[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #360 Hole-in-Zero

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Acosta twitterde op vrijdag 04-08-2017 om 21:42:36 Trump ignores shouted questions on Mueller and grand jury as he departs for Bedminster https://t.co/jB7mcbjmfu reageer retweet

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Scavino45 twitterde op zaterdag 05-08-2017 om 17:29:56 Behind the scenes at the @WhiteHouse - the Resolute desk being removed from the Oval as renovations begin. History:… https://t.co/LsptC7NOJB reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 5 augustus 2017 18:56 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Scavino45 twitterde op zaterdag 05-08-2017 om 17:29:56 Behind the scenes at the @WhiteHouse - the Resolute desk being removed from the Oval as renovations begin. History:… https://t.co/LsptC7NOJB reageer retweet

Renovaties in het Witte Huis. Had al ergens gelezen dat Trump's vakantie noodzakelijk was om de boel op te knappen.

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Op zaterdag 5 augustus 2017 19:09 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Ik hoop dat ze de sloten vervangen....

(Props voor Stephen Colbert voor die grap)

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Trump had little time for in-depth briefings on Afghanistan’s history, its complicated politics or its seemingly endless civil war. Even a single page of bullet points on the country seemed to tax the president’s attention span on the subject, said senior White House officials.

“I call the president the two-minute man,” said one Trump confidant. “The president has patience for a half-page.”

Another problem was overcoming the president’s skepticism that winning in Afghanistan was even possible.

On Afghanistan, McMaster wanted something that would appeal to the president’s instincts as a promoter, U.S. officials said.

The solution: The general dug up pictures of Kabul’s Massoud Circle from 2005 and 2015 to show how businesses and traffic had returned to the once-desolate area. And he asked one of his Afghanistan experts to find a black-and-white snapshot from 1972 of Afghan women in miniskirts walking through Kabul.

https://www.washingtonpos(...)7d3a2d304_story.html

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Op zaterdag 5 augustus 2017 19:44 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Kunnen ze Trump gebruiken om die dingen te ijken: als hij wat zegt en dat ding gaat niet af is er een nieuwe nodig.

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Op zaterdag 5 augustus 2017 18:54 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Moet Mueller en zijn team eigenlijk ook niet in de OP?

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Op zaterdag 5 augustus 2017 20:17 schreef Montov het volgende:

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The 2-minute man overtuigen met foto's van vrouwen in miniskirts.
I love it.

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Donald Trump has come to the defense of his national security advisor, HR McMaster, in the face of a sustained attack on the army general from the far right.

The president put out a short statement on Friday night which described McMaster as a “good man”, and said they were “working very well together”. But by Trump’s standards it was a terse statement, unlikely to stem the flow of invective from the president’s own hardline supporters or resolve the factional conflict inside the White House.

Many of the attacks have come through the Breitbart News website, which was run until last August by Trump’s in-house ideologue, Stephen Bannon. Breitbart stories described McMaster as “increasingly volatile” and said he “frequent blows his top”. Another headline said he was “deeply hostile to Israel and to Trump”.

The Trump statement, provided to White House reporters on Friday night, said: “General McMaster and I are working very well together. He is a good man and very pro-Israel. I am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country.”

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Op zaterdag 5 augustus 2017 21:39 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ondanks de Breitbart's anti McMaster berichtgeving:

'A good man, very pro-Israel': Trump defends McMaster from far-right snipers

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Op zaterdag 5 augustus 2017 20:17 schreef Montov het volgende:

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The 2-minute man overtuigen met foto's van vrouwen in miniskirts.
I love it.

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The briefing did not change Trump’s position, which had been shaped by his two years on the campaign trail and his sense that the American people had lost sight of the war’s purpose. The strategy review that McMaster had hoped to complete by early May — ahead of a NATO conference where he hoped to secure pledges for more European troops — remains stalled.

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McMaster began by compiling a list of 15 strategic problem areas that would guide the council’s work. And he spoke broadly of his concern that U.S. power and influence had been on the decline for much of the past 16 years, said current and former White House officials.

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One key to a better outcome, McMaster argued, was an open-ended commitment that would demonstrate American resolve and compel the Taliban to enter peace talks. McMaster’s version of “America first” in Afghanistan meant negotiating from a position of strength.

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At McMaster’s urging, Trump earlier this summer signed an order giving the Pentagon the authority to send as many as 3,900 more troops requested by commanders to Afghanistan. But Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, concerned about the absence of an approved strategy and chastened by Trump’s doubts about the war, has not authorized the forces to go.

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Op zaterdag 5 augustus 2017 21:43 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Was Priebus ook niet "a good man" toen hij werd ontslagen?

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Conservatives are unsurprised by the opposition from federal employees.

Chris Horner, a senior fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute, pointed to news reports about upset employees, social media campaigns and “civil disobedience” training for staffers looking to push back against the White House.

GOP strategist Matt Mackowiak, a contributor to The Hill, attributed the blowback to a host of factors, from the political make-up of civil servants to the use of holdover officials in government offices that are still waiting for the Senate to confirm Trump political appointees.

He said there is also a “real industry now behind recruiting whistleblowers inside the resistance movement,” and creating public outcry about the administration.

“It’s not enough just to be a government employee and resign because of the direction your agency is going,” he said, noting that officials’ concerns are often sincere. “Now you have to do it in a highly public way, out of social pressure and personal motivation.”

Critics of Trump say government employees speaking out should be commended, not punished.

“I think career staff don’t typically speak out publicly unless they feel like there are serious issues and problems going on within the agency,” said Liz Purchia, a former Obama administration EPA spokeswoman.

“It takes a lot of guts for someone to make the decision to end their government service and to put themselves out there for public scrutiny and comment. … You wouldn’t see that if they didn’t feel like there was a considerable threat to the agency and its missions.”