[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #504 Geld uit Qatar

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Qatari investor confirms he attended Trump Tower meetings in 2016


(CNN) — Ahmed Al-Rumaihi, a Qatari investor referenced in a series of tweets from Michael Avenatti this week, confirmed to CNN through a spokesperson on Tuesday that he did attend meetings at Trump Tower in December 2016.

The stated reason: face time with Trump transition officials.

"Mr. Al-Rumaihi was at Trump Tower on December 12, 2016. He was there in his then role as head of Qatar Investments, an internal division of QIA, to accompany the Qatari delegation that was meeting with Trump transition officials on that date," said a spokesperson for Sport Trinity, a company that Al-Rumaihi co-owns. "He did not participate in any meetings with Michael Flynn, and his involvement in the meetings on that date was limited."

The spokesperson did not elaborate on which Trump transition officials attended those meetings or the substance of the meetings.

A person familiar with the Qatari delegation's meetings at Trump Tower that day said, "There were several meetings that took place between the delegation and Trump transition officials. During one, Michael Cohen briefly popped in."

The statement is Al-Rumaihi's first acknowledgment of why he was at Trump Tower on December 12, 2016, since Avenatti, a lawyer for Stormy Daniels, made an issue of it in his tweets.

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BREAKING: North Korea suspends talks with South Korea over S.Korea-U.S military drills, North Korean state news agency KCNA reports. Talks between the Koreas were set to resume Wednesday.

https://twitter.com/gelles/status/996468998119321640?s=19

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Op dinsdag 15 mei 2018 21:20 schreef Ulx het volgende:
(URGENT) N. Korea threatens to cancel U.S. summit over S. Korea-U.S. military drills

http://m.yna.co.kr/mob2/e(...)AEN20180516000400315

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Op dinsdag 15 mei 2018 21:16 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 15 mei 2018 21:26 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Idd. Daar komt het wel op neer.

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Op dinsdag 15 mei 2018 21:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Daar gaat je Nobelprijs, Donnie.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 15-05-2018 om 22:05:10 Emails show the Trump admin trying to manage a potentially damaging report on a class of chemicals found to have polluted water supplies near U.S. military installations, worrying it could be a "public relations nightmare." https://t.co/oAoDtLUdV4 reageer retweet

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The chemicals, widely known as PFOS and PFOA, were found in drinking water or groundwater in quantities that exceeded amounts deemed safe by EPA near 126 military facilities, the Department of Defense said in a study in May. The perflourinated compounds, present in a firefighting foam used by the military, have been linked in some studies to prostate, kidney and testicular cancer, as well as to fertility problems and developmental delays in fetuses and children, according to the Defense Department report.

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Op dinsdag 15 mei 2018 14:53 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Wie moet Trump spelen? De voor de hand liggende keuze is Alec Baldwin, maar mijn voorkeur gaat uit naar John Goodman, op basis van zijn rol als Fred Flinstone.

Donald Trump Impersonator at #TaxMarch in Washington DC. HYSTERICAL

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Op dinsdag 15 mei 2018 21:24 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Game of chicken. Als Trump ingeeft gaat hij als 'sterke leider' af als een gieter. Als hij niet ingeeft gaat hij als 'vredesstichter' af als een gieter. Ben benieuwd.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 15-05-2018 om 22:58:33 News: Judge in Manafort case has DENIED his motion to dismiss special counsel's superseding indictment. The indictment "falls squarely within that portion of the authority granted to the Special Counsel," she writes. reageer retweet

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ShimonPro twitterde op dinsdag 15-05-2018 om 23:10:31 In denying Manafort's request to dismiss his DC case judge writes in her opinion "The Special Counsel would have been remiss to ignore such an obvious potential link between the Trump campaign and the Russian government." reageer retweet

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President Trump's personal lawyer Michael Cohen falsely claimed in an interview last year that none of Trump's confidantes were in contact with Russia during the campaign, omitting his own work with Russia on behalf of the Trump Organization.

In a January 2017 radio interview on The Sean Hannity Show reported by CNN on Tuesday, Cohen responded "no" when asked by Hannity whether anyone "within the campaign or around Donald Trump" had spoken to "anybody in Russia."

"There's no relationship," Cohen responded. "The last time that there was any activity between the Trump Organization — actually, wasn't even really the Trump Organization, it was the Miss Universe pageant, it was held in Moscow."

But later in 2017, CNN reported that Cohen was involved in an effort on behalf of the Trump Organization to pursue the construction of a Trump-branded tower in Russia, including a hotel with a spa to be named after Ivanka Trump. The project was later scrapped.

Before the project was terminated, Cohen sent emails seeking Kremlin assistance in building the tower, according to CNN. Those emails took place at least in part during Trump's successful 2016 run for president.

Cohen did not respond to CNN's request for comment on the omission.

The New York-based attorney is under investigation for bank fraud. Last month, Cohen's home and office were raided by FBI agents working off of a referral from Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

Cohen and Trump have both denounced the FBI raid and investigation as a breach of attorney-client privilege, and deny any wrongdoing.

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SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 15-05-2018 om 23:04:04 I've read Michael Cohen's interviews on the 2013 Miss Universe pageant, the 2013 Trump Tower Moscow deal, the 2015 Trump Tower Moscow deal, the Steele Dossier, and the 2017 Artemenko sanctions deal.The difficulty isn't catching him in a lie—it's catching him telling the truth. reageer retweet

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OfficeGovEthics twitterde op woensdag 16-05-2018 om 00:20:00 Today, the President filed his annual financial disclosure report with OGE and it is currently under review. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 16-05-2018 om 00:35:02 This is the report that should show Trump's liabilities to Michael Cohen in 2017.“He going to have to check a box that will give us a ballpark” for his liabilities to Cohen. “That will tell us a lot about whether there were additional payments by Cohen.” https://t.co/zCrJSlBWwE https://t.co/uXRq7LQGlN reageer retweet

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AP twitterde op woensdag 16-05-2018 om 04:34:31 BREAKING: North Korea official says country has no interest in summit with US if it's based on 'one-sided' demands to give up nuclear weapons reageer retweet