[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #512 Schrikbarend.

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Op maandag 4 juni 2018 19:48 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Nog wat info over de aankomende primaries:

https://fivethirtyeight.c(...)primary-day-of-2018/

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Koch network warns Republicans on trade in new ad campaign (Washington Examiner)

The Koch brothers network on Monday announced a multi-million dollar ad campaign to promote free trade that will also serve as a warning shot saying that Republicans need to stand up to President Trump, and keep him from imposing tariffs on imported goods and raw materials.

“Trade is a major priority for our network. We will work aggressively to educate policymakers and others about the facts,” James Davis, a senior spokesman for the Koch network, said in a statement shared with the Washington Examiner. “This announcement is a demonstration of our long-term commitment to advance common-sense trade policies that will ensure America’s brightest days are ahead, and to directly confront the protectionist ideas that would hold us back.”

The Koch network of political advocacy organizations this year pledged to spend nearly $400 million to help Republicans defend majorities in the House and Senate that are threatened by the potential for a voter backlash against Trump.

But while the network is a fan of the GOP tax cuts, it appears to have grown frustrated with Republicans, and is now signaling that planned financial and grassroots support in key midterm contests could be withheld or re-directed.

Unhappiness with Trump’s trade policies is the latest in a string of disappointments. He is proceeding with steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from not just adversaries such as China, but allies such as Canada, Mexico, and the European Union. These levies could spread to other imports if the fight escalates.

That disagreement was preceded by the failure to pass legislation to protect illegal immigrants participating in the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program and the passage of a massive, omnibus spending bill. Now, rather than emphasizing preservation of the GOP’s congressional power, the network is signaling its intention to support politicians of any party that supports its priorities.

Just last week, the Koch brothers’ main grassroots organization, Americans for Prosperity, unveiled a digital campaign praising Sen. Heidi Heitkamp, D-N.D., for supporting a roll back of the Dodd-Frank financial protection law, even though she is a top Republican target. Her presumptive Republican challenger, Rep. Kevin Cramer, wasn’t amused.

“This president has demonstrated strong leadership in his effort to provide the American people with the most substantial tax relief this nation has seen in decades,” AFP president Tim Phillips said in a statement. “These tariffs amount to self-imposed barriers to the success of tax reform and we urge the administration to reconsider.”

The Koch network declined to elaborate on what its advertising and grassroots efforts would like in the months head. However, network officials suggested that Monday’s announcement should not be interpreted as a toothless threat.

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Cabinet heads told to praise Paris exit. 'No exceptions'

Education Secretary Betsy DeVos last year praised President Trump's decision to pull the United States from the Paris climate accord.

Her staff later told her what she had said about it.

DeVos' chief of staff approved the secretary's two-sentence statement on Trump's exit from the climate change agreement, with her espousing the president's rollback of "overreaching regulatory actions" and keeping his promise "to put America and American workers first." Aides later worked to bring it to DeVos' attention, according to emails obtained by E&E News under the Freedom of Information Act.

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"Cabinet Communicators!" Kaelan Dorr, then an aide in the White House press office, said in an email a little over two hours before Trump announced his decision.

"Please join our surrogate briefing call at the below number at 1:30pm. We need all Cabinet agencies to prep statements of support for the decision being announced at 3:00pm in the Rose Garden," he said, asking those statements be sent to him and other White House press aides for approval within 30 minutes of the call's conclusion.

"No exceptions," Dorr said, adding that talking points would also be distributed after the call.

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Op maandag 4 juni 2018 19:04 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat ligt nog wel iets genuanceerder.

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https://www.theguardian.c(...)aker-decision-latest

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Kennedy said comments during public hearings before the commission in the case disparaged Phillips’s faith as despicable and compared his sincerely held religious beliefs to defenses of slavery and the Holocaust.

“This sentiment is inappropriate for a commission charged with the solemn responsibility of fair and neutral enforcement of Colorado’s anti-discrimination law — a law that protects discrimination on the basis of religion as well as sexual orientation,” Kennedy said.

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The White House is talking up Trump’s accomplishments – but as ever, many of the president’s claims are misleading

The White House issued a grandiose statement on Monday morning celebrating “President Donald J Trump’s 500 days of American greatness”.

Trump made a series of claims about his first 500 days in office, celebrating his economic policies, touting his success in adding jobs, and claiming to have made communities safer.

As ever with Trump, many of these boasts are inaccurate or misleading. Here, under his own four main headings, we appraise some of his key 500-day declarations.

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ddale8 twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 20:44:48 Asked why Trump thinks he has an absolute right to pardon himself, Sarah Sanders says, "Thankfully the president hasn't done anything wrong and wouldn't have any need for a pardon." Pressed, she repeats that line nearly word for word. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 21:01:18 Sarah Sanders, after saying at a past briefing that Trump did not dictate the Don Jr. Trump Tower meeting statement, now says that she cannot comment on that same statement because it’s a matter for Trump’s outside counsel. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 juni 2018 14:46 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SenJeffMerkley twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 02:33:11 I’m at an immigration detention center where children who have been separated from their families are being held. Trying to get inside to get answers. Follow live >>> https://t.co/CXDjYAFIcB #FamiliesBelongTogether #KeepFamiliesTogether reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 14:10:45 A sitting U.S. Senator is denied entry to an immigration detention facility. Merkley said he was attempting to see firsthand the conditions inside the facility. https://t.co/PM3LeqagO7 reageer retweet

Video in link: Sen. Jeff Merkley's Video Of An Immigration Detention Center Denying Him Entry Is Sparking Outrage

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 21:35:10 Now a second Democratic senator says he was denied entry to a migrant detention center. https://t.co/l9GKpva5lM reageer retweet

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SenatorMenendez twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 16:38:49 This is outrageous. Sec. Nielsen owes us answers. My team was also barred from touring a migrant processing facility where families are being separated. When the elected representatives of the people can't observe how our government is operating, we're in an upside down world. https://t.co/82K1y2dRUm reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 juni 2018 21:08 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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ddale8 twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 20:44:48 Asked why Trump thinks he has an absolute right to pardon himself, Sarah Sanders says, "Thankfully the president hasn't done anything wrong and wouldn't have any need for a pardon." Pressed, she repeats that line nearly word for word. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 21:01:18 Sarah Sanders, after saying at a past briefing that Trump did not dictate the Don Jr. Trump Tower meeting statement, now says that she cannot comment on that same statement because it’s a matter for Trump’s outside counsel. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 juni 2018 19:14 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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RepAdamSchiff twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 18:17:50 President Nixon asked the Department of Justice if he could pardon himself. They said no, as no one may be the judge in their own case. He resigned three days later. In case you want to follow the Nixon model, that would be Thursday. https://t.co/5ntHaySTBJ reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 juni 2018 21:43 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Wie de neuk is die Kyle griffin eigenlijk?

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Let’s talk about Melania Trump.

America’s first lady was last seen in public on May 10. On Friday morning we learned she won’t join the president this weekend at Camp David. Her absence has sparked all manner of wild theorizing, from rumors of plastic surgery to suggestions she moved back to New York City.

But I’m here to tell you it’s far more scandalous than anyone imagined.

After minutes of careful conjuring and professional assumptionizing, I unraveled the truth: The Deep State helped sneak Melania out of the White House through a tunnel and she is now living with Barack and Michelle Obama.

Donald Trump proved conclusively that President Barack Obama was not born in America.

I’ll get to the details of my investigation in a moment, but first, let’s make sure everyone understands the Deep State. It’s the insidious network of government workers devoted to bringing down President Trump’s administration. We know it’s real because a bunch of people on television and the president of the United States say it’s real.

We also know the Deep State is behind another very real scandal that Trump has dubbed “SpyGate.” SpyGate — also known as SPYGATE! — involves spies Trump claims were placed inside his campaign in an effort to unfairly link him to all the secret meetings members of his campaign were innocently having with shady Russian figures.

SpyGate is 100 percent real, and we know that because the evidence is so overwhelmingly obvious that regular non-Trump humans aren’t able to see it. It’s a bit like how the president said definitively that his inauguration crowd was larger than Obama’s — our eyes clearly saw that Obama had the bigger crowd, but we were wrong because Trump has superior eyes and is right and we should know better.

OK, now that we’ve cleared that up, let’s get back to Melania and the fact that she let the Deep State extract her from the White House via a tunnel built by Eric Trump (did I mention Eric Trump is part of this?) and is now living happily with the Obamas.

This is the timeline of events:

April 21: Melania attends the funeral of former first lady Barbara Bush and is photographed sitting next to Barack and Michelle Obama. Suspiciously, Melania is smiling warmly for the first time in recorded history.

May 7: Melania introduces her anti-bullying campaign: Be Best. It’s a clear shot at her husband, who invented bullying and prides himself on being worst.

May 10: The first lady is last seen in public.

May 14: Melania has kidney surgery at Walter Reed Medical Center. It wasn’t announced publicly until the surgery was over. Few details are given.

May 19: The White House reports that the first lady has returned to the White House, though there’s no explanation for a five-day hospital stay following a surgery many doctors said is often an outpatient procedure.

May 20: A sinkhole is spotted on the North Lawn of the White House.

May 30: As questions mount about the first lady’s whereabouts, a tweet is sent from her Twitter account that reads: “I see the media is working overtime speculating where I am & what I'm doing. Rest assured, I'm here at the @WHITEHOUSE w my family, feeling great, & working hard on behalf of children & the American people!”

Now let me ask you this: If you’re the Trump administration and you don’t want people to know that the first lady ran off via a tunnel to live with the Obamas — President Trump’s arch-enemies — what would you do? You would write that tweet and send it from the first lady’s Twitter account.

And then you would have the first lady’s communication director draw attention to the tweet and pretend it’s proof that everything is status quo. Sure enough, Stephanie Grisham, the first lady’s communication director, retweeted the May 30 tweet and wrote: “Straight from @FLOTUS!”

You’re probably wondering how I put together the specifics of Melania’s escape? Simple.

The five-night hospital stay for a minor surgical procedure was clearly a ham-handed story concocted by White House officials trying to cover something up. As the days with no public appearances dragged on, I asked myself: Where would Melania most likely be?

Then I remembered the funeral photo and thought, “She’s happiest when she’s with the Obamas.” (Who can blame her? They’re lovely people.) So that told me where she had gone.

It was also clear her accomplice was the Deep State. It’s to blame for literally everything that goes wrong in the administration.

The trickiest part was figuring out how the first lady made it off the White House grounds unnoticed. The sinkhole was the breakthrough.

We all know Eric Trump is a vampire (Google it), and as such, he must have an underground lair at the White House. That makes him the only person connected to the administration with the subterranean skills to create an escape tunnel. The sinkhole was just a minor tunnel cave-in that happened weeks after Melania fled.

And there you have it: MelaniaGate! As ironclad a conspiracy as any of President Trump’s theories on Russia, inauguration sizes, Obama’s birth certificate, tapped phones in Trump Tower or widespread voter fraud.

The unseeable evidence is all there. You just have to believe.

rhuppke@chicagotribune.com

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Op maandag 4 juni 2018 21:48 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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De Chicago Tribune site doet het niet in de EU door AVG-gezeik.

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Op maandag 4 juni 2018 17:47 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Grassley is het niet eens met een van Trumps dictatoriale statements:

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mkraju twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 17:28:58 Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley just told me this: “If I were president of the United States and I had a lawyer that said I could pardon myself, I think I would hire a new lawyer.” reageer retweet

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Op maandag 4 juni 2018 21:48 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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De Chicago Tribune site doet het niet in de EU door AVG-gezeik.

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Op maandag 4 juni 2018 21:08 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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ddale8 twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 20:44:48 Asked why Trump thinks he has an absolute right to pardon himself, Sarah Sanders says, "Thankfully the president hasn't done anything wrong and wouldn't have any need for a pardon." Pressed, she repeats that line nearly word for word. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 04-06-2018 om 21:01:18 Sarah Sanders, after saying at a past briefing that Trump did not dictate the Don Jr. Trump Tower meeting statement, now says that she cannot comment on that same statement because it’s a matter for Trump’s outside counsel. reageer retweet

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ReutersPolitics twitterde op dinsdag 05-06-2018 om 02:30:59 JUST IN: U.S. Special Counsel Mueller says ex-Trump campaign manager Paul Manafort has attempted to tamper with potential witness - court filing https://t.co/9Dcxi9YGyw reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 05-06-2018 om 02:55:03 Reuters: MANAFORT CALLED, TEXTED AND SENT ENCRYPTED MESSAGES TO TWO PEOPLE IN FEBRUARY TO "INFLUENCE THEIR TESTIMONY AND TO OTHERWISE CONCEAL EVIDENCE" - FBI STATEMENT FILED BY MUELLER reageer retweet

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Special counsel Robert Mueller said in a court filing on Monday that President Trump's former campaign chairman Paul Manafort attempted to tamper with a potential witness while on pretrial release.

Mueller's team has asked the court to revoke or revise Manafort's release conditions, including his bond and house arrest, in the wake of the filing.

The special counsel's office hit Manafort with a 12-count indictment last year, which included conspiracy against the United States, tax fraud, and money laundering.
Manafort has pleaded not guilty to the charges, which are not directly related to his work for the Trump campaign.

President Trump has spoken out about Manafort in recent days, slamming the FBI and Department of Justice for not telling him that agents were "secretly investigating" Manafort during the 2016 presidential campaign.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-06-2018 om 15:25:18 As only one of two people left who could become President, why wouldn't the FBI or Department of "Justice" have told me that they were secretly investigating Paul Manafort (on charges that were 10 years old and had been previously dropped) during my campaign? Should have told me! reageer retweet

Trump sought to distance himself from Manafort in a subsequent tweet, saying that Manafort was only with the campaign for a short period of time.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 03-06-2018 om 15:34:19 ....Paul Manafort came into the campaign very late and was with us for a short period of time (he represented Ronald Reagan, Bob Dole & many others over the years), but we should have been told that Comey and the boys were doing a number on him, and he wouldn't have been hired! reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 05-06-2018 om 02:49:05 Sounds like a bail revocation--and new indictment--are coming for Manafort. A defendant sitting in jail pre-trial is far more likely to flip on a Big Fish than one lounging in his living room. This could be a big deal, especially if this case--and/or the new one--drags on for months. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 05-06-2018 om 03:20:10 These Manafort events took place in February and Mueller is only acting on them now. Quite an interesting situation. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 05-06-2018 om 04:05:03 Ex-federal prosecutor Mimi Rocah on the Manafort court filing to @TheLastWord: "It likely means that Paul Manafort is going to go to jail now." reageer retweet

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jimsciutto twitterde op dinsdag 05-06-2018 om 02:53:17 So Manafort sent encrypted messages to former employees to encourage them to make “materially false” claims about his lobbying for pro-Russian Ukrainian politicians. While under house arrest! https://t.co/gbJmwkI3my reageer retweet

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tedlieu twitterde op dinsdag 05-06-2018 om 03:19:33 Paul Manafort now has two options. Keep fighting the government & spend the rest of his life in prison. Cooperate with the government & spend part of his life in prison.Hoping @realDonaldTrump would try to pardon him went away this weekend when Trump threw him under the bus. https://t.co/SMh21W7EIH reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-06-2018 om 03:10:39 Big Supreme Court ruling for Baker just out! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 05-06-2018 om 04:55:56 The Philadelphia Eagles Football Team was invited to the White House. Unfortunately, only a small number of players decided to come, and we canceled the event. Staying in the Locker Room for the playing of our National Anthem is as disrespectful to our country as kneeling. Sorry! reageer retweet

Giuliani on shifting Trump Tower story: 'It was a mistake. I swear to God.'

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"I don't think anybody's lying," Giuliani told CNN's Chris Cuomo, as part of an interview in which he also railed against former FBI Director James Comey and dismissed the idea that his role defending Trump would hurt his legacy. "I think a mistake was made."