[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #513: Greatest Witch Hunt in history!

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:08 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Is dat Melania naast hem of een real doll?

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BREAKING: Trump on June 12 North Korea summit: “I don’t think I have to prepare that much. It’s about attitude.” per @justinsink

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 20:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
We hadden al een phone booth, appartement, bankstel, dure pennen, een Chick-Fil-A, oude matrassen, een tripje naar Marokko, salarisverhoging voor vrienden, tripjes naar Disneyland en de Superbowl (ik mis nu vast nog van alles), maar daar kunnen we vandaag aan toevoegen: hydraterende lotion. Kolderiek corrupt.

Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.06698e7c0a02

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 20:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
We hadden al een phone booth, appartement, bankstel, dure pennen, een Chick-Fil-A, oude matrassen, een tripje naar Marokko, salarisverhoging voor vrienden, tripjes naar Disneyland en de Superbowl (ik mis nu vast nog van alles), maar daar kunnen we vandaag aan toevoegen: hydraterende lotion. Kolderiek corrupt.

Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.06698e7c0a02

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 05:00:00 Scott Pruitt ate lunch so often in the White House mess that he was rebuked.A White House staffer told agency chiefs of staff that Cabinet members shouldn't treat the mess as their personal dining hall, Politico reports. https://t.co/AxGDfHYg5C reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 20:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
We hadden al een phone booth, appartement, bankstel, dure pennen, een Chick-Fil-A, oude matrassen, een tripje naar Marokko, salarisverhoging voor vrienden, tripjes naar Disneyland en de Superbowl (ik mis nu vast nog van alles), maar daar kunnen we vandaag aan toevoegen: hydraterende lotion. Kolderiek corrupt.

Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.06698e7c0a02

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 21:08 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 05:00:00 Scott Pruitt ate lunch so often in the White House mess that he was rebuked.A White House staffer told agency chiefs of staff that Cabinet members shouldn't treat the mess as their personal dining hall, Politico reports. https://t.co/AxGDfHYg5C reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 21:08 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 05:00:00 Scott Pruitt ate lunch so often in the White House mess that he was rebuked.A White House staffer told agency chiefs of staff that Cabinet members shouldn't treat the mess as their personal dining hall, Politico reports. https://t.co/AxGDfHYg5C reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 16:48 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Ah, de old fashioned Giuliani die bezig is met zijn derde scheiding. En wat zou Melania Trump van deze teksten vinden?

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Melania Trump's spokeswoman distances first lady from Giuliani comments on Daniels affair

Melania Trump on Thursday seemed to distance herself from Rudy Giuliani's comments that she believes President Trump's denials that he had an affair with adult-film star Stormy Daniels.

"I don't believe Mrs. Trump has ever discussed her thoughts on anything with Mr. Giuliani," Stephanie Grisham, the first lady's communications director, said in a statement to The Hill.

Maggie Haberman of The New York Times first reported Grisham's response.

The first lady's rebuke of Giuliani comes one day after the president's attorney commented on Daniels' allegations during an appearance at the "Globes" Capital Market Conference in Israel.

"She believes her husband and she doesn't think it's true," Giuliani, said, arguing that Daniels has no credibility because of her profession.

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FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims (Gizmodo)

As it wrestled with accusations about a fake cyberattack last spring, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) purposely misled several news organizations, choosing to feed journalists false information, while at the same time discouraging them from challenging the agency’s official story.

Internal emails reviewed by Gizmodo lay bare the agency’s efforts to counter rife speculation that senior officials manufactured a cyberattack, allegedly to explain away technical problems plaguing the FCC’s comment system amid its high-profile collection of public comments on a controversial and since-passed proposal to overturn federal net neutrality rules.

The FCC has been unwilling or unable to produce any evidence an attack occurred—not to the reporters who’ve requested and even sued over it, and not to U.S. lawmakers who’ve demanded to see it. Instead, the agency conducted a quiet campaign to bolster its cyberattack story with the aid of friendly and easily duped reporters, chiefly by spreading word of an earlier cyberattack that its own security staff say never happened.

The FCC’s system was overwhelmed on the night of May 7, 2017, after comedian John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, directed his audience to flood the agency with comments supporting net neutrality. In the immediate aftermath, the agency claimed the comment system had been deliberately impaired due to a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS). Net neutrality supporters, however, accused the agency of fabricating the attack to absolve itself from failing to keep the system online.

The system similarly crashed after Oliver ordered his viewers to the FCC website in 2014. The FCC, at the time led by Democrat Tom Wheeler, determined that the comment system had been affected by a surge of internet traffic. The issue was compounded, sources told Gizmodo, by a weakness in the system’s out-of-date software.

Importantly, the agency never blamed a malicious attack for the system’s downtime in 2014—not in any official statement.

But in May 2017, under the Trump-appointed chairman, Ajit Pai, at least two FCC officials quietly pushed a fallacious account of the 2014 incident, attempting to persuade reporters that the comment system had long been the target of DDoS attacks. “There *was* a DDoS event right after the [John Oliver] video in 2014,” one official told reporters at FedScoop, according to emails reviewed by Gizmodo.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 22:44 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://thehill.com/blogs/(...)t-lady-from-giuliani

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atrupar twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 15:44:10 Here's @morningmika saying she heard from "someone who spoke to Donald Trump recently" who said Trump's biggest complaint about being president is that "he's not allowed to watch porn in the White House." https://t.co/yUcQFwLbwK reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 23:07 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Ondertussen in the oval office

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atrupar twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 15:44:10 Here's @morningmika saying she heard from "someone who spoke to Donald Trump recently" who said Trump's biggest complaint about being president is that "he's not allowed to watch porn in the White House." https://t.co/yUcQFwLbwK reageer retweet

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Asked about Donald Trump, Johnson was positive about the US President and even joked that he wouldn’t mind having him lead the Brexit negotiations.

“I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump,” Johnson said. “I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.”

“Imagine Trump doing Brexit,” Johnson said. “He’d go in bloody hard… There’d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he’d gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It’s a very, very good thought.”

Running through the threats and opportunities for Britain’s foreign policy, Johnson said he wanted a “much more energetic” approach to the UK’s diplomacy.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 23:33 schreef Monolith het volgende:
BoJo is inderdaad een van de weinigen die de incompetentie van Trump evenaart.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 23:57 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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En de megalomania, BoJo wil een eigen vliegtuig nu, door de staat betaald uiteraard, en dan niet in dat saaie grijs van het reguliere regeringsvliegtuig, natuurlijk.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 20:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
We hadden al een phone booth, appartement, bankstel, dure pennen, een Chick-Fil-A, oude matrassen, een tripje naar Marokko, salarisverhoging voor vrienden, tripjes naar Disneyland en de Superbowl (ik mis nu vast nog van alles), maar daar kunnen we vandaag aan toevoegen: hydraterende lotion. Kolderiek corrupt.

Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.06698e7c0a02

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 00:28 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Zolang de EU niet betaalt is het ok.

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EmmanuelMacron twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 21:49:49 The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be. Because these 6 countries represent values, they represent an economic market which has the weight of history behind it and which is now a true international force https://t.co/UA86fcjozs reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 00:52 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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EmmanuelMacron twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 21:49:49 The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be. Because these 6 countries represent values, they represent an economic market which has the weight of history behind it and which is now a true international force https://t.co/UA86fcjozs reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 01:06 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ik denk dat Macron en Trump het uit hebben gemaakt.

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A White House economic analysis of President Trump’s trade agenda has concluded that Mr. Trump’s tariffs will hurt economic growth in the United States, according to several people familiar with the research.

The findings from the White House Council of Economic Advisers have been circulated only internally and not publicly released, as is often the case with the council’s work, making the exact economic projections unknown. But the determination comes as top White House officials continue to insist publicly that Mr. Trump’s trade approach will be “massively good for the U.S. economy.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 01:01:43 NEWS: Feinstein wants to talk to an ex-Congressman about his ties to Russia & the Trump campaign. The congressman, Curt Weldon, said last year at a private meeting that Viktor Vekselberg's NYC fund had financed the promotion of that so-called "peace plan." https://t.co/1UC08lljVU reageer retweet

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An ex-congressman has attracted scrutiny from the Senate Judiciary Committee, as it continues to investigate whether President Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Moscow to sway the 2016 presidential election.

Curt Weldon, a Republican and former Pennsylvania congressman, lost his re-election campaign more than a decade ago following an FBI probe into his ties to two Russian companies. He has “connections to both Russia and the Trump campaign” that are raising suspicions among senators, a spokeswoman for Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said. Feinstein is the committee’s ranking member, and wants to interview Weldon, the spokeswoman said.

The reasons for the committee’s interest in Weldon are murky, but his ties to Russia are significant. Members of Congress believe, for example, that Weldon may lead to answers about why the Trump administration sought to lift sanctions on Russia in the aftermath of the 2016 election despite a public statement by intelligence agencies that the Kremlin tried to help Trump win. Weldon may also have information about the role a Russian oligarch may have played in trying to influence the Trump administration—though Weldon denied this when I asked him about it.

Additionally, Weldon appears to have knowledge of a key instance in which a foreign national sought to influence the president through one of his closest advisers—a central theme of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s election interference.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 03:30:57 Trump's transition team told the Obama W.H. about Mike Flynn’s conversations with Sergey Kislyak, according to Ben Rhodes' memoir. That stands in contrast to claims the Obama team unmasked Flynn’s name after learning of the Kislyak convo from intercepts. https://t.co/IiqjfVbno7 reageer retweet

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The Trump transition team told Barack Obama’s White House about Mike Flynn’s fateful conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, according to a senior Obama aide’s new memoir. That account stands in contrast to oft-repeated claims that the Obama team unmasked Flynn’s name after learning of the Kislyak conversation from surveillance intercepts.

Ben Rhodes, an Obama deputy national security adviser and a long-time right-wing bête noire, often features prominently in accusations from Donald Trump’s allies that the outgoing White House improperly “unmasked” Flynn from surveillance intercepts and then leaked his name to discredit him. In October, Rhodes testified behind closed doors to the House intelligence committee probe controlled by Trump ally Devin Nunes about unmasking.

But in his just-released book, The World as It Is, the former senior National Security Council staffer writes that the Obama White House learned about the Flynn-Kislyak talks from the Trump team itself. If Rhodes’ claim is true, then Obama aides had no need to “unmask” any surveillance intercept of Kislyak’s phone calls to determine Flynn was the interlocutor.

Flynn “took a couple of weeks after his own appointment to accept Susan Rice’s invitation to meet,” Rhodes writes. “His own transition team volunteered to us that he’d met with Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, before meeting with the American official he was replacing.”

Rhodes didn’t hear about that firsthand, he clarified, as the Trump transition team didn’t deal with Rhodes. (“You’re kind of PNG,” Rhodes quotes the outgoing Obama team’s transition director telling him, meaning ‘persona non grata,’ someone who is not welcome.) Instead, Rhodes’ White House colleagues informed him of the Trump team’s disclosure of the meetings.

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