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President Donald Trump is promising billions to help Texas rebuild from Hurricane Harvey, but his Republican allies in the House are looking at cutting almost $1 billion from disaster accounts to help finance the president’s border wall.

The pending reduction to the Federal Emergency Management Agency’s disaster relief account is part of a spending bill that the House is scheduled to consider next week when Congress returns from its August recess. The $876 million cut, part of the 1,305-page measure’s homeland security section, pays for roughly half the cost of Trump’s down payment on a U.S.-Mexico border wall.

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 22:09 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/902875515534626817

So what is?

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 22:10 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Afpersing? Serieus?

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 22:12 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Zoveelste poging tot intimidatie, en Kim Jong Un Dos Tres geeft gewoon geen neuk. Die geeft gewoon bevel de volgende rakettest te starten.

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 22:29 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Het laat ook wel een beetje zien hoe besluiteloos Trump eigenlijk is. Het is veel blaffen maar hij weet gewoon niet hoe hij die vetzak in Pyongyang moet aanpakken.

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 22:33 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Hij heeft geen idee. En met een zwaar uitgedund diplomatencorps gaat dat er ook niet komen. (Niet dat Trump uberhaupt naar ze zou luisteren, maar ok) Dit is gewoon holle spierballentaal voor de buhne, meer niet.

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 22:37 schreef Hdero het volgende:
Hij bleef daar maar een dag en heeft geen enkel slachtoffer persoonlijk ontmoet Blijkbaar wilden ze hem daar niet

twitter:

AP twitterde op woensdag 30-08-2017 om 14:31:55 BREAKING: US economic growth upgraded to 3 percent rate in April-June quarter, strongest pace in more than 2 years. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 23:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Meer dan 2% groei was volgens de fact checkers onmogelijk. Inmiddels tikt de Trump economie 3% aan.

twitter:

AP twitterde op woensdag 30-08-2017 om 14:31:55 BREAKING: US economic growth upgraded to 3 percent rate in April-June quarter, strongest pace in more than 2 years. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 23:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Trump economie

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 23:29 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Is dat de uitkomst van een potje Monopoly ofzo?

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After telling an audience of law enforcement professionals that fewer Americans in recent months have been seeking to join ISIS overseas, though still pose a danger at home, Rosenstein addressed the threat from the far right: “The Department of Justice also remains vigilant about the threat of domestic terrorism,” he said. “Violent domestic extremists have plotted attacks on government buildings, businesses, and houses of worship. They have planned and carried out assassinations of police officers, judges, doctors and civil rights leaders. They have acquired biological and chemical weapons, illegal firearms, and explosives. They have carried out killing sprees that terrorize local communities.”

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 23:07 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Hij wilde daar zelf ook niet zijn, momenteel geen enkel geschikt golfterrein daar.

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Op dinsdag 29 augustus 2017 21:34 schreef Hdero het volgende:

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Het is dan ook met grote tegenzin die hij naar TX gaat, dat kan je aan zijn gezicht zien.

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 23:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Meer dan 2% groei was volgens de fact checkers onmogelijk.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 06:27 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Volgens wie?

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 23:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Meer dan 2% groei was volgens de fact checkers onmogelijk. Inmiddels tikt de Trump economie 3% aan.

twitter:

AP twitterde op woensdag 30-08-2017 om 14:31:55 BREAKING: US economic growth upgraded to 3 percent rate in April-June quarter, strongest pace in more than 2 years. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 30 augustus 2017 22:12 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Zoveelste poging tot intimidatie, en Kim Jong Un Dos Tres geeft gewoon geen neuk. Die geeft gewoon bevel de volgende rakettest te starten.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 01:08 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Nee, Trump economie is "hoe laat ik een casino bankroet gaan"

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 02:24 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
US Deputy Attorney General Warns About the Right-Wing Terror Threat Trump Ignores

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 02:24 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
US Deputy Attorney General Warns About the Right-Wing Terror Threat Trump Ignores

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 08:24 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Maar wanneer hebben ze het een keer over de gewelddadige alt-left .

twitter:

IvankaTrump twitterde op woensdag 30-08-2017 om 21:35:50 We must reform our tax code so that all Americans can succeed in our modern economy & achieve the American Dream!… https://t.co/8KRPbuywOi reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 30-08-2017 om 15:27:47 After reading the false reporting and even ferocious anger in some dying magazines, it makes me wonder, WHY? All I want to do is #MAGA! reageer retweet

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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on its investigation into Paul Manafort and his financial transactions, according to several people familiar with the matter.

The cooperation is the latest indication that the federal probe into President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman is intensifying. It also could potentially provide Mueller with additional leverage to get Manafort to cooperate in the larger investigation into Trump’s campaign, as Trump does not have pardon power over state crimes.

The two teams have shared evidence and talked frequently in recent weeks about a potential case, these people said. One of the people familiar with progress on the case said both Mueller’s and Schneiderman’s teams have collected evidence on financial crimes, including potential money laundering.

No decision has been made on where or whether to file charges. “Nothing is imminent,” said one of the people familiar with the case.

Manafort has not been accused of any wrongdoing and has previously denied it. A spokesman for Manafort didn’t return phone calls seeking comment.

A representative for Mueller’s office declined to comment, as did the New York attorney general’s office.

People close to Manafort say the team has pressured him by approaching family members and former business partners. A number of other firms and people who have worked with him have received subpoenas.

Federal agents also conducted an early-morning raid at Manafort’s home in late July, seizing documents and other items.

Manafort did not resist the search, his spokesman Jason Maloni said at the time of the raid.

State and federal prosecutors believe the prospect of a presidential pardon could affect whether Manafort decides to cooperate with investigators in the federal Trump investigation, said one of the people familiar with the matter.

While Trump has not signaled any public intention to pardon Manafort or anyone else involved in the Russia investigations, the president has privately discussed his pardon powers with his advisers.

Mueller’s team has been looking into Manafort’s lobbying work and financial transactions, including real estate deals in New York.

Schneiderman has a contentious history with Trump. The president has mocked him relentlessly on social media and TV, denouncing him as a “hack” and “lightweight.”

The attorney general won a $25 million settlement last November after a lengthy investigation into fraudulent practices at Trump University. The president said he settled just to have the matter behind him, though his previous mantra was to never settle cases.

The New York prosecutor’s office also is looking into some of Trump’s business transactions and could potentially share those records with Mueller’s team, one of these people said. Those inquiries are in the preliminary stage.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 09:44 schreef speknek het volgende:
Maar Ivanka is toch ook gewoon een normale Amerikaan en self made millionaire. Zo beschrijft ze in haar autobiografie dat ze haar eerste geld heeft verdiend met een limonadestand op straat. Dat is keihard zwoegen. Dat verder niemand haar geld gaf en vervolgens de slaven schoonmaaksters van de Trump estate het zo zielig vonden en hun weinige pesos aan haar gaven, doet daar verder niks aan af. Earned the sweat of her own brow. En daarna was het alleen nog maar up and up met haar vermogen.

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Speaking at an industrial-fan factory in Springfield, Trump singled out McCaskill, a Democrat who is up for reelection next year in a state the president won decisively in 2016.

“We must — we have no choice — we must lower our taxes. And your senator, Claire McCaskill, she must do this for you, and if she doesn’t do it for you, you have to vote her out of office,” Trump said to loud applause and whistling from the audience. “She’s got to make that commitment. She’s got to make that commitment. If she doesn’t do it — we just can’t do this anymore with the obstruction and the obstructionists.”

Ethics experts said the main issue raised by the president’s comments is whether he was ad-libbing or whether White House aides planned for him to urge McCaskill’s defeat.

Trump is not covered by the Hatch Act, the federal law prohibiting politicking while on official duty, but White House officials are subject to the measure.

“The Office of Special Counsel should examine very closely if staffers were involved in the preparation of these remarks,” said Nick Schwellenbach, a former OSC official now with the Project on Government Oversight.

Richard Painter, a former White House ethics lawyer under President George W. Bush and now a University of Minnesota law professor, underscored that point.

“The issue to look at is: Was someone charged with writing an official speech writing political lines?” Painter said. “If he ad-libbed it, the president can do that.”

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 10:05 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump's electoral threat against Sen. Claire McCaskill raises legal questions

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Most Voters Think Trump Dislikes The Media More Than White Supremacists

Voters were asked an unusual question in a Fox News poll released Wednesday: Who does President Donald Trump dislike more — white supremacists or the news media?

The poll results show 70 percent of voters (and the majority of both Democrats and Republicans) believe the president dislikes the media more than white supremacists. Another 12 percent of respondents said he “dislikes both.”

Most voters appeared to express dissatisfaction with Trump’s leadership overall. More than 55 percent of poll respondents said they “disapproved” of the job Trump is doing as president. Fifty-six percent said the president is “tearing the country apart.”

sorz

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Eric Trump says his father ‘tunes out’ criticism so he doesn’t commit suicide ‘out of depression’

Eric Trump suggested that his father doesn’t take criticism seriously because doing so would lead to depression and suicidal thoughts.

During an interview Tuesday on The Joe Pags Show, Trump’s son said “politics is the nastiest business I’ve ever seen” because the president is constantly bombarded with criticism.

“I mean, just the evilness and the hatred in that world is unlike anything I could have fathomed before. And no matter what he does, they’re going to hit him on it and they’re going to go after him, and it’s the swamp and it’s a corrupt system.”

“It’s the media, the mainstream media, who does not want him to succeed. It’s government who does not want him to succeed… No matter what he does, he’s going to get hit, and listen, I think you have to tune it out. You obviously have to be tuned into it, but at the same time you have to take it all with a grain of salt.”

“If they weren’t talking about you, you wouldn’t be doing something right and it’s important to keep it in context, otherwise quite frankly you’d probably end up killing yourself out of depression,” Eric Trump said. “But he’s doing a great job.”

During the interview, Eric also said his father was not a racist because he had hired minorities to work in his businesses.

“There is no racist bone in my father’s body. He is the greatest guy in the world,” he insisted.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 13:03 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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https://www.rawstory.com/(...)e-out-of-depression/

Tuurlijk joh, haal er ook maar even zelfmoord erbij om het extra dramatisch te laten lijken

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 10:53 schreef Euribob het volgende:

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Dat zijn dan wel van die zwakke lichtpuntjes van het Trump presidentschap. De positie van een Democratische senator in Republikeins gebied is voor de komende verkiezingen in iedergeval veilig gesteld.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 14:02 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Wat mij opvalt bij de Rusland affaire is dat er zo ontzettend veel dingen gebeuren die nét tegen het randje lopen.

Misschien is het opzet. Je kunt als staatshoofd alles ontkennen, waarna door de FBI gericht wordt gegraven en je sowieso de sjaak bent. Je kunt ook een andere manier proberen om onder een politieke wandaad uit te komen: overspoel de onderzoekers met een heleboel semi-schandaaltjes dan verzuipt de FBI er vanzelf in.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 13:55 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Zal vast en zeker niet de enige zijn.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 14:12 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat lijkt me een vergezochte verklaring.Je loopt het risico dat het Congres er de balen van krijgt en al die kleine dingen op gaat tellen. En dan ben je alsnog de sjaak.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 14:16 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Niet als het allemaal nét binnen de grenzen blijft. dan geldt de regel: close, but no sigar.

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The cooperation is the latest sign that the investigation into Trump's former campaign chairman is intensifying.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team is working with New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman on its investigation into Paul Manafort and his financial transactions, according to several people familiar with the matter.

The cooperation is the latest indication that the federal probe into President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman is intensifying. It also could potentially provide Mueller with additional leverage to get Manafort to cooperate in the larger investigation into Trump’s campaign, as Trump does not have pardon power over state crimes.

SPOILER

The two teams have shared evidence and talked frequently in recent weeks about a potential case, these people said. One of the people familiar with progress on the case said both Mueller’s and Schneiderman’s teams have collected evidence on financial crimes, including potential money laundering.

No decision has been made on where or whether to file charges. “Nothing is imminent,” said one of the people familiar with the case.

Manafort has not been accused of any wrongdoing and has previously denied it. A spokesman for Manafort didn’t return phone calls seeking comment.

A representative for Mueller’s office declined to comment, as did the New York attorney general’s office.

People close to Manafort say the team has pressured him by approaching family members and former business partners. A number of other firms and people who have worked with him have received subpoenas.

Federal agents also conducted an early-morning raid at Manafort’s home in late July, seizing documents and other items.

Manafort did not resist the search, his spokesman Jason Maloni said at the time of the raid.

State and federal prosecutors believe the prospect of a presidential pardon could affect whether Manafort decides to cooperate with investigators in the federal Trump investigation, said one of the people familiar with the matter.

While Trump has not signaled any public intention to pardon Manafort or anyone else involved in the Russia investigations, the president has privately discussed his pardon powers with his advisers.

Mueller’s team has been looking into Manafort’s lobbying work and financial transactions, including real estate deals in New York.

Schneiderman has a contentious history with Trump. The president has mocked him relentlessly on social media and TV, denouncing him as a “hack” and “lightweight.”

The attorney general won a $25 million settlement last November after a lengthy investigation into allegedly fraudulent practices at Trump University. The president said he settled just to have the matter behind him, though his previous mantra was to never settle cases.

The New York prosecutor’s office also is looking into some of Trump’s business transactions and could potentially share those records with Mueller’s team, one of these people said. Those inquiries are in the preliminary stage.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 10:04 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Ik moest lachen

twitter:

Barnes_Law twitterde op donderdag 31-08-2017 om 22:23:23 Comey decided to let Hillary walk BEFORE interviewing Hillary, BEFORE interviewing 16 witnesses, and BEFORE giving… https://t.co/3mZUQIBA9U reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 31-08-2017 om 22:06:35 THANK YOU to all of the incredible HEROES in Texas. America is with you! #TexasStrong https://t.co/8N4ABo9Ihp reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 22:26 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het is vuile wasdag vandaag. Comey had al voor het onderzoek besloten om Clinton niet te vervolgen.

twitter:

Barnes_Law twitterde op donderdag 31-08-2017 om 22:23:23 Comey decided to let Hillary walk BEFORE interviewing Hillary, BEFORE interviewing 16 witnesses, and BEFORE giving… https://t.co/3mZUQIBA9U reageer retweet

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Q: And so at that point in time, whether it was April or early May, the team hadn't yet interviewed Secretary Clinton -
A: Correct.
Q: - but was there - I guess, based on what you're saying, it sounds lik there was an idea of where the outcome of the investigation was going to go?
A: Sure. [...] [redacted]

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 22:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Heb je de transcript gelezen? Er staat in dat de uitkomst van het onderzoek in feite al duidelijk was, nl, er was waarschijnlijk niks boeiends en dus zou er waarschijnlijk geen vervolging plaats hebben ...

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Als er niet zoveel is, is er gewoon niet zoveel. Dan kun je mensen interviewen over het nikse, wat er dan niet is...maar dan zul je ook wel weten dat de kans dat je niet zoveel zult vinden best groot is.

Dus eh ja, geloof niet in de ophitsing wat in feite hoofdzakelijk op radicaal biased sites als townhall te vinden is? Althans, als er geen weerwoord op voorgaande tekst is...

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 22:49 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Politico heeft er inmiddels ook een heel stuk over.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 22:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Mjah het is ook weer een wake-up call voor mensen die denken dat Trump of de GOP daadwerkelijk vervolgd gaan worden in het Rusland onderzoek.

Ze gaan achter Manafort aan en daar blijft het bij.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 22:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Heb je de transcript gelezen? Er staat in dat de uitkomst van het onderzoek in feite al duidelijk was, nl, er was waarschijnlijk niks boeiends en dus zou er waarschijnlijk geen vervolging plaats hebben ...

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Als er niet zoveel is, is er gewoon niet zoveel. Dan kun je mensen interviewen over het nikse, wat er dan niet is...maar dan zul je ook wel weten dat de kans dat je niet zoveel zult vinden best groot is.

Dus eh ja, geloof niet in de ophitsing wat in feite hoofdzakelijk op radicaal biased sites als townhall te vinden is? Althans, als er geen weerwoord op voorgaande tekst is...

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Voter satisfaction with the direction of the nation is down by double digits, as a majority says President Donald Trump is tearing the country apart.

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President Donald Trump will donate $1 million of his fortune to recovery efforts in Texas, though the White House says he hasn't determined which group or groups will receive the donation.

"He would like to join in the efforts that a lot of people we have seen across the country do," press secretary Sarah Sanders told reporters at the White House, saying the funds would come from the President's "personal money."

She said the President hadn't determined which organization to support.

"He actually asked that I check with the folks in this room since you are very good at research and have been doing a lot of reporting into the groups and organizations that are best and most effective in helping and providing aid, and he'd like some suggestions from the folks here and I'd be happy to take those," she said during the daily press briefing.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:20 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Ik ben toch echt benieuwd, aangezien je onthullende details van deze zaak consequent wegmasseert (fake nieuws/ophitsen/radicaal biased), of je echt ervan overtuigd bent dat Clinton helemaal niets valt aan te rekenen in deze? Totaal niets onrechtmatigs?
Gewoon een vraag uit interesse.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:23 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Waarom neem jij aan dat er wel iets fout zit als de directeur van de FBI, geen Democraat en geen vriend van Clinton(s), zegt dat het een broodje aap verhaal was van begin tot eind?

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:25 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Ik weet even niet precies waarop jij doelt met 'broodje aap verhaal'?

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:20 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Ik ben toch echt benieuwd, aangezien je onthullende details van deze zaak consequent wegmasseert (fake nieuws/ophitsen/radicaal biased), of je echt ervan overtuigd bent dat Clinton helemaal niets valt aan te rekenen in deze? Totaal niets onrechtmatigs?
Gewoon een vraag uit interesse.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:41 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik bedenk me net dat ik hiermee de verkeerde indruk geef. Benghazi en mails zijn denk ik ook onderdeel van een witch hunt. Zoals een redditor schreef:

Bush Jr. 22 Million deleted emails. Also ran a private server. Of which Trump's staff is using now.
Not to mention the witchhunt that was Benghazi since Bush Jr, again, had more embassy attacks under his tenure.

Hillary was given more time under congressional investigation than:
• Pearl Harbor (9 months and 15 days),
• the Kennedy Assassination (9 months and 27 days),
• Iran-Contra (10 months and 13 days)
• Watergate (1 year, 4 months and 21 days),
• 9/11 (1 year, 7 months and 25 days),
• Hurricane Katrina (5 months and 1 day).

We're nearing 1000 days they've spent "investigating" her for Benghazi. Over 32 months.
Just for that alone, she becomes the single most vetted candidate ever. They still haven't found shit to prosecute her for. How much time do you think they looked into Trump's history?
Not nearly fucking enough. But that's not what matters to them, is it?
Cheers, anon Redditor, for the gold.

Sources:
Time spent investigating: http://democrats-benghazi(...)ns%20-%209-28-15.pdf
Trump Staff using Private Server: http://www.newsweek.com/t(...)-house-server-548191
Bush 22 Million Emails: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_White_House_email_controversy
Attacks on embassies during Bush era: http://www.politifact.com(...)tacks-embassies-and/
List of attacks compiled by /u/TRUMPY-DOES-MAGIC https://www.reddit.com/r/(...)limmajority/dd22ok3/
MJ Article about Attacks: http://www.motherjones.co(...)attacks-obama-romney
Memefied: http://i.imgur.com/9Pzk2TI.png

Bonus:
B-b-but TRUMP! never deleted subpoenaed emails!
(Actually, he has.) http://www.newsweek.com/2(...)ocuments-515120.html

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:48 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het grootste verschil tussen de Clinton e-mails en de Bush e-mails is het volgende.

Hillary Clinton gaf zelf toe dat ze e-mails had verwijderd, maar dat die allemaal te maken hadden met haar Yoga clubje en de bruiloft van haar dochter. Echter uit onderzoek bleek dat het om classified e-mails ging. Waarvan er een groot aantal ook op de laptop van Anthony Weiner zijn aangetroffen.

Vervolgens is in de e-mail te lezen, dat mevrouw Clinton niet met haar computer overweg kon en aides de e-mails voor haar hebben gefaxt en geprint.

Het gaat niet zo zeer om de e-mails an sich, maar een historie van het onzorgvuldig behandelingen van classified materiaal (doorsturen naar Cliton Foundation vriendjes, Huma Abedin, outside advisers (Blumenthal) etc.).

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:50 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik zie hier geen verschil, anders dan 'vul maar in wat Bush anders deed en waarom dat dan beter was' en waarom dat verschil dan dat had moeten leiden tot maandenlang onderzoek is ook niet opgehelderd ... hoewel we beiden wel weten waarom dat zo was, toch?

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:49 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Jazeker.
Ik zie dat je heel overtuigd bent over de onschuld van Hillary Clinton (op een klein marginaal puntje van een trade).

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:54 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik ben vooral overtuigd van dat het een decennialange heksenjacht is. Waar dubbele standaards de norm zijn. Bush mails vs Clinton mails vs Trump mails ... give me a break ...

Lees svp meer betrouwbare bronnen ipv de troep die jullie nu met name lezen.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:53 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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De vraag die meteen in me opkomt is waarom Bill het desondanks (jouw weergave van de zaak) nodig vond om met Lynch te praten om van onderzoek een geval te maken?
Maar deze vraag is retorisch, want ik weet nu hoe jij in deze materie zit.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:55 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Bekijk het even! Ik maak zelf wel uit wat ik lees of niet.

Btw is Reddit hier bon ton? Daarvan was ik me niet bewust.

Btw (2) Decennialange? Overdrijf je nu niet een heel klein beetje?

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:48 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het grootste verschil tussen de Clinton e-mails en de Bush e-mails is het volgende.

Hillary Clinton gaf zelf toe dat ze e-mails had verwijderd, maar dat die allemaal te maken hadden met haar Yoga clubje en de bruiloft van haar dochter. Echter uit onderzoek bleek dat het om classified e-mails ging. Waarvan er een groot aantal ook op de laptop van Anthony Weiner zijn aangetroffen.

Vervolgens is in de e-mail te lezen, dat mevrouw Clinton niet met haar computer overweg kon en aides de e-mails voor haar hebben gefaxt en geprint.

Het gaat niet zo zeer om de e-mails an sich, maar een historie van het onzorgvuldig omgaan met classified materiaal (doorsturen naar Cliton Foundation vriendjes, Huma Abedin, outside advisers (Blumenthal) etc.).

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:56 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Je maakt er meteen een hoop van. Bill praat met Lynch, dus het moet wel een conspiracy zijn, maar tegelijk zijn de Clintons ook supergeniaal met hun moorden op andere lui, is jouw standpunt toch?

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:49 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Jazeker.
Ik zie dat je heel overtuigd bent over de onschuld van Hillary Clinton (op een klein marginaal puntje van een trade).

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:57 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

(2) Nee, deze heksenjacht tegen de Clintons begon met de zoektocht naar iets, wat neerkwam op de pijpbeurt met sigaar. Later werd deze voortgezet tegen Hillary.

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:58 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Ik heb het niet over een complot. Ik heb het over een meeting die heeft plaatsgevonden waarvan documenten hebben aangetoond en onder ede is verklaard hetgeen ik zojuist heb gesteld..

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:50 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik zie hier geen verschil, anders dan 'vul maar in wat Bush anders deed en waarom dat dan beter was' en waarom dat verschil dan had moeten leiden tot maandenlang onderzoek is ook niet opgehelderd ... hoewel we beiden wel weten waarom dat zo was, toch?

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:00 schreef Xa1pt het volgende:

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Waar is ze volgens jou dan zoal schuldig aan?

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:01 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Ik mis 8 jaar, maar dit terzijde.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:01 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, en ik heb het over jouw vermeende standpunt dat jij denkt dat de Clintons verantwoordelijk zouden zijn voor talloze moorden. Begrijp me niet verkeerd, ik wil het best met je hebben hierover, maar ik heb niet de indruk dat we eerlijk met elkaar communiceren als iets als dat niet erkend zou worden. Het zou zijn alsof je over Neil Armstrong discussieert met iemand die de maanlanding ontkent en dat dan hier verzwijgt terwijl je toch zou zweren dat het zo is... maar beter om het duidelijk te krijgen.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:09 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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't Is echt lastig om van voor Obama de persoonlijke aanvallen van niet direct relevante lui terug te halen. Dus, ik kan het niet met data ondersteunen, je mag het van mij vergeten .. persoonlijke ervaring is niet heel waardevol in dezen denk ik.

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Trump Attorneys Lay Out Arguments Against Obstruction-of-Justice Probe to Mueller

WASHINGTON—Lawyers for Donald Trump have met several times with special counsel Robert Mueller in recent months and submitted memos arguing that the president didn’t obstruct justice by firing former FBI chief James Comey and calling into question Mr. Comey’s reliability as a potential witness, people familiar with the matter said.

One memo submitted to Mr. Mueller by the president’s legal team in June laid out the case that Mr. Trump has the inherent authority under the constitution to hire and fire as he sees fit and therefore didn’t obstruct justice when he fired Mr. Comey as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in May, these people said.

Another memo submitted the same month outlined why Mr. Comey would make an unsuitable witness, calling him prone to exaggeration, unreliable in congressional testimony and the source of leaks to the news media, these people said.

The legal arguments and meetings offer a first detailed look at the interplay between the high-profile, wide-ranging investigation and the team that is representing the president since the special counsel was appointed by the Justice Department in May.

The White House referred questions to Ty Cobb, the president’s special counsel. Mr. Cobb said: “We have great respect for the special counsel. Out of respect for his process we will not be discussing incremental responses.”

The federal probe began by looking into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential race and whether the Trump campaign coordinated with Russian operatives to help him win. It was initially led by Mr. Comey as director of the FBI.

After Mr. Trump fired Mr. Comey on May 9, Mr. Mueller was appointed by the Justice Department with a broad remit to investigate not just possible coordination but “any matters” that arose from the investigation. That now includes whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice by attempting to alter the course of the investigation, The Wall Street Journal has previously reported.

Mr. Trump has given conflicting reasons why he dismissed Mr. Comey. At first, he said it was in response to advice from Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who concluded in a memo for the president that Mr. Comey was an ineffective leader.

Two days after the firing, Mr. Trump told NBC News that the decision to fire Mr. Comey was his alone and that when he did it, “I said to myself, I said you know, this Russia thing with Trump and Russia is a made up story, it’s an excuse by the Democrats for having lost an election that they should have won.”

In giving the memos to Mr. Mueller, the president’s lawyers hoped to get a swift conclusion to the obstruction of justice piece of the investigation and, potentially, an exoneration of the president, the people said.

The obstruction-related memo advanced other arguments beyond the matter of the president’s executive powers, citing case law that the lawyers believed buttressed the contention that Mr. Trump had not obstructed justice.

Mr. Mueller didn’t offer a response to that memo or to the arguments pertaining to Mr. Comey’s reliability as a witness, people familiar with the matter said. There is no indication he accepted the lawyers’ reasoning or has dropped the part of his inquiry that is looking at any obstruction of justice by the president. All Mr. Mueller communicated was a willingness to receive legal submissions from the lawyers, the people said.

John Dowd, who now heads the president’s outside legal team, said: “I just don’t think it’s appropriate to discuss my communications with Special Counsel Mueller. Why should I rupture a relationship with the special counsel?”

A spokesman for Mr. Mueller declined to comment. Mr. Comey declined to comment.

Mr. Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion between his campaign and Russia. The Russian government also denied meddling after U.S. intelligence agencies released their findings that the Kremlin had engaged in a campaign that included hacking political party committees and attempting to break into state and local election machinery. Moscow also was accused of spreading false stories about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to help Mr. Trump’s election prospects.

Experts said the Trump team’s outreach to Mr. Mueller wasn’t unusual as a tactic in a legal defense. For defense lawyers, “your objective is to find out what they’ve got and get ahead of them,” said Julie Rose O’Sullivan, a Georgetown Law professor who was part of the independent counsel’s office investigating the Whitewater matter in Bill Clinton’s presidency. “You definitely want some contact so you get a sense of where it’s going and take their temperature.”

Legal experts agree that the president can fire the FBI director at will. But that doesn’t mean Mr. Trump could act with impunity if his intention was to interfere with the FBI’s Russia investigation, they said.

“Many people do lawful acts for corrupt motives and are charged with the crime of acting corruptly,” said Paul Rosenzweig, who was a deputy to special counsel Kenneth Starr during his investigation of President Clinton. Bribery is a classic example, Mr. Rosenzweig said: A Pentagon official, for instance, may have the authority to award a contract to a particular company but he can’t do so legally in exchange for a bribe.

As his lawyers make their arguments to Mr. Mueller, Mr. Trump has used his Twitter feed for what people familiar with the matter describe as an effort to persuade Americans that the investigation is unfair and to minimize any political fallout in the 2018 midterm elections or his own re-election campaign two years later. Mr. Trump tweeted in June: “They made up a phony collusion with the Russians story, found zero proof, so now they go for obstruction of justice on the phony story. Nice.”

One White House official took issue with the notion that Mr. Trump is trying to turn public opinion against the Mueller probe, saying Mr. Trump in recent weeks has been less prone to calling the investigation a “witch hunt.”

The Mueller probe is also examining whether Michael Flynn, a former adviser to the Trump campaign and former national security adviser, played any role in obtaining Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton’s emails from Russian hackers. A lawyer for Mr. Flynn declined to comment.

And, since earlier this summer, Mr. Mueller’s team has been in communication with prosecutors at the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, which for months has been investigating the real-estate dealings of and possible money laundering by former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort, The Wall Street Journal has reported.

Mr. Mueller’s probe includes its own examination of possible money-laundering by Mr. Manafort, the Journal has reported, and the state and federal prosecutorial teams have been coordinating their related investigations.

Through his spokesman, Mr. Manafort has said his “personal investments in real estate are all ordinary business transactions.”

—Anton Troianovski, Shane Harris and Del Quentin Wilber contributed to this article.

Write to Peter Nicholas at peter.nicholas@wsj.com, Erica Orden at erica.orden@wsj.com and Paul Sonne at paul.sonne@wsj.com

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:05 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Ik vind gebrek aan morele integriteit en betrouwbaarheid.

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One memo submitted to Mr. Mueller by the president’s legal team in June laid out the case that Mr. Trump has the inherent authority under the constitution to hire and fire as he sees fit and therefore didn’t obstruct justice when he fired Mr. Comey as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation in May, these people said.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:17 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Dit is wat veel advocaten al maanden zeggen. De president heeft deze macht (om een FBI director te ontslaan) en het onderzoek is nooit stil gelegd.

Het gaat heel moeilijk worden om obstruction of justice te bewijzen laat staan Trump daarop te vervolgen.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:17 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Dit is wat veel advocaten al maanden zeggen. De president heeft deze macht (om een FBI director te ontslaan) en het onderzoek is nooit stil gelegd.

Het gaat heel moeilijk worden om obstruction of justice te bewijzen laat staan Trump daarop te vervolgen.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:17 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Dit is wat veel advocaten al maanden zeggen. De president heeft deze macht (om een FBI director te ontslaan) en het onderzoek is nooit stil gelegd.

Het gaat heel moeilijk worden om obstruction of justice te bewijzen laat staan Trump daarop te vervolgen.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:11 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Dit ben ik met jou eens.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:31 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Wat je zegt in de 1e alinea is een argument tegen een argument wat niet gemaakt wordt. Ook wel bekend als een stropopredenering(=strawman argument).

Het feit dat hij het recht heeft maakt het niet zo dat alles erin geoorloofd is, laat staan een goed argument vormt.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:42 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Mjah, Bush had Rumsfeld ontslagen, Obama een aantal van zijn generaals en Eric Holder.

Je kunt dat ook zien als 'obstruction of justice', omdat de mensen in kwestie nooit vervolgd zijn, maar een 'eervol' ontslag hebben gekregen en de zaak waarin ze betrokken waren onder het tapijt werd geveegd.

Stel Clinton had de verkiezingen gewonnen, had zij Comey laten zitten? Kleine kans.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:43 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Boeiend.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:46 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Wtf is dit voor luie reactie?

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:42 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Mjah, Bush had Rumsfeld ontslagen, Obama een aantal van zijn generaals en Eric Holder.

Je kunt dat ook zien als 'obstruction of justice', omdat de mensen in kwestie nooit vervolgd zijn, maar een 'eervol' ontslag hebben gekregen en de zaak waarin ze betrokken waren onder het tapijt werd geveegd.

Stel Clinton had de verkiezingen gewonnen, had zij Comey laten zitten? Kleine kans.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:47 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Nintex wordt op relevante punten gewezen en komt aanzetten met irrelevante dingen (die vorige presidenten hebben gedaan) of zelfs hypothetische dingen (wat president Clinton zou hebben gedaan. Ondertussen reageert hij niet op de inhoud.

Zo kun je geen discussie hebben.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 00:00 schreef Xa1pt het volgende:

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Waar is ze volgens jou dan zoal schuldig aan?

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David Clarke, the controversial outgoing sheriff of Milwaukee County, Wisconsin, is expected to take a job in the Trump administration, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

Clarke resigned as sheriff on Thursday. A regular presence on Fox News, Clarke has become a well-known figure in conservative circles in recent years. He is also an avowed supporter of President Donald Trump, and he spoke at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland last year.

But he has come under fierce criticism amid a series of deaths in the Milwaukee County prison, including that of Terrill Thomas, who died of dehydration last year after guards turned off the water in his cell.

Trump has been one of Clarke's most vocal cheerleaders, and even promoted his book on Twitter earlier this month.

It’s unclear what job Clarke will take in the administration, but one of the sources said he’s expected to join the White House. Clarke likely won’t be offered a Senate-confirmed role because his nomination would face opposition from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 01:47 schreef Nintex het volgende:
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/politics-news/dhs-awards-four-contracts-border-wall-prototypes-n797826

Prototypes voor de Great Trump Wall gaan gebouwd worden.

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Here's what we know about drug seizures, based on CBP data over the last six years, and the most common way the drugs cross the border, based on the 2015 DEA report:
Methamphetamine, up 347%: In fiscal 2016, border patrol agents seized 8,215 pounds of methamphetamine -- up from 1,838 pounds in fiscal 2011. The DEA says, "Traffickers most commonly transport methamphetamine in tractor trailers and passenger vehicles with hidden compartments. In addition, traffickers send methamphetamine through various mail services or by couriers traveling via bus or commercial airline."
Heroin, up 45%: The amount of heroin seized at the border has increased from 6,191 pounds in fiscal 2011 to 8,961 pounds in fiscal 2016. The DEA says, "Most heroin smuggled across the border is transported in privately-owned vehicles, usually through California, as well as through south Texas."
Cocaine, down 52%: About 4,183 pounds of cocaine was seized at the border in fiscal 2016 -- down from 8,763 pounds in fiscal 2011. "Tractor trailers and passenger vehicles are frequently used to transport multi-kilogram quantities of cocaine," the DEA says. "Cocaine is hidden amongst legitimate cargo or secreted inside of intricate hidden compartments built within passenger vehicles."
Marijuana, down 49%: The amount of marijuana seized has dropped 49% since fiscal 2011. The DEA says "large quantities of marijuana" are smuggled "through subterranean tunnels."

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President Trump spent the final days of August dutifully performing his job. He tended to the massive recovery from Hurricane Harvey. He hit the road to sell his tax-cut plan. And he convened policy meetings on the federal budget and the North Korean nuclear threat.

Behind the scenes during a summer of crisis, however, Trump appears to pine for the days when the Oval Office was a bustling hub of visitors and gossip, over which he presided as impresario. He fumes that he does not get the credit he thinks he deserves from the media or the allegiance from fellow Republican leaders he says he is owed. He boasts about his presidency in superlatives, but confidants privately fret about his suddenly dark moods.

And some of Trump’s friends fear that the short-tempered president is on an inevitable collision course with White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly.

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Trump chafes at some of the retired Marine Corps general’s moves to restrict access to him since he took the job almost a month ago, said several people close to the president. They run counter to Trump’s love of spontaneity and brashness, prompting some Trump loyalists to derisively dub Kelly “the church lady” because they consider him strict and morally superior.

“He’s having a very hard time,” one friend who spoke with Trump this week said of the president. “He doesn’t like the way the media’s handling him. He doesn’t like how Kelly’s handling him. He’s turning on people that are very close to him.”

Aides say Trump admires Kelly’s credentials, respects his leadership and management skills, and praises him often, both in private meetings and at public events. In a tax policy speech Wednesday in Missouri, Trump singled out Kelly’s work to decrease the number of illegal border crossings when he was secretary of homeland security.

Meanwhile, people close to the president said he is simmering with displeasure over what he considers personal disloyalty from National Economic Council Director Gary Cohn, who criticized Trump’s responses to a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville on Aug. 12. He also has grown increasingly frustrated with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, who has clashed with the president on issues including Afghanistan troop levels, the blockade on Qatar and Cuba policy.

This portrait of Trump as he enters what could be his most consequential month in office is based on interviews with 15 senior White House officials, outside advisers and friends of the president, many of whom spoke on the condition of anonymity to be candid.

In September, Trump will face deadlines to raise the federal debt ceiling and pass a spending bill possibly tied to his campaign promise to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border; make his first big push for tax cuts; and oversee a potentially historic disaster recovery in Texas and Louisiana.

If Trump’s 75-minute rally performance on Aug. 22 in Phoenix served as a public testimonial to his rage over the media and Congress, he is agitating privately about other concerns, as well.

[As Trump ranted and rambled in Phoenix, his crowd slowly thinned]

Trump lashed out at George Gigicos, one of his original campaign staff members, for what the president considered unflattering television camera angles at the Phoenix rally, which Bloomberg News first reported. The president also was distressed by a New York Times report that was posted a few hours before the event documenting the turmoil between him and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.).

Trump was especially angered by something he learned at his stop earlier in the day, a border visit in Yuma, Ariz., several of his associates said.

A group of Border Patrol agents who had endorsed him and become campaign-trail buddies initially were blocked by the Trump administration from attending. Although the agents eventually were allowed into the event, the president made his displeasure about their treatment known to Kelly, said people who were briefed about the incident. Two of those people said Trump raised his voice with his chief of staff, whom he faulted for trying to restrict outside friends from having direct access to him.

That evening in Phoenix, Trump attempted to call Kelly onto the stage. “Where’s John?” he asked. “Where is he? Where’s General Kelly? Get him out here. He’s great. He’s doing a great job.”

Kelly did not join his boss in front of the crowd.

“It is not unusual for staffers to hear him bluster about things,” said Barry Bennett, a former campaign adviser. “That doesn’t mean it’s real. There were people on the campaign staff that he said to fire a dozen times, but he never did it. It was just bark. And some people don’t know the difference between the bark and the bite.”

Kelly took the job with the express goal of implementing strict order in a West Wing that had become rife with turmoil, infighting and damaging leaks to the media.

[Trump enlists Kelly to enforce order, but can the ‘zoo’ be tamed?]

Friends used to be able to call the White House and be patched directly through to Trump; now those calls are routed through Kelly and do not always make it to the president. Friends used to drop by the West Wing when they had time to kill, wandering to the Oval Office to say hello; now they must have an official appointment — and a clear reason — to visit.

The changes are largely welcomed by senior administration officials, who say the president’s time is too valuable to be wasted on chitchat and hangers-on.

But Trump sometimes defies — and even resents — the new structure. He has been especially sensitive to the way Kelly’s rigid structure is portrayed in the media and strives to disabuse people of the notion that he is being managed. The president continues to call business friends and outside advisers, including former chief strategist Stephen K. Bannon, from his personal phone when Kelly is not around, said people with knowledge of the calls.

“Donald Trump resists being handled,” said Roger Stone, a former Trump adviser and longtime confidant. “Nobody tells him who to see, who to listen to, what to read, what he can say.” Stone added, “General Kelly is trying to treat the president like a mushroom. Keeping him in the dark and feeding him s--- is not going to work. Donald Trump is a free spirit.”

Kelly has told colleagues that he has no intention of controlling what Trump says or tweets. Although he has tried to manage the information the president receives, Kelly recognizes that there are limits to what he can do, according to White House officials.

“The president can turn on the television, the president can call people, and the president can read the newspaper,” said a Republican close to the White House who added that the onus is on Trump, not his staff, to control his impulses.

Trump has jettisoned some of the more controversial figures in his administration this summer. For instance, the firing of Communications Director Anthony Scaramucci after just 10 days earned the flamboyant aide the moniker “suicide bomber” in the West Wing for having taken down with him Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and press secretary Sean Spicer. Trump also parted ways with Bannon, who often channeled the president’s nationalist instincts.

More changes may be afoot under Kelly, who is continuing his personnel review and is said to be targeting aides without clear portfolios of responsibility.

On Tillerson, Trump has come to see his top diplomat’s approach to world affairs as “totally establishment,” in the words of one Trump associate. Several people close to Trump said they would be surprised if Tillerson stays in his post past his one-year mark in January. They hinted that his departure may come far sooner, with one describing it as “imminent.”

And some who have recently seen Tillerson say the former ExxonMobil chief executive — unaccustomed to taking orders from a superior, let alone one as capricious as Trump — also seems to be ready to end his State Department tenure. He has grumbled privately to Kelly about Trump’s recent controversies, said two people familiar with their relationship.

Others, however, caution that Tillerson remains fully enmeshed in the administration. After having lunch with the president Monday, Tillerson sat in the front row of Trump’s joint news conference with the president of Finland and was a key member of Cabinet discussions focused on handling Hurricane Harvey.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Wednesday that Trump “absolutely” has confidence in Tillerson.

[Public rifts between Trump and some senior officials widen in the wake of Charlottesville]

Tillerson made headlines over the weekend when he was asked on “Fox News Sunday,” in the context of Charlottesville, whether Trump speaks for American values. “The president speaks for himself,” Tillerson told anchor Chris Wallace.

Many Trump insiders were aghast at the diplomat’s apparent denunciation of the president, but several senior White House officials said Trump’s frustration with Tillerson has been about specific policies. The Fox interview did not bother Trump, one official said, even though the president was upset about Cohn’s scolding of him to the Financial Times.

Trump was especially upset that Cohn went public with his complaints about the president’s handling of Charlottesville, even after Trump listened to Cohn vent during a private meeting on Aug. 18 in Bedminster, N.J.

The president has been quietly fuming about Cohn for the past week but has resisted dismissing him in part because he has been the face, along with Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, of the administration’s tax-cut strategy.

Still, Trump has other ways to slight Cohn. The economic adviser traveled with Trump on Wednesday to Springfield, Mo., for his speech about tax reform, yet when the president ticked through “the many distinguished guests” in attendance, he did not mention Cohn. Afterward, Ivanka Trump, the president’s daughter, tweeted a call for tax reform with a picture of Trump backstage flanked by her and Mnuchin. Notably absent was Cohn, the plan’s co-architect.

Asked about the perceived insults, Sanders told reporters aboard Air Force One on the flight home to Washington that it was “pretty standard tactics” for Trump not to call out staff members in his remarks.

Pressed on the state of Trump and Cohn’s relationship, Sanders said only that both men are committed to tax reform.

“Well, look,” she said, “Gary is here. The president is here.”

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 08:46 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Oeps!

http://www.huffingtonpost(...)c598e4b0dfaafcef29ef

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 08:46 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Oeps!

http://www.huffingtonpost(...)c598e4b0dfaafcef29ef

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 08:46 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Oeps!

http://www.huffingtonpost(...)c598e4b0dfaafcef29ef

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The US has ordered Russia to close diplomatic offices in San Francisco, New York and Washington within the next two days, in the latest round of punitive measures between the two countries that began at the end of last year.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 03:57 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Een inkijkje in Kelly's Witte Huis en de psyche van Trump

During a summer of crisis, Trump chafes against criticism and new controls

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 08:46 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Oeps!

http://www.huffingtonpost(...)c598e4b0dfaafcef29ef

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 12:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Kortom, Trump vindt zijn nieuwe baan nu helemaal niet leuk meer.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 12:19 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Fox News Poll: Americans Think Donald Trump Is An Unstable, Dishonest, Immoral Bully

Heeft Trump Fox al uitgemaakt voor dishonest fake sad etc?

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 14:02 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Owh gelukkig, Trump valt Comey nu zelf ook nog even aan... https://mobile.twitter.co(...)s/903587428488839170

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 14:06 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Doe 'ns rustig man, het is bijna weekend.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 14:15 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Ik ben geen man, ben uitermate rustig en mijn weekend is gisteren al begonnen
Als er iemand eens rustig moet doen is het Trump wel

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 14:38 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Lovende woorden over Kelly (vaak een voorbode ve ontslag bij Trump ) en een cliffhanger..
https://mobile.twitter.co(...)s/903597166249246720

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 14:49 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Het was ook meer gericht tot Trump

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 14:49 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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En het vervolg... https://mobile.twitter.co(...)s/903600265420578819
Ben buitengewoon benieuwd naar die "many big decisions to be made over the coming days and weeks" die kennelijk iets met (het beleid van) Kelly te maken zouden moeten hebben...

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 15:00 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Trump zal wel balen dat Kelly hem aan de riem heeft en hem bijna dwingt te gaan werken in plaats van TV te kijken. En hij zal nog meer balen dat Kelly daar de krediet voor krijgt van de pers. Dat is niet iets waar El Trumperino blij van wordt.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 01-09-2017 om 14:58:48 Texas is healing fast thanks to all of the great men & women who have been working so hard. But still so much to do. Will be back tomorrow! reageer retweet

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Explosions and fires at a Houston-area chemical plant triggered an evacuation Thursday in a region still in chaos from Hurricane Harvey — and generated new criticism of President Donald Trump’s efforts to repeal the industry’s safety rules.

Thursday morning’s blasts at the plant came just a day after a federal court refused to force the Environmental Protection Agency to implement an Obama-era chemical safety regulation that the Trump administration has delayed until 2019. The site's owner, Arkema, has complained about the burdens of the rule, which the EPA created after a 2015 explosion at a Texas fertilizer plant killed 15 people, injured about 200 others and destroyed hundreds of homes.

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That has never been truer than today, when Congress must govern with a president who has no experience of public office, is often poorly informed and can be impulsive in his speech and conduct.

We must respect his authority and constitutional responsibilities. We must, where we can, cooperate with him. But we are not his subordinates. We don’t answer to him. We answer to the American people. We must be diligent in discharging our responsibility to serve as a check on his power. And we should value our identity as members of Congress more than our partisan affiliation.

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Americans recoiled from the repugnant spectacle of white supremacists marching in Charlottesville to promote their un-American “blood and soil” ideology. There is nothing in their hate-driven racism that can match the strength of a nation conceived in liberty and comprising 323 million souls of different origins and opinions who are equal under the law.

Most of us share Heather Heyer’s values, not the depravity of the man who took her life. We are the country that led the free world to victory over fascism and dispatched communism to the ash heap of history. We are the superpower that organized not an empire, but an international order of free, independent nations that has liberated more people from poverty and tyranny than anyone thought possible in the age of colonies and autocracies.

Our shared values define us more than our differences. And acknowledging those shared values can see us through our challenges today if we have the wisdom to trust in them again.

Congress will return from recess next week facing continued gridlock as we lurch from one self-created crisis to another. We are proving inadequate not only to our most difficult problems but also to routine duties. Our national political campaigns never stop. We seem convinced that majorities exist to impose their will with few concessions and that minorities exist to prevent the party in power from doing anything important.

That’s not how we were meant to govern. Our entire system of government — with its checks and balances, its bicameral Congress, its protections of the rights of the minority — was designed for compromise. It seldom works smoothly or speedily. It was never expected to.

It requires pragmatic problem-solving from even the most passionate partisans. It relies on compromise between opposing sides to protect the interests we share. We can fight like hell for our ideas to prevail. But we have to respect each other or at least respect the fact that we need each other.

That has never been truer than today, when Congress must govern with a president who has no experience of public office, is often poorly informed and can be impulsive in his speech and conduct.

We must respect his authority and constitutional responsibilities. We must, where we can, cooperate with him. But we are not his subordinates. We don’t answer to him. We answer to the American people. We must be diligent in discharging our responsibility to serve as a check on his power. And we should value our identity as members of Congress more than our partisan affiliation.

I argued during the health-care debate for a return to regular order, letting committees of jurisdiction do the principal work of crafting legislation and letting the full Senate debate and amend their efforts.

We won’t settle all our differences that way, but such an approach is more likely to make progress on the central problems confronting our constituents. We might not like the compromises regular order requires, but we can and must live with them if we are to find real and lasting solutions. And all of us in Congress have the duty, in this sharply polarized atmosphere, to defend the necessity of compromise before the American public.

Let’s try that approach on a budget that realistically meets the nation’s critical needs. We all know spending levels for defense and other urgent priorities have been woefully inadequate for years. But we haven’t found the will to work together to adjust them. The appropriators can’t complete their spending bills, and we’re stuck with threats of a government shutdown and continuing resolutions that underfund national security. A compromise that raises spending caps for both sides’ priorities is better than the abject failure that has been our achievement to date.

Let’s also try that approach on immigration. The president has promised greater border security. We can agree to that. A literal wall might not be the most effective means to that end, but we can provide the resources necessary to secure the border with smart and affordable measures. Let’s make it part of a comprehensive bill that members of both parties can get behind — one that values our security as well as the humanity of immigrants and their contributions to our economy and culture.

Let’s try it on tax reform and infrastructure improvement and all the other urgent priorities confronting us. These are all opportunities to show that ordinary, decent, free people can govern competently, respectfully and humbly, and to prove the value of the United States Congress to the great nation we serve.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 16:04 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
FBI, Homeland Security warn of more ‘antifa’ attacks

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 16:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ik begrijp die agressieve aanpak van Antifa niet, het werkt alleen maar averechts

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 16:23 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Met gewapende rechtsextremisten werkt het ook niet averechts.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 16:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ik begrijp die agressieve aanpak van Antifa niet, het werkt alleen maar averechts

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 16:33 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Hysterisch links is voor veel mensen blijkbaar een acceptabel alternatief.

Trevor Noah is momenteel het doelwit van links, omdat hij precies hetzelfde zei als jij nu. Echter hij is nu een Liberal traitor. Kiest de kant van de blanke slavendrijvers en de confederate statues.

Trump kan beter een muur om heel Amerika bouwen, ik ben bang dat de gekkigheid straks deze kant op waait.

Antifa: The Anti-Fascist Antagonists of the Alt-Right: The Daily Show

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Op donderdag 31 augustus 2017 23:48 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het grootste verschil tussen de Clinton e-mails en de Bush e-mails is het volgende.

Hillary Clinton gaf zelf toe dat ze e-mails had verwijderd, maar dat die allemaal te maken hadden met haar Yoga clubje en de bruiloft van haar dochter. Echter uit onderzoek bleek dat het om classified e-mails ging. Waarvan er een groot aantal ook op de laptop van Anthony Weiner zijn aangetroffen.

Vervolgens is in de e-mail te lezen, dat mevrouw Clinton niet met haar computer overweg kon en aides de e-mails voor haar hebben gefaxt en geprint.

Het gaat niet zo zeer om de e-mails an sich, maar een historie van het onzorgvuldig omgaan met classified materiaal (doorsturen naar Cliton Foundation vriendjes, Huma Abedin, outside advisers (Blumenthal) etc.).

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 19:49 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
http://www.telegraaf.nl/b(...)nch_met_Trump__.html
Trump (binnenkort) DACA willen ontmantelen, Ryan zou het daar niet mee eens zijn.

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Hundreds of business executives -- from Apple, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon and other companies -- are calling upon President Trump to preserve an Obama-era program that allows children brought to the United States illegally to live and work without punishment.

The national coalition on Thursday petitioned Trump to rethink his plans to scrap the five-year-old Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program as early as Friday.

Doing so would imperil the economy and jeopardize the futures of nearly 800,000 young people, known as “dreamers” — 97 percent of whom are in school or in the workforce, they wrote.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 20:09 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Hij is niet de enige:

Hundreds of business leaders call on Trump to protect ‘dreamers’

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 20:20 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Mooi
Of hij zich er wat van aantrekt is echter weer een ander verhaal.

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Trump pulls back threat to shut down government over border wall — for now

The White House has signaled to congressional Republicans that it will not shut down the government in October if money isn’t appropriated to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, potentially clearing a path for lawmakers to reach a short-term budget deal.

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Trump could still follow through on a threat to shut down the government in December, but this marks the second time he has pulled back from the wall demand to allow lawmakers to pass a budget bill. The first time came in May, when lawmakers voted to authorize government funding through September and refrained from including money that would allow for the construction of a new wall.

https://www.washingtonpos(...)-border-wall-for-now

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Bob Mueller has an unreleased Trump letter about firing James Comey. Here’s why that’s big.

Big Russia investigation news: Special counsel Robert Mueller has obtained an early draft of a letter President Trump wrote about his reasons for firing FBI Director James B. Comey. The news was first reported by the New York Times.

But, you might wonder, isn't it already pretty clear why Trump fired Comey? He went on NBC News and blurted out that it was because of the Russia investigation! He said the Justice Department's recommendations were a ruse!

But things aren't quite that simple. And that's why the letter could be so significant.

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According to The Post reporters, who were briefed on its contents, it doesn't dwell on Russia, but it does express concern that Comey wouldn't say publicly that Trump himself wasn't under investigation.

The letter was drafted with top White House adviser Stephen Miller, a former Senate aide to now-Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Miller has been among the most controversial and ideologically extreme members of the White House staff, and it's tempting to believe he wouldn't rein in Trump's impulses in the drafting of the letter.

We also know that the letter was multiple pages -- suggesting plenty to pick apart -- and that aides cautioned Trump against at least some of its contents. The Times reports that White House counsel Don McGahn believed the letter was "problematic."

But just how problematic? That's the big question. And given Trump blew up the rationale for firing Comey mere days later — and that he was involved in composing the letter himself — it's not unreasonable to think he might have shed a bit too much light on certain subjects.

https://www.washingtonpos(...)heres-why-thats-big/

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Trump vraagt Congres om 6 miljard noodhulp

In zijn eerste verzoek om financiële steun van de overheid gaat het om bijna 6 miljard dollar.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 01-09-2017 om 13:56:45 Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over...and so much more. A rigged system! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 22:40 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 01-09-2017 om 13:56:45 Wow, looks like James Comey exonerated Hillary Clinton long before the investigation was over...and so much more. A rigged system! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 23:48 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Stond hier al een minuut of wat nadat het gepost was. Iets met mosterd...

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 22:35 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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That's socialism!

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 22:35 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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That's socialism!

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 23:47 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
https://mobile.twitter.co(...)s/903705867891204096
Gaan we ineens schijnheilig doen? Nog erger dan eerder bedoel ik dus..

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 01:47:38 Stock Market up 5 months in a row! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 02:30 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Prima, zorg er dan voor dat die BNW-rommel hier niet verschijnt. Er zijn genoeg topics daar om te posten.

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The special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, has obtained a letter drafted by President Trump and a top political aide that offered an unvarnished view of Mr. Trump’s thinking in the days before the president fired the F.B.I. director, James B. Comey.

The circumstances and reasons for the firing are believed to be a significant element of Mr. Mueller’s investigation, which includes whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice by firing Mr. Comey.

The letter, drafted in May, was met with opposition from Donald F. McGahn II, the White House counsel, who believed that its angry, meandering tone was problematic, according to interviews with a dozen administration officials and others briefed on the matter. Among Mr. McGahn’s concerns were references to private conversations the president had with Mr. Comey, including times when the F.B.I. director told Mr. Trump he was not under investigation in the F.B.I.’s continuing Russia inquiry.

Mr. McGahn successfully blocked the president from sending the letter — which Mr. Trump had composed with Stephen Miller, one of the president’s top political advisers — to Mr. Comey. But a copy was given to the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein, who then drafted his own letter. Mr. Rosenstein’s letter was ultimately used as the Trump administration’s public rationale for Mr. Comey’s firing, which was that Mr. Comey had mishandled the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s private email server.

Mr. Rosenstein is overseeing Mr. Mueller’s investigation into Russian efforts to disrupt last year’s presidential election, as well as whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice.

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President Donald Trump's longtime aide and current director of Oval Office operations Keith Schiller has told people he intends to leave the White House, three sources familiar with the decision told CNN.

Schiller has told associates within the last two weeks that he plans to leave the White House at the end of September or in early October, the sources said. Schiller has told people his primary reason for leaving was financial, the sources said. Schiller earns a $165,000 annual salary at the White House -- a downgrade from his annual earnings before he followed Trump to the White House.

Schiller's planned departure comes just over a month after Kelly became chief of staff with the mission of instilling new order inside Trump's often chaotic White House. But Trump has chafed at some of Kelly's attempts to restrict access to the President.

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U.S., South Korea differ on readout of Trump, Moon call

There are conflicting versions from the U.S. and South Korea about a call between the two countries' leaders and whether they agreed on beginning to talk with North Korea, given its series of provocations over the past few months.

South Korean news agency Yonhap, citing the country's presidential office, reported that President Trump and South Korean President Moon Jae-in had spoken by phone Friday and "reaffirmed the need to bring the communist state back to the dialogue table."

But a National Security Council official disagreed with this characterization of the call, CBS News' Katiana Krawchenko reports.

According to the official, President Trump stressed to Moon that now is not the time to talk to the North, and all countries must remain firm in opposing North Korean provocations.

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Op vrijdag 1 september 2017 22:35 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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That's socialism!

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Forceful Chief of Staff Grates on Trump, and the Feeling Is Mutual

WASHINGTON — President Trump was in an especially ornery mood after staff members gently suggested he refrain from injecting politics into day-to-day issues of governing after last month’s raucous rally in Arizona, and he responded by lashing out at the most senior aide in his presence.

It happened to be his new chief of staff, John F. Kelly.

Mr. Kelly, the former Marine general brought in five weeks ago as the successor to Reince Priebus, reacted calmly, but he later told other White House staff members that he had never been spoken to like that during 35 years of serving his country. In the future, he said, he would not abide such treatment, according to three people familiar with the exchange.

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The question now is how long Mr. Kelly will stay, with estimates ranging from a month to a year at the most. White House officials say that Mr. Kelly has given no indication he intends to leave anytime soon. He has thrown himself into long-term planning of the administration’s tax reform push, the president’s Asia trip in November and scheduling for the next several months, they said.

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Mr. Kelly cannot stop Mr. Trump from binge-watching Fox News, which aides describe as the president’s primary source of information gathering. But Mr. Trump does not have a web browser on his phone, and does not use a laptop, so he was dependent on aides like Stephen K. Bannon, his former chief strategist, to hand-deliver printouts of articles from conservative media outlets.

Now Mr. Kelly has thinned out his package of printouts so much that Mr. Trump plaintively asked a friend recently where The Daily Caller and Breitbart were.

https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)ohn-kelly-trump.html

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which aides describe as the president’s primary source of information gathering

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But Trump's second visit on Saturday now comes in the wake of a visit by his Vice President Mike Pence, who toured some of those hard-hit areas on Thursday, hugging victims and clearing debris in a tour that amplified the criticism that Trump had faced. Some will now be expecting Trump to meet that bar on Saturday.

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 15:48 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump's eerste bezoek aan het rampgebied is afgekeurd wegens gebrek aan empathie. Pence daarentegen heeft laten zien hoe het wel kan en nu gaat Trump het voor de tweede keer proberen.

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Trump returns to Gulf Coast for test as 'comforter in chief'

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 15:48 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump's eerste bezoek aan het rampgebied is afgekeurd wegens gebrek aan empathie. Pence daarentegen heeft laten zien hoe het wel kan en nu gaat Trump het voor de tweede keer proberen.

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Trump returns to Gulf Coast for test as 'comforter in chief'

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 16:21 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Nou, hij is onderweg... https://mobile.twitter.co(...)s/903980484966752257

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PressSec twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:57:19 "I just met my President!" Said lady in pink after taking this selfie with @POTUS. #TexasStrong https://t.co/rtK9IMP1CI reageer retweet

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CNN twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:42:13 President Trump and first lady Melania Trump help distribute meals at a Harvey relief center in Houston https://t.co/nVvJffFJ8A reageer retweet

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joshdcaplan twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:28:52 FOX NEWS: President Trump and children displaced by #Harvey play with toys at Houston shelter https://t.co/trrOPNYdXc reageer retweet

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CNN twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:38:35 President Trump hugs a little girl who ran up to him as he meets with people affected by Hurricane Harvey in Texas... https://t.co/b2QbjqRMuS reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 20:09 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Trump's a racist!!

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JuddLegum twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:47:09 Trump visits with victims of Harvey, says they are "really happy." Weirdly calls the storm "a wonderful thing for e… https://t.co/q5aNefiJrP reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 20:18 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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JuddLegum twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:47:09 Trump visits with victims of Harvey, says they are "really happy." Weirdly calls the storm "a wonderful thing for e… https://t.co/q5aNefiJrP reageer retweet

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A couple of weeks ago President Trump scrapped Obama-era rules, intended to reduce the risks posed by flooding, that established new construction standards for roads, housing and other infrastructure projects that receive federal dollars.

Trump derided these restrictions, which were written in response to growing concerns over the impact of climate change, and other federal rules as useless red tape holding back the economy.

“This overregulated permitting process is a massive, self­inflicted wound on our country — it’s disgraceful — denying our people much-needed investments in their community,” he said in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York during an event to tout his infrastructure policies.

But now, in the wake of the massive flooding and destruction caused by Hurricane Harvey along the Gulf Coast, the Trump administration is considering whether to issue similar requirements to build higher in flood-prone areas as the government prepares to spend billions of dollars in response to the storm.

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CBSNews twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 20:44:56 "We have a long way to go but the water is is disappearing" in Houston, Pres. Trump says https://t.co/SFsm2tbj12 https://t.co/htEsSYUbAi reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 20:18 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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JuddLegum twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:47:09 Trump visits with victims of Harvey, says they are "really happy." Weirdly calls the storm "a wonderful thing for e… https://t.co/q5aNefiJrP reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 20:09 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Trump's a racist!!

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PressSec twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:57:19 "I just met my President!" Said lady in pink after taking this selfie with @POTUS. #TexasStrong https://t.co/rtK9IMP1CI reageer retweet

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CNN twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:42:13 President Trump and first lady Melania Trump help distribute meals at a Harvey relief center in Houston https://t.co/nVvJffFJ8A reageer retweet

Trump's a Nazi!

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joshdcaplan twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:28:52 FOX NEWS: President Trump and children displaced by #Harvey play with toys at Houston shelter https://t.co/trrOPNYdXc reageer retweet

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CNN twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 19:38:35 President Trump hugs a little girl who ran up to him as he meets with people affected by Hurricane Harvey in Texas... https://t.co/b2QbjqRMuS reageer retweet

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In a stunning filing last night, the Department of Justice stated in a court case that neither the FBI nor its National Security Division ever wiretapped Trump Tower, contradicting a bombshell claim President Trump made in a series of early morning tweets on March 4.

The document is the first time the Department of Justice has officially denied the substance of the Tweets. Former FBI Director James Comey had already denied that the FBI ever wiretapped Trump.

“Both FBI and NSD confirm that they have no records related to wiretaps as described by the March 4, 2017 tweets.” the filing states.

http://www.newsweek.com/t(...)tap-fbi-obama-658888

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 15:45 schreef nostra het volgende:
WaPo is wat aan het marketen en laat daarom hun abonnees een 30-dagen-pass versturen. Als iemand daar interesse in heeft, stuur een DM.

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 22:24 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Ik moet bekennen dat ik WaPo in een anoniem venster open en dus niet aan een limiet zit

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 22:39 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Als het gaat om journalistiek ondersteunen: Heb meer de indruk dat TheGuardian geld nodig heeft. Niet WaPo of NYTimes of WSJ. Weet iemand of dat klopt? En hoe zit dat met Nederlandstalig nieuws, want dat lijkt ook wel steeds schraler te worden?

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abc7elex twitterde op zaterdag 02-09-2017 om 20:35:49 Evacuees who snapped this selfie w @realDonaldTrump says the encounter changed their opinion of him. Found him to… https://t.co/dtP40p7Hrn reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 2 september 2017 22:02 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Wat iedereen al wist, maar de onbetrouwbaarheid van Trump is niet eens meer nieuws.

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Op zondag 3 september 2017 08:37 schreef Wombcat het volgende:
Als het maken van een selfie met Trump (of welke andere politicus dan ook) je mening over hem verandert, dan spoor je niet. Het beleid of de uitspraken veranderen er namelijk niet door.

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Op zondag 3 september 2017 12:57 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump gaat het wel druk krijgen. Texas onder water, Noord Korea test een nuke, Budget moet nog...

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"Really important for me to message one thing to the listeners right now," Gorka said. "Relax. It's okay. Why? I've never met anybody — and I mean this, okay? — I've never met anybody who has the accuracy of instinct that Donald J. Trump has. He's a preternatural — he's a supernatural instinctual actor. You take him a palette of decisions … he'll look at the options, he'll choose one of them and, you know what, 98 percent of the time, it's the right option."

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Op zondag 3 september 2017 18:38 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Als Trump de situatie met Noord-Korea verder verneukt en Kim schiet een nuke naar Houston spint Trump het wel als een winning plan om dat water in een keer te laten verdampen.

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Dear Mr. President -

Congratulations on a remarkable run. Millions have placed their hopes in you, and all of us, regardless of party, should hope for expanded prosperity and security during your tenure.

This is a unique office, without a clear blueprint for success, so I don't know that any advice from me will be particularly helpful. Still, let me offer a few reflections from the past 8 years.

First, we've both been blessed, in different ways, with great good fortune. Not everyone is so lucky. It's up to us to do everything we can [to] build more ladders of success for every child and family that's willing to work hard.

Second, American leadership in this world really is indispensable. It's up to us, through action and example, to sustain the international order that's expanded steadily since the end of the Cold War, and upon which our own wealth and safety depend.

Third, we are just temporary occupants of this office. That makes us guardians of those democratic institutions and traditions -- like rule of law, separation of powers, equal protection and civil liberties -- that our forebears fought and bled for. Regardless of the push and pull of daily politics, it's up to us to leave those instruments of our democracy at least as strong as we found them.

And finally, take time, in the rush of events and responsibilities, for friends and family. They'll get you through the inevitable rough patches.

Michelle and I wish you and Melania the very best as you embark on this great adventure, and know that we stand ready to help in any ways which we can.

Good luck and Godspeed,

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 18:14:31 The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 00:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 18:14:31 The United States is considering, in addition to other options, stopping all trade with any country doing business with North Korea. reageer retweet

'I will handle North Korea!'

Het schiet al lekker op

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 00:27 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Totaal onrealistisch plan ook. Alle handel met China staken?

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 00:27 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Totaal onrealistisch plan ook. Alle handel met China staken?

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“Yesterday, the Associated Press’ Michael Biesecker wrote an incredibly misleading story about toxic land sites that are under water,” the statement began. “Despite reporting from the comfort of Washington, Biesecker had the audacity to imply that agencies aren’t being responsive to the devastating effects of Hurricane Harvey. Not only is this inaccurate, but it creates panic and politicizes the hard work of first responders who are actually in the affected area.”

The article in question, which was written by Biesecker and his AP colleague, Jason Dearen, noted that seven toxic Superfund sites around Houston had been flooded during Hurricane Harvey. The Saturday report also noted that the “EPA had not yet been able to physically visit the Houston-area sites,” which the EPA confirmed, arguing the sites were not accessible.

Dearen appears to have reported from on the ground in Texas, and was not singled out by the EPA statement.

The statement went on to say that “state agencies worked with responsible parties to secure Superfund sites before the hurricane hit.”

It then continued the attacks on Biesecker, saying he “has a history of not letting the facts get in the way of his story” and noting that a July story he wrote inaccurately characterized an interaction between EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt and Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris. Biesecker’s story, based on EPA schedules, initially said the two met for half an hour at a Houston hotel.

A spokesperson for the EPA later said the meeting was cancelled and the two only had a “brief introduction in passing.” The AP issued a correction to the story.

The bulk of Sunday’s EPA statement was unsigned. It did, however, include one portion attributable to associate administrator Liz Bowman.

“Once again, in an attempt to mislead Americans, the Associated Press is cherry-picking facts, as EPA is monitoring Superfund sites around Houston and we have a team of experts on the ground working with our state and local counterparts responding to Hurricane Harvey,” Bowman’s statement said. “Anything to the contrary is yellow journalism.”

The statement did not point to any specific factual inaccuracies in Saturday’s story, besides accusing Biesecker of leaving out information about the EPA’s other efforts to monitor the toxic land sites, and the AP has not offered any corrections on the piece.

The EPA declined on Sunday to provide additional information about who drafted the statement, with EPA spokesperson Amy Graham calling the statement “pretty self explanatory” in an email to POLITICO.

Bowman later followed up with an additional email to POLITICO.

"We understand you are very focused on our press release; we hope you will apply the same focus to the facts, which include that a national reporter from a wire service publishing inaccurate and misleading stories about the agency and it’s staff on the ground," Bowman wrote. "We think that is more important than who drafted a press release."

The AP did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 01:32 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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President Donald Trump has decided to end the Obama-era program that grants work permits to undocumented immigrants who arrived in the country as children, according to two sources familiar with his thinking. Senior White House aides huddled Sunday afternoon to discuss the rollout of a decision likely to ignite a political firestorm — and fulfill one of the president’s core campaign promises.

Trump has wrestled for months with whether to do away with the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, known as DACA. He has faced strong warnings from members of his own party not to scrap the program and struggled with his own misgivings about targeting minors for deportation.

Conversations with Attorney General Jeff Sessions, who argued that Congress — rather than the executive branch — is responsible for writing immigration law, helped persuade the president to terminate the program, the two sources said, though White House aides caution that — as with everything in the Trump White House — nothing is set in stone until an official announcement has been made.

In a nod to reservations held by many lawmakers, the White House plans to delay the enforcement of the president’s decision for six months, giving Congress a window to act, according to one White House official. But a senior White House aide said that chief of staff John Kelly, who has been running the West Wing policy process on the issue, “thinks Congress should’ve gotten its act together a lot longer ago.”

Trump is expected to announce his decision on Tuesday, and the White House informed House Speaker Paul Ryan of the president’s decision on Sunday morning, according to a source close to the administration. Ryan had said during a radio interview on Friday that he didn’t think the president should terminate DACA, and that Congress should act on the issue.

Neither the White House not a spokesman for Ryan immediately responded to requests for comment.

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The president’s expected announcement is likely to shore up his base, which rallied behind his broader campaign message about the importance of enforcing the country’s immigration laws and securing the border. At the same time, the president’s decision is likely to be one of the most contentious of his early administration, opposed by leaders of both parties and by the political establishment more broadly.

The White House and Congress have tried to pass the issue off on each other – with each arguing that the other is responsible for determining the fate of the approximately 800,000 undocumented immigrants who are benefiting from DACA. Though most Republicans believe that rolling back DACA is a solid legal decision, they are conscious of the difficult emotional terrain. Utah Sen. Orrin Hatch joined Ryan in cautioning Trump against rolling back the program.

The president is likely to couch his decision in legalese. Many on the right, even those who support protections for children brought into the country illegally through no fault of their own, argue that DACA is unconstitutional because former President Barack Obama carried it out unilaterally instead of working through Congress.

Some Republican lawmakers, including Florida Sen. Marco Rubio, have said that Congress needs to pass a law to protect the so-called Dreamers.

“My hope is that as part of this process we can work on a way to deal with this issue and solve it through legislation, which is the right way to do it and the constitutional way to do it,” Rubio told CNN in June.

Trump’s expected decision to scrap DACA represents another challenge for Ryan and fellow congressional Republicans, who are facing an end-of-September deadline to avert a government shutdown and government debt default, while also tackling a Hurricane Harvey relief package and a major tax reform push.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 03:00 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay

Senior White House aides met Sunday afternoon to discuss how to roll out the controversial move affecting hundreds of thousands of Dreamers.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 07:39 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Dat is 8.3 miljard dollar aan economische waarde. Deals! Deals! Jobs!

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But he took some pictures this week with black people. He can't be racist! /s

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 03:00 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump has decided to end DACA, with 6-month delay

Senior White House aides met Sunday afternoon to discuss how to roll out the controversial move affecting hundreds of thousands of Dreamers.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 16:44 schreef KrappeAuto het volgende:

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Ze zijn dus even aan het peilen wat de achterban ervan vindt. Wat ik tot nu toe lees wordt het wel geaccepteerd.

Gaat ook een theorie rond dat die 6 maanden goed uit pakt voor Trump in verband met de primaries voor het Congres. Republikeinen moeten dan kiezen tussen virtue signalling of steun aan Trump. Democraten moeten het dan in debatten hebben over immigratie in plaats van economie, terwijl ze eigenlijk vooral op economisch beleid vooruitgang moeten boeken.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:32 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Peilen wat de achterban ervan vindt? Trump schuift de beslissing gewoon voor zich uit nadat er (ook vanuit de Republikeinen) veel weerstand kwam tegen de afschaffing ervan.

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Trump’s decision reportedly includes a six-month delay which would give Congress a window in which it could step in before the protections expire, one White House official told Politico.

Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have called on the president not to end the program, with House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) saying he believes it's something "Congress has to fix."

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:37 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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But administration aides concede that Congress may be unable to agree on a legislative fix, given the headwinds that previous legislation has run into for years. It is unclear exactly what would happen after six months if Congress does not act.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:32 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Peilen wat de achterban ervan vindt? Trump schuift de beslissing gewoon voor zich uit nadat er (ook vanuit de Republikeinen) veel weerstand kwam tegen de afschaffing ervan.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 08:32 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Mooie reactie op reddit hierover in combinatie met de foto's van zijn bezoek aan Houstion:

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:50 schreef KrappeAuto het volgende:

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Ik bedoelde dat ze aan het peilen zijn omdat het lijkt alsof het plan toevallig gelekt is.

De persoon die de beslissing over rechtszekerheid voor deze personen voor zich heeft uitgeschoven is Obama natuurlijk. Net zoals het Noord Korea vraagstuk heeft de beste man niets gedaan aan permanente oplossingen, maar heeft hij slechts doorgemodderd met deze hybride vorm van burgerschap en illegaliteit.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:02 schreef Xa1pt het volgende:

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Dat is wat Nintex hier nog letterlijk beweerde.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:50 schreef KrappeAuto het volgende:

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Ik bedoelde dat ze aan het peilen zijn omdat het lijkt alsof het plan toevallig gelekt is.

De persoon die de beslissing over rechtszekerheid voor deze personen voor zich heeft uitgeschoven is Obama natuurlijk. Net zoals het Noord Korea vraagstuk heeft de beste man niets gedaan aan permanente oplossingen, maar heeft hij slechts doorgemodderd met deze hybride vorm van burgerschap en illegaliteit.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:41 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

For fucks sake . Alsof hij bewust de meest incompetente mensen zoekt.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 00:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
'I will handle North Korea!'

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:56 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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DACA was ingesteld door Obama, die heeft dus helemaal niks voor zich uitgeschoven maar heeft het geregeld. Je weet dus weer niet waar je over praat.

President Obama To Donald Trump On DACA: Think 'Long And Hard' On Endangering Dreamers | NBC News

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willripleyCNN twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 16:30:16 #breaking U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley told the UN Security Council that North Korea's Kim Jong Un is "begging for war" reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:41 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

For fucks sake . Alsof hij bewust de meest incompetente mensen zoekt.

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In August 2017, CNN reported on the existence of a now-defunct blog that Clovis had maintained primarily between 2011 and 2012. In blog posts accessed via the Wayback Machine, Clovis was critical of President Barack Obama and the progressive movement, accusing Obama of being a socialist and writing that progressives were "liars, race traders and race 'traitors.'" A USDA spokesperson responded that Clovis "is a proud conservative and a proud American. All of his reporting either on the air or in writing over the course of his career has been based on solid research and data. He is after all an academic."[15] Clovis has said that homosexual behavior is a choice and that the sanctioning of same-sex marriage could lead to the legalization of pedophilia.[16]

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 19:08 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 03:55:30 Together, we will prevail in the GREAT state of Texas. We love you!GOD BLESS TEXAS & GOD BLESS THE USA🇺🇸 https://t.co/1rzmEenQIb reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 19:22 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Oke, dit moet peak 'Murica zijn.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 03:55:30 Together, we will prevail in the GREAT state of Texas. We love you!GOD BLESS TEXAS & GOD BLESS THE USA🇺🇸 https://t.co/1rzmEenQIb reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 19:22 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Oke, dit moet peak 'Murica zijn.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 03:55:30 Together, we will prevail in the GREAT state of Texas. We love you!GOD BLESS TEXAS & GOD BLESS THE USA🇺🇸 https://t.co/1rzmEenQIb reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:56 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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DACA was ingesteld door Obama, die heeft dus helemaal niks voor zich uitgeschoven maar heeft het geregeld. Je weet dus weer niet waar je over praat.

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DACA allows certain illegal immigrants who entered the country as minors, to receive a renewable two-year period of deferred action from deportation and eligibility for a work permit.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 20:24 schreef KrappeAuto het volgende:

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Dat is precies wat ik zeg. DACA houdt in:

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Hier staat bijna letterlijk dat je 0 rechtszekerheid krijgt over de toekomst als dreamer. De beslissing over deportatie wordt letterlijk vooruitgeschoven.

Het is één van de vele zwakke optredens van een man die professor had moeten blijven.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 17:37 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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“It’s not about the policy; it’s about the Constitution,” said Ken Paxton, the Texas attorney general, who accused Mr. Obama of abusing his power by circumventing Congress to create law. “The fact is, there is no statute authorizing this.”

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 20:51 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Zou eerder wijzen naar congress ipv Obama. Het wegkijken bij deportatie van kinderen die aan deze situatie ook niet veel hebben kunnen doen en daar als wetgever decennialang niks aan doen verdient denk ik niet bepaald de schoonheidsprijs; op deze manier was er iig een weg vooruit, hoewel niet ideaal en mogelijk ook niet legaal nu met Gorsuch ingezworen.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:14 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

Verder wil ik niet mee doen met de mensen die zeggen dat Trump in dezen heel erg fout is oid. Door Obamas actie en nu Trumps actie wordt congress geforceerd duidelijk stelling te nemen; in 6 maanden moet toch wel iets besloten kunnen worden.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:26 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Ook daar hebben ze nog niet over nagedacht tijdens 8 jaar Obama

Het komt ze wel allemaal rauw op hun dak vallen hè?

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:14 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Je kunt je deportatiemiddelen natuurlijk maar 1 keer inzetten, dus dan lijkt het me verstandig om dat te doen bij individuen met hogere prioriteit (criminelen bv.) ipv kinderen, wiens ouders weliswaar voor de status gezorgd hebben, maar wie het zelf niet aan te rekenen zal zijn.

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De problematiek van kinderen die mogelijk niet eens de taal spreken van het land van herkomst van hun ouders, en er mogelijk niet eens een geheugen van hebben daar ooit geweest te zijn.

Dat constaterende is het daarmee dan een keuze om weg te kijken en deze kinderen wel of geen toekomstkans te geven; deportatie lijkt hoe dan ook niet heel waarschijnlijk voor deze groep. Ik heb verder ook geen goed idee over hoe dit op te lossen is, maar het idee dat je een groep mensen straft om wat hun ouders misdaan zouden hebben vind ik an sich niet heel fair.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:32 schreef dellipder het volgende:
DACA is in 2012 ingesteld.
Bovendien is in 2015 hierover een rechtszaak gevoerd.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:37 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ja en er zijn vele versies geweest, de eerste DREAM Act bill dateert uit 2001

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:38 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Schuld van Trump!!

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 05:02:31 Remember, Sunday is National Prayer Day (by Presidential Proclamation)! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:39 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Nee hoor. Hij heeft beloofd om alle (illegale) minors uit te zetten. Waarom doet hij dat niet? Gewoon weer een EO-tje tekenen, fluitje van een cent.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:40 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 05:02:31 Remember, Sunday is National Prayer Day (by Presidential Proclamation)! reageer retweet

Om één of andere reden vind ik deze tweet hilarisch. Alsof Trump nu de oorzaak is dat op zondag mensen naar de kerk gaan oid. Het is niet eens meer een open deur die hij intrapt, de deur en het huis er omheen moeten nog gebouwd worden.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:40 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 05:02:31 Remember, Sunday is National Prayer Day (by Presidential Proclamation)! reageer retweet

Om één of andere reden vind ik deze tweet hilarisch. Alsof Trump nu de oorzaak is dat op zondag mensen naar de kerk gaan oid. Het is niet eens meer een open deur die hij intrapt, de deur en het huis er omheen moeten nog gebouwd worden.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:43 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Omdat deze regeling op een goede manier moet worden beëindigd. Sinds zijn aantreden hebben al meer dan 100.000 gratie gekregen. Het Congres is nu aan zet en anders neemt de president zijn beslissing (of de rechter).

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:46 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ah ja dat zal het wezen!

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:47 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Wat jij wil!

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 18:41 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Trump's Nominee To Be USDA's Chief Scientist Is Not A Scientist

For fucks sake . Alsof hij bewust de meest incompetente mensen zoekt.

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Federal authorities have been warning state and local officials since early 2016 that leftist extremists known as “antifa” had become increasingly confrontational and dangerous, so much so that the Department of Homeland Security formally classified their activities as “domestic terrorist violence,” according to interviews and confidential law enforcement documents obtained by POLITICO.

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Previously unreported documents disclose that by April 2016, authorities believed that “anarchist extremists” were the primary instigators of violence at public rallies against a range of targets. They were blamed by authorities for attacks on the police, government and political institutions, along with symbols of “the capitalist system,” racism, social injustice and fascism, according to a confidential 2016 joint intelligence assessment by DHS and the FBI.

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Op maandag 4 september 2017 21:40 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-09-2017 om 05:02:31 Remember, Sunday is National Prayer Day (by Presidential Proclamation)! reageer retweet

Om één of andere reden vind ik deze tweet hilarisch. Alsof Trump nu de oorzaak is dat op zondag mensen naar de kerk gaan oid. Het is niet eens meer een open deur die hij intrapt, de deur en het huis er omheen moeten nog gebouwd worden.

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For the first time since Hurricane Harvey made landfall on Aug. 25, the Coast Guard did not have to carry out rescue missions in storm-ravaged Southeast Texas on Sunday. Instead, the service began moving a number of helicopters out of Texas and into Puerto Rico, Florida and Georgia, in anticipation of another landfall threat brewing for the U.S. coast: Hurricane Irma.

“As soon as one ends, we need to make sure we are ready for the next event,” Adm. Paul Zukunft, the Coast Guard commandant, said Monday as Irma, which had become a Category 4 hurricane by late in the day, churned in the Atlantic.

It is still too early to determine exactly where and when Irma will hit, but model forecasts indicate it is increasingly likely to affect the United States. The National Hurricane Center warned in a 5 p.m. update Monday that Irma could impact the British and U.S. Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico, the Bahamas and Cuba. A significant percentage of model forecasts have Irma striking the U.S. East Coast as early as Saturday or Sunday, with tropical storm winds arriving in Florida as soon as Friday.

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Since his indictment more than two years ago, Mr. Menendez, a Democrat, has steadfastly proclaimed his innocence, and last week he reiterated that. “I am going to be exonerated,” he said in a brief interview on Wednesday with reporters following a rally protesting President Trump’s immigration policies.

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Mr. Menendez is charged with 12 corruption-related counts, including six counts of bribery and three counts of honest services fraud.

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The legal case revolves around whether those gifts were permissible as gifts a friend could give to another, or whether they were part of a longstanding bribery arrangement where Mr. Menendez would intervene to protect the financial and personal interests of Dr. Melgen in return for his gifts and donations.

“That’s one thing that makes this case interesting: It asks the existential question as to when friendship ends and corruption begins,” said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor from the U.S. attorney’s office in Newark.

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In a Friday night news dump, the White House announced that President Donald Trump Plans to nominate Rep. Jim Bridenstine (R-OK), a climate science denier to be administrator of NASA.

Bridenstine is a politician without any scientific credentials, unlike previous NASA chiefs

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:46 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Wat een ontzettende mongool is het toch ook. Na Pruitt "nee er zit geen gif in het water nietes kijk maar Breitbart zegt van niet" als nieuwe leider van de EPA zonder wetenschappelijke achtergrond, en Betsy deVos op onderwijs, gaan de Reps ook NASA mollen. Idiocracy 2.0, (of Day Zero 2.0?) gewoon iedereen die slim is uitschakelen zodat je in de toekomst nog stemmen krijgt.

twitter:

MikeScarcella twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 02:50:03 *The Attorney General will not be taking questions following the briefing.* #DACA https://t.co/n995gVUrxx reageer retweet

twitter:

KFILE twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 21:42:50 https://t.co/9cNA96kEUe reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:46 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Wat een ontzettende mongool is het toch ook. Na Pruitt "nee er zit geen gif in het water nietes kijk maar Breitbart zegt van niet" als nieuwe leider van de EPA zonder wetenschappelijke achtergrond, en Betsy deVos op onderwijs, gaan de Reps ook NASA mollen. Idiocracy 2.0, (of Day Zero 2.0?) gewoon iedereen die slim is uitschakelen zodat je in de toekomst nog stemmen krijgt.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:53 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Ik mag hopen dat dit slechts een gerucht is. Ik kan me niet voorstellen dat de NASA akkoord zou gaan met zo'n aanstelling, die zullen uit protest het werk neerleggen.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:53 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Ik mag hopen dat dit slechts een gerucht is. Ik kan me niet voorstellen dat de NASA akkoord zou gaan met zo'n aanstelling, die zullen uit protest het werk neerleggen.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:53 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Ik mag hopen dat dit slechts een gerucht is. Ik kan me niet voorstellen dat de NASA akkoord zou gaan met zo'n aanstelling, die zullen uit protest het werk neerleggen.

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"Russia condemns North Korea's exercises, we consider that they are a provocation ... (But) ramping up military hysteria will lead to nothing good. It could lead to a global catastrophe," he told reporters.

He said it was “ridiculous” that the US first slapped Russia with sanctions carried in the same bill that penalised North Korea, and “then asked us to help impose sanctions on North Korea."

"This is being done by people who mix up Australia with Austria," he added.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 12:31 schreef speknek het volgende:
Putin heeft ook nog wel wat woorden over voor de Trump administratie.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 12:31 schreef speknek het volgende:
Putin heeft ook nog wel wat woorden over voor de Trump administratie.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 12:32 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Tsja, je kunt ze geen ongelijk geven.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 13:02 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Hun bemoeienis met de Amerikaanse verkiezingen heeft al geleid tot een 'global catastrophe', dus ze moeten niet zo zeiken.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 10:53 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Sessions gaat vandaag een persconferentie geven aangaande DACA begreep ik. En zal GEEN vragen beantwoorden.

twitter:

MikeScarcella twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 02:50:03 *The Attorney General will not be taking questions following the briefing.* #DACA https://t.co/n995gVUrxx reageer retweet

Opvallend genoeg niet door Trump zelf dus, ondanks dat immigratie 1 van de speerpunten van z'n campagne was. But wait! There is of course still Trumps law:

twitter:

KFILE twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 21:42:50 https://t.co/9cNA96kEUe reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 14:04:43 Congress, get ready to do your job - DACA! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 14:28 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 14:04:43 Congress, get ready to do your job - DACA! reageer retweet

Ik gok dus dat de gelekte informatie juist was. Ideaal natuurlijk, want nu kan hij het congres de schuld geven als het niet lukt binnen 6 maanden.

Ik lees trouwens wel een transcript van Sessions' persco, kan de man niet aanhoren.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 14:36:57 I am allowing Japan & South Korea to buy a substantially increased amount of highly sophisticated military equipment from the United States. reageer retweet

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OPINION | Don't slam Trump for sending DACA back to Congress

President Trump’s expected announcement that he is terminating the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program has met with widespread criticism over the potential cost to roughly 800,000 children of undocumented parents. While I agree with the same concern over the status of these individuals, I do not agree with the same criticism of sending DACA back to Congress. DACA was unilaterally ordered by President Obama after Congress refused to approve the program.

Some of us criticized the action as a circumvention of the legislative branch that undermined our system of the separation of powers. But because they liked the result, Democratic members yielded their institutional power to the White House and helped create an unchecked presidency. With Trump using the same authority to pursue his own policies, Democratic leaders now want to radically expand the powers of the judiciary to block an uber presidency of their own making. They have become constitutional short sellers who dump core principles as soon as they raise political costs.

New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman and Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D-N.Y.) announced that they would challenge Trump’s decision in federal court. While they declined to give details of this extraordinary challenge, they would presumably be asking a court to say that Trump could not use the same power to rescind DACA that Obama used to create it. Since the power is the same, what remains is the merits of the policy, something courts have long avoided under the political question doctrine. They would have to say that undocumented individuals can be allowed to stay but not ordered to leave by executive order.

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During the previous administration, I testified repeatedly about the dangers of the unilateral actions taken by Obama (whom I voted for in 2008). Two years ago, I even wrote a column warning that Democrats should consider the prospect of these same powers under health care and immigration being wielded by a President Trump rather than a President Obama. Yet, in one of the strangest demonstrations in history, Democrats rapturously applauded when Obama said that he would simply circumvent their branch because Congress did not yield to his demands for DACA and other measures.

From a constitutional perspective, it looked like a mosh pit of self-loathing members, politicians eager to be declared a functional non-entity in our tripartite (now bipartite) system. Unable to yield more authority to the executive branch, these politicians would now inflate the power of the courts to check a president. Imagine if a federal court gave Schneiderman what he wants. A federal judge could simply declare that an executive order is “gratuitous” or too “devastating” to be allowed. What would have been the reaction if a federal judge declared DACA to be gratuitous or cruel to those who are awaiting entry into the country legally? We would have uber judges to match our uber president.

I am admittedly a Madisonian scholar and a constitutional formalist. I believe strongly in the role of Congress in legislation and clear lines of separation between the branches. The separation of powers protects us from the concentration of authority in the hands of a single president or a few jurists. James Madison saw Congress as a way to force majoritarian compromise out of our factional divisions. Sometimes when the country is deeply divided, less gets done until we can reach a consensus. It sometimes takes time, which is a finite and dwindling commodity for presidents. The process is not pretty or easy, but it has one thing to recommend it: we are still here. It is the balance of the three branches that has brought us stability through economic to social to political upheavals.

Trump’s decision will return this question to where it should have remained: Congress. Presidents do not have the option to go it alone in our system. Obama failed to pass DACA in Congress, and he was left with only two choices. He had to either compromise or change Congress. Sometimes when the country is politically divided, less gets done until we can reach a consensus. However, that consensus is found in the legislative process, not through presidential or judicial proclamations.

Where Obama used this authority to circumvent Congress on DACA, Trump is using it to return DACA to Congress. After failing to pass this program earlier, members may now be able to succeed by reaching a compromise with their Republican colleagues. Regardless of the outcome, however, the importance of re-establishing an equal legislative branch is paramount for our system and our future. As for Schneiderman, he should rethink his challenge before more constitutional short sales turn a great Constitution into a worthless penny stock.

Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. You can follow him on Twitter @JonathanTurley.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 15:48 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Hillary Clinton’s subtly savage takedown of Bernie Sanders

Hillary Clinton's book is due out next week. And judging by a page that was just tweeted by one of her staunchest supporters — not to mention plenty of other evidence — it's likely to include a heaping dose of score-settling.

That includes with Bernie Sanders.

In the passage that was tweeted out Monday evening by Tom Watson, Clinton attacks some of Sanders's supporters for being “sexist” and suggests the Vermont senator doesn't have the Democratic Party's true interests at heart. Most notably, she also intimates that he may not have even cared that his underhanded (in her opinion) attacks on her helped Donald Trump become president.

“When I finally challenged Bernie during a debate to name a single time I changed a position or a vote because of a financial contribution, he couldn’t come up with anything,” she wrote. “Nonetheless, his attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump’s 'Crooked Hillary' campaign.

“I don’t know if that bothered Bernie or not.”

Clinton continues: “He certainly shared my horror at the thought of Donald Trump becoming President, and I appreciate that he campaigned for me in the general election. But he isn’t a Democrat — that’s not a smear, that’s what he says. He didn’t get into the race to make sure a Democrat won the White House, he got in to disrupt the Democratic Party.”

At the end of the page, Clinton concludes by saying: “I am proud to be a Democrat and I wish Bernie were too.”

This, needless to say, isn't likely to help the Democratic Party heal any time soon. I've argued before that Clinton's decision to dwell upon the many allegedly unfair reasons for her general-election loss — Russia, James B. Comey, misogyny, debate questions, etc. — are likely to distract from the truly difficult work Democrats face in determining how they lost the Rust Belt to a historically unpopular nominee in Trump. Clinton seems to have far more interest in pointing the finger at everyone but herself. Perhaps her reasons are justifiable. But it also suggests that her and her party's serious shortcomings were unimportant.

Given the book's “What Happened” title and this past, it was clear Clinton would be doing a fair bit of blame-sharing in the book. What wasn't as clear was how much she would dwell upon Sanders's shockingly competitive challenge to her in the Democratic primary.

This passage doesn't exactly read like a take-no-prisoners accounting; it's more understated than that. Much of it is technically true. The tactics of the “Bernie Bros” were indeed often sexist. Sanders still isn't a Democrat, and he never claimed that his campaign was about helping the party — a party he long derided as insufficiently progressive. He clearly wanted to “disrupt” it to some extent. And the seeds of the idea that Clinton was corrupt were indeed planted and tended to in the primary.

But inside the measured language are some pretty harsh judgments of Sanders. She's not just suggesting he's not a Democrat; she's suggesting he doesn't truly care about the party or that he may have played a hand in electing Trump. She's suggesting he doesn't appreciate the party. She claims his attacks were out-of-bounds and unprincipled.

“Because we agreed on so much, Bernie couldn’t make an argument against me in this area on policy, so he had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character,” she said.

Maybe that's just politics, you might say! Well, the Sanders-led opposition to Clinton always considered itself to be about principle, whatever the costs of taking that principled stand (even President Trump).

Clinton is not-so-gently questioning that entire conceit, saying Sanders's reasons for causing that upheaval weren't justified. She's suggesting his campaign was about political expediency and getting elected and doubts there was truly much difference between them.

For a candidate and a base of supporters who were adamant about their cause and those differences, that's going to sting. And linger. It's the equivalent of throwing gasoline on the embers that remain from the 2016 primary.

Below is the full passage:

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Because we agreed on so much, Bernie couldn’t make an argument against me in this area on policy, so he had to resort to innuendo and impugning my character. Some of his supporters, the so-called Bernie Bros, took to harassing my supporters online. It got ugly and more than a little sexist. When I finally challenged Bernie during a debate to name a single time I changed a position or a vote because of a financial contribution, he couldn’t come up with anything. Nonetheless, his attacks caused lasting damage, making it harder to unify progressives in the general election and paving the way for Trump’s “Crooked Hillary” campaign.

I don’t know if that bothered Bernie or not. He certainly shared my horror at the thought of Donald Trump becoming President, and I appreciate that he campaigned for me in the general election. But he isn’t a Democrat — that’s not a smear, that’s what he says. He didn’t get into the race to make sure a Democrat won the White House, he got in to disrupt the Democratic Party. He was right that Democrats needed to strengthen our focus on working families and that there’s always a danger of spending too much time courting donors because of our insane campaign finance system. He also engaged a lot of young people in the political process for the first time, which is extremely important. But I think he was fundamentally wrong about the Democratic Party — the party that brought us Social Security under Roosevelt; Medicare and Medicaid under Johnson; peace between Israel and Egypt under Carter; broad-based prosperity and a balanced budget under Clinton; and rescued the auto industry, passed health care reform, and imposed tough new rules on Wall Street under Obama. I am proud to be a Democrat and I wish Bernie were, too.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 15:48 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Yet, in one of the strangest demonstrations in history, Democrats rapturously applauded when Obama said that he would simply circumvent their branch because Congress did not yield to his demands for DACA and other measures.

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Good morning. I am here today to announce that the program known as DACA that was effectuated under the Obama Administration is being rescinded.

The DACA program was implemented in 2012 and essentially provided a legal status for recipients for a renewable two-year term, work authorization and other benefits, including participation in the social security program, to 800,000 mostly-adult illegal aliens.

This policy was implemented unilaterally to great controversy and legal concern after Congress rejected legislative proposals to extend similar benefits on numerous occasions to this same group of illegal aliens.

In other words, the executive branch, through DACA, deliberately sought to achieve what the legislative branch specifically refused to authorize on multiple occasions. Such an open-ended circumvention of immigration laws was an unconstitutional exercise of authority by the Executive Branch.

The effect of this unilateral executive amnesty, among other things, contributed to a surge of unaccompanied minors on the southern border that yielded terrible humanitarian consequences. It also denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of Americans by allowing those same jobs to go to illegal aliens.

We inherited from our Founders—and have advanced—an unsurpassed legal heritage, which is the foundation of our freedom, safety, and prosperity.

As the Attorney General, it is my duty to ensure that the laws of the United States are enforced and that the Constitutional order is upheld.

No greater good can be done for the overall health and well-being of our Republic, than preserving and strengthening the impartial rule of law. Societies where the rule of law is treasured are societies that tend to flourish and succeed.

Societies where the rule of law is subject to political whims and personal biases tend to become societies afflicted by corruption, poverty, and human suffering.

To have a lawful system of immigration that serves the national interest, we cannot admit everyone who would like to come here. That is an open border policy and the American people have rightly rejected it.

Therefore, the nation must set and enforce a limit on how many immigrants we admit each year and that means all can not be accepted.

This does not mean they are bad people or that our nation disrespects or demeans them in any way. It means we are properly enforcing our laws as Congress has passed them.

It is with these principles and duties in mind, and in light of imminent litigation, that we reviewed the Obama Administration’s DACA policy.

Our collective wisdom is that the policy is vulnerable to the same legal and constitutional challenges that the courts recognized with respect to the DAPA program, which was enjoined on a nationwide basis in a decision affirmed by the Fifth Circuit.

The Fifth Circuit specifically concluded that DACA had not been implemented in a fashion that allowed sufficient discretion, and that DAPA was “foreclosed by Congress’s careful plan.”

In other words, it was inconsistent with the Constitution’s separation of powers. That decision was affirmed by the Supreme Court by an equally divided vote.

If we were to keep the Obama Administration’s executive amnesty policy, the likeliest outcome is that it would be enjoined just as was DAPA. The Department of Justice has advised the President and the Department of Homeland Security that DHS should begin an orderly, lawful wind down, including the cancellation of the memo that authorized this program.

Acting Secretary Duke has chosen, appropriately, to initiate a wind down process. This will enable DHS to conduct an orderly change and fulfill the desire of this administration to create a time period for Congress to act—should it so choose. We firmly believe this is the responsible path.

Simply put, if we are to further our goal of strengthening the constitutional order and the rule of law in America, the Department of Justice cannot defend this type of overreach.

George Washington University Law School Professor Jonathan Turley in testimony before the House Judiciary Committee was clear about the enormous constitutional infirmities raised by these policies.

He said: “In ordering this blanket exception, President Obama was nullifying part of a law that he simply disagreed with.….If a president can claim sweeping discretion to suspend key federal laws, the entire legislative process becomes little more than a pretense…The circumvention of the legislative process not only undermines the authority of this branch but destabilizes the tripartite system as a whole.”

Ending the previous Administration’s disrespect for the legislative process is an important first step. All immigration policies should serve the interests of the people of the United States—lawful immigrant and native born alike.

Congress should carefully and thoughtfully pursue the types of reforms that are right for the American people. Our nation is comprised of good and decent people who want their government’s leaders to fulfill their promises and advance an immigration policy that serves the national interest.

We are a people of compassion and we are a people of law. But there is nothing compassionate about the failure to enforce immigration laws.

Enforcing the law saves lives, protects communities and taxpayers, and prevents human suffering. Failure to enforce the laws in the past has put our nation at risk of crime, violence and even terrorism.

The compassionate thing is to end the lawlessness, enforce our laws, and, if Congress chooses to make changes to those laws, to do so through the process set forth by our Founders in a way that advances the interest of the nation.

That is what the President has promised to do and has delivered to the American people.

Under President Trump’s leadership, this administration has made great progress in the last few months toward establishing a lawful and constitutional immigration system. This makes us safer and more secure.

It will further economically the lives of millions who are struggling. And it will enable our country to more effectively teach new immigrants about our system of government and assimilate them to the cultural understandings that support it.

The substantial progress in reducing illegal immigration at our border seen in recent months is almost entirely the product of the leadership of President Trump and his inspired federal immigration officers. But the problem is not solved. And without more action, we could see illegality rise again rather than be eliminated.

As a candidate, and now in office, President Trump has offered specific ideas and legislative solutions that will protect American workers, increase wages and salaries, defend our national security, ensure the public safety, and increase the general well-being of the American people.

He has worked closely with many members of Congress, including in the introduction of the RAISE Act, which would produce enormous benefits for our country. This is how our democratic process works.

There are many powerful interest groups in this country and every one of them has a constitutional right to advocate their views and represent whomever they choose.

But the Department of Justice does not represent any narrow interest or any subset of the American people. We represent all of the American people and protect the integrity of our Constitution. That is our charge.

We at Department of Justice are proud and honored to work to advance this vision for America and to do our best each day to ensure the safety and security of the American people.

Thank you.

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HillaryClinton twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 01:20:09 I'm excited to sign up for @Verrit, a media platform for the 65.8 million! Will you join me and sign up too? https://t.co/bOLSMyk6bG reageer retweet

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peterdaou twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 13:17:41 Some people don't comprehend the need for @Verrit, but those who've been harassed and invisibilized know EXACTLY what it's for. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:01 schreef Puddington het volgende:
Obama heeft ook gereageerd op het besluit van de DACA: https://www.facebook.com/barackobama/posts/10155227588436749

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:05 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
WTF is dat verrit gedoe?!

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HillaryClinton twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 01:20:09 I'm excited to sign up for @Verrit, a media platform for the 65.8 million! Will you join me and sign up too? https://t.co/bOLSMyk6bG reageer retweet

Hillary Clinton zet schouders onder nieuwsplatform. De kritiek is snoeihard

https://verrit.com/

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Trump’s key priority in the DACA debate hasn’t involved any sort of policy goal at all. Instead, he’s been making a dual effort to avoid an open breach with Sessions and his network of nativist politicians while also trying to avoid becoming the face of the turn against DACA.

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:05 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
WTF is dat verrit gedoe?!

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HillaryClinton twitterde op maandag 04-09-2017 om 01:20:09 I'm excited to sign up for @Verrit, a media platform for the 65.8 million! Will you join me and sign up too? https://t.co/bOLSMyk6bG reageer retweet

Hillary Clinton zet schouders onder nieuwsplatform. De kritiek is snoeihard

https://verrit.com/

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:14 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Kinderen/ jonge mensen hun kansen op een toekomst ontnemen onder het mom van handhaving van wetgeving. En dan Sessions het woord laten doen. Bah wat een laf figuur

Trump isn’t delivering his own DACA policy because he’s cowardly and weak

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yashar twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 21:12:00 At a press conference right now, Dem Senator Dick Durbin and GOP Senator Lindsey Graham are introducing bi-partisan "dreamer" legislation reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 21:18 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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yashar twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 21:12:00 At a press conference right now, Dem Senator Dick Durbin and GOP Senator Lindsey Graham are introducing bi-partisan "dreamer" legislation reageer retweet

Trump the great unify-er .

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 22:45:27 I look forward to working w / D's + R's in Congress to address immigration reform in a way that puts hardworking citizens of our country 1st. reageer retweet

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Haley: Leaving Iran nuclear deal is 'tempting'

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Tuesday laid out an argument in a speech Tuesday for President Trump to potentially declare Iran in violation of the nuclear deal later this year.

Haley detailed the “many flaws” in the Iran nuclear deal, though several of the examples occurred before the agreement was created. She also said that Iran was using the deal to “hold the world hostage to its bad behavior.”

“The truth is, the Iran deal has so many flaws that it’s tempting to leave it,” she told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington.

“The deal was constructed in a way that makes leaving less attractive. It gave Iran what it wanted upfront in exchange for temporary promises to deliver what we want. That’s not good.”

Haley then insisted that, while she has discussed such issues with Trump, she does not know what decision he will make.

The White House every 90 days must certify Iran’s compliance with the nuclear deal negotiated between the U.S. and international powers.

If Trump decides to decertify the deal in October, it would put the administration a step closer to pulling out of the agreement.

But Haley pressed that if Trump “chooses not to certify Iranian compliance, that does not mean the United States is withdrawing” from the agreement. She added that Congress could potentially re-impose sanctions on the country, pointing to the ongoing standoff over North Korea's nuclear program as an example.

“If you look at North Korea now, the reasons we’re pushing for so many sanctions — do we think more sanctions are going to work on North Korea? Not necessarily. But what does it do? It cuts off the revenue that allows them to build ballistic missiles,” she said.

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GOP rep: Send DACA recipients to serve in the Peace Corps

Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) suggested Tuesday that recipients of the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program should serve as members of the Peace Corps in their home countries, now that President Trump has decided to rescind the Obama administration program.

Attorney Jeff Sessions announced Tuesday that Trump would rescind the program, which offered protection from deportation to people brought into the country illegally as children.

“Former DACAs will make great ‘Peace Corp’ volunteers in home countries. None would take more hardship or risk than we ask of Peace Corp,” King tweeted.

However, only U.S. citizens are allowed to serve in the Peace Corps. It is one of the only two requirements needed to be eligible for the volunteer program.

King earlier slammed Trump after it was reported that Trump would end DACA on a six-month delay, calling the move, which leaves open a potential legislative fix, “Republican suicide."

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 22:56 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-09-2017 om 22:45:27 I look forward to working w / D's + R's in Congress to address immigration reform in a way that puts hardworking citizens of our country 1st. reageer retweet

Langer statement van Trump zojuist:
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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:12 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:24 schreef Hdero het volgende:

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Wat is de Vredescorps?

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:24 schreef Hdero het volgende:

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Wat is de Vredescorps?

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Op dinsdag 5 september 2017 23:37 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Vrijwilligers die onder leiding van het Department of State ontwikkelingshulp doen in het buitenland, min of meer...

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yashar twitterde op woensdag 06-09-2017 om 00:39:16 Must-Watch: Senator Menandez' trial starts tomorrow and the stakes are high for Dems and GOP. @LauraAJarrett reports https://t.co/xET0QEwq0Z reageer retweet

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President Trump didn’t even have the guts to do the job himself. Instead, he hid in the shadows and sent his attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to do the dirty work of telling the country that the administration would no longer shield from deportation 800,000 young undocumented immigrants brought to this country as children.

Mr. Sessions, a longtime anti-immigrant hard-liner, was more than up to the task. In a short, disingenuous speech, he said a program set up by President Barack Obama in 2012 — known as DACA, for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals — was a lawless policy that “yielded terrible humanitarian consequences” and denied jobs to hundreds of thousands of American citizens. (Mr. Trump echoed these claims in a statement released by the White House.) Mr. Sessions called DACA “an unconstitutional exercise of authority” and said “failure to enforce the laws in the past has put our nation at risk of crime, violence and terrorism.”

False, false, false and false.

DACA recipients are not threats to public safety or national security; to the contrary, they must have a nearly spotless record to be eligible in the first place. They do not receive legal status in this country, only a two-year, renewable deferral of deportation along with a work permit and eligibility for other government benefits down the road. And they are not taking jobs from native-born Americans, whose declining levels of employment can be chalked up to other factors.

As for the policy’s legality, there’s no question that the president has the authority to set immigration-enforcement priorities. Presidents of both parties have done that for decades, and President Obama did it by focusing on people with criminal records and not on those brought to this country as children. For most of this latter group, the United States is the only home they’ve ever known. About 9 in 10 are working taxpayers, and deporting them could reduce the gross domestic product by over $400 billion over the next decade.

In short, DACA is morally right, legally sound and fiscally smart policy. It was also the only humane choice Mr. Obama had in the face of Congress’s failure to pass any meaningful immigration reform in the last two decades.

If all that weren’t enough, DACA remains overwhelmingly popular among Americans of all political stripes. Polls put its approval rating at roughly double that of President Trump himself. Even the Chamber of Commerce, usually a reliable backer of the Republican legislative agenda, called the decision to end DACA “contrary to fundamental American principles.”

The only bad thing that could be said about DACA is that, because it was a presidential memorandum, it was always vulnerable to being undone by a shortsighted administration playing to its base.

Now that that has happened, 800,000 people — all of whom gave their personal information and immigration status to the government, believing it would not be used against them — face the prospect of being shipped back to a country they may have no connection to or even remember.

This wouldn’t be a concern if Congress had done its job and passed the Dream Act, which would provide a pathway to citizenship for people brought to this country as children, and which has kicked around Capitol Hill for 16 years. Even though it has been stymied mainly by Republican opposition at every turn, it’s still theoretically on the table. But there’s little sign the dwindling Republican moderates in Congress have the stomach to confront their party’s nativist core. Mr. Trump called on Congress to act, but didn’t have the courage to tell it what he wanted it to do.

Contrast that with President Obama’s willingness to defend a policy that has always had detractors. “Ultimately, this is about basic decency,” Mr. Obama wrote on Facebook on Tuesday. “This is about whether we are a people who kick hopeful young strivers out of America, or whether we treat them the way we’d want our own kids to be treated.”

Mr. Trump has no good rejoinder. That’s partly because there isn’t one and partly because, as is so often the case, he doesn’t fully understand the scope of what he’s done. One would hope that the widespread outrage at Tuesday’s announcement, and the impending suffering of hundreds of thousands of people who’ve done nothing but try to become contributing members of society, might impress it upon him.