[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #491The Tragedy of Paul Ryan

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 01:22 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
Gaap.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 01:28 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Best irritant dat er over dit soort elementaire staatsrechtelijke dingen een ellenlange discussie moet zijn idd...

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 01:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Hm ja, AMV idd.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 01:30 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Zegt degene die de discussie aanzwengelde en in stand hield...

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 01:34 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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We zijn voor het in stand houden beiden verantwoordelijk denk ik. Laten we er een punt achter zetten?

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 01:37 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Nee. Jij bleef eigenwijs beweren dat de koning wel politieke macht heeft.

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President Trump’s personal attorney Michael D. Cohen sometimes taped conversations with associates, according to three people familiar with his practice, and allies of the president are worried that the recordings were seized by federal investigators in a raid of Cohen’s office and residences this week.

Cohen, who served for a decade as a lawyer at the Trump Organization and is a close confidant of Trump, was known to store the conversations using digital files and then replay them for colleagues, according to people who have interacted with him.

“We heard he had some proclivity to make tapes,” said one Trump adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. “Now we are wondering, who did he tape? Did he store those someplace where they were actually seized? . . . Did they find his recordings?”

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 01:39 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Weer geef je hier mee mijn en jouw standpunt niet eerlijk weer. Ik hou er nu echt over op. Schrijf verder wat je wil hierover.

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Op donderdag 12 april 2018 18:20 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Je ziet het in je portemonnee.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 01:18 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Westwood en ik zeggen hetzelfde. 0 politieke macht voor de koning...

En ik geef en argumenten en links en hints.

Dus hou op met je geblaat dat hij wel politieke macht heeft en je gejammer over mij. Jezus...

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 01:39 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Weer geef je hier mee mijn en jouw standpunt niet eerlijk weer. Ik hou er nu echt over op. Schrijf verder wat je wil hierover.

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President Trump, in a sharp reversal, told a gathering of farm state lawmakers and governors on Thursday morning that the United States was looking into rejoining a multicountry trade agreement known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a deal he pulled out of days after assuming the presidency.

Mr. Trump’s reconsideration of an agreement he once denounced as a “rape of our country” caught even his closest advisers by surprise and came as his administration faces stiff pushback from Republican lawmakers, farmers and other businesses concerned that the president’s threat of tariffs and other trade barriers will hurt them economically.

Larry Kudlow, Mr. Trump’s top economic adviser, said in an interview on Thursday with The New York Times that the request to revisit the deal was somewhat spontaneous. “This whole trade thing has exploded,” Mr. Kudlow said. “There’s no deadline. We’ll pull a team together, but we haven’t even done — I mean, it just happened a couple hours ago.”

Mr. Trump’s decision to throw out the Trans-Pacific Partnership and his pledge to tear up the North American Free Trade Agreement were bedrock promises of his populist campaign, which centered heavily on unfair trade practices that he said had robbed American manufacturers and workers.

But, as he often does, the president started to change gears after hearing complaints from important constituents — in this case, Republican lawmakers who said farmers and other businesses in their states would suffer from his trade approach since they send many of their products abroad.

At the White House meeting on Thursday, Senator John Thune, Republican of South Dakota, questioned Mr. Trump about returning to the pact, arguing that the Trans-Pacific Partnership was the best way to put pressure on China.

Mr. Trump, who has put China’s “unfair” trade practices in his cross hairs, turned to Mr. Kudlow and Robert Lighthizer, his trade negotiator, and asked them to look into re-entering the agreement.

Rejoining the pact could be a significant change in fortune for many American industries that stood to benefit from the trade accord and for Republican lawmakers who supported it. The deal, which was negotiated by the Obama administration, was largely intended as a tool to prod China into making the type of economic changes that the United States and others have long wanted. Many economists say the best way to combat a rising China and pressure it to open its market is through multilateral trade deals like the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which create favorable trading terms for participants.

“The idea was to set a framework that eventually China would have to accommodate,” said David Autor, an economist at M.I.T.

Farmers would stand to benefit from new access to markets, especially Japan, if Mr. Trump rejoins the pact. For instance, ranchers in Australia can send beef to Japan under more favorable trade terms than those in the United States under the terms of the TPP.

Michael Miller, the chairman of U.S. Wheat Associates and a farmer in Washington, said rejoining the deal would allow his industry to compete on a level playing field with competitors in Australia and Canada, which both remained in the accord.

But rejoining it could be a complex task. The remaining countries, like Japan, moved ahead without the United States, and spent months renegotiating a pact before finally agreeing to a sweeping multinational deal this year. Mr. Trump, who has demanded that any such deal benefit the United States, is unlikely to rejoin the Trans-Pacific Partnership without further concessions for what he has criticized as a terrible agreement. That could complicate talks, since Japan maintains that it has already given all the concessions it could, said William A. Reinsch, a trade expert at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

It is also unclear how serious Mr. Trump is about rejoining. In the past, the president has floated policies that appeared to run counter to his earlier positions, like cooperating with Democrats on legislation governing immigration and gun rights, then quickly abandoned them.

“What he tells people in a room to make them happy does not always translate into administration policy,” said Phil Levy, a senior fellow at the Chicago Council on Global Affairs.

In a statement, a deputy White House press secretary, Lindsay Walters, pushed back on the notion that Mr. Trump was reversing his promises.

The president had “kept his promise to end the TPP deal negotiated by the Obama administration because it was unfair to American workers and farmers,” she said. “The president has consistently said he would be open to a substantially better deal.”

But the White House is in somewhat of a box when it comes to prodding China to fall in line with global trade rules. The administration is trying to use tariffs to force Beijing to open its markets, but many of his supporters, including business groups and farmers, fear the fallout from an escalating trade war will be even more damaging. China has responded to Mr. Trump’s threat of tariffs on as much as $150 billion worth of its goods by placing its own tariffs on American pork, and threatening taxes on soybeans, sorghum, corn and beef.

Some advisers, including Mr. Kudlow, have indicated that those tariffs may never go into effect, and that they are mainly a prelude to negotiations with the Chinese, statements that have helped calm volatile stock markets. In a recent note to clients, the ratings agency Fitch said that the most likely outcome to the conflict remained a “negotiated solution” and that it was therefore not changing its primary economic forecast.

Mr. Kudlow, in the interview, said that farmers had “a legitimate concern” but added that it would be “at least two months before final decisions will be made.”

“I’m not here to say we won’t use tariffs — everything’s on the table in these negotiations — but I am here to say we don’t know yet,” he said.

Still, White House officials suggest that little to no progress has yet been made in bridging contentious gaps with the Chinese. Administration officials say that back-channel talks have occurred, but they would not characterize them as official negotiations. The Chinese appear impassable on some of the issues that the White House is most concerned about, including their subsidies to cutting-edge industries like robotics, aerospace and artificial intelligence.

The Trump administration says it has ordered the Agriculture Department to create a program to help farmers should the two nations find themselves in a trade war. Trade advisers say the department could draw on the financial resources of a program known as the Commodity Credit Corporation, which provides up to $30 billion to help shore up American farmers by buying their crops.

“Stay with us while we go through this difficult process,” Mr. Kudlow told farm state representatives during the meeting, according to a White House transcript. He added, “And at the end, if the worst case has come out as the president said, you will be helped. That’s a promise.”

But such a program would be time-consuming and costly and would come as the budget deficit continues to increase. Farmers say that Mr. Trump’s threats have already hurt them by causing the price of futures contracts to fall. They maintain that the easiest way to help them is to avoid a trade war with China in the first place.

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Senator Joni Ernst, Republican of Iowa, described the meeting with the president as “productive” and said that she had urged him to re-engage in discussions with countries in the Trans-Pacific Partnership. “Iowa farmers aren’t looking for another subsidy program; rather they want new and improved market access,” she said.

“The best thing the United States can do to push back against Chinese cheating now is to lead the other 11 Pacific nations that believe in free trade and the rule of law,” Senator Ben Sasse, Republican of Nebraska, who attended the meeting, said in a statement. “It is good news that today the president directed Larry Kudlow and Ambassador Lighthizer to negotiate U.S. entry into TPP.”

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President Donald Trump is poised to pardon Scooter J. Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, according to sources familiar with the president’s thinking.

The president has already signed off on the pardon, which is something he has been considering for several months, sources told ABC News.

The move would mark another controversial pardon for Trump and could raise questions as an increasing number of the president’s political allies have landed themselves in legal jeopardy. The White House has repeatedly said that no pardons are currently on the table for people caught up in the Russia investigation.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 03:39 schreef skysherrif het volgende:
Lol Trump gaat full Neocon.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 03:15 schreef DeParo het volgende:
Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)news&WT.nav=top-news

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Past in de gecoordineerde aanval op China. Kudlow en Lighthizer lijken een positieve invloed op hem te hebben op het gebied van internationale handel. Maakt het makkelijker voor Amerika Chinese sancties te omzeilen.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 03:15 schreef DeParo het volgende:
Trump Proposes Rejoining Trans-Pacific Partnership
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)=first-column-region®ion=top-news&WT.nav=top-news

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Past in de gecoordineerde aanval op China. Kudlow en Lighthizer lijken een positieve invloed op hem te hebben op het gebied van internationale handel. Maakt het makkelijker voor Amerika Chinese sancties te omzeilen.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 07:42 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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En over een jaartje wordt Trump weer omringd door adviseurs met een andere visie op TPP. Stapt hij er dan weer uit?

Je moet er maar vrolijk van worden, een president die zich laat leiden door de mening van de laatste persoon die hij spreekt.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 07:52 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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De handelsoorlog met China heeft de verhoudingen natuurlijk wel.iets verandert.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 07:52 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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De handelsoorlog met China heeft de verhoudingen natuurlijk wel.iets verandert.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 07:54 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Een handelsoorlog die Amerika nota bene zelf begonnen is.

Vooruitziende blik is niet echt iets wat de Trump regering machtig is, of wel?

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 08:11 schreef Szura het volgende:
Haha toch nog mensen die het positief uit proberen te leggen dat hij eerst uit TPP ging want ‘slechte Obama-deal!1!1!1’ en nu terug wil omdat het toch wel handig was wat die Obama met dat verdrag beoogde, al zal ie dat nooit zo toegeven. Jammer Donald, te laat, verdragje is al rond. Kan ie daarna weer schreeuwen dat die oneerlijke landen uit het verdrag Amerika tegenwerken!!!

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 07:56 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Hoezo? Op het moment dat hij besloot om uit TPP te stappen liep hij aan de lopende band te foeteren tegen China. Dat veranderde na zijn ontmoeting met Xi en die volgde pas later.