[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #505 Lyin’ Donald Jr.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 18-05-2018 om 00:14:23 Tomorrow, the House will vote on a strong Farm Bill, which includes work requirements. We must support our Nation's great farmers! reageer retweet

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Farm bill fails in U.S. House, next steps unclear (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A sweeping $867 billion farm bill failed to pass the U.S. House of Representatives on Friday after conservative Republicans warned party leaders not to hold the vote until they were given the chance to consider a bill to clamp down on immigration.

The next steps are unclear for the bill, which failed in a 198-to-213 vote. Democrats opposed the legislation due to changes it would make to a food stamps program used by about 40 million Americans, officially known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).

Members of the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry have said they are writing their own version of the farm bill because the House’s proposed SNAP changes could not pass the chamber, where Republicans hold a slim 51-49 majority and passing most legislation requires 60 votes.

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 01:03 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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RonanFarrow twitterde op donderdag 17-05-2018 om 00:19:46 The whistleblower who leaked Michael Cohen’s financial records is stepping forward to say why: records of bigger, potentially more sensitive, swaths of suspicious transactions appeared to be missing from a government database. My @newyorker investigation: https://t.co/5nR2CHNOUc reageer retweet

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Sources Say Cohen Financial Records Are Not Missing, Just Restricted (BuzzFeed News)
Three sources told BuzzFeed News that Treasury Department officials have taken the highly unusual step of restricting access to suspicious activity reports.

Records pertaining to the financial activities of President Trump’s lawyer Michael Cohen are not missing from a government database; rather, Treasury Department officials have taken the highly unusual step of restricting access to them even from certain law enforcement agencies, according to three sources familiar with the matter.

The New Yorker magazine this week reported that a law enforcement official — worried the information about Cohen’s banking records had been removed from government databases and therefore might be covered up — had admitted to leaking some of what was still accessible.

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“I have never seen something pulled off the system,” the official told the New Yorker. “I immediately became concerned.” The official added: “That’s why I came forward.”

But three sources familiar with the matter said that access to Cohen’s SARs has merely been limited, not removed. They added that limiting access is rare and must have come from the top of the Treasury Department.

In a statement, a New Yorker spokesperson noted that the story had reported that FinCEN can restrict access to information “deemed highly sensitive” and that the agency may have restricted access to the documents because they relate to ongoing investigations.

In a public statement, FinCEN did not acknowledge Cohen specifically, but did say that FinCEN “will limit access to certain SARs when requested by law enforcement authorities in connection with an ongoing investigation.”

Special counsel Robert Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and the Southern District of New York is investigating Cohen.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 12:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Republican lawmaker: Rocks tumbling into ocean causing sea level rise

Klinkt inderdaad veel logischer.

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RepAdamSchiff twitterde op vrijdag 18-05-2018 om 00:56:29 Clearly, we have been taking the Science Committee’s understanding of climate change for granite. And while I appreciate the sediment, maybe we should leave climate science to the professionals. https://t.co/M4IDy4pENJ reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 21:36 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
En echt, niemand van die hele GOP die doorheeft dat er iets raars aan de hand is.

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Exclusive: Special Counsel subpoenas another Stone aide in Russia probe - sources (Reuters)

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed a key assistant of long-time Donald Trump adviser Roger Stone, two people with knowledge of the matter said, the latest sign that Mueller’s investigation into alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 election is increasingly focusing on Stone.

The subpoena was recently served on John Kakanis, 30, who has worked as a driver, accountant and operative for Stone.

Kakanis has been briefly questioned by the FBI on the topics of possible Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election, the WikiLeaks website, its founder Julian Assange, and the hacker or hackers who call themselves Guccifer 2.0, one of the people with knowledge of the matter said.

Mueller has not scheduled a grand jury appearance for Kakanis, the person said.

WikiLeaks and Guccifer 2.0 each published emails and other documents from the Democratic Party in 2016 that U.S. intelligence agencies say were hacked by Russian operatives in an effort to tip the election in favor of then Republican nominee Trump.

Michael Becker, Kakanis’ lawyer, did not respond to multiple requests for comment and Mueller’s office declined comment.

In an emailed statement to Reuters on Friday, Stone said he believed that Mueller’s scrutiny on him stemmed from “misapprehensions and misconceptions” created by the media, and that he would ultimately be exonerated of any alleged wrongdoing.

“I sincerely hope when this occurs that the grotesque, defamatory media campaign which I have endured for years now will finally come to its long-overdue end,” wrote Stone, one of Trump’s closest political advisers in the years before he ran for president.

During the 2016 Republican primaries, a Stone political action committee paid more than $130,000 to an entity called “Citroen Associates” for “voter fraud research and documentation” and “research services consulting,” according to Federal Election Commission filings.

Florida state records identify the owner of Citroen Associates as John P. Kakanis.

The subpoena handed to Kakanis is the latest development suggesting that Stone, an early Trump backer whose reputation as an aggressive political operative dates back to the Watergate scandal of the 1970s, is being looked at by Mueller.

Reuters reported earlier this week that FBI agents working for Mueller delivered two subpoenas to Jason Sullivan, a social media and Twitter expert who worked for Stone during the 2016 campaign, and that agents told him Mueller’s team wanted to question him about Stone and WikiLeaks.

Some of Stone’s comments during the elections have prompted questions from investigators in Congress, and others, about whether he had advance knowledge of the Democratic Party material allegedly hacked by Russian intelligence and sent to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who published it.

Stone, including in an appearance before the U.S. House of Representatives Intelligence Committee last September, has repeatedly said he never got any hacked emails from Assange or WikiLeaks or Russians, and that he never passed any hacked emails to Trump, his campaign or anyone else.

Mueller is investigating whether Russia meddled in the presidential election and if Moscow colluded with the Trump campaign. Both Russia and Trump deny collusion.

Other Trump associates who have been questioned by Mueller, including former campaign advisors Sam Nunberg and Michael Caputo, have also been asked about Stone and WikiLeaks.

“They asked me about Roger’s businesses – who he worked with prior to the 2016 election. They asked me about Roger’s tax returns,” Nunberg said in a phone interview earlier this week, adding that he believed Mueller was stepping outside his mandate in casting such a wide net around Stone’s activities.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 22:17 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Ja, als de USPS hun prijzen voor Amazon verdubbeld dan zegt Amazon doei en sluiten ze een nieuw contract me FedEx, UPS of zo en dan zit de USPS nog veel verder in de rode cijfers.

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House Farm Bill Collapses Amid Republican Disarray (NYTimes)

WASHINGTON — The House, in a striking display of Republican division, rejected a massive farm bill on Friday that would have imposed strict new work requirements on beneficiaries of federal food aid while continuing farm subsidies popular with rural voters.

The twice-a-decade farm policy measure failed on a 213-to-198 vote, after a key bloc of conservatives rebuked Speaker Paul D. Ryan over his refusal to schedule an immediate vote on a restrictive immigration bill sponsored by the House Judiciary Committee chairman, Robert W. Goodlatte of Virginia.

Mr. Ryan and Kevin McCarthy, the House majority leader, failed to head off the revolt after frenetic negotiations with members of the hard-line House Freedom Caucus. Mr. Ryan told colleagues he refused to be held hostage by the upstarts, then gambled that he would be able to find enough votes to pass the legislation, despite unified Democratic opposition.

But the support never materialized, dealing a blow to Mr. Ryan, who recently announced his intention to retire next year.

In the end, the farm bill, a measure with huge implications for low-income families and the agricultural industry, became little more than a bargaining chip in the heated intraparty battle over immigration, President Trump’s core cultural and political issue.

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"I thought we had enough people that would vote yes," said Representative Patrick T. McHenry, Republican of North Carolina and the chief deputy whip,

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 22:37 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Jij gaat ervan uit dat Trump rationeel is, daar gaat het al fout. WaPo schrijft negatief over hem, eigenaar WaPo is eigenaar Amazon dus neemt hij wraak op Amazon. Dat hij daarmee de USPS om zeep helpt kan hem hoegenaamd niets schelen, alles draait om hem.

Zijn aanhangers zijn niet veel beter over het algemeen en ofwel geloven wat hij zegt ofwel interesseert het ze geen ruk of ze vinden het prachtig dat hij de "elite" ervan langs geeft.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 22:58 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Neemt niet weg dat Amazon dan duurder uit is. Dat is waar het Trump om gaat (als je uitgaat van dat hij wraak wil nemen en dat USPS hem niets interesseert).