[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #466

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Privately, some aides have expressed frustration that Mr. Kushner and his wife, the president's daughter Ivanka Trump, have remained at the White House, despite Mr. Trump at times saying they never should have come to the White House and should leave. Yet aides also noted that Mr. Trump has told the couple that they should keep serving in their roles, even as he has privately asked Mr. Kelly for his help in moving them out.

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 09:32 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Een advocaat die van eigen geld iemand betaalt om te zwijgen over een relatie met zijn client net voor de verkiezing. Moerassig.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 03-03-2018 om 17:15:31 CREW wants the Office of Government Ethics to investigate whether Trump had an undisclosed interest in the company used to pay Stormy Daniels. https://t.co/Ujfs6e4btJ reageer retweet

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Premiums on the individual market are likely to shoot up and fewer people will be insured next year, thanks to President Donald Trump's latest moves on health care, according to two independent studies.

A report by the Urban Institute, a nonpartisan think tank, examined the Republican tax bill's elimination of the individual mandate, which requires people to maintain coverage or pay a penalty, along with the White House's recent move to allow customers to purchase cheaper short-term insurance plans for up to a year. These plans can reject coverage based on preexisting conditions and offer more limited benefits than plans approved by Obamacare.

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As Robert Mueller accumulates guilty pleas and cooperating witnesses, President Donald Trump stands behind a final redoubt: Nobody has shown he conspired with Russia in 2016.

Whether Mueller ultimately alleges such a crime remains unknown. He now has help from Trump's former national security advisor, deputy campaign chief and campaign foreign policy advisor — all of whom have admitted felonies.

But whatever the special counsel concludes legally about "collusion," evidence on public display already paints a jarring picture. It shows an American president who has embraced Russian money and illicit favors, while maintaining rhetoric and policies benefiting Russia and undercutting national security officials of his own country.

That in-plain-sight reality gets obscured by the Trump news avalanche. So it's worth reviewing what's been established so far.

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Former Attorney General Eric Holder said Friday that special counsel Robert Mueller likely already has a case for obstruction of justice against President Trump, and is waiting to bring the case before a grand jury.

In an interview on HBO's "Real Time with Bill Maher," Holder expressed faith that the sprawling Mueller probe would result in more charges.

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Former CIA chief John Brennan on Friday predicted "rough waters ahead," particularly on international issues, saying President Trump is "unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical."

In an interview with MSNBC's "Deadline: White House," Brennan told host Nicolle Wallace that the president was "ill prepared" to take on the duties of commander in chief, particularly growing military aggression from Russia and North Korea.

"It is no secret to anybody that Donald Trump was very ill prepared and unexperienced in terms of dealing with matters that a head of state needs to deal with, head of government, and I think this is now coming to roost," Brennan said.

"Our country needs to have confidence that we're going to be able to deal with [Russian President Vladimir] Putin, who is flexing his muscles once again on the military front, that we can deal with North Korea, that we can deal with these issues. And if we have somebody in the Oval Office who is unstable, inept, inexperienced, and also unethical -- we really have rough waters ahead."

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Questions are being raised about a small Nebraska company awarded the first construction contract for President Trump's long-promised border wall.

The Associated Press reported Friday that Nebraska-based SWF Constructors, which won an $11 million federal contract in November as part of a project to replace a roughly 2-mile stretch of border fencing in California, is the offshoot of a New York-based firm with a history of allegedly failing to pay subcontractors.

SWF is owned by Coastal Environmental Group, a construction firm based in Edgewood, N.Y., that has been sued multiple times for refusing to pay subcontractors, the AP reported. The Interior Department also found $2 million in questionable spending from the company in a 2016 audit.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-03-2018 om 18:53:50 If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 18:57 schreef nostra het volgende:
Man man man.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-03-2018 om 18:53:50 If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 18:57 schreef nostra het volgende:
Man man man.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-03-2018 om 18:53:50 If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance! reageer retweet

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We’ve known all along that Donald Trump is belligerently ignorant about economics (and many other things). But up to this point that hasn’t mattered much. He took office amid a sustained recovery that began under his predecessor, and that recovery had already lifted the U.S. economy to the point where “normal” policy rules apply: interest rates are above zero, monetary policy is effective again, so short-term economic management is in the fairly reliable hands of the Federal Reserve, not the chaotic Trump White House. What the president didn’t know couldn’t hurt us.

But there was always reason to be concerned about the possibility of crisis — either a crisis created by outside forces, like some kind of financial collapse, or one created by the administration itself. In that case the Fed’s rationality wouldn’t be enough. And it’s starting to look like we have a trade policy crisis on our hands.

Trump has always had a thing about trade, which he sees the way he sees everything: as a test of power and masculinity. It’s all about who sells more: if we run a trade surplus we win, if we run a trade deficit, we lose.

This is, of course, nonsense.

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After making good on tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks that business leaders wanted, President Trump has turned to a part of his economic agenda that many of them feared: tariffs.

Those leaders worry that Mr. Trump, by imposing stiff and sweeping tariffs on steel and aluminum, will set off a trade war with other countries. The global tit-for-tat could hurt American exporters and raise costs for manufacturers that rely on a vast supply chain around the world.

If that happens, it will crimp economic growth, undermining the stimulative effects of Mr. Trump's deregulation push and his signature $1.5 trillion tax cut.

The odds of such an outcome now appear to be rising, prompting congressional Republicans to push Mr. Trump in public and in private to reconsider. "If the president goes through with this, it will kill American jobs -- that's what every trade war ultimately does," Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, said on Friday. "So much losing."

So far, Mr. Trump is not having any of that criticism, saying on Twitter on Friday that "trade wars are good, and easy to win."

That's not how trade wars usually go.

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 18:57 schreef nostra het volgende:
Man man man.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 03-03-2018 om 18:53:50 If the E.U. wants to further increase their already massive tariffs and barriers on U.S. companies doing business there, we will simply apply a Tax on their Cars which freely pour into the U.S. They make it impossible for our cars (and more) to sell there. Big trade imbalance! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 19:38 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Er *moeten* zolangzamerhand toch een paar slimmere Republikeinen ¹) zijn die denken "Tering, die geintjes gaan mij miljarden kosten"?

^{1) hoe dom ze ook zijn of lijken, er is altijd een helft die slimmer is dan de andere helft}

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 19:50 schreef SureD1 het volgende:
Volgens de Dialy Mail (ja ja ik weet het) heeft iemand zichzelf op de North Lawn van het Witte Huis voor zijn kop geschoten. POTUS heeft er geen last van, die golft dit weekend op Mar-a-Lago...

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 19:50 schreef SureD1 het volgende:
Volgens de Dialy Mail (ja ja ik weet het) heeft iemand zichzelf op de North Lawn van het Witte Huis voor zijn kop geschoten. POTUS heeft er geen last van, die golft dit weekend op Mar-a-Lago...

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A man shot himself in front of the White House on Saturday, a law enforcement source told CNN.

"Secret Service personnel are responding to reports of a person who allegedly suffered a self-inflicted gun shot wound along the north fence line of @WhiteHouse," the Secret Service tweeted.

President Donald Trump and first lady Melania Trump are at Mar-a-Lago in Florida. They are scheduled to return to Washington on Saturday night for the annual Gridiron Club Dinner.

"We are aware of the incident," deputy press secretary Hogan Gidley said. "The President has been briefed. I refer you to the Secret Service for any more information."

The Secret Service tweeted an update on the situation moments later: "No other reported injuries related to the incident at @WhiteHouse."

Secret Service spokeswoman Cathy Milhoan said the incident occurred on the north fence line, the victim suffered a single gunshot wound and Secret Service personnel did not fire any shots. She would not comment on the status of the victim.

The agency also tweeted that pedestrian and vehicular traffic around the White House has been affected by the incident.

This story is breaking and will be updated.

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 19:50 schreef SureD1 het volgende:
POTUS heeft er geen last van, die golft dit weekend op Mar-a-Lago...

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 21:02 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
twee ( serieuze ) democraten zijn al kandidaat voor 2020:

U.S. Representative from Maryland, John Delaney
https://en.wikipedia.org/(...)ntial_campaign,_2020
https://www.johnkdelaney.com/

Andrew Yang ( entrepreneur, miljonair )
https://www.yang2020.com/

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 21:02 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
twee ( serieuze ) democraten zijn al kandidaat voor 2020:

U.S. Representative from Maryland, John Delaney
https://en.wikipedia.org/(...)ntial_campaign,_2020
https://www.johnkdelaney.com/

Andrew Yang ( entrepreneur, miljonair )
https://www.yang2020.com/

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 21:17 schreef livelink het volgende:

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Alsjeblieft niet nogmaals een rijke enterpreneur. Been there, done that.

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 21:22 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Er zitten er genoeg in de Amerikaanse politiek hoor. Trump is geen uitzondering.

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 21:24 schreef livelink het volgende:

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Vooruit, als hij politieke ervaring heeft wordt het een ander verhaal, maar ik vind het verdacht als er alleen maar bij een kandidaat staat dat hij enterpreneur en miljonair is.

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 21:26 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Tja, Bloomberg had ook geen politieke functie voordat hij burgemeester van New York werd.

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Op zaterdag 3 maart 2018 21:30 schreef livelink het volgende:

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Burgemeester vind ik dan toch net iets anders dan president. En natuurlijk, het kan goed gaan. Ik ben net even de website van Yang aan het bestuderen. Hij is voor een basisinkomen. Gedurfd wel.

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LouDobbs twitterde op zaterdag 03-03-2018 om 17:30:35 Sessions has fallen ill, he's incapacitated in some fashion, or he's been coopted or captured: to preserve any dignity, for the good of the country he needs to resign. #MAGA @realDonaldTrump #TrumpTrain #AmericaFirst https://t.co/D0q4ff2JVI reageer retweet

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Op zondag 4 maart 2018 00:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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LouDobbs twitterde op zaterdag 03-03-2018 om 17:30:35 Sessions has fallen ill, he's incapacitated in some fashion, or he's been coopted or captured: to preserve any dignity, for the good of the country he needs to resign. #MAGA @realDonaldTrump #TrumpTrain #AmericaFirst https://t.co/D0q4ff2JVI reageer retweet

Sessions ligt ook behoorlijk onder vuur weer inmiddels.

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Op zondag 4 maart 2018 00:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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integer te handelen ... is dat het probleem?

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A simple meal, fraught with implication.

On Wednesday night, the head of a federal agency went out to dinner with his deputy and the No. 3 official at his department at a posh restaurant in Washington, DC.

That does not, on its face, sound like a particularly interesting or unusual turn of events. But in the mixed-up world of Trump-era Washington, a dinner with colleagues at Central Michel Richard isn’t just a dinner with colleagues — it’s another subplot in the intrigue of Donald Trump scandal.