[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #496 Candyman Jackson

Kopstukken

President - Donald Trump

Vice President - Mike Pence

Het kabinet
Secretary of State - Mike Pompeo (beoogd)
Secretary of Treasury - Steven Mnuchin
Secretary of Defense - General Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis
Attorney General - Jeff Sessions
Secretary of the Interior - Ryan Zinke
Secretary of Agriculture - Sonny Perdue
Secretary of Commerce - Wilbur Ross
Secretary of Labor - Alexander Acosta
Secretary of Health and Human Services - Alex Azar
Secretary of Housing & Urban Development - Ben Carson
Secretary of Transportation - Elaine Chao
Secretary of Energy - Rick Perry
Secretary of Education - Betsy DeVos
Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Ronny Jackson???
Secretary of Homeland Security - Kirstjen Nielsen

Cabinet-level officials:
White House Chief of Staff - John F. Kelly
Trade Representative - Robert Lighthizer
Director of National Intelligence - Dan Coats
Ambassador to the UN - Nikki Haley
Director of the Office of Management & Budget - Mick Mulvaney
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency - Gina Haspel (beoogd)
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency - Scott Pruitt
Administrator of the Small Business Administration - Linda McMahon

Andere kopstukken:
Ivanka Trump (Advisor to the President), Jared Kushner (Senior Adviser Strategic Planning), Stephen Miller (Senior Adviser Policy), John Bolton (National Security Adviser), Kellyanne Conway (Counselor), Donald McGahn (White House Counsel), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Press Secretary), Christopher Wray (Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation), Robert Mueller (Special Counsel), Rod Rosenstein (United States Deputy Attorney General).

Verdwenen of voormalige kopstukken:
Michael Flynn (National Security Advisor), Sally Yates (Attorney General (Acting)), James Comey (FBI Director), Reince Priebus (Chief of Staff), Mike Dubke (White House Communications Director), Sean Spicer (Press Secretary, White House Communications Director (Acting)), Anthony Scaramucci (White House Communications Director), Hope Hicks (White House Communications Director), Preet Bharara (U.S. Attorney), Stephen Bannon (Chief Strategist), Tom Price (Secretary of Health and Human Services), Rob Porter (White House Staff Secretary), Gary Cohn (Assistant to the President for Economic Policy and Director of the National Economic Council), Rex Tillerson (Secretary of State), John McEntee (Personal Assistent), Andrew McCabe (Deputy Director FBI), Herbert McMaster (National Security Adviser), David Shulkin (Secretary Veterans Affairs)

Ook wel weer raar:

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Steve Bannon ordered messaging tested about Putin in 2014: Cambridge Analytica whistleblower

Cambridge Analytica whistleblower Christopher Wylie told Democrats on the House Judiciary and House Oversight and Government Reform committees that Steve Bannon directed staff to test messaging in 2014 about Russian president Vladmir Putin and Russian expansion in Eastern Europe.

Wylie said it was unusual because it was the only foreign leader they tested.

“I can’t explain why it was that they picked Vladmir Putin to talk about in focus groups or to do message testing or to do models on, and why that would be useful to Steve Bannon,” he told Democrats in interviews on Capitol Hill this week. “But what I can say is that they were also testing images of Vladimir Putin and asking questions about Russian expansion in Eastern Europe.”

Cambridge Analytica worked for President Trump’s 2016 campaign, and Bannon was vice president of the board of the data analytics firm beginning in 2014. Bannon joined Trump’s campaign team in August 2016.

Wylie — who left Cambridge Analytica in 2014 — revealed to the Observer last month how Cambridge Analytica improperly took and used the personal information of more than 50 million Facebook users ahead of the 2016 presidential election.

Wylie told Democrats that Cambridge Analytics was a “full service propaganda machine,” that wanted to use collected Facebook data — at the direction of Bannon — to discourage specific groups of people from voting, including those likely to vote Democratic.


“There is one document which I have that specifically says—in bold terms—voter disengagement as an objective in the United States.,” he said, later adding that he had heard Bannon talk about voter disenfranchisement or voter disengagement.

“If by that term you mean discouraging particular types of voters who are more prone to voting for Democratic or liberal candidates, if that’s what you mean by that term, then yes,” Wylie explained.

Democrats said they invited the Judiciary Committee Republicans to attend the interview with Wylie, but they “refused.”

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 00:06 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Wat heeft Trump er aan als niet één maar twee mensen hem challengen?

Het is ook niet zozeer het risico dat het lukt maar wel de onderliggende interne strubbelingen die zo'n challenge blootlegt die het zo gevaarlijk maken voor Trump of welke andere president dan ook. Trump heeft een approval onder Republikeinen van bovenin de 80 procent. Elke challenge zal falen. Maar Buchanan in '92 bijvoorbeeld won ook geen enkele staat, maar Bush verloor uiteindelijk toch.

Trump heeft daar niks aan, zijn potentiele challenger kan er wat aan hebben.