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President Donald Trump’s increasingly tense relationship with Pyongyang has rattled members of Congress to such a degree that three Democratic senators announced a bill on Wednesday that would prohibit Trump from striking North Korea ― with nuclear or conventional weapons ― without obtaining congressional approval first.

Sen. Chis Murphy (D-Conn.) tweeted a series of messages about the proposed legislation, which he is introducing with Sens. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) and Cory Booker (D-N.J.).

″My bill ... makes clear that any unauthorized preemptive strike on N Korea - nuclear or conventional - is illegal,” Murphy wrote.

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ChrisMurphyCT twitterde op donderdag 26-10-2017 om 03:06:27 Trump's North Korea threats are real. I will intro bill w @brianschatz & @CoryBooker to prohibit any preemptive action o vote by Congress. reageer retweet

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ChrisMurphyCT twitterde op donderdag 26-10-2017 om 03:13:55 My bill w @brianschatz & @CoryBooker makes clear that any unauthorized preemptive strike on N Korea - nuclear or conventional - is illegal. reageer retweet

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ChrisMurphyCT twitterde op donderdag 26-10-2017 om 03:20:16 Mistake by Trump could kill hundreds of thousands on Korean Peninsula. My bill w @brianschatz @CoryBooker will clarify Trump's war powers. reageer retweet

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ChrisMurphyCT twitterde op donderdag 26-10-2017 om 03:24:54 For all the Republicans breaking w Trump, here is your chance to actually constrain his most dangerous power - to make war. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 01:44 schreef skysherrif het volgende:
JFK FILES ZIJN GEOPENBAARD

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 09:14 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
MSNBC host literally left his seat to fact-check Jim Renacci

De boel bij elkaar liegen zit wel diep verankerd in de Republikeinse geest zeg

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 09:14 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
MSNBC host literally left his seat to fact-check Jim Renacci

De boel bij elkaar liegen zit wel diep verankerd in de Republikeinse geest zeg

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 01:55 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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[complot] Maar niet alles hoor, heel verdacht! [/complot]

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 10:10 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Lijkt mij eerder een afleidingstactiek om de aandacht bij andere dingen weg te houden.

Maar dat kennen ze van Trump, daar trappen ze dus niet in.

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 09:14 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
MSNBC host literally left his seat to fact-check Jim Renacci

De boel bij elkaar liegen zit wel diep verankerd in de Republikeinse geest zeg

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Velshi: "Why'd the stock market go up for seven years?"

Renacci: "Well the stock market dropped."

Velshi: "It had been going up steadily since 2009. March 9th, to be precise."

Renacci: "If you take 60 days before President Obama was elected, the stock market tanked."

Velshi: "But why would you do that? Why would you take 60 days? Nobody invests for 60 days."

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 10:42 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Staat alleen al maanden in de planning, en Trump is niet diegene die de release doet.
Maar laat deze feiten je vooral er niet van weerhouden om je anti-trump kost te verspreiden

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 12:19 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Lijntjes trekken voor gevorderden

Republikeinen in North Carolina krijgen het maar niet voor elkaar om de grenzen van 9 van de 170 kiesdistricten zodanig aan te geven dat ze niet "met chirurgische precisie" door de grenzen van blanke en zwarte wijken worden bepaald ("gerrymandering"). Weliswaar is het een verbetering ten opzichte van vorig jaar (toen waren het er nog 28), maar die laatste 9 zijn kennelijk te moeilijk.

De rechter zal nu een externe lijntjesdeskundige aanstellen om het nog een keertje over te doen.

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 11:38 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Jaren, om precies te zijn. in 1992 is besloten dat ze vandaag vrijgegeven zouden worden. Trump had het hoogstens kunnen uitstellen.

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 11:29 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
De kop van de dag (vind ik dan he? ):

Fox News Revenues Nosedive Despite Trump’s Constant Viewing

Terwijl hij toch zeker een 20-tal TV's op FoxNews heeft staan...

^{("Fake & Failing" CNN verloor slechts 1 procent, MSNBC won zelfs 2 procent.)}

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 15:58 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Je snapt 'm niet.

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AP twitterde op vrijdag 27-10-2017 om 14:31:02 BREAKING: US economy grew at solid 3 percent rate in July-September quarter despite hurricanes. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 16:51 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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AP twitterde op vrijdag 27-10-2017 om 14:31:02 BREAKING: US economy grew at solid 3 percent rate in July-September quarter despite hurricanes. reageer retweet

MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

Die Trump knalt de economie naar de 6% groei als het zo doorgaat.

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Op donderdag 26 oktober 2017 21:43 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Volgens mij weet jij weinig over deze zaak. James Comey was simpelweg niet zo'n heel goede FBI directeur.

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 17:41 schreef Bernhard.von.Galen het volgende:

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Grappig dat jij jezelf niet brainwashed acht, terwijl je haast alle onzin van 4chan's POL kopieert en daar superontvankelijk voor lijkt. Je username is ook zo'n sneu fenomeen: redpilled.

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 18:20 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Voor degenen die nog even willen nalezen hoe het zit met "She Gave Your Enium To Russia!!!!1!11" :
https://www.snopes.com/hillary-clinton-uranium-russia-deal/

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LettersOfNote twitterde op donderdag 26-10-2017 om 10:56:15 Oh look. Donald Trump wrote to @NYMag in 1992. https://t.co/oUPPn1oYXy reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 18:31 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Ben benieuwd hoe lang ze de "Look, a Clinton squirrel" nog gaan volhouden.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 27-10-2017 om 15:33:40 It is now commonly agreed, after many months of COSTLY looking, that there was NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Was collusion with HC! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 18:24 schreef Montov het volgende:

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LettersOfNote twitterde op donderdag 26-10-2017 om 10:56:15 Oh look. Donald Trump wrote to @NYMag in 1992. https://t.co/oUPPn1oYXy reageer retweet

[ afbeelding ]

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 18:40 schreef Falco het volgende:
Wat een heerlijke euforische tweets van de Twittert-in-chief vandaag. De cocaïne werkt goed bij hem klaarblijkelijk.

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Talking Points Brought to Trump Tower Meeting Were Shared With Kremlin

Natalia V. Veselnitskaya arrived at a meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 hoping to interest top Trump campaign officials in the contents of a memo she believed contained information damaging to the Democratic Party and, by extension, Hillary Clinton. The material was the fruit of her research as a private lawyer, she has repeatedly said, and any suggestion that she was acting at the Kremlin’s behest that day is anti-Russia “hysteria.”

But interviews and records show that in the months before the meeting, Ms. Veselnitskaya had discussed the allegations with one of Russia’s most powerful officials, the prosecutor general, Yuri Y. Chaika. And the memo she brought with her closely followed a document that Mr. Chaika’s office had given to an American congressman two months earlier, incorporating some paragraphs verbatim.

The coordination between the Trump Tower visitor and the Russian prosecutor general undercuts Ms. Veselnitskaya’s account that she was a purely independent actor when she sat down with Donald Trump Jr., Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law, and Paul J. Manafort, then the Trump campaign chairman. It also suggests that emails from an intermediary to the younger Mr. Trump promising that Ms. Veselnitskaya would arrive with information from Russian prosecutors were rooted at least partly in fact — not mere “puffery,” as the president’s son later said.

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In the past week, Ms. Veselnitskaya’s allegations — that major Democratic donors were guilty of financial fraud and tax evasion — have been embraced at the highest levels of the Russian government. Russian President Vladimir V. Putin repeated her charges at length last week at an annual conference of Western academics. A state-run television network recently made them the subject of two special reports, featuring interviews with Ms. Veselnitskaya and Mr. Chaika.

The matching messages point to a synchronized information campaign. Like some other Russian experts, Stephen Blank, a senior fellow with the nonprofit American Foreign Policy Council in Washington, said they indicate that Ms. Veselnitskaya’s actions “were coordinated from the very top.”

Lobbyist at Trump Campaign Meeting Has a Web of Russian Connections AUG. 21, 2017
The Trump Tower meeting is of keen interest to the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, as he investigates Russian efforts to help Mr. Trump’s campaign. At least one participant at the meeting has already testified before a federal grand jury.

Ms. Veselnitskaya declined to be interviewed, saying in an email that The New York Times had published “lies and false claims.”

The memo that Ms. Veselnitskaya brought to the Trump Tower meeting alleged that Ziff Brothers Investments, an American firm, had illegally purchased shares in a Russian company and evaded tens of millions of dollars of Russian taxes. The company was the financial vehicle of three billionaire brothers, two of them major donors to Democratic candidates including Mrs. Clinton. By implication, Ms. Veselnitskaya, said, those political contributions were tainted by “stolen” money.

Kremlin officials viewed the charges as extremely significant. The Ziff brothers had invested in funds managed by William F. Browder, an American-born financier and fierce Kremlin foe. Mr. Browder was the driving force behind a 2012 law passed by Congress imposing sanctions on Russian officials for human rights abuses.

The law, known as the Magnitsky Act, froze Western bank accounts of officials on the sanctions list – including Mr. Chaika’s deputy — and banned them from entering the United States. It was named after Sergei L. Magnitsky, a tax lawyer who had worked for Mr. Browder and who died in a Moscow jail after exposing a massive fraud scheme involving Russian officials.

In his speech to Western academics at a Black Sea resort last week, Mr. Putin said that American authorities had ignored the allegations against Mr. Browder and his investors because the Ziff brothers were major political donors. “They protect themselves in this way,” he said.

A spokesman for Ziff Brothers Investments declined to comment. Mr. Browder said the charges were concocted to discredit him and to undermine the Magnitsky Act sanctions.

How Ms. Veselnitskaya’s allegations made their way to the upper reaches of the Russian government, and then to Trump campaign, is a tangled tale. A former prosecutor for the Moscow regional government, Ms. Veselnitskaya lives and works in Moscow but has traveled frequently to the United States in recent years, partly to lobby against the Magnitsky Act.

She was also the lead defense lawyer in a civil fraud lawsuit brought by the Justice Department against a Russian firm in New York. The firm, which ultimately settled the case for about $6 million without admitting fault, was accused of using real estate purchases to launder the profits from the tax fraud that Mr. Magnitsky had uncovered. Mr. Browder provided much of the prosecution’s evidence.

While investigating Mr. Browder and his investors, Ms. Veselnitskaya unearthed what she considered evidence of a financial and tax fraud scheme. In October 2015, she took her findings about Mr. Browder and the Ziff brothers directly to Mr. Chaika, Russia’s top prosecutor and a man whom she has said she knows personally.

Mr. Chaika was highly pleased with her report, according to a former colleague of Ms. Veselnitskaya who spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of repercussions.

In April 2016, Ms. Veselnitskaya teamed with Mr. Chaika’s office to pass the accusations to an American congressional delegation visiting Moscow. An official with the Russian prosecutor general’s office gave a memo detailing the charges — stamped “confidential”— to Representative Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican who is considered to be one of the most pro-Russia lawmakers in Congress and who heads a subcommittee that helps oversee U.S. policy toward Russia.

Ms. Veselnitskaya handed a nearly identical memo to Representative French Hill, Republican of Arkansas. She has said she also met with Mr. Rohrabacher then, although he said that he does not recall the encounter.

The next month, Mr. Chaika’s office described the alleged scheme on prosecutor general’s website.

Precisely how Ms. Veselnitskaya ended up at the June 2016 Trump Tower meeting to present her findings remains in dispute. She asked Aras Agalarov, a well-connected Russian oligarch who knows the Trump family to help her share her allegations with the Trump campaign, according to Mr. Agalarov’s attorney, Scott Balber.

She may have told Mr. Agalarov that she had previously conveyed the same information to Mr. Chaika, Mr. Balber said. Mr. Agalarov’s son then enlisted his publicist, Rob Goldstone, to broker the meeting.

In emails to Donald Trump Jr., Mr. Goldstone wrote that a Russian prosecutor — an apparent reference to Mr. Chaika — had met with Mr. Agalarov and wanted to offer the Trump campaign official documents that would incriminate Mrs. Clinton. Mr. Goldstone described the proposed meeting as part of the Russian government’s effort to help Mr. Trump’s candidacy, and said a “government lawyer” would fly to New York to deliver the documents.

Donald Trump Jr. has dismissed Mr. Goldstone’s emails as “goosed-up.” Mr. Balber blamed miscommunication among those arranging the meeting. “Mr. Agalarov unequivocally, absolutely, never spoke to Mr. Chaika or his office about these issues,” he said.

Donald Trump Jr. enthusiastically accepted the offer of information that might damage the Clinton campaign. “I love it,” he wrote in an email agreeing to meet the Russian lawyer.

Ms. Veselnitskaya came to Trump Tower with a memo that closely resembled the document that prosecutors had given to Mr. Rohrabacher in Moscow two months earlier. Some paragraphs were incorporated verbatim, according to a comparison of both documents, which were provided to The Times.

By all accounts, the Trump campaign officials were unimpressed — even baffled — by her 20-minute presentation. “Some D.N.C. donors may have done something in Russia and they didn’t pay taxes,” Donald Trump Jr. said later. “I was, like, ‘What does this have to do with anything?’”

After the meeting came to light last summer, Ms. Veselnitskaya insisted it was “not related at all to the fact” that Donald Trump Jr. “was the son of the candidate.” But by last weekend, she was describing herself as a kind of whistle-blower who was trying to expose American political corruption.

Last week, she told Rossiya 24, the state television network: “Of course they don’t like it when somebody says, even in a friendly tone, ‘Guys, what is happening with you at home? Who is in charge of your politics? Who is paying these politicians, and for what?’”

In a follow-up television interview broadcast on early this week, Mr. Chaika charged that Mr. Browder and the Ziffs had illegally used “Russian money” to lobby for the sanctions law.

Russian elites have been known to mount independent initiatives to curry favor with the Kremlin. But a number of well-known Russian analysts called it inconceivable that Ms. Veselnitskaya would have bypassed her own government to deliver what are now unmistakably official allegations to an American presidential campaign.

Said Gleb O. Pavlovsky, the president of the Fund for Effective Politics, a Moscow research institute: “She had guidance.”

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 17:44 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Dit is geen argument.

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 18:40 schreef Falco het volgende:
Wat een heerlijke euforische tweets van de Twittert-in-chief vandaag. De cocaïne werkt goed bij hem klaarblijkelijk.

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 18:58 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Die woordkeuze komt mij net iets te bekend voor.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 27-10-2017 om 21:03:55 Sanders: The official White House position on women who accused Trump of sexual harassment is that all of them are lying. https://t.co/P53QKwqzqA reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 20:43 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

_{1) "Eén zin? Dan weet ik het al!" "Stil nou, bederf het nou niet!"}

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 21:07 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 27-10-2017 om 21:03:55 Sanders: The official White House position on women who accused Trump of sexual harassment is that all of them are lying. https://t.co/P53QKwqzqA reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 22:27 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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Té erg weer.
En die comments eronder.
Hoe krijgt een Sanders het haar strot uit.

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Trump Donor Asked Data Firm If It Could Better Organize Hacked Emails

Trump donor Rebekah Mercer in August 2016 asked the chief executive of a data-analytics firm working for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign whether the company could better organize the Hillary Clinton -related emails being released by WikiLeaks, according to a person familiar with their email exchange.

The previously undisclosed details from the exchange between Ms. Mercer and Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix show how an influential Trump supporter was looking to leverage the hacked Clinton-related messages to boost Mr. Trump’s campaign.

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Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Mr. Nix emailed Ms. Mercer and some company employees that he had reached out to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to offer help organizing the Clinton-related emails the website was releasing. The new details shed light on the timing of Mr. Nix’s outreach to Mr. Assange, which came before his company began working for the Trump campaign.

On Aug. 26, 2016, roughly a month after Mr. Trump formally became the Republican nominee, Ms. Mercer passed along to Mr. Nix an email she had received from a person she met at an event supporting Sen. Ted Cruz (R., Texas), whose presidential campaign she had initially supported during the GOP primaries, the person familiar with the exchange said. The email’s author suggested to Ms. Mercer that the Trump campaign or an allied super PAC ought to better index the WikiLeaks emails to make them more searchable, the person said.

Ms. Mercer forwarded the email to Mr. Nix, whose firm had started working for the Trump campaign in July 2016 after previously working for the Cruz campaign, according to the person. In the email, Ms. Mercer asked Mr. Nix whether the suggested organization of the emails was something Cambridge Analytica or the Government Accountability Institute—a conservative nonprofit that focuses on investigative research—could do, the person said. Ms. Mercer has sat on the board of the institute, which has received funding from her family.

Mr. Nix responded that he had reached out to Mr. Assange two months earlier—in June 2016, before Cambridge Analytica had started working for the Trump campaign—to ask him to share Clinton-related emails so the company could aid in disseminating them, the person familiar with the email exchange said. He said Mr. Assange had turned him down. That outreach and subsequent rejection was confirmed by Mr. Assange earlier this week on Twitter.

Cambridge Analytica is partly owned by Ms. Mercer and her father, hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer. Mr. Mercer made his first donation to Mr. Trump on June 21.

In an email that copied Peter Schweizer, who co-founded the Government Accountability Institute with Trump adviser Steve Bannon in 2012, Mr. Nix added that he believed Mr. Schweizer was working on creating an index of the Clinton-related emails, the person said. But Mr. Nix said he would order a team to “assess the feasibility of expanding this work.”

Mr. Schweizer replied to the email, copying Mr. Nix, Ms. Mercer and other Cambridge Analytica employees, saying that he was working on putting the emails in a searchable database, the person familiar with the email exchange said. Government Accountability Institute created an internal database of the emails but didn’t release it publicly, according to a person familiar with the effort.

Representatives for Ms. Mercer and Cambridge Analytica didn’t immediately return a request for comment.

Earlier this week, the Trump campaign issued a statement playing down its work with Cambridge Analytica but not addressing the offer to help Mr. Assange index the Clinton-related emails.

Ms. Mercer had a prominent role in the Trump campaign effort. The Mercer family gave $2 million to super PACs backing Mr. Trump. Beyond their donations, the Mercers were highly influential in the campaign: In August, about a week before Ms. Mercer sent her email regarding WikiLeaks, the Mercers recommended Mr. Trump install Mr. Bannon and Kellyanne Conway, two of their top allies, to lead his campaign. Mr. Trump heeded their advice.

Mr. Nix’s outreach to Mr. Assange came about a month before WikiLeaks began releasing its trove of emails in July 2016, which included messages stolen from the account of Mrs. Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta, and from the Democratic National Committee. Mr. Assange had warned in June 2016 that the website planned to release Clinton-related emails, saying he had “emails pending publication.”

U.S. intelligence agencies later determined the Clinton-related emails had been stolen by Russian intelligence and given to WikiLeaks, which WikiLeaks has denied. Mr. Assange has said the website’s actions were important for transparency.

According to the person familiar with the emails, the exchange between Mr. Nix, Ms. Mercer and Mr. Schweizer didn’t reference the 33,000 emails from Mrs. Clinton’s State Department tenure that she had deemed personal and said she had deleted. During the campaign, Mr. Trump cheered the leaks of his Democratic rival’s emails and some of his supporters were seeking to unearth further messages.

"Russia, if you’re listening, I hope you’re able to find the 30,000 emails that are missing,” Mr. Trump said in a late July 2016 news conference. He later said he was joking.

As The Wall Street Journal previously reported, Ms. Mercer and a person close to her had a brief conversation regarding Mrs. Clinton’s deleted emails in June 2016, a month after Mr. Cruz had dropped out of the race, the person said. The person said they discussed whether it would make sense to try to access and release those emails, but ultimately decided that looking for them would create “major legal liabilities” and would be a “terrible idea.”

The Journal also reported that longtime Republican operative Peter W. Smith in 2016 mounted a campaign to obtain the same 33,000 emails, which he believed were stolen from Mrs. Clinton’s private server, likely by Russian hackers. Mr. Smith died in mid-May at age 81.

Special counsel Robert Mueller is examining what, if any, role former Trump adviser and aide Mike Flynn may have played in Mr. Smith’s effort, as part of the larger probe into whether Trump associates colluded with Russia’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 election, the Journal reported earlier this year. A lawyer for Mr. Flynn has previously declined to comment.

Mr. Trump has denied any collusion by him or his campaign with Russia, and Moscow has denied meddling in the election.

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 20:43 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Dat haal je er bij sommige presidenten inderdaad zó uit. Neem bijvoorbeeld deze zin¹⁾, overduidelijk afkomstig uit een speech van...
[1] Bill Clinton
[2] George W. Bush
[3] Barack Obama
[4] Donald J. Trump

"Look, having nuclear--my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart - you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world - but when you're a conservative Republican they try - that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune - you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged - but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me - it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what's going to happen and he was right - who would have thought?), but when you look at what's going on with the four prisoners - now it used to be three, now it’s four - but when it was three and even now, I would have said it's all in the messenger; fellas, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years - but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us."

Hmmmz... moeilijk, moeilijk, moeilijk...

_{1) "Eén zin? Dan weet ik het al!" "Stil nou, bederf het nou niet!"}

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 00:02 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Maar er is meer bewijs voor Democratic Collusion met de Russen hoor!!!

Chris Wallace: As Of Now, More Evidence of Russian ‘Democratic Collusion’ Than GOP Collusion

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GOP faith ambassador quits, complains of priorities of RNC

NEW YORK (AP) — The national GOP’s director of evangelical outreach is quitting, and lodging complaints about what he calls the party’s “tone deaf attitude” toward a crucial Republican voting bloc.

Chad Connelly, who served as the Republican National Committee’s director of faith engagement for the last four years, announced his resignation in an email circulated to close friends late Thursday. He complained that religious outreach has not been prioritized at the RNC under the leadership structure implemented by President Donald Trump’s White House.

“The treatment I received from the new political department has been disrespectful, antagonistic and unacceptable,” Connelly wrote in an email that was obtained by The Associated Press. He added, “GOP Faith in general and me in particular, just don’t have the priority I anticipated.”

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The Republican National Committee rejected Connelly’s assertion and said his departure had more to do with concerns about his job performance.

“Chad failed to meet simple metrics, expectations, and responsibilities crucial to his duties at the RNC. Because of the importance of faith engagement to the RNC, it was time to move in a new direction in the department in order to expand our efforts,” said RNC political director Juston Johnson.

Connelly previously served as the chairman of the South Carolina Republican Party. He was an ally of former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus, who tapped Connelly to serve as the RNC’s first-ever director of faith engagement in 2013.

Trump’s victory last fall was due in part to his popularity among white evangelical voters. He won 81 percent of white evangelical Christians, a figure higher than the GOP’s last three presidential nominees.

A frustrated Connelly highlighted the importance of the nation’s faith community in the email that criticized several RNC officials by name.

“Pastors and faith leaders and people sitting in pews are THE key element in winning elections. An increase in church engagement of only a few percentage points is often the difference in victory and defeat,” Connelly wrote. “We have learned and re-learned those lessons and unfortunately, it appears that your political department would want us to learn it again.”

He wrote that he “truly was stunned at the treatment I received but mostly at the tone deaf attitude toward this voting segment” that the head of the RNC’s political department demonstrated.

Johnson, however, pledged that the RNC’s faith and engagement team would have “a larger footprint” in the 2018 midterm elections.

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Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier

The Washington Free Beacon, a conservative website funded by a major Republican donor, initially retained the firm that conducted opposition research on Donald J. Trump — including a salacious dossier that described numerous ties between Mr. Trump and the Russian government — representatives from the website told the House Intelligence Committee on Friday afternoon.

According to people briefed on the conversation, the website hired the firm, Fusion GPS, in October 2015 to unearth damaging information about several Republican presidential candidates, including Mr. Trump. But The Free Beacon told the firm to stop doing research on Mr. Trump in May 2016, as Mr. Trump was clinching the Republican nomination.

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In April 2016, Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee also retained Fusion GPS to research any possible connections between Mr. Trump, his businesses, his campaign team and Russia. Working for them, Fusion GPS retained a respected former British spy named Christopher Steele.

He went on to produce a series of memos that alleged a broad conspiracy between the Trump campaign and the Russian government to influence the 2016 election on behalf of Mr. Trump. The memos, which became known as the “Steele dossier,” also contained unsubstantiated accounts of encounters between Mr. Trump and Russian prostitutes, as well as real estate deals that were intended as bribes.

The Free Beacon is funded in large part by the New York hedge fund billionaire Paul Singer, according to an associate of Mr. Singer. The associate said Mr. Singer, a leading Republican donor, was not aware of the dossier or Mr. Steele’s involvement until January, when BuzzFeed published the dossier.

The Free Beacon has a history of employing so-called opposition research firms to assist in news articles critical of targets ranging from Mr. Trump to Mrs. Clinton.

A staff member on the House committee declined to comment.

Mr. Singer initially supported Senator Marco Rubio’s campaign for the Republican presidential nomination. But after Mr. Rubio dropped out of the race, Mr. Singer spearheaded an effort to block Mr. Trump from winning the presidential nomination, drawing Mr. Trump’s ire.

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 12:26 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Dat blijft toch ook bijzonder

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First charges filed in special counsel Mueller's Russia probe: report

A federal grand jury in Washington, D.C., has reportedly approved the first charges in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russia's meddling in the 2016 election.

CNN reported Friday that the charges are sealed under a federal judge’s order, with sources telling the network that those charged could be taken into custody as soon as Monday.

It is unclear what the charges are, the network reported. A spokesman for the special counsel's office declined to comment to CNN.

Mueller was appointed by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in May to oversee the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election.

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Fractures emerging on Senate panel's Russia probe

Top members of the Senate Judiciary Committee are signaling they are heading in separate directions on the panel's probe on the 2016 presidential election, potentially threatening what had been a bipartisan investigation.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said on Thursday that she was "disappointed" by the split, which appears to be spawning out of a GOP push to revisit Obama-era scandals.

"All I'm saying is that we have decided that each side is going to take a course and we'll share and if the other side wants to participate they can. That's all I'm going to say. So we are going ahead with some things," Feinstein told reporters.

She added the focus for Democrats would be "obstruction of justice and whether there was cooperation-collusion between the Trump administration and Russia."

Asked about if there was a split, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said the question was "misinformed" but appeared to acknowledge they wouldn't always be working in tandem on every issue.

"Because I'm doing what I do, she wants to do what she wants to do, and then we're doing a lot of things together. So if your question implies a lack of cooperation that's entirely the wrong place to start," he told reporters.

Asked for examples of where he thought Republicans would need to go it alone, Grassley pointed to a recent spate of letters and the Uranium One deal.

"I suppose the most recent example would be my asking for special counsel. ... We run into this Uranium One investigations and that involves another administration that she may not want to go into," he said.

Feinstein, who is facing a primary challenge in 2018 from the left, has faced pushback from liberals for her work on the Judiciary Committee and being too collegial with Republicans.

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Grassley called for a special counsel after The Hill reported that the FBI had been leading a criminal investigation into allegations that the Russians used racketeering and other corrupt schemes to influence the American nuclear industry during the time the uranium deal was in the process of being approved.

He added on Thursday that he still believes the committee's collusion investigation is bipartisan "based upon the proposition that now what we're doing on Uranium One makes it very bipartisan."

The Judiciary Committee is one of two panels in the Senate probing Russia's election interference and potential ties between the Trump campaign and Moscow. It's also looking into the firing of former FBI Director James Comey and potential political interference by the Justice Department into FBI investigations.

The Intelligence Committee, which Feinstein is also a member of, is also looking into the 2016 election.

Grassley sent out roughly a dozen letters, without Feinstein's signature, earlier this month, including ones to Loretta Lynch, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.

A spokesman for Grassley told Mother Jones that the letters were sent without Feinstein to avoid a delay. Feinstein, however, said she didn't find out about the letters until after the fact.

Grassley added on Thursday that regardless of whether Feinstein sends a letter or he sends a letter, "both sides [of] staff can be involved in the q-and-a."

The panel's investigation into Russia's election interference has been slow going, with lawmakers sporadically airing frustration that they feel they are playing second fiddle to the Senate Intelligence Committee's probe.

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) is urging the panel to focus on potential collusion between Russia and the Trump campaign.

"The president has done everything he can — calling the investigation a hoax, bringing distracting issues to deflect attention from the potential obstruction of justice by his administration and possibly by himself into the investigation on Russian meddling, and Trump's alleged collusion with that meddling," Blumenthal told CNN.

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) acknowledged that there appeared to be a split between Grassley and Feinstein, but argued the panel's wide-ranging investigation should be bipartisan.

"That'd be a shame. Because it's now the common view that we need to investigate all things Russia and Trump. We have the same view about all things GPS Fusion and Clinton," Graham said, referring to the firm linked to a controversial research dossier on Trump.

He added that the committee should be unified on exploring anything related to Russia, and he expected a hearing later this month with social media companies.

"We just go where the facts take you. ... I am willing to do subpoenas in the Trump world. They need to be willing to do subpoenas in the Democratic world," he said.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 02:59 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Manafort, Podesta?

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sealed under a federal judge’s order

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 28-10-2017 om 04:13:28 “WHAT HAPPENED”“How Team Hillary played the press for fools on Russia”➡️https://t.co/GqpIidk017NOW WE KNOW! https://t.co/SgWL1HZmkI reageer retweet

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JamesRosenTV twitterde op zaterdag 28-10-2017 om 04:10:42 Attorney for @PaulManafort tells me neither he nor his colleagues have received any word of their client being indicted. cc @realDonaldTrump reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 04:53 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
NYT en WP maakten er tot nu toe ook nog geen melding van viel me al op...

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 05:13 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Bij Reuters staat het artikel er nog wel...

Geen idee of er een artikel bij NBC over was. Daar kijk ik weinig.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 05:18 schreef skysherrif het volgende:

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https://twitter.com/ByronTau/status/924112301573189633

Wsj komt er nu ook mee.

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“sources briefed on the matter”

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 04:25 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Ik twijfel, want Manafort heeft ook banden (gehad) met de Podesta Group.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 07:20 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Die banden zijn toch de hele aanleiding geweest voor onderzoek naar de Podesta Group? Zodat het handelen van Manafort in meer detail wordt onderzocht?

Of denk je dat ze om pizza zoeken?

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The sources said the investigation into Podesta and his company began as more of a fact-finding mission about the ECMU and Manafort's role in the campaign, but has now morphed into a criminal inquiry into whether the firm violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act, known as FARA.

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Trump wants State Department to release remaining Clinton emails

Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has made it clear to the State Department that he wants to accelerate the release of any remaining Hillary Clinton emails in its possession as soon as possible, according to three sources familiar with the President's thinking.
This latest move for disclosure from the State Department comes at the same time the President called upon the Justice Department to lift a gag order on a key FBI informant in an investigation into Russian efforts to gain influence in the US uranium industry during the Obama administration.
The sources described the President's interest in the release of the emails -- and the testimony of the FBI informant -- as rooted in a commitment to "transparency," with one source adding that "the law requires cooperation with Congress and the courts."

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After the initial publication of this story, one White House official confirmed the President expressed interest in the release of the Clinton emails, and later -- in a conversation with Secretary of State Rex Tillerson -- learned of the vast backlog of more than 13,000 outstanding FOIA cases. Those cases involve not just Clinton's emails but a multitude of topics -- some going back almost a decade. Trump then asked Tillerson to work to clear the backlog.
In a memo to State Department employees, Tillerson said that the department will commit more resources and workforce to address the long queue of requests.
In a statement to CNN, also after the initial publication of this story, Raj Shah, White House principal deputy press secretary said, "This President wants all federal agencies to meet their obligations under the law and be transparent with the public."
The sources also said Trump has expressed frustration with government agencies that have been slow in responding to requests for information that he believes should be public, especially given congressional and court-ordered requests for the information. One source also said this effort is not about any individual or any particular item of evidence. However, both the lifting of the gag order and the effort on the emails involve one political figure who happens to be the President's favorite target: Hillary Clinton.

Taken together, these two actions could accelerate recent efforts by congressional Republicans to investigate the previous administration -- new probes that they've opened as multiple Russia investigations into the Trump campaign continue on Capitol Hill.
The FBI informant could shed new light on the Obama-era arrangement that ended up putting Russia in control of 20% of American uranium stockpiles. The Clinton-run State Department backed the deal in 2010 along with other officials on the federal council that approves sensitive foreign investments. Clinton has denied any direct involvement in the approval of the deal.
Two sources said the President's push for transparency is proper protocol. But the White House risks the appearance of political intrusion on traditionally independent parts of the government, particularly the Justice Department, which represents the State Department in the litigation over the release of the Clinton-era emails.
The slow pace has caught the ire of conservative news outlets, which have slammed Tillerson for not doing enough to get Clinton's emails out in the open.

Clinton's State Department files became the focus of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed two and half years ago by the conservative legal watchdog group Judicial Watch, which was seeking records related to Clinton's use of a personal email account while in office. Since then, Judicial Watch has been seeking to speed up the release of the records.
The State Department still has 40,000 pages of records -- which may include emails sent by Clinton as secretary of state -- that it needs to review for potential release. These documents were discovered by the FBI and handed over to the State Department over the summer as a result of its investigation of former Rep. Anthony Weiner -- the estranged husband of top Clinton aide Huma Abedin.
The State Department has already processed 32,000 pages of the records from Weiner's computers, according to Judicial Watch. Tens of thousands of Clinton's work-related emails turned over separately to the State Department have already been released at Clinton's urging, some of which may be duplicates of the emails retrieved by the FBI.
A federal judge ordered the State Department to process 500 pages of Clinton records per month, based on arguments about the State Department FOIA office's ability to process the documents. The judge also ordered that documents with the highest public interest be released first. One source said that the President wants to "get out from under" court orders to one of his departments. The State Department is complying with the order, but suggested at a hearing earlier this week they may be able to speed up the processing due to an increase in staff at the FOIA office.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 10:17 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Ik vind dit overigens ook opvallend. Het lichten van de NDA dat was opgelegd aan de FBI-informant inzake de Uranium One zaak was een directe inmenging van de Amerikaanse president.
En nu dit bericht veronderstelt dat Trump de zaak wil vlot trekken.
Buitenlandse Zaken deed er overigens alles aan om de boel te vertragen. Van de 72.000 Clinton e-mails zijn er nog 40.000 niet verwerkt. Met deze voortgang zou het vrijgeven van alle e-mails pas medio 2020 voltooid zijn -wat natuurlijk belachelijk is, in mijn opinie.
Maar goed. Opvallend deze inmengingen van de president, zelf.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:04 schreef Nintex het volgende:
WSJ Editorial board roept Mueller op om op te stappen. Er moet volgens hen een echt onafhankelijk onderzoek komen naar zowel de Russische inmenging in de verkiezing als de uranium aankoop. Aangezien Mueller bij dat laatste een belangrijke rol speelde, achten ze hem niet geschikt voor dit onderzoek.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:08 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Heb je daar een link naar? Dat wil ik wel even lezen.

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Mr. Mueller is a former FBI director, and for years he worked closely with Mr. Comey. It is no slur against Mr. Mueller's integrity to say that he lacks the critical distance to conduct a credible probe of the bureau he ran for a dozen years. He could best serve the country by resigning to prevent further political turmoil over that conflict of interest.

The American public deserves a full accounting of the scope and nature of Russian meddling in American democracy, and that means following the trail of the Steele dossier as much as it does the meetings of Trump campaign officials.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:19 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Die op-ed is echter al van 3 dagen terug. De aantijgingen van partijdigheid bestaan ook al veel langer ... campagnedonaties door leden van zijn team was bv. ook al iets waar eerder tamtam over gemaakt is.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:23 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Waarschijnlijk komen er maandag charges tegen bijvoorbeeld Manafort en Flynn en is daarmee de zaak afgedaan, totdat de Trump files over 100 jaar vrijgegeven worden.

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Nu de Democrats en GOP tot in de hoogste regionen met deze zaak te maken hebben en ook al de FBI onder vuur ligt gaat niemand zich meer aan deze zaak durven branden.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Mogelijk idd.

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Weet niet goed waarom je denkt dat de democraten iets te vrezen zouden hebben?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:32 schreef Nintex het volgende:

Niet zo gek ook dat Kremlin man Manafort Trump regelrecht op een verlies afstuurde. Het Kremlin stond achter Clinton, niet Trump.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:32 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Dat uranium verhaal stinkt aan alle kanten.

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Plus ze hebben een Kremlin firma ingehuurd om te helpen met de dirty campaigning tegen Trump.

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Volgens hebben de Russen zichzelf op deze manier perfect ingedekt, zoals ze altijd twee partijen bespelen.

Niet zo gek ook dat Kremlin man Manafort Trump regelrecht op een verlies afstuurde. Het Kremlin stond achter Clinton, niet Trump.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 10:57 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Btw, lijkt erop dat het dus toch niet Jeb Bush was die begon met het inhuren van Fusion GPS, maar The Washington Free Beacon...

Conservative Website First Funded Anti-Trump Research by Firm That Later Produced Dossier

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:35 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoe kom je er bij dat het Kremlin liever Clinton in het Witte Huis had gezien?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 10:59 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Hij heeft nog altijd niet door dat de verkiezingen een jaar terug waren?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:41 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Geen idee.

En geen idee hoe jouw opmerking betrekking kan hebben op mijn uiteenzetting.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:45 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Die Clintonmails waren een campagnedingetje waar ondanks uitgebreid onderzoek geen bal uit is gekomen. Daar nu weer over beginnen, een jaar na de verkiezingen, is wat mal.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:45 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Die Clintonmails waren een campagnedingetje waar ondanks uitgebreid onderzoek geen bal uit is gekomen. Daar nu weer over beginnen, een jaar na de verkiezingen, is wat mal.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:51 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Het zijn publieke documenten die nog niet allemaal zijn vrijgegeven, dus 'geen bal uitgekomen' is wat prematuur.
Bovendien je weet dat er een nieuw lopend onderzoek naar de Clinton e-mails is?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:52 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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De Clinton mails en verkiezingen staan compleet los van elkaar, simpele

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:51 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Het zijn publieke documenten die nog niet allemaal zijn vrijgegeven, dus 'geen bal uitgekomen' is wat prematuur.
Bovendien je weet dat er een nieuw lopend onderzoek naar de Clinton e-mails is?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:53 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Hoho. Dit topic is enkel bedoeld om trump zijn tweets te bespreken, niet zaken die vorig jaar en eerder zijn gebeurd.... tenzij anti trump natuurlijk.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:53 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Die mails zijn al vele malen onderzocht en er kwam steeds niks bijzonders uit.
Daar dus steeds weer over beginnen is een signaal dat Trump niet doorheeft dat hij uit campagnemodus kan en mag beginnen met regeren...

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:53 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Nou nee, het was een zeer effectief campagnemiddel.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:55 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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En nu de verkiezingen voorbij zijn mogen we het er natuurlijk helemaal niet meer over hebben. Want ze zijn onlosmakelijk verbonden. Nouja, in jouw hoofd dan.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Nou ja, dat is natuurlijk niet zo, maar burger Clinton vind ik persoonlijk politiek gezien niet zo interessant meer als president Trump.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Nou ja, dat is natuurlijk niet zo, maar burger Clinton vind ik persoonlijk politiek gezien niet zo interessant meer als president Trump.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:58 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Burger Clinton? Volgens mij gaat het nog steeds over haar handelen als secretary of state. Kan me vergissen. Of is het zo dat als je eenmaal de functie niet meer bekleed je ook vrij bent van vervolging voor alle misdaden die er zijn begaan?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:58 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Burger Clinton? Volgens mij gaat het nog steeds over haar handelen als secretary of state. Kan me vergissen. Of is het zo dat als je eenmaal de functie niet meer bekleed je ook vrij bent van vervolging voor alle misdaden die er zijn begaan?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:00 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Weet je, nieuws kan in sommige delen van het internet weggemasseerd worden,maar verdwijnt natuurlijk niet.
En verder ben ik het eens met deze opmerking.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:53 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Hoho. Dit topic is enkel bedoeld om trump zijn tweets te bespreken, niet zaken die vorig jaar en eerder zijn gebeurd.... tenzij anti trump natuurlijk.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:55 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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En nu de verkiezingen voorbij zijn mogen we het er natuurlijk helemaal niet meer over hebben. Want ze zijn onlosmakelijk verbonden. Nouja, in jouw hoofd dan.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 11:58 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Als er fouten gemaakt zijn (en er zijn aanwijzingen die daarop lijken) is onderzoek een middel om te proberen zulks in de toekomst te vermijden.
Los daarvan sta ik er niet van te kijken dat sommigen liever andere discussieonderwerpen kiezen.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:01 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Je bent werkelijk van mening dat het goed is dat Trump zich hier mee bezig houdt in plaats van met het land regeren?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:12 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Ja.
Wat hij bijvoorbeeld heeft gedaan met het lichten van de NDA is simpelweg noodzakelijk en onvermijdelijk.
En mijn mening is dat niet alleen de Amerikaanse president zich ermee moet bezighouden (House, Senaat en FEC doen dit reeds), maar ook een Special Counsel.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:11 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Indien er misstanden zijn gepleegd, dan moet Clinton worden vervolgd. Prima dat onderzoek wordt gedaan naar haar handelen. Maar je snapt toch zelf ook wel dat het hier en nu iets interessanter is? Mocht Clinton worden vervolgd, dan is dat een schandaal van wereldformaat maar het heeft geen gevolgen voor het functioneren van de AmAmerikaanse overheid. Trumps handelen heeft dat wel. Daarom vind ik hem stukken interessanter.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:18 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Deze zaken zijn lopende ontwikkelingen.
Een ander voorbeeld is het samenspannen tussen de FBI en de IRS. Die zaak heeft de DoJ geschikt en eist ook nog eens dat de IRS verontschuldigingen moet aanbieden.
Het laat zien dat overheidsmiddelen zijn aangewend voor politieke doeleinden.
Deze schikking is donderdag op vrijdag bekend geworden. Dit is simpelweg nieuws.

Dit laat onverlet dat het je vrij staat om ieder ander willekeurige nieuwsitem te bespreken. Dat lijkt me een no-brainer.
Of bedoel je dit pro-actief, dat jij nieuws aangaande deze zaken hhier liever gecensureerd ziet worden?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:12 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Ja.
Wat hij bijvoorbeeld heeft gedaan met het lichten van de NDA is simpelweg noodzakelijk en onvermijdelijk.
En mijn mening is dat niet alleen de Amerikaanse president zich ermee moet bezighouden (House, Senaat en FEC doen dit reeds), maar ook een Special Counsel.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:20 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het staat Congres vrij om een special council op die "zaak" te zetten. Maar ik neem aan dat je liever ziet dat Mueller het gaat doen?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:13 schreef 99.999 het volgende:

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Wederom veel verspilling van geld en tijd dus. Want net als bij al die vorige onderzoeken naar haar mails zal hier wederom niets bijzonders uitkomen.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:20 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het staat Congres vrij om een special council op die "zaak" te zetten. Maar ik neem aan dat je liever ziet dat Mueller het gaat doen?

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:20 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Ik wil helemaal niets censureren. Refregmental en jij doen telkens zeer verontwaardigd als de vermeende misstanden van Clinton niet worden besproken. Ik leg slechts uit waarom dat zo is.

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twitter:

RogerJStoneJr twitterde op zaterdag 28-10-2017 om 04:57:45 .@donlemon stop lying about about the Clinton's and Uranium you ignorant lying covksucker !!!! You fake news you dumb piece of shit. reageer retweet

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RogerJStoneJr twitterde op zaterdag 28-10-2017 om 05:14:53 No .@CharlesBlow YOU Lie- u have no cried you fast talking arrogant fake news piece of shit ! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 12:34 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Robert Mueller heeft de reikwijdte van het onderzoek al verbreed, maar een tweede Special Counsel is voor mij ook prima verdedigbaar.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 14:12 schreef Euribob het volgende:
Roger Stone ging vanochtend ook weer lekker te keer, is dit complete gebrek aan inhoudingsvermogen nieuw of schiet die altijd zo uit z'n slof?

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twitter:

RogerJStoneJr twitterde op zaterdag 28-10-2017 om 04:57:45 .@donlemon stop lying about about the Clinton's and Uranium you ignorant lying covksucker !!!! You fake news you dumb piece of shit. reageer retweet

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RogerJStoneJr twitterde op zaterdag 28-10-2017 om 05:14:53 No .@CharlesBlow YOU Lie- u have no cried you fast talking arrogant fake news piece of shit ! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 13:49 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Volgens mij (geen zin om op te zoeken, sorry) kan gratie alleen na een veroordeling en betekent het bijvoorbeeld niet (zoals sheriff Joe onlangs merkte) dat automatisch je strafblad wordt gewist.

Ze moeten dus eerst schuldig blijken te zijn, blijven een zwarte vlek bij hun naam houden en kunnen dus beter een ander soort werk gaan zoeken.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 14:19 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Dit is niet ongewoon voor Roger. Je vraagt je wel af waar het omslagpunt heeft gelegen dat we niet meer opkijken van dit soort reacties.

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"Thank thou" would be ungrammatical, unless it was followed by an object, and would then be a command: Thank thou the king! ¹⁾

Shakespeare rarely wrote Thank you and never Thank thee without a subject. He often wrote I thank you and we thank you (and forms such as to thank thee and shall thank thee); but for a shorter form without a subject he usually used Thanks.

¹⁾ _{Er staat dus niet "Dankuwel meneer de president!" maar "Dankt nu allen de president!" Wél geheel "in style" want we denken IRL wel vaker "tegen wie heeft-ie het nou?"}

https://english.stackexch(...)k-thou-or-thank-thee

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Week 23: Mueller Bombs Trump's Big Week

The president was thrilled to turn the tables on the Democrats, but news the grand jury had filed charges made the celebration look premature.

Fortified by news in the Washington Post that the Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid the oppo-research outfit Fusion GPS to produce the Steele Dossier, President Donald Trump overran his opponents’ positions this week. Splattering them with half-truths and hyperbole, Trump charged that “the whole Russian thing” was a “hoax” and an excuse for Democrats unwilling to accept that they lost the election. Then he rolled in a grenade, calling the dossier “fake.” Finally, he sparked his flamethrower to life and hosed his political foes with rhetorical fire by invoking the uranium deal in none-dare-call-it-conspiracy style, describing Uranium One’s sale to a Russian company during the Obama era as the equal of Watergate.

At least that’s how it looked in Trump’s version of the war movie until late Friday, when it turned out that the president was rushing to take the wrong hill. First, the conservative Washington Free Beacon website—funded by a billionaire from the never-Trump movement—’fessed to having paid for Fusion GPS’s original anti-Trump work before the Clinton Democrats took over the payments. Then CNN reported that special prosecutor Robert S. Mueller III had fired a bunker buster, bringing his first indictment in the probe. The identity of the person charged is under seal still, CNN reported, and will remain so until the person is arrested, possibly as soon as Monday. Will it be Paul Manfort, whom prosecutors reportedly all but promised to indict? It will be a long weekend of rampant speculation until the scoop is confirmed.

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During the week, when the news still appeared to be on Trump’s side, he tried to make the Democrats’ funding of the dossier sound like a bombshell, but even casual news consumers knew from numerous accounts—including the first mention of the dossier in the press by Mother Jones’ David Corn—that they had paid for it. What gave the story dimension was the fact that attorney Marc E. Elias, who paid for the report at the behest of the Clinton campaign and the DNC, had lied about it for months, which made it look like they were trying to hide something. Elias has paid for his sin. Reporters don’t like being lied to, and when they are, they pour the scorn on, as lied-to-reporter Ken Vogel did on Twitter and in the pages of the New York Times. Trump welcomed the Post’s raw news with such enthusiasm he seemed to have forgotten that he and his spokespeople had gone on record saying the paper isn’t a legitimate news source.

His imaginary battlefield smoking and in disarray, Trump retreated to the White House to celebrate what looked like his public relations victories. As the New York Times reported, the three Hill committees investigating the Russia stuff can’t seem to get their acts together. The Republican-led House Intelligence Committee, as the Daily Beast noted, was “blocking and tackling for Trump” by turning its Trump-Russia probe into a counter-investigation, grilling former Obama administration officials Samantha Power and Susan Rice on the “unmasking“ issue, seeking to discredit the dossier, and digging into the uranium allegations. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) went rogue on the Senate Judiciary Committee chair Senator Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) by requesting information from Facebook, Twitter, and the White House without asking him first. Meanwhile, GOP lawmakers were urging an early end to the probes. “Wrap it up,” Trump loyalist Gov. Chris Christie said Friday of Mueller Russia investigation before news of the indictment hit.

If the Trump Tower scandal could be boiled down to a war of words, we would have crowned Trump the winner months ago because he’s so dang good at jaw-jamming. Whenever accused, he assumes the role of the accuser, deflecting charges by hurling them back at his challengers. The Clinton camp and the press try to pin campaign collusion with Russia on him, and he flips it around by weirdly claiming it was Hillary Clinton who committed collusion with the Russians by commissioning the dossier. And remember when he argued that Facebook, the New York Times and the Washington Post committed collusion against him?

The new interest in a Uranium One scandal Trump has fanned with his Twitter feed fits this pattern. As assessed by Factcheck.org, Snopes, Politifact, and the Washington Post, there doesn’t seem to be much to Trump’s shouting. He could be right. The Russians might have bought the House of Clinton. She might be the Moscow Candidate! Or the ballyhoo might be just the Benghazi crap retreaded for another roll around the track. In any event, no matter what Hillary Clinton’s sins, they have nothing to do with the Trump-Russia probes, so if we’re going to tussle over them, let’s put them in a separate lane.

But the scandal is less about Trumpian word-war, the forging of public opinion through the services of the Fox News Channel, and the side-show of the uranium story than it is about Mueller’s ultimate findings and his power to bring criminal indictments. Mueller’s team, which has kept radio silence since mustered into being in May by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, has been steadily building its evidentiary munitions depot in a secretive bunker that so far has been impervious to the counter assaults of the White House. Mueller’s staff has issued subpoenas in profusion and interviewed Rosenstein himself, dossier author Christopher Steele, top current and former intelligence officials, and former Trump administration officials, and plans to interview current administration officials, culminating almost certainly with an interview with the president.

A new Trump strategem now surfacing holds that the investigations are not just a waste of time but a waste of money. On Friday morning, he tweeted, “It is now commonly agreed, after many months of COSTLY looking, that there was NO collusion between Russia and Trump. Was collusion with HC!” To begin with, it’s not commonly agreed (outside the White House at least) that there was no collusion, and nobody but Trump loyalist could know that until Mueller finishes his work. As for the cost of Mueller’s investigation, everybody knows these things don’t come cheap. The Iran-Contra investigation swallowed $47 million, which is about $104 million in today’s dollars. Even at $200 million, the Mueller investigation will be a bargain if it uncovers obstruction of justice, money laundering, and tax fraud by the president or his associates.

By week’s end, the New York Times moved a story that helped restore battlefield vigor—if not to Mueller himself then to Trump’s doubters. Citing interviews and record, the Times asserted that Natalia Veselnitskaya, the Russian attorney who set up the infamous meeting at Trump Tower in June 2016 with the design of a peddling information damaging to the Democrats and Clinton, was working from an established playbook. The memo she brought to Trump town “closely followed” a document that Russia’s prosecutor general had given to an American congressmen two months earlier.

The Times story demolishes Veselnitskaya’s claim that she was an independent actor in the Trump Tower saga, and makes a persuasive case that she was part of an official “synchronized information campaign.” Sort of smells like collusion when you nose your way around the entire story.

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Trump legal team scrambles to prepare for new stage of Russia probe

The president’s lawyers and political aides are bracing for the first charges just five months into the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller.

Several attorneys who said they were in touch with the Manafort and Flynn lawyers said they had not been notified of any matter related to an indictment — which is customary in a white-collar criminal investigation — leading them to believe it wasn’t either of those two former high-ranking Trump aides. An attorney for Manafort did not respond to a request for comment. Michael Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, declined to comment.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 20:11 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Would that be the one before or the one after the Kerry/Edwards administration?

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Mueller’s latest move has Trump’s staunchest allies melting down on Twitter

It emerged on Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller had filed the first charges in the Russia investigation. President Donald Trump’s most stalwart allies promptly had a Twitter meltdown. Some called for Trump to fire Mueller and investigate him, while others said the focus should be on the “Clinton administration.”
On Friday, CNN reported that a federal grand jury approved the first charges special counsel Robert Mueller had filed as part of the Russia investigation – and President Donald Trump’s closest allies melted down.

Mueller is tasked with investigating Russia’s interference in the 2016 election. He is also looking into whether anyone on the Trump campaign colluded with Moscow to tilt the election in his favor, and his decision to file charges likely indicates that the probe is moving from a political fight to a legal one.

Following CNN’s report, several prominent Trump supporters slammed the special counsel or shifted attention onto Hillary Clinton and reports that she had retained Fusion GPS last year, the opposition-research firm that funded the so-called Steele dossier containing several salacious allegations about Trump’s ties to Russia.

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Sebastian Gorka, a controversial Trump supporter who used to work in the White House, suggested that Trump should fire Mueller after the news broke.

“If this man’s team executes warrants this weekend he should stripped of his authority by @realDonaldTrump,” Gorka tweeted. “Then HE should be investigated.”

And Corey Lewandowski, Trump’s former campaign manager, called the “speculation” around Mueller “insane,” in a Fox News segment on Saturday morning.

“What we should be focusing on is the continued lies of the Clinton Administration,” Lewandowski said.

Fox News host Sean Hannity lashed out at the media following the CNN story.

“Guess;Mueller and Media working hand in hand,” Hannity tweeted. “Media to be tipped off. Mueller was FBI Director Who knew of Russian crimes before Uranium one.”

Hannity and Fox News have devoted extensive coverage this week to the Uranium One deal, in which the company was partially sold to Russia in 2010. Republicans have repeatedly cast the spotlight on the Uranium One decision in recent days and claimed it indicates that Hillary Clinton and the Democrats, not Trump, colluded with Moscow. Democrats have in turn accused Republicans and Trump allies of reviving the story to distract from the Mueller investigation.

The network’s coverage of the scandal came on the heels of Trump’s claim that the Uranium One deal was comparable to the Watergate scandal.

“I think the uranium sale to Russia and the way that it was done, so underhanded with tremendous amounts of money being passed, I actually think that’s Watergate, modern-age,” Trump said Wednesday.

Hannity picked up Trump’s thread on Friday. “Left needs a dramatic change in the narrative!! Uranium One, Fusion GPS dossier, all out this week,” he tweeted. “This is a distraction! TICK TOCK….”

“This has been a HORRIBLE week for Mueller, Special Counsel’s office,” the Fox News commentator continued. “THIS IS ALL A DISTRACTION. Monday I’ll have the details. TICK TOCK….!”

“When will Hillary Clinton be indicted?” he added.

Longtime Republican strategist and informal Trump adviser Roger Stone also jumped into the fray, tweeting out CNN’s story and captioning it, “Breaking: Mueller indicts @PaulManafort’s driver for double parking.”

He later followed up, writing that Mueller was indicting “@PaulManafort’s maid for tearing labels of sofa cushions.”

Stone spent the rest of the night unloading on several CNN reporters and commentators, including Jake Tapper, Don Lemon, and Charles Blow. He also lashed out at veteran reporter Carl Bernstein, who broke the Watergate story along with Bob Woodward. On Friday, Bernstein suggested on CNN that Mueller had filed charges earlier than expected to send a message to prospective defendants.

Stone, a stalwart supporter of former President Richard Nixon, tweeted, “If Carl Bernstein says something the overwhelming odds are that it’s false lied about Watergate lying lying now.”

Alt-right provocateur and Trump loyalist Mike Cernovich adopted a frequent right-wing tactic and criticized those who were behind “leaking” information about Mueller’s indictments to CNN. “Leaking this is a felony but there is no rule of law with these criminals,” Cernovich tweeted in response to the report.

Fox Business host Lou Dobbs, who has backed Trump since the campaign and recently interviewed him for the network, hosted a segment shortly before the CNN story broke, during which a guest, Ed Rollins, accused the Department of Justice of building a “fake case” against Trump “based on Clinton-Fusion GPS lies.”

It’s unclear who Mueller filed the charges against and what the specific charges are.

Before approving charges, jurors must believe there’s enough evidence to believe a crime was committed, and prosecutors don’t usually present indictments unless they believe they can prove the charges beyond a reasonable doubt at trial, former federal prosecutor Renato Mariotti wrote Friday. For that reason, they typically wait until the end of an investigation to file charges.

However, Mariotti added, prosecutors sometimes bring charges earlier if it’s part of an effort to coerce a defendant into “flipping” as a witness and cooperating with the investigation.

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Poll: 71% of Americans say politics has reached a dangerous low point

Amid a growing partisan gap between Democrats and Republicans, a new poll shows that 71% of Americans believe the country's politics have reached a dangerous low point in the Trump era.

According to a Washington Post-University of Maryland poll released Saturday, only 29% said they believed this period in American politics is "similar to most periods of disagreement." And the majority of participants who said politics have reached a dangerous low point said the climate is a "new normal," not "temporary."

Some 70% of those polled from September 27 through October 5 said divisions today are at least as big as they were during the Vietnam War era. For individuals polled who were adults during the Vietnam War, the percentage was higher than the average -- 77%.

A majority of those polled, 51%, said President Donald Trump deserves "a lot" of the blame for the dysfunction in the American political system, below the share placing as much blame on money in politics (65%), wealthy donors (56%) or people with extreme views (56%), but above the share putting a lot of blame on either party (38% for Republicans, 32% for Democrats) or members of Congress (47%).

In addition, 49% place "a lot" of blame on the news media for causing the dysfunction, and the same percentage say social media bears much of the responsibility.

A majority, 63%, say they are proud of the way democracy works in America, but that's a low point compared to past polling, with the share of those who aren't proud doubling in just three years, from 18% in 2014 to 36% now, according to the Post's report on the poll. In addition, 42% of those polled said Trump's election was not legitimate, including two-thirds of Democrats and 9% of Republicans. That compares to about 14 percent who said former President Barack Obama's election in 2008 wasn't legitimate.

And those polled said dysfunction is rampant across the federal government, with 70% saying the Trump administration is dysfunctional, 80% saying so about Congress, and 56% saying so about the overall system of checks and balances.

The Washington Post-University of Maryland poll was conducted from September 27 through October 5, with 1,663 adults interviewed by land line, cell phone and online. The margin of sampling error for the overall results is plus or minus 3.5 percentage points.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 21:48 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik snap die meltdowns van enkelen van zijn entourage btw niet echt (Hannity, Gorka, Stone)... het is toch echt extreem onwaarschijnlijk dat het gaat over Trump of zijn naasten? Zou mijn geld nu zetten op Manafort en/of Flynn of mss een of andere staffer ofzo en daarbij is de aanklacht ook bepaald onzeker ... hoeft niks te maken te hebben met Rusland... mss iets als het witwassen van geld.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 21:48 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik snap die meltdowns van enkelen van zijn entourage btw niet echt (Hannity, Gorka, Stone)... het is toch echt extreem onwaarschijnlijk dat het gaat over Trump of zijn naasten? Zou mijn geld nu zetten op Manafort en/of Flynn of mss een of andere staffer ofzo en daarbij is de aanklacht ook bepaald onzeker ... hoeft niks te maken te hebben met Rusland... mss iets als het witwassen van geld.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 22:15 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Por que no los dos?
Als opportunist wil je beide situaties met beide handen aanpakken. Vooraf zeiken, en daarna betogen dat het een nothingburger is van een nobody.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 22:17 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, dat kan natuurlijk, strategisch wel goed... maar heb de indruk dat het vooral uit emotie voortkomt, niet uit een strategische overweging.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 22:23 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Ik wilde ook niet impliceren dat het strategie is. Ik denk ook niet dat het een goede strategie is. Ze komen onzeker over en het geeft geen blijk dat ze inside information hebben (tenzij de aanklacht tegen een familielid van Trump zelf is).

Maar het is wel een soort teambuilding en zichzelf profileren als leidende activisten daarin. En met het gemak dat Fox News mensen zich laten overtuigen, kan het financieel lucratief zijn om het vuurtje op te stoken.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 22:25 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Maar goed voor het land is het iig niet

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 22:33 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ben daar niet zo zeker van ... kan best zijn dat dit alles nu net de ziekte blootlegt en dat ze dan uiteindelijk er sterker uit komen ...

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 22:35 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Dat dacht ik na W Bush ook. Nu heb ik die illusie niet meer. Ik geloof niet meer zo in het het-moet-helemaal-verkeerd-gaan-voordat-het-beter-wordt-denken. Als dat zo zou zijn, dan was de situatie in Israel en Palestina ook wel opgelost ondertussen...

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 23:38 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Eensch. De arme blanken denken nog steeds dat Trump hun guy is alle bewijs van het tegendeel ten spijt in economisch opzicht omdat hij lekker schopt tegen minderheden. De lagere middenklasse vind het schoppen ook prachtig en de rijksten vinden het schoppen niet zo leuk maar vinden wel zijn belastingplannen heel prettig.

Als ik lid was van een minderheid in de VS zou ik toch maar eens gaan kijken naar de optie tot emigratie.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 23:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Alsnog wel wonderlijk dat praktisch de helft van welke groep dan ook kiest voor welke kandidaat dan ook, maar dit terzijde...

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 23:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Het klopt niet wat je zegt ... Van vlak na de verkiezing:

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Alsnog wel wonderlijk dat praktisch de helft van welke groep dan ook kiest voor welke kandidaat dan ook, maar dit terzijde...

En niet het inkomen, maar de scholing bleek juist een betere voorspeller voor het stemgedrag: http://fivethirtyeight.co(...)ould-vote-for-trump/

Hoog opgeleid -> Clinton, laag opgeleid -> Trump.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 00:16 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Arme blanken zijn laag opgeleid, de onderkant van de middenklasse ook.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 14:12 schreef Euribob het volgende:
Roger Stone ging vanochtend ook weer lekker te keer, is dit complete gebrek aan inhoudingsvermogen nieuw of schiet die altijd zo uit z'n slof?

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RogerJStoneJr twitterde op zaterdag 28-10-2017 om 04:57:45 .@donlemon stop lying about about the Clinton's and Uranium you ignorant lying covksucker !!!! You fake news you dumb piece of shit. reageer retweet

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RogerJStoneJr twitterde op zaterdag 28-10-2017 om 05:14:53 No .@CharlesBlow YOU Lie- u have no cried you fast talking arrogant fake news piece of shit ! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 21:48 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik snap die meltdowns van enkelen van zijn entourage btw niet echt (Hannity, Gorka, Stone)... het is toch echt extreem onwaarschijnlijk dat het gaat over Trump of zijn naasten? Zou mijn geld nu zetten op Manafort en/of Flynn of mss een of andere staffer ofzo en daarbij is de aanklacht ook bepaald onzeker ... hoeft niks te maken te hebben met Rusland... mss iets als het witwassen van geld.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 22:35 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Dat dacht ik na W Bush ook. Nu heb ik die illusie niet meer. Ik geloof niet meer zo in het het-moet-helemaal-verkeerd-gaan-voordat-het-beter-wordt-denken. Als dat zo zou zijn, dan was de situatie in Israel en Palestina ook wel opgelost ondertussen...

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 00:44 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Hannity is puur kijkcijfers. Gorka en Stone een ander verhaal. Stone kan vol op het orgel, want de deep state/big government zit achter hem aan. Gorka heeft weinig vrienden waar hij wat aan heeft. Trump gooit hem zo voor de bus zonder achterom te kijken.

Manafort en Stone, die hebben zo'n beetje het moderne politieke lobbyen uitgevonden in de Nixon tijd. Het gaat heel moeilijk worden om die twee op te pakken. Daarnaast lijkt Stone weinig met de Russian collusion te maken te hebben. Bij Manafort is het wat schimmiger, gezien hij eerder voor Yanuckovich heeft gewerkt.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 00:44 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Hannity is puur kijkcijfers. Gorka en Stone een ander verhaal. Stone kan vol op het orgel, want de deep state/big government zit achter hem aan. Gorka heeft weinig vrienden waar hij wat aan heeft. Trump gooit hem zo voor de bus zonder achterom te kijken.

Manafort en Stone, die hebben zo'n beetje het moderne politieke lobbyen uitgevonden in de Nixon tijd. Het gaat heel moeilijk worden om die twee op te pakken. Daarnaast lijkt Stone weinig met de Russian collusion te maken te hebben. Bij Manafort is het wat schimmiger, gezien hij eerder voor Yanuckovich heeft gewerkt.

Heerlijke uitdrukking.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 02:16 schreef Treinhomo het volgende:

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Heerlijke uitdrukking.

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Obama’s Campaign Paid $972,000 To Law Firm That Secretly Paid Fusion GPS In 2016

Former president Barack Obama’s official campaign organization has directed nearly a million dollars to the same law firm that funneled money to Fusion GPS, the firm behind the infamous Steele dossier. Since April of 2016, Obama For America (OFA) has paid over $972,000 to Perkins Coie, records filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC) show.

OFA, Obama’s official campaign arm in 2016, paid nearly $800,000 to Perkins Coie in 2016 alone, according to FEC records. The first 2016 payments to Perkins Coie, classified only as “Legal Services,” were made April 25-26, 2016, and totaled $98,047. A second batch of payments, also classified as “Legal Services,” were disbursed to the law firm on September 29, 2016, and totaled exactly $700,000. Payments from OFA to Perkins Coie in 2017 totaled $174,725 through August 22, 2017.

FEC records as well as federal court records show that Marc Elias, the Perkins Coie lawyer whom the Washington Post reported was responsible for the payments to Fusion GPS on behalf of Clinton’s campaign and the DNC, also previously served as a counsel for OFA. In Shamblin v. Obama for America, a 2013 case in federal court in Florida, federal court records list Elias as simultaneously serving as lead attorney for both OFA and the DNC.

OFA, which managed Obama’s successful re-election campaign in 2012, retooled after that campaign to focus on enacting the president’s agenda during his final term in office. The group reorganized again after the 2016 election and planned to use its staff and resources to oppose President Donald Trump. During the entire 2016 campaign cycle, the group spent only $4.5 million, according to FEC records.

Federal records show that Hillary Clinton’s official campaign organization, Hillary For America, paid just under $5.1 million to Perkins Coie in 2016. The DNC paid nearly $5.4 million to the law firm in 2016.

The timing and nature of the payments to Perkins Coie by Obama’s official campaign arm raise significant questions about whether OFA was funding Fusion GPS, how much Obama and his team knew about the contents and provenance of the dossier long before its contents were made public, and whether the president or his government lieutenants knowingly used a partisan political document to justify official government actions targeting the president’s political opponents named in the dossier. According to the Washington Post, Fusion GPS was first retained by Perkins Coie on behalf of the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign in April of 2016.

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At the same time that Hillary’s campaign, Obama’s campaign organization, and the DNC were simultaneously paying Perkins Coie, the spouse of one of Fusion GPS’s key employees was working directly for Obama in the West Wing. Shailagh Murray, a former Washington Post reporter-turned-political operative, was serving as a top communications adviser to Obama while the Obama administration was reportedly using information from the dossier to justify secret surveillance of Trump campaign staff. Murray is married to Neil King, a former Wall Street Journal reporter who was hired by Fusion GPS in December of 2016. While at the Wall Street Journal, King worked alongside Fusion GPS’s core team, even sharing bylines with Glenn Simpson, the Fusion GPS executive who personally hired Steele to probe Trump’s alleged Russia connections.

The importance of the dossier funded by Democrats, commissioned by Fusion GPS, and compiled by Steele, is difficult to overstate given that its contents were reportedly briefed to both President Obama and then-President-Elect Trump. The dossier was eventually published in full by BuzzFeed on January 10. On January 12, according to CNN then-FBI Director James Comey had briefed Trump on the allegations in Steele’s dossier. Steele admitted in court filings that he had shopped much of the information in his dossier to numerous media outlets beginning in September of 2016.

Fusion GPS, which has been accused of illegally operating as an undisclosed agent of foreign governments, is currently facing multiple congressional inquiries into its activities and its clients. Bill Browder, whose attorney was allegedly murdered by Russian authorities after publicizing explosive allegations of Russian fraud and money laundering, alleged in congressional testimony last July that Fusion GPS was paid by Russians to undermine U.S. sanctions against the country. Late last week, Fusion GPS reportedly struck a deal with U.S. House investigators regarding a federal subpoena of the firm’s bank records. And in September, Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), who serves as chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, reportedly requested that the U.S. Treasury Department’s financial crimes unit provide his committee with all suspicious activity reports related to Fusion GPS’s bank transactions.

Following reports of Perkins Coie’s role in funneling money to Fusion GPS, the Campaign Legal Center, a non-partisan campaign finance watchdog, filed a complaint with the FEC alleging that the secret funding schemes violated federal campaign disclosure laws.

Fusion GPS is also facing a separate defamation suit in federal court related to claims in the dossier. That case, which was brought by three Russian businessmen who claim to have been libeled in the Steele dossier, was filed in federal court in Washington, D.C., in early October. Fusion GPS is yet to respond to those allegations in court.

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James Comey’s ‘coordination’ testimony sheds new context on Clinton campaign’s dossier funding

When then-FBI Director James B. Comey explained to Congress last March the scope of his investigation into Donald Trump aides and Russia, his words would also fit the Hillary Clinton campaign today.

Mr. Comey told the House Intelligence Committed that his agents were investigating “whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts.”

That definition — “coordination” — would seem to make the Democrats ripe for special counsel Robert Mueller to investigate, ex-Trump aides say.

What is known now that was not known in March: The Clinton campaign and the Democratic National Committee paid for an opposition research operation against candidate Trump that relied almost exclusively on paid Kremlin sources and Russian spies during the 2016 election.

The Russians plied ex-British spy Christopher Steele with what Trump people term lies and fiction that became part of a dossier. The dossier or its contents were spread around Washington by Mr. Steele and his employer, Fusion GPS, which got the money from the Clinton campaign and the DNC.

“If there was enough Russia collusion evidence to warrant a special counsel for the president, there’s far more now on the Clinton campaign’s connection to a foreign spy ring that included Russians,” said Michael Caputo, a former Trump campaign communications adviser. “That, coupled with the stymied investigation into the Russian bribery plot and donations directed to the Clinton Foundation, are grounds for a special counsel.”

Hired in June 2016, Mr. Steele used the flow of cash to pay Russians to dish dirt on Mr. Trump and his aides

The chain of money from the Democrats to Fusion to Mr. Steele to Moscow would seem to fit the definition of “coordination.”

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According to court filings in a libel suit against Mr. Steele, the ex-spy said he got specific instructions from Fusion GPS to dig up coordination between Trump people and Russia. Starting in mid-June, he filed 18 memos, some of which became fodder for anti-Trump news stories and Clinton press releases and TV surrogates linking the Republican to Russia.

The public knows today who funded the dossier because House Intelligence Committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunez, California Republican, issued a subpoena to Fusion’s bank demanding financial records. That prompted the Clinton’s campaign law firm, Perkins Coie, to admit last Tuesday that it funneled the money from the campaign to Fusion.

Here is how Mr. Comey, whom Mr. Trump fired as FBI director, defined his investigation to the committee last March.

“I have been authorized by the Department of Justice to confirm that the FBI, as part of our counterintelligence mission, is investigating the Russian government’s efforts to interfere in the 2016 presidential election and that includes investigating the nature of any links between individuals associated with the Trump campaign and the Russian government and whether there was any coordination between the campaign and Russia’s efforts. As with any counterintelligence investigation, this will also include an assessment of whether any crimes were committed.”

Said J.D. Gordon, a former Pentagon spokesman and a Trump campaign national security adviser, “Considering what we’ve learned in recent days about the sources of Fusion GPS funding, I imagine that Hillary’s campaign and the DNC will be investigated by the special counsel.”

“Those who committed crimes against Trump associates to include members of Congress, such as cyberstalking, libel and slander, should also be included in these far-reaching probes,” he said. “We must put an end to this neo-McCarthyism that’s swept over Washington.”

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 08:08 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Er is in zekere zin coördinatie geweest tussen The Clinton campagne, de DNC en OFA, dat is het officiële campagneteam van Barack Obama voor een opposition resarch manoeuvre dat bijna exclusief is gebaseerd op betaalde bronnen gerelateerd aan het Kremlin en Russische spionnen gedurende de 2016 verkiezingsstrijd.
Het eerste bericht roept vragen op hoeveel Obama en zijn team wisten over de inhoud van het dossier. Als zij kennis hadden van de inhoud van het dossier wanneer precies in de tijdlijn. En het roept vragen op of Obama en zijn regering bewust een partijdige en politieke document hebben gebruikt om officiële regeringsinstrumenten te gebruiken om daarmee politieke opponenten te bestrijden.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 09:35 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Dit is wel een heel erg vrije interpretatie gebaseerd op wensdenken weer. Geen directe verbanden maar wel mogelijke indirecte banden betekend dus dat er alleen iets geinsinueerd wordt zonder een greintje bewijs.

Wat mij betreft mag dit soort "nieuws" wel uit dit topic blijven tot het moment dat er wat meer vlees om de botten van dit onderzoek zit.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 09:35 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Dit is wel een heel erg vrije interpretatie gebaseerd op wensdenken weer. Geen directe verbanden maar wel mogelijke indirecte banden betekend dus dat er alleen iets geinsinueerd wordt zonder een greintje bewijs.

Wat mij betreft mag dit soort "nieuws" wel uit dit topic blijven tot het moment dat er wat meer vlees om de botten van dit onderzoek zit.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 09:38 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Aan de andere kant is het natuurlijk ook wel weer zo dat die Zinke aan whitefish gelinkt is alleen maar omdat ie toevallig uit hetzelfde plaatsje komt. Dat is ook niet helemaal correct.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 09:38 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Het is nieuws, gebaseerd op FEC en gerechtelijke documenten, dat er banden zijn tussen het campagneteam van Barack Obama en Fusion GPS, dus jouw perceptie vind eigenlijk niet terzake doende.

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Op zaterdag 28 oktober 2017 14:27 schreef Falco het volgende:

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Dat is heel geleidelijk gegaan. Nu zou zo'n nachtelijke rant tegen Alicia Machado (Miss Universe) niet meer gecoverd worden door de Nederlandse pers. In Amerika zou het nog wel genoeg media coverage krijgen vermoed ik. Wat best knap is vind ik. Aan de andere kant voelen veel journalisten vast ook wel de plicht om dit te blijven rapporteren, want 'dit is niet normaal'.

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Twitter has suspended the account of Roger Stone ― a notorious Republican political operative and longtime friend and former adviser to Donald Trump ― after Stone went on a vicious, profane tirade against several CNN journalists.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 11:16 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Blijkbaar vond het Twitter het ook niet normaal:

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 10:26 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
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Lone cyclist responds to @POTUS motorcade shortly after departing Trump National Golf Club in Sterling, Va.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 09:38 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
Aan de andere kant is het natuurlijk ook wel weer zo dat die Zinke aan whitefish gelinkt is alleen maar omdat ie toevallig uit hetzelfde plaatsje komt.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 09:58 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
En zijn zoon heeft voor dat bedrijf gewerkt en een investeerder in dat bedrijf heeft aan Trumps campagne geld geschonken.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 11:16 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Blijkbaar vond het Twitter het ook niet normaal:

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 14:30 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Twitter is biased en hypocriet. Maar dat was voor iedereen met meer dan 1 hersencel al lang duidelijk.
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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 14:39 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Keith Olbermann

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-10-2017 om 15:48:09 All of this "Russia" talk right when the Republicans are making their big push for historic Tax Cuts & Reform. Is this coincidental? NOT! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 15:53 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-10-2017 om 15:48:09 All of this "Russia" talk right when the Republicans are making their big push for historic Tax Cuts & Reform. Is this coincidental? NOT! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-10-2017 om 14:12:47 As usual, the ObamaCare premiums will be up (the Dems own it), but we will Repeal & Replace and have great Healthcare soon after Tax Cuts! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 16:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Hij denkt kennelijk dat als hij maar zegt "the Dems own it", dat dat daarmee dan ook zo zou zijn...

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 14:39 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Keith Olbermann

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 15:45 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
Iedereen al popcorn in huis voor Mueller Monday?

It's Mueller Time! Trump Administration Season Ending

Ik gok op Manafort, om te beginnen.

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Several attorneys who said they were in touch with the Manafort and Flynn lawyers said they had not been notified of any matter related to an indictment — which is customary in a white-collar criminal investigation — leading them to believe it wasn’t either of those two former high-ranking Trump aides. An attorney for Manafort did not respond to a request for comment. Michael Flynn’s attorney, Robert Kelner, declined to comment.

The attorneys close to the case also said they wouldn’t be surprised if the charges were targeting Flynn or Manafort family members, or a longtime accountant or lawyer.

Andrew Weissmann, one of Mueller’s top attorneys and a frequent presence over the last month at the grand jury proceedings in Washington, including on Friday, was known to use that tactic to gain advantage when attempting to prosecute Enron executives in the mid-2000s. “That moves you toward making a deal when the son or a wife is indicted,” said a white-collar attorney familiar with the Mueller probe.

For example, an indictment of Flynn’s son, who worked for his father’s lobbying firm, could put pressure on Flynn to begin to cooperate with investigators. Flynn and his son have been under scrutiny for their lobbying work on behalf of a Turkish client with ties to the country’s authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, who is friendly with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Flynn Jr. also accompanied his father to Moscow in December 2015 for a paid speech, which Putin attended, celebrating the Russian propaganda outlet RT. Michael Flynn did not disclose the payments in his application to renew his security clearance in 2016; the Democratic and GOP leaders of the House Oversight Committee earlier this year said that was likely an illegal omission.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 16:36 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik denk dat Trump voor het einde van de week in zijn razernij om de arrestaties onbedoeld een bekentenis op twitter gooit.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 16:43 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Zou Trump hem beginnen te knijpen? Hij slaat wel steeds wilder om zich heen.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 16:43 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Zou Trump hem beginnen te knijpen? Hij slaat wel steeds wilder om zich heen.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 16:46 schreef Abschirmdienst het volgende:

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Mwah. Hij doet nog steeds z’n normale act. Hij draait pas door als hij als normale politicus gaat praten.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 16:43 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Zou Trump hem beginnen te knijpen? Hij slaat wel steeds wilder om zich heen.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 16:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat lijkt iedereen in zijn omgeving nu te doen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-10-2017 om 15:17:14 ...are now fighting back like never before. There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 16:34 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Waarom verbaast me dit totaal niet?

Compleet aan lager wal geraakte mafklapper met ontzettend kort lontje... en jij vindt em geweldig.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 17:03 schreef Falco het volgende:
Het zou wel lollig zijn wanneer er een paar politie-auto's om 6:00 uur morgenochtend bij 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue gaan stoppen. Maar ik denk dat het wel een beetje tegenvalt, die fuzz nu lijkt me wat overdreven.

Manafort zal wel de grootste vis zijn, die was al onhoudbaar voor Trump zijn campagneteam tijdens de verkiezingsstrijd.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 16:36 schreef Mike het volgende:
Olbermann staat natuurlijk ook bekend om z'n complete meltdowns. Ik snap niet wat dat soort lui (Olbermann, Stone) bezielt om altijd zo los te gaan als idioten.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 17:10 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Hilarisch onderdeel van het circus daar.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 17:11 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Het is af en toe vrij hilarisch inderdaad, maar Olbermann heeft het al een aantal keren z'n baan gekost.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 17:04 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-10-2017 om 15:17:14 ...are now fighting back like never before. There is so much GUILT by Democrats/Clinton, and now the facts are pouring out. DO SOMETHING! reageer retweet

Trump wil ook een INDICTMENT!

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 14:30 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Twitter is biased en hypocriet. Maar dat was voor iedereen met meer dan 1 hersencel al lang duidelijk.

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You little rat-faced git.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 17:03 schreef Falco het volgende:
Het zou wel lollig zijn wanneer er een paar politie-auto's om 6:00 uur morgenochtend bij 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue gaan stoppen. Maar ik denk dat het wel een beetje tegenvalt, die fuzz nu lijkt me wat overdreven.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 17:58 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Plus dat Trump niet eens via een grand jury mag worden geindict (spelling?). Dat moet volgens mij via congress of house of reps. Iets in die richting, weet er het preciese niet van, alleen dat het niet via een GJ gaat.

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Puerto Rico’s Governor Calls for Whitefish Energy Contract to Be Canceled

Gov. Ricardo Rosselló of Puerto Rico has asked the governing board of the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority to “immediately” cancel its contract with Whitefish Energy, he announced on Sunday.

The decision came two days after the Federal Emergency Management Agency expressed “significant concerns” about how Whitefish, a small Montana company, won a contract for up to $300 million to rebuild part of Puerto Rico’s electrical grid after it was severely damaged last month by Hurricane Maria.

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Whitefish is based in the hometown of Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke.

“There can be no distraction that alters the commitment to repair the power grid as quickly as possible,” Mr. Rosselló said in a statement.

He said he was asking Florida and New York for help. The power authority, known as Prepa, and its contractors have only 404 brigades on the island, Mr. Rosselló said, and the United States Army Corps of Engineers has seven.

He said he was seeking more than 1,000 by Nov. 8.

“I have given instructions to immediately proceed with the necessary coordination with the states of Florida and New York, in order for brigades and equipment to arrive on the island,” Mr. Rosselló said.

The governor said the decision to ask New York and Florida for help was being made because the Army Corps of Engineers had not managed to get the job done in the time frame initially outlined.

Power companies traditionally engage power companies from other states for help immediately after emergencies. Mr. Ramos had said that he did not do so in this case, because the power companies were hesitant to commit at first until they were sure where Maria would make landfall. He didn’t do so afterward, because by then the Army Corps of Engineers had been tasked with the job.

Representatives of Whitefish and the Army Corps of Engineers were not immediately available to comment on Sunday.

On Friday, Whitefish said in a statement it planned to cooperate with any information requests from lawmakers, federal officials “or other appropriate governmental bodies, and look forward to the facts coming to light.”

Large areas of the island remain without power more than a month after Maria struck on Sept. 20 as a Category 4 hurricane.

In an interview this month, Ricardo Ramos, the chief executive of Prepa, said he had contracted with Whitefish because the company did not insist on a down payment.

Other companies, wary of Prepa’s bankruptcy, had demanded hefty sums, he said. It had also been in talks with another company, Power Secure.

Asked how a such a small company could take on such a big job, Mr. Ramos said, “Every company is small at some point in time.”

He added that the company had sent a proposal after Hurricane Irma and before Maria, as had other companies. He studied its brochure and was interested in its work in mountainous terrain.

“They told us about the assets, how many helicopters, how many crews,” he said. “They told us about their capability and we can increase — double, triple, quadruple — the size of the crews and we went ahead and mobilized them.”

The chief executive of Whitefish Energy, Andy Techmanski, said this month that the company got the contract because he was able to stay in communication with Prepa when other companies could not. He flew to Puerto Rico before the deal was signed on a “leap of faith,” he said in an interview this month.

“It was more of a scenario we were able to maintain limited communication with Prepa throughout the hurricane where perhaps others were having difficulties,” Mr. Techmanski said. “We ended up taking a leap of faith to help. A found a flight, and went into Puerto Rico right after the storm, and we were able to find and connect with the people at the power company.”

“We made a commitment to come here, we stand behind that commitment,” he said before Sunday’s cancellation.

zit ik me daar bloedig een potje te vertalen...

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There's language in the contract that looks like Whitefish is about to screw over the government and the people of Puerto Rico. Even Puerto Rico Governor Ricardo Rosselló is concerned with PREPA's deal. On Sunday, he called for canceling the contract with Whitefish.

For one, the contract, which Whitefish signed with the government-owned Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority, or PREPA, states that, "In no event shall [government bodies] have the right to audit or review the cost and profit elements." That gives Whitefish an incredible amount of discretion and privacy over how it uses $300 million in American taxpayer money.

The contract also "waives any claim against Contractor related to delayed completion of the work," which means the government can't do much if Whitefish drags out its work restoring electricity to the 3.4 million Americans living on the island.

https://www.huffingtonpos(...)0718e4b03cd20b823156

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Mud flies in close Virginia governor's race

Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie are trading increasingly lurid attacks in the final days of the closely watched campaign.

One candidate has linked his opponent to torch-wielding white nationalists. The other implies his opponent supports gun rights for pedophiles.

This year’s Virginia governor’s race, long a gentlemanly affair, is getting ugly. Democrat Ralph Northam and Republican Ed Gillespie have dropped all pretense of civility and are trading increasingly lurid attacks, looking for any advantage in the closely watched contest with nine days until voters head to the polls. Both parties see the race, one of just two gubernatorial campaigns in the country in 2017, as a key opportunity to demonstrate political momentum at the end of Trump’s first year in the White House

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And so both campaigns — especially Gillespie’s, which trails in most polls — are serving up more and more brutal attacks and volleying back with outrage that their opponent would sink so low.

In one of Gillespie’s most recent TV ads, a young mother proclaims she can’t vote for Northam because he “supports automatic restoration of rights for sex offenders, making it easier for these violent felons to get guns.” The ad references Gov. Terry McAuliffe’s program, supported by Northam, to restore civil rights to felons who have served their sentences. Gillespie’s ad spotlights one man, John Bowen, who had his rights restored after being convicted of a sexual offense with a minor — but later pleaded guilty to possessing a massive cache of child pornography.

“Nothing is more important to me than keeping my children safe,” Heather Steele, a Northern Virginia woman, says in the spot. “That’s why I can’t vote for Ralph Northam.” (The Northam campaign has noted Steele has written for conservative blogs in the state.)

Northam has not been as nasty on television airwaves, instead focusing on attacks on Gillespie’s long lobbying career. His campaign has also reacted furiously to Gillespie’s ads suggesting Northam paved the way for the Central American gang MS-13 to thrive in Virginia. But the cautious lieutenant governor did recently approve a Democratic Party of Virginia mailer linking Gillespie to white nationalist protesters. The flyer superimposes images of Gillespie and President Donald Trump over white supremacists on the march in Charlottesville.

“On Tuesday November 7th, Virginia Gets To Stand Up...To Hate,” the mailer says. Gillespie denounced the white supremacists this summer, but Northam’s campaign has blasted him for staying silent about Trump, who delayed singling out the marchers for criticism.

It wasn’t always this way. Gillespie and Northam won plaudits from editorial boards after their early debates for their courteous behavior. But national attention and expectations have intensified in Virginia since then, and most polling of the race is still within the margin of error, showing a narrow but surmountable Northam lead.

“This is an ugly political attack that has no place in our Commonwealth’s political discourse,” Gillespie campaign manager Chris Leavitt said in a statement responding to the Democrats’ mailer.

The Gillespie campaign’s outcry over the mailer, which was sent to households in Hampton Roads, is based on Gillespie’s denunciation of the white supremacists in Charlottesville who are depicted on the flier. But the Northam campaign notes Gillespie has never criticized President Donald Trump’s response to the rally, where he said there were “fine people … on all sides” of the event.

Gillespie is also airing multiple ads arguing statues of Confederate monuments should be kept up.

"For governor, there's a clear choice: Ralph Northam wants to take down Virginia's Civil War monuments," a male narrator says before a clip plays of Northam saying he will do everything in his power to take down the statues. "Ralph Northam will take our statues down. Ed Gillespie will preserve them."

Northam supports removing the statues and putting them in museums with historical context, while Gillespie supports keeping them and adding historical context. Both have also said the final decision should be left to localities.

Gillespie has invested far more time and money into provocative attacks than Northam, starting with the MS-13 ads, featuring photos of a gang member in El Salvador with face tattoos, back in early September.

Northam allies have long suggested Gillespie’s attacks on Northam over both sanctuary cities and rights restoration would simply bounce off the Democrat. Northam, a Virginia Military Institute graduate who worked as an Army doctor and pediatrician, simply doesn’t project as a liberal who would put families at risk, they argue. They say these ads merely confirm for Democratic-leaning voters in Northern Virginia that Gillespie is simply a clone of Trump.

But that hasn’t stopped them from airing television response ads designed to rebut the attacks.

“I’m a pediatrician, and for Ed Gillespie to say I would tolerate anyone hurting a child is despicable,” Northam says in his latest TV ad.

Democrats in Virginia have gone as far to compare Gillespie’s spot to an infamous ad aired in the 2005 gubernatorial contest by then-Attorney General Jerry Kilgore. The ad from Kilgore, the Republican nominee that year, featured a murder victim’s father who said then-Lt. Gov. Tim Kaine, who personally opposes the death penalty, wouldn’t put Hitler to death. The ad prompted a backlash from voters, Jewish groups and editorial boards.

Kaine won the race, 52 percent to 46 percent.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 18:44 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Intussen in Virginia....

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House GOP tosses conservative playbook in bid for tax reform

Lawmakers look willing to move beyond their party’s orthodoxy in bid for win ahead of 2018 midterms.

House Republicans are so desperate for a win on taxes that they’re agreeing to proposals that would have caused internal party warfare just a year or two ago.

They’re considering forgoing a big cut in the top income tax rate on the rich, offering moderate-income Americans so many tax breaks that many would be excused from paying taxes entirely and passing a potentially 1,000-page tax bill few have seen within a matter of weeks. Last week, they agreed to a budget that ignored their demands for deep cuts in federal spending just so they could pass a tax bill using a special procedure that enables them move forward without any Democratic votes.

It’s an open question whether Republicans will be as flexible when party leaders release their entire tax bill, due Nov. 1, and everyone can see exactly who will be the losers under their plan. They already have some internal battles, with Republicans from high-tax states fighting a proposal to dump a long-standing deduction for state and local taxes.

But for now, once-controversial proposals are barely causing a stir, a sign lawmakers are willing to move beyond their party’s orthodoxy on taxes and into a more freewheeling debate on how to rewrite the code.

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“The American people want us to get to ‘yes’ on tax reform,” said Rep. Jim Renacci (R-Ohio), who sits on the tax and budget committees.

It’s an indication of the pressure lawmakers feel to produce a win ahead of next year’s midterm elections after spending seven fruitless months trying to rescind the Affordable Care Act. Many are terrified at the prospect of facing voters next year with nothing to show for their time in power.

Even notoriously balky House conservatives are making nice.

“We’ve got to get the economy going — it’s all about wages going up — and if I can endure some short-term pain for long-term benefits, I’m willing to do that,” said Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), head of the chamber’s staunchly conservative Freedom Caucus.

The latest flexibility came with Thursday’s House adoption of a Senate budget plan. The annual fiscal blueprint used to be a big deal for House Republicans — Speaker Paul Ryan made his name as chairman of the Budget Committee, writing plans calling for drastic cuts in federal spending. And for years, House conservatives had demanded budgets balance the government’s books.

But the fiscal blueprint they adopted Thursday does no such thing, and some lawmakers question the importance of the budget, saying they agreed to it only in order to tap the all-important reconciliation process they intend to use to move tax legislation through the Senate.

“We don’t follow budgets anyway — it’s really just a mechanism to get tax reform done,” said Renacci.

They are also willing to compromise on their long-standing calls to cut the top income tax rate.

Just a few years ago, House Republicans walked away from a tax reform plan written by then-Ways and Means Chairman Dave Camp in part because he cut the top rate only to 35 percent, from 39.6 percent. At the time, Republicans had been promising to cut the top rate to 25 percent — something they had pledged since they took over the House in 2011 — but Camp was unable to make the numbers work.

Now, Republicans are planning an even higher top rate. Their plans are still to be determined, but they may leave the top rate where it is, which President Barack Obama raised as part of the 2013 fiscal cliff agreement.

“I don’t think there’s anybody out there that is talking about NFL players needing a tax cut — I don’t think high-powered doctors and lawyers need a tax cut,” said Rob Woodall (R-Ga.), who emphasized Republicans' plans to instead cut taxes on small and large businesses.

At the same time, they’re willing to take millions of Americans off the tax rolls entirely with their plans to double the standard deduction and expand a child tax credit. Just a few years ago, Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney lamented that, at the time, 47 percent of Americans did not pay federal income taxes.

Meadows defended the plan, saying: “I don’t think we’ve said, 'Tax more people.' In fact, if anything, we’ve said 'Tax fewer people.'

“It’s a function of putting more of their money back in their pocket,” he said.

There have also been relatively few complaints about the prospect of passing a giant tax rewrite bill, the biggest in a generation, in a matter of weeks. Republicans plan to release it Nov. 1, with committee action penciled in for the following week and House approval coming later next month.

Said Pat Meehan (R-Pa.), “It’s not as if these issues are things that have never been considered before — there’s a lot of work that’s been done.

“There’s been long discussion on the outlines of this,” he said.

Of course, not everyone is happy.

Republican leaders have faced a rebellion from colleagues from high-tax states over their plan to dump a deduction for state and local taxes, and lawmakers are tangling with the Trump administration over plans to push people out of 401(k) retirement plans and into Roth ones.

And some lawmakers have chafed at the secrecy surrounding the GOP tax plan.

"We don't have the details — that's why I'm frustrated," said Chris Collins (R-N.Y.).

It also remains to be seen if the mood will hold once Republican leaders unveil their bill. Though their budget allows for a $1.5 trillion tax cut, the nonpartisan Tax Policy Center figures Republicans’ tax cut promises would cost some $5.5 trillion, meaning lawmakers need to come up with a whopping $4 trillion in savings.

But for now, Republicans are ready to deal.

“This is a great opportunity — I think people are seizing the moment,” said Meehan.

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 18:36 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
toch wel sneu als je 10 maanden na je overwinning het nog steeds hebt over her e-mails en Barry. hij heeft een ongezonde obsessie met die twee.

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johnrobertsFox twitterde op dinsdag 17-10-2017 om 00:55:28 @TVietor08 @HillaryClinton We'll have to agree to disagree. As long as HRC operates as a "shadow President", what s… https://t.co/V7z8VD9KH3 reageer retweet

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 19:14 schreef Montov het volgende:
Of zoals voormalig Trump campagneleider en CNN analist zei:

"What we should be focusing on are the continued lies of the Clinton administration — the continued fallacies that they perpetuated."

Corey Lewandowski urges more scrutiny on 'the Clinton administration'

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Punt 1):

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MMFlint twitterde op zondag 29-10-2017 om 02:57:58 1) You must have my smash hit of a Broadway show confused with your presidency-- which IS a total bomb and WILL in… https://t.co/59RnJRWnMt reageer retweet

t/m punt 11):

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MMFlint twitterde op zondag 29-10-2017 om 03:33:29 11) For now, at least, I know I still have one fan in the White House (thx for your unwavering support, Jared!) https://t.co/mTwLxW4KgR reageer retweet

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 21:03 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
die vent heeft echt niks beters te doen he? voor hem is het allemaal één grote show.

het idiote is dat amerikanen het kennelijk allemaal dood normaal vinden wat er dagelijks voor een stroom aan shit uit het witte huis komt stromen. ze zullen m in ieder geval niet snel vergeten want nu kan elke mongool met centen en een vlotte babbel president worden.

ik zag gisteren een filmpje van zon redneck die aan vertellen was dat trump zo goed is omdat ie anti establishment is. zou die echt niet doorhebben dat trump uit datzelfde establishment komt en er al vanaf dat ie geboren is in dat milieu is opgegroeid..?

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 18:36 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
toch wel sneu als je 10 maanden na je overwinning het nog steeds hebt over her e-mails en Barry. hij heeft een ongezonde obsessie met die twee.

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Whitefish, a two-year-old firm based in Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke's Montana hometown and financially backed in part by a major donor to President Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, had just two full-time employees when Hurricane Maria hit the island more than a month ago.

Language in the contract looked like it gave Whitefish a sweetheart deal as the people of Puerto Rico struggle to recover from the devastation of the hurricane.

For one, the contract, which Whitefish signed with government-owned PREPA, said that, "In no event shall [government bodies] have the right to audit or review the cost and profit elements." That gave Whitefish wide of discretion and privacy over how it used $300 million in U.S. taxpayer money.

The contract also waived "any claim against Contractor related to delayed completion of the work," which means the government couldn't do much if Whitefish dragged out its work restoring electricity to the 3.4 million Americans living on the island.

"Outrageous," said Charles Tiefer, a professor of government contracting at the University of Baltimore law school. "The clause that shields the contractor from audit or review is a red flag of overcharging. I can't imagine how any responsible government official could put such an anti-audit clause into a government contract."

There were other concerning details in the contract, like the high rates Whitefish was charging for labor. The company was paying $240 an hour for a general foreman and $227 for a lineman. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics says first-line supervisors of construction sites make about $43 an hour and construction laborers make about $23 an hour. The contract also stated that each person could spend nearly $80 a day for meals and $332 a day for lodging. Flights for employees were being billed at $1,000 each way.

Though all the facts aren't out yet, it's clear something "went very wrong" with the way the contract was awarded. "Let's put it this way," Tiefer said. "Whitefish didn't make the shortlist because of a world-class reputation."

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 22:33 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Hoe gaat dat werken? Kunt niet zomaar zo'n contract opzeggen lijkt me?!

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 22:33 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Kunt niet zomaar zo'n contract opzeggen lijkt me?!

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 23:17 schreef Terecht het volgende:
Zie ook die ridicule deals in Irak ttv Bush

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Ramos said cancellation of the contract will not lead to a penalty, but it's likely the government will pay at least $11 million for the company to go home early, including all costs incurred in the month after the cancellation.

https://www.nytimes.com/a(...)maria-whitefish.html

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 23:24 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Een rechtszaak wordt niet verwacht:

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Op zondag 29 oktober 2017 23:24 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

Een rechtszaak wordt overigens niet verwacht:

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Steve Schooner, a former high-ranking government contracting official who teaches government contracts at George Washington University, said the Whitefish contract gave him great material for his upcoming classes because there were so many problems with it.

"The contract - both the process and the content - rivals, and in some ways exceeds, some of the best final exams I've written for my students over the last two decades," he said.

https://www.huffingtonpos(...)0718e4b03cd20b823156

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 00:36 schreef MangoTree het volgende:
John Podesta en Debbie Wasserman Schultz mogen waarschijnlijk komen uitleggen waarom ze eerder de waarheid niet verteld hebben over het dossier.

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Ryan loses key ally on tax reform after switch on breaks for homeowners

The National Association of Home Builders on Saturday accused House Speaker Paul Ryan of abruptly reversing course on a mortgage tax credit proposal and announced it would oppose the tax-reform proposal that GOP lawmakers expect to unveil on Wednesday.

The about-face by the housing-industry lobbying group strips Republicans of a powerful ally. Tax breaks for homeowners have long been one of the flash points of any attempt to rewrite the nation's tax laws.

"All the resources we were going to put into supporting are now going to go into opposing the plan," NAHB Chief Executive Officer Jerry Howard told POLITICO.

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Homebuilders and other groups had been working with Ways and Means Chairman Kevin Brady (R-Texas) on a plan to preserve tax breaks for homeowners. House Republicans have been planning to weaken the deduction that home mortgage borrowers currently get for the interest they pay on their mortgages by raising the standard deduction, leading much of the housing lobby to line up against the plan.

As an alternative, Brady had agreed to a tax credit that would combine mortgage interest and local property taxes, Howard said.

Friday night, Brady told Howard that that idea had been rejected by House leadership. In a phone call Saturday, Ryan said rank-and-file members weren't comfortable with the concept of a homeownership tax credit, Howard said.

"I don’t think it's fair of the speaker to take a concept that his own committee chair is in favor of and deep-six it without vetting it with the conference," Howard said.

"He told me there wasn’t enough time and the concept would not be put into the document," Howard said. "I told the speaker candidly we had shopped the proposal to the White House and we had support there."

A Ryan spokeswoman confirmed the call had taken place but had no other comment.

Brady said in a statement that tax writers will restore an itemized property tax deduction to the plan and suggested that the fight over the mortgage tax break wasn't over.

"Homebuilders have been great partners in developing a new home credit that helps more Americans with both their mortgage and property taxes by expanding this tax relief to homeowners who don’t itemize," Brady said. "I hope members of Congress will examine it closely to determine if they want it included before tax reform heads to the president’s desk."

A person familiar with the tax discussions said rank-and-file House members aren't well-versed on the concept of a mortgage and property tax credit. The idea also wasn't consistent with the original GOP framework, this person said.

The framework called for preservation of "tax incentives for home mortgage interest" but didn't explicitly endorse the mortgage-interest deduction.

The mortgage-interest deduction has been widely criticized by economists and housing advocates because most of its benefits flow to wealthier Americans. A tax credit, by contrast, reach more low- and moderate-income buyers, especially under the GOP framework, which increases the standard deduction.

"Under the framework, the mortgage-interest deduction becomes simply a subsidy for the very wealthy," Howard said. "It doesn’t do anything to promote homeownership."

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 02:08 schreef Szura het volgende:
Hoe laat wordt Manafort in een oranje overall gehesen?

Niet

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 02:08 schreef Szura het volgende:
Hoe laat wordt Manafort in een oranje overall gehesen?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 06:41 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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En hoelang duurt het voordat men het op zon manier spint dat er een link is met Trump... terwijl manafort in principe nu op de radar staat vanwege zijn handelingen in 2013 enzo, toen ie in samenwerking was met de Podesta group.

Ben wel echt benieuwd wie vandaag de sjaak is/zijn

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 07:47 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Oh nou als de Drudge het zegt, zal het wel waar zijn.

Maar ik begrijp dat het nu dus zo gaat zijn dat als het Manafort blijkt te zijn die zo vuil als stront is, we gaan zeggen dat hij voor Clinton werkte en niets met Trump te maken had?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 07:47 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Oh nou als de Drudge het zegt, zal het wel waar zijn.

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Maar ik begrijp dat het nu dus zo gaat zijn dat als het Manafort blijkt te zijn die zo vuil als stront is, we gaan zeggen dat hij voor Clinton werkte en niets met Trump te maken had?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:12 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Het verhaal komt van Buzzfeed, eigenlijk. Het gaat over transacties die de federale autoriteiten vanaf 2012 volgen.

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Wie zijn 'we'?
Als jij graag bepaalde conclusies wil trekken moet je dit vooral doen.
Ik zou willen aanbevelen dat je dit alles niet moet gaan spinnen en maar moet nemen zoals het zich voltrekt.
Dit lijkt me veel gemakkelijker.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:15 schreef Freak188 het volgende:
Even resumé: welke personen kunnen als verdachte worden aangemerkt door Mueller?

Zijn het grote vissen of klein grut?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:17 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Dan is het netter om Buzzfeed te vermelden als bron, en niet een doorgeefluik als fucking Drudge.

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Oh nu ben ík aan het spinnen? Da's knap. Lees de post van refragmental anders nog eens, die er op wijst dat het gaat om Manafort z'n tijd bij Clinton in dienst.

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Wel interessant dat je mij nu praktisch vertelt dat we het onderzoek af moeten wachten, zonder conclusies te trekken.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:29 schreef dellipder het volgende:

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:37 schreef dellipder het volgende:
Technisch gezien, klopt dit natuurlijk.
Jouw bericht was echter onmiskenbaar een directe reactie op die van mij.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:43 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Maar inderdaad zie ik geen verband tussen Manafort en Trump wanneer manafort wordt opgepakt vanwege zijn handelingen die hij een x aantal jaar heeft gedaan voordat ie überhaupt bij Trump terecht kwam.
Wel kun je links leggen tussen Manafort, Podesta, en Clinton.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:43 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Je reageert op een clown.

Maar inderdaad zie ik geen verband tussen Manafort en Trump wanneer manafort wordt opgepakt vanwege zijn handelingen die hij een x aantal jaar heeft gedaan voordat ie überhaupt bij Trump terecht kwam.
Wel kun je links leggen tussen Manafort, Podesta, en Clinton.

Al twijfel ik er niet aan dat de media het zo zal spinnen dat het toch weer naar Trump wijst. Of desnoods gaan ze mueller aanvallen, wat al overigens gaande is.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:46 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoe werkt dat? Manafort was maandenlang campagneleider voor Trump en niks van Clinton... hij heeft wel samengewerkt met de Podesta Group, maar waarom dat dan opeens wel relevant is en dat eerdere niet snap ik niet.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:46 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoe werkt dat? Manafort was maandenlang campagneleider voor Trump en niks van Clinton... hij heeft wel samengewerkt met de Podesta Group, maar waarom dat dan opeens wel relevant is en dat eerdere niet snap ik niet.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:51 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Okay, jij mag het me uitleggen.
Manafort doet handeling x in 2013 terwijl hij banden heeft met de Podesta group.

Hoe, met welke bizarre hersenkronkel, is dit te koppelen aan Trump, waar hij pas een paar jaar later voor ging werken?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:46 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoe werkt dat? Manafort was maandenlang campagneleider voor Trump en niks van Clinton... hij heeft wel samengewerkt met de Podesta Group, maar waarom dat dan opeens wel relevant is en dat eerdere niet snap ik niet.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:51 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Alleen al vanwege de naam Podesta, ook de enige reden dat Refragmental en Mangotree weer reageren in dit topic.

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The extent of Manafort’s suspicious transactions was so vast, said this former official, that law enforcement agents drafted a series of “intelligence reports” about Manafort’s financial dealings. Two law enforcement officials who worked on the case say that they found red flags in his banking records going back as far as 2004, and that the transactions in question totaled many millions of dollars.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:55 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Wellicht dat Tony Podesta en Manafort worden opgepakt wegens het bezoeken van een pizzatent annex kindermartelmisbruikkelder.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:57 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Het grappig is dat jij zowat de enige bent die nog over pizza begint hier. De obsessie en frustratie zit diep

Intussen staat zowat heel Hollywood op z'n kop vanwege allemaal pedo schandalen.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:57 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
De stupiditeit zit hem vooral in het weigeren te lezen van de bronnen waar het verhaal op gesteund is trouwens. Nu is het weer 'Ja maar het gaat over iets wat Manafort in 2013 deed dus dat maakt niet uit'. Het nieuwsbericht beschrijft hoe Buzzfeed weet heeft van 13 transacties tussen 2012 en 2013, maar dat deze slechts een onderdeel zijn het hele verhaal.

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Zo moeilijk is lezen toch niet, zou je zeggen.

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Op vrijdag 27 oktober 2017 18:16 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Over het (negentiende) interview van Trump met FOX

Trump Has Now Been Interviewed On Fox News 19 Times

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:57 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Intussen staat zowat heel Hollywood op z'n kop vanwege allemaal pedo schandalen.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 08:51 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Okay, jij mag het me uitleggen.
Manafort doet handeling x in 2013 terwijl hij banden heeft met de Podesta group.

Hoe, met welke bizarre hersenkronkel, is dit te koppelen aan Trump, waar hij pas een paar jaar later voor ging werken?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 09:48 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
Het is eigenlijk wel prsachtig hoe wanhopig Trumps laatste tweets wel niet klinken. En dat is dan president van het machtigste land op aard.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 09:48 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
Het is eigenlijk wel prsachtig hoe wanhopig Trumps laatste tweets wel niet klinken. En dat is dan president van het machtigste land op aard.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 10:05 schreef Montov het volgende:
Waar woonde Manafort ook alweer rond 2014?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 10:05 schreef Montov het volgende:
Waar woonde Manafort ook alweer rond 2014?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 09:48 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
Het is eigenlijk wel prachtig hoe wanhopig Trumps laatste tweets wel niet klinken. En dat is dan president van het machtigste land op aard.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 10:29 schreef Urb het volgende:

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Als hij full retard tweet naar aanleiding van wat er vandaag of wanneer dan ook uit dat onderzoek mag komen zou dat toch zelfs als obstruction gezien kunnen worden. Of kan dat zo'n vaart niet lopen?

Beter houden ze hem een beetje in bedwang iig, voor zover mogelijk.

twitter:

funder twitterde op zaterdag 28-10-2017 om 16:35:36 Sr GOP official says they are scrambling to keep Republican Members of Congress from talking about impeaching Trump on weekend shows. #AMJoy reageer retweet

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 10:50 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

twitter:

funder twitterde op zaterdag 28-10-2017 om 16:35:36 Sr GOP official says they are scrambling to keep Republican Members of Congress from talking about impeaching Trump on weekend shows. #AMJoy reageer retweet

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 10:52 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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uitstel van executie?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 10:59 schreef HendrikV het volgende:

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En dat is post nmr 1000046383 over dat trump zijn laatste minuten zijn geslagen.

Het optimisme viert hoogtij. Nog minimaal 3 jaar dames.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 10:59 schreef HendrikV het volgende:

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En dat is post nmr 1000046383 over dat trump zijn laatste minuten zin geslagen.

Het optimisme viert hoogtij. Nog minimaal 3 jaar dames.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:01 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Boek binnenkort maar een plaatsje:

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 10:59 schreef HendrikV het volgende:

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En dat is post nmr 1000046383 over dat trump zijn laatste minuten zijn geslagen.

Het optimisme viert hoogtij. Nog minimaal 3 jaar dames.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:36 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

De WSJ geeft nu overigens aan dat het misschien verstandig is voor Trump om alvast een blanket pardon uit te delen zonder te weten wie de "daders" zijn en ook voor mueller om het onderzoek te laten vallen en door Congress te laten uitvoeren.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:36 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Hahaha, ik moest lachen.

De WSJ geeft nu overigens aan dat het misschien verstandig is voor Trump om alvast een blanket pardon uit te delen zonder te weten wie de "daders" zijn en ook voor mueller om het onderzoek te laten vallen en door Congress te laten uitvoeren. Valt een beetje in lijn met de uitspraken dat Mueller moet opstappen enzo binnen de media de afgelopen dagen. Die voelen natuurlijk ook aan dat ondanks hun fake news van het afgelopen jaar, zo'n onderzoek zich niks van die fake news aantrekt en daadwerkelijk achter echte informatie aan gaat. Kans is aanwezig dat er wat democraten tussen zitten, dan is zo'n blanket pardon natuurlijk wel erg fijn hahaha.

https://www.wsj.com/amp/a(...)president-1509302308

https://archive.is/GEDKj

Blijft spannend

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:43 schreef Mike het volgende:
Het lijkt me overigens een enorme fout als ze het onderzoek zouden overdragen aan het congres, want dan weet je zeker dat er niks meer van terecht komt.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:43 schreef Mike het volgende:
Het lijkt me overigens een enorme fout als ze het onderzoek zouden overdragen aan het congres, want dan weet je zeker dat er niks meer van terecht komt.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:47 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Mochten er democraten worden opgepakt, dan verwacht ik niks anders dat allemaal oproepen uit de linkse hoek om mueller's onderzoek over te dragen aan Congress, juist omdat er dan niks meer van terecht komt.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:42 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Wie verspreidt er precies fake news? Welke leugens zijn allemaal bedacht door de 'liberal media'?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:43 schreef Mike het volgende:
Het lijkt me overigens een enorme fout als ze het onderzoek zouden overdragen aan het congres, want dan weet je zeker dat er niks meer van terecht komt.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:47 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Mochten er democraten worden opgepakt, dan verwacht ik niks anders dat allemaal oproepen uit de linkse hoek om mueller's onderzoek over te dragen aan Congress, juist omdat er dan niks meer van terecht komt.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:47 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Mochten er democraten worden opgepakt, dan verwacht ik niks anders dat allemaal oproepen uit de linkse hoek om mueller's onderzoek over te dragen aan Congress, juist omdat er dan niks meer van terecht komt.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:48 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Dat gaan ze alleen doen wanneer de president zelf vuile handen zou hebben. Dan is het namelijk gewoon een politiek issue.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:49 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Er IS geen "linkse" hoek in de VS. De democraten zijn net zo rechts als de VVD.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:50 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Daar komen de eerste smoesjes al.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:42 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Wie verspreidt er precies fake news? Welke leugens zijn allemaal bedacht door de 'liberal media'?

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:49 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Dat jij, gezien je verdere waanbeelden, dat verwacht is niet vreemd, maar het maakt niet verder niet aannemelijk of waarschijnlijk.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:50 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Daar komen de eerste smoesjes al.

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Op maandag 30 oktober 2017 11:51 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Er gaan nu al oproepen om mueller te ontslaan/ontheffen vanuit de media.