[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #492 Swamping the Drain

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An executive whose bank lent as much as $16 million to former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort around the time the banker was seeking to become Army secretary called Army personnel shortly after the election to inquire about the confirmation process, according to information provided by the Pentagon to congressional Democrats.

Stephen Calk, the chief executive of the Federal Savings Bank and a former campaign adviser to President Donald Trump, also spoke to the Army’s chief of staff eight days after the 2016 election during a luncheon in Chicago, where the bank is located, Democrats said a Pentagon official told them.

The official’s details on the interactions came in response to Democrats’ request for information about Mr. Calk’s contacts with the department, and were included in a new letter sent by the Democrats to Mr. Calk requesting more information.

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timkaine twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 16:55:02 Now more than ever, we need a Secretary of State who will stand strong for vigorous diplomacy, not exacerbate President Trump’s proclivity towards conflict. Unfortunately, Mike Pompeo has often demonstrated a similar disposition against diplomacy, so I will oppose his nomination. reageer retweet

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Sen. Tim Kaine announced on Sunday he would oppose Mike Pompeo to be secretary of state, further complicating the CIA director's confirmation prospects on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee.

“We have a president who is anti-diplomacy. And I worry that Mike Pompeo has shown the same tendency to oppose diplomacy," Kaine, a member of the Foreign Relations Committee who voted for Pompeo to take over the CIA, said on CBS' "Face the Nation.”

"I don’t want a secretary of state who is going to exacerbate [President Donald Trump's] tendencies," the Democratic senator from Virginia said, noting Pompeo's opposition to the Iran nuclear deal and for taking military action without the approval of Congress.

In addition to Kaine, fellow panel members Jeanne Shaheen (D-N.H.) and Rand Paul (R-Ky.), have signaled they would also vote against Pompeo's nomination.

Even if Pompeo doesn't win the committee's endorsement, Senate Republican leaders will still likely bring his nomination to the floor, where he could be approved.

“We're going to have a floor vote. I'm telling what you my vote is,” Kaine said.

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SethAbramson twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 19:58:11 (THREAD) In Part 2 of my thread on Comey's efforts to the defend the FBI, I explain how the just-released IG report confirms that Comey's defense of the FBI *wrongly* implies a pro-Clinton—rather than pro-Trump—FBI conspiracy to influence the election. Hope you'll read and share. https://t.co/lnn8bEUqF0 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 21:20:06 Elizabeth Warren and top Democratic lawmakers want Citigroup and Apollo Global Management to provide detailed records of the loans totaling more than $500 million that were made to Jared Kushner’s family real estate business and to hand over any comms with Kushner himself. https://t.co/kQEP4c6TqD reageer retweet

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 22:31 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Trump blijkt zijn campagnefonds voor 2020 te gebruiken om zijn steeds maar verder oplopende advocatenkosten te betalen

https://www.buzzfeed.com/tariniparti/trump-campaign-spending

Daarnaast is hij ook vaste klant bij zichzelf (hoe verrassend) en Amazon. Hier kan je al zijn uitgaven nalezen:

http://docquery.fec.gov/cgi-bin/forms/C00580100/1222729/sb/ALL/2

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 21:18 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 19:58:11 (THREAD) In Part 2 of my thread on Comey's efforts to the defend the FBI, I explain how the just-released IG report confirms that Comey's defense of the FBI *wrongly* implies a pro-Clinton—rather than pro-Trump—FBI conspiracy to influence the election. Hope you'll read and share. https://t.co/lnn8bEUqF0 reageer retweet

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 22:37 schreef Falco het volgende:

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Het opnemen voor USPS op Twitter maar zelf heeft ie pakketjes door Fedex laten versturen. Wat een stumper blijft het ook!

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 22:49 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Opnemen voor?!? USPost maakt dankzij Amazon nog wat omzet...

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 22:51 schreef Falco het volgende:

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Daar gaat het niet om. Ik zat te scrollen door die lijst van kosten en kwam nogal vaak Fedex tegen. Vind het dan wel wat hypocriet dat ie meent dat USPS uitgemergeld wordt door Amazon.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 01:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Kun je de vermeende leugen quoten?

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 01:08 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Lynch weerspreekt Comey's boek:

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Krijgt Trump toch weer gelijk dat Comey een lying slimeball is.

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Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, used the same Delaware limited-liability company in two secret deals relating to alleged sexual encounters involving his clients, according to people familiar with the matter.

Venture capitalist Elliott Broidy paid an initial installment of $62,500 to the company, Essential Consultants LLC, as part of Mr. Cohen’s $250,000 total fee for negotiating a nondisclosure agreement related to Mr. Broidy’s affair with a former Playboy model who alleged he had impregnated her, a person familiar with the matter said.

Federal prosecutors are examining money flowing in and out of Essential Consultants as part of a broad investigation into Mr. Cohen’s activities to silence women with allegations against Mr. Trump or those in his orbit, according to people familiar with the matter.

The Wall Street Journal first reported the $1.6 million agreement between Mr. Broidy—the Republican National Committee’s deputy finance chairman with ties to Mr. Trump—and the model on Friday. Mr. Broidy later resigned his RNC post.

Mr. Cohen also used Essential Consultants to pay $130,000 to former adult-film actress Stephanie Clifford, also known as Stormy Daniels, so she wouldn’t discuss an alleged sexual encounter with Mr. Trump; the payment was made 12 days before the presidential election.

Mr. Broidy paid the remaining fee installments totaling $187,500 directly to Mr. Cohen after the Journal revealed in January that the Clifford payment was made through Essential Consultants, the person said.

Mr. Cohen and his lawyers didn’t respond to a request for comment.

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I don't buy this stuff about him being mentally incompetent or early stages of dementia. He strikes me as a person of above average intelligence who's tracking conversations and knows what's going on. I don't think he's medically unfit to be president. I think he's morally unfit to be president.

A person who sees moral equivalence in Charlottesville, who talks about and treats women like they're pieces of meat, who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it -- that person's not fit to be president of the United States, on moral grounds. And that's not a policy statement. Again, I don't care what your views are on guns or immigration or taxes.

There's something more important than that that should unite all of us, and that is our president must embody respect and adhere to the values that are at the core of this country. The most important being truth. This president is not able to do that. He is morally unfit to be president.

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"Your Honor, I object! "

Judge: "Why?"

"Because it's devastating to my case!"

Judge: "Overruled."

"Good call!"

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 01:38 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Kun je de vermeende leugen quoten, niet wat zij zegt, maar wat Comey zegt.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 08:33 schreef Ringo het volgende:
Zou James Comey gaan voor het presidentschap?

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 08:33 schreef Ringo het volgende:
Zou James Comey gaan voor het presidentschap?

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 10:00 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Waarom zou hij dat doen?

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“People in this country need to stand up and go to the voting booth and vote their values,” said Comey. Only voting, he suggested, can deliver a worthy defeat.

Impeaching the president, Comey believes, would be a quick fix to a larger problem: “You cannot have, as president of the United States, someone who does not reflect the values that I believe Republicans treasure and Democrats treasure and Independents treasure,” Comey said. “That is the core of this country. That’s our foundation. And so impeachment, in a way, would short circuit that.”

“I think we owe it to each other to get off the couch and think about what unites us. I think about the people who supported Trump, and continue to support Trump.

A lotta them come from families with a proud history of military service. And that’s a wonderful thing. What did their fathers and grandfathers fight and die for? Not for immigration policy. Not for a tax policy. Not for Supreme Court justice. They fought and died for a set of ideas. The rule of law. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. The truth.

That’s what they fought and died for. And at some point, we have to focus on that and make sure that whoever’s leading us embodies those and we judge that leader by their tether to those values. Then we’ll go back to fighting like cats and dogs about all the things we normally fight about.”

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 10:36 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Jij bent degene die de vraagt stelt, Comey heeft nergens ook maar gehint op een politieke carrière. En terecht, hij is veel te besmet door dit hele gebeuren.

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...who lies constantly about matters big and small and insists the American people believe it...

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One of Donald Trump’s first obsessions in office was the size of his inauguration crowd. Trump famously sent then-White House press secretary Sean Spicer into the press briefing room to slam media reports that he had drawn fewer spectators than President Barack Obama during his first inauguration in 2009.

In an interview with George Stephanopolous on Sunday night, former FBI director James Comey said the topic even came up at a private dinner he had with Trump that the president said not even then-chief-of-staff Reince Priebus knew about.

“It was him talking almost the entire time, which I’ve discovered is something he frequently does. And so it would be monologue in this direction, monologue in that direction, monologue in a different direction. And a constant series of assertions that ― about the inauguration crowd, about how great my inauguration speech was, about all the free media,” Comey said. “...On and on and on and on. Everyone agrees, everyone agrees, I did this, the ― I never assaulted these women, I never made fun of a reporter. And ― I’m sure you’re wondering what question did I ask that would prompt those? None, zero. I didn’t ask any questions that I recall.”

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