[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #466

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Special counsel Robert Mueller's team is asking witnesses pointed questions about whether Donald Trump was aware that Democratic emails had been stolen before that was publicly known, and whether he was involved in their strategic release, according to multiple people familiar with the probe.

Mueller's investigators have asked witnesses whether Trump was aware of plans for WikiLeaks to publish the emails. They have also asked about the relationship between GOP operative Roger Stone and WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, and why Trump took policy positions favorable to Russia.

The line of questioning suggests the special counsel, who is tasked with examining whether there was collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 election, is looking into possible coordination between WikiLeaks and Trump associates in disseminating the emails, which U.S. intelligence officials say were stolen by Russia.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 20:59 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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De blik van Hope zegt alles, Mueller heeft geen poot om op te staan.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 20:59 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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De blik van Hope zegt alles, Mueller heeft geen poot om op te staan.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 21:18 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik snap niet eens wat je bedoelt... Welke claim van Mueller klopt niet of welke handeling mag niet?

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 21:19 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Hij bedoelt: "Ik ben niet geïnteresseerd in politiek, maar ik kom gewoon weer even trollen".

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Hope Hicks, the White House communications director and one of President Trump’s longest-serving advisers, said Wednesday that she was resigning.

Ms. Hicks, 29, a former model who joined Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign without any experience in politics, became known as one of the few aides who understood his personality and style and could challenge the president to change his views.

Ms. Hicks had been considering leaving for several months. She told colleagues that she had accomplished what she felt she could with a job that made her one of the most powerful people in Washington, and that there would never be a perfect moment to leave, according to White House aides.

Her resignation came a day after she testified for eight hours before the House Intelligence Committee, telling the panel that in her job, she had occasionally been required to tell white lies but had never lied about anything connected to the investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 22:34 schreef OMG het volgende:
Da's dan omdat Mueller geen poot om op te staan heeft, of wat?

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WardDPatrick twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 21:28:26 President Trump tells Senators he thinks police should have taken guns away from Nikolas Cruz, whether they had the right or not, "I don't want mentally ill people to be having guns." https://t.co/wU6L8ERlas reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 23:23 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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WardDPatrick twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 21:28:26 President Trump tells Senators he thinks police should have taken guns away from Nikolas Cruz, whether they had the right or not, "I don't want mentally ill people to be having guns." https://t.co/wU6L8ERlas reageer retweet

Trump dropping the truth bombs

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 22:33 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Hope Hicks to Resign as White House Communications Director

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 00:27 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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"Ik ben net acht uur lang geïnterviewd over mogelijk strafbare feiten gepleegd door mijn baas, dan ga ik nu maar eens ontslag nemen wat ik trouwens al maanden overwoog, later!"

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 00:27 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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"Ik ben net acht uur lang geïnterviewd over mogelijk strafbare feiten gepleegd door mijn baas, dan ga ik nu maar eens ontslag nemen wat ik trouwens al maanden overwoog, later!"

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Phil_Mattingly twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 23:54:24 this @BenSasse statement on the White House meeting on guns is an on the record, profanity-free version of what many GOP aides have been e-mailing/texting in the last few hours: https://t.co/g2r5RnltVV reageer retweet

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thehill twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 00:52:08 JUST IN: Walmart to raise minimum age for gun purchases to 21 https://t.co/E6PXaN2gjr https://t.co/ViSCgOGkZv reageer retweet

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One of the White House's most important diplomats happens to be an artist -- with a top secret security clearance.

That means the chief White House calligrapher now has greater access to sensitive information than White House adviser -- and President Donald Trump's son-in-law -- Jared Kushner.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 01:35 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 01:43 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Calligrapher, is dat zo iemand die als een franciscaan hele mooie letters kan tekenen?

Waarom hebben ze er überhaupt een in dienst?

Sterker nog, het zijn er blijkbaar meerdere anders heb je geen Chief nodig. Trump ondertekent alles gewoon met z'n zwarte sharpie en voor de rest kan/wil hij toch niks lezen.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 01:43 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Sterker nog, het zijn er blijkbaar meerdere anders heb je geen Chief nodig.

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AP_Images twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 21:00:19 Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles and some wearing bullet crowns, participated in a commitment ceremony today at World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, in Newfoundland, Pa. The event led a nearby school to cancel classes for the day. Photos @jacquelinelarma https://t.co/GXzrZeK41z reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 02:05 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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AP_Images twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 21:00:19 Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles and some wearing bullet crowns, participated in a commitment ceremony today at World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, in Newfoundland, Pa. The event led a nearby school to cancel classes for the day. Photos @jacquelinelarma https://t.co/GXzrZeK41z reageer retweet

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Early last year, a private equity billionaire started paying regular visits to the White House.

Joshua Harris, a founder of Apollo Global Management, was advising Trump administration officials on infrastructure policy. During that period, he met on multiple occasions with Jared Kushner, President Trump’s son-in-law and senior adviser, said three people familiar with the meetings. Among other things, the two men discussed a possible White House job for Mr. Harris.

The job never materialized, but in November, Apollo lent $184 million to Mr. Kushner’s family real estate firm, Kushner Companies. The loan was to refinance the mortgage on a Chicago skyscraper.

Even by the standards of Apollo, one of the world’s largest private equity firms, the previously unreported transaction with the Kushners was a big deal: It was triple the size of the average property loan made by Apollo’s real estate lending arm, securities filings show.

It was one of the largest loans Kushner Companies received last year. An even larger loan came from Citigroup, which lent the firm and one of its partners $325 million to help finance a group of office buildings in Brooklyn.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 03:38 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Kushner’s Business Got Loans From Companies After White House Meetings

Apollo, the private equity firm, and Citigroup made large loans last year to the family real estate business of Jared Kushner, President Trump’s senior adviser.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 23:09 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:
Trump zegt net ook achteloos dat de politie preventief wapens moet kunnen afpakken van Amerikaanse burgers.

Dat zal er bij de NRA/MAGA crowd lekker ingaan.

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Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III has been investigating a period of time last summer when President Trump seemed determined to drive Attorney General Jeff Sessions from his job, according to people familiar with the matter who said that a key area of interest for the inquiry is whether those efforts were part of a months-long pattern of attempted obstruction of justice.

In recent months, Mueller’s team has questioned witnesses in detail about Trump’s private comments and state of mind in late July and early August of last year, around the time he issued a series of tweets belittling his “beleaguered” attorney general, these people said. The thrust of the questions was to determine whether the president’s goal was to oust Sessions in order to pick a replacement who would exercise control over the investigation into possible coordination between Russia and Trump associates during the 2016 election, these people said.

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Behind the scenes, Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as “Mr. Magoo,” a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling, according to people with whom he has spoken. Trump has told associates that he has hired the best lawyers for his entire life, but is stuck with Sessions, who is not defending him and is not sufficiently loyal.

While Sessions has told associates he had been wounded by the attacks, he has also insisted he’s not going to resign, so the cold war continues.

On the anniversary of Sessions’s confirmation earlier this month, senior aides decided to buy Sessions a bulletproof vest with his name emblazoned on it as a gift, according to a person familiar with the matter.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 23:23 schreef Nintex het volgende:
https://video.twimg.com/tweet_video/DXJtfnsX4AADOad.mp4

The resistance

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WardDPatrick twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 21:28:26 President Trump tells Senators he thinks police should have taken guns away from Nikolas Cruz, whether they had the right or not, "I don't want mentally ill people to be having guns." https://t.co/wU6L8ERlas reageer retweet

Trump dropping the truth bombs

Zei ook dat de GOP niet zo bang moest zijn voor de NRA

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 07:58 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ben je nou echt zo achterlijk of wat?

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 20:59 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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De blik van Hope zegt alles, Mueller heeft geen poot om op te staan.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 01:19 schreef Tchock het volgende:
Via Reddit: alle ontslagen en opgestapte leden van de regering-Trump tot nu toe. Belachelijk lange lijst

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 04:34 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:

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In een dag van epische clusterfucks is dit met afstand het grootste schandaal.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 04:44 schreef Szura het volgende:
Trump’s tirades richting Sessions onder de loep van Mueller

https://www.washingtonpos(...)748f892c0_story.html

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Uit hetzelfde stuk:

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Oké dan
Het blijft een maffioso, Trump met z’n loyaliteit

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Tienduizenden wapens in Australië ingeleverd, en een raketwerper (NOS)

In Australië zijn tienduizenden niet-geregistreerde vuurwapens ingeleverd. Als mensen dat vrijwillig deden binnen de speciale inleverperiode werden ze niet vervolgd.

In totaal werden 57.324 wapens ingeleverd, waaronder 2900 pistolen en 2500 mitrailleurs en semi-automatische wapens. Ook kwamen er behoorlijk wat bijzondere wapens binnen. Zo kwam iemand in Queensland met een heuse raketwerper aanzetten, werd er een Duits machinegeweer uit de Eerste Wereldoorlog in beslag genomen en werden er verschillende pistolen uit de negentiende eeuw ingeleverd.
Kritiek

Australië wil het aantal ongeregistreerde wapens dat in omloop is sterk verminderen. De roep om een inleveractie kwam voort uit een schietpartij waarbij een man in een café in Sydney in 2014 mensen gijzelde en twee gegijzelden doodschoot. De dader deed dat met een pistool dat niet was geregistreerd.

Critici denken echter dat de inleveractie het beoogde effect helemaal niet heeft bereikt. "De overheid zegt dat er wapens van de straat mee gehaald worden. De wapens die hier zijn ingeleverd, zijn nooit op de straat geweest. Het zijn de oude geweren van opa, die achterin een kast lagen of aan de wand hingen. Die zouden nooit bij een misdrijf worden gebruikt", verzucht een Australische senator.

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 22:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
https://mobile.twitter.com/byrdinator/status/968959790750814208

who’s excited to ask Republican senators if they agree with the Republican president that law enforcement should confiscate guns without regard for due process???

this gal

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Republicans Gobsmacked by Trump's Gun Control Comments(The Weekly Standard)
The president suggested gun confiscation could come before due process in a televised bipartisan meeting with members of Congress.

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“Ummm. I don’t know,” Senate Republican Conference chairman John Thune responded afterward. “I think that’d be hard to sell, based on the conversations our members have had.”

His colleagues argued that such a move by law enforcement would encroach upon constitutional rights. “I don’t ever believe there’s a time in this country where due process can be dismissed, period,” North Carolina Republican Thom Tillis told reporters. He suggested that Trump may not be familiar with the law—“he’s not a legal scholar”—and that he might not have meant what he said.

“I don't think that he was saying that there's a place where you suspend the Constitution and suspend due process. I just don't believe that," said Tillis. "I know you heard the words. I just don't believe in my heart of hearts that's exactly what he meant."

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Is the president just unfamiliar with Republican policy?

“I don’t know,” said Flake.

Louisiana Republican John Kennedy said he disagreed with Trump on the issue, but added that the president is entitled to hold such an opinion: “This is America.”

A senior GOP Senate aide told TWS that Republicans would have been “apoplectic” if Obama had said half of what Trump said during the meeting. “This is why you don’t do high-stakes, hot-button negotiation on live TV with someone who doesn’t know or care about details.”

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After Wednesday’s gun control meeting, some lawmakers admitted they expected a reversal would come from the White House in the coming days. “At some point, someone will tell the president what he endorsed and it will be like the meeting never happened,” another senior Republican Senate aide predicted.

If that happens, Kennedy said he wouldn’t be concerned by Trump’s tendency to flip-flop. “It doesn’t bother me a bit when someone changes their opinion after thinking things through.”

Democrats said they were encouraged by Trump’s openness to new gun control measures, but most are bracing for an inevitable shift, too.

“I’m afraid what we’re going to see is an exact repeat of the pattern we saw before,” Delaware Democrat Chris Coons told reporters, referring to the failed DACA discussions. “I hope that he will recognize that this is an important moment for him to show genuine national leadership by embracing a strong bipartisan bill that could improve background checks and make Americans safer.”

Asked whether Trump has any credibility left when it comes to policy, considering his previous mixed messages and conflicting statements, Coons said this time around would be revealing.

“If he does it again, where he has a televised, bipartisan positive meeting, and then reverses course almost immediately, I think he’ll lose all credibility,” said Coons.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 07:58 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Nadat ie vorig jaar een wet heeft afgeschaft die juist moest voorkomen dat mensen met een psychiatrisch verleden makkelijk aan een wapen konden komen.

Ben je nou echt zo achterlijk of wat?

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redneckin357 twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 02:25:25 @paulalenbeck @realDonaldTrump The RIGHT to the gun so I CAN live, COMMIECRAT! NO BANS ON ANYTHING, EVER! reageer retweet

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scentedwildrose twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 06:07:43 Now all millennials are googling "Mr. Magoo" 😂😂😂 reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 20:59 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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De blik van Hope zegt alles, Mueller heeft geen poot om op te staan.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 12:53:58 Many ideas, some good & some not so good, emerged from our bipartisan meeting on school safety yesterday at the White House. Background Checks a big part of conversation. Gun free zones are proven targets of killers. After many years, a Bill should emerge. Respect 2nd Amendment! reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 20:59 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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De blik van Hope zegt alles, Mueller heeft geen poot om op te staan.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 10:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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redneckin357 twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 02:25:25 @paulalenbeck @realDonaldTrump The RIGHT to the gun so I CAN live, COMMIECRAT! NO BANS ON ANYTHING, EVER! reageer retweet

Not sure if serious......

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Op woensdag 28 februari 2018 23:35 schreef Ringo het volgende:
Kortom, ouwe pulpkop lult maar een eind weg, dag één dit, dag twee dat, naar hoe de wind waait. Als zijn kuif maar goed zit.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 02:05 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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AP_Images twitterde op woensdag 28-02-2018 om 21:00:19 Worshippers clutching AR-15 rifles and some wearing bullet crowns, participated in a commitment ceremony today at World Peace and Unification Sanctuary, in Newfoundland, Pa. The event led a nearby school to cancel classes for the day. Photos @jacquelinelarma https://t.co/GXzrZeK41z reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 12:57 schreef Re het volgende:
goed moment uitgekozen om haar toekomstige carriere nog te redden

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 13:12:42 Our Steel and Aluminum industries (and many others) have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the world. We must not let our country, companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer. We want free, fair and SMART TRADE! reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 13:25 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 13:12:42 Our Steel and Aluminum industries (and many others) have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the world. We must not let our country, companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer. We want free, fair and SMART TRADE! reageer retweet

Je moet slim handel drijven.

Ik dacht gewoon dat je verkocht wal je wil verkopen en koopt wat je nodig hebt, maar blijkbaar is het anders.

Ik wil dat ook gaan doen. Ik heb namelijk ook een ontzettend negatieve handelsbalans met de Albert Heijn. Ik moet slimmer handelen.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 13:27 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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lidl FTW

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 13:32 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Maar ik koop meer bij de supermarkt dan dat de supermarkt bij mij afneemt. Dat is unfair.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 13:34 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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wat heb je dan zoal te koop?

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 13:34 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Kolen.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 13:34 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Kolen.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 12:57 schreef Re het volgende:
goed moment uitgekozen om haar toekomstige carriere nog te redden

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 15:54 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Vond dit wel een interessante overzichtje over de komende gouverneursverkiezingen wat voorbij kwam:

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Die 3 republikeinse populaire governors in Massachusetts, Maryland en Vermont vind ik wel opvallend.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 00:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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After a crazy 24 hours, sources close to President Trump say he is in a bad place — mad as hell about the internal chaos and the sense that things are unraveling.

The big picture: Hope Hicks leaving is obviously a huge blow to him. Every time he reads about Attorney General Jeff Sessions, his head explodes. The staff is just trying to ride out the storm.

Everywhere you look inside this White House, top officials are fighting, fomenting, feuding or fleeing, insiders say in conversations with us.

• Hope Hicks — without question, the aide (family aside) with whom Trump is closest — resigned one day after she admitted in closed-door Hill testimony that she told white lies for the president.

• White House Chief of Staff John Kelly cracked down on Jared Kushner, stripping his top security clearance, and watching anonymous aides leak about and trash him, while offering no public defense of the president’s son-in-law.

• Jared, Ivanka and Don Jr. let it be known to friends they are furious with Kelly and his allies.

• Jared loses his internal P.R. guru, Josh Raffel, when he needs him most.

• Economic adviser Gary Cohn is at war with trade policy adviser Peter Navarro.

• Trump is at war with Attorney General Sessions. ... N.Y. Times lead story: "Trump Tears Into Sessions Over Russia Investigation." ... WashPost: "Behind the scenes, Trump has derisively referred to Sessions as 'Mr. Magoo,' a cartoon character who is elderly, myopic and bumbling."

• Intelligence chiefs use every chance possible to contradict the commander-in-chief on Russia.

Be smart: Trump is in a bad, mad place, feeling ill-served and confined by staff. The people he genuinely enjoys and feels close to are gone (Keith Schiller), leaving (Hope) or getting pounded in the press (Jared).

• The restraints are almost fully loosened, and what staff sees in private is more public than ever.

• We have never seen top officials this concerned, defeated.

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A political appointee at the Department of Interior resigned Wednesday after CNN's KFile flagged inflammatory comments she made on Facebook and Twitter.

Christine Bauserman, a former Republican activist in Arizona who also worked for President Donald Trump's 2016 campaign, served as a special assistant to Secretary Ryan Zinke, providing him operational support that included coordinating policy briefings. Bauserman initially joined the administration as a member of the so-called "beachhead teams," which consisted of advisers tasked with shaping Trump's new administration.

A KFile review found that Bauserman repeatedly shared conspiracy theories, made anti-Muslim comments and shared anti-LGBT sentiments on social media.

"The positions expressed by Ms. Bauserman are inappropriate and unacceptable, and they are not consistent with those of the Secretary or the Trump Administration. The Department has accepted Ms. Bauserman's letter of resignation," Heather Swift, a spokeswoman for Department of the Interior, told CNN in a statement.

Bauserman did not return a request for comment. She has now restricted access to her Facebook and Twitter accounts.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 17:32 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Political appointee at Interior resigns after KFile inquiry into birther, anti-Muslim comments

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In 2000, Melania Knauss, a Slovenian model dating Donald Trump, began petitioning the government for the right to permanently reside in the United States under a program reserved for people with “extraordinary ability.”

Knauss’s credentials included runway shows in Europe, a Camel cigarette billboard ad in Times Square and — in her biggest job at the time — a spot in the swimsuit edition of Sports Illustrated, which featured her on the beach in a string bikini, hugging a six-foot inflatable whale.

In March 2001, she was granted a green card in the elite EB-1 program, which was designed for renowned academic researchers, multinational business executives or those in other fields, such as Olympic athletes and Oscar-winning actors, who demonstrated “sustained national and international acclaim.”

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 17:43 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Weet dat we niet mogen roddelen, maar hebben jullie dat krankzinnige Cabal-topic al gezien in BNW?

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 18:16 schreef J.B. het volgende:

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Goeie tip dit

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 18:05:46 “In January, one of Mr. Nunes’s staff members”—oh?—“requested that copies [of Warner’s texts] be shared with the House committee as well” https://t.co/42OuYtLlNa reageer retweet

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The Senate Intelligence Committee has concluded that Republicans on the House Intelligence Committee were behind the leak of private text messages between the Senate panel’s top Democrat and a Russian-connected lawyer, according to two congressional officials briefed on the matter.

Senator Richard M. Burr of North Carolina, the committee’s Republican chairman, and Senator Mark Warner of Virginia, the top Democrat, were so perturbed by the leak that they demanded a rare meeting with Speaker Paul D. Ryan last month to inform him of their findings. They used the meeting with Mr. Ryan to raise broader concerns about the direction of the House Intelligence Committee under its chairman, Representative Devin Nunes of California, the officials said.

To the senators, who are overseeing what is effectively the last bipartisan investigation on Capitol Hill into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, the leak was a serious breach of protocol and a partisan attack by one intelligence committee against the other.

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morningmoneyben twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 18:34:24 25% steel tariffs10% aluminum tariffsto be formally announced next week. remarkable. Do the free traders stick around at this point? reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 13:25 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 13:12:42 Our Steel and Aluminum industries (and many others) have been decimated by decades of unfair trade and bad policy with countries from around the world. We must not let our country, companies and workers be taken advantage of any longer. We want free, fair and SMART TRADE! reageer retweet

Je moet slim handel drijven.

Ik dacht gewoon dat je verkocht wal je wil verkopen en koopt wat je nodig hebt, maar blijkbaar is het anders.

Ik wil dat ook gaan doen. Ik heb namelijk ook een ontzettend negatieve handelsbalans met de Albert Heijn. Ik moet slimmer handelen.

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kaylatausche twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 18:31:25 NEWS from pool spray: TRUMP SAYS U.S. WILL SET TARIFFS OF 25 PCT FOR STEEL AND 10 PERCENT FOR ALUMINUM reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 17:44 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Questions linger about how Melania Trump, a Slovenian model, scored ‘the Einstein visa’

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 18:42 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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En haar zus ? Ik vroeg het mij al eens af, ja.

Tis en blijft een zootje. What else is new...

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 17:43 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Weet dat we niet mogen roddelen, maar hebben jullie dat krankzinnige Cabal-topic al gezien in BNW?

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 18:55 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Ik snap het nooit zo. Als conspiracy theorist zou je toch spontaan klaarkomen van 'gestolen' verkiezingen, een met Russen heulende president, een prachtig netwerk aan vriendjespolitiek en scores aan schimmige deals en contacten over de hele wereld, verspreid over decennia.
Maar dat is blijkbaar geen interessant topic in BNW? Stel dat je alle beproefde ik-trek-lijntjes-tussen-ongerelateerde-zaken uitvoert op het Trump imperium. Dat moet toch welhaast orgastisch zijn? Ik snap het echt niet 😂

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 17:43 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
hebben jullie dat krankzinnige Cabal-topic al gezien in BNW?

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 18:50 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Geen idee, ik wist niet eens dat er nog een zus was

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 18:39 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Daar gaan we weer...

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morningmoneyben twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 18:34:24 25% steel tariffs10% aluminum tariffsto be formally announced next week. remarkable. Do the free traders stick around at this point? reageer retweet

Vorige keer onder Bush krabbelden ze terug.

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Ik snap het nooit zo. Als conspiracy theorist zou je toch spontaan klaarkomen van 'gestolen' verkiezingen, een met Russen heulende president, een prachtig netwerk aan vriendjespolitiek en scores aan schimmige deals en contacten over de hele wereld, verspreid over decennia.
Maar dat is blijkbaar geen interessant topic in BNW? Stel dat je alle beproefde ik-trek-lijntjes-tussen-ongerelateerde-zaken uitvoert op het Trump imperium. Dat moet toch welhaast orgastisch zijn? Ik snap het echt niet 😂

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 19:20 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Grappig verhaal; ik heb vernomen dat de USTR eerst 24% had voorgesteld, maar Trump dat heeft afgekeurd omdat het geen rond getal was.

EU is al bezig met countermeasures dus als Trump hier daadwerkelijk mee doorgaat en het geen natte scheet blijkt, krijgen we een handelsoorlog.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 19:26 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ben benieuwd wat er gaat gebeuren.

Van wat ik me herinner werd het de vorige keer geëscaleerd via de WTO, wat de VS verloor en negeerde waarop de EU dreigde om importheffingen in te stellen op specifieke producten uit swing-states. Daarna krabbelde de VS terug. Deze zwakheid in het Amerikaanse systeem zit er nogsteeds in, dus zou het me niks verbazen als we weer op een dergelijke manier terug gaan/dreigen te slaan.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 18:39 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Daar gaan we weer...

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morningmoneyben twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 18:34:24 25% steel tariffs10% aluminum tariffsto be formally announced next week. remarkable. Do the free traders stick around at this point? reageer retweet

Vorige keer onder Bush krabbelden ze terug.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 19:53 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Trump verbijstert Republikeinen met harde kritiek op wapenlobby: 'Jullie zijn doodsbang voor de NRA'

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 19:53 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Trump verbijstert Republikeinen met harde kritiek op wapenlobby: 'Jullie zijn doodsbang voor de NRA'

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Trump’s net neutrality blunder is alarming for US foreign policy

It appears that no one with access to President Trump informed him that the death of net neutrality would reward the parent company of Saturday Night Live, Comcast. This is concerning because the United States needs advisors around President Trump who know and can inform the president when there is a comparatively harmless opportunity for him to hit back at his political opponents, so that he trusts his advisors when confronted with issues such as averting nuclear war with North Korea.

With the Federal Communications Commission’s final rule killing net neutrality published in the Federal Register, the largest cable companies, Comcast and Charter, are one step closer to receiving a financial windfall — not for inventing the next internet but for controlling access to the current one. The demise of net neutrality will allow cable companies to charge content providers legal ransom in exchange for not slowing down the delivery of videos and articles.

To be fair, if the rule ultimately goes into effect, Comcast and Charter would not immediately charge outrageous sums to content providers, for fear of backlash; rather, they could increase fees and reduce speeds of competing media outlets strategically over time.



There are good reasons for Republicans to support net neutrality — e.g., it levels the playing field for start-ups against incumbents. There also are politically strategic reasons for Republicans to endorse net neutrality, since it does not allow for indirect censorship of political ideas. Numerous liberal media organizations are owned by major service providers, which will be able to favor their own content, while Fox News, the Wall Street Journal and other conservative media are noticeably not owned by a giant cable or wireless provider. If Republicans realized the importance of such disparity in vertical integration of service providers owning content providers, they surely would not support a policy position that hurts news outlets sympathetic to their party.

Notwithstanding philosophical and politically strategic justifications, there are personal reasons why Trump, in particular, should favor net neutrality, given his antagonistic relationship to Saturday Night Live — a show that employed a writer who insulted his young son — and his hate-affair with CNN. It might seem like pointing this out to the president would be a matter of encouraging the worst of him instead of playing to his better instincts. It is. Yet let us not forget a variation on Prussian general Carl von Clausewitz’s famous quip: politics is the continuation of war by other means.

If no one informed Trump that Comcast, the largest cable provider and owner of MSNBC and SNL, and Charter, the second largest cable company and owner of CNN, would benefit from the demise of net neutrality, then that is a worrying sign for national security. It means that either President Trump’s advisors do not understand the subtleties and political reality of policymaking, or they are keeping the president in the dark, perhaps for their own political advantage, for the presumed benefit of the public, or to avoid suffering his wrath. This has happened before. For example, after Harry Truman was thrust into the presidency with the death of Franklin Roosevelt, his advisors took almost two weeks after he was sworn in to brief him on the U.S. atomic bomb program during the height of World War II.

Putting aside the ethical question of whether Trump should have prevented the FCC from voting to dismantle net neutrality in order to revenge himself on a media company and the administrative consideration of how much oversight an executive has over an independent agency, there are times when a president’s closest advisors need to show their loyalty to the president to allow him to decide if he wants to extract a pound of flesh so that he trusts them with more existential threats. To give maximum leverage to the senior military and national security advisors to prevent mutually assured destruction, or at least devastation against masses, they need to be supported by Trump’s advisors in every other public policy area.

All presidents are managed to a certain extent. Such handling should be welcome by executives, assuming they can trust their advisors. Filling the vacant high-level policy positions within the executive branch with a mix of advisors with varying degrees of political experience is a good first step. This is a fix that lobbyists allegedly have been resistant to, given that a void enables them to push through policy that sometimes harms the political party in charge.

President Trump needs to end his isolation that puts the country at peril and allows “fake news” media executives to sip champagne at his expense.

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President Donald Trump said he would impose steep global tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, intensifying his campaign to pursue a newly aggressive “America First” trade policy.

Mr. Trump announced the plans—tariffs of 25% on imported steel and 10% on imported aluminum—on Thursday at a White House meeting with 15 executives from what he labeled bedrock American industries.

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arogDC twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 20:44:16 Sen Hatch statement: “Tariffs on steel and aluminum are a tax hike the American people don’t need and can’t afford. I encourage the president to carefully consider all of the implications of raising the cost of steel and aluminum on American manufacturers and consumers.” reageer retweet

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kaylatausche twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 19:59:14 I'm told Cohn argued against tariffs in today's meeting. Argument was warned about higher prices, not a trade war. Trump's reaction, per a person in the room: That's "not the real world," and that result would be a "small price to pay" reageer retweet

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kaylatausche twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 20:17:32 ALSO: Trump told executives today the decision's been made, but the paperwork isn't done. Person in the room said Trump then turned to McGahn and said, "We're going to get those papers done, Don?" reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 20:10 schreef livelink het volgende:
Hoe zit het trouwens met die government shutdown? 5 maart moet er toch een akkoord zijn? Ik heb het nieuws daarover even gemist.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 21:31 schreef Szura het volgende:
Ah weer een Nontexje, eens zien of Cohn ook over een paar uur weg is net als Hicks

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L0gg0l twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 21:19:34 Hearing Gary Cohn objected to Trump tariff decision in the meeting today (because of higher prices). Trump reacted "not the real world", "small price to pay". via @kaylatauscheQuite likely that Cohn resigns as consequence reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 21:31 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Volgens mij hebben ze laatst eindelijk een langetermijnbegroting afgesproken ?

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 19:39 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dat zullen ze nu ook zeker doen.

Het stomme is, bij het schetsen van het probleem heeft Trump gewoon een punt. De Chinese staal en aluminium industrie draait op een bizarre overcapaciteit met lagere prijzen tot gevolg. Dit is alleen niet de oplossing.

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The EU plans to hit back at Trump's trade tariffs with 'countermeasures' targeting US goods (BusinessInsider / TheIndependent)

• The European Union plans to respond to Donald Trump's new trade tariffs with trade "countermeasures."
• The retaliatory policies will be announced in the next few days, after the US president slapped tariffs on imported steel and aluminium.
• European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said the tariffs are "a blatant intervention to protect US domestic industry."

The European Union has said it will impose trade “countermeasures” against American goods in retaliation to Donald Trump’s new tariffs on imported steel and aluminium.

European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker said retaliatory policies would be announced “in the next few days” in order to “rebalance” the trade situation between European and the US following the move by Mr Trump.

The US president said on Thursday he would introduce a 25 per cent import tariff on steel and 10 per cent on aluminium, claiming that the US had been suffering from “unfair trade”.

“We strongly regret this step, which appears to represent a blatant intervention to protect US domestic industry and not to be based on any national security justification. Protectionism cannot be the answer to our common problem in the steel sector,” Mr Juncker said on Thursday evening.

“Instead of providing a solution, this move can only aggravate matters. The EU has been a close security ally of the US for decades.

“We will not sit idly while our industry is hit with unfair measures that put thousands of European jobs at risk. I had the occasion to say that the EU would react adequately and that's what we will do.

“The EU will react firmly and commensurately to defend our interests. The Commission will bring forward in the next few days a proposal for WTO-compatible countermeasures against the US to rebalance the situation."

Europe’s Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström said the measures would “have a negative impact on transatlantic relations” and “will raise costs and reduce choice for US consumers of steel and aluminium, including industries that import these commodities”.

She said the EU would raise a dispute at the World Trade Organisation in Geneva over the tariffs “at the earliest opportunity”.

In what appears to be a veiled reference to Chinese steel production, the Commissioner added that “the root cause of problems in these two sectors is global overcapacity caused by non-market based production”.

During his presidential campaign Mr Trump claimed foreign countries were “dumping vast amounts of steel all over the United States, which essentially is killing our steelworkers and steel companies”.

He also said in January of this year that he had “a lot of problems” with European Union trade policy.

Last month Mr Trump also slapped “America First” tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels, moves that most heavily affected China and South Korea.

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U.S. ambassador to Mexico stepping down

The Mexican news organization Reforma has reported that the White House may nominate Ed Whitacre, the former CEO of General Motors and AT&T, to replace Roberta Jacobson.

The U.S. ambassador to Mexico, Roberta Jacobson, is resigning from the post, the latest in a string of high-profile departures from the State Department and one that could further complicate the U.S.-Mexico relationship amid lingering tensions over immigration, trade and other sensitive subjects.

In a memo sent to her staff and obtained by POLITICO, Jacobson wrote that her decision to leave, effective May 5, was "difficult," and she acknowledged that it comes at a "crucial moment." But she didn't say why exactly she'd decided to quit despite those things.

As an example of how acrimonious ties have become: Just recently, Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto scrapped a planned visit to the United States, reportedly after a tense phone call with President Donald Trump in which the U.S. leader refused to publicly affirm Mexico's position that it would not pay for a border wall.

The Trump administration was already considering replacing Jacobson, an appointee of former President Barack Obama. The Mexican news organization Reforma has reported that Ed Whitacre, the former CEO of General Motors and AT&T, is the expected nominee, but the administration has not made an official announcement about its choice. The New York Times first reported Jacobson's plan to leave.

In her memo, Jacobson praised the work of the people at the U.S. mission in Mexico, but said that after 31 years of government service, "it is the right time to move on to new challenges and adventures."

"This decision is all the more difficult because of my profound belief in the importance of the U.S.-Mexico relationship and knowledge that it is at a crucial moment," she wrote. "One of the things that makes it easier is knowing that all of you will continue to do your usual outstanding work in ensuring that the relationship grows and prospers."

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 19:55 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Is dat om strategische redenen of is het puur om handelsredenen?

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Afgezien van een reductie in handel vraag ik me wat de uitwerking zal zijn. Waar het wellicht gunstig uitpakt voor de industrieën die extra bescherming krijgen, kan het juist negatief uitpakken voor andere sectoren zoals de auto-industrie en de bouw die hun materiaalkosten zien stijgen. Voor bedrijven met een internationele positie betekent dat dan weer een verslechterde concurrentiepositie en sowieso is de kans aanzienlijk dat de hogere kosten uiteindelijk ook op het bordje van de consument terecht komen.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 22:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Wie het weet mag het zeggen. Aan de ene kant begrijp ik dat China en India hun staalindustrie bevoordelen vanuit de staat, waarmee je best kunt beargumenteren dat er een handelsreden is om iets als dit te doen. Echter lijkt het een globaal importtarief te betreffen, wat daar niet mee strookt. Daarbij was Trump klaarblijkelijk geadviseerd om het niet te doen, wil hij het toch doen, dus dan kun je het beste met de fluisteraar spreken die hiervoor is.. I guess, ervanuitgaande dat hij geen originele gedachte heeft.

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Persoonlijk ben ik meer geïnteresseerd in de afgeleide uitwerkingen, zoals wat de reacties vanuit de EU, China en India zullen zijn en hun uitwerkingen. Hoe dan ook, was het effect van marktbeschermende maatregelen onder Bush & Obama klaarblijkelijk negatief voor de werkloosheid. Althans, dat las ik op een forum ergens ... weet niet meer precies waar, dus neem het met een korrel zout.

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The White House is preparing to replace H.R. McMaster as national security adviser as early as next month in a move orchestrated by chief of staff John Kelly and Defense Secretary James Mattis, according to five people familiar with the discussions.

The move would be the latest in a long string of staff shakeups at the White House over the past year and comes after months of strained relations between the president and McMaster.

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But his tenure has been rocky. There have been staff shake-ups, questions about McMaster’s decision to voice political positions while still in uniform, and public disagreements with Trump.

Most recently, McMaster told a forum in Germany that Russian meddling in the election was "incontrovertible," a comment that drew a quick rebuke from the president.

“General McMaster forgot to say that the results of the 2016 election were not impacted or changed by the Russians and that the only Collusion was between Russia and Crooked H, the DNC and the Dems,” Trump wrote on Twitter.

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A leading candidate to become President Donald Trump’s third national security adviser is the auto industry executive Stephen Biegun, according to the officials.

Biegun, who currently serves as vice president of international governmental affairs for the Ford Motor Company, is no stranger to the White House. He served on the National Security Council staff from 2001 to 2003, including as a senior staffer for then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice.

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From 1992 to 1994, Mr. Biegun served in Moscow, Russia as the Resident Director in the Russian Federation for the International Republican Institute, a democracy-building organization established under the National Endowment for Democracy.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 20:07 schreef livelink het volgende:

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Dit was hetzelfde wat hij deed toen het over DACA ging. Kom met een bipartisan voorstel en ik teken het. Maar dat doet hij dan uiteindelijk niet. Ik maak me nog geen illusies.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 22:37 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Dit is het verhaal van Obama's interventie, eindresultaat was verlies van banen en hoge kosten:

http://money.cnn.com/2017(...)re-tariff/index.html

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 22:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Wie het weet mag het zeggen. Aan de ene kant begrijp ik dat China en India hun staalindustrie bevoordelen vanuit de staat, waarmee je best kunt beargumenteren dat er een handelsreden is om iets als dit te doen. Echter lijkt het een globaal importtarief te betreffen, wat daar niet mee strookt. Daarbij was Trump klaarblijkelijk geadviseerd om het niet te doen, wil hij het toch doen, dus dan kun je het beste met de fluisteraar spreken die hiervoor is.. I guess, ervanuitgaande dat hij geen originele gedachte heeft.

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Persoonlijk ben ik meer geïnteresseerd in de afgeleide uitwerkingen, zoals wat de reacties vanuit de EU, China en India zullen zijn en hun uitwerkingen. Hoe dan ook, was het effect van marktbeschermende maatregelen onder Bush & Obama klaarblijkelijk negatief voor de werkloosheid. Althans, dat las ik op een forum ergens ... weet niet meer precies waar, dus neem het met een korrel zout.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 22:40 schreef speknek het volgende:
McMaster McExit

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Mueller eyes charges against Russians who stole, spread Democrats’ emails (NBC News)

WASHINGTON — Special Counsel Robert Mueller is assembling a case for criminal charges against Russians who carried out the hacking and leaking of private information designed to hurt Democrats in the 2016 election, multiple current and former government officials familiar with the matter tell NBC News.

Much like the indictment Mueller filed last month charging a different group of Russians in a social media trolling and illegal-ad-buying scheme, the possible new charges are expected to rely heavily on secret intelligence gathered by the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), several of the officials say.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 22:51 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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India en China zijn enorm protectionistisch op vele vlakken. Protectionisme in opkomende economieën kan ook best een verstandige strategie zijn om industrieën tot bloei te laten komen zodat ze uiteindelijk zelfstandig de concurrentie met de industrieën uit ontwikkelde landen aan te kunnen.
In ontwikkelde landen is het echter maar zeer de vraag of het effectief is, tenzij je een cruciale industrie in stand wil houden.

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Meestal krijg je vergelding waar uiteindelijk niemand wat aan heeft.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 23:15 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Je hebt wel Chinese overproductie van staal, maar de staalprijzen zijn ook weer niet dramatisch. Dit is ook voor een deel politiek theater, dit soort "America First" in handelsbeleid was een van de pilaren van Trump's campagne die breed aansloeg in cruciale rust belt staten, maar de laatste tijd hebben we er weinig van gehoord.

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A federal judge has permanently barred Indiana from trying to prevent Syrian refugees from resettling in the state under an order Vice President Mike Pence championed as governor.

U.S. District Judge Tonya Walton Pratt approved a judgment Tuesday permanently enjoining Indiana from withholding authorized payments to Indianapolis-based Exodus Refugee Immigration, which resettles refugees in the state.

Pence cited terrorism fears in issuing a November 2015 order barring state agencies from making payments to help relocate Syrians to Indiana.

The American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana sued Indiana, arguing Pence’s order illegally targeted Syrians based on their nationality and violated the U.S. Constitution and federal law.

Pratt temporarily blocked Pence’s order in February 2016, saying it “clearly discriminates” against Syrian refugees.

A federal appeals court sided with Pratt in October 2016.

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A significant recent revelation in the Russia investigation has been largely overlooked in the rush of several breaking news stories over the past few days. A nugget of information is contained in the memo written by Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee (the so-called Schiff Memo), which was released on Saturday morning.

Prior to the memo, we knew that a Russian agent told Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos of “Moscow possessing ‘dirt’” on Hillary Clinton “in the form of ‘thousands of emails,’” according to Papadopoulos’s plea statement. The memo went a legally significant step further. As Rep. Adam Schiff recently told Chris Hayes, “our memo discloses for the first time that the Russians previewed to Papadopoulos that they could help with disseminating these stolen emails.” Rep. Schiff added, “When Donald Trump openly called on the Russians to hack Hillary Clinton’s emails, they’d be richly rewarded if they released these to the press, his campaign had already been put on notice that the Russians were prepared to do just that and disseminate these stolen emails.” (The full transcript and video clip is below.)

This new revelation is legally important and, if true, could have exposed Papadopoulos and potentially other campaign officials to significant criminal liability. I spoke with several leading experts in campaign finance law and former federal prosecutors to gather their views.

Rep. Schiff’s statement adds clarity to two stray statements in the memo itself. The memo states, “Russian agents previewed their hack and dissemination of stolen emails.” The memo also refers to this part of the record in stating, “We would later learn in Papadopoulos’s plea that that[sic] the information the Russians could assist by anonymously releasing were thousands of Hillary Clinton emails.”

A legally important question is what the Trump campaign did after the Russians previewed that they could help disseminate the stolen emails. If Trump campaign officials consulted with the Russians on their plans to disseminate the emails, it could involve direct violations of campaign finance laws (see the statement below from leading election law expert Paul Seamus Ryan). If Trump campaign officials gave tacit assent or approval or support, it could directly implicate them in the “conspiracy to defraud the United States” by evading the Federal Election Commission—the very conspiracy for which Mueller has already indicted thirteen Russian nationals (see the statement below by former White House official and also top election law expert Bob Bauer). If Papadopoulos intentionally encouraged the Russians and if he was instructed to do so by other campaign officials, they could be liable as accomplices (see statements below from law professors and former federal prosecutors Barbara McQuade and Alex Whiting). The Trump campaign as an organization could also be criminally liable (see statement below from McQuade). Finally, if members of the Trump campaign tried to conceal the facts of a crime (potentially including either the original DNC hack or the dissemination of the stolen emails) they could be guilty of “misprision of a felony” (see statements below by former federal prosecutors including Renato Mariotti).

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Schiff on Russians Previewing their Email Dissemination

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A prominent Kremlin-linked Russian politician has methodically cultivated ties with leaders of the National Rifle Association, and documented efforts in real time over six years to leverage those connections and gain access deeper into American politics, NPR has learned.

Russian politician Alexander Torshin claimed his ties to the National Rifle Association provided him access to Donald Trump — and the opportunity to serve as a foreign election observer in the United States during the 2012 election.

Torshin is a prolific Twitter user, logging nearly 150,000 tweets, mostly in Russian, since his account was created in 2011. Previously obscured by language and by sheer volume of tweets, Torshin has written numerous times about his connections with the NRA, of which he's a known paid lifetime member. NPR has translated a selection of those posts that document Torshin's relationship to the group.

These revelations come amid news that the FBI is investigating whether Torshin, the deputy governor of the Bank of Russia, illegally funneled money to the National Rifle Association to assist the Trump campaign in 2016, McClatchy reported in January.

In a letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a member of the Senate intelligence committee, the NRA denied any wrongdoing and suggested the FBI is investigating Torshin, not the NRA. Neither the NRA nor Torshin responded to inquiries from NPR.

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oneunderscore__ twitterde op vrijdag 02-03-2018 om 03:02:58 Exclusive: The Internet Research Agency, or the Kremlin Troll Farm, suffered a massive leak, The Daily Beast has confirmed. Contents of its server were auctioned on a Russian auction site.We have some of the documents.https://t.co/JKkf59AIoa reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 21:30 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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kaylatausche twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 19:59:14 I'm told Cohn argued against tariffs in today's meeting. Argument was warned about higher prices, not a trade war. Trump's reaction, per a person in the room: That's "not the real world," and that result would be a "small price to pay" reageer retweet

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kaylatausche twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 20:17:32 ALSO: Trump told executives today the decision's been made, but the paperwork isn't done. Person in the room said Trump then turned to McGahn and said, "We're going to get those papers done, Don?" reageer retweet

Bam boem, Donald getting shit done.

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First lady Melania Trump obtained a green card allowing her stay in the U.S. permanently through an elite visa program established for immigrants with “extraordinary abilities,” The Washington Post reported Thursday.

The so-called Einstein visa is aimed at people born abroad who have earned “sustained acclaim,” including renowned researchers or business leaders, award-winning performing artists and Olympic athletes. Applicants are instructed to submit evidence of a history of accomplishment or of a “one-time” achievement, such as a “Pulitzer, Oscar [or] Olympic Medal,” according to the requirements for the visa.

“You must be able to demonstrate extraordinary ability in the sciences, arts, education, business, or athletics through sustained national or international acclaim,” the requirements state. Applicants can also “demonstrate international recognition for ... outstanding achievements in a particular academic field.” Applicants can submit “authorship of scholarly articles.”

According to Melania Trump’s bio during the presidential campaign, she graduated from the “University of Slovenia” with a degree in design and architecture. But she actually dropped out of college her freshman year, according to her biographers. And there is no University of Slovenia. The first lady’s current White House bio now says she “paused” her studies at the University of Ljubljana.

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joncoopertweets twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 17:49:32 Topless fashion model exhibits "extraordinary ability" to manipulate the U.S. visa program...how do you say "swamp" in Slovenian? reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 04:46 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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oneunderscore__ twitterde op vrijdag 02-03-2018 om 03:02:58 Exclusive: The Internet Research Agency, or the Kremlin Troll Farm, suffered a massive leak, The Daily Beast has confirmed. Contents of its server were auctioned on a Russian auction site.We have some of the documents.https://t.co/JKkf59AIoa reageer retweet

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Content from IRA-backed websites like BlackMattersUs.com received hundreds—and sometimes thousands—upvotes on subreddits like r/The_Donald and r/HillaryForPrison in the run-up to the 2016 election. Trolls purporting to represent the troll farm promised an Ask Me Anything session in October, but the Q-and-A never occurred.

When The Daily Beast reached out to Reddit for comment, a public relations representative requested screenshots and details of the leak, which The Daily Beast provided. The spokesperson told The Daily Beast the company would be in touch if it had any further comment.

Reddit then ignored repeated further requests for comment.

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 10:39 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Slaap je ooit wel?

Anyway, gerelateerd artikel: Russians Used Reddit and Tumblr to Troll the 2016 Election

Het leek me op zich wel vrij duidelijk dat er (Russische) trolls actief waren op Reddit, maar dat is dan nu ook bevestigd I guess, hoewel in dit artikel slechts gesproken wordt over het linken naar content van Russische trolls, niet dat ze zelf dingen gepost hebben... ?! (In het meer algemene artikel wordt wel meer expliciet gezegd dat ze actief waren op reddit)

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 23:24 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat het ondoordacht theater van Trump is lijkt me evident. Het ging meer om de vraag wat de effecten zouden zijn.

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 11:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Van de heffingen op staal?

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De noeste hardwerkende belastingbetalende Henk van de Hoogovens is het bokkie.

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tonyschwartz twitterde op donderdag 01-03-2018 om 20:31:20 Hope Hicks is an enabler with spectacularly bad taste in men who ended up in a hell of her own making. She's lived too much too soon. I'm sure there is a moral in this story, but for the life of me, I can't figure out what it is. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 11:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Van de heffingen op staal?

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De noeste hardwerkende belastingbetalende Henk van de Hoogovens is het bokkie.

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 11:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Van de heffingen op staal?

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De noeste hardwerkende belastingbetalende Henk van de Hoogovens is het bokkie.

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 11:44 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Je snapt dat "Henk van de Hoogovens" een niet bestaand persoon is?

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U.S. President Donald Trump has received two nominations for the Nobel Peace Prize that the Norwegian Nobel Committee says are forged.

It’s the second year in a row that someone has nominated Trump for the prestigious prize after assuming the identity of a qualified nominator, said Olav Njolstad, secretary of the Norwegian Nobel Committee.

The matter has been referred to the Oslo police, The Associated Press reported, quoting the NTB Norwegian wire service. Norwegian authorities have contacted the FBI for assistance and are planning to meet next week, said Rune Skjold, head of the economic crimes unit of the Oslo police force, reported the German wire service DPA. Skjold said forgers can face several years in prison.

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 11:45 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Is dat nog actueel?

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Georgia lawmakers approved a bill on Thursday that stripped out a tax break proposal highly coveted by Delta Air Lines — the most stinging punishment that America’s pro-gun forces have leveled so far on one of the many corporations recalibrating their positions on firearms after the Florida high school massacre.

The $50 million sales tax exemption on jet fuel that was sought by Delta, one of Georgia’s biggest employers, had been included in a broader tax-relief bill. But this week, a number of Georgia Republicans, including Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle, sought to remove the perk as retribution for Delta’s decision to end a promotional discount for members of the National Rifle Association.

The legislation now goes to the desk of the Republican governor, Nathan Deal, who has pledged to sign it into law. But Mr. Deal is a supporter of the jet-fuel tax break, and he said he would sign the bill only because it also included a significant reduction in personal and corporate tax rates.

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Op donderdag 1 maart 2018 22:40 schreef speknek het volgende:
McMaster McExit

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United States: 1. Pass an instant background check that includes criminal convictions, domestic violence and immigration status. 2. Buy a gun.

Japan: 1. Join a hunting or shooting club. 2. Take a firearm class and pass a written exam, which is held up to three times a year. 3. Get a doctor’s note saying you are mentally fit and do not have a history of drug abuse. 4. Apply for a permit to take firing training, which may take up to a month. 5. Describe in a police interview why you need a gun. 6. Pass a review of your criminal history, gun possession record, employment, involvement with organized crime groups, personal debt and relationships with friends, family and neighbors. 7. Apply for a gunpowder permit. 8. Take a one-day training class and pass a firing test. 9. Obtain a certificate from a gun dealer describing the gun you want. 10. Buy a gun safe and an ammunition locker that meet safety regulations. 11. Allow the police to inspect your gun storage. 12. Pass an additional background review. 13. Buy a gun.

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 12:14 schreef Sloggi het volgende:

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Als iedereen wapens zou mogen dragen in het vliegtuig waren die kapingen op 9/11 nooit zo uit de hand gelopen.

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 12:20 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Als de tarieven op staal stijgen en op auto's niet, dan weten jullie wat er gaat gebeuren, de fabrieken voor auto's gaan hun productie buiten Amerika opschroeven. Dit gaat Detroit of de rust-belt niks opleveren.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 02-03-2018 om 11:50:34 When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 12:37 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 02-03-2018 om 11:50:34 When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy! reageer retweet

Dusseh tsja ... "trade wars are good and easy to win"....

En ook weer dat rare mantra dat een handelstekort ten nadele zou zijn van de VS.

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Op vrijdag 2 maart 2018 12:37 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 02-03-2018 om 11:50:34 When a country (USA) is losing many billions of dollars on trade with virtually every country it does business with, trade wars are good, and easy to win. Example, when we are down $100 billion with a certain country and they get cute, don’t trade anymore-we win big. It’s easy! reageer retweet

Dusseh tsja ... "trade wars are good and easy to win"....

En ook weer dat rare mantra dat een handelstekort ten nadele zou zijn van de VS.

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Alec Baldwin, whose dying mediocre career was saved by his terrible impersonation of me on SNL, now says playing me was agony. Alec, it was agony for those who were forced to watch. Bring back Darrell Hammond, funnier and a far greater talent!