[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #403 Yes but No but Yes but No but

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Op donderdag 19 oktober 2017 18:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Waarom is er nog geen onderzoek dan? Naar Niger bedoel ik. Vier doden. Vier Amerikaanse doden. Net als in Benghazi.

Dat is toch wel een onderzoekje waard, nietwaar?

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In attack on Frederica Wilson over Trump’s call to widow, John Kelly gets facts wrong

When White House Chief of Staff John Kelly condemned a Miami congresswoman on Thursday for sneering at President Donald Trump’s condolence call to a soldier’s widow, the retired general recalled when the two attended a somber ceremony in Miramar to dedicate a new FBI building named after two slain FBI agents.

Kelly criticized Democratic U.S. Rep. Frederica Wilson for claiming “she got the money” for the new building during the 2015 ceremony while he and others in the audience were focused on the heroism of agents Benjamin Grogan and Jerry Dove, killed during a 1986 shootout with bank robbers south of Miami.

Thursday night, Wilson said Kelly got the story flat-out wrong. In fact, she said Washington approved the money before she was even in Congress. The legislation she sponsored named the building after Grogan and Dove, a law enacted just days before the ceremony.

“He shouldn't be able to just say that, that is terrible,” Wilson said of Kelly’s remarks in the White House briefing room, the latest volley in the controversy over Trump’s condolence call to a military widow from Miami Gardens, an area Wilson represents. “This has become totally personal.”

In 2015, Wilson won praise from Miami Republicans for sponsoring the bill to name the long anticipated federal building after two agents who became legends in local law enforcement.

At the dedication ceremony, James Comey, then director of the FBI, lauded Wilson’s legislation, which was signed into law by President Barack Obama three days before the April 2015 ceremony.

“Rep. Wilson truly did the impossible, and we are eternally grateful,” Comey said in his remarks.

On Thursday evening, an administration spokesman issued a statement that said: “The White House stands by Gen. Kelly’s account of the event.”

http://www.miamiherald.co(...)rticle179869321.html

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Pijnlijk was ook dat de president niet aanwezig was op de luchtmachtbasis in Dover, waar de lijkkisten, bedekt met de Amerikaanse vlag, aankwamen. Obama en Bush deden dit regelmatig. Waar Trump dan wel was? Hij was in zijn golfclub in Virginia.

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 08:11 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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ACLU twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 00:04:00 The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel… https://t.co/5OIdov0ZRx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 09:53 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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ACLU twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 00:04:00 The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel… https://t.co/5OIdov0ZRx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 09:53 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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ACLU twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 00:04:00 The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel… https://t.co/5OIdov0ZRx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 09:53 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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ACLU twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 00:04:00 The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel… https://t.co/5OIdov0ZRx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 09:53 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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ACLU twitterde op vrijdag 20-10-2017 om 00:04:00 The city of Dickinson, Texas is requiring people applying for Hurricane Harvey aid to promise not to boycott Israel… https://t.co/5OIdov0ZRx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 10:15 schreef Re het volgende:
hoe wilde je als burger trouwens een boycot uitvoeren... geen olijfolie meer of dadels eten uit Israel of zo?

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 10:15 schreef Re het volgende:
hoe wilde je als burger trouwens een boycot uitvoeren... geen olijfolie meer of dadels eten uit Israel of zo?

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It was the kind of utterance that makes professional transcribers question their career choice:

"...there is no collusion between certainly myself and my campaign, but I can always speak for myself - and the Russians, zero."

Trump was not always so linguistically challenged. In interviews he gave in the 1980s and 1990s, he spoke articulately, used sophisticated vocabulary, inserted dependent clauses into his sentences without losing his train of thought, and strung together sentences into a polished paragraph, which would have scanned just fine in print. This was so even when reporters asked tough questions about, for instance, his divorce, his brush with bankruptcy, and why he doesn’t build housing for working-class Americans.

Now, he repeats himself over and over, and lurches from one subject to an unrelated one.

"People want the border wall. My base definitely wants the border wall, my base really wants it... you’ve been to many of the rallies. OK, the thing they want more than anything is the wall. My base, which is a big base; I think my base is 45 percent. You know, it’s funny. The Democrats, they have a big advantage in the Electoral College. Big, big, big advantage... The Electoral College is very difficult for a Republican to win, and I will tell you, the people want to see it. They want to see the wall."

Some sentences would, if written, make a second-grade teacher despair. "We’ll do some questions, unless you have enough questions," Trump told a February press conference. And: "When I did this now I said, I probably, maybe will confuse people, maybe I’ll expand that, you know, lengthen the time because it should be over with, in my opinion, should have been over with a long time ago."

The decline is also obvious in two interviews with David Letterman, in 1988 and 2013. In the first, Trump threw around words such as "aesthetically" and "precarious," and used long, complex sentences. In the second, he used simpler speech patterns, few polysyllabic words, and noticeably more fillers such as "uh" and "I mean."

John Montgomery, a psychologist in New York City and adjunct professor at New York University, said "it’s hard to say definitively without rigorous testing" of Trump’s speaking patterns, "but I think it’s pretty safe to say that Trump has had significant cognitive decline over the years."

meer: https://www.statnews.com/(...)ng-style-interviews/

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 11:47 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
En aangezien het nog steeds actueel is...

Hoewel George W. Bush regelmatig met zijn zinnen in de knoop zat ("Is our children learning?"), bleven zijn geestelijke vermogens op hetzelfde peil. Van Trump kun je dat helaas niet zeggen (ingekort voor Fok!-gebruik):

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Op vrijdag 20 oktober 2017 11:00 schreef Stefanovich het volgende:
Tis wat...dat land zit compleet in de greep van een stel achterlijken. En een aanzienlijk deel van de bevolking faciliteert/steunt hen ook nog Het keerpunt in onze ontwikkeling/evolutie is bereikt in de VS

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LuisSantana twitterde op donderdag 19-10-2017 om 23:18:33 Video of @RichardBSpencer supporter getting sprayed by pepper spray after leaving the speech at the Phillips Center… https://t.co/UAzudcfmEQ reageer retweet