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

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 19:28 schreef skysherrif het volgende:

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Haha.

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 19:29 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Wat is nou je eigenlijk je punt? Wil je Trump verdedigen op de een of andere manier?

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 19:13 schreef Bluesdude het volgende:

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Tillerson moet openlijk zeggen: Trump ondermijnt de democratie, de ethiek en integriteit
https://www.volkskrant.nl(...)verhullen-~b5bffece/

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 12:26 schreef Re het volgende:

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och,

to name a few: clean air, clean water, fair housing, fair labor, financial regulations, food and drug safety, educational standards and anti-discrimination laws

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 14:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 17-05-2018 om 13:56:15 Wow, word seems to be coming out that the Obama FBI “SPIED ON THE TRUMP CAMPAIGN WITH AN IMBEDDED INFORMANT.” Andrew McCarthy says, “There’s probably no doubt that they had at least one confidential informant in the campaign.” If so, this is bigger than Watergate! reageer retweet

Kijk, hij speelt de Obama-kaart weer eens.

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 19:54 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Ik neem aan dat hij verwijst naar dit artikel van McCarthy?
https://www.nationalrevie(...)-report-buries-lede/
Weinig overtuigend...

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 20:26 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Niet helemaal waar. Hij fulmineert met regelmaat tegen WaPo en de NY Times als er een negatief artikel is geschreven.

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 20:26 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Niet helemaal waar. Hij fulmineert met regelmaat tegen WaPo en de NY Times als er een negatief artikel is geschreven.

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 20:30 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Is dat dan niet gewoon omdat hij op tv of Twitter ziet dát er een artikel is?

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As Mueller probes Seychelles meetings, details emerge about Russian plane: exclusive

A Russian plane linked to the country's government flew into the Seychelles the day prior to a 2017 meeting now under review by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, according to the airport flight data obtained by NJ Advance Media.

Mueller's team is examining a series of meetings that took place in the Seychelles, an archipelago in the Indian Ocean, as part of its broader investigation into Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

Much speculation has centered on one particular meeting that took place between Erik Prince, founder of the security company Blackwater, Kirill Dmitriev, the director of one of Russia's sovereign wealth funds, and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, the effective ruler of the United Arab Emirates (also known as "MBZ").

Few details have emerged about the contents of the meetings. Last year, the Washington Post described this meeting in its reporting as an attempt by the U.S. to set up a backchannel with Russia. Prince, in a testimony with the House Intelligence Committee in December, described his meeting on the island as a chance encounter.

But new details about a Russian aircraft that landed in the Seychelles the day before Prince has raised questions about the scope of the meetings that week and whether sanctions were a topic of conversation among participants.

The Russian aircraft in question departed from Moscow and landed in the Seychelles at 4:21 p.m. Jan. 10, 2017, according to the Seychelles Civil Aviation Authority -- one day before Prince arrived on the island. The aircraft carried six passengers, including flight crew.

Two individuals familiar with the aircraft's purchasing history said the aircraft is owned by Andrei Skoch, a Russian billionaire who made his fortune in the mining business and is now a deputy in the Russian State Duma, the country's legislative body. The individuals requested to remain anonymous because they are not authorized to give out private aircraft owner information.

It is unclear if Skoch was on the aircraft, but employees at the Seychelles airport and the Four Seasons Hotel told NJ Advance Media that the plane's passengers stayed at the resort during their time on the island. The hotel was the setting of meetings among Prince, UAE representatives and Dmitriev, according to Prince's testimony with the House Intelligence Committee in December 2017. (The Daily Beast reported last week Prince has also been interviewed by Mueller).

What makes Skoch a particularly interesting figure in the ongoing drama? The U.S. Treasury Department in April placed him on the Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons list, a list that blocks an individual's assets and prohibits people from the U.S. from doing business with them.

(Dmitriev's fund, the Russian Direct Investment Fund, is also subject to U.S. sanctions.)

In his testimony, Prince denied discussing sanctions with Dmitriev and said he met the CEO of the Russian Direct Investment Fund by chance.

But if Skoch participated in the Seychelles meetings that week in January 2017, it would raise the possibility state business, including sanctions, was discussed.

The sanctions issue sits at the center of the conversation about Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

If sanctions were discussed by participants of the Seychelles meetings, it would shed light on whether and under what circumstances the Trump team planned to sideline the issue of Russia's intervention in Ukraine. The Trump administration eventually, after pressure from Congress, imposed sanctions on the Russians for meddling in the 2016 election.

The conversations in the Seychelles would have come at a time when the president's former national security adviser Michael Flynn was under fire in Washington for discussing sanctions with Russia's ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak.

Whatever was discussed on the island that week in January 2017, flight records and interviews conducted with those familiar with Mueller's probe suggest the meetings in the Seychelles connect powerful players from Russia, the U.S., the UAE and Saudi Arabia across the political, financial and defense worlds.

Other individuals on the island that week include Alexander Mashkevitch, an alleged financier of Bayrock, an investment vehicle linked to Trump, was in the Seychelles. Mashkevitch's spokesman said the businessman was on the island for a family trip. Flight records show he flew in alone Jan. 10, 2017.

Sheikh Abdulrahman Khalid BinMahfouz, whose father was a billionaire and former chairman of Saudi Arabia's first private bank, was also on the island, as was George Nader, a Lebanese-American businessman with ties to the White House and the Republican National Committee.

The New York Times reported in March that Mueller's team questioned Nader, who helped broker the Seychelles meeting between Prince and Dmitriev, about whether the Emiratis attempted to buy political influence in the White House.

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After spending several years working on Capitol Hill and in the White House with the Obama Administration, Bronx native Darren Martin recently made the move back to New York, getting a job with the city and finding a unit in a 5-story walk-up on the Upper West Side.

While moving in, someone called 911 to report a “burglary in progress” with the suspect "trying to break in the door” with a “possible weapon”, describing the "weapon" as a “large tool.”

An investigation later determined there was nothing criminal about Martin’s activity.

Calls to Pine Management – the company that manages the building located at 56 106th Street – were not returned.

more: http://pix11.com/2018/04/(...)e-staffer-moving-in/
& filmpje (Someone called the police on Darren Martin for suspected armed robbery. "I Was Fearful For My Life"): https://www.huffingtonpos(...)fb75e4b0ac965e292de6

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 22:24 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Nieuw misdrijf: "Moving in while black" (Want Obama?)

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Zucht. (Er gaan inmiddels zelfs al oproepen of mensen niet steeds 911 willen bellen als ze gekleurde mensen ergens mee bezig zien, zoals midden op de dag meubilair een woning INdragen. Het afgelopen jaar wordt steeds meer 911-tijd verspild aan dit soort nonsens, waardoor de dienst moeilijker bereikbaar wordt.)

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 22:41 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Misschien zouden de Dems als nieuwe taktiek gewoon iedere voordracht (na wat los heen-en-weergevraag voor de bühne) moeten goedkeuren. Na een maand of wat stappen de meesten toch al op en dan heeft Oom Donald niks meer te zeiken over "obstructionisme" etc.

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 22:35 schreef OMG het volgende:

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Maak er maar "als gekleurde mensen bestaan" van, want er is bijvoorbeeld ook deze; https://www.vox.com/ident(...)emphis-michael-hayes

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In a twist on recent racial profiling incidents

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 17-05-2018 om 23:20:04 The former son-in-law of Paul Manafort has cut a plea deal with the Justice Department that requires him to cooperate with other criminal probes, two people with knowledge of the matter tell Reuters. https://t.co/ydLrsuMtjk reageer retweet

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The guilty plea agreement, which is under seal and has not been previously reported, could add to the legal pressure on Manafort, who is facing two indictments brought by Special Counsel Robert Mueller in his probe of alleged Russian meddling in the 2016 presidential election.

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Op donderdag 17 mei 2018 23:17 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Vox .

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 18-05-2018 om 01:00:21 A New York appeals court has refused Trump's bid to pause discovery in the defamation lawsuit brought by Summer Zervos, THR reports. https://t.co/k9BeoDpiiA reageer retweet

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JoyceWhiteVance twitterde op vrijdag 18-05-2018 om 01:33:26 This case could get interesting fast. Trump has been given until May 29 to respond to a demand that he be deposed. https://t.co/xGYH7PsGLL reageer retweet

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The deal Mr Trump was considering with Kim Jong-un would be "something where he'd be there, he'd be in his country, he'd be running his country, his country would be very rich.

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The President of the United States just pledged "very strong protections" to a brutal #NorthKorean dictator to remain in power as part of any deal. That is a remarkable thing. What, if anything, has Kim pledged the US?

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 07:10 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://twitter.com/jimsciutto/status/997185894858874880?s=20

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Dit dus. Is dit nu echt het enige wat die zelfverklaarde Dealmaker-in-Chief te bieden heeft? Koppie laten hangen en terug naar het hondenhok zodra Kim even zijn tanden laat zien? Is dit nou die "Art of the Deal"?

Matig. Hooguit matig. En dan druk ik me positief uit.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 08:16 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Heel wat beter dan z'n bevel om alle families van troepen te evacueren voor de olympische spelen.

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Donald Trump has threatened Kim Jong-un with the same fate as Muammar Gaddafi if the North Korean leader “doesn’t make a deal” on his nuclear weapons programme.

The US president issued the threat at the White House when he was asked about the recent suggestion by his national security adviser, John Bolton, that the “Libyan model” be a template for dealing with North Korea at a summit between Trump and Kim planned for 12 June in Singapore.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 01:00 schreef OMG het volgende:
Zou tof zijn als Rudy dan voor vrijwilliger zou spelen.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 08:21 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
oh

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https://www.theguardian.c(...)-kim-jong-un-gaddafi

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One of the White House's moves to crack down on leaks reportedly came after a junior aide was found to have recorded meetings with President Trump and later played them to impress friends.

The New York Times reported the incident Thursday, citing several people familiar with the episode, amid a look at broader efforts taken by senior officials to prevent future leaks coming out of the White House.

Trump's White House has faced a series of damaging and, at times embarrassing, leaks in the first 16 months of his presidency. Officials have periodically taken steps to curb such leaks, though it is unclear what specific action was taken in the case of the aide who reportedly taped meetings.

The White House has broadly put in place measures to try to stymie the unauthorized flow of information from the West Wing, with aides expected to leave their personal cellphones in lockers when they go to work. A device that detects nongovernment phones occasionally scans for violations, according to the Times.

The White House has also done away with the large daily meetings that were commonplace in past administrations, and has replaced them with smaller gatherings. One White House official told the Times that such large meetings made leaks more likely.

The renewed effort to tamp down on leaks comes in the wake of scrutiny over a derisive remark about Sen. John McCain's (R-Ariz.) cancer diagnosis that a White House official made during an internal meeting last week, a remark first reported by The Hill.

Trump has also broadly blamed his communications team for negative headlines in the media, and has claimed that he gets "the worst press," according to Times, which reported that he believes that leaks have distracted from his accomplishments in the Oval Office, such as tax reform and a recent easing of tensions with North Korea.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 09:19 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Slim.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 08:21 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
oh

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https://www.theguardian.c(...)-kim-jong-un-gaddafi

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 09:35 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Met het verschil dat Khadaffi geen kernwapens en een grootmacht als China achter zich staan had. China zal écht niet toestaan dat er Amerikaanse soldaten op Noord Koreaans grondgebied gaan vechten. Dat is toch een beetje te dichtbij voor ze.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 10:14 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
https://www.politico.com/(...)stant-lawsuit-595572

De juristen in NY hebben het blijkbaar wel gehad met Trump. DIE hebben natuurlijk de afgelopen decennia hun ervaringen wel gehad met deze vastgoed-gangster.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 10:14 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
https://www.politico.com/(...)stant-lawsuit-595572

De juristen in NY hebben het blijkbaar wel gehad met Trump. DIE hebben natuurlijk de afgelopen decennia hun ervaringen wel gehad met deze vastgoed-gangster.

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 10:37 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Fake news, folks!

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 11:28 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
http://www.welingelichtek(...)er-mijn-dochter.html

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Op vrijdag 18 mei 2018 11:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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WTF?