[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #465

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Op dinsdag 27 februari 2018 23:33 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Roger Stone's Secret Messages with WikiLeaks

Transcripts obtained by The Atlantic show Donald Trump's longtime confidante corresponded with the radical-transparency group.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 00:26 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Lekker, dat WikiLeaks wordt eindelijk ook eens uitgekleed .

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The political strategist and online guru who was named President Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign manager Tuesday has a close financial relationship with a penny-stock firm with a questionable history that includes longstanding ties to a convicted fraudster, according to an Associated Press investigation.

Brad Parscale, who played a key role in Trump’s 2016 election victory, signed a $10 million deal in August to sell his digital marketing company to CloudCommerce Inc. As part of the deal, Parscale currently serves as a member of California-based company’s management team.

The company touts itself as “a global provider of cloud-driven e-commerce and mobile commerce solutions.” But records reviewed by the AP raise questions about its current financial picture and its rocky past.

Cloud Commerce’s operations have not turned a profit in nearly a decade, the records indicate. The company’s most recent quarterly earnings showed it has spent more than $19 million in investor money since its creation nearly two decades ago and has only $107,000 in cash on hand.

And in 2006, a top executive at the company, which was operating under a different name at the time, was caught in an FBI bribery sting and later pleaded guilty to securities fraud. The company said the former executive no longer has any connection to the company, but documents reviewed by the AP indicate he has remained involved in CloudCommerce’s major corporate decisions in recent years.

Parscale did not answer written questions from the AP about what he knew regarding CloudCommerce and its history when he sold his firm to the company and joined its board of directors.

A press release announcing Parscale’s hiring as Trump’s new campaign manager included Eric Trump calling him “an amazing talent” who has the Trump family’s “complete trust.”

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 01:02 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump campaign chief lends name to penny stock tied to felon

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 01:05 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dit is dus waarom je niet drie jaar voor de verkiezingen je campagnemanager bekend moet gaan maken

Die is al weg voordat de campagne überhaupt begonnen is, mark my words.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 01:10 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Nog meer onderzoek voor Mueller

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 01:13 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dit lijkt me niet onder Mueller's taakomschrijving vallen. Hij is niet de enige aanklager in de VS hè.

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oneunderscore__ twitterde op dinsdag 27-02-2018 om 16:34:23 Here's the tweet from the Kremlin troll farm Trump's reported new campaign director Brad Parscale amplified three weeks before the 2016 election.https://t.co/izNiVpH34p https://t.co/oF3ICLGuwA reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 01:31:19 BREAKING NEWS: Top Trump Aide George Papadopoulos' Kremlin-Agent Contact Josef Mifsud (Who Has Disappeared) Is Revealed to be "Friend" of Sergei Lavrov, the Man the Steele Dossier Said in 2016 Was Running Trump-Russia Coordination and Trump Blackmail: https://t.co/EqgLhvCvfH … https://t.co/2cEIvwfoyk reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 01:33:10 2/ Sergei Lavrov is also the man who Trump disclosed classified intelligence to in the Oval Office......another sign that, as law professor Jonathan Turley recently argued in THE HILL, there is *no evidence whatsoever* of Trump-Russia collusion. /sarcasm reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 02:05 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 01:31:19 BREAKING NEWS: Top Trump Aide George Papadopoulos' Kremlin-Agent Contact Josef Mifsud (Who Has Disappeared) Is Revealed to be "Friend" of Sergei Lavrov, the Man the Steele Dossier Said in 2016 Was Running Trump-Russia Coordination and Trump Blackmail: https://t.co/EqgLhvCvfH … https://t.co/2cEIvwfoyk reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 01:33:10 2/ Sergei Lavrov is also the man who Trump disclosed classified intelligence to in the Oval Office......another sign that, as law professor Jonathan Turley recently argued in THE HILL, there is *no evidence whatsoever* of Trump-Russia collusion. /sarcasm reageer retweet

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Investigators for special counsel Robert Mueller have recently been asking witnesses about Donald Trump's business activities in Russia prior to the 2016 presidential campaign as he considered a run for president, according to three people familiar with the matter.

Questions to some witnesses during wide-ranging interviews included the timing of Trump's decision to seek the presidency, potentially compromising information the Russians may have had about him, and why efforts to brand a Trump Tower in Moscow fell through, two sources said.

The lines of inquiry indicate Mueller's team is reaching beyond the campaign to explore how the Russians might have sought to influence Trump at a time when he was discussing deals in Moscow and contemplating a presidential run.

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Holder on why he might run for president in 2020: 'I think I've got the guts'

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Q: From where you’ve sat and where you sit now, has President Trump obstructed justice?

ERIC HOLDER: “I think you can make a pretty good technical case.”

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Op dinsdag 27 februari 2018 16:31 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Politico mag niet eens bij Trump langs. Geloof jij het vodje nu ineens wel?

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Op dinsdag 27 februari 2018 23:35 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Vandaag weer special elections:

New Hampshire House of Representatives District Belknap 3
Oorzaak: Donald Flanders (R) is overleden
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: Dit district heeft 4 zetels, de uitkomst leidde tot 3 R en 1 D
2016 presidentiele verkiezing: Trump 53,63% - 41,17% Clinton
2012 presidentiele verkiezing: Obama 50,13% - 49,12% Romney

Kentucky House of Representatives District 89
Oorzaak: Marie Rader (R) heeft haar ontslag ingediend vanwege gezondheidsredenen
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: Geen tegenstander
2014 verkiezing deze zetel: R 70,2% - 29,8% D
2016 presidentiele verkiezing: Trump 58,94% - 34,35% Clinton
2012 presidentiele verkiezing: Obama 38,90% - 58,93% Romney

Connecticut House of Representatives District 120
Oorzaak: Laura Hoydick (R) heeft haar ontslag ingediend nadat ze burgemeester is geworden
2016 verkiezing van deze zetel: R 62,69% - 37,31% D
2014 verkiezing van deze zetel: R 62,8% - 33,8% D (- 3,5% Independent)
2016 presidentiele verkiezing: Trump 46,86% - 49,00% Clinton
2012 presidentiele verkiezing: Obama 52,66% - 46,17% Romney

Alle zetels hebben zowel een R als D kandidaat. Zo te bezien twee redelijke kansen om een zetel te pakken van de republikeinen voor de democraten lijkt het.

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Democrats have now picked up 41 seats in contests since Trump's election.

Democrat Philip Spagnuolo won a special election for the Belknap 3 House District in New Hampshire Tuesday night, adding yet another state legislative flip to Democrats' already impressive roster of Trump-era special election wins.

He won by a seven-point margin in a district that Trump carried by 12 percentage points, making for a very impressive 19-point swing toward the Democrats. Meanwhile, over in Connecticut Democrats flipped another seat -- House District 120 -- winning a narrow 51-49 race in a seat that Clinton carried 49-47.

Earlier in the evening, a Democrat running for a seat in deep red Kentucky pulled off an even more impressive swing, losing by "only" 34 points in a district that Trump carried by a landslide 79-17 margin.

The New Hampshire House is enormous, so a single seat there doesn't make a huge difference. And the 28-point improvement on Hillary Clinton's results in Kentucky is at best a moral victory. But in the aggregate, special elections are painting a picture of a building Democratic wave. And since Trump took office, Democrats have picked up an impressive 41 seats in elections across the country.

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Republican Robert Goforth wins the special election for the 8th House District seat in the Kentucky legislature.

Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes announced the results Tuesday evening, with Goforth acquiring 2,809 votes, while Democratic challenger Kelly Smith had 1,399 votes.

Goforth won Jackson County 1,320-225, and he won Laurel County 538-146. Smith won in Madison County 1,028-951.

Goforth will replace Marie Rader, who resigned from the seat on Dec. 31 due to health reasons.

Election results will be certified next Tuesday.

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Hope Hicks, the White House communications director, told House investigators on Tuesday that her work for President Trump, who has a reputation for exaggerations and outright falsehoods, had occasionally required her to tell white lies.

But after extended consultation with her lawyers, she insisted that she had not lied about matters material to the investigations into Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and possible links to Trump associates, according to three people familiar with her testimony.

The exchange came during more than eight hours of private testimony before the House Intelligence Committee. Ms. Hicks declined to answer similar questions about other figures from the Trump campaign or the White House.

She also pointedly and repeatedly declined to answer questions about the presidential transition or her time in the White House, lawmakers who sat in on the testimony said, telling investigators that she had been asked by the White House to discuss only her time on the campaign. They added that she did not formally invoke executive privilege.

A lawyer for Ms. Hicks declined to comment.

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Op dinsdag 27 februari 2018 14:55 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
Hij is gewoon letterlijk Fox News aan het herhalen nu.

Wat een dwaas

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 05:40 schreef Blue_Panther_Ninja het volgende:
Wat is er toch telkens met EU mensen en hun haat jegens 2A/NRA/conservatieven/DJT e.d?

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Op dinsdag 27 februari 2018 23:35 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Vandaag weer special elections:

New Hampshire House of Representatives District Belknap 3
Oorzaak: Donald Flanders (R) is overleden
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: Dit district heeft 4 zetels, de uitkomst leidde tot 3 R en 1 D
2016 presidentiele verkiezing: Trump 53,63% - 41,17% Clinton
2012 presidentiele verkiezing: Obama 50,13% - 49,12% Romney

Kentucky House of Representatives District 89
Oorzaak: Marie Rader (R) heeft haar ontslag ingediend vanwege gezondheidsredenen
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: Geen tegenstander
2014 verkiezing deze zetel: R 70,2% - 29,8% D
2016 presidentiele verkiezing: Trump 58,94% - 34,35% Clinton
2012 presidentiele verkiezing: Obama 38,90% - 58,93% Romney

Connecticut House of Representatives District 120
Oorzaak: Laura Hoydick (R) heeft haar ontslag ingediend nadat ze burgemeester is geworden
2016 verkiezing van deze zetel: R 62,69% - 37,31% D
2014 verkiezing van deze zetel: R 62,8% - 33,8% D (- 3,5% Independent)
2016 presidentiele verkiezing: Trump 46,86% - 49,00% Clinton
2012 presidentiele verkiezing: Obama 52,66% - 46,17% Romney

Alle zetels hebben zowel een R als D kandidaat. Zo te bezien twee redelijke kansen om een zetel te pakken van de republikeinen voor de democraten lijkt het.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 08:58 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Waarom komt 'de andere kant' toch nooit veel verder dan een beetje dom proberen te trollen e.d.?

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Court Orders Trump To Stop Revoking Dreamers’ Protections Without Notice (HuffPo)

The Trump administration has to stop revoking undocumented young people’s deportation protections without due process, a federal judge ruled on Monday.

The new order does not affect President Donald Trump’s effort — launched in September but currently on hold because of a separate court ruling — to end the broader Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program.

That’s because in addition to rescinding DACA as a whole, the Trump administration has repeatedly terminated individual undocumented immigrants’ deportation protections without providing notice or a chance to respond.

On Monday, U.S. District Judge Philip Gutierrez issued a preliminary injunction to halt that practice. Under the order, the government must reinstate deportation protections for certain individuals and cannot revoke them from others unless it first notifies those people, offers an explanation and allows them to respond.

If the government had done that, José Gil Robles, a 25-year-old undocumented immigrant who came to the U.S. at age five, wouldn’t have lost his status in the first place, according to the suit.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 04:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Hope Hicks Acknowledges She Sometimes Tells White Lies for Trump

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ChadWigmore twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 03:58:54 Define "white lies". Define "sometimes". Asking for a friend (his name is Robert) reageer retweet

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Kris_Sacrebleu twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 03:54:21 Common white lies:"I'm five minutes away", "You look great", "I'm fine", "I was just about to call you", "There was no collusion with the Russians". (Wait a minute! One of these things is not like the other.) 🤔 reageer retweet