Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York
* Fmr. Deputy Committee Liaison to the U.S. House Majority Leader
* Fmr. Law Clerk at the U.S. Supreme Court and the and U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit
* B.A. from the University of Michigan, J.D. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for International Finance:
Dr. Adam Lerrick
* Visiting Scholar on International Economic and Financial issues, Sovereign debt restructuring and International Capital Markets at the American Enterprise Institute
* Fmr. Chaired Professor of Economics at the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon University
* Fmr. Chairman of Sovereign Debt Solutions Limited
* Fmr. Advisor to the majority leader of the House of Representatives
* Fmr. Advisor to the Joint Economic Committee of the US Congress
* Fmr. Senior Advisor to the Chair of the International Financial Institution Advisory Commission
* Fmr. Partner at Voute Coats Stuart & O'Grady
* Fmr. Investment Banker and Head of Capital Markets Product Development at Credit Suisse First Boston
* Fmr. Investment Banker and Head of Capital Markets International Product Development at Salomon Brothers
* A.B. in Economics from Princeton University, Mathematics at Ecole Alsacienne in Paris, France, Ph.D. in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)

Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Legislative Affairs:
Andrew Maloney
* VP for Government Affairs and Public Policy at Hess Corp.
* Fmr. CEO of Ogilvy Government Relations
* Fmr. Senior Advisor to the Republican National Committee
* Fmr. Administrative Assistant and Legislative Director for Republican House Majority Whip
* B.Sc. in Political Science from Randolph-Macon College, J.D. from Catholic University's Columbus School of Law

en wat eerder was er al:

Under Secretary of the Treasury for International Affairs:
David Malpass
* Founder and President of Encima Global Marco-economic Research
* Fmr. Chief Economist at Bear Stearns
* Fmr. Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Treasury for Developing Nations
* Fmr. Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Latin American economic affairs
* Fmr. Staff Director of Congress's Joint Economic Committee
* Fmr. Senior Analyst for Taxes and Trade at the Senate Budget Committee
* Fmr. Director of The National Committee on United States-China Relations
* Fmr. Director of The Council of the Americas
* Fmr. Director of The Economic Club of New York
* Fmr. Accountant at Arthur Andersen
* B.A. in Physics from Colorado College, MBA from the University of Denver, Doc. Cand. in International Economics at Georgetown University

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geinstalleerd:

Legislative Affairs Advisor at the White House Office of Management and Budget
Neal Patel
* Counsel & Deputy Communications Director at the Office of the Representative from Nevada
* Fmr. Counsel & Communications Director at the Office of the Representative from Louisiana
* Fmr. Associate at the Hudson Legal Group
* B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, J.D. from Charleston School of Law

Special Assistant at the Department of the Treasury
Jon Perdue
* Senior Fellow for Strategic Research at the Center for a Secure Free Society
* Member of the Board of the Americas Forum
* Member of the Board of the Fundación Democracia y Mercado in Chile
* Fmr. International election observer with the Washington Senior Observer Group
* Fmr. Director of Latin America Programs at The Fund for American Studies
* Founding Director of the Institute for Leadership in the Americas
* Founder of Salud sin Fronteras, non-profit medical clinics in Latin America
* Fmr. VP of Business Development at Infectech Biotechnology
* Fmr. Education Policy Research Associate at the Mackinac Center for Public Policy
* Recipient of the the International Young Leader Award by Jovenes Lideres Internacional in Buenos Aires, Argentina
* Recipient of the the Global Leadership Award by the Bow Group in London, England
* B.Sc. in Finance from from the University of North Georgia

Special Assistant to the Secretary of Labor
Byron Anderson
* Vice President of Federal Affairs at Transamerica
* Fmr. Associate Administrator of the Risk Management Agency at the Department of Agriculture
* Fmr. Senior VP for Government Affairs at American General Corporation
* Fmr. Legislative Assistant at US Congress and Senate
* B.A. in Political Science and Government from the University of Pittsburgh, J.D. from Antioch School of Law

Advisor at the Department of Health and Human Services
Alexandra Campau
* Fmr. Health Policy Advisor and Counsel at the House Budget Committee
* Fmr. Healthcare Associate at Cozen O'Connor
* B.A. from Tufts University, MPP from the Georgetown University Public Policy Institute, J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center

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How the American Health Care Act Leaves Near-Elderly People Behind
The bill cuts the deficit and lowers premiums for the wealthy and healthy by squeezing the poor, old, and sick out of health-care markets and government-benefit programs.

The numbers are in, and they aren’t great for some of the sickest people in the country.

On Monday, the Congressional Budget Office scored the American Health Care Act, projecting that the new Republican health reform would make dramatic changes to the American health-care landscape. On the one hand, the law would cut the deficit by over $300 billion over 10 years and reduce average premiums after an initial two-year increase. On the other, the office projected that 24 million additional people would either lose health insurance or choose to go without it in the next decade.

Proportionally, the group of people that would see the most coverage losses under the AHCA is the population of people aged 50 and older. Although they’re more likely to have coverage in the first place, owing to more stable employment and a higher likelihood of public-insurance coverage, CBO estimates show the uninsured rate of people over 50 would skyrocket from around 13 percent currently to just under 30 percent by 2026. Included in that number are near-elderly adults with low incomes, a group that’s most likely among all non-Medicare enrollees to be sick, and one of the most expensive groups to cover in American health markets today.

Essentially, the AHCA works by abandoning a key goal of health reform altogether, and carving out some of the most expensive people to cover—while simply not offering them a more affordable coverage option. The CBO report suggests that while the Republican plan includes an age-adjusted tax credit to purchase health insurance and a fund for establishing reinsurance and cost-sharing programs for states’ riskiest potential enrollees, for low-income near-elderly people those cost-reductions would not be enough to offset the elimination of the Medicaid expansion, the establishment of per-capita caps on Medicaid, the loss of the ACA’s cost-and-income-based premium tax credits, and a new age-rating scheme that allows insurers to charge older people much more for coverage relative to younger people.

Table 4 of the CBO report shows just how this dynamic plays out:



Currently, a 64 year old person who makes 175 percent of the federal poverty line ($26,500—about a $13 per hour wage in a full-time job) but doesn’t receive insurance from an employer or public coverage pays around $1,700 per year on average in the exchanges for a health-insurance plan. But that person’s actual premiums are much higher because of age, although Obamacare hides that amount with a premium tax credit that adjusts with cost. Obamacare’s cost-sharing subsidies paid directly to insurers increase the average actuarial value of their coverage to 87 percent—meaning the plan covers 87 percent of health-care costs. Even under Obamacare, that final amount of $1,700 is steep for a person who makes less than the $28,000 average cost of living in the United States.

Under the AHCA, the new age-rating structure actually increases the total premium, while substantially decreasing the amount of federal assistance for paying that premium. It also eliminates Obamacare’s cost-sharing reductions and allows exchange plans to cover fewer services, meaning the same person under AHCA rules will have to pay almost nine times as much for a health-insurance plan that pays for only about two-thirds of health-care services. Put a different way, this hypothetical person would have to pay 55 percent of their pre-tax income just to have inferior insurance. It’s pretty safe to say that nobody in this situation in real life would actually be able to afford health care.

The specific circumstances of 64-year-olds in the exchanges may seem unrepresentative, but note the table shows premium increases for 40-year-olds as well. After age 40, able-bodied people unlucky enough to not have employer coverage will face a steadily worsening affordability curve. Also, as the AHCA defunds enhanced federal rates for the Medicaid expansion and incentivizes states to reduce Medicaid coverage and services, more and more near-elderly people who are close to, or below, the poverty line will lose public-coverage guarantees, and will be forced to choose between paying half or more of their yearly incomes or going without.

As my colleague Olga Khazan notes, even near-elderly people who have employer-based coverage are at risk, because without an employer mandate and with exchange tax credits, some employers will drop their insurance plans. And of course the employers with the greatest incentive to drop coverage will be those with the most expensive employees to cover—including near-elderly low-wage workers.

Republicans behind the AHCA have known about these challenges for a while, and have done their best to spin them as positives. House Speaker Paul Ryan has defended the plan against criticism of the CBO’s estimates of coverage losses, saying that “this report confirms that the American Health Care Act will lower premiums and improve access to quality, affordable care. CBO also finds that this legislation will provide massive tax relief, dramatically reduce the deficit, and make the most fundamental entitlement reform in more than a generation.” Ryan acknowledges the concerns about coverage losses, but recasts the losses as an expansion of choices that reduces cost.

It’s tempting to buy Ryan’s optimistic spin, or temper it by writing off huge premium spikes as uncharacteristic bits of collateral damage for an otherwise useful plan to control costs.The truth of the CBO report, however, is that the entire mechanism of the AHCA’s savings and premium reductions for healthier and wealthier people lies in making coverage too expensive for older, sicker people with less money. Most of the budgetary savings come from cuts to Medicaid funding and the replacement of the Obamacare premium tax credit with a much less generous credit, both of which will lead to less coverage among this older population. And most of the out-of-pocket savings for people who can afford coverage by 2026 rely on expensive enrollees just disappearing from health-care markets. Attrition among near-elderly people with low incomes isn’t an ancillary effect of Republican policy here; rather it is the engine that makes the rest of the bill work.

The irony is that the mid-aughts health-reform momentum that gave the country the Affordable Care Act put the plight of near-elderly people at its center. For decades, researchers have noted that one of the key turning points in a person’s health-care experience is when they turn 65 and are guaranteed Medicare coverage. For many people, that age arrives as an oasis in a health-care desert. In 2004, almost a quarter of all people between 55 and 64 who made less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line were uninsured, a statistic that led Urban Institute and Kaiser Family Foundation researchers to reach the following conclusion 13 years ago: "Extending coverage to this group could be done either through providing access to Medicare, or creating a new group purchasing arrangement. Expanding Medicaid to even subgroups of the near elderly seems less feasible at this time given that the near elderly are a high-cost population and states are struggling to maintain their programs’ coverage in the face of unparalleled fiscal crises. Alternatively, tax credits for the purchase of non-group health insurance are unlikely to help many of the near elderly unless the value of the credit is substantially adjusted for age or health status."

Without employing some of the options outlined in that report—the Affordable Care Act focused on Medicaid expansion and an adjustable tax credit—the AHCA will likely increase mortality among near-elderly people. Researchers have found that people between 55 and 64 who are uninsured are significantly more likely to die than their insured peers. That much should be obvious, as 65 is a somewhat arbitrary age for health purposes, and often the advance of age-linked disorders comes earlier. The median age of several cancer diagnoses—especially for people of color—often comes in the near-elderly range, and heart disease, diabetes, and hypertension often first manifest themselves during this range. And as the opioid epidemic grips the country, the risk of death from overdose is increasingly rapidly among the near-elderly.

Again, those risks are not simply collateral damage or unintended consequences of the AHCA; they are the ultimate endpoint of all its constituent policies. Republicans could fix these consequences, but that might mean risking some of the more positive reports of effects on the budget and premiums, and in essence really creating the “Obamacare lite” kind of program so dreaded around the Capitol. And if whispers of Republican plans to raise the Medicare age or reform that program have any amount of truth to them, the AHCA could land as the first blow of a one-two punch. It would deeply weaken health-care coverage and health for near-elderly people even as future policies delay the promise of guaranteed care past the age of 65. The end result of that system would be—simply—more deaths.

Politically, the AHCA faces risks because it tends to negatively affect the kinds of people who voted for President Trump and the new Republican majorities in the first place: rural, older Americans with higher health costs and more health problems. But beyond the politics, if any American health reform should be judged on how much it betters the health of the sickest people and how much it lowers the costs of the most expensive people, the AHCA fails on just about all the merits.

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 17:25 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
Worden eindelijk zijn tax returns geleaked...

Zijn het 2 pagina's
Uit 2005

Waarschijnlijk heeft ie ze zelf gelekt, zegt de journalist die ze kreeg

Anders was heel 2005 wel gelekt, of latere jaren.
Die Donald ook

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 17:51 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Dat was ook mijn eerste gedachte

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 18:21 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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NOS journaal zegt gewoon letterlijk 'Trump heeft zijn belastingen uit 2005 vrijgegeven '. Faalhazen 😂

Of ze hebben gelijk 😄

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 12:30 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
In de laatste 19 uur was dit topic redelijk stil, en bleven de niet-inhoudelijke/non-informatieve posters weg. Want er was geen tweetje..

De POL-richtlijnen zijn overigens nog steeds het lezen waard...

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Op woensdag 15 maart 2017 18:56 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
Die nieuwe poll van Politico/Morning Consult:

Obamacare/Affordable Care Act
Approve 47%
Disapprove 47%

GOP/American Health Care Act
Approve 46%
Disapprove 35%

komt wel bij dat zo'n 19% 'no opinion' heeft bij de nieuwe plannen.

Trump iets omhoog:

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 00:06 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Weer juridische problemen voor de nieuwe travel ban:
http://www.politico.com/s(...)judge-hearing-236086

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 00:41 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Who knew it would be that complicated!

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 01:32 schreef Roger_Epiales het volgende:

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Nobody, nobody knew immigration could be this complicated.

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Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Buitenlandse Zaken moet vermoedelijk fors inleveren in het budgetvoorstel dat president Donald Trump donderdag zal presenteren.
Het departement krijgt in het voorstel 28 procent minder te besteden in het boekjaar 2018, zegt een goed ingevoerde bron.

Trump zal in het voorstel ook pleiten voor een fors investering in Defensie. Daar wil de president naar verwachting ongeveer 54 miljard dollar (ruim 50 miljard euro) extra voor uittrekken: circa 10 procent meer dan op dit moment. Het ministerie van Binnenlandse Veiligheid moet er 6 procent bij krijgen.

Het geld voor die investeringen wordt in het voorstel onder meer weggehaald bij de publieke omroep. Ook moet worden gekort op subsidies voor kunst en wetenschap en kan milieudienst EPA volgens bronnen tot een derde van het budget verliezen.

Ook de door Trump beloofde muur aan de grens met Mexico duikt op in de plannen. De president wil daar in 2017 zo'n 1,5 miljard voor uitrekken. Daar komt een jaar later nog eens 2,8 miljard bij.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 06:06 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Vooral ook grappig als je nu naar China kijkt, hoe die de laatste maanden enorme projecten hebben aangekondigd met betrekking tot klimaat (alle taxi's in Beijing worden bijvoorbeeld elektrisch, er komen gigantische natuurparken bij, het beschermen van bedreigde diersoorten, het indammen van CO2 uitstoot, etc) maar ook ruimtevaart (nieuwe ruimtestations bouwen, eventueel een maanbasis) en IT (focus op AI en supercomputers)

Sure, Amerika zal qua legertech voorlopig de grootste en beste blijven, maar in dit tempo zie ik China snel de VS overstijgen op een heleboel vlakken.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 00:06 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Weer juridische problemen voor de nieuwe travel ban:
http://www.politico.com/s(...)judge-hearing-236086

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 07:03 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Benieuwd of driemaal scheepsrecht gaat worden voor onze Donald.

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We stand at the birth of a new millennium, ready to unlock the mysteries of space, to free the Earth from the miseries of disease, and to harness the energies, industries and technologies of tomorrow.

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The budget chops funding for the National Institutes of Health by $5.8 billion, or close to 20 percent.

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We will build new roads and highways and bridges and airports and tunnels, and railways, all across our wonderful nation.

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The proposal would eliminate a Transportation Department program that funds nearly $500 million in road projects. It does not include new funding amounts or a tax mechanism for Trump’s infrastructure program

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 08:13 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Tijdens de inauguratie.

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In het budget.

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Tijdens de inauguratie.

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In het budget.

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Op een gegeven moment moeten zelfs de fanatiekste Trump-liefhebbers hier op Fok! toch niet meer kunnen volhouden dat hij al zijn beloftes in recordtempo nakomt, toch?

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 08:13 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Tijdens de inauguratie.

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In het budget.

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Tijdens de inauguratie.

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In het budget.

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Op een gegeven moment moeten zelfs de fanatiekste Trump-liefhebbers hier op Fok! toch niet meer kunnen volhouden dat hij al zijn beloftes in recordtempo nakomt, toch?

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 09:17 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

Ik kan echt niet zien hoe Trump's plannen Amerika weer groots maken. Het vervalt eerder in een soort derde wereldland op deze manier.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 09:28 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ze krijgen een Big Beautiful Wall en Goddeloze Abortusklinieken worden ook verboden!

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 09:42 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Hier is een idee, graffiti artiesten kunnen stukken muur 'kopen' om hun kunsten te tonen. Op die manier zijn de kosten lager, hoeft er minder geld naar cultuur, en kunnen artiesten toch hun talenten kwijt

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 10:01 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Volgens de beste rechts populistische visie was dat toch al de bedoeling natuurlijk:
Trump Proposes Eliminating the Arts and Humanities Endowments

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 09:17 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Ik snap die amerikanen echt niet. Willen ze echt zo graag over bruggen rijden die elk moment kunnen instorten, zoals al een aantal keer gebeurd is de afgelopen jaren. En zelfs voor olie en gas heb je goede infrastructuur nodig.

Ik kan echt niet zien hoe Trump's plannen Amerika weer groots maken. Het vervalt eerder in een soort derde wereldland op deze manier.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 13:05 schreef RM-rf het volgende:
Noemen ze het GOP Healthcare plan nu ook zelf al 'Obamacare light'...?

Beetje een slap en zwalkend teken;
Als ze het al zelf zo gaan noemen wordt het ook voor republikeinen prijsschieten op dat voorstel

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frankthorp twitterde op donderdag 16-03-2017 om 13:24:28 Reminder: Trump's budget (like Obama's before his) will likely only get a vote intro'ed by other party to show it would not pass in Congress reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 14:30 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
White House Budget Proposal hier te lezen (62 pagina's):

https://www.whitehouse.go(...)8/2018_blueprint.pdf

twitter:

frankthorp twitterde op donderdag 16-03-2017 om 13:24:28 Reminder: Trump's budget (like Obama's before his) will likely only get a vote intro'ed by other party to show it would not pass in Congress reageer retweet

m.a.w.: WH budgets zijn altijd verlanglijstjes maar nooit echt realistisch.

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However, Chuang soundly rejected that approach in his ruling from Maryland, using Trump's campaign comments and pledges to conclude that the primary purpose of Trump's travel ban order was to advance religious bias.

"These statements, which include explicit, direct statements of President Trump's animus towards Muslims and intention to impose a ban on Muslims entering the United States, present a convincing case that the First Executive Order was issued to accomplish, as nearly as possible, President Trump's promised Muslim ban," U.S. District Court Judge Theodore Chuang wrote.

Chuang's decision flatly dismissed the federal government's arguments that Trump's comments before he took office should not be considered in assessing the executive order's purpose.

"Simply because a decisionmaker made the statements during a campaign does not wipe them from the 'reasonable memory' of a 'reasonable observer,'" the judge wrote, pointing to a federal appeals court decision that considered "billboards and campaign commercials" for Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore in concluding that he was motivated by religion when he had a Ten Commandments display installed at a state courthouse.

Chuang said the conclusion that anti-Muslim sentiment was the primarily reason behind the travel ban was supported by the fact that it seemed to be a poor fit for known terrorist threats.

"In this highly unique case, the record provides strong indications that the national security purpose is not the primary purpose for the travel ban," the judge wrote. "While the travel ban bears no resemblance to any response to a national security risk in recent history, it bears a clear resemblance to the precise action that President Trump described as effectuating his Muslim ban."

Watson's order took a similar tack, citing campaign trail statements by Trump that the judge said amounted to "significant and unrebutted evidence of religious animus driving the promulgation of the Executive Order and its related predecessor."

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 15:28 schreef Ulx het volgende:
http://www.politico.com/s(...)judge-hearing-236086

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De rechter zegt dus gewoon dat Trump jarenlang liep te brullen dat er geen moslim het land meer binnen zou komen, en dat hij nu dus uit zijn nek lult als hij zegt dat dat slecht campagnebeloftes waren en dat zijn EO niet over moslims gaat. Ik denk dat Trump de ban maar beter kan laten voor wat het is.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 15:45 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Dat moet een rare gewaarwording voor Donald zijn, dat de dingen die hij zegt ook echt betekenis hebben.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 15:45 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Dat moet een rare gewaarwording voor Donald zijn, dat de dingen die hij zegt ook echt betekenis hebben.

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Dep.Sec. Pledging members////

Robert Rangel
* Senior VP of strategic initiatives at Lockheed Martin
* Fmr. Director of Programs and Global Security Policy at Lockheed Martin
* Fmr. Deputy Secretary of Defense
* Fmr. Special Assistant to the Secretary of Defense
* Fmr. Staff Director for the House Armed Services Committee
* B.A. in Political Science from the University of Kentucky

Mike Wynne
* Fmr. Secretary of the Air Force
* Ret. US Air Force Captain
* Fmr. Principal Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics
* Fmr. Senior VP for International Development and Strategy at General Dynamics
* Fmr. General Manager of the Space Launch Systems segment at Lockheed Martin
* Fmr. President of Space Systems at Lockheed Martin
* B.Sc. in General Engineering from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, MBA from the University of Colorado, M.Sc. in Electrical Engineering from the Air Force Institute of Technology

Stephen Hadley
* Founder of RiceHadleyGates
* Member of the Council on Foreign Relations
* Fmr. Member of the Defense Policy Board
* Fmr. Member of the Foreign Affairs Policy Board
* Fmr. Member of the National Security Advisory Panel to the Director of Central Intelligence
* Fmr. National Security Advisor
* Fmr. Assistant Secretary of Defense for Global Strategic Affairs
* Fmr. Assistant Secretary of Defense for International Security Policy
* Fmr. Member of the National Security Council
* B.A. in Government from Cornell University, J.D. from Yale Law School

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 19:11 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
https://mobile.twitter.co(...)2403173742579714?p=p
Goedpraten van zijn budgetkeuzes..

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CEQ.Pledging members///

Kathleen Hartnett White
* Distinguished Senior Fellow and Director of the energy and environment center at the Texas Public Policy Foundation
* Member of the Texas Emission Reduction Advisory Board
* Member of the Texas Water Foundation
* Fmr. Chairman and Commissioner of the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality
* Fmr. Member of the Texas Water Development Board
* Fmr. Member of the Texas Economic Development Commission
* Fmr. Member of the Environmental Flows Study Commission
* Fmr. Officer and Director of the Lower Colorado River Authority
* Fmr. Board Member of the Texas Wildlife Association
* Fmr. Director of Private Lands and the Environment at the National Cattlemen's Association
* Fmr. Director of the Ranching Heritage Association
* Fmr. Special Assistant in the White House Office of the First Lady
* B.A. in Humanities from Stanford University, M.A. in Humanities from Stanford University, Doc. Cand. in East Asian and Comparative Religions at Princeton University

Martin Hall
* VP of Federal Affairs and Energy Policy at FirstEnergy Corp.
* Fmr. Chief of Staff of the Council on Environmental Quality
* Fmr. Deputy Chief of Staff for the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works
* B.A. in Communications and Political Science from Northwestern University

Bill Cooper
* Staff Director and Senior Policy Advisor on the House Natural Resources Committee's Energy and Mineral Resources Subcommittee
* Fmr. President of the Center for Liquefied Natural Gas
* Fmr. Partner at Hunton & Williams
* Fmr. Counsel to the U.S. House Energy and Commerce Committee
* B.A. from Wabash College, J.D. from the University of Tennessee College of Law

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 17:13 schreef Klopkoek het volgende:
https://www.thenation.com(...)ing-us-who-they-are/

Goed artikel. Echt kwaadaardige mensen idd.

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Op donderdag 9 februari 2017 16:56 schreef antiderivative het volgende:

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* Southwest Airlines CEO tells Trump: "We're very well aligned with your philosophy," cites tax & regulatory reform
* Trump says government contract for a new air traffic control system is not good
* Trump zeroes in on ATC modernization; airlines urging Trump to reform operations of FAA
* Trump says head of Federal Aviation Administration should be a (former) pilot
* Airlines urging Trump to back an increase in passenger facility charge for improvements; Trump not keen on that

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Op donderdag 2 maart 2017 17:52 schreef invalidusername het volgende:
Nou, eens kijken wat Donald hier van vindt - of niet

http://www.telegraph.co.u(...)isas-eu-reciprocity/

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Building a wall? We built a whole ocean! En als ze een verkeersovertreding hebben gemaakt, gewoon het visum weigeren want crimineel graag.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 19:30 schreef Re het volgende:

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ik heb echt met die mensen te doen, maar aan de andere kant hebben veel van die mensen op hem gestemd, the american dream zit diep geworteld of zo

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 14:40 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Geen verlanglijstje, meer een duidelijke indicatie waar de prioriteiten van de administratie liggen. In het geval van Trump liggen die bij meer wapens, minder van de rest.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 19:48 schreef antiderivative het volgende:

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Op hem? Als het gaat om Healthcare is Trump een echte moderate

Rep. Mark Meadows says he raised entitlement reform with President Trump and the pushback was stronger than expected

Een gedeelte diep-conservatieve republikeinen willen meer hervormingen (lees hack & slash) in allerlei regelingen en programma's en een gedeelte van dezelfde partij, de gematigden, willen juist enkele belangrijke elementen (medicare/medicaid) in stand houden (omdat dat in hun staat een belangrijk punt is).

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 19:48 schreef antiderivative het volgende:

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Op hem? Als het gaat om Healthcare is Trump een echte moderate

Rep. Mark Meadows says he raised entitlement reform with President Trump and the pushback was stronger than expected

Een gedeelte diep-conservatieve republikeinen willen meer hervormingen (lees hack & slash) in allerlei regelingen en programma's en een gedeelte van dezelfde partij, de gematigden, willen juist enkele belangrijke elementen (medicare/medicaid) in stand houden (omdat dat in hun staat een belangrijk punt is).

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 19:48 schreef antiderivative het volgende:

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Op hem? Als het gaat om Healthcare is Trump een echte moderate

Rep. Mark Meadows says he raised entitlement reform with President Trump and the pushback was stronger than expected

Een gedeelte diep-conservatieve republikeinen willen meer hervormingen (lees hack & slash) in allerlei regelingen en programma's en een gedeelte van dezelfde partij, de gematigden, willen juist enkele belangrijke elementen (medicare/medicaid) in stand houden (omdat dat in hun staat een belangrijk punt is).

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I’ve been reading about things. I read in, I think it was January 20 a New York Times article where they were talking about wiretapping. There was an article I think they used that exact term. I read other things.

“I watched your friend, Bret Baier, the day previous where he was talking about certain very complex sets of things happening, and wiretapping. I said, wait a minute, there’s a lot of wiretapping being talked about. I’ve been seeing a lot of things”.

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“Not that I respect The New York Times. I call it the failing New York Times. But they did write on January 20 using the word wiretap," he explained.

http://www.independent.co(...)ection-a7632631.html

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 19:47 schreef Nintex het volgende:
"wiretapping" stond tussen haakjes, dus het telt niet jongons

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United States of TRUMP

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"Wiretap covers a lot of different things," Trump told Fox News' Tucker Carlson in an interview aired Wednesday night. "I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks."

Monitoring Trump Remarks in Nashville, Wiretap Dancing? - Anderson Cooper 360 - Mar 16, 2017

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 20:32 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 04-03-2017 om 13:02:48 How low has President Obama gone to tapp my phones during the very sacred election process. This is Nixon/Watergate. Bad (or sick) guy! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 04-03-2017 om 12:52:54 I'd bet a good lawyer could make a great case out of the fact that President Obama was tapping my phones in October, just prior to Election! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 03-03-2017 om 03:38:48 ...is all of the illegal leaks of classified and other information. It is a total "witch hunt!" reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 26-02-2017 om 12:33:16 The race for DNC Chairman was, of course, totally "rigged." Bernie's guy, like Bernie himself, never had a chance. Clinton demanded Perez! reageer retweet

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The Dangerous Precedent Set by Judicial Attacks on Trump's Travel Ban

Let’s start with the law.

The president of the United States has power to bar “any class of aliens” both as immigrants and as nonimmigrants and to impose on their ordinary comings and goings “any restrictions he may deem appropriate.”

That’s the language of the U.S. Code, the law of the land as enacted by Congress, under Congress’ own constitutional power over immigration and naturalization.

Presidential power is never absolute, of course. It’s always subject to the Constitution. Many have argued that Trump's ban is unconstitutional because—as the president himself has repeatedly said—it’s intended to ban Muslims, and should be regarded as prohibited religious discrimination.

But here’s the problem for those making the argument: It’s firmly established U.S. law that the rights of the Constitution belong only to Americans. The U.S. Army can strip enemy combatants of weapons without offending the Second Amendment right to carry firearms. It can billet troops in private dwellings overseas without offending the Third Amendment. The NSA can intercept foreign communications without regard to the Fourth Amendment. The U.S. courts do not hear cases from foreign nationals who complain their due process rights under the Fifth Amendment have somehow been infringed. And so through the gamut.

Where do foreign nationals then acquire their supposed First Amendment right to enter the United States without religious discrimination?

The answer offered by Judge Derrick Watson’s opinion is a judicial reach of a kind that might sound clever to the student editors of an academic law review—but that should worry all Americans in real life. By barring foreign Muslims, the opinion argues, the Trump administration has signaled disfavor of domestic Muslims as well, thereby violating their First Amendment rights to religious equality.

Not only that! Watson’s opinion further contends that this argument is so convincing that it is “highly likely” to prevail on the ultimate merits—and for that reason, that he is justified in issuing immediately a temporary restraining order against Trump’s ban.

This double argument is bold, to put it mildly.

What it does, in effect, is globalize the First Amendment (and possibly other amendments too) provided only that a fellow adherent of that religion live inside the United States.

This approach is so ambitious and so new that it renders incredible. Judge Derrick Watson’s claimed certitude that the plaintiffs are “highly likely” to prevail. Their chances are at best touch-and-go; at worst, probably doomed.

Frankly, under any other president than Donald Trump, it seems impossible that a federal judge would have expressed such certitude—or granted their requested order. The federal courts have historically granted large deference to presidential power over immigration and naturalization. The Supreme Court ruled as recently as 2015 that the president could deny a visa to an alien for no reason at all!

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 20:57 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://www.theatlantic.c(...)us-precedent/519828/

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White House press secretary Sean Spicer said Thursday that President Trump “stands by” his allegation that former president Barack Obama ordered wiretapping surveillance of Trump Tower last fall, despite statements from the leaders of congressional investigations that no evidence had been found to support the claim.

In a remarkably combative exchange with reporters at his daily press briefing, Spicer was asked whether Trump still believes Obama ordered the alleged surveillance effort.

“He stands by it,” Spicer said, going on to assail journalists for the way they have reported on the controversy.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 21:02 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
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"I realize this may be an unfashionable belief in a time of growing tolerance of drug use. But too many lives are at stake to worry about being fashionable. I reject the idea that America will be a better place if marijuana is sold in every corner store. And I am astonished to hear people suggest that we can solve our heroin crisis by legalizing marijuana – so people can trade one life-wrecking dependency for another that's only slightly less awful. Our nation needs to say clearly once again that using drugs will destroy your life."

http://www.rollingstone.c(...)dness-on-pot-w472282

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 19:14 schreef invalidusername het volgende:

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Als safety no. 1 zou ie beter was aan guncontrol kunnen doen. Volgens mij is de kans dat je wat overkomt agv gebrek aan guncontrols in de USA haast oneindig groter dan de kans op een terrorist.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 20:22 schreef Montov het volgende:

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I read things, I read other things. I see things. Failing NYT.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 21:02 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 21:14 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Ook wel een bijzondere budgettaire keuze:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.a5adc6f90ad6

twitter:

NYPDONeill twitterde op donderdag 16-03-2017 om 21:44:13 Under @POTUS budget, virtually all fed funding to #NYPD eradicated. Entire counterterrorism apparatus in nation's t… https://t.co/1dCHUpCBfX reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 00:21 schreef Nintex het volgende:

twitter:

NYPDONeill twitterde op donderdag 16-03-2017 om 21:44:13 Under @POTUS budget, virtually all fed funding to #NYPD eradicated. Entire counterterrorism apparatus in nation's t… https://t.co/1dCHUpCBfX reageer retweet

Het is echt Bane

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 21:40 schreef nostra het volgende:


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https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.b57e33c0347a

"I think you're going to find some very interesting items coming to the forefront over the next two weeks," Trump told Fox host Tucker Carlson.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 21:00 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Een neo-con die het niet eens is in een opinie stuk met federale rechters? Color me surprised...

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Wednesday was an active day in the courts for President Trump’s Refugee Executive Order (EO). A U.S. district court in Hawaii issued a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) blocking the revised EO issued less than two weeks ago. In addition, the Ninth Circuit, with five judges dissenting, declined to order an en banc rehearing on a Seattle district court’s TRO against the original EO. Judge Jay Bybee’s dissent (joined by judges Kozinski, Callahan, Bea, and Ikuta) comes closest to the deferential note that I believe the Supreme Court will ultimately strike when and if it considers the revised EO’s legality. However, because of the substantial tailoring in the revised EO, the Supreme Court could upheld EO 2.0 without embracing the broad deference urged in Judge Bybee’s dissent.

First, some background on the revised EO (see Josh Blackman’s posts here, here, and here)): The revised EO exempts lawful permanent residents (LPRs), current visa-holders (VHs), and noncitizens with approved refugee status—all of whom had reliance interests disrupted by the original EO. The revised EO only affects foreign nationals abroad who are seeking visas ab initio. The Supreme Court has never held that the Constitution protects noncitizens in this context. The revised EO excludes Iraqis, makes Syrian refugees subject to a 120-day bar (not the indefinite halt decreed by the initial EO), and deletes any mention of a priority for religious minorities.

In the Hawaii case, Judge Derrick K. Watson found the revised EO’s careful tailoring insufficient to withstand the plaintiffs’ Establishment Clause challenge. Unfortunately, Judge Watson paid no heed to the ill fit between the varied factors that drive immigration decisions and the Establishment Clause case law’s search for an intent to harm or help religion.

That heedlessness swims against the tide of Supreme Court precedent. In Kerry v. Din (2015), Justice Kennedy’s controlling opinion found that even the due process rights of U.S. citizen sponsors of visa applicants had to bow to the “facially legitimate and bona fide” interest of the U.S. government in countering terrorism. In endorsing this flexible standard, Justice Kennedy cited Kleindienst v. Mandel (1972), in which the Court first articulated the “facially legitimate and bona fide” test. Mandel, which Judge Bybee cited repeatedly in his Ninth Circuit dissent, rejected a First Amendment challenge to the denial of a visa to a Marxist scholar whom U.S. citizens wished to hear speak in person. Mandel’s relaxed standard suggests that Judge Watson’s opinion will be short-lived.

Rejecting Mandel’s teaching, Judge Watson second-guessed the security emphasis of the revised EO. The revised EO cites the armed conflicts that have engulfed 5 of the 6 countries (Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, and Yemen) subject to the country-wide pause in admissions. Because of those armed conflicts, the EO concludes, a review of U.S. visa procedures is appropriate. According to the revised EO, review is appropriate for the 6th country on the list—Iran—because that country has been a longtime sponsor of terrorism. In my opinion, these facts do not present a persuasive policy case for the EO’s pause in admissions, for reasons that former senior Department of Homeland Security lawyer David Martin states here. However, a given policy need not command a unanimous policy consensus to be “facially legitimate and bona fide.” Indeed, the whole point of the “facially legitimate and bona fide” standard, as Justice Kennedy reiterated in Kerry v. Din, is to ensure that courts stay out of the policy debates that are the rightful province of the political branches.

twitter:

L0gg0l twitterde op vrijdag 17-03-2017 om 01:17:58 #Breaking U.S air strike that targeted AQ mtg place near Syria's Aleppo apparently destroys mosque https://t.co/EgZ8u1t28J -- @CT_operative reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 01:31 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Amerikanen zijn begonnen met het opruimen van ISIS en Al Qaida

twitter:

L0gg0l twitterde op vrijdag 17-03-2017 om 01:17:58 #Breaking U.S air strike that targeted AQ mtg place near Syria's Aleppo apparently destroys mosque https://t.co/EgZ8u1t28J -- @CT_operative reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 01:31 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Amerikanen zijn begonnen met het opruimen van ISIS en Al Qaida

twitter:

L0gg0l twitterde op vrijdag 17-03-2017 om 01:17:58 #Breaking U.S air strike that targeted AQ mtg place near Syria's Aleppo apparently destroys mosque https://t.co/EgZ8u1t28J -- @CT_operative reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 01:31 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Amerikanen zijn begonnen met het opruimen van ISIS en Al Qaida

twitter:

L0gg0l twitterde op vrijdag 17-03-2017 om 01:17:58 #Breaking U.S air strike that targeted AQ mtg place near Syria's Aleppo apparently destroys mosque https://t.co/EgZ8u1t28J -- @CT_operative reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 16-03-2017 om 22:54:02 Great progress on healthcare. Improvements being made - Republicans coming together! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 00:21 schreef Nintex het volgende:

twitter:

NYPDONeill twitterde op donderdag 16-03-2017 om 21:44:13 Under @POTUS budget, virtually all fed funding to #NYPD eradicated. Entire counterterrorism apparatus in nation's t… https://t.co/1dCHUpCBfX reageer retweet

Het is echt Bane

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 08:15 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 16-03-2017 om 22:54:02 Great progress on healthcare. Improvements being made - Republicans coming together! reageer retweet

Healthcare gaat in ieder geval de goede kant op nu, na wat opstartproblemen gaat het nu soepeltjes.

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Op donderdag 16 maart 2017 20:22 schreef Montov het volgende:

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I read things, I read other things. I see things. Failing NYT.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 10:07 schreef nostra het volgende:
Tillerson spreekt wat hardere woorden en ziet militair ingrijpen richting Noord-Korea nu als optie.

_{Spionage daar gebeurt aan de foto te zien wat minder geavanceeerd dan in Trump Tower.}

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 10:10 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Net wat de VS nodig heeft. Een tweede Korea-oorlog.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 10:10 schreef Wespensteek het volgende:
Als het witte huis bekend maakt dat wat Trump op Twitter zet niet serieus genomen moet worden en bestaat uit hersenscheten die via zijn vingers tot uiting komen,

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 08:15 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 16-03-2017 om 22:54:02 Great progress on healthcare. Improvements being made - Republicans coming together! reageer retweet

Healthcare gaat in ieder geval de goede kant op nu, na wat opstartproblemen gaat het nu soepeltjes.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 10:10 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Net wat de VS nodig heeft. Een tweede Korea-oorlog.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 11:29 schreef cynicus het volgende:

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Maar, maar, ten tijde van de campagne werd Clinton door de Fok! Trump-aanhangers continue beschuldigd van oorlogsziekheid en dat Trump met iedereen vriendjes zou zijn. En aangezien Trump al zijn verkiezingsbeloftes nakomt, komt er dus geen tweede Korea oorlog. Logisch toch?

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 11:35 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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“I’ve been briefed…and I can tell you one thing about a briefing that we’re allowed to say …because anybody who ever read the most basic book can say it…nuclear holocaust would be like no other.”

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This means that Trump told his audience a half-dozen things about the tape that aren’t accurate. The video he saw was not shot in Iran, it did not show the exchange of cash, it was not “top secret,” it was not “a military tape,” and it was not “provided by Iran.” Nor was it released to embarrass the United States.

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I was born and raised deep in Eastern KY, where nearly every male of working age followed their fathers into the coal mines. Some moved away, as I did, but most aren’t prepared for the world beyond their small rural community and, when they return, fall into the trap of poverty. A few of the young men I went to school with have have been killed in the mines. My brother-in-law is currently laid off with a bad knee from working in the mines. My father’s best friend is also out of work from the mines with no compensation, and he’d been working with his company for around 40 years. They both depend on federal aid for health care for themselves and their families, heating/electricity assistance, food stamps, and so on.

There have been so many excellent programs to help these miners relearn trades and get back into society but they will not take them. No matter how many times I tell my brother-in-law to reach out to these resources, he finds an excuse. He’s too dumb, can’t do this or can’t do that, too old to change, etc. They don’t want change. They want the mines, yet when you talk with them about the lifestyle they complain about the danger, the damage it does to one’s body, and the hours. “It’s hard work and nobody should have to do it,” my BIL says all the time. Then why not go to these programs that not only pay you to learn, but help land you a job afterwards?

It infuriates me that everyone I know from back home will cut off their noses to spite their face. When I try to explain why it’s bad to put their faith into a man who has never lived like they have -- as in choosing between rent and electricity, eating mac and cheese because you can’t afford anything else, taping up your windows because they’re broken and you can’t afford to repair it, etc -- somehow I’m the bad guy. According to them, Trump is going to save them. When I ask from who or what, they can’t give me a single concrete example. It’s always a vague answer like “the Democrats” or “corruption.”

My father is very ill and his life depends on Obamacare. Without it, he would be dead today. Even though he had pre-existing conditions, his insurance now covers the surgery he needs to walk again. And yet he’s in full support of abolishing it for whatever plan the GOP has in mind. He agrees with the funding cuts for social programs, PBS, meals on wheels, etc as they don't affect him personally. I don’t know what to say anymore.

I feel like I’ve reached a limit to my compassion for these issues. I'm ashamed to say it as these people are my heritage, but it almost feels like they must learn a harsh lesson by losing the safety net they've become so reliant on. They simply will not listen to reason.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 13:40 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
http://edition.cnn.com/20(...)/index.html?adkey=bn
Het Witte Huis heeft beloofd om Groot-Britannie niet meer te beschuldigen van het bespioneren van Trump tbv Obama. Aldus Groot-Britannie volgens CNN.

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The rural voters who turned out in droves to elect President Donald Trump would be some of the biggest losers under the new White House budget.

The spending blueprint calls for a deeper cut to the Agriculture Department — 21 percent — than to just about any other agency. Trump would slash programs that invest in rural infrastructure, target rural public radio and demolish food-aid programs that farmers rely on to buy their products.
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Rural voters flocked to Trump and his promises to roll back environmental regulations and overhaul Obamacare, block illegal immigrants and put blue-collar Americans back to work. They applauded his nods to farmers on the campaign trail. While many of those promises are in the budget, some are reading the cuts affecting farmers and rural communities as a sign from the White House that middle America isn’t a priority.

“Rural America elected Trump. His message to rural America is, ‘I don’t care,’” said Dee Davis, founder of the Center for Rural Strategies, a Whitesburg, Kentucky-based nonpartisan group that advocates on behalf of rural communities.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 17-03-2017 om 14:07:15 North Korea is behaving very badly. They have been "playing" the United States for years. China has done little to help! reageer retweet

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Mulvaney, the White House budget director, was blunt when asked about the cuts to climate research in Trump's plan. "We're not spending money on that anymore," he said. "We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that."

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 14:25 schreef Mani89 het volgende:
Foei Noord-Korea, jullie krijgen een time-out.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 17-03-2017 om 14:07:15 North Korea is behaving very badly. They have been "playing" the United States for years. China has done little to help! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 14:41 schreef cynicus het volgende:
Mulvaney, the White House budget director, was blunt when asked about the cuts to climate research in Trump's plan. "We're not spending money on that anymore," he said. "We consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that."

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 15:10 schreef Brave_Sir_Robin het volgende:

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 15:17 schreef cynicus het volgende:

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Is een perfecte omschrijving voor Mulvaney. Google hem maar. Die is (bijna?) nog enger dan Bannon en Conway.

https://newrepublic.com/m(...)-poor-kids-go-hungry

Budget director explains Trump's proposed cuts for Meals on Wheels

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 14:25 schreef Mani89 het volgende:
Foei Noord-Korea, jullie krijgen een time-out.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 17-03-2017 om 14:07:15 North Korea is behaving very badly. They have been "playing" the United States for years. China has done little to help! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 16:14 schreef cynicus het volgende:
Meals on Wheels (MoW) is dan ook vooral een vangnet voor ouderen en anderen die aan huis gebonden zijn en niet mobiel genoeg zijn om zelf te gaan shoppen voor eten.

Het is dus logisch dat MoW geen meetbare invloed heeft op de leer resulaten van kinderen op school.

De incompetentie of laakbaarheid van deze regering is wederom hemeltergend. Niet vreemd eigenlijk: Mulvaney komt uit de TeaParty beweging.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 19:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Donald Trump ignores request for handshake with Angela Merkel

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 19:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Donald Trump ignores request for handshake with Angela Merkel

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 21:21 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 19:54 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
WTF is er allemaal gezegd door Merkel dat hij zo doet? Wat een mafketel is het toch.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 19:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Donald Trump ignores request for handshake with Angela Merkel

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 21:41 schreef Montov het volgende:

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En hierbij zit volgens mij niet eens de 300.000 dollar per dag qua beveiliging rondom Trump Tower waar de Third Lady zit.

Heel wat bezuinigingen zouden niet nodig zijn als deze aparte keuzes niet gedaan worden.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 21:47 schreef Montov het volgende:
Je ziet dat de leider van de vrije wereld niet heel comfortabel zit. Trump daarentegen lijkt kinderachtig zoals gewoonlijk.

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US makes formal apology to Britain after White House accuses GCHQ of wiretapping Trump Tower

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Intelligence sources told The Telegraph that both Mr Spicer and General McMaster, the US National Security Adviser, have apologised over the claims. "The apology came direct from them," a source said.

General McMaster contacted Sir Mark Lyall Grant, the Prime Minister's National Security adviser, to apologise for the comments. Mr Spicer conveyed his apology through Sir Kim Darroch, Britain's US ambassador.

Mr Spicer had earlier repeated claims that Barack Obama used GCHQ to spy on Mr Trump before he became president.

"He’s able to get it and there’s no American fingerprints on it," Mr Spicer said of the intelligence supposedly provided to Mr Obama by Britain.

"Three intelligence sources have informed Fox News that President Obama went outside the chain of command - he didn't use the NSA, he didn't use the CIA, he didn't use the FBI and he didn't use the Department of Justice - he used GCHQ."

http://www.telegraph.co.u(...)es-gchq-wiretapping/

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 21:45 schreef Doublepain het volgende:

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Haha

Baas

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 22:08 schreef Arth_NL het volgende:

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Hij zit erbij als een achtjarige die te horen heeft gekregen dat hij pas op mag staan als hij zijn bord leeg heeft gegeten.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 22:12 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Hij kijkt vooral heel boos. Hij wil geen handshake want opperbaas Merkel is waarschijnlijk streng tegen 'm geweest.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 22:19 schreef Doublepain het volgende:

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Ik denk eerder dat hij een hekel aan haar heeft, Trumpgod

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 22:26 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Maar dan nog? Iemand wel ontvangen, maar geen hand geven?! Waarom dat dan? Is hij moslim ofzo?!

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 22:29 schreef Doublepain het volgende:

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Hij gaf haar later wel een hand hoor.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 22:26 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Maar dan nog? Iemand wel ontvangen, maar geen hand geven?! Waarom dat dan? Is hij moslim ofzo?!

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 22:34 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ik vraag me af of hij dit bewust doet. Het kan natuurlijk ook gewoon zijn dat al zijn aandacht naar de fotografen ging. Hij kickt daar helemaal op.

Maar ook dan is het buitengewoon onbeschoft dat hij als gastheer geen oog voor Merkel heeft op zo'n moment. Hij kijkt haar ook niet één keer aan.

Weird - Donald Trump Doesn't Know Where Rudy Giuliani is (He's right in front of Him)

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 22:34 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ik vraag me af of hij dit bewust doet. Het kan natuurlijk ook gewoon zijn dat al zijn aandacht naar de fotografen ging. Hij kickt daar helemaal op.

Maar ook dan is het buitengewoon onbeschoft dat hij als gastheer geen oog voor Merkel heeft op zo'n moment. Hij kijkt haar ook niet één keer aan.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 22:52 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Is gewoon een ongelikte beer, je zag toch ook hoe "galant" hij was naar Melania bij de inauguratie. Tevens is hij een misogynist...

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the refugees, carrying official UNHCR documents, were on their way from Yemen to Sudan

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 21:41 schreef Montov het volgende:
En hierbij zit volgens mij niet eens de 300.000 dollar per dag qua beveiliging rondom Trump Tower waar de Third Lady zit.

Heel wat bezuinigingen zouden niet nodig zijn als deze aparte keuzes niet gedaan worden.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 07:57 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
Facing soaring costs, Palm Beach officials ask Trump to pay up

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 11:23 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
Trump agenda vandaag:

* Intelligence briefings
* Meeting with the Republican Study Committee
* Listening session/roundtable on Veterans’ Affairs
* Meeting with Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany
* Roundtable discussion on vocational training with U.S. and German business leaders
* Joint press conference with Chancellor Merkel
* Working luncheon with Chancellor Merkel

O'care bill is door de budget commissie:

Budget panel advances ObamaCare bill with three GOP defections

Nu gaat het naar de House Rules commissie voor amendementen en daarna is het uiteindelijk de floor vote

twitter:

IBMNews twitterde op vrijdag 17-03-2017 om 16:39:15 Exclusive: IBM to hire 2,000 more veterans, expand tech training schools via @axios https://t.co/lOpoJsXaz6 reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 19:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Donald Trump ignores request for handshake with Angela Merkel

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 11:05 schreef Ulx het volgende:
http://www.politico.com/s(...)n-post-satire-236177

Lol

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 11:44 schreef truthortruth het volgende:

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Dit is toch ongelofelijk .... Ze komen niet verder dan een headline...

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 11:05 schreef Ulx het volgende:
http://www.politico.com/s(...)n-post-satire-236177

Lol

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 19:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Donald Trump ignores request for handshake with Angela Merkel

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 21:45 schreef Doublepain het volgende:

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Haha

Baas

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 12:32 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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Ja, idd, schoffeer twee van je belangrijkste bondgenoten en handelspartners in één dag. Briljant staaltje diplomatie.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 12:36 schreef Yiha3 het volgende:

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beetje zoals rutte

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 11:05 schreef Ulx het volgende:
http://www.politico.com/s(...)n-post-satire-236177

Lol

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 14:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik las trouwens her en der dat de hoge opkomst in Nederland en het feit dat Wilders een stuk minder zetels kreeg dan eerder gedacht te maken zou kunnen hebben met Trump. Weet iemand of hier wat data over is of is dat meer wat gegis?

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 19:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Donald Trump ignores request for handshake with Angela Merkel

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 14:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik las trouwens her en der dat de hoge opkomst in Nederland en het feit dat Wilders een stuk minder zetels kreeg dan eerder gedacht te maken zou kunnen hebben met Trump. Weet iemand of hier wat data over is of is dat meer wat gegis?

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 12:32 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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Ja, idd, schoffeer twee van je belangrijkste bondgenoten en handelspartners in één dag. Briljant staaltje diplomatie.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 15:06 schreef Doublepain het volgende:

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Soms moet je laten zien wie de baas is

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 15:12 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Dat is wel duidelijk inmiddels en dat is dus niet Trump.

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Op vrijdag 17 maart 2017 19:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Donald Trump ignores request for handshake with Angela Merkel

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 15:06 schreef Doublepain het volgende:

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Soms moet je laten zien wie de baas is

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 14:15 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Kan ook 'gewoon' fake news media jennen zijn. Krijgen ze lekker geen fotomomentje.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:19 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Oh fotomomentjes zat hoor:

[ afbeelding ]

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:20 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
Die prent is echt geweldig.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 16:40 schreef erodome het volgende:

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Jezus wat erg dit. Best wel schandelijk te noemen...

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:24 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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zwaar vermakelijk dit Je kan zien dat Trump Merkel gewoon haat.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:25 schreef erodome het volgende:

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Wat is daar vermakelijk aan? We hebben het hier namelijk niet over schoolplein kindertjes, maar over wereldleiders.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:23 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Kon het niet laten

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:27 schreef Falco het volgende:

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Ben zo 'brutaal' geweest om deze ff op de twitter te gooien als reactie op Donnie: https://twitter.com/FalcovanFok/status/843136296109445120

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:27 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Dit dus. De kunst is juist dat, zelfs al haat je iemand, je dat niet laat blijken en gewoon zaken doet. Merkel kan dat duidelijk wel van elkaar scheiden en zit er lekker ontspannen en geamuseerd bij

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:27 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Dit dus. De kunst is juist dat, zelfs al haat je iemand, je dat niet laat blijken en gewoon zaken doet. Merkel kan dat duidelijk wel van elkaar scheiden en zit er lekker ontspannen en geamuseerd bij

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:24 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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zwaar vermakelijk dit Je kan zien dat Trump Merkel gewoon haat.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:36 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Tijdje terug stond daar nog wel een aardig stuk over in Foreign Policy:
https://www.google.nl/amp(...)lies-like-trump/amp/

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:36 schreef erodome het volgende:

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Dit dus, +1!
Dat is wat een 'baas' zijn betekend.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:40 schreef Yiha3 het volgende:

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je kan helemaal niks zien op een foto, enkel speculeren

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 18-03-2017 om 14:15:41 Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, Germany owes..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 18-03-2017 om 14:23:37 ...vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 18:18 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 18-03-2017 om 14:15:41 Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, Germany owes..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 18-03-2017 om 14:23:37 ...vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany! reageer retweet

Op z'n pikkie getrapt

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 18:18 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 18-03-2017 om 14:15:41 Despite what you have heard from the FAKE NEWS, I had a GREAT meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. Nevertheless, Germany owes..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 18-03-2017 om 14:23:37 ...vast sums of money to NATO & the United States must be paid more for the powerful, and very expensive, defense it provides to Germany! reageer retweet

Op z'n pikkie getrapt

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 18:39 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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En hij schijnt te denken dat de VS geld op de rekening gestort moet krijgen?

Hij zei ook nog, tijdens de persco, dat de Duitse onderhandelaars de Amerikaanse hadden afgetroefd maar dat dat zou veranderen. Waarna ze hem ter plekke verbeterde: alle handelsverdragen worden geregeld door de EU.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 18:39 schreef Dagonet het volgende:

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En hij schijnt te denken dat de VS geld op de rekening gestort moet krijgen?

Hij zei ook nog, tijdens de persco, dat de Duitse onderhandelaars de Amerikaanse hadden afgetroefd maar dat dat zou veranderen. Waarna ze hem ter plekke verbeterde: alle handelsverdragen worden geregeld door de EU.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 18:47 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 18:50 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Het is allemaal te gecompliceerd voor hem.

Je kon tijdens de gezamenlijke persco ook duidelijk merken dat hij geen Duits verstaat, maar Merkel wel Engels.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 19:13 schreef antiderivative het volgende:

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Als dit het niveau van de posts in POL gaat worden dan kunnen we de boel wel sluiten

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 19:15 schreef erodome het volgende:

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Is vergeleken bij het niveau van deze potus nog hoog.
Kom op zeg, kinderachtig, met pruillip weigeren de hand te schudden van een andere wereldleider...

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:19 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Oh fotomomentjes zat hoor:

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 19:26 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
Verrassend (ook weer niet, want het is FOK) dat er nog geen berichtjes zijn van Trump's stempel op het G20 nieuws van vandaag...

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 18:47 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 19:19 schreef antiderivative het volgende:

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Bij de 1e kennismaking, bij de persco, bij het afscheid.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 19:44 schreef antiderivative het volgende:
Goed, het echte nieuws is dus:

G20 leaders roll back commitment to free trade and climate change following US pressure

enkele andere punten:
Mnuchin:
* US believes in Free, but Fair and Balanced Trade
* We will look at trade surpluses with view to correct
* Re-examine trade deals
* US believes in appropriate regulation, but only appropriate
* Important banks can provide liquidity
* Won't rule out renegotiating WTO deal

Was een leuke eerste G20 voor Steve

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 19:46 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Je kan dus ook zeggen dat de US die verklaring geblokkeerd heeft...

Ik neem aan dat hij zijn voormalige werkgever bedoelt als hij het over "important banks" heeft?

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 17:27 schreef Falco het volgende:

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Ben zo 'brutaal' geweest om deze ff op de twitter te gooien als reactie op Donnie: https://twitter.com/FalcovanFok/status/843136296109445120

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 14:15 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Kan ook 'gewoon' fake news media jennen zijn. Krijgen ze lekker geen fotomomentje.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 18:28 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Klopt ook gewoon helemaal niks van. Zoals gewoonlijk.
Maar al zou het kloppen, mr multiple bancrupcies heeft zelf nogal wat schulden her en der.. Vast amounts..

Preet Bharara, Fired AG, Had Donald Trump In Purview | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 22:02 schreef Bram_van_Loon het volgende:
Het moeras wordt steeds voller bij zowel de regering als de Democrats in de USA.

MSNBC Helps Trump Without Even Realizing It

De voormalige HC-medewerkers nemen alle belangrijke functies in bij de DNC. Ja, zo zullen de Democrats echt wel winnen over 4 jaar.
Ondertussen is Sanders de meest populaire politicus in de USA geworden, dit terwijl hij al een 84% approval rating had als senator. Welke andere senator in de USA heeft zo'n hoge approval rating?

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 22:24 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Waar heb je dat cijfer vandaan? Ik kan alleen cijfers van september 2016 vinden en daar staat hij op 87%.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 08:01 schreef tochnietweer het volgende:
White House bomb threat: man arrested after claiming to have device in car

It is the third security incident at the White House in two weeks. On 10 March a man a scaled the White House fence and was on the property’s grounds for 16 minutes before being detained. The on Saturday a person jumped over a bike rack in a buffer zone in front of the White House but was not able to make it over the fence into the grounds.

De linkse gekkies gaan los.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 08:58 schreef Montov het volgende:
Je moet niet het Witte Huis bestormen maar de golfbaan. Dan heb je veel meer kans om Trump te pakken. Dit weekend zijn 10e golf uitje in 8 weken.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 08:58 schreef Montov het volgende:
Je moet niet het Witte Huis bestormen maar de golfbaan. Dan heb je veel meer kans om Trump te pakken. Dit weekend zijn 10e golf uitje in 8 weken.

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[b]Op zondag 19 maart 2017 08:01 schreef
De linkse gekkies gaan los.

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Trump advisers want concessions for coal if U.S. stays in climate pact

Trump administration officials have told lobbyists and European diplomats that the U.S. won't stay in the nearly 200-nation Paris climate change agreement unless it can secure wins for the fossil fuel industry, according to three people familiar with the discussions.

In a series of recent conversations with industry groups and European officials, Trump advisers have said the White House decision on the Paris deal could hinge on international willingness to come up with a strategy to commercialize and deploy technologies that will reduce emissions from fossil fuels.

That may not sit well with Democrats and environmental groups, who have long argued against spending billions of dollars to reduce emissions from coal-fired power plants when the same money could help speed the transition to wind and solar power. But such a deal could avoid the enormous disruption that would result if the United States, the world’s second-largest greenhouse gas emitter, walked away from the most comprehensive international agreement ever crafted on global warming.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 12:55 schreef Wespensteek het volgende:
Trump is blijven hangen in het verleden. Zijn hele beleid is gericht op nieuw leven blazen in verouderde technologie, zijn banen komen niet door innovatie tot stand maar door protectionistische bescherming van verouderde bedrijven en zelfs het heropenen van reeds gesloten bedrijven. Helaas moeten daarvoor zelfs verdragen die de toekomst beschermen het ontgelden. Over een paar jaar is de VS verder op achterstand gekomen ondanks dat er mogelijk banen bij zijn gekomen. We kunnen alleen hopen dat de schade aan het milieu en de leefomgeving gaat meevallen.

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On_Politike twitterde op zondag 19-03-2017 om 14:12:57 12. His citizenship was not denied, so that means he lied, i.e. he didn’t list Vitézi Rend on N-400. So,he committe… https://t.co/x5xuFFLmMY reageer retweet

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 13:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hm ja. De rust belt heeft hem ook op dit platform gekozen (ofschoon, het kiesstelsel zodanig is ingericht dat de keuzevrijheid nogal erg beperkt is... je kiest in feite altijd voor een valse tegenstelling). Terug naar de glorietijd van weleer voor die regio's.. Een vergelijking met ons zou denk ik zijn alsof we iemand verkozen zouden hebben die bv de textielindustrie terug zouden willen brengen, zonder automatisering.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 12:55 schreef Wespensteek het volgende:
Trump is blijven hangen in het verleden. Zijn hele beleid is gericht op nieuw leven blazen in verouderde technologie, zijn banen komen niet door innovatie tot stand maar door protectionistische bescherming van verouderde bedrijven en zelfs het heropenen van reeds gesloten bedrijven. Helaas moeten daarvoor zelfs verdragen die de toekomst beschermen het ontgelden. Over een paar jaar is de VS verder op achterstand gekomen ondanks dat er mogelijk banen bij zijn gekomen. We kunnen alleen hopen dat de schade aan het milieu en de leefomgeving gaat meevallen.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 14:38 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Aan de andere kant, hij wil gewoon alle rechtse hobbies doordrukken waar ze al jaren om roepen, nu dan, laat het maar gebeuren en dan mogen de Amerikaanse kiezers eindelijk meemaken wat ze al jaren roepen dat ze willen zien. Kijken of ze dan nog zo blij zijn.

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Op zaterdag 18 maart 2017 22:24 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Waar heb je dat cijfer vandaan? Ik kan alleen cijfers van september 2016 vinden en daar staat hij op 87%.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:29 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
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Gaat lekker.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:34 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:

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Negatieve poll, dus fake.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:29 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
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Gaat lekker.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:39 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ben benieuwd of hij het dieptepunt van G.W. Bush weet te verbeteren, dat staat op 25%.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:41 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Ach, hij is nog maar 2 maanden bezig, dat lukt vast.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:39 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ben benieuwd of hij het dieptepunt van G.W. Bush weet te verbeteren, dat staat op 25%.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:45 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Van Gallup of in het algemeen?

Het is overigens denk ik wel goed om te blijven onthouden dat zowel positief als negatieve cherrypicking een vertekend beeld geeft. Gallup met -21 is wel erg extreem en dus opvallend, maar het is ook de enige die op het moment zo'n radicaal negatief beeld toont.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:47 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Gallup is bij mijn weten de enige die historie bijhoudt.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:39 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ben benieuwd of hij het dieptepunt van G.W. Bush weet te verbeteren, dat staat op 25%.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:54 schreef KrappeAuto het volgende:

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Vast wel, links is alleen nog maar intoleranter geworden jegens Trump supporters, dus die zullen in dergelijke onderzoekjes wel mee spelen met het anti-Trump verhaal.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:59 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:
Trump is blijkbaar erg tevreden over de wijze waarop Conway zijn alternatieve feiten verdedigt, want haar man wordt beloond met een leuk baantje.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:59 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Zie post #280

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 19:29 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
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Gaat lekker.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 20:01 schreef L3gend het volgende:

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Zo negatief, terwijl hij nog niets gedaan heeft en de economie groeit
Obama had toen 63%, terwijl er een financiele crisis was

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 20:01 schreef L3gend het volgende:

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Zo negatief, terwijl hij nog niets gedaan heeft en de economie groeit
Obama had toen 63%, terwijl er een financiele crisis was

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 20:01 schreef L3gend het volgende:

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Zo negatief, terwijl hij nog niets gedaan heeft en de economie groeit
Obama had toen 63%, terwijl er een financiele crisis was

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 20:01 schreef L3gend het volgende:

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Zo negatief, terwijl hij nog niets gedaan heeft
Obama had toen 63%, terwijl er een financiele crisis was

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 20:05 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Obama tweette dan ook niet continu onzin.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 20:05 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Denk overigens dat er wel een redelijke harde kern is die alles wat de man doet geweldig vindt. Dat soort clowntjes lopen zelf hier rond.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 20:08 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Ik lees recent bestwel veel over die harde kern en dat ze helemaal gelukkig zijn met het aankomende GOP-zorgplan en geen Obamacare willen, niet wetende dat ze daar al gebruik van maken en ze straks niets meer hebben of 4x zoveel betalen.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 20:04 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Normaal gesproken zit er bij verse presidenten ook een flink aantal wittebroodsweken aan vast waar het allemaal lekker positief blijft en mensen afwachten wat de nieuwe president allemaal gaat doen.

Trump heeft dat natuurlijk anders gedaan door vanaf dag 1 aan de lopende band presidentiele decreten te tekenen. De laatste dip zal door zijn 'zorgplan' en budget komen die niet overal in goede aarde vallen.

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Op zondag 19 maart 2017 20:08 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Ik lees recent bestwel veel over die harde kern en dat ze helemaal gelukkig zijn met het aankomende GOP-zorgplan en geen Obamacare willen, niet wetende dat ze daar al gebruik van maken en ze straks niets meer hebben of 4x zoveel betalen.