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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 20:04 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Wat was eigenlijk de aanleiding om Libby *nu* een pardon te geven? Hij is in 2007 veroordeeld, Bush had er al voor gezorgd dat hij de cel niet in zou hoeven, de boete is allang betaald en de 2 jaar voorwaardelijke straf zijn ook al lang en breed voorbij. Het is 100% zeker dat Trump zelf niet met dit idee aan kwam kakken, welke redenatie anders dan "hiermee toon je mensen die loyaal aan je zijn dat je ze zal steunen (Flynn)" is hier van toepassing?

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MichaelCohen212 twitterde op donderdag 03-08-2017 om 14:29:49 @RealJamesWoods Honored to be a part of the team with @GOPChairwoman Steve Wynn and @Elliott_Broidy. Goal for the year $150M and on track! reageer retweet

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“He brought up what he called the ‘golden showers thing’ … adding that it bothered him if there was ‘even a 1 percent chance’ his wife, Melania, thought it was true,” Comey reportedly writes in “A Higher Loyalty.”

He added: “He just rolled on, unprompted, explaining why it couldn’t possibly be true, ending by saying he was thinking of asking me to investigate the allegation to prove it was a lie. I said it was up to him.”

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President Donald Trump on Thursday tweeted out a photo of a White House meeting with the Agricultural Roundtable — but that also showed White House chief of staff John Kelly putting his head in his hands. However, as pointed out by MSNBC producer Kyle Griffin, the tweet no longer appears on the president’s Twitter timeline, which suggests that either he or someone on his staff deleted it.

This is the second time that Kelly has been caught face-palming during official White House business. Last year, Kelly was shown with his head in his hands as Trump referred to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un as “Rocket Man” during a speech before the United Nations.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 14:38:56 Trump told @Comey that he did not stay overnight in the Moscow Ritz in 2013, according to Comey's new book. But Trump's own bodyguard, Keith Schiller, testified that he did. https://t.co/JxvU8Kp2nG reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 21:05:19 Elliott Broidy has stepped down from his post on the RNC's finance team, The Hill reports. https://t.co/SV5kJn11Nf reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:12 schreef AnneX het volgende:
De press conf. vandaag...Sara tóch

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:13 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Leugenachtige heks

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:17 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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De overtuiging waarmee zij het brengt... en losgaat op de door Comey geobsedeerde persmensen.
“This country has so many problems...”. true.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:12 schreef AnneX het volgende:
De press conf. vandaag...Sara tóch

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:23 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Snap werkelijk niet dat er nog journalisten naartoe gaan. Nieuwtjes zijn er niet te halen, alleen een hoop poep die uit een blubberton wordt gesprayd.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:25 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Wat dan?

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:27 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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De manier waarop zij losging / voordroeg van papier vertoonde grote gelijkenis met de mevrouw uit Noord Korea.

Eigenlijk zou ik denken dat de journalisten zouden kunnen samenwerken in het stellen van vragen i.p.v.
zich te onderscheiden en voor de hand liggende antwoorden te accepteren.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:34 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Dank!
Ik heb het niet gezien. Ben dus ook erg benieuwd wat ze precies zei..

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:36 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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Het was geweldig, als je trump fan bent en vindt dat de President oneerlijk wordt behandeld.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/live/

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SarahHuckabee twitterde op donderdag 03-11-2016 om 20:12:34 When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing https://t.co/SIoAxatCjp reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 20:38 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
De Inspector General is in zijn rapport vrij duidelijk in zijn boodschap: McCabe heeft flinke steken laten vallen.

Former FBI Deputy Director is Faulted in Scathing Inspector General Report.

In het artikel staat een link naar het rapport.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 21:36:27 DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:56 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 21:36:27 DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes! reageer retweet

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First, with regard to his claim of having told Comey that he had authorized
the disclosure, Comey stated precisely the opposite in his OIG interview, and the
chronology and circumstances then existing (as described above) make it
extraordinarily unlikely that McCabe did so and that Comey would simply have
agreed after the fact with McCabe’s disclosure and thought it was a good idea. As
detailed above, the overwhelming weight of evidence supported Comey’s version of
the conversation and not McCabe’s.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 22:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Komt bij dat Trump, als grootste prominente leugenaar ooit, volstrekt geen recht van spreken heeft over liegen. En Comey is niet McCabe. Collusion heeft er geen reet mee te maken. McCabe hielp Trumps campagne ermee. etc

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mkraju twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 20:56:40 Trump former campaign chairman: indictedTrump WH national security adviser: pleads guilty Trump former deputy campaign chairman: pleads guilty Trump campaign foreign policy adviser: pleads guilty Trump personal lawyer and close confidant: under criminal investigation reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 22:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Komt bij dat Trump, als grootste prominente leugenaar ooit, volstrekt geen recht van spreken heeft over liegen. En Comey is niet McCabe. Collusion heeft er geen reet mee te maken. McCabe hielp Trumps campagne ermee. etc

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 21:56 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 21:36:27 DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes! reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 21:59:52 Over 100 DOJ alumni—some of whom worked in Carter, Reagan, Bush I, Clinton, Bush II, Obama, AND Trump admins—sign a letter calling on lawmakers to "oppose any attempt by the President or others to improperly interfere" with Mueller probe/DOJ more broadly. https://t.co/yjiz43UgHk reageer retweet

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We, the undersigned, are proud alumni of the United States Department of Justice. We served this institution out of a commitment to the founding American principles that our democratic republic depends upon the rule of law, that the law must be applied equally, and that no one is above the law. Many of us served with Robert Mueller and Rod Rosenstein. Those of us who served with these men know them to be dedicated public servants committed to these principles. All of us served with thousands of their peers at the Department, who also swear an oath to serve, defend, and protect the United States, the Constitution and the American people. We know that there are thousands of public servants at the Department today who serve these principles and all of us.

We are therefore deeply disturbed by the attacks that have been levied against the good men and women of the Department. Not only is it an insult to their public service, but any attempt to corrupt or undermine the even-handed application of the rule of law threatens the foundation of our Republic. We know the people who serve at the Department will bravely weather these attacks and continue to uphold their oaths by doing only what the law dictates. But it is up to the rest of us, and especially our elected representatives, to come to their defense and oppose any attempt by the President or others to improperly interfere in the Department’s work, including by firing either Mr. Mueller, Mr. Rosenstein or other Department leadership or officials for the purpose of interfering in their investigations. Should the President take such a step, we call on Congress to swiftly and forcefully respond to protect the founding principles of our Republic and the rule of law.

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CGasparino twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 21:14:04 wall street trading desks AND GOP staffers telling me they're hearing Rod Rosenstein is OUT as Deputy AG as @POTUS rages over Mueller inquiry as early as tonight. @WhiteHouse no immediate comment we discuss the mkt impl\ications at 340 edt @LizClaman @FoxBusiness reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 22:22 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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CGasparino twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 21:14:04 wall street trading desks AND GOP staffers telling me they're hearing Rod Rosenstein is OUT as Deputy AG as @POTUS rages over Mueller inquiry as early as tonight. @WhiteHouse no immediate comment we discuss the mkt impl\ications at 340 edt @LizClaman @FoxBusiness reageer retweet

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joshgerstein twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 22:22:05 Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein just arrived at DC federal court.....for investiture of new Judge Trevor McFadden..RR seemed chipper. Sessions expected shortly. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 22:31 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Hier blijkt nog niet uit dat hij weg is iig:

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joshgerstein twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 22:22:05 Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein just arrived at DC federal court.....for investiture of new Judge Trevor McFadden..RR seemed chipper. Sessions expected shortly. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 22:31 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Hier blijkt nog niet uit dat hij weg is iig:

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joshgerstein twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 22:22:05 Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein just arrived at DC federal court.....for investiture of new Judge Trevor McFadden..RR seemed chipper. Sessions expected shortly. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 22:31 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Hier blijkt nog niet uit dat hij weg is iig:

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joshgerstein twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 22:22:05 Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein just arrived at DC federal court.....for investiture of new Judge Trevor McFadden..RR seemed chipper. Sessions expected shortly. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 22:34 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Nog niet, maar de vrijdagmiddag/avond is altijd favoriet bij Trump. Ontslaan terwijl diegene een publieke engagement heeft is ook wel een beetje z'n MO. Ben benieuwd.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 22:35 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Meestal weten ze zelf niet dat ze ontslagen zijn he? Denk bijv. aan Comey die in Californie bij de FBI ah speechen was. En later is het nog een paar keer gebeurd..

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 22:39 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat klopt. Ik geef slechts aan dat er buiten 1 Fox reporter nog niks is wat erop wijst.

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A Democratic lawmaker tweeted Friday that he will introduce articles of impeachment against President Trump if he orders the firing of Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein.

In a tweet, Rep. Brendan Boyle (D-Pa.) reacted to reports that Trump is considering firing both Rosenstein and Robert Mueller, the special counsel in charge of the investigation into Russian election meddling.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 22:49 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Bron: The Hill (en fucking twitter)

Niet dat dit nou zo veelzeggend is, maar goed. De geruchten gaan flink rond.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 20:52 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Goeie TT

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ChadPergram twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 22:32:36 Fox has learned that articles of impeachment have been drafted for Rosenstein..though not filed. It is not clear which lawmaker drafted the articles…or if they would go anywhere in cmte or on the flr reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 23:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Thx btw.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 23:21 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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ChadPergram twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 22:32:36 Fox has learned that articles of impeachment have been drafted for Rosenstein..though not filed. It is not clear which lawmaker drafted the articles…or if they would go anywhere in cmte or on the flr reageer retweet

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eorden twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 23:26:26 New filing in Cohen case:"The Court GRANTS the application of President Trump to intervene in this proceeding. SO ORDERED." reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 23:25 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:

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Devin Nunes natuurlijk.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 23:34 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
De rechter heeft geoordeeld dat Trump onderdeel is van de civiele rechtszaak tegen Cohen:

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eorden twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 23:26:26 New filing in Cohen case:"The Court GRANTS the application of President Trump to intervene in this proceeding. SO ORDERED." reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 23:55 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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Dan wacht ik even de interpretatie af van de kenners hier, want ik vermoed dat die van mij niet helemaal juist is.

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Isolated and Unnerved, Trump Sees Inquiry Into His Lawyer as Greater Threat Than Mueller (NYTimes)

President Trump’s advisers have concluded that a wide-ranging corruption investigation in New York poses a greater and more imminent threat to the president than even the special counsel’s investigation, according to several people close to Mr. Trump.

As his lawyers went to court on Friday to try to block prosecutors from reading files that were seized from his longtime personal lawyer and fixer this week, Mr. Trump found himself increasingly isolated in mounting a response. He continued to struggle to hire a new criminal lawyer, and some of his own aides were reluctant to advise him about a response for fear of being dragged into a criminal investigation themselves.

The raids on Mr. Trump’s lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, came as part of a monthslong federal investigation based in New York, court records show, and were sweeping in their breadth. In addition to searching his home, office and hotel room, F.B.I. agents seized material from Mr. Cohen’s cellphones, tablet, laptop and safe deposit box, according to people briefed on the warrants. Prosecutors revealed in court documents that they had already secretly obtained many of Mr. Cohen’s emails.

Mr. Trump called Mr. Cohen on Friday to “check in,” according to two people briefed on the call. Depending on what else was discussed, the call could be problematic, as lawyers typically advise their clients against discussing investigations.

SPOILER

Mr. Cohen has publicly declared that he would defend the president to the end, but court documents show that prosecutors are building a significant case that could put pressure on him to cooperate and tell investigators what he knows.

The documents seized by prosecutors could shed light on the president’s relationship with a lawyer who has helped navigate some of Mr. Trump’s thorniest personal and business dilemmas. Mr. Cohen served for more than a decade as a trusted fixer and, during the campaign, helped tamp down brewing scandals about women who claimed to have carried on affairs with Mr. Trump.

Mr. Trump, Mr. Cohen and their teams were still scrambling on Friday to assess the damage from the raid early Monday morning. They remained unsure what had been taken, an uncertainty that has heightened the unease around Mr. Trump.

Although his lawyers had projected confidence in their dealings with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, they were caught flat-footed by the New York raids. The lawyers fear that Mr. Cohen will not be forthcoming with them about what was in his files, leaving them girding for the unknown.

Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump, through their lawyers, argued in federal court on Friday that many of the seized records were protected by attorney-client privilege. They asked for an order temporarily prohibiting prosecutors from reading the documents until the matter could be litigated. Mr. Cohen argued that he or an independent lawyer should be allowed to review the documents first.

“Those searches have been executed, and the evidence is locked down,” Joanna C. Hendon, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, said in court. “I’m not trying to delay. I’m just trying to ensure that it’s done scrupulously.”

Prosecutors argued that the previously seized emails revealed that Mr. Cohen was “performing little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump.” They said their investigation was focused on Mr. Cohen’s business dealings, not his work as a lawyer.

But it is difficult to extract Mr. Cohen from his work for Mr. Trump. For more than a decade, Mr. Trump has unleashed Mr. Cohen on his foes — investigative journalists, business rivals and potential litigants. And the New York search warrant makes clear that the authorities are interested in his unofficial role in the campaign.

Prosecutors demanded all communication with the campaign — and in particular two advisers, Corey Lewandowski and Hope Hicks, according to two people briefed on the warrants.

Prosecutors also seized recordings of conversations that Mr. Cohen had secretly made, but he told people in recent days that he did not tape his conversations with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen frequently taped conservations with adversaries and opposing lawyers, according to the two people briefed.

The raids on Mr. Cohen surprised and angered the president, who has been frustrated with the special counsel investigation into Russia’s 2016 election interference, the Kremlin’s possible coordination with Trump associates and whether the president has tried to obstruct those inquiries.

In response to the raids, Mr. Trump has considered firing Mr. Mueller, Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the deputy attorney general, Rod J. Rosenstein.

Mr. Cohen’s lawyers have called the raids of his offices and hotel room an overreach of the law. Prosecutors said on Friday that they had used a search warrant, rather than a subpoena, because they had evidence that Mr. Cohen’s files might be permanently deleted — by whom, the documents did not say. Many details in the documents were redacted, but prosecutors said they had found evidence of fraud and a “lack of truthfulness” on his part.

Mr. Cohen wants his lawyers to be able to review the files and withhold privileged material before prosecutors can see them. As an alternative, he asked that an independent lawyer be allowed to review the files first. A judge scheduled a follow-up hearing for Monday and ordered Mr. Cohen to attend. The judge, Kimba M. Wood, was upset that he was not in court Friday.

Federal agents seized documents that dated back years, some of which are related to payments to two women who have said they had affairs with Mr. Trump. Other documents seized included information about the role of The National Enquirer in silencing one of the women, people briefed on the investigation have said.

Communications between lawyers and their clients are normally off limits to prosecutors, but there are exceptions, including when the materials are considered part of a continuing crime.

Mr. Trump has viewed any investigation of his business and private life to be off limits to prosecutors, but the search warrants make clear that investigators consider those topics part of their case.

Agents sought information about Karen McDougal, a former Playboy model who claims she had a nearly yearlong affair with Mr. Trump shortly after the birth of his youngest son in 2006. American Media Inc., which owns The Enquirer, paid Ms. McDougal $150,000. The company’s chief executive is a friend of Mr. Trump’s.

Agents also demanded information related to Stephanie Clifford, better known as Stormy Daniels, a pornographic film actress. Ms. Clifford has said she had sex with Mr. Trump while he was married. Mr. Cohen has acknowledged paying Ms. Clifford $130,000 as part of a nondisclosure agreement to secure her silence days before Election Day.

Mr. Trump recently told reporters he knew nothing about the agreement.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 23:55 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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Dan wacht ik even de interpretatie af van de kenners hier, want ik vermoed dat die van mij niet helemaal juist is.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 00:04 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Toegevoegd aan het geschil omdat de uitkomst van het geschil (rechts)gevolgen zou kunnen hebben voor die derde partij. Lijkt me in deze logisch dat Dennis dus wordt toegoevoegd...

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 00:04 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 00:14:46 Trump sees Cohen flipping as the biggest possible threat to him of any of the threats out there, and Cohen is in more *immediate* danger from SDNY than Robert Mueller. That's all this is. Trump well knows that the gravest danger to *him* (and his presidency) comes from Mueller. https://t.co/qrxIjn3pGE reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 00:17:54 2/ Does the FBI have Trump on tape talking with Cohen and saying things he'd rather we not know he said? Almost certainly. But is there any reason to think Trump was involved in Cohen's taxi business? Or that Cohen wasn't good at minimizing Trump's exposure to mistress payoffs? reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 00:20:38 3/ I don't think anyone doubts that Trump knew about all the mistress payoffs and is somewhere on tape making that clear and getting involved in intimate detail.Even still, the Russia probe offers larger and more varied and more perilous dangers for him legally and politically. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 00:35:16 We need to stop saying the Russia probe will continue even if Rosenstein and/or Mueller are fired. That's a possibility, but no one can 100% ensure that that happens if the investigation comes under new leadership. If a firing happens, this *is* a constitutional crisis. *Period*. reageer retweet

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joshgerstein twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 00:46:50 ROD AT EASE: Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein just left federal court in DC after spending an hour schmoozing with guests at investiture of new District Judge Trevor McFadden. Rosenstein seemed in good spirits despite a bit of gallows humor from other guests https://t.co/3NJMem6gOT https://t.co/JdRqeltQpb reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 00:23 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Was deze al voorbij gekomen?

https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.43ea923b17d2

Stuk over de concessie die gedaan zou zijn aan Gardner omtrent federale handhaving met betrekking tot staten waar marihuana gelegaliseerd is.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 00:55 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Wat kan de reden zijn, dat Cohen gesprekken opneemt met bijv. / misschien ? Trump of anderen.
Is dat om zichzelf tr vrijwaren? als borg? wettelijke archivering.
Heeft Cohen geen papier shredder?

Wat een script voor een soap is dit toch.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 01:00 schreef AnneX het volgende:
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The easiest way for Trump to fire Mueller is to order someone else to do it — and the most obvious person to start with is Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, who stepped in to oversee the federal probe into the Trump campaign’s ties with Russia after Attorney General Jeff Sessions recused himself last year.

Link https://www.politico.com/(...)es-rosenstein-522069

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 00:57 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Het lijkt wel alsof er met de raid van Cohen een enorme beerput is open gegaan. Het is niet onwaarschijnlijk om te denken dat praktisch alle smerige praktijken waar hij en Trump bij betrokken zijn geweest nu langzaam naar buiten komen. Verklaart ook waarom die raid voor Trump wel de druppel lijkt te zijn die de emmer doet overlopen.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 01:01 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Maar Rosenstein gaat dat niet doen. Dus de route is: eerst Rosenstein ontslaan, en dan net zo lang zijn opvolgers ontslaan totdat je iemand krijgt die wel bereid is om Mueller weg te sturen.

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DOJ just issued the McCabe report - which is a total disaster. He LIED! LIED! LIED! McCabe was totally controlled by Comey - McCabe is Comey!! No collusion, all made up by this den of thieves and lowlifes!

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 01:04 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Weer een deel van het Steele Dossier bevestigd:

Sources: Mueller has evidence Cohen was in Prague in 2016, confirming part of dossier
http://www.mcclatchydc.co(...)rticle208870264.html

Trump attorney: CNN, BuzzFeed owe my family an apology

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 01:23:36 BREAKING: Remember how Trump said he confronted Cohen about the alleged trip to Prague and Cohen showed him his passport and confirmed he'd never gone? Either Cohen lied to the president or the president lied to the nation about an allegation of treasonous conduct by his lawyer. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 01:25:59 2/ And the chance Michael Cohen lied to Trump is essentially zero, given that both men have made clear that they anticipated all their conversations, on no matter what topic, would be privileged and never revealed to anyone. So there would have been no *reason* for Cohen to lie. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 01:34 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Het zou wel bizar zijn als we eigenlijk al die tijd het verhaal al wisten, maar het te extreem was om destijds geloofwaardig te zijn. Tot nu toe klopt er meer van het dossier dan dat er niet klopt.

Pee Tape Allegations; Paul Ryan Retires; Trump Attacks Mueller: A Closer Look

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BBCJonSopel twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 01:39:33 Am hearing statement coming from @realDonaldTrump later this evening #SyriaCrisis reageer retweet

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The FBI seized recordings President Donald Trump's attorney made of his conversations with a lawyer representing two women who had alleged affairs with Trump, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.

The recordings could prove valuable to the government's criminal investigation of Michael Cohen. The President's personal attorney is under scrutiny in part for his role in seeking to suppress the alleged affair through a hush deal with porn star Stormy Daniels. The warrant sought information about that payment along with any information that connected Cohen with efforts to suppress disclosure of Trump's alleged affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal.

The warrant for the raids also specified that Cohen was being investigated for bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance issues, CNN reported earlier this week.

While Cohen has admitted to no wrongdoing, the intensity of the government's investigation will put significant pressure on one of the President's closest confidants. If Cohen chooses to cooperate rather than fight a potential case against him, then his knowledge about the President's activities could create serious problems for Trump as special counsel Robert Mueller continues his investigation.

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The source said Cohen recorded some calls he had with attorney Keith Davidson, who at the time represented both Daniels and McDougal. Davidson no longer represents either woman. Their deals to keep their stories about alleged affairs quiet are now the subject of litigation, with each seeking to be released from their agreements.

Another source tells CNN that in at least one conversation between the two men, "Cohen was being unusually simplistic, like he had bullet points that he was reading from to try and make himself look good. He was trying to clarify the timeline of the agreements made with Davidson in his (Cohen's) favor."

"Attorney Davidson never consented to any recordings of his conversations with Mr. Cohen. If they in fact do exist, Attorney Davidson will pursue all his legal rights under the law," Dave Wedge, a spokesman for Davidson, said. Recording phone conversations without the consent of both parties could be a legal issue if Davidson was in a state that has such laws, like California.

Cohen's attorney and a spokesman for Cohen's attorney did not reply to requests for comment.

Prosecutors are "going to be very excited at the prospect of having an independent means of corroborating what was said between the two parties," CNN legal analyst and former federal prosecutor Michael Zeldin said. "If all that stuff gets recorded, then they are in deep hurt because if it was just oral between them, it could be a conspiracy of liars but the tapes undermine that."

Zeldin said a conversation between attorneys for different clients would most likely not be considered covered by attorney-client privilege.

McDougal alleges in a lawsuit that Cohen has a cozy relationship with Davidson. She argues Davidson was part of a "broad effort to silence and intimidate her and others." Davidson denies that claim.

In an exclusive interview with CNN last month, Davidson described several calls he had with Cohen about striking a deal for Daniels to keep her story quiet.

Davidson also said he was contacted in recent weeks by Cohen, who encouraged him to go out and reveal what he knew about his clients and their agreements. Davidson said Cohen argued that the women had waived attorney-client privilege by going public with their stories.

"He suggested that it would be appropriate for me to go out into the media and spill my guts," Davidson said.

There was no discussion of recordings during a court hearing on Friday to argue over Cohen's filing of a temporary restraining order that seeks to suppress the evidence gathered in the raid.

The Davidson recordings may not be the only conversations the FBI gathered in the raid. Cohen often recorded telephone conversations both before and during the 2016 presidential campaign that also could have been scooped up in the FBI raid on his apartment, office and hotel room, sources told CNN.

One source said Cohen played to Trump and some associates conversations that he had with political and media figures during the exploratory part of the campaign.

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While Trump was running for president, his business team was trying to develop a Trump tower in Moscow — with the help of a former Russian military intelligence officer. But in a twist, that former officer also provided intelligence to the US.

A former Russian spy helped Donald Trump’s business team seek financing for a Trump-branded tower in the heart of Moscow during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

This connection between Trump and Russian intelligence — made public here for the first time — is known to special counsel Robert Mueller’s team and raises fresh questions about the president’s connections to the Kremlin. The former agent, who had served in Russia’s military intelligence arm known as the GRU and later worked as an arms dealer, negotiated for financing from a Russian state-owned bank that was under US sanctions at the time.

But there is a twist: The former Russian spy also helped pass intelligence to the United States government on key national security matters, including al-Qaeda’s weapons caches and North Korea’s attempts to develop nuclear weapons. BuzzFeed News is not naming the Russian agent because two US intelligence officials said that doing so would endanger his life.

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The Trump Moscow Project

Plans to build a Trump tower in Moscow were underway in late 2015 and early 2016, while Trump was running for president. A key player in the effort was Felix Sater, who had worked with Trump on real estate deals around the world.

In November 2015, Sater emailed Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, famously saying in one message that he would “get all of Putin’s team to buy in” on the Trump tower deal, and boasting that he could get Putin to publicly praise the Republican candidate during the campaign. There is no evidence that Sater delivered on those promises. Sater previously told BuzzFeed News that his emails amounted to salesmanship, and the whole Trump Moscow project ultimately fizzled.

But a later message from Sater to Cohen, sent in early 2016, mentions a contact in Russia who could help facilitate the deal. That individual is a former colonel with Russia’s military intelligence, the two sources told BuzzFeed News. He did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Cohen also did not immediately respond to requests for comment sent through his attorney. Sater told BuzzFeed News, “I will not comment on anything related to ongoing investigations.”

Sater contacted the former GRU officer in 2015 to help arrange financing. In Russia, where the president himself is a former KGB officer, it isn’t unusual for companies to work with former intelligence officers, who often retain key connections. To Sater, the former agent mentioned two banks: GenBank and VTB Bank. State-owned VTB was one of the top financial institutions in Russia for real estate projects at the time, but it was also on the US Treasury Department’s sanctions list. The former Russian agent told Sater that he could get financing through VTB Bank, but it is unclear how far negotiations may have progressed.

VTB Bank did not immediately respond to requests for comment but has previously denied playing any role in the Trump World Tower Moscow, calling such claims “completely false.” GenBank also did not immediately respond to a request for comment; it could not be determined how far talks went with that bank.

Sater hoped to push the deal forward by attending the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum with Cohen in June 2016. Considered the most important economic gathering in Russia, the forum is regularly attended by business executives and top politicians, including President Vladimir Putin. The former Russian intelligence officer helped arrange an invitation to the conference for both Sater and Cohen, the sources said.

But neither Cohen nor Sater attended. Sources said Cohen canceled at the last minute and put the Moscow deal on hold until after the Republican National Convention. After Trump won the presidential election, the Trump Organization announced it would no longer be working on international deals, and Sater stopped working on the project.

Last year, after Sater, Cohen, and the Trump Organization turned over emails and documents to congressional and special counsel investigators, details leaked about the Trump Moscow deal and the attempt to get VTB to finance it.

Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team questioned Sater extensively about the officer and his role in the deal, as did House and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators, sources said. Spokespeople for the Senate Intelligence Committee declined to comment. Spokespeople for the House Intelligence Committee and the special counsel’s office did not respond to requests for comment.

BuzzFeed News has independently confirmed with three former US intelligence officials that the man worked as a GRU officer — but also that he had been a source of important intelligence for the US.

Again, Sater was the link. Sater first met the former intelligence officer in 1997 in Moscow, and the officer in turn introduced him to Milton Blane, an American arms dealer who held contracts with the US Defense Intelligence Agency. Blane, who died last year, recruited Sater to work as a confidential source for the US government. Code-named the Quarterback, Sater served for decades as a source for US law enforcement and intelligence agencies, and he continues to do so.

Information that the former Russian spy passed to Sater included details about Russian military technology, the satellite phone numbers of Osama bin Laden, the locations of al-Qaeda weapons depots and training camps, and photographs of a North Korean military official purchasing nuclear materials.

Another alleged former GRU military officer has recently been in the news, as a business associate of Trump’s former campaign manager, Paul Manafort. The Washington Post has reported that a description in court documents matches Konstantin Kilimnik, who worked with Manafort in Ukraine. Kilimnik, whose spokesperson has denied that he was ever in Russian intelligence, is not the former GRU officer who worked on the Trump Moscow project.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 02:10 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Is uberhaupt al iets van het dossier aantoonbaar onjuist?

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 02:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Nope

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L0gg0l twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 02:33:33 TRUMP TO MAKE SYRIA ANNOUNCEMENT IN 30 MINUTES reageer retweet

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kaitlancollins twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 02:28:15 Press pool in Lima with Vice President Pence is rushing back to the hotel unexpectedly. White House is telling the press pool that’s here in Washington to gather. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 02:56:34 Syria needs to be dealt with. But any military decisions Trump makes under these circumstances will be presumed fraudulent by the nation and the world. This is wag-the-dog shenanigans and everybody knows it. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 03:01:44 2/ Moreover, Trump already gave Russia and Syria more than enough warning to avoid significant damage from any military strike he now orders to distract the nation and pretend he cares about chemical weapons attacks. This is just a terrible charade we are being forced to witness. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 03:06 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://news.sky.com/stor(...)es-on-syria-11329796

Niet veel info verder (nog) maar staat dat ze samen met de UK zullen aanvallen..

(waarom gaat de UK hierin weer mee trouwens? Ik dacht dat ze juist uit de kont van Amerika aan het kruipen waren)

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 03:08 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Snap ik ook niets van. May kan ook wel wat afleiding van andere problemen gebruiken of zo?

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 03:08 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Snap ik ook niets van. May kan ook wel wat afleiding van andere problemen gebruiken of zo?

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 03:18 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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NWS / Chemische aanval op Douma, Syrië. #6 True or false?

hier veel meer info over de strikes.

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davidschneider twitterde op vrijdag 07-04-2017 om 08:11:07 Trump, 2016: "Crooked Hillary is a warmonger who'll release World War 3 by attacking and intervening in Syria"2017: https://t.co/G2hr11yFfs reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 03:06 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://news.sky.com/stor(...)es-on-syria-11329796

Niet veel info verder (nog) maar staat dat ze samen met de UK zullen aanvallen..

(waarom gaat de UK hierin weer mee trouwens? Ik dacht dat ze juist uit de kont van Amerika aan het kruipen waren)

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 03:06 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://news.sky.com/stor(...)es-on-syria-11329796

Niet veel info verder (nog) maar staat dat ze samen met de UK zullen aanvallen..

(waarom gaat de UK hierin weer mee trouwens? Ik dacht dat ze juist uit de kont van Amerika aan het kruipen waren)

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 03:06 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://news.sky.com/stor(...)es-on-syria-11329796

Niet veel info verder (nog) maar staat dat ze samen met de UK zullen aanvallen..

(waarom gaat de UK hierin weer mee trouwens? Ik dacht dat ze juist uit de kont van Amerika aan het kruipen waren)

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President Trump’s advisers have concluded that a wide-ranging corruption investigation into his personal lawyer poses a greater and more imminent threat to the president than even the special counsel’s investigation, according to several people close to Mr. Trump.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 09:21 schreef Freak188 het volgende:

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De UK wil Rusland straffen voor dat gedoe met die Skripal. Wat dat betreft zit het mee voor trump. Frankrijk en de UK hebben een gevoel van “we moeten iets doen”. En daarom zal deze aanval op Syrië legitiem lijken omdat er een soort van coalitie lijkt te zijn.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 03:06 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://news.sky.com/stor(...)es-on-syria-11329796

Niet veel info verder (nog) maar staat dat ze samen met de UK zullen aanvallen..

(waarom gaat de UK hierin weer mee trouwens? Ik dacht dat ze juist uit de kont van Amerika aan het kruipen waren)

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When 14-year-old Brennan Walker missed his bus on Thursday morning and started walking to school, he thought knocking on a door to ask for directions would help. He didn’t think it would nearly get him shot.

The Rochester Hills, Michigan, teenager attempted to trace the bus route on foot after he said he woke up late and missed the bus. Brennan didn’t have a phone with him because his mother had taken it away as punishment, as moms of teens are wont to do, and he got lost along the way.

When he approached a house to ask for directions, he was met with a gun.

“I got to the house, and I knocked on the lady’s door. Then she started yelling at me and she was like, ‘Why are you trying to break into my house?’ I was trying to explain to her that I was trying to get directions to Rochester High,” Brennan told Fox 2 Detroit.

“And she kept yelling at me. Then the guy came downstairs, and he grabbed the gun. I saw it and started to run. And that’s when I heard the gunshot.” The man’s shot luckily missed Brennan.

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“My mom says that black boys get shot because sometimes they don’t look their age, and I don’t look my age. I’m 14, but I don’t look 14. I’m kind of happy that, like, I didn’t become a statistic,” said Brennan.

Local police said they could not justify what happened to the teenager.

Oakland County Sheriff Michael Bouchard told Click on Detroit that the shooting was “completely unacceptable on every level.”

“I don’t know how you would justify it, but it certainly doesn’t pass the muster,” the sheriff said.

Brennan’s mother, Lisa Wright, wants the man who shot at her son to face charges and believes that what happened “definitely was a hate crime.”

The house had a Ring doorbell, which according to Fox 2 Detroit recorded the incident. Investigators let Wright and her son see the video.

“One of the things that stands out, that probably angers me the most is, while I was watching the tape, you can hear the wife say, ‘Why did these people choose my house?’” Wright said.

“Who are ‘these people’? And that set me off. I didn’t want to believe it was what it appeared to look like. When I heard her say that, it was like, ‘But it is [what it looks like],’” the mother said.

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 23:24:14 The MINIMUM number of journalists from the following publications that follow this feed (from a Twitter-profile review):CNN: 62NBC: 50*BBC: 49The New York Times: 30CBC: 28The Washington Post: 27NPR: 20CBS: 18The Wall Street Journal: 18AP: 16Reuters: 13*All networks. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 02:32 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Wat natuurlijk niet betekent dat het hele dossier waar is. Ik ga nog altijd uit van het principe onschuldig tot het tegendeel bewezen is. Maar hoe meer tijd er verstrijkt, hoe geloofwaardiger het dossier wordt.

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A federal judge late Friday barred the federal government from implementing President Donald Trump’s ban on transgender members of the military, finding that the ban had to be subject to a careful court review before implementation because of the history of discrimination against transgender individuals.

U.S. District Judge Marsha Pechman of the Western District of Washington ruled that transgender people were a protected class and that the injunctions against the implementation of the ban that had been issued in December should remain in place. She wrote that there was a “long and well-recognized” history of discrimination and systemic oppression against transgender people, that discrimination against transgender people was clearly “unrelated to their ability to perform and contribute to society,” that transgender people have immutable characteristics and that they lacked relative political power.

“Transgender people have long been forced to live in silence, or to come out and face the threat of overwhelming discrimination,” Pechman wrote.

“The Court also rules that, because transgender people have long been subjected to systemic oppression and forced to live in silence, they are a protected class. Therefore, any attempt to exclude them from military service will be looked at with the highest level of care, and will be subject to the Court’s ‘strict scrutiny.’”

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”This means that before Defendants can implement the Ban, they must show that it was sincerely motivated by compelling interests, rather than by prejudice or stereotype, and that it is narrowly tailored to achieve those interests,” Pechman wrote.

While Trump had tweeted that he consulted generals and military experts about the ban, Pechman wrote that the government had “failed to identify even one General or military expert he consulted, despite having been ordered to do so repeatedly.”

Noting that Pentagon officials were surprised by the announcement and that Defense Secretary Jim Mattis got a heads up only one day beforehand, the judge wrote that she “is led to conclude that the Ban was devised by the President, and the President alone.”

Sharon McGowan, a former top official in the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division who now works as director of strategy for Lambda Legal, wrote that Pechman “cut through the nonsense,” recognizing that the plan announced by the military was just a dressed-up version of Trump’s original ban.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 02:32 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Wat natuurlijk niet betekent dat het hele dossier waar is. Ik ga nog altijd uit van het principe onschuldig tot het tegendeel bewezen is. Maar hoe meer tijd er verstrijkt, hoe geloofwaardiger het dossier wordt.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 10:48 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Bizar dat die vent niet al lang in de cel zit. Schieten op aanbellende kinderen.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 09:36 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Bereiken doen ze er evenwel helemaal niks mee.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 11:03 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Imagoschade voor Rusland en Syrie. En zij hebben iets gedaan.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 11:03 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Imagoschade voor Rusland en Syrie. En zij hebben iets gedaan.

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AntonRubaclini twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 10:31:11 Rod Salka wore “America First” with Trump’s brick wall decorating his trunks... & a Mexican fighter just broke him down & made quit on his stool. Breaking Trumps wall. You can’t make this stuff up. Only in boxing 😂😂 reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 10:54 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Ik vraag me ook af of die Pee tape er ook is.
Ik vond het nogal opzienbarend hoe uitgebreid Comey hierover sprak in het interview, die 99% kans. De manier waarop hij oom Donald afschilderde, lijkt mij aanleiding te geven dat hij al weet dat deze tape wel bestaat, maar dat hij dat niet kan zeggen.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 11:41 schreef Falco het volgende:

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Het is mij duidelijk, die pee tape is er. Als je er zeker van weet dat je geen vieze dingen hebt gedaan in Moskou, waarom besteed je er dan zo'n aandacht aan. Trump heeft blijkbaar heel onzeker gedaan erover richting Comey, bang dat Melania misschien gelooft dat Trump in Moskou toch vieze dingen gedaan heeft? Dat benoemen van die percentages of die tape er wel of niet is, maakt het er ook niet sterker op dat die tape er niet is. Aan de andere kant moeten we rekening houden dat het huwelijk tussen hem en Melania al tijden ruk is en dat dit soort achterdocht normaal is tussen hun twee.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 09:47 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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CNN also discovered anti-Semitic attacks in Barreto’s @RepublicanChick account that claimed Obama is controlled by billionaire Democratic donor George Soros and French President Emmanuel Macron is controlled by the Rothschild family.

https://www.huffingtonpos(...)445ae4b016a07e9c9047

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 12:01 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Er was gisteren iets bij CNN over iemand van de Health Department die er uit was geflikkerd wegens o.a. Pizzagate retweets en dit:

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Ik vermoed dus dat het daarvandaan komt... duidelijk iemand die de kok heeft horen fluiten omdat hij niet weet waar de lepel hangt.

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You don’t matter.

That’s the message every survivor hears loud and clear when a rape kit goes untested. Behind every kit is a person ― usually a woman ― who has been brutalized in the most intimate of ways. And yet there are estimated to be hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits currently sitting in police storage across the country.

So, how did we get here?

That’s the question actress and activist Mariska Hargitay answers in her new HBO documentary “I Am Evidence,” set to air April 16. The film, co-produced by the “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star and Trish Adlesic, and co-directed by Adlesic and Geeta Gandbhir, takes a human approach to an epidemic that has reduced survivors, their stories and their trauma to a box of evidence.

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“To me, the backlog is one of the clearest and most shocking demonstrations of how we regard these crimes in our society,” Hargitay says in the film. “Testing rape kits sends a fundamental and crucial message to victims of sexual violence: You matter. What happened to you matters. Your case matters.”

In a conversation with HuffPost, Hargitay and Adlesic laid out the herculean task they had in front of them four years ago when they began making this documentary.

“One of the things that was so difficult about making this movie is that there is just so much pain involved,” Hargitay said. She hopes the documentary “holds up a real hard mirror” to people who have turned a blind eye to this epidemic.

And the film is a hard one to look away from. “I Am Evidence” features 14 courageous survivors telling their stories of assault and the subsequent poking and prodding that comes with enduring a rape kit.

“I am evidence that there is more to that box, there is a human being there. It is not just a kit. This is a person,” a survivor named Erica says in the film.

The women discuss the inevitable re-victimization of being questioned by law enforcement and the agonizing wait to get their kits tested ― a wait that often never ends.

“The fact of the matter is, if we have DNA testing, if we have the ability to fix this problem and we don’t test these kits, we’re saying that sexual assault is not important,” Hargitay said.

Since the rape kit backlog hit the public consciousness nearly 10 years ago, 225,000 rape kits have been uncovered, according to a program called End The Backlog. That program is the work of anti-sexual violence nonprofit The Joyful Heart Foundation, which Hargitay founded after thousands of survivors shared their abuse stories with her after she began appearing as Detective Olivia Benson on “SVU.”

Testing rape kits is important for several reasons: It can identify an unknown perpetrator, it can confirm the presence of a known suspect, it can confirm a survivor’s account of an assault, it can help solve other cases that might not involve sexual violence, it can exonerate innocent people.

And it can connect a suspect to other crimes around the country.

Indeed, a disturbing takeaway from the film is just how common serial rapists are. One scene depicts law enforcement officials, who have finally begun testing old rape kits, linking one rapist to two women living in completely different parts of the country. By testing the kits, police are finally catching serial offenders.

“I Am Evidence” lays out the root causes of this countrywide backlog: misogyny and racism. The systemic lack of policies and protocols, of resources and funding, and ― most glaringly ― of training for first responders, reflects these prejudices. As with other systems that abuse and disregard marginalized people, poor black women get the worst of it.

“Nobody gives a damn about women in this country,” concludes Detroit prosecutor Kym Worthy in the film. Worthy has been tackling the rape kit backlog head-on since 2009, when 11,000 untested rape kits were uncovered in her city.

Adlesic said it’s “absolutely necessary” for first responders to receive sexual assault training and recalled an “I Am Evidence” screening last year where a man made a powerful comment during the Q&A portion.

“He was quite emotional and spoke about being an emergency room doctor. He hadn’t had the training to conduct a sexual assault kit, and he was so afraid he was going to get it wrong, or make someone feel awful for not knowing how to do it,” she said. “It helped us understand that we really need to advocate for a curriculum in medical schools and law enforcement agencies so that people learn how to do this.”

All too often, police officers learn the law, but no one teaches them the varying ways victims respond to trauma. Along with bringing their own prejudices to the job, officers often don’t know what trauma looks like or how trauma affects memory. They also might not realize how often sexual violence triggers involuntary paralysis in a victim ― an often-forgotten “freeze” component of the fight-or-flight reflex ― in order to get them out of the situation alive.

Hargitay described the lack of resources to investigate these crimes, as well as cultural misunderstandings surrounding sexual violence, as a “microcosm” of how we as a country regard women.

“Trish and I, we wanted to make a hard-hitting film,” she said. “It is a painful movie to watch, and it’s the facts. And it’s time that we take a look at not sweeping this under the carpet, that we treat women, and treat our society, and all survivors with the humanity, the empathy that they deserve.”

Adlesic told HuffPost she hopes this documentary forces people to care about this issue and creates change. Most of all, she hopes this film shows survivors that they’re not alone.

“I want them to know that we understand, and that we care and that we want to help give them the support they need and deserve,” she said. “I want survivors to feel heard and know that they matter, and that violence against women matters, and that we walk in hand with you to a better way of life for everyone.”

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 12:12 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het is gewoon antisemitisme. De Rotschilds waren joden dus dat kan geen zuivere koffie zijn. Als je voor 'joden' hebt gewerkt zijn je motieven niet meer zuiver. Dat ligt hieraan ten grondslag.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 14:21:00 A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 14:29:48 So proud of our great Military which will soon be, after the spending of billions of fully approved dollars, the finest that our Country has ever had. There won’t be anything, or anyone, even close! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 11:48 schreef Falco het volgende:
Alex Jones is niet zo tevreden met Trump zijn actie:

Alex Jones reacts to Syria Strikes

Alex Jones EXPLODES on President over Syria: "F**k Trump!!!"

Body Language: Trump on Syria Air Strikes Addresses the Nation

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MichaelCohen212 twitterde op zaterdag 14-04-2018 om 17:53:48 Bad reporting, bad information and bad story by same reporter Peter Stone @McClatchyDC. No matter how many times or ways they write it, I have never been to Prague. I was in LA with my son. Proven! https://t.co/ra7nwjUA0X reageer retweet

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As deportations and detentions continue to rock the Vietnamese community in the U.S., the former ambassador to Vietnam has revealed that those “repatriations” were the reason for his October departure.

Writing in the April issue of Foreign Service Journal, Ted Osius said he was instructed to press the Vietnamese government to repatriate more than 8,000 people ― most of whom were refugees who had “fled South Vietnam on boats and through the jungle” after the Vietnam War.

“The majority targeted for deportation — sometimes for minor infractions — were war refugees who had sided with the United States, whose loyalty was to the flag of a nation that no longer exists,” Osius wrote. “And they were to be ‘returned’ decades later to a nation ruled by a communist regime with which they had never reconciled. I feared many would become human rights cases, and our government would be culpable.”

The former diplomat said a number of the Trump administration’s foreign policy decisions didn’t sit right with those in the foreign relations field. Among those moves, he said, were the United States’ exit from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, its “abdication of responsibility” on climate change, and the travel ban targeting mostly Muslim-majority countries. “What happened to the nation that welcomed ‘your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free?’” Osius asked.

But the former ambassador said he reached his limit when he was told to push for the repatriations. Not only did he feel this was a human rights issue, Osius said, but also that this “repulsive policy” would interfere with President Donald Trump’s other goals in Vietnam, like reducing the trade deficit and bolstering military relations.

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“I voiced my objections, was instructed to remain silent, and decided there was an ethical line that I could not cross if I wished to retain my integrity,” he wrote. “I concluded that I could better serve my country from outside government, by helping to build a new, innovative university in Vietnam.”

A State Department spokesperson gave HuffPost a statement that said Osius is “entitled to his personal views” as a private citizen, but doubled down on the Trump administration’s deportation policy.

“We respect Ambassador Osius’ many years of service to the U.S. government,” the statement said. “Facilitating the removal of aliens from the United States who are subject to a final order of removal, particularly those who pose a danger to national security or public safety, is a top priority for the U.S. government.”

The statement also said that “each country has an international legal obligation to accept the return of its nationals whom another state seeks to expel, remove, or deport,” and claimed that the U.S. has been cooperating with foreign governments in documenting and accepting “our citizens.”

Many of the refugees who are facing deportation entered the U.S. legally in the aftermath of the Vietnam War, and obtained green cards as well. After being convicted of crimes, many of which occurred decades ago, the refugees received orders of removal due to their criminal records.

But many have not had contact with the criminal justice system for years and have been leading new lives, advocates say. Nancy Nguyen, the executive director of a nonprofit VietLead, explained that the greater Southeast Asian community is grappling with many of the issues Osius raised.

“Osius’ writings reflect the concerns and worries of many Vietnamese and Southeast Asian families who are now threatened with deportation,” she told HuffPost in an email. “Folks are being forced to return to a country they do not know, being separated from families in the U.S. that depend on them.”

Nguyen noted that several of these deportations violate a 2008 agreement between the U.S. and Vietnam. That “Memorandum of Understanding” allowed for the deportation of Vietnamese nationals who face removal orders only if they arrived in the U.S. on or after July 12, 1995.

However, she said, there have been several recent cases where authorities detained Vietnamese nationals who arrived before 1995. A few have also been deported. The MOU is still in force, according to Nguyen.

A few weeks ago, around 40 Vietnamese refugees who came to the U.S. before the 1995 cutoff sued U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement for unlawful, prolonged detention. The lawsuit noted that many more could be in a similar situation. In total, about 8,000 to 10,000 Vietnamese refugees have orders of removal and are at risk for detention.

The mass roundups and detentions have spanned the Southeast Asian community, likely affecting U.S. relations with several other nations, Nguyen said. More than 40 Cambodians were deported earlier this month.

“The United States is continuing to bully these countries. This is not just about Vietnam, but about all the countries that the U.S. is now bullying to take back more and more of our community members ― this includes Cambodia, this includes Laos,” Nguyen told HuffPost. “We fear that the U.S. will continue to retreat from its responsibilities to these countries and our community members who bore witness to mass carnage and war only decades ago.”

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 21:40 schreef Brave_Sir_Robin het volgende:
Ik lurk altijd mee, maar snap nu iets niet inzake de Cohen raid.

De berichten dat er wel eens opnames van hem en Trump kunnen zijn gevonden. Die zouden toch niet tegen Trump gebruikt mogen worden, want onrechtmatig verkregen? De raid was immers alleen bedoeld om bewijs tegen Cohen te vinden?

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Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump, through their lawyers, argued in federal court on Friday that many of the seized records were protected by attorney-client privilege. They asked for an order temporarily prohibiting prosecutors from reading the documents until the matter could be litigated. Mr. Cohen argued that he or an independent lawyer should be allowed to review the documents first.

“Those searches have been executed, and the evidence is locked down,” Joanna C. Hendon, a lawyer for Mr. Trump, said in court. “I’m not trying to delay. I’m just trying to ensure that it’s done scrupulously.”

Mr. Cohen’s lawyer, Stephen Ryan, wrote in a court filing that the search “creates constitutional concerns regarding officers of the executive branch rummaging through the private and privileged papers of the president.”

Prosecutors argued that the previously seized emails revealed that Mr. Cohen was “performing little to no legal work, and that zero emails were exchanged with President Trump.” They said their investigation was focused on Mr. Cohen’s business dealings, not his work as a lawyer.

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Mr. Cohen wants his lawyers to be able to review the files and withhold privileged material before prosecutors can see them. As an alternative, he asked that an independent lawyer be allowed to review the files first. A judge scheduled a follow-up hearing for Monday and ordered Mr. Cohen to attend. The judge, Kimba M. Wood, was upset that he was not in court Friday.

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Communications between lawyers and their clients are normally off limits to prosecutors, but there are exceptions, including when the materials are considered part of a continuing crime.

Mr. Trump has viewed any investigation of his business and private life to be off limits to prosecutors, but the search warrants make clear that investigators consider those topics part of their case.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 21:52 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Het is ook onderdeel van een rechtszaak... zoals in dit NYTimes artikel te lezen is:

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Dus wat er met het in beslag genomen materiaal gaat gebeuren is vooralsnog onzeker als ik het goed lees...

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 22:09 schreef Brave_Sir_Robin het volgende:

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Thx.

Deze zin "They said their investigation was focused on Mr. Cohen’s business dealings, not his work as a lawyer." versterkt mijn idee dat ze echt niet zomaar door alle Trump-Cohen files mogen snuffelen.

Vind het verzoek van Cohens advocaat om een onpartijdige advocaat hier eerst een selectie in te maken zo vreemd nog niet.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 22:18 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Voor zover ik het kan beoordelen lijkt het me ook niet onredelijk... ik weet verder niet zo goed hoe dat normaal gaat. Misschien dat een ander nog meer informatie heeft.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 22:09 schreef Brave_Sir_Robin het volgende:

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Thx.

Deze zin "They said their investigation was focused on Mr. Cohen’s business dealings, not his work as a lawyer." versterkt mijn idee dat ze echt niet zomaar door alle Trump-Cohen files mogen snuffelen.

Vind het verzoek van Cohens advocaat om een onpartijdige advocaat hier eerst een selectie in te maken zo vreemd nog niet.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 22:09 schreef Brave_Sir_Robin het volgende:

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Thx.

Deze zin "They said their investigation was focused on Mr. Cohen’s business dealings, not his work as a lawyer." versterkt mijn idee dat ze echt niet zomaar door alle Trump-Cohen files mogen snuffelen.

Vind het verzoek van Cohens advocaat om een onpartijdige advocaat hier eerst een selectie in te maken zo vreemd nog niet.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 11:16 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Dat zeg ik: niets. Westerse proxies mogen binnenkort de prijs betalen.

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 21:16 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Deze al gehad? Ambassadeur stapte op omdat met het verplicht promoten van deportaties van Vietnamese vluchtelingen die tijdens de oorlog de kant van de VS hadden gekozen "een etische grens werd overschreden".

Ex-Ambassador To Vietnam Quit Because Trump Planned To Deport More Refugees (HuffPo mediumread)

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Op zaterdag 14 april 2018 22:18 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Voor zover ik het kan beoordelen lijkt het me ook niet onredelijk... ik weet verder niet zo goed hoe dat normaal gaat. Misschien dat een ander nog meer informatie heeft.

twitter:

MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 02:38:42 David Schwartz (Mr. Trump's lawyer's lawyer) is missing. He has not been seen since his @megynkelly interview 2 weeks ago. I wonder if he is in the audio/docs that were seized from Mr. Cohen by the FBI? If you see him, please give him a hug (not to be confused with "thug") #basta reageer retweet

Lawyers for Stormy Daniels, Michael Cohen get in screaming match

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 04:21 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Dat is jouw mening maar jij vindt elke aanval op Assad een fout dus wat betreft ben je ook niet echt objectief he.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 10:25 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Jij meent echt de wijsheid in pacht te hebben over wat iedere user vindt en denkt he . Ik ga jou voortaan negeren, arrogant quasi-filosofisch figuur.

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(CNN)The FBI seized recordings President Donald Trump's attorney made of his conversations with a lawyer representing two women who had alleged affairs with Trump, a source familiar with the matter tells CNN.

The recordings could prove valuable to the government's criminal investigation of Michael Cohen. The President's personal attorney is under scrutiny in part for his role in seeking to suppress the alleged affair through a hush deal with porn star Stormy Daniels. The warrant sought information about that payment along with any information that connected Cohen with efforts to suppress disclosure of Trump's alleged affair with Playboy model Karen McDougal.

The warrant for the raids also specified that Cohen was being investigated for bank fraud, wire fraud and campaign finance issues, CNN reported earlier this week.

Etc.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 12:42 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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Weer een stukje grade-A trolling van het Witte Huis.

De foto waarin Trump over de Syrie aanval overlegd in het zwart wit vrijgeven.

Oftewel, Dr. Strangelove.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 12:42 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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Weer een stukje grade-A trolling van het Witte Huis.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 12:53 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Hoe is dit in godsnaam "trollen"?

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 12:53 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Hoe is dit in godsnaam "trollen"?

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 13:19 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het is geen trol, het is een fout van een PR team dat zo gewend is om leugens te verspreiden dat deze overduidelijk te weerleggen leugen er doorheen geslipt is.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 13:25 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Volgens Nontex was het getrol in deze dat de foto in zwart/wit was. Ik vraag me af waarom dat trollen zou zijn.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 13:29 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Dr. Strangelove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 13:31 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Poe hee, wat een getrol allemaal.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 13:33 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Ik zeg niet dat ie succesvol is hehe . Maar neem aan dat dit is wat Nintex bedoelt. Ook het plot vd film in acht nemend uiteraard.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 13:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dr Strangelove is toch met Peter Sellers die (onder andere) een volkomen incompetente president speelt? Een slapjanus die niet tegen de generaals op kon staan? Muffly of zo. Muff. Als in Pussy.

Zo gezien trollt de PR afdeling van het WH wel met deze foto.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 13:37 schreef Mike het volgende:
Oftewel, het is heel normaal dat dat soort foto's zwart/wit zijn.

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I never asked Comey for Personal Loyalty. I hardly even knew this guy. Just another of his many lies. His “memos” are self serving and FAKE!

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 14:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://twitter.com/realD(...)496023555608576?s=20

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Oh. Gelukkig maar.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 14:48 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Hij is sowieso weer lekker aan het schuimbekken vandaag

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 14:54 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Yups want interview met Comey wordt vanavond (vannacht) uitgezonden

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 14:56:13 Attorney Client privilege is now a thing of the past. I have many (too many!) lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices, and even homes, are going to be raided with everything, including their phones and computers, taken. All lawyers are deflated and concerned! reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 12-05-2017 om 14:26:15 James Comey better hope that there are no "tapes" of our conversations before he starts leaking to the press! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 14:57 schreef Genesisfan het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 14:56:13 Attorney Client privilege is now a thing of the past. I have many (too many!) lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices, and even homes, are going to be raided with everything, including their phones and computers, taken. All lawyers are deflated and concerned! reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 15:07:10 Slippery James Comey, a man who always ends up badly and out of whack (he is not smart!), will go down as the WORST FBI Director in history, by far! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 15:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Vrij naar Avenatti:

Dat privilege houdt in dat je je advocaat kunt vertellen dat je een moord hebt gepleegd. Niet dat je samen het lijk kunt gaan begraven.

Snapt die joker dat echt niet?

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 14:57 schreef Genesisfan het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 14:56:13 Attorney Client privilege is now a thing of the past. I have many (too many!) lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices, and even homes, are going to be raided with everything, including their phones and computers, taken. All lawyers are deflated and concerned! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 15:15 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Heeft Trump ooit iets over die Avenatti gezegd of geschreven?

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 15:19 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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"I have too many lawyers"

Volgens mij juist te weinig want ze vallen met bosjes om.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 15:21 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat komt nog wel zodra de rechter de NDA ongeldig heeft verklaard.

Believe me.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 15:23 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Ik weet niet wat je precies bedoelt maar tot dusverre is die hele Avenatti dus een vrij irrelevant persoon of heeft hij echt al iets tegen Trump bereikt?

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 15:23 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Ik weet niet wat je precies bedoelt maar tot dusverre is die hele Avenatti dus een vrij irrelevant persoon of heeft hij echt al iets tegen Trump bereikt?

twitter:

MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 15:25:43 To be clear - I am not “deflated and concerned”. I am “elated and hopeful”. The events of the last week reinstill the belief that NOBODY is above the law and the attorney-client privilege cannot be used by those in power to hide criminal conduct. #basta reageer retweet

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 15:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:
En hoeveel NDA's zijn er buiten de twee bekende nog meer? En zijn die allemaal zo klungelig opgesteld als die van Stormy?

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 15:35 schreef Genesisfan het volgende:

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Hij is Trump aan het trollen met zijn eigen spelletje en weet dat Trump (nog?) niet kan meespelen. Deze positie weet hij goed uit te spelen in de media en op Twitter. Zie bijvoorbeeld deze reactie op de recente mental breakdown van Trump.

twitter:

MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 15:25:43 To be clear - I am not “deflated and concerned”. I am “elated and hopeful”. The events of the last week reinstill the belief that NOBODY is above the law and the attorney-client privilege cannot be used by those in power to hide criminal conduct. #basta reageer retweet

Of hij Trump direct aan kan raken blijft de vraag maar Cohen lijkt hij al te hebben.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 15:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Hij heeft door Cohen schaakmat te zetten de zaak Daniels en Rusland en de schimmige financiële deals van Trump Org weten te linken.

twitter:

MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 16:16:58 The beginning of one of my favorite movie scenes of all time. Frank Pentangeli's brother Vincenzo arrives from Sicily for the hearing... reageer retweet

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“We have our problems with Trump,” said one western diplomat in Beijing. “But he has taught us that when you push back hard against the Chinese, it knocks them off-balance.”

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 15:52 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Een link met alles samengevat?

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 16:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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In ëén van de vorige topics heb ik tussen veel gelul over China een link naar een artikel gepost.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 16:32 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
"Subscribe to read."

Nee.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 16:25 schreef DeParo het volgende:
Een wat meer positief artikel over Trump of in ieder geval zijn recente optreden jegens China:
https://www.ft.com/content/bb342dec-3eeb-11e8-b7e0-52972418fec4

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Ik wist niet dat China al voor de sancties ongerust was ivm een Amerikaanse ondertekening van een akkoord met Taiwan zeer interessant dus om te lezen.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 16:42 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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internetpagina's die je moet betalen om 'bewijs' te zien zijn zwak. Daar moet dan al een belletje gaan rinkelen.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 14:58 schreef Szura het volgende:
Ja maar volgens leugenachtige heks Sanders had de raid bij Cohen niets met de president te maken. Wat is het nou?

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 16:42 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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internetpagina's die je moet betalen om 'bewijs' te zien zijn zwak. Daar moet dan al een belletje gaan rinkelen.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 17:02 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:
Het zag er zo shady uit. Maar ik kan er ook gewoon naast zitten.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 16:44:30 Just hit 50% in the Rasmussen Poll, much higher than President Obama at same point. With all of the phony stories and Fake News, it’s hard to believe! Thank you America, we are doing Great Things. reageer retweet

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 17:35 schreef archito het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 16:44:30 Just hit 50% in the Rasmussen Poll, much higher than President Obama at same point. With all of the phony stories and Fake News, it’s hard to believe! Thank you America, we are doing Great Things. reageer retweet

'Much higher'.
Obama had in de Rasmussen poll precies 8 jaar geleden een approval rating van 48%. Dus zelfs in de meest biased poll lukt het Trump niet om meer dan een schamele 2% voorsprong te houden. Uberhaupt het sneue vergelijken al.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 17:43 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Inderdaad. Sneu. Een verwarde oude man.

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 17:52 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Straks pleegt 'ie nog een aanslag

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 17:56 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Heeft ie zaterdag al laten doen

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 15:45:12 Michael Avenatti tells CNN that Stormy Daniels will attend Michael Cohen's court hearing on Monday at 2 p.m. in New York. reageer retweet

Stormy Daniels' lawyer: I believe Michael Cohen will be indicted

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 17:35 schreef archito het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 16:44:30 Just hit 50% in the Rasmussen Poll, much higher than President Obama at same point. With all of the phony stories and Fake News, it’s hard to believe! Thank you America, we are doing Great Things. reageer retweet

'Much higher'.
Obama had in de Rasmussen poll precies 8 jaar geleden een approval rating van 48%. Dus zelfs in de meest biased poll lukt het Trump niet om meer dan een schamele 2% voorsprong te houden. Uberhaupt het sneue vergelijken al.

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My book is about ethical leadership & draws on stories from my life & lessons I learned from others. 3 presidents are in my book: 2 help illustrate the values at the heart of ethical leadership; 1 serves as a counterpoint. I hope folks read the whole thing and find it useful.

https://twitter.com/Comey/status/985568015029886979?s=19

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Op zondag 15 april 2018 19:28 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Tja, het hele journaille zit november 2020 weer huilend bij Jinek en Pauw aan tafel.

Na vrede met Noord Korea, Rusland terug in het hok, ISIS verslagen en een economie die als een tierelier draait een 2e termijn T R U M P

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A HIGHER LOYALTY - Truth, Lies, and Leadership
By James Comey - 290 pages. Flatiron Books. $29.99
Review by By MICHIKO KAKUTANI

In his absorbing new book, “A Higher Loyalty,” the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey calls the Trump presidency a “forest fire” that is doing serious damage to the country’s norms and traditions.“This president is unethical, and untethered to truth and institutional values,” Comey writes. “His leadership is transactional, ego driven and about personal loyalty.”

Decades before he led the F.B.I.’s investigation into whether members of Trump’s campaign colluded with Russia to influence the 2016 election, Comey was a career prosecutor who helped dismantle the Gambino crime family; and he doesn’t hesitate in these pages to draw a direct analogy between the Mafia bosses he helped pack off to prison years ago and the current occupant of the Oval Office.

A February 2017 meeting in the White House with Trump and then chief of staff Reince Priebus left Comey recalling his days as a federal prosecutor facing off against the Mob: “The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth.” An earlier visit to Trump Tower in January made Comey think about the New York Mafia social clubs he knew as a Manhattan prosecutor in the 1980s and 1990s — “The Ravenite. The Palma Boys. Café Giardino.”

SPOILER

The central themes that Comey returns to throughout this impassioned book are the toxic consequences of lying; and the corrosive effects of choosing loyalty to an individual over truth and the rule of law. Dishonesty, he writes, was central “to the entire enterprise of organized crime on both sides of the Atlantic,” and so, too, were bullying, peer pressure and groupthink — repellent traits shared by Trump and company, he suggests, and now infecting our culture.

“We are experiencing a dangerous time in our country,” Comey writes, “with a political environment where basic facts are disputed, fundamental truth is questioned, lying is normalized and unethical behavior is ignored, excused or rewarded.”

“A Higher Loyalty” is the first big memoir by a key player in the alarming melodrama that is the Trump administration. Comey, who was abruptly fired by President Trump on May 9, 2017, has worked in three administrations, and his book underscores just how outside presidential norms Trump’s behavior has been — how ignorant he is about his basic duties as president, and how willfully he has flouted the checks and balances that safeguard our democracy, including the essential independence of the judiciary and law enforcement. Comey’s book fleshes out the testimony he gave before the Senate Intelligence Committee in June 2017 with considerable emotional detail, and it showcases its author’s gift for narrative — a skill he clearly honed during his days as United States attorney for the Southern District of New York.

The volume offers little in the way of hard news revelations about investigations by the F.B.I. or the special counsel Robert S. Mueller III (not unexpectedly, given that such investigations are ongoing and involve classified material), and it lacks the rigorous legal analysis that made Jack Goldsmith’s 2007 book “The Terror Presidency” so incisive about larger dynamics within the Bush administration.

What “A Higher Loyalty” does give readers are some near-cinematic accounts of what Comey was thinking when, as he’s previously said, Trump demanded loyalty from him during a one-on-one dinner at the White House; when Trump pressured him to let go of the investigation into his former national security adviser Michael T. Flynn; and when the president asked what Comey could do to “lift the cloud” of the Russia investigation.

There are some methodical explanations in these pages of the reasoning behind the momentous decisions Comey made regarding Hillary Clinton’s emails during the 2016 campaign — explanations that attest to his nonpartisan and well-intentioned efforts to protect the independence of the F.B.I., but that will leave at least some readers still questioning the judgment calls he made, including the different approaches he took in handling the bureau’s investigation into Clinton (which was made public) and its investigation into the Trump campaign (which was handled with traditional F.B.I. secrecy).

“A Higher Loyalty” also provides sharp sketches of key players in three presidential administrations. Comey draws a scathing portrait of Vice President Dick Cheney’s legal adviser David S. Addington, who spearheaded the arguments of many hard-liners in the George W. Bush White House; Comey describes their point of view: “The war on terrorism justified stretching, if not breaking, the written law.” He depicts Bush national security adviser and later Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice as uninterested in having a detailed policy discussion of interrogation policy and the question of torture. He takes Barack Obama’s attorney general Loretta Lynch to task for asking him to refer to the Clinton email case as a “matter,” not an “investigation.” (Comey tartly notes that “the F.B.I. didn’t do ‘matters.’”) And he compares Trump’s attorney general, Jeff Sessions, to Alberto R. Gonzales, who served in the same position under Bush, writing that both were “overwhelmed and overmatched by the job,” but “Sessions lacked the kindness Gonzales radiated.”

Comey is what Saul Bellow called a “first-class noticer.” He notices, for instance, “the soft white pouches under” Trump’s “expressionless blue eyes”; coyly observes that the president’s hands are smaller than his own “but did not seem unusually so”; and points out that he never saw Trump laugh — a sign, Comey suspects, of his “deep insecurity, his inability to be vulnerable or to risk himself by appreciating the humor of others, which, on reflection, is really very sad in a leader, and a little scary in a president.”

During his Senate testimony last June, Comey was boy-scout polite (“Lordy, I hope there are tapes”) and somewhat elliptical in explaining why he decided to write detailed memos after each of his encounters with Trump (something he did not do with Presidents Obama or Bush), talking gingerly about “the nature of the person I was interacting with.” Here, however, Comey is blunt about what he thinks of the president, comparing Trump’s demand for loyalty over dinner to “Sammy the Bull’s Cosa Nostra induction ceremony — with Trump, in the role of the family boss, asking me if I have what it takes to be a ‘made man.’”

Throughout his tenure in the Bush and Obama administrations (he served as deputy attorney general under Bush, and was selected to lead the F.B.I. by Obama in 2013), Comey was known for his fierce, go-it-alone independence, and Trump’s behavior catalyzed his worst fears — that the president symbolically wanted the leaders of the law enforcement and national security agencies to come “forward and kiss the great man’s ring.” Comey was feeling unnerved from the moment he met Trump. In his recent book “Fire and Fury,” Michael Wolff wrote that Trump “invariably thought people found him irresistible,” and felt sure, early on, that “he could woo and flatter the F.B.I. director into positive feeling for him, if not outright submission” (in what the reader takes as yet another instance of the president’s inability to process reality or step beyond his own narcissistic delusions).

After he failed to get that submission and the Russia cloud continued to hover, Trump fired Comey; the following day he told Russian officials during a meeting in the Oval Office that firing the F.B.I. director — whom he called “a real nut job” — relieved “great pressure” on him. A week later, the Justice Department appointed Robert Mueller as special counsel overseeing the investigation into ties between the Trump campaign and Russia.

During Comey’s testimony, one senator observed that the often contradictory accounts that the president and former F.B.I. director gave of their one-on-one interactions came down to “Who should we believe?” As a prosecutor, Comey replied, he used to tell juries trying to evaluate a witness that “you can’t cherry-pick” — “You can’t say, ‘I like these things he said, but on this, he’s a dirty, rotten liar.’ You got to take it all together.”

Put the two men’s records, their reputations, even their respective books, side by side, and it’s hard to imagine two more polar opposites than Trump and Comey: They are as antipodean as the untethered, sybaritic Al Capone and the square, diligent G-man Eliot Ness in Brian De Palma’s 1987 movie “The Untouchables”; or the vengeful outlaw Frank Miller and Gary Cooper’s stoic, duty-driven marshal Will Kane in Fred Zinnemann’s 1952 classic “High Noon.”

One is an avatar of chaos with autocratic instincts and a resentment of the so-called “deep state” who has waged an assault on the institutions that uphold the Constitution.

The other is a straight-arrow bureaucrat, an apostle of order and the rule of law, whose reputation as a defender of the Constitution was indelibly shaped by his decision, one night in 2004, to rush to the hospital room of his boss, Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, to prevent Bush White House officials from persuading the ailing Ashcroft to reauthorize an N.S.A. surveillance program that members of the Justice Department believed violated the law.

One uses language incoherently on Twitter and in person, emitting a relentless stream of lies, insults, boasts, dog-whistles, divisive appeals to anger and fear, and attacks on institutions, individuals, companies, religions, countries, continents.

The other chooses his words carefully to make sure there is “no fuzz” to what he is saying, someone so self-conscious about his reputation as a person of integrity that when he gave his colleague James R. Clapper, then director of national intelligence, a tie decorated with little martini glasses, he made sure to tell him it was a regift from his brother-in-law.

One is an impulsive, utterly transactional narcissist who, so far in office, The Washington Post calculated, has made an average of six false or misleading claims a day; a winner-take-all bully with a nihilistic view of the world. “Be paranoid,” he advises in one of his own books. In another: “When somebody screws you, screw them back in spades.”

The other wrote his college thesis on religion and politics, embracing Reinhold Niebuhr’s argument that “the Christian must enter the political realm in some way” in order to pursue justice, which keeps “the strong from consuming the weak.”

Until his cover was blown, Comey shared nature photographs on Twitter using the name “Reinhold Niebuhr,” and both his 1982 thesis and this memoir highlight how much Niebuhr’s work resonated with him. They also attest to how a harrowing experience he had as a high school senior — when he and his brother were held captive, in their parents’ New Jersey home, by an armed gunman — must have left him with a lasting awareness of justice and mortality.

Long passages in Comey’s thesis are also devoted to explicating the various sorts of pride that Niebuhr argued could afflict human beings — most notably, moral pride and spiritual pride, which can lead to the sin of self-righteousness. And in “A Higher Loyalty,” Comey provides an inventory of his own flaws, writing that he can be “stubborn, prideful, overconfident and driven by ego.”

Those characteristics can sometimes be seen in Comey’s account of his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, wherein he seems to have felt a moral imperative to address, in a July 2016 press conference, what he described as her “extremely careless” handling of “very sensitive, highly classified information,” even though he went on to conclude that the bureau recommend no charges be filed against her. His announcement marked a departure from precedent in that it was done without coordination with Department of Justice leadership and offered more detail about the bureau’s evaluation of the case than usual.

As for his controversial disclosure on Oct. 28, 2016, 11 days before the election, that the F.B.I. was reviewing more Clinton emails that might be pertinent to its earlier investigation, Comey notes here that he had assumed from media polling that Clinton was going to win. He has repeatedly asked himself, he writes, whether he was influenced by that assumption: “It is entirely possible that, because I was making decisions in an environment where Hillary Clinton was sure to be the next president, my concern about making her an illegitimate president by concealing the restarted investigation bore greater weight than it would have if the election appeared closer or if Donald Trump were ahead in all polls. But I don’t know.”

He adds that he hopes “very much that what we did — what I did — wasn’t a deciding factor in the election.” In testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on May 3, 2017, Comey stated that the very idea that his decisions might have had an impact on the outcome of the presidential race left him feeling “mildly nauseous” — or, as one of his grammatically minded daughters corrected him, “nauseated.”

Trump was reportedly infuriated by Comey’s “nauseous” remark; less than a week later he fired the F.B.I. director — an act regarded by some legal scholars as possible evidence of obstruction of justice, and that quickly led to the appointment of the special counsel Robert Mueller and an even bigger cloud over the White House.

It’s ironic that Comey, who wanted to shield the F.B.I. from politics, should have ended up putting the bureau in the midst of the 2016 election firestorm; just as it’s ironic (and oddly fitting) that a civil servant who has prided himself on being apolitical and independent should find himself reviled by both Trump and Clinton, and thrust into the center of another tipping point in history.

They are ironies that would have been appreciated by Comey’s hero Niebuhr, who wrote as much about the limits, contingencies and unforeseen consequences of human decision-making as he did about the dangers of moral complacency and about the necessity of entering the political arena to try to make a difference.

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"The silent circle of assent. The boss in complete control. The loyalty oaths. The us-versus-them worldview. The lying about all things, large and small, in service to some code of loyalty that put the organization above morality and above the truth."

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The Supreme Court is set to hear a seemingly minor case later this month on the status of administrative judges at the Securities and Exchange Commission, an issue that normally might only draw the interest of those accused of stock fraud.

But the dispute turns on the president's power to hire and fire officials throughout the government. And it comes just as the White House is saying President Trump believes he has the power to fire special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.

Trump's Solicitor Gen. Noel Francisco intervened in the SEC case to urge the high court to clarify the president's constitutional power to fire all "officers of the United States" who "exercise significant authority" under the law.

"The Constitution gives the president what the framers saw as the traditional means of ensuring accountability: the power to oversee executive officers through removal," he wrote in Lucia vs. SEC. "The president is accordingly authorized under our constitutional system to remove all principal officers, as well as all 'inferior officers' he has appointed."

In addition to representing the administration before the Supreme Court, Francisco, a former law clerk for the late Justice Antonin Scalia, could be in line to oversee the Mueller inquiry if Deputy Atty. Gen. Rod Rosenstein is fired. Atty. Gen Jeff Sessions has recused himself from the investigation.

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Peter Shane, a law professor at the Ohio State University, called Francisco's argument a "radical proposition," and one that goes beyond what is at issue in the case. The justices said they would focus only on how the SEC in-house judges are appointed. But Francisco is asking them to go further and rule on the "removal" issue.

"The solicitor general is obviously trying to goad the court into a broad statement about the removability of all officers of the United States," Shane said. "Were the court to make any such statement, it would surely be cited by Trump as backing any move by him to fire Mueller directly.

For decades, constitutional experts have fundamentally disagreed about the balance of power between Congress and the president.

Many of them, especially liberals, argue that because Congress has "all legislative powers," it can structure the government as it sees fit, including by creating independent agencies that are not under the president's direct control.

But others, mostly conservatives, adhere to what is sometimes called the "unitary executive" theory. They argue that because the Constitution puts executive power in the hands of one president, he is thereby entitled to hire and fire all those who wield significant executive authority.

Francisco points to two provisions of the Constitution as giving the president very broad authority. One says the president shall appoint ambassadors, judges and "all other officers of United States." The other says the president "shall take care that the laws be faithfully executed."

"The president's constitutional responsibility to faithfully execute the laws requires adequate authority to remove subordinate officers," Francisco told the court in February. "The framers understood the close connection between the president's ability to discharge his responsibilities as head of the executive branch and his control over its personnel…. The president's ability to execute the law is thus inextricably linked to his authority to hold his subordinates accountable for their conduct."

Francisco's defense of broad presidential power is likely to win favor with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. and the court's other conservatives. In 2010, Roberts spoke for a 5-4 majority that struck down a provision in the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, which created an independent public accounting board at the SEC whose members could be fired only for "good cause."

Roberts said shielding these "officers of the United States" from presidential control was unconstitutional. "Since 1789, the Constitution has been understood to empower the president to keep these officers accountable — by removing them from office, if necessary," he wrote in Free Enterprise Fund vs. Public Company Accounting Oversight Board.

The new SEC case is similar, though it involves hiring, not firing. The commission relies on administrative law judges who act as hearing officers when people or companies are accused of deceptive schemes involving stocks. In the past, they were chosen by the chief in-house judge based on merit, and they could be fired only for good cause.

The SEC accused Raymond Lucia of marketing a deceptive wealth-management strategy called "Buckets of Money." After a nine-day hearing, an administrative law judge decided Lucia had misled investors and recommended a civil penalty of $300,000. The SEC itself made the final decision, but Lucia appealed, contending the procedure for choosing the administrative judges was unconstitutional.

The Obama administration defended the SEC, arguing these in-house judges were mere employees, not officers of the United States, because they had no final decision-making power. But the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., split 5 to 5 on the issue.

Last year, Trump's lawyers switched sides and joined in challenging the SEC's approach as unconstitutional. This was in line with the conservative backlash against the so-called "administrative state," which includes an effort to bring these agencies and their employees under presidential control.

In January, the high court agreed to decide the "Appointments Clause" question, but Francisco filed a brief urging the court to also rule that such "officers" may be removed if they fail to "perform adequately."

Lawyers who have followed the case predict the justices will try to decide the SEC dispute narrowly and without signaling their views on the president's potential control over the special prosecutor at the Justice Department.

Mueller was appointed under department regulations that say the special counsel may be removed only for "misconduct, dereliction of duty, incapacity, conflict of interest or for other good cause." Under those rules, only Rosenstein currently would have the power to fire Mueller. Some lawyers argue that the regulations have the force of law and would prevent Trump from directly firing Mueller.

But Francisco's brief suggests the administration lawyers believe the Constitution itself authorizes the president to remove officials who wield executive power in the government. Last week White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the administration had been advised that the president has the power to fire the special counsel.

On Friday the court agreed to Francisco's request to participate in the April 23 argument so he can advocate for a ruling on the president's removal power.

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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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The Defense Department disclosures align with reporting from The Wall Street Journal in February that said that around the time Mr. Calk’s bank made the Manafort loans in late 2016 and early 2017—for several properties including a Brooklyn townhouse—Mr. Calk placed calls to Army headquarters to ask for briefings to obtain information and prepare himself for a possible job.

His inquiries raised questions among military leaders on how to respond, the Journal reported. Mr. Calk ultimately didn’t get the Army job.

Mr. Calk didn’t respond to a request for comment. A spokesman for Mr. Manafort declined to comment.

Mr. Calk, who was a member of the Trump campaign’s economic advisory panel and overlapped with Mr. Manafort on the campaign, said last year that the loans to Mr. Manafort were “absolutely not” related to his role in the campaign.

“We now request information directly from you about why you were seeking that information and whether your actions were related to a quid pro quo with President Trump’s campaign chairman, Paul Manafort,” says the letter made public Thursday from Rep. Elijah Cummings, the top Democrat on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, and Rep. Stephen Lynch, the ranking Democratic member of the national security subcommittee.

The Journal has also reported that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team has been examining whether the loans from the Federal Savings Bank to Mr. Manafort were made as part of a quid pro quo to secure Mr. Calk a job in the Trump administration.

Mr. Manafort was charged by Mr. Mueller’s office in February with bank and tax fraud, including allegations that Mr. Manafort used falsified documents to apply for loans. He and a business partner, Rick Gates, allegedly used a doctored statement to seek a loan between July 2016 and January 2017, and secured $16 million in two loans from the lender, according to the indictment.

Mr. Gates has pleaded guilty. Mr. Manafort has pleaded not guilty.

The letter to Mr. Calk made public Thursday also requested that he provide additional information, including his communications with Mr. Manafort, Mr. Gates, other Trump campaign officials and the Defense Department. And it requested documents related to any loans discussed, applied for, reviewed or granted to Mr. Manafort by the Federal Savings Bank.

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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:

[ afbeelding ]

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

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 01:29 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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"Any suggestion that I invoked this bed rock policy for any other reason is simply false."

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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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The monthslong criminal investigation stemmed partly from “suspicious activity reports” filed by banks, including one that included details of Mr. Cohen’s payment to Ms. Clifford, people familiar with the matter said.

FBI agents searched the office, home and hotel room of Mr. Cohen last Monday, seeking records of such payments, among other things. The searches were executed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation as part of a grand-jury investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan, which received a referral for the probe by the office of special counsel Robert Mueller, according to court documents.

On Friday, the government said in a legal filing: “Given that the crimes being investigated involve acts of concealment by Cohen, the USAO-SDNY sought and obtained a search warrant—rather than using a subpoena—so that it would not have ... to rely on Cohen to accurately make such a production.”

The Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office is examining whether Mr. Cohen committed bank fraud by, among other things, taking out a home-equity credit line to pay for the Clifford agreement, a person familiar with the matter said.

A spokeswoman for the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office declined to comment.

Separately, Mr. Cohen succeeded around 2013 in killing a story Us Weekly was preparing about an alleged affair between Donald Trump Jr., who had been a judge a year earlier on the television show, “Celebrity Apprentice,” and one of the contestants, Aubrey O’Day, a member of the singing duo Dumblonde, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Cohen transferred the payment to an attorney for Ms. Clifford from an Essential Consultants account at First Republic Bank , according to people familiar with the matter. He has said the funds came from his home-equity line at the same bank.

Investigators are examining whether Mr. Cohen fraudulently used a bank loan for something other than the purpose he described on his loan application, the person said.

The Journal previously reported that First Republic Bank, which Mr. Cohen used to wire the payment to Ms. Clifford’s lawyer in October 2016, conducted its own investigation into the transaction after receiving a subpoena from federal authorities, according to another person familiar with the matter.

First Republic sent its findings to the Treasury Department in a so-called SAR, or suspicious-activity report, the person said. Such reports are required to be sent to the Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network when banks observe transactions that have no apparent lawful purpose or deviate inexplicably from a customer’s normal bank activity.

First Republic Bank declined to comment.

Part of the investigation into Mr. Cohen involves payments made by American Media Inc., publisher of the National Enquirer, and its officials including Chairman and Chief Executive David Pecker, a person familiar with the matter said.

Mr. Cohen communicated with Mr. Pecker and AMI’s chief content officer, Dylan Howard, during the course of negotiations for AMI to pay another Playboy model, Karen McDougal, to sell her story of an alleged 2006 affair with Mr. Trump to the National Enquirer, a person familiar with the matter said.

The Journal first revealed in November 2016 that AMI paid $150,000 to Ms. McDougal for her exclusive story of the alleged affair, which it then didn’t publish, a tactic known in the tabloid world as “catch and kill.”

Ms. McDougal filed suit last month seeking to extricate herself from that contract.

A spokesman for AMI said neither Mr. Cohen nor Mr. Trump influenced the company’s editorial decisions. “It is standard practice...to make inquiries of people who might be subjects of a story through their spokesperson,” the spokesman said.

According to the people involved in the US Weekly matter, the magazine then owned by Wenner Media had what staffers believed to be a solid source on the alleged affair and called the Trump Organization for comment. They received a call back from Mr. Cohen, who threatened legal action and became so irate that they muted the call while he spoke, one of these people said.

“We were all on speakerphone and huddled around the phone,” this person said. “He was just one of these New York characters where he was just like swearing at us and totally over-the-top threatening.”

The magazine’s staff didn’t believe it was a big story that would be worth a legal fight and had a good working relationship with the elder Mr. Trump on stories related to the TV show “The Apprentice,” so they dropped the story.

The story of the alleged affair was reported in entertainment media last month when Donald Trump Jr.’s wife filed for divorce; Mr. Cohen’s involvement in the Us Weekly story hasn’t previously been reported.

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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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Op maandag 16 april 2018 10:35 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Die vraag moet je aan hemzelf stellen.
Hij legt zoveel nadruk op het democratisch bewustzijn van het Amerikaanse volk en roept alle partijen op tot het nemen van politieke verantwoordelijkheid, tot het herwinnen van moreel leiderschap, dat je gaat denken: en welke rol dicht jij jezelf daarin toe?

Ik acht hem presidentieel genoeg, daar niet van.

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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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The dinner was an uncomfortable affair, but Comey was particularly struck by Trump’s tendency to lie.

“And then later in the same meal, near the end, he says, ‘Reince knows we’re having dinner, so follow-up with Reince.’ Just ― so one of those things is not true. One of those things is a lie, but it reminded me of the inauguration crowd thing. Right, that it’s ― his inauguration crowd was bigger than that Barack Obama’s first inauguration. That’s just not true. That’s not a perspective, that’s not a view, that’s just a lie. And ― and yet he would say it.”

Trump even told falsehoods about his inauguration crowd size in public.

“It looked like a million, a million and a half people,” Trump said during a speech at CIA headquarters shortly after the inauguration. He claimed his crowd “went all the way back to the Washington Monument.”

It did not.

Spicer later told The New York Times he “absolutely” regretted criticizing the media for accurate reporting on Trump’s inauguration crowd size.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 11:00 schreef grrrrg het volgende:
Een ex-FBI directeur zou zowiezo geen president moeten worden. Kijk maar wat er in Rusland is gebeurd, waar een ex-KGB-er een waar schrikbewind voert.

Aangezien Comey gelooft in moreel leiderschap, zal hij natuurlijk geen presidentsschap ambieren alleen al daarom.

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Is it just me or does it smell like the swamp around President Trump is overflowing?

Last week we learned that the president’s lawyer arranged a million dollar pay-off to a Playboy model from one of the president’s top donors. The donor had impregnated the model in an adulterous affair. The woman had an abortion.

What are those evangelical Christians supporters who close their eyes to the president’s alleged affair with a porn actress to say about this one?

Last week, Trump told those irritating reporters to ignore reality because “it may not look like it, but believe me we are draining the swamp."


That’s funny. Last week, the FBI raided the home, office and hotel room of Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, after a federal judge, the U.S. Attorney in Manhattan and the Justice Department agreed there was sufficient indication of criminal activity to grant a warrant.

That added to the stench from the rising swamp of sex scandals, hush money and lies around the president.

So too did the president’s pardon for Scooter Libby, the former chief of staff to Vice President Dick Cheney.

After Libby was found guilty of lying and obstruction of justice, then-President George W. Bush, with the case fresh before him, refused to pardon Libby — despite persistent pressure from Cheney.

The facts of the Libby case have not changed. But Trump has his own trouble with a special prosecutor. Now is a good time for him to make the point that he has the power to take care of his friends in the spreading swamp.

It is an important message from this president to anyone talking to the current special counsel looking into the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia.

That message fits with his pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, a big Trump booster, who was found guilty of defying a federal court order to stop using racial profiling to detain Latinos suspected of being illegal immigrants.

Is it any surprise that former FBI director James Comey says Trump reminds him of a “mob boss?”

Anthony Scaramucci, who briefly served as Trump’s communications director, has tried to redefine the meaning of “drain the swamp” by saying last month that the real target may be less a swamp and more like a “gold-plated hot tub,” in which “special interests and lobbyists curry favor with elected officials to maintain the order of what is sometimes called ‘Crony Capitalism.’”

Well, what are we to make of tax cuts that gave the three biggest banks record profits for the first quarter?

They are now able to charge people looking for a loan higher interest rates, while enjoying a sharp drop in corporate tax rates. Meanwhile, the federal deficit is rising to record levels to line the pockets of the banks and corporations.

It does not look like Trump is draining the “gold-plated hot tub.”

According to a Transparency International poll taken in December, 44 percent of Americans said they believe that “most or all of the officials in the Office of the President are corrupt.” Fifty-eight percent said the corruption had risen in the past year since Trump took office.

And day-by-day it has become more obvious that several of Trump’s cabinet secretaries have their hands in the old-fashioned type of swamp.

Let’s look at the record:

*Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price resigned in disgrace last year after it was revealed that he bilked the taxpayers out of over $1 million for private charter jets and military air travel.

*Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke could well be in danger of losing his job and being brought up on charges when the Department of Interior Inspector General’s report comes out later this month. He is under review for his lavish taxpayer-funded travel — including for political purposes and a personal vacation.

*Then there is the profligacy and corruption of EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt. Pruitt received a sweetheart deal on rent for his luxury condominium in Washington. The condo is owned by the wife of a lobbyist whose clients had business before Pruitt’s EPA.

Pruitt paid an astonishing $50 per night to rent the condo, well below market value.

Also, he used taxpayer money to dole out big bonuses to his top aides and to pay for a 19-man security detail. When interviewed by my Fox News colleague Ed Henry, Pruitt said he could not believe he was even being asked about his shady deals.

That is pure Trump style.

The president still refuses to release his tax returns; he still refuses to divest from his sprawling business empire; and don’t forget his hiring of his daughter and son-in-law as senior White House advisers, as if he were running a family business to serve his bottom line instead of the national interest.

The New York Times reported in February that Apollo Global Management and Citigroup made risky loans to the president’s son-in-law’s real estate business after a White House meeting.

It is no secret that Kushner’s family business is up to its eyeballs in debt and the Washington Post reported last month that at least four countries view Kushner as susceptible to influence because of that debt.

“Drain the swamp,” has become as empty a promise as “Build the Wall.”

If you ever believed Trump, you got duped.

Juan Williams is an author, and a political analyst for Fox News Channel.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 10:35 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Die vraag moet je aan hemzelf stellen.
Hij legt zoveel nadruk op het democratisch bewustzijn van het Amerikaanse volk en roept alle partijen op tot het nemen van politieke verantwoordelijkheid, tot het herwinnen van moreel leiderschap, dat je gaat denken: en welke rol dicht jij jezelf daarin toe?

Ik acht hem presidentieel genoeg, daar niet van.

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A major GOP donor is jumping ship and now he’s contributing to Democratic candidates in hopes of flipping the House of Representatives and/or the Senate in this year’s midterm elections.

Seth Klarman, the billionaire CEO of the Baupost Group who the Economist once dubbed “The Oracle of Boston,” called out Republicans for failing to keep President Donald Trump in check.

“The Republicans in Congress have failed to hold the president accountable and have abandoned their historic beliefs and values,” Klarman told the Boston Globe. “For the good of the country, the Democrats must take back one or both houses of Congress.”

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Klarman, an independent who donated more than $7 million to GOP candidates during the presidency of Barack Obama, has now cut checks to Democrats in 56 House races and 22 Senate elections, the newspaper reported.

“I received a tax cut I neither need nor want. I’m choosing to invest it to fight the administration’s flawed policies and to elect Democrats to the Senate and House of Representatives,” Klarman said.

Klarman also donated $2 million to nonprofits backing core Democratic issues, including gun control and the environment, the Globe reported.

While Klarman contributed far more to Republicans in 2016, he actually backed Hillary Clinton in the presidential race, calling Trump “completely unqualified for the highest office in the land,” according to Reuters.

His views have not changed since the election.

Last year, Klarman described Trump as a “threat to democracy,” per audio obtained by New York magazine. He also warned against Trump’s protectionist agenda in a letter to his investors, saying such policies “not only don’t work, they actually leave society worse off,” The New York Times reported.

In the same letter, he sounded the alarm about the Trump-backed tax cuts that were ultimately enacted by the Republican-led Congress.

“The Trump tax cuts could drive government deficits considerably higher,” Klarman wrote, noting that cuts in 2001 under President George W. Bush “fueled income inequality while triggering huge federal budget deficits.”

Now, he’s putting his money where his mouth is, donating his own proceeds from those cuts to work against the Republicans who enacted them.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:12 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik heb echt zin in de rants die hij straks gaat twitteren.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:13 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Billionaire GOP Donor: I’m Using My Tax-Cut Money To Help Elect Democrats (HuffPo)

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:20 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Komt altijd op hetzelfde neer.

• Hij is ergens verontwaardigd over.
• Hij liegt er even over.
• Hij geeft alles en iedereen de schuld.

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President Trump asked a federal judge Sunday night to allow him to review documents that FBI agents seized from the office of his longtime lawyer before criminal investigators have a chance to see the material.

The request underscores the high stakes in an ongoing legal fight in federal court in New York, where Michael Cohen, Trump’s lawyer, is also fighting to get a chance to review material seized as part of a criminal investigation of his business dealings.

Trump’s request, in the form of a letter from other lawyers representing him, could further complicate a hearing set for Monday afternoon. During that session, lawyers for Cohen are expected to tell the judge overseeing the case how many legal clients he has and how many seized documents he thinks might be covered by attorney-client privilege.

Cohen is set to attend the hearing. Also expected to be on hand is adult-film star Stormy Daniels, whom Cohen secretly paid $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet the details of an alleged sexual liaison she had with Trump.

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SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 09:05:18 God, the horrible irony in James Comey saying he was trying to save the FBI when he violated FBI protocols to inadvertently hand the election to Trump, only to have Trump do more damage to the FBI as president than Comey ever could have done by not sending his letter to Congress. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:37 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 09:05:18 God, the horrible irony in James Comey saying he was trying to save the FBI when he violated FBI protocols to inadvertently hand the election to Trump, only to have Trump do more damage to the FBI as president than Comey ever could have done by not sending his letter to Congress. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:43 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Dat Comey nu zo opgehemeld wordt is toch ook te hypocriet voor woorden. Hij is ineens een held omdat hij zich tegen Trump keert terwijl iedereen schande over hem sprak voor de verkiezingen.

In die zin is Trumps' opmerking dat iedereen hem ontslagen wilde hebben, helemaal niet ver van de waarheid (al is de reden en het tijdstip waarop Trump hem ontsloeg weer totaal verkeerd uiteraard).

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SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 08:41:28 It's clear that James Comey KNOWS there were shenanigans going on at the FBI between October 3 and October 27, because for his team to sit on *650,000 emails* for *24 days* and then (by the way, *falsely*) say "we can't review these by Election Day" is 100%, straight-up insanity. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 08:45:51 2/ Here's where it gets bad for Comey: "A week or so before the election, we find material on Weiner's laptop that may change the result, including the missing Blackberry emails." No, man... the FBI found that material *36 days* before Election Day. It *wasn't* "a week or so." reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Hemelt men Comey op dan?

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:50 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Nou ja, ophemelen is wellicht niet het goede woord, maar hij krijgt vreselijk veel aandacht van de media om zijn uitspraken over Trump, waarbij hij in een slachtofferrol wordt geplaatst omdat Trump hem ontslagen heeft en kritische vragen worden grotendeels achterwege gelaten.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:50 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Nou ja, ophemelen is wellicht niet het goede woord, maar hij krijgt vreselijk veel aandacht van de media om zijn uitspraken over Trump, waarbij hij in een slachtofferrol wordt geplaatst omdat Trump hem ontslagen heeft en kritische vragen worden grotendeels achterwege gelaten.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:48 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ja en als hij de waarheid zo hoog in het vaandel heeft staan waarom dan die onduidelijkheid over wat zich heeft afgespeeld?

Draadje:

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SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 08:41:28 It's clear that James Comey KNOWS there were shenanigans going on at the FBI between October 3 and October 27, because for his team to sit on *650,000 emails* for *24 days* and then (by the way, *falsely*) say "we can't review these by Election Day" is 100%, straight-up insanity. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 08:45:51 2/ Here's where it gets bad for Comey: "A week or so before the election, we find material on Weiner's laptop that may change the result, including the missing Blackberry emails." No, man... the FBI found that material *36 days* before Election Day. It *wasn't* "a week or so." reageer retweet

Etc...

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:52 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dan heb je het interview duidelijk niet bekeken.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:53 schreef J.B. het volgende:
Ik vind Comey maar een zuur figuur, hij had kunnen verwachten dat zijn gepruts voor de verkiezingen hem duur zou komen te staan.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:52 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Tel daarbij op dat hij toegeeft dat de polls die duidelijk in het voordeel van Clinton wezen, daarbij heeft meegewogen.

Het komt een beetje op mij over alsof hij Clinton wilde beschadigen, in de overtuiging dat zij president zou worden. Wat daar het voordeel of de tactiek van is weet ik ook niet.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 13:55 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het gepruts van Trump sinds de verkiezingen kan iedereen ter wereld duur komen te staan, dus dat heft elkaar weer mooi op.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 13:30:16 Trump asked a federal judge Sunday night to allow him to review documents that FBI agents seized from Michael Cohen’s office before criminal investigators have a chance to see the material. https://t.co/4mWTENePK3 reageer retweet

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“This great nation can tolerate a president who makes mistakes,” declared Senator Orrin Hatch, the Utah Republican. “But it cannot tolerate one who makes a mistake and then breaks the law to cover it up.”

No, Mr. Hatch wasn’t talking about Donald Trump. It was 1999, and he was talking about Bill Clinton.

At that time, the American system — and the flawed yet sometimes heroic people their fellow Americans choose to lead them — underwent, and passed, a hard test: The president, his financial dealings and his personal relationships were painstakingly investigated for years. Prosecutors ultimately accused Mr. Clinton of lying under oath, to cover up a sexual affair. The House of Representatives impeached him, but the Senate declined to convict, and Mr. Clinton stayed in office.

The public, which learned in detail about everything investigators believed Mr. Clinton had done wrong, overwhelmingly agreed with the judgment of the Senate. It was a sad and sordid and at times distracting business, but the system worked.

Now Mr. Hatch and his fellow lawmakers may be approaching a harsher and more consequential test. We quote his words not to level some sort of accusation of hypocrisy, but to remind us all of what is at stake.

News reports point to a growing possibility that President Trump may act to cripple or shut down an investigation by the nation’s top law-enforcement agencies into his campaign and administration. Lawmakers need to be preparing now for that possibility because if and when it comes to pass, they will suddenly find themselves on the edge of an abyss, with the Constitution in their hands.

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Make no mistake: If Mr. Trump takes such drastic action, he will be striking at the foundation of the American government, attempting to set a precedent that a president, alone among American citizens, is above the law. What can seem now like a political sideshow will instantly become a constitutional crisis, and history will come calling for Mr. Hatch and his colleagues.

For months, investigators have been examining whether Mr. Trump’s campaign conspired with the Russian government to undermine American democracy, and whether the president misused his power by obstructing justice in an effort to end that investigation.

Until the last few weeks, Mr. Trump had shown restraint, by his standards, anyway. He and his lawyers cooperated with investigators. Mr. Trump never tweeted directly about Robert Mueller, the special counsel, and spoke about him publicly only when asked.

Alas, that whiff of higher executive function is gone. Mr. Trump is openly attacking both Mr. Mueller and Rod Rosenstein, the deputy attorney general, appointed by Mr. Trump himself. Mr. Rosenstein is overseeing the Russia investigation and signing off on Mr. Mueller’s actions.

Of course, this president has been known to huff and puff, to bluff and bluster, and he may be doing no more than that now. He may choose not to fire either man. We know he has already twice told his aides he wanted Mr. Mueller fired, only to be talked out of such rash action.

But if the president does move against the investigators, it will be up to Congress to affirm the rule of law, the separation of powers and the American constitutional order. The miserable polarization and partisan anger that have been rising in American life for decades will hit a new crescendo, and that will present congressional Republicans with a heavy burden indeed.

Many of them are not fans of this president. Republicans used to warn the nation about Mr. Trump openly, back when they thought they could still protect their party from him. Here’s a short sampling: “malignant clown,” “national disgrace,” “complete idiot,” “a sociopath, without a conscience or feelings of guilt, shame or remorse,” “graceless and divisive,” “predatory and reprehensible,” flawed “beyond mere moral shortcomings,” “unsound, uninformed, unhinged and unfit,” “a character and temperament unfit for the leader of the free world,” “A bigot. A misogynist. A fraud. A bully.” Some still say these sorts of things, albeit anonymously. Just last week, one of the president’s defenders in Congress told a conservative columnist, “It’s like Forrest Gump won the presidency, but an evil, really [expletive] stupid Forrest Gump.”

Yet if Mr. Trump goes after Mr. Mueller or Mr. Rosenstein, even Republicans who have misgivings about the president might be inclined to fall into line. They may resent what feels like an endless investigation, one that is endangering their agenda; or they may resent partisan attacks on Mr. Trump. Such frustrations — like ones Democrats vented when Mr. Clinton was in investigators’ sights — are certainly understandable. Republicans may also find themselves tempted by the political running room they would have with the investigation ended and the three branches of government under their control.

Maybe — and this is the scariest contingency to contemplate — Republican leaders would calculate that with their support, or mere acquiescence, Mr. Trump could get away with it. The overwhelming majority of Americans, including most Republicans, want Mr. Mueller to keep his job, and perhaps a groundswell of revulsion at unchecked presidential power would follow any action against the special counsel. But many Americans, weary of the shouting in Washington, might dismiss the whole thing as another food fight. We can be fairly certain that the pressure on Republican lawmakers from the minority of Americans who support Mr. Trump, as well as from the likes of Fox News and Sinclair, would be intense.

Of course, it’s when overriding your principles is the easy thing to do that you have an urgent responsibility, and opportunity, to demonstrate that you have some.

Look at what’s happening in Missouri right now. The state’s Republican governor, Eric Greitens, has been accused of sexual assault and coercion, and is scheduled to face trial next month on a felony charge of invasion of privacy. It’s a scandal of Trumpian proportions, and Mr. Greitens is responding with Trumpian bravado, calling the investigation and prosecution a “political witch hunt.”

Yet the legislative report detailing his misbehavior was bipartisan, and top state Republicans have spoken out forcefully. They recognize that Mr. Greitens is unfit. (They also see a threat to their political interests, but the two can go hand in hand.)

Or look at Watergate. We may think of it now as a two-year drama with an inevitable end, the takedown of a president who tried to cover up a criminal conspiracy. But many people forget how close President Richard Nixon came to surviving the affair. He was forced from office only because enough Republican leaders recognized the legitimacy of the investigation and stood up to him. And even then, it took the revelation of incriminating recordings. No recordings have come out this time — yet.

A few senior Republicans have been saying the right things — including Mr. Hatch. He tweeted that anyone telling the president to fire Mr. Mueller “does not have the President or the nation’s best interest at heart.” Senator Lindsey Graham, of South Carolina, warned Mr. Trump that firing Mr. Mueller would be “the beginning of the end of his presidency.”

That’s all necessary and good. But it’s not enough. More Republicans need to make it clear that they won’t tolerate any action against either man, and that firing Mr. Mueller would be, as Senator Charles Grassley said, “suicide.”

Mr. Mueller’s investigation has already yielded great benefit to the country, including the indictments of 13 Russians and three companies for trying to undermine the presidential election. None of us can know if prosecutors will eventually point the finger at the president himself. But should Mr. Trump move to hobble or kill the investigation, he would darken rather than dispel the cloud of suspicion around him. Far worse, he would free future presidents to politicize American justice. That would be a danger to every American, of whatever political leaning.

The president is not a king but a citizen, deserving of the presumption of innocence and other protections, yet also vulnerable to lawful scrutiny. We hope Mr. Trump recognizes this. If he doesn’t, how Republican lawmakers respond will shape the future not only of this presidency and of one of the country’s great political parties, but of the American experiment itself.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 14:02 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 13:30:16 Trump asked a federal judge Sunday night to allow him to review documents that FBI agents seized from Michael Cohen’s office before criminal investigators have a chance to see the material. https://t.co/4mWTENePK3 reageer retweet

Dit is best bizar.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 14:10 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Ik mis wat duiding of en waarom dit opmerkelijk is, wat de kans van slagen hiervan is en of het invloed heeft op de rest van het proces.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 14:12 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik zou zeggen: Lees het artikel.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 14:25:19 Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her (lied in Congress to Senator G), then based his decisions on her poll numbers. Disgruntled, he, McCabe, and the others, committed many crimes! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 14:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 14:25:19 Comey drafted the Crooked Hillary exoneration long before he talked to her (lied in Congress to Senator G), then based his decisions on her poll numbers. Disgruntled, he, McCabe, and the others, committed many crimes! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 14:31:02 Russia and China are playing the Currency Devaluation game as the U.S. keeps raising interest rates. Not acceptable! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 14:38 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 14:31:02 Russia and China are playing the Currency Devaluation game as the U.S. keeps raising interest rates. Not acceptable! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 16:09 schreef Ulx het volgende:
http://thehill.com/homene(...)in-trumps-legal-team

En weer een advocaat die geen zin heeft om voor Trump te gaan werken of het wegens een conflict niet mag doen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 15-04-2018 om 14:56:13 Attorney Client privilege is now a thing of the past. I have many (too many!) lawyers and they are probably wondering when their offices, and even homes, are going to be raided with everything, including their phones and computers, taken. All lawyers are deflated and concerned! reageer retweet

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 16:12:08 As I read Mr. Trump's filing last night whereby he attempts to avoid having his own Justice Dept. review the documents seized in the raid, I could not help but draw parallels to the "Stennis Compromise" (below). And we all know how that ended...#bastahttps://t.co/vxJnHcy0Xv reageer retweet

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The Latest on efforts by President Donald Trump and his personal lawyer to stop criminal prosecutors from reviewing materials seized in raids before they have a chance to review them for potential breach of attorney-client privilege. (all times local):

10:40 a.m.

Lawyers for President Donald Trump's personal attorney say investigators "took everything" during raids last week on his residence and office.

The lawyers wrote in a court filing Monday that the raids a week ago to gather evidence from attorney Michael Cohen were "completely unprecedented."

They said investigators seized more than a dozen electronic devices and other items including documents and data unrelated to the probable cause upon which the search warrants were based.

The letter demanded Trump and Cohen's lawyers be allowed to decide which items seized are protected by attorney-client privilege before criminal prosecutors see them.

The submission in Manhattan federal court came prior to a hearing scheduled for the afternoon. Prosecutors say Cohen is being investigated for an undisclosed crime related to his personal business dealings.

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8:14 a.m.

President Donald Trump's personal attorney is set to appear in federal court to argue over evidence found during a recent FBI raid, and porn star Stormy Daniels' lawyer says she'll be there.

Michael Cohen is under criminal investigation for personal business dealings and was ordered to appear in federal court Monday in New York to help answer questions about his law practice. He has denied wrongdoing.

A lawyer for Trump filed papers late Sunday asking a federal judge to block prosecutors from studying material seized in the raid until Cohen and the president have a chance to review them and argue which are subject to attorney-client privilege.

The raid sought information including on a $130,000 payment made to Daniels, who alleges she had sex with a married Trump in 2006. Her lawyer says she'll be in the courtroom Monday.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 15:55 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het mag geen verrassing meer heten dat dit ook niet klopt. China is al enige tijd met haar devalueringsprogramma gestopt.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 17:57 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Een paar dagen geleden had Lesko nog een 10-punts voorsprong, historisch gezien zou het zelfs ongeveer 40 moeten zijn.

Dit had niet eens in de búúrt van "spennend" moeten mogen kunnen komen.

meer: https://ballotpedia.org/A(...)ecial_election,_2018

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 18:37 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het is wel Emerson, staat niet goed bekend, dus neem het met een korreltje zout. Maar dat laatste ben ik met je eens.

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Cohen seeks to withhold identity of mystery client (WaPo)

President Trump’s longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen, told a federal judge Monday that he had three legal clients in the past year — the president, GOP fundraiser Elliott Broidy and a third client whose identity he asked to keep secret.

Lawyers for Cohen filed the letter Monday morning as they prepare for a 2 p.m. hearing to discuss legal issues surrounding an FBI search last week of Cohen’s office, home and hotel room.

Cohen, who is under criminal investigation for possible bank fraud and campaign finance violations, has argued that material seized in the raids could contain privileged information and needs to be reviewed before federal prosecutors have a chance to scrutinize it.

Cohen has asked for a court-appointed outside lawyer to serve as special master and review the material first, or for his own lawyers to review the documents so they can tell prosecutors which documents are covered by attorney-client privilege.

Cohen is set to attend Monday’s hearing. Also expected to be on hand is adult-film star Stormy Daniels, whom Cohen secretly paid $130,000 in 2016 to keep quiet the details of an alleged sexual liaison she had with Trump.

On Sunday night, other lawyers representing Trump filed a letter to U.S. District Court Judge Kimba Wood, the judge overseeing the case, arguing that the president should be allowed to review the material before Justice Department lawyers.

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As part of the judge’s effort to resolve such requests, she asked Cohen’s lawyers to tell her Monday how many clients, and documents, might be involved in the material seized by the FBI. Earlier, Cohen’s lawyers suggested there could be thousands or millions of documents covered by attorney-client privilege.

The letter from Cohen’s lawyer Todd Harrison filed Monday said agents seized “more than a dozen electronic devices and other items that include documents and data regarding topics and issues that have nothing to do with” the material sought in the search warrant.

The letter says that from 1996 to 2006, Cohen had hundreds of clients, adding that he did not know if any material from those old clients were in the seized files. From 2007 to 2017, Cohen worked as a lawyer for Trump and the Trump Organization.

The letter said that in 2017 and 2018, Cohen had “at least ten clients,” but seven of those were business consulting clients whose work did not involve legal advice.

The three other clients, according to the letter, are Trump, Broidy and a third client Cohen said did not want to be identified.

Cohen helped Broidy negotiate a $1.6 million settlement with a former Playboy model who got pregnant after they had an affair.

“As to the one unnamed legal client, we do not believe that Mr. Cohen should be asked to reveal the name or can permissibly do so,” the letter said. “Upon information and belief, the unnamed legal client’s matters are responsive to any matter covered by ... the search warrants.”

Cohen’s lawyers argue that if the court appoints a special master to oversee the issue, “that legal client would allow their name to be disclosed to the special master.”

In making their requests, Trump and Cohen contend that the Justice Department policy is unfair and infringes on constitutional protections.

It is unusual but not unprecedented for criminal investigators to seize documents from a lawyer, and there is a policy in place designed to shield information covered by the attorney-client privilege.

That procedure involves having a “taint team” — also referred to as a “filter team” of prosecutors outside the investigation review all the material and separate what is covered by the privilege. A lawyer’s communications with a client are not covered by the privilege if those discussions do not involve legal advice, or were used to further a crime or fraud.

Under the procedure, the taint team would turn over to the case investigators all the material that is relevant and not covered by attorney-client privilege.

“The president objects to the government’s proposal to use a ‘taint team’ of prosecutors from the very office that is investigating this matter to conduct the initial privilege review of documents seized from the President’s personal attorney, Michael Cohen,’’ Trump lawyer Joanna Hendon wrote to the judge on Sunday.

She added that “the president respectfully requests” that the judge issue an order barring the taint team from conducting an initial review of the seized material and require the government to turn over a copy of that material to Cohen’s lawyers.

Then, the president wants the court to direct Cohen “to identify to the president all seized materials that relate to him in any way and to provide a copy of those materials to him and his counsel,” according to the letter. Any disputes about what material was or wasn’t covered by the attorney-client privilege would then be decided by a judge, under the president’s proposal.

People familiar with the Cohen investigation have said he is being investigated for possible bank and wire fraud. Prosecutors are examining whether crimes were committed as part of any pattern or strategy of trying to buy the silence of people who could offer accounts that could have damaged Trump’s candidacy in 2016.

In addition, the FBI is also looking into whether any fraud was committed in connection with Cohen’s ownership of taxi medallions — assets whose value has plummeted in recent years.

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igorbobic twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 18:53:01 Rubio thanks Trump for being "a champion for the cause of freedom and democracy" reageer retweet

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TomNamako twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 18:50:02 Trump at a tax cuts roundtable in Florida:"Are there any Hispanics in the room? I doubt it." https://t.co/QTTjfGjH66 reageer retweet

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Trump puts the brakes on new Russian sanctions, reversing Haley’s announcement (WaPo)

President Trump on Monday put the brakes on a preliminary plan to impose additional economic sanctions on Russia, walking back a Sunday announcement by U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley that the Kremlin had swiftly denounced as “international economic raiding.”

Preparations to punish Russia anew for its support of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s government over the alleged chemical weapons attack in Syria caused consternation at the White House. Haley said on CBS News’ “Face the Nation” that sanctions on Russian companies behind the equipment related to Assad’s alleged chemical weapons attack would be announced Monday by Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

But as officials in Moscow condemned the planned sanctions as overly punitive, Trump conferred with his national security advisers later Sunday and told them he was upset the sanctions were being officially rolled out because he was not yet comfortable executing them, according to several people familiar with the plan.

Administration officials said the economic sanctions were under serious consideration, along with other measures that could be taken against Russia, but said Trump had not given final authorization to implement them. Administration officials said Monday it was unlikely Trump would approve any additional sanctions without another triggering event by Russia, describing the strategy as being in a holding pattern.

Sometime after Haley’s comments on CBS, the Trump administration notified the Russian Embassy in Washington that the sanctions were not in fact coming, a Russian Foreign Ministry official said Monday.

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The Trump team decided to publicly characterize Haley’s announcement as a misstatement. White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said in a statement Monday: “We are considering additional sanctions on Russia and a decision will be made in the near future.”

Privately, another White House official said Haley got ahead of herself and made “an error that needs to be mopped up.”

But other administration officials expressed skepticism that Haley had merely misspoken. They said Haley is one of the most disciplined and cautious members of the Cabinet, especially when it comes to her public appearances. She regularly checks in with Trump personally to go over her planned statements before she sits for television interviews.

Haley issued no clarifying statement on Sunday after news organizations, including The Washington Post, reported prominently that the new sanctions would be announced Monday based on her comments to CBS.

Asked Monday morning why it had taken 24 hours for the administration to walk back Haley’s comments, one White House official said only that there had been confusion internally about what the plan was.

The sanctions were developed in recent weeks as part of a ready menu of potential military and economic measures for Trump to enact to strike back at Assad’s government and his Russian patrons, according to a senior administration official.

In early March, following a relatively small scale chemical weapons attack in Syria, Trump was upset there was not a ready set of options, so then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster prepared a series of measures that were not enacted.

But the late-March poisoning of a former Russian spy on British soil led the Trump administration to trigger the first round of the economic sanctions on that menu and to expel 60 diplomats in coordination with the European allies.

The chemical attack by Assad in Douma in early April set off a debate in the White House about whether the United States should trigger another round of economic sanctions to punish Russia. The president seemed to refer to those measures in his speech announcing strikes on the Assad regime last Friday night in which he promised to respond with “all instruments of our national power: military, economic and diplomatic.”

But it was unclear to officials whether Trump wanted to hit Russia with the next set of options on the sanctions menu or wait for another attack, according to the senior administration official.

Some officials said the misunderstanding could have been the result of Haley’s tendency to speak directly with the president, sometimes outside of the normal policy process. “She’ll usually talk to the president without the rest of the White House and get her remarks cleared directly,” said the administration official. “Often we don’t know about them.”

Early in the Trump administration there were conflicts between Haley’s team and the president on Russia. Shortly after Trump’s inauguration, Haley delivered a speech at the United Nations that recommitted the White House to the Obama administration’s policy on sanctions related to Russian aggression in Ukraine. The speech was cleared by David Cattler, then a senior official on the National Security Council, but the remarks frustrated Trump, who demanded to know who had approved them.

“Lots of people got yelled at — some by the president,” said a U.S. official at the United Nations. Cattler, in turn, was pushed out of his job a couple of weeks later in a reorganization of the NSC by McMaster.

White House officials said Trump has been impressed with Haley lately, particularly her remarks about Syria over the past week, and stressed Monday that the president holds her in high regard.

In the absence of a permanent secretary of state, Haley has been the face of American diplomacy, playing an especially prominent role over the past week as the Trump administration responded to the attack in Syria.

Haley said Sunday on CBS, “You will see that Russian sanctions will be coming down. Secretary Mnuchin will be announcing those on Monday, if he hasn’t already. And they will go directly to any sort of companies that were dealing with equipment related to Assad and chemical weapons used. And so I think everyone is going to feel it at this point. I think everyone knows that we sent a strong message, and our hope is that they listen to it.”

The Russians were listening. After Haley’s comments, Kremlin press secretary Dmitry Peskov told reporters in Moscow that the sanctions were a U.S. ploy to oust Russia from international markets and constituted “undisguised attempts of unfair competition.”

“The sanction campaign against Russia is truly assuming the nature of an obsessive idea,” Peskov said, according to the Interfax news agency. “We still do not see these sanctions as lawful. We see them as going against international law.”

Peskov added, “Certainly, this cannot have any relation to and cannot be motivated by considerations of the situation in Syria or any other country . . . I would call this international economic raiding rather than something else.”

But after the Kremlin got word through Russia’s embassy in Washington that the sanctions would not be coming, there was a subtle shift in Moscow toward a less confrontational tone, even as officials continued to slam U.S. sanctions as veiled attempts at gaining economic advantage.

Russian lawmakers were crowing Friday that they were going to make the United States pay for already imposed sanctions, potentially by blocking American imports or U.S.-Russian aerospace cooperation or allowing Russians to violate U.S. intellectual property rights. Russia, one top lawmaker promised, was going to “hit the Americans in the gut.”

But on Monday, senior lawmakers in the lower house of parliament, the State Duma, decided to hold off until May 15 before considering any counter-sanctions against the United States. Speaker Vyacheslav Volodin said the Duma needed to meet with experts and the business community first.

Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov also urged calm.

“Let’s first wait until these sanctions are implemented,” Ryabkov said in reference to possible new U.S. sanctions, Interfax reported. “We have to see what will be announced, at what scale, and who or what will become the targets of these sanctions.”

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 20:27 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Maar natuurlijk ...

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 20:07 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Wie-o-wie is de mystery client?

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 20:46 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Wynn?

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KlasfeldReports twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 20:43:36 BREAKING: Judge Wood rules that the name "must be disclosed publicly now." reageer retweet

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eorden twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 20:49:56 Michael Cohen's previously unnamed third client is SEAN HANNITY. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 20:10 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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igorbobic twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 18:53:01 Rubio thanks Trump for being "a champion for the cause of freedom and democracy" reageer retweet

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TomNamako twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 18:50:02 Trump at a tax cuts roundtable in Florida:"Are there any Hispanics in the room? I doubt it." https://t.co/QTTjfGjH66 reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 20:52 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Sean Hannity!

🎵Dun-dun-dun.🎵

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eorden twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 20:49:56 Michael Cohen's previously unnamed third client is SEAN HANNITY. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 20:54 schreef Montov het volgende:
Onafhankelijk journalist Sean Hannity? Die kan toch niet betrokken zijn in het Trump moeras? Fake News.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 21:02 schreef Montov het volgende:
Maar Cohen heeft echt maar 3 clienten? Is dat niet erg weinig?

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 21:02 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Aan alleen Trump heb je toch al werk zat?

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The letter says that from 1996 to 2006, Cohen had hundreds of clients, adding that he did not know if any material from those old clients were in the seized files. From 2007 to 2017, Cohen worked as a lawyer for Trump and the Trump Organization.

The letter said that in 2017 and 2018, Cohen had "at least ten clients," but seven of those were business consulting clients whose work did not involve legal advice.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 20:40 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Vreemde actie weer.

Krijg het idee dat de harde woorden van Trump richting Rusland vorige week niet meer waren dan een een-tweetje waar beide regeringen van op de hoogte waren. Beetje stoere praat voor de bühne. Van beide kanten.

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Op maandag 16 april 2018 20:52 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Sean Hannity!

🎵Dun-dun-dun.🎵

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KlasfeldReports twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 20:43:36 BREAKING: Judge Wood rules that the name "must be disclosed publicly now." reageer retweet

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eorden twitterde op maandag 16-04-2018 om 20:49:56 Michael Cohen's previously unnamed third client is SEAN HANNITY. reageer retweet