[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #457: Exit McCabe

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Op woensdag 31 januari 2018 23:01 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Nog even over Gowdy hè. Dit staat in het transcript wat net vrijgegeven is.

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*pakt aluhoedje

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“We have a human trafficking crisis in our state and in this city and in our country because people are willing to purchase women, young women, and treat them like commodities. There is a market for it. Why is there? Because our culture has completely lost its way. The sexual revolution has led to exploitation of women on a scale that we would never have imagined, never have imagined,” Hawley told the crowd in audio obtained by The Star this week.

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Exclusive: Trump asked Rosenstein if he was 'on my team'

Washington (CNN)Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein visited the White House in December seeking President Donald Trump's help. The top Justice Department official in the Russia investigation wanted Trump's support in fighting off document demands from House Intelligence Chairman Devin Nunes.

But the President had other priorities ahead of a key appearance by Rosenstein on the Hill, according to sources familiar with the meeting. Trump wanted to know where the special counsel's Russia investigation was heading. And he wanted to know whether Rosenstein was "on my team."
The episode is the latest to come to light portraying a President whose inquiries sometimes cross a line that presidents traditionally have tried to avoid when dealing with the Justice Department, for which a measure of independence is key. The exchange could raise further questions about whether Trump was seeking to interfere in the investigation by special counsel Robert Mueller, who is looking into potential collusion by the Trump campaign with Russia and obstruction of justice by the White House.

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Op woensdag 31 januari 2018 23:26 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
OMFG

De Republikeinse kandidaat voor de senaat (Missouri)

Josh Hawley blames sex trafficking on ‘sexual revolution’ of 1960s in leaked audio

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Op woensdag 31 januari 2018 23:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Flashback naar de 'legitimate rape' van 2012. McCaskill is van alle Democraten de meest kwetsbare, in 2012 redde ze het omdat ze het tegen een totale mafkees moest opnemen. Ben benieuwd of deze gast net zo van het padje blijkt te zijn. Dit voorspelt in ieder geval niet veel goeds.

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Op woensdag 31 januari 2018 23:42 schreef Euribob het volgende:
En ze heeft nu ook de anti-Trump boost natuurlijk, dat maakt het allemaal ook wel wat makkelijker.

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The top Republican in the Pennsylvania Senate told the state’s Supreme Court on Wednesday that he is refusing to follow a court order asking lawmakers to turn over data to help correct a gerrymandered congressional map.

The letter from Senate President Pro Tempore Joseph Scarnati was the latest move Republicans have made to slow down the process of redrawing the congressional map, which the Pennsylvania Supreme Court ruled was in violation of the state constitution earlier this month.

The court is giving lawmakers and Gov. Tom Wolf (D) until Feb. 15 to come up with a new map. If they can’t agree on one by then, the court has appointed a special master to get one in place so that the state’s scheduled election primaries can run smoothly. To help the special master draw a map, the court asked lawmakers to provide data on Pennsylvania municipalities and precincts by noon on Wednesday.

But Scarnati said he would refuse to comply. He said the court was not giving lawmakers a realistic time frame or guidance to redraw the map and was trying to “usurp” the right the U.S. Constitution gave them to draw congressional lines.

“In light of the unconstitutionality of the Court’s Orders and the Court’s plain intent to usurp the General Assembly’s constitutionally delegated role of drafting Pennsylvania’s congressional district plan, Senator Scarnati will not be turning over any data identified in the Court’s Orders,” Brian Paszamant, Scarnati’s attorney, wrote in a letter to the court.

Paszamant also said Scarnati did not have some of the data the court was asking for.

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Mueller Zooms In on Trump Tower Cover Story

WASHINGTON — Aboard Air Force One on a flight home from Europe last July, President Trump and his advisers raced to cobble together a news release about a mysterious meeting at Trump Tower the previous summer between Russians and top Trump campaign officials. Rather than acknowledge the meeting’s intended purpose — to obtain political dirt about Hillary Clinton from the Russian government — the statement instead described the meeting as being about an obscure Russian adoption policy.

The statement, released in response to questions from The New York Times about the meeting, has become a focus of the inquiry by Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election. Prosecutors working for Mr. Mueller in recent months have questioned numerous White House officials about how the release came together — and about how directly Mr. Trump oversaw the process. Mr. Mueller’s team recently notified Mr. Trump’s lawyers that the Air Force One statement is one of about a dozen subjects that prosecutors want to discuss in a face-to-face interview of Mr. Trump that is still being negotiated.

The revelation of the meeting was striking: It placed the president’s son and his top campaign officials in direct contact with a Russian lawyer who promised damaging information on Mrs. Clinton, and an email to the president’s son emerged saying that the information was part of Russia’s effort to help the Trump campaign. The special counsel is investigating how those revelations were handled in real time in part because the president was involved in his administration’s response.

Some lawyers and witnesses who have sat in or been briefed on the interviews have puzzled over Mr. Mueller’s interest in the episode. Lying to federal investigators is a crime; lying to the news media is not. For that reason, some of Mr. Trump’s advisers argue that Mr. Mueller has no grounds to ask the president about the statement and say he should refuse to discuss it.

What is already clear is that, as Mr. Trump’s aides and family members tried over 48 hours to manage one of most consequential crises of the young administration, the situation quickly degenerated into something of a circular firing squad. They protected their own interests, shifted blame and potentially left themselves — and the president — legally vulnerable.

The latest witness to be called for an interview about the episode was Mark Corallo, who served as a spokesman for Mr. Trump’s legal team before resigning in July. Mr. Corallo received an interview request last week from the special counsel and has agreed to the interview, according to three people with knowledge of the request.

Mr. Corallo is planning to tell Mr. Mueller about a previously undisclosed conference call with Mr. Trump and Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, according to the three people. Mr. Corallo planned to tell investigators that Ms. Hicks said during the call that emails written by Donald Trump Jr. before the Trump Tower meeting — in which the younger Mr. Trump said he was eager to receive political dirt about Mrs. Clinton from the Russians — “will never get out.” That left Mr. Corallo with concerns that Ms. Hicks could be contemplating obstructing justice, the people said.

Etc. Etc.

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2018 03:17 schreef Szura het volgende:
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)e-hicks-mueller.html

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2018 03:26 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Oeps!

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RepAdamSchiff twitterde op donderdag 01-02-2018 om 04:00:23 BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House - changes not approved by the Committee. White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release. https://t.co/llhQK9L7l6 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2018 04:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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RepAdamSchiff twitterde op donderdag 01-02-2018 om 04:00:23 BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House - changes not approved by the Committee. White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release. https://t.co/llhQK9L7l6 reageer retweet

Onbegrijpelijk dat deze man zo lang zijn gang heeft kunnen gaan

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Op woensdag 31 januari 2018 23:37 schreef Mike het volgende:
Trump heeft een echt loyalty-probleem:

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Link: http://edition.cnn.com/20(...)r-meeting/index.html

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 01-02-2018 om 04:27:59 YES!Lanny Davis (writing for THE HILL) is smelling what I've been cooking since December 2016. It's this narrative—wholly factual, supported by audio, video, emails, and tweets—that needs to become part of our national discourse. It's long, long overdue. https://t.co/HdhGdtY8Va reageer retweet

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The visible tip of the iceberg was James Comey’s Oct. 28, 2016, letter to Congress. All data proves that, but for that letter 11 days from Election Day, Hillary Clinton wins the presidency.

But evidence suggests that below that iceberg tip was, in effect, a “deep state” campaign, comprising certain active or former FBI agents, mostly from the powerful New York City office, former NYC Mayor and pathological Hillary hater Rudy Giuliani, and the vast right-wing media complex (amplified by the Russian government and bots).

The trigger of the campaign was Comey’s July 5 public announcement that no criminal case could be reasonably brought against Hillary Clinton for her email practices. Shortly thereafter, the effort to pressure Comey to change his mind and reopen the criminal investigation went into high gear.
But not too quickly. If possible, Comey’s decision to reopen needed to be delayed until the closing days of the campaign. And, with more than a little bit of luck, that is exactly what happened.

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FrankJannuzi twitterde op woensdag 31-01-2018 om 05:32:16 I don't spook easily. I was trained to do military analysis, specializing in East Asia -- China, North Korea, Vietnam. I am more worried today than at any point since 1994 DPRK nuclear crisis. US stands on the precipice of a catastrophic mistake on the Korean Peninsula. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 31 januari 2018 18:18 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Welnee, die stemden op Hillary toen ze nog illegaal waren, weet je nog?

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2018 03:17 schreef Szura het volgende:
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)e-hicks-mueller.html

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2018 04:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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RepAdamSchiff twitterde op donderdag 01-02-2018 om 04:00:23 BREAKING: Discovered late tonight that Chairman Nunes made material changes to the memo he sent to White House - changes not approved by the Committee. White House therefore reviewing a document the Committee has not approved for release. https://t.co/llhQK9L7l6 reageer retweet

Onbegrijpelijk dat deze man zo lang zijn gang heeft kunnen gaan

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ByronYork twitterde op donderdag 01-02-2018 om 05:31:00 Just talked with House Intel source. Said total changes to memo were: A) Unknown number of 'grammatical and clarifying' fixes. B) One change requested by FBI due to sources & methods concerns. C) One two-word change requested by Democrats for accuracy. House Intel GOP statement: https://t.co/ZkNuMBoLZK reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 1 februari 2018 06:24 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Het is vooral een narcisme probleem.