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Trump-allied House conservatives draft articles of impeachment against Rosenstein as ‘last resort’ (WP)

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Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The document, which was obtained by The Washington Post, underscores the growing chasm between congressional Republican leaders, who have maintained for months that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III should be allowed to proceed, and rank-and-file GOP lawmakers who have repeatedly battled the Justice Department during the past year.

The draft articles, which one of its authors called a “last resort,” would be unlikely to garner significant support in Congress. But it could serve as a provocative political weapon for conservatives in their standoff with Mueller and the Justice Department.

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus — led by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a Trump confidant — finalized the draft in recent days. It came after weeks of disputes with Rosenstein over the Justice Department’s response to congressional requests for documents about the decisions and behavior of federal law-enforcement officials working on the Russia investigation and other federal probes, including the investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email server.

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  dinsdag 1 mei 2018 @ 02:24:58 #202
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EPA whistleblower says Pruitt 'lied' to Congress (ABC)

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A whistleblower from the Environmental Protection Agency says that Administrator Scott Pruitt was "bold-faced" lying when he told members of Congress that no EPA employees were retaliated against for raising concerns about his spending decisions.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Kyra Phillips, former deputy chief of staff Kevin Chmielewski said he was "100 percent" forced out after raising concerns about Pruitt's spending on first-class travel.

Chmielewski said chief of staff Ryan Jackson called him into his office and said: "Hey — Administrator Pruitt either wants me to fire you or put you in an office so that he doesn't have to see you again,” Chmielewski told ABC News adding that "And in addition to that, he wants to put Millan (Hupp) in your spot, as your title and your pay grade."

"I think Ryan Jackson, the chief of staff, is a very honorable guy. I think he's just in a weird situation," Chmielewski said. "Because he was — he was the biggest advocate about doing the right thing. We would talk about it all the time."

ABC News has reached out to Jackson and Hupp for comment.

The EPA declined to comment in response to questions about Chmielewski’s allegations against Pruitt and his staff. ABC News obtained a personnel form filled out by an EPA HR officials that says he resigned on March 17.

The form is not signed by Chmielewski, who says he was actually forced to leave a month before that date.

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  dinsdag 1 mei 2018 @ 03:12:20 #203
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Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction (NYT)

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Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia’s election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he wants to ask President Trump to learn more about his ties to Russia and determine whether he obstructed the inquiry itself, according to a list of the questions obtained by The New York Times.

[Read the questions here.]

The open-ended queries appear to be an attempt to penetrate the president’s thinking, to get at the motivation behind some of his most combative Twitter posts and to examine his relationships with his family and his closest advisers. They deal chiefly with the president’s high-profile firings of the F.B.I. director and his first national security adviser, his treatment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials and Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.

But they also touch on the president’s businesses; any discussions with his longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, about a Moscow real estate deal; whether the president knew of any attempt by Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to set up a back channel to Russia during the transition; any contacts he had with Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime adviser who claimed to have inside information about Democratic email hackings; and what happened during Mr. Trump’s 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant.

The questions provide the most detailed look yet inside Mr. Mueller’s investigation, which has been shrouded in secrecy since he was appointed nearly a year ago. The majority relate to possible obstruction of justice, demonstrating how an investigation into Russia’s election meddling grew to include an examination of the president’s conduct in office. Among them are queries on any discussions Mr. Trump had about his attempts to fire Mr. Mueller himself and what the president knew about possible pardon offers to Mr. Flynn.

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  Overall beste user 2022 dinsdag 1 mei 2018 @ 05:43:38 #204
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https://www.politico.com/(...)ts-from-trump-218115

Waarom een wanhopige Trump wel eens zou kunnen zorgen dat de VS de grote verliezer gaat worden bij een deal met Noord-Korea.
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  dinsdag 1 mei 2018 @ 06:20:31 #205
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Maak dat de kat wijs!!
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Importheffingen (staal en aluminium) voor Europa uitgesteld tot juni. Idem voor Canada en Mexico.
https://www.nu.nl/economi(...)opese-unie-juni.html
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  dinsdag 1 mei 2018 @ 08:24:09 #206
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Importheffingen (staal en aluminium) voor Europa uitgesteld tot juni. Idem voor Canada en Mexico.
https://www.nu.nl/economi(...)opese-unie-juni.html
Elke keer een maand uitstel, en je als EU maar als speelbal laten gebruiken, gaat lekker zo...
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Elke keer een maand uitstel, en je als EU maar als speelbal laten gebruiken, gaat lekker zo...
Wat moeten ze dan doen? Dit is nog altijd te verkiezen boven wel tarieven.
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Elke keer een maand uitstel, en je als EU maar als speelbal laten gebruiken, gaat lekker zo...
Daarom des te belangrijker dat Europa gaat overleggen met landen als Mexico en Canada om het gevaar van Amerika in te dammen.
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Roy Moore (bekend van o.a. zijn paard Sassy) kan zich nog steeds niet bij zijn verlies neerleggen...


Roy Moore Files Complaint Claiming He Was Targeted By Political Conspiracy (HuffPo)
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Former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore filed a complaint on Monday claiming he was the target of a political conspiracy ahead of the Alabama special election in December.

Moore, a former judge, lost to Democrat Doug Jones in a special election to fill a Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Jones defeated Moore by about 20,000 votes ― or 1.5 percentage points.

Controversy swirled around Moore in the final months of the campaign as several women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct, including allegations that he pursued and harassed teenage girls when he was in his 30s and sexually assaulted one. Moore has denied the allegations.

In a statement released on a campaign Facebook page, Moore’s attorney, Melissa Isaak, said the allegations against Moore “arose from a political conspiracy to destroy his personal reputation and defeat him in the special Senate election for United States Senate.”

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Shocking Gun Ad By Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Brian Kemp Backfires (HuffPo)
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Negative comments have rained down on a pro-gun political ad by controversial Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp in which the Republican points a shotgun at a young man supposedly interested in dating one of Kemp’s daughters as the teen professes a “healthy appreciation” for the Second Amendment.

Viewers are demanding that an Atlanta television station stop running it. “We are gun owners and we are outraged,” one told Atlanta NBC affiliate 11 Alive. Kemp is currently Georgia’s secretary of state.

“I’m a conservative businessman with a four-point plan to put hardworking Georgians first,” Kemp said in a tweet Friday when he unveiled the ad. ”I’m also the proud father of three teenage girls. Here’s the thing: If you want to date one of my daughters, you better have respect for women and a healthy appreciation for the Second Amendment.”
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  dinsdag 1 mei 2018 @ 16:57:16 #211
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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 12:47:30 So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were “leaked” to the media. No questions on Collusion. Oh, I see...you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice! reageer retweet
realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 13:34:13 It would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened! Witch Hunt! reageer retweet
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  dinsdag 1 mei 2018 @ 17:06:49 #212
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U.S. EPA grants biofuels waiver to billionaire Icahn's oil refinery

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, exempting the Oklahoma facility from requirements under a federal biofuels law, according to two industry sources briefed on the matter.

The waiver enables Icahn’s CVR Energy Inc (CVI.N) to avoid tens of millions of dollars in costs related to the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. The regulation is meant to cut air pollution, reduce petroleum imports and support corn farmers by requiring refiners to mix billions of gallons of biofuels into the nation’s gasoline and diesel each year.

The Small Refiners Coalition, which represents companies that operate small refining facilities, said the EPA is required by law to help small refineries struggling with these regulations and that such exemptions are crucial to their financial well-being. It applauded EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt for protecting small refineries, regardless of ownership, from the RFS requirements.

But the exemption for CVR’s Wynnewood, Oklahoma plant prompted criticism from a corn state lawmaker and the powerful corn lobby, which has already accused Trump’s EPA of overusing the hardship waiver program in a way that hurts demand for ethanol.

“Hundreds of millions - and in some cases billions - of dollars in profits isn’t my definition of ‘hardship,’” Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said in statement condemning the CVR waiver. “President Trump promised to support home-grown biofuels, and Administrator Pruitt is breaking that promise.”

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Another top Scott Pruitt aide resigns at EPA

House panel expected to interview EPA chief Scott Pruitt's former head of security in conduct probe

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The House Oversight Committee is expected to interview Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's former head of security Wednesday, the latest indication that Pruitt still faces scrutiny from Congress after back-to-back hearings last week.

Pasquale "Nino" Perrotta, a former Secret Service agent whose career in law enforcement included a stint investigating the Gambino crime family for the Bronx district attorney in New York City, led Pruitt's 24-hour security detail, putting him at the center of several of the ethics and spending episodes under review by the EPA inspector general and congressional investigators.

In a phone interview this morning, Perrotta, who said he resigned from his job at the EPA Monday, said he plans to "fully cooperate and answer any and all questions" from Congress, starting with the transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee Wednesday.

"All of this press is taking a toll on my family. I decided to move on and it's been an honor to serve," he said.

An EPA spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on the transcribed interview or Perrotta's resignation.



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Tot Trump vorig jaar weigerde te komen, heeft er maar 1 president ooit verstek laten gaan, maar die had een geldig excuus (hij had namelijk net een aanslag overleefd, maar liet zich niet kennen en belde vanaf zijn ziekenhuisbed). Maar hoe geef je als conferencier een reaktie op een speech van een president (= de oorspronkelijke volgorde) die niet komt opdagen? :P

Did Michelle Wolf Kill the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? (NYTimes)
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As the power elite of Washington filed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday, chattering about the rough-and-tumble set by the comedian Michelle Wolf, the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was invited to pose for a portrait with her fellow honorees on the dais.

Ms. Wolf smiled for the camera. But Ms. Sanders declined, not wanting to appear in a photo alongside the comedian, according to two people who described the exchange.

It was an early ripple of the tsunami to come. Ms. Wolf’s punch lines about Ms. Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, another prominent woman in the Trump administration, set off a high-dudgeon debate that raised the possibility that Saturday’s edition of the nearly 100-year-old dinner could be the last of its kind.

“It will not surprise you to hear that my email inbox is overflowing with advice on how to improve the dinner,” Olivier Knox, the incoming president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said in an interview on Monday. He reeled off the possibilities now on the table: “No entertainer. No comic. A serious speaker. Maybe a musician. Maybe don’t televise it.”
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Trump's team heeft die vragen nota bene zelf gelekt. Mueller lekt nooit iets en heeft daar ook geen belang bij. En dan nu gaan huilen dat het allemaal zo "disgraceful" is. Wat een doorzichtige set-up. :')
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Trump's team heeft die vragen nota bene zelf gelekt. Mueller lekt nooit iets en heeft daar ook geen belang bij. En dan nu gaan huilen dat het allemaal zo "disgraceful" is. Wat een doorzichtige set-up. :')
Hij is ook wel geinteresseerd naar de duizenden creatieve antwoorden op deze vragen die al zijn fans gaan bedenken natuurlijk zodat hij die eventueel kan gebruiken. Beter dat de hele goegemeente nadenkt over de antwoorden dan alleen zijn team. Misschien dat iemand met een mooi nieuw talking point komt dat ze kunnen gebruiken.
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  dinsdag 1 mei 2018 @ 17:17:12 #216
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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 15:50:04 The U.S. just borrowed $488,000,000,000, a record high for the first quarter. https://t.co/VZWbtn9keh reageer retweet
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The promise was that the tax cut would produce a huge surge in business investment — not in the long run, not five or 10 years from now, but right away. And it's not happening.
How’s That Tax Cut Working Out? (NYTimes)
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So far, Donald Trump and his allies in Congress have achieved one and only one major legislative victory: passing a large tax cut, mainly aimed at corporations and business owners. The tax cut’s proponents promised that it would lead to a dramatic acceleration of economic growth and produce big gains in wages; they hoped that it would also yield big political dividends for the midterm elections.

So how’s it going? Politically, the tax cut is a damp squib: Most voters say they haven’t seen any boost to their paychecks, and Republicans are barely talking about the law in their political campaigns. But what about the economics?

You might be tempted to say that it’s too early to tell. After all, the law has been in effect for only a few months, and we got our first look at post-tax-cut economic growth only last week. But here’s the thing: To deliver on its backers’ promises, the tax cut would have to produce a huge surge in business investment — not in the long run, not five or 10 years from now, but more or less right away. And there’s no sign that anything like that is happening.
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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 12:47:30 So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were “leaked” to the media. No questions on Collusion. Oh, I see...you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice! reageer retweet
realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 13:34:13 It would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened! Witch Hunt! reageer retweet
Waarom zou men valse informatie, leugens dus, geheim willen houden?
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Tegelijkertijd merkt men nauwelijks dat er meer besteedbaar inkomen is, en vinden nog altijd meer mensen de belastingwet een slecht idee dan een goed idee. Uitstekend talking point van de Democraten.
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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 15:50:04 The U.S. just borrowed $488,000,000,000, a record high for the first quarter. https://t.co/VZWbtn9keh reageer retweet
Absolute cijfers zeggen ook weer niet heel veel. Het achterliggende artikel van Bloomberg is een stuk verhelderender. Het tekort groot ook als percentage van het BBP lekker door naar verwachting. Kennelijk is het faillissement van de VS niet zo'n issue meer voor het gros van de Republikeinen.
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Waarom zou men valse informatie, leugens dus, geheim willen houden?
Omdat het een complot is vanuit de 'deep state' om zijn administratie te schaden dat zo lang mogelijk in stand gehouden moet worden natuurlijk! Dat is wat Trump zijn fanbase wil laten weten.

Als bewijs daarvoor: er zijn geen Mueller-vragen over 'collusion'. Dat is een beetje een semantisch spelletje aan het worden. Trump hoeft nl niet direct ZELF samengespannen te hebben met de Russen om zich schuldig te maken aan 'obstruction' van het onderzoek. Het is ook obstructie als hij ervan geweten heeft dat zijn campagne-medewerkers dat deden en daar was wel degelijk een Mueller-vraag over:

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Update database Trump leugens, halve waarheden en misleidingen:

In 466 days, President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims

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The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office.
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  dinsdag 1 mei 2018 @ 18:51:18 #223
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Trump is de leaker! :D
Zoveel gescheld en getier om het lekken, en zelf de bron zijn van diverse lekken. Fake President.
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Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer 'raided' his office, took medical files

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In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice and took all the president's medical records.

The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a "raid," took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.

In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt "raped, frightened and sad" when Keith Schiller and another "large man" came to his office to collect the president's records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump's bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.

"They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos," Bornstein said, who described the incident as frightening.

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JaxAlemany twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 20:37:01 .@KaciSokoloff just spoke w Dr. Harold Bornstein, who refused an interview but said that NBC's piece was "a pretty good story." Bornstein also said that he spoke to the NBC reporter "in the bathroom" of his office. He signed off with: "Sweetheart, this is watergate, goodbye!" reageer retweet
Volgens Sanders is dit de 'standaard procedure' :')

Yamiche twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 21:07:04 Reminder: Sarah Sanders just said this was "standard procedure." https://t.co/Ft87xdwhWl reageer retweet


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  dinsdag 1 mei 2018 @ 19:00:28 #225
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Weer een goed segment van Colbert:

Over het tegenstrijdige reactie van Trump over de Russische informant en de meeting in Trump Tower.
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