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Secretary of State - Mike Pompeo
Secretary of Treasury - Steven Mnuchin
Secretary of Defense - General Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis
Attorney General - Jeff Sessions
Secretary of the Interior - Ryan Zinke
Secretary of Agriculture - Sonny Perdue
Secretary of Commerce - Wilbur Ross
Secretary of Labor - Alexander Acosta
Secretary of Health and Human Services - Alex Azar
Secretary of Housing & Urban Development - Ben Carson
Secretary of Transportation - Elaine Chao
Secretary of Energy - Rick Perry
Secretary of Education - Betsy DeVos
Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Ronny Jackson??? Robert Wilkie (Acting)
Secretary of Homeland Security - Kirstjen Nielsen

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White House Chief of Staff - John F. Kelly
Trade Representative - Robert Lighthizer
Director of National Intelligence - Dan Coats
Ambassador to the UN - Nikki Haley
Director of the Office of Management & Budget - Mick Mulvaney
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency - Gina Haspel
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency - Scott Pruitt
Administrator of the Small Business Administration - Linda McMahon

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Ivanka Trump (Advisor to the President), Jared Kushner (Senior Adviser Strategic Planning), Stephen Miller (Senior Adviser Policy), John Bolton (National Security Adviser), Kellyanne Conway (Counselor), Donald McGahn (White House Counsel), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Press Secretary), Christopher Wray (Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation), Robert Mueller (Special Counsel), Rod Rosenstein (United States Deputy Attorney General).

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Kabinet: Tom Price (HHS), David Shulkin (VA), Rex Tillerson (State)
DOJ/FBI: Sally Yates, James Comey, Preet Bharara, Andrew McCabe
Communicatie WH: Mike Dubke, Sean Spicer, Anthony Scaramucci, Hope Hicks
Adviseurs enzo: Michael Flynn, Herbert McMaster, Reince Priebus, Rob Porter, Gary Cohn, Steve Bannon, John McEntee

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But John Doe 2 landed in a far more troubled corner of the system, according to a first-person sworn declaration in a current legal motion against the federal government for unlawful and inappropriate detainment of children. His account is one of dozens describing overloaded and secretive shelters, treatment centers and secure detention facilities for undocumented minors, which at their worst have allegedly been home to neglect, assault and other horrific abuse.
The allegations in these documents, as well as recent facility inspection reports and other lawsuits, range from unsanitary conditions and invasive monitoring of mail and phone calls to unair-conditioned rooms in hot Texas summers and dosing children with cocktails of psychotropic drugs disguised as vitamins. At one facility, children recounted being held down for forcible injections, which medical records show are powerful antipsychotics and sedatives.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 09:56 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Beetje algemene term om aan te geven dat links meer bezig is met gewonnen rechten weer verkwanselen (vaak door toe te geven aan de extreem orthodoxe islam) dan met vechten voor progressieve zaken.

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Michael Avenatti ​tweeted on Thursday that he will be representing whistleblowers within Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency​ who had reached out to him with info "as to what is really going on."

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Op donderdag 21 juni 2018 23:48 schreef Doublepain het volgende:

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Elk % minder drugs in het land kan duizenden levens redden, dus meer dan waard

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 10:46 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Dat klopt, maar ik heb net in het voorbeeld dat je notabene quote gezegd dat de muur minder % drugs en migranten tegenhoudt dan het geld op andere plaatsen inzetten. Geld kun je maar 1x uitgeven. Gebruik het geld van de muur voor permanente uitbreiding van de coast guard van een paar duizend man en je houdt meer mensen en drugs tegen dan de muur. Kortom, je argument is slecht. Zou fijn zijn als je dat gewoon toegeeft

Tenzij je natuurlijk zegt 'ja, maar we kunnen het ook beiden doen door er gewoon nog wat meer geld tegenaan te gooien'. Maar dan help je je eigen argument om zeep dat die extra rechters 'zonde van het geld is, want dat kun je beter aan de muur uitgeven.' Dat kun je immers ook beiden doen dan

Het is erg lovenswaardig dat je Trump te pas en te onpas een doubledown ziet doen op niet houdbare argumenten en het past wel bij je naam, maar je wordt niet erg serieus genomen als je dit zelf dan ook blijft doen. De muur is gewoon een prestige object voor Trump en een belofte die hij denkt te moeten waarmaken en kost veel te veel geld voor wat het oplevert omdat dit geld op andere plaatsen veel efficienter ingezet kan worden. Geef dat gewoon toe. Geef gewoon toe dat je zo'n muur wel een machtig interessant ding vindt en dat Trump op die wijze een permanent object aan de VS heeft toegevoegd (net als de Chinese muur in China bijv.). Dat is een prima argument. Sommige musea kopen ook objecten van 80 miljoen omdat ze dit gewoon graag willen, niet uit financieel oogpunt (ga je immers nooit terugverdienen).

Kom daar dan gewoon voor uit. Ga dan niet allerlei slechte argumentatie verzinnen om het te rechtvaardigen.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 10:56 schreef Xa1pt het volgende:

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Mwah, ik weet zo net nog niet of minder drugs levens schelen. Hoe zou dat in zijn werk moeten gaan?

En als we het dan over levens hebben is de opiaten crisis misschien nog wel de belangrijkste om te bestrijden, maar op dat vlak lijkt niet zoveel werk verzet te worden.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 11:01 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Tja, dat beweert doublepain...dat elk % minder drugs leidt tot het redden van levens. Dat punt van het argument wil ik 'm best geven.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 11:01 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Tja, dat beweert doublepain...dat elk % minder drugs leidt tot het redden van levens. Dat punt van het argument wil ik 'm best geven.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 10:56 schreef Re het volgende:
je vraagt je af waarom hij daar in godsnaam ook over moet liegen, snap het wel want het was een van de 4 speerpunten van zijn knieval voor Kim met een claim dat er 24000 soldaten remains zouden teruggestuurd worden (weet niet het exacte getal maar daarover look hij ook) en dan moet hij wel doorliegen anders valt het hele NK narrative uit elkaar

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 10:05 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://edition-m.cnn.com(...)buse-invs/index.html

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Lekker systeem wel. Gelukkig zal Trump aan dit soort excessen nu wel een einde moeten maken.
Dit soort gedoe is slechte PR.

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Dec 23, 2014 - Press Release
Washington, DC – Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee, a Senior Member of the House Homeland Security and Judiciary Committees and Founder and Co-Chair of the Congressional Children’s Caucus released the following statement today:

“I am appalled by record of abuse and mistreatment of children at the Shiloh Treatment Center in Manvel documented by the Houston Chronicle in an expose published December 19, 2014. The abuses documented in that report – ranging from physical violence, unreasonable and excessive use of physical restraints, administering emergency medications without notice to governmental authorities, and several deaths of minor children while in custody – is not reflective of the quality of care and support that should be provided to the at-risk children, including the dozens of unaccompanied immigrant children, committed to its care.

“Because of these deficiencies I believe the time has come for the State of Texas to order the closure of the Shiloh Treatment Center. At a minimum, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services should terminate immediately the contract awarded to Shiloh Treatment Center to provide shelter and treatment to unaccompanied children apprehended by the Border Patrol.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 12:50:00 Customs and Border Protection agents reportedly set up a checkpoint on I-95 in *Maine,* stopping drivers and asking them about their citizenship "If you want to continue down the road ... We need to know what citizen — what country you’re a citizen of." https://t.co/fJ7CUxlBQx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 13:05 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Dat zou wel ironisch zijn, dat de excessen nu aangepakt zouden worden omdat de media er door Trump's beleid meer aandacht aan besteden.
"At one facility, children recounted being held down for forcible injections, which medical records show are powerful antipsychotics and sedatives." Dat betreft waarschijnlijk het Shiloh Treatment Center dat reeds in 2014 in opspraak kwam:

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https://jacksonlee.house.(...)be-closed-by-hhs-for

Sowieso die whataboutisms zijn altijd een beetje raar. De meeste trumpsupporters haten Obama tot in elke vezel. Kun je moeilijk Trump verdedigen met 'Obama deed het ook!', want dan zou je Trump ook moeten haten

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 14:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:
http://thehill.com/homene(...)time-on-immigration#

Immigratieproblematiek is nu alweer oud nieuws voor Trump. Daarover moet je je niet druk maken.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 12:22 schreef Euribob het volgende:
Zo, topic heeft weer een schone luier hoor.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 13:33 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Heeft het Trump-presidentschap toch nog een positief resultaat: Misstanden uit het verleden worden ook misschien aangepakt omdat Trumpsupporters snel met de vingertjes wijzen 'ja, maar onder Obama gebeurde het ook!'.

Wat het wel weer apart maakt dat Fox&co daar nooit over rapporteerde indertijd. Daar hadden ze toch een mooie stok om mee te slaan gehad! Wellicht hadden ze het toen te druk met geboortecertificaten enzo.

_{Sowieso die whataboutisms zijn altijd een beetje raar. De meeste trumpsupporters haten Obama tot in elke vezel. Kun je moeilijk Trump verdedigen met 'Obama deed het ook!', want dan zou je Trump ook moeten haten}

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 16:25:01 Based on the Tariffs and Trade Barriers long placed on the U.S. and it great companies and workers by the European Union, if these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20% Tariff on all of their cars coming into the U.S. Build them here! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 16:44 schreef archito het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 16:25:01 Based on the Tariffs and Trade Barriers long placed on the U.S. and it great companies and workers by the European Union, if these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20% Tariff on all of their cars coming into the U.S. Build them here! reageer retweet

Heel veel Europese automerken maken hun auto's toch al in de VS?
Blijkbaar wel Trump een full on trade war. Hopelijk plukken de Amerikanen daar voor de midterms al de wrange vruchten van.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 15:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Typisch wel weer ... geen deal mee te maken met die man.

https://twitter.com/kyledcheney/status/1010138973220556801

Trump's art of the congressional deal:
-Give mixed signals on immigration at closed-door meeting
-Insult popular congressman
-Lie publicly about the reception to the insult
-Privately urge lawmakers to pass a bill
-Wait til they commit.
-Tweet at them not to vote on bill

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 16:44 schreef archito het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 16:25:01 Based on the Tariffs and Trade Barriers long placed on the U.S. and it great companies and workers by the European Union, if these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20% Tariff on all of their cars coming into the U.S. Build them here! reageer retweet

Heel veel Europese automerken maken hun auto's toch al in de VS?
Blijkbaar wel Trump een full on trade war. Hopelijk plukken de Amerikanen daar voor de midterms al de wrange vruchten van.

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BEIJING (Reuters) - At least three U.S. coal shipments on their way to China may end up casualties of the escalating trade dispute after Beijing said it would impose steep tariffs that may kick in before the ships reach their destinations.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 20:03 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
Zou grappig zijn als ze meteen rechtsomkeert kunnen maken als ze daar aankomen.

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U.S. coking coal typically costs three times more and takes three times longer to arrive than coal from Australia, data show. U.S. supplies can also be of poorer quality because of high sulphur content and low heating efficiency.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 08:23 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Wat vind jij eigenlijk van dit rijtje personen?

(zou je voor de verandering een keer antwoord kunnen geven?)

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WASHINGTON—Frustrated by what she called “obvious misconceptions” related to the Trump administration’s detention of thousands of migrant children who have been forcibly separated from their parents, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders reminded journalists Friday that children under the age of 14 are unable to experience pain. “Look, no matter how much phony controversy the Democrats generate, it’s a simple fact that illegal alien criminals this young are still developing the part of the brain that feels pain, goes through emotional trauma, and retains memories,” said Sanders, explaining that while migrant children may appear to be crying, screaming, or begging for their parents, they are merely attempting to mimic actions they have observed in regular humans. “Furthermore, it’s important to keep in mind that we are talking about foreign children—even if they somehow manage to see their families again, environmental factors may prevent them from developing the capacity to even recognize them. I mean, they live in cages, for God’s sake.” Huckabee Sanders further noted that, were the children to actually receive the sort of care and attention necessary to develop minds and bodies capable of experiencing the pain of what they are currently going through, they would only have the child welfare policies of the Obama administration to blame.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 20:42 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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https://politics.theonion(...)ps-that-c-1827054897

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 20:47 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 20:48 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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The Onion....

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 20:42 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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https://politics.theonion(...)ps-that-c-1827054897

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 20:42 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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https://politics.theonion(...)ps-that-c-1827054897

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 20:52 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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You had me there for a second... ik zie het haar zo zeggen...

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 21:02 schreef Tem het volgende:

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Naja, met deze administration is niets te gek.

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TomArnold twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 02:18:22 I love New York reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 21:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Nou ja ... ik weet niet goed waar dit thuis hoort, maar voor wat het waard is begon het hiermee:

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TomArnold twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 02:18:22 I love New York[ afbeelding ] reageer retweet

Dat leidde tot:

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Wat leidde tot dit artikeltje met wat meer details.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 21:13 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Mijn commentaar op Facebook was "Peak weird?"

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 20:28 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Bolton: Bolton heeft een realistische kijk op de wereld. Hij ziet niet allemaal 'lieve' mensen, maar geopolitiek, conflicten en belangen. Ik ben het niet altijd eens met zijn conclusies, maar hij weet goed hoe het internationale spel gespeeld word.

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Bannon: Bannon is een aparteling, maar zijn boodschap is duidelijk. Het westen moet op tijd zijn zaakjes op orde krijgen om te voorkomen dat China (en dan vooral de Chinese communisten) de touwtjes in handen krijgt. Daar ben ik het volledig mee eens.

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Of het helemaal kies is om de stoelpoten van Merkel af te zagen is een ander punt, maar ze heeft Europa in een bijzonder zwakke positie gebracht in iedere situatie. De Euro crisis escalatie, migranten en ja zelfs de 'oorlog' in Oekraine. Eigenlijk heeft de hele EU (Duitsland voorop) geen van deze crises goed aangepakt wat geleid heeft tot een opkomst van lui als Salvini.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 22:12 schreef Belabor het volgende:

De rest van je betoog sla ik even over want het offtopic. Overigens kan ik me daar ook niet in vinden, dat wil ik wel even gezegd hebben.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 23:44 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Ah, de echte reden dat de VS uit de Mensenrechten commissie is gestapt was dus niet Israel:

‘I think I was being sent a message’: U.S. warned U.N. official about report on poverty in America

https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.c688fe6283f3

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 22:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks

Is dat lekker dan?

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 13:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://www.texastribune.(...)tter_impression=true


Ondertussen is Big Government begonnen met het afpakken van het bezit van de Hardwerkende Amerikaan. Ze willen mooi en vruchtbaar en olierijk land hebben om daarop zogenaamd een muur te bouwen.

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 22:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Jogger accidentally crosses U.S. border from B.C., gets detained for 2 weeks

Is dat lekker dan?

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 21:46:04 (THREAD) BREAKING: The revelation that Trump supporters worked with Putin allies to draw up a plan to end Russian sanctions in *February 2016*—a year earlier than thought and during the GOP primaries—could lead to a smoking gun. Hope you'll read and share. https://t.co/bFubhqD5Yo reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 22:29:47 MAJOR BREAKING NEWS: Ukrainian-American Alexander Rovt appears to have given Manafort a suspicious $3.5 million dollar loan right after Manafort left the Trump campaign—and was a snitch risk. This creates a link between Manafort and the Ukraine peace deal. https://t.co/Zy7yxAJNKW reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 22:31:45 I'm really having a Michael Che "Did we do it? Did we get him? moment right now reageer retweet

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A controversial peace plan for Ukraine and Russia that has drawn headlines and scrutiny from Special Counsel Robert Mueller was initially devised in early 2016 with significant input from an ex-congressman and a Ukrainian-American billionaire, according to a former Ukrainian legislator who promoted the proposal before Donald Trump's election.

Ex-Ukrainian legislator Andrii Artemenko told McClatchy in several recent interviews that the peace proposal, which some analysts believe had a pro-Moscow tilt, was hatched in February 2016 during side discussions at a Ukraine-focused conference at Manor College in suburban Philadelphia. Former Republican Rep. Curt Weldon and New York real estate mogul Alexander Rovt were involved, said Artemenko, who also participated.

"It was called the Rovt-Weldon plan," said Artemenko, noting that he had been friends with Weldon for almost a decade.

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Neither the roles of Weldon and Rovt in the early framing of the plan, nor the fact that it was being devised nearly a year before it was given to a Trump associate for delivery to the administration, have been reported previously. The new names add to a roster of individuals with close ties to Trump who have been identified in connection with the proposal: Trump's personal lawyer and "fixer," Michael Cohen; a former sometimes-real estate partner, Felix Sater, who was also an old friend of Cohen; and the president's first national security adviser, Michael Flynn, who has pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contacts with the Russian ambassador during the transition and is cooperating with the Mueller probe.

Some observers say the new names, timing and other details raise questions about whether and to what extent Moscow or its allies influenced the proposal.

Mueller and congressional investigators have been probing the Kremlin's interference with the 2016 elections and whether there was any coordination between the Trump campaign and Moscow. Some of the witnesses before a Mueller grand jury have been asked about the plan.

The proposal would have lifted sanctions on Moscow if the Kremlin withdrew Russian forces from Eastern Ukraine; it also could have permitted Russia to keep control of Crimea, which it annexed in 2014.

Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the senior Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee, has indicated interest in interviewing Weldon "because of his connections to both Russia and the Trump campaign," said Feinstein spokesman Tom Mentzer. Weldon's name also was included in a letter to Cohen from Feinstein's office instructing him to save any communications with a long list of individuals, as the Atlantic first reported.

Artemenko said Weldon "introduced me to high society in the U.S.," including other lawmakers such as Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, R-Calif., who is sometimes called Russian President Vladimir Putin's best friend in Washington, GOP Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio, and Democratic Rep. Marcy Kaptur of Ohio.

Weldon and Rovt have each had links to Russian business interests.

Weldon's two decade career in Congress ended with the 2006 elections, weeks after the FBI raided his then-29-year-old daughter's office and home. The Justice Department was probing his actions to support a Russian-managed oil and gas company that gave his daughter a $500,000 contract to do public relations work, Soon after the contract was signed, Weldon helped corral some 30 lawmakers for a dinner, which his daughter's firm worked on too, to honor the chairman of the Russian company, Itera International Energy Co, and Weldon also intervened to help Itera when federal agencies canceled a contract with the company. Weldon was never charged.

Rovt made his fortune initially in the fertilizer business, with some operations in Russia, but sold most of his foreign fertilizer assets in 2007 to another Ukrainian, oligarch Dmitry Firtash, who was a chief financier of ex-President Viktor Yanukovych's pro-Russian political party before Yanukovych was ousted in 2014 and fled to Moscow. That party paid millions of dollars to yet another figure in the Trump-Russia investigation, lobbyist and political consultant Paul Manafort, who was a key Yanukovych adviser before he became Trump's campaign chairman. Manafort has since been indicted by two Mueller grand juries on charges including money laundering, tax evasion, bank fraud and obstruction.

NBC has reported that Rovt was an investor with Spruce Capital, a subsidiary of which made a $3.5 million dollar mortgage loan to a small company set up by Manafort right after he left his campaign perch in August 2016; that was a focus of federal investigators' attention last year, prior to the multiple criminal charges that were filed against Manafort.

Weldon didn't respond to phone and written requests for comment. Rovt could not be reached for comment.

Artemenko's interviews with McClatchy provided other new details about his 2016 efforts to promote the plan in Russia and in the U.S. before Trump's election.

o Just a few weeks before the election, the Ukrainian said he started talking about the peace initiative with Sater, whom Artemenko had met earlier in 2016, during a visit to Sater's Long Island home

o Artemenko said he also met in Russia in 2016 with two members of the Russian Duma to brief them on the plan and that they "responded positively to the ideas." The Ukrainian said he also discussed his plan with former Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko.

Rep. Adam Schiff, the leading Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee and an outspoken critic of Russia's interference in the 2016 elections, said in a statement that "The fact that this proposal was being considered a year in advance of its provision to the White House raises serious questions about how far along the discussion had progressed and the extent to which Russia was involved in the planning or consideration of the proposal."

Schiff also noted that investigators for the committee had long "been interested in the Trump Administration's potential willingness to provide Russia a significant giveaway that might be at odds with the foreign policy position of the United States and our allies."

Similarly, some Russia experts say that the involvement of Weldon and Rovt and other new details provided by Artemenko suggest that the plan had links to Moscow.

"There remain a lot of unanswered questions about who ultimately stood behind this so-called 'peace plan,'" said Michael Carpenter, a top Russia policy analyst in the Pentagon under President Obama. " Given the nature of the people involved in disseminating the proposal, it seems likely that its ultimate sponsors were either Kremlin surrogates or pro-Russia forces in Ukraine."

When the plan was first detailed in February 2017 by the New York Times the paper said it included a provision that called for a referendum to be held in Ukraine after Russian troops withdrew on whether Crimea, which Moscow had annexed, would be leased to Russia for 50 to 100 years. But Artemenko, who in 2016 was an obscure legislator allied with a right wing party in his country, and Sater told McClatchy separately that the plan included no such lease language. However, Artemenko said the plan did call for a referendum on whether Crimea should be part of Russia, Ukraine or independent.

On June 8th, Artemenko testified for several hours before a Washington, D.C., grand jury tied to the Mueller investigation. The Ukrainian, who was ousted from his country's legislature and lost his citizenship because of fallout from the initial revelation of the plan and its perceived pro-Moscow tilt, said that Cohen was a major focus of the grand jury questions he fielded.

After his grand jury appearance, Artemenko added, he realized that Cohen "is a target" of interest to Mueller.

A spokesman for Mueller's office declined to comment on questions about Cohen and Artemenko. Cohen did not reply to several written questions about his role with the peace plan.

The peace plan is one of a few areas involving Cohen that are part of Mueller's sprawling inquiry. Mueller also has been probing Cohen and Sater's efforts to secure a deal for a Trump Tower in Moscow, a project they worked on during the last months of 2015.

Cohen is also facing close examination by federal prosecutors in New York's Southern District who have been looking into whether he committed crimes with some of his other ventures, including a once-lucrative taxi operation and the $130,000 payment he made to porn star Stormy Daniels to buy her silence just before the 2016 election; Daniels says she had sex with Trump in 2006, but Trump has denied the affair.

The Ukraine Russian peace initiative fizzled in early 2017 after the Times disclosed its existence along with a late January meeting in New York that Artemenko and Sater had with Cohen to persuade him to pass it along to a top administration official, like Flynn. Both Artemenko and Sater told McClatchy that Cohen agreed to do so.

Artemenko "asked me if I could help introduce him to the administration," Sater recalled in an interview, adding that Cohen promised he would "get the plan" to Flynn.

Artemenko said he never gave Cohen anything in writing about the plan. But a few days after they met, Sater phoned the Ukrainian and read him a few sentences that contained the gist of it; Artemenko signed off on the language -- which Sater described as "four bullet points" -- for Cohen to give to Flynn.

A few days later Artemenko said that in another call with Sater he was informed that "the package had been delivered" to Flynn.

Cohen has offered shifting and contradictory statements about what he did with the document. Initially, he told the New York Times that he delivered the plan to Flynn's office.

But Cohen quickly changed his story, telling the Washington Post within days that he never gave it to Flynn or anyone in the White House. Then Cohen changed his account again in two subsequent interviews. He said at one point that he threw the envelope, unopened, in the trash.

These contradictory accounts by Cohen have likely spurred Mueller's team to look more closely at the plan, say former prosecutors.

"Whenever a subject changes his story, especially multiple times, he draws a lot more interest from prosecutors, who will want to know what he's hiding," said former New York prosecutor Jaimie Nawaday who's now a partner at Kelley Drye & Warren.

With increasing scrutiny from Mueller's grand jury and New York prosecutors, Cohen has lately signaled to associates that he expects to face charges soon -- and that he may be willing to cut a deal and cooperate with prosecutors to avoid a potentially lengthy jail sentence.

In recent days Cohen switched lawyers in a sign of his deepening legal troubles. Previously represented by veteran white collar lawyer Stephen Ryan, Cohen tapped Guy Petrillo, a former chief of the criminal division in the Southern District and a well established criminal defense lawyer.

"If, like Cohen, you don't have a lot of credibility and you're in a tight spot, it's especially important that you have someone go to bat for you who has a lot of credibility in dealing with the U.S. Attorney's Office," Nawaday said.

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For years, President Trump personally signed the tax returns for his charitable foundation, scrawling his signature just below a stern warning from the IRS: Providing false information could lead to “penalties of perjury.”

But a lawsuit filed last week by New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood alleges that four of the tax returns Trump signed contained incorrect statements, confirming previous reports by The Washington Post.

In 2007, 2012, 2013 and 2014, the Donald J. Trump Foundation stated that none of its money had been used to benefit Trump or his businesses. But the New York attorney general found that, in each of those years, Trump had used his charity’s funds to help one of his businesses. In 2013, the attorney general alleged, Trump also failed to disclose an improper gift to a political group.

In the suit, Underwood also accuses Trump of turning his charity into a tool of his 2016 presidential campaign, despite prohibitions on political activity by nonprofit entities. She also laid out her findings in a letter to the IRS, suggesting that federal authorities investigate further.

It is a felony to knowingly file a false tax return, with potential penalties of up to $100,000 in fines and up to three years in prison. In rare cases — where prosecutors could prove the falsehood to be deliberate — people have been convicted of signing false tax returns.

The IRS declined to comment.

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If the government does try to prosecute Trump — a very big “if,” given the difficulty of such cases and the debate about whether sitting presidents can be prosecuted — Trump would face questions about whether he knowingly broke charity laws.

If federal officials do not pursue a criminal case against Trump, legal experts said, the tax agency could face its own quandary. Why should other taxpayers be punished for violating the same rules that the president has now been accused of breaking?

“The IRS depends on citizens not lying on their tax returns,” said Marc S. Owens, the former head of the IRS’s nonprofits division. If the IRS does not take visible action on Trump’s false statements, he said, “it kind of calls into question, ‘If they don’t prosecute him, does everybody get a pass?’ ”

The White House, the Trump Organization, Trump’s tax lawyers and Trump’s longtime accountant did not respond to requests for comment.

Last week, Trump described the lawsuit as a political attack by New York Democrats, although the current New York attorney general, Underwood, is a nonpolitician who was appointed to her post. “I won’t settle this case!” Trump wrote on Twitter.

In filings to the IRS, Trump’s foundation offered a separate defense: Clerical errors caused the foundation to make payments it should not have, and Trump knew so little about charity rules that he broke the law without knowing it. “Neither the Foundation nor [Trump] knew,” the group wrote in an IRS filing, it was wrong to use foundation money to buy a portrait that hung on a wall in one of Trump’s golf resorts.

The annual tax returns Trump signed, called the IRS Form 990, are intended to give regulators and donors a look inside a charity’s books. They list the donations and expenditures and include several dozen questions that ask whether the charity broke any tax laws in the past year.

Through the 2000s and this decade, Trump repeatedly asserted on state and federal forms that his foundation was following the law.

Underwood’s complaint alleges otherwise.

In 2007, for instance, Trump used $100,000 from his foundation to settle a legal dispute between his Mar-a-Lago Club and the town of Palm Beach, Fla., The Post previously reported. As part of the settlement, the for-profit beach club had pledged to make a donation to a veterans charity.

But the Trump Foundation made the gift instead, according to the town of Palm Beach. Trump’s club gave nothing.

When the charity filed its tax return for the year, it did not disclose the nature of this payment, records show.

One of the questions on the 990 asks whether a charity has transferred “any income or assets to a disqualified person.” The term “disqualified person” refers to a category of person including an officer of a charity.

Trump was an officer: He was the charity’s president. So, the New York attorney general said, the charity had just transferred money in a way that saved Trump’s business $100,000. Because Trump controls the business, Underwood said, this amounted to transferring assets to a “disqualified person.”

But on that question, the Trump Foundation checked the box marked “no.”

Trump signed the return.





The same thing happened in 2012, when Trump used foundation assets — this time, $158,000 — to settle a legal dispute with a man who had sued one of his New York golf clubs over a negated hole-in-one prize.

The golf club agreed to make a donation. The charity made the gift instead, according to the lawsuit.



Then, in 2013, the Trump Foundation paid $5,000 to put an ad for Trump’s hotel chain in the program for a charity gala. And in 2014, Trump used $10,000 of the charity’s money to buy a portrait of himself, which his employees hung on a wall in a sports bar at a Trump golf resort in Florida. Both instances were first reported by The Post and confirmed by the attorney general’s investigation.

Each year, the form asked the same question about whether the charity had transferred assets for the benefit of a disqualified person.

Each year, the “no” box was checked.

In 2013, Trump gave $25,000 of the charity’s money to a political committee supporting Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi (R). By law, charities are not allowed to make political gifts.

On that year’s return, as always, the IRS asked whether the Trump Foundation had spent more than $100 for “political purposes.”

The box checked was “no.”

Also, the Trump Foundation omitted any mention of the gift to Bondi’s group when the form asked it to list all outgoing donations. Instead, Trump’s charity listed a different gift in its place: It told the IRS it had given $25,000 to a separate group, in Kansas, with a name similar to Bondi’s political group. But the Kansas group told The Post it never received a donation.

At the end of that form was rgw same signature box and the same warning about providing false information.

“Under penalties of perjury, I declare that I have examined this return . . . and to the best of my knowledge and belief, it is true, correct and complete.”

Trump signed it.



If the IRS decided to investigate the Trump foundation, one key question would be whether Trump knew the forms were incorrect, tax experts said.

“There’s the adage, ‘Ignorance is no excuse.’ That’s not true in tax law. In tax law, ignorance is an excuse for criminal violations,” said Guinevere Moore, a Chicago attorney specializing in tax cases.

The idea, Moore said, is that tax law is so complicated that prosecutors cannot presume people know they are breaking it.

Federal prosecutors have charged people with filing false charity returns. But in many those cases, they had slam-dunk evidence indicating the defendants understood their returns were false, such as defendants who omitted personal payments or conspired via email to omit embarrassing information from the public filings, experts said.

The president’s strategy, so far, has been to plead ignorance. In filings with the IRS — detailed in the New York attorney general’s suit — Trump blamed the gift to Bondi on a clerical error and said another clerical error had resulted in a nonexistent gift being listed in its place.

“Mr. Trump learned of the mistake from the news media,” much later, the foundation wrote to the IRS.

After The Post’s reporting and the launch of the New York attorney general’s investigation, Trump repaid his foundation for its expenditures. His golf club took down the portrait. He also assessed himself $4,000 in penalty taxes in total on three of the transactions — the portrait, the gala program and the donation to Bondi.

But some tax-law experts said that in the unlikely event Trump winds up in a criminal court, it may be hard to convince a jury that a man of his business experience was so unsophisticated, for so long, about his own charity.

“You could try. But I think it’s probably a loser,” said Christopher Rizek, an attorney at Caplin & Drysdale who has defended clients in tax cases. “You’ve got a guy who’s bragged for years about how smart he is, and how much tax law he knows. And now all of a sudden he doesn’t know anything?”

[Trump boasts about his philanthropy. But his giving falls short of his words.]

If, on the other hand, the IRS does not pursue any public punishment against Trump — but, rather, does nothing or pursues civil penalties in secret — lawyers said they worry the effect would be to erode other taxpayers' willingness to follow the law.

“Our system of taxation relies on people believing that it’s fair and just and — above all — equally applied, no matter if you’re rich or poor,” said Moore, the Chicago attorney. “It would have an extremely detrimental effect” if Trump faced no obvious punishment for flouting the system.

Already, Moore said, she sees signs that taxpayers have been influenced by Trump’s approach toward his charity, as well as the way he bragged during the 2016 campaign that trying to avoid taxes “makes me smart.”

When she meets with new clients facing demands from the IRS, Moore said, they often say of Trump: “He doesn’t pay his fair share and gets away with it. Why are they coming after me for this?”

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 23-06-2018 om 02:10:13 The Trumps and the Kushners are parting ways on two planned hotel collaborations in New Jersey after the partnership raised eyebrows — and a spate of new concerns — among ethics officials. https://t.co/Hbcb44cllk reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 22 juni 2018 21:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Nou ja ... ik weet niet goed waar dit thuis hoort, maar voor wat het waard is begon het hiermee:

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TomArnold twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 02:18:22 I love New York[ afbeelding ] reageer retweet

Dat leidde tot:

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Wat leidde tot dit artikeltje met wat meer details.

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mkraju twitterde op zaterdag 23-06-2018 om 01:51:13 Tom Arnold, after bluntly warning Trump about what Michael Cohen has on the president, refuses to say to @PoppyHarlowCNN on @outfrontcnn whether Cohen is cooperating with the feds. He says he's spending the weekend with Cohen. https://t.co/LVx4Xr3afo reageer retweet

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MichaelCohen212 twitterde op zaterdag 23-06-2018 om 02:28:37 Appreciate @TomArnold kind words about me as a great father, husband and friend. This was a chance, public encounter in the hotel lobby where he asked for a selfie. Not spending the weekend together, did not discuss being on his show nor did we discuss @POTUS. #done #ridiculous reageer retweet

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elisefoley twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 23:01:10 The White House has ignored my requests for a source on Trump saying (again) that 63,000 Americans have been killed by undocumented immigrants since 9/11. Luckily, @pbump found the source for the number, which is wrong https://t.co/5oeSW5CUuz reageer retweet

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Mueller seeks September sentencing for Papadopoulos

Special counsel Robert Mueller is asking that George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign foreign policy adviser, be sentenced in September on the false-statement felony charge he pleaded guilty to last fall.

In a court filing on Friday evening, Mueller’s prosecutors and defense attorneys in the case asked U.S. District Court Judge Randy Moss to set Papadopoulos’ sentencing for Sept. 7, or a date in October if the judge is unavailable.

If the hearing goes forward as scheduled, Papadopoulos could become the second defendant sentenced in Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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Papadopoulos, 30, faces a maximum possible sentence of five years in prison. However, judges typically follow sentencing guidelines that call for more lenient sentences for defendants with no criminal record, particularly if they plead guilty. It is possible the former Trump adviser could not be sentenced to jail at all.

Bron: Politico

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 23-06-2018 om 02:34:33 Based on the Tariffs and Trade Barriers long placed on the U.S. & its great companies and workers by the European Union, if these Tariffs and Barriers are not soon broken down and removed, we will be placing a 20% Tariff on all of their cars coming into the U.S. Build them here! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 04:45 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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elisefoley twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 23:01:10 The White House has ignored my requests for a source on Trump saying (again) that 63,000 Americans have been killed by undocumented immigrants since 9/11. Luckily, @pbump found the source for the number, which is wrong https://t.co/5oeSW5CUuz reageer retweet

The original source for Trump’s claim of 63,000 immigrant murders? Bad data from Steve King in 2006.

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 12:52 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ook hier kan Hitler er weer bijgehaald worden. Hij gebruikte dezelfde taktieken... misdrijven van een bepaalde groep uitvergroten of verzinnen.

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 12:57 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Klopt, het frame van de evil immigrant is doelbewuste politieke strategie en niet iets om lichtzinnig over te doen. Hier worden “problemen” gecreëerd om zekere “oplossingen” bespreekbaar te maken. Serious bad shit.

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Trump tweets about the “witch hunt”

May 2017: 3 times
June 2017: 5 times
July 2017: 6 times
Oct 2017: 1 time
Dec 2017: 2 times
Jan 2018: 1 time
Feb 2018: 3 times
March 2018: 2 times
April 2018: 9 times
May 2018: 20 times
June 2018: 22 times

https://twitter.com/gelles/status/1010489138905264133?s=19

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 12:52 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ook hier dringt zich weer een Hitler-vergelijking op. Hij gebruikte dezelfde taktieken... misdrijven van een bepaalde minderheid uitvergroten of verzinnen. De realiteit echter:

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 14:19 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Maar hoe zit dat in verhouding?

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 14:26 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dit zijn toch genormaliseerde aantallen?

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 14:26 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dit zijn toch genormaliseerde aantallen?

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 14:57 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Sorry ik bedoel als percentage van het totaal.

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 15:00 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Één op de zes is migrant en 35% daarvan illegaal volgens Google.

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 15:04 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Dat is vrij veel.

Maar goed, zoals gezegd maken feiten voor Trump sowieso niet uit dus waar hebben we het over.

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GovMikeHuckabee twitterde op zaterdag 23-06-2018 om 14:19:28 Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the House. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 16:41 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Weer white identity politics / racisme . Nu van Mike Huckabee (R):

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GovMikeHuckabee twitterde op zaterdag 23-06-2018 om 14:19:28 Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the House. [ afbeelding ] reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 17:00 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Bizar. Er lijkt echt geen ondergrens meer te zijn voor Republikeinen.

Steeds meer conservatieven staan op en laten weten dit jaar op de Democraten te stemmen, in een poging het land te kunnen redden van het verachtelijke uitschot dat het GOP 'leadership' heet. Laten we hopen dat het op tijd komt.

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 12:52 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ook hier dringt zich weer een Hitler-vergelijking op. Hij gebruikte dezelfde taktieken... misdrijven van een bepaalde minderheid uitvergroten of verzinnen. De realiteit echter:

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 16:41 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Weer white identity politics / racisme . Nu van Mike Huckabee (R):

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GovMikeHuckabee twitterde op zaterdag 23-06-2018 om 14:19:28 Nancy Pelosi introduces her campaign committee for the take back of the House. [ afbeelding ] reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 17:28 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Dat doen ze af als irrelevant, want "elk slachtoffer is één teveel". Wat ze niet lijken te snappen (of niet willen toegeven), is dat als de verschillen voor de slachtoffers minder groot zijn (of in de andere richting afwijken: als illegalen vaker dan Amerikanen slachtoffer zijn), migranten het aantal Amerikaanse slachtoffers doen dalen (ze "vangen meer misdaad op" dan ze zelf plegen). Is wel moeilijk te bewijzen, je weet bvb niet of de aanwezigheid van migranten tot meer misdaad leidt (door racisme, economische gevolgen, makkelijke slachtoffers, etc..).

Maar het blijft een makkelijk populistisch argument, omdat je enkel de slachtoffers ziet, niet de "vermeden slachtoffers".

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 17:00 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Bizar. Er lijkt echt geen ondergrens meer te zijn voor Republikeinen.

Steeds meer conservatieven staan op en laten weten dit jaar op de Democraten te stemmen, in een poging het land te kunnen redden van het verachtelijke uitschot dat het GOP 'leadership' heet. Laten we hopen dat het op tijd komt.

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Numb to Outrage, Republican Voters Feel a Deepening Bond to Trump

LEESBURG, Va. — Gina Anders knows the feeling well by now. President Trump says or does something that triggers a spasm of outrage. She doesn’t necessarily agree with how he handled the situation. She gets why people are upset.

But Ms. Anders, 46, a Republican from suburban Loudoun County, Va., with a law degree, a business career, and not a stitch of “Make America Great Again” gear in her wardrobe, is moved to defend him anyway.

“All nuance and all complexity — and these are complex issues — are completely lost,” she said, describing “overblown” reactions from the president’s critics, some of whom equated the Trump administration’s policy of separating migrant children and parents to history’s greatest atrocities.

“It makes me angry at them, which causes me to want to defend him to them more,” Ms. Anders said.

In interviews across the country over the last few days, dozens of Trump voters, as well as pollsters and strategists, described something like a bonding experience with the president that happens each time Republicans have to answer a now-familiar question: “How can you possibly still support this man?” Their resilience suggests a level of unity among Republicans that could help mitigate Mr. Trump’s low overall approval ratings and aid his party’s chances of keeping control of the House of Representatives in November.

“He’s not a perfect guy; he does some stupid stuff,” said Tony Schrantz, 50, of Lino Lakes, Minn., the owner of a water systems leak detection business. “But when they’re hounding him all the time it just gets old. Give the guy a little.”

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Republican voters repeatedly described an instinctive, protective response to the president, and their support has grown in recent months: Mr. Trump’s approval rating among Republicans is now about 90 percent. And while polling has yet to capture the effect of the last week’s immigration controversy, the only modern Republican president more popular with his party than Mr. Trump at this point in his first term, according to Gallup, was George W. Bush after the country united in the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks.



Mr. Trump has also retained support across a range of demographics other than the working-class voters who are most identified with him. This includes portions of the wealthy college-educated people in swing counties, like Virginia’s Loudoun, in the country’s most politically competitive states.

Many of these voters say their lives and the country are improving under his presidency, and the endless stream of tough cable news coverage and bad headlines about Mr. Trump only galvanizes them further — even though some displayed discomfort on their faces when asked about the child separation policy, and expressed misgivings about the president’s character.

“It bothers me that he doesn’t tell the truth, but I guess I kind of expect that, and I expect that from the media, too — not to always tell the truth or to slant it one way,” said Julie Knight, 63, a retired personal injury case manager from Algona, Wash.

The increasingly tribalized politics on the left and right have helped insulate Mr. Trump from the paroxysms that have jolted his party and eroded longstanding expectations of restraint, humility and honesty in American presidents. This era of tumult has left Democrats energized and determined to win back Congress and act as a check on Mr. Trump, and their intensity has been reflected by strong turnouts in the primaries so far. But still, in just the last year and a half, Mr. Trump has bounced back from crises that at the time seemed as if they might be too severe for him to recover politically.

He tried to unilaterally bar visitors from several Muslim countries from the United States, angering U.S. allies and provoking clashes with Congress and the courts over the limits of executive power. He praised some “very fine people” at a deadly white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va., in remarks that shook some members of his cabinet so deeply that they considered resigning. He defended Roy S. Moore, a Senate candidate in Alabama who was accused of fondling teenage girls, by suggesting that the allegations were old and possibly made-up.

And so as another immigration crisis of his own making smoldered this past week, critics inside and outside Mr. Trump’s party predicted another devastating, irremediable low point in his presidency. Yet many Trump voters said that they no longer had the patience or interest to listen to what they see as another hysterical outburst by Democrats, Republican “Never Trumpers” and the media.



“It’s kind of like when you experience a sensation over and over and over again,” said Daniel Arnold, 32, a warehouse manager from Leesburg, Va., about an hour outside Washington. “A sensation is no longer a sensation. It’s just, ‘Oh, here we are again.’”

For many Republicans, the audio of children sobbing at a migrant detention center barely registered, because these voters don’t pay attention to the left-leaning and mainstream media that have covered the family separation crisis far more than their preferred channel, Fox News.

“I think it’s terrible about the kids getting split up from their parents. But the parents shouldn’t have been here,” said Lynn Dittbenner, 65, of Elk River, Minn., who took the day off from relaxing with her family at their lake cabin to hear the president speak at a rally in Duluth on Wednesday.

Others said they saw a ploy by the president’s enemies to obscure news that was more favorable to him, like the internal Justice Department investigation that recently uncovered evidence of F.B.I. agents speaking disparagingly of Mr. Trump.

“It’s just incredible what the nation is trying to do to disrupt this president and his agenda,” said Jeff Butts, 58, an unemployed sales manager from Leesburg. “We don’t get to hear about that. We only get to hear about the crying babies on the border.”

Sometimes they seized on made-up or erroneous story lines that were mostly absent from the mainstream media.

“Those cages and those families — that was actually filmed during the Obama administration, not the Trump administration,” said Clayton Smith, 57, a commercial lending underwriter from Cary, Ill., a Chicago suburb.

Mr. Smith was correct about one image. He was referring to a story that was covered widely in the conservative media over the last few weeks about one of President Obama’s former speechwriters who tweeted a picture of immigrant children sleeping in a chain-link pen. “This is happening right now,” the tweet said, despite the fact that the picture was from 2014 when Mr. Obama was president. (He later deleted it and acknowledged the error.)

As isolated as those examples are, they are validating for people who believe their political beliefs are constantly held under a microscope and vilified.

“I don’t have friends anymore because I’ve switched parties,” said Judy Brana, 66, a retired music and art teacher from St. Cloud, Minn., who left home at 10:30 on Wednesday morning to make the two-and-a-half-hour drive up to Duluth for the president’s rally.

“Friends I’ve had for 40 years,” she added. “It’s insane, that’s what I’ll tell you.”

Another factor that seems to be driving up support is a sense that no one is acknowledging Mr. Trump’s successes, which they see as manifold, historic and irrefutable.

“Let’s see,” said John Westling, 70, of Princeton, Minn., reciting a list of the president’s accomplishments that he said no one in the media wants to talk about. “Economy booming, check. Unemployment down, check. Border security being addressed, check. Possible end to the Korean War that started when I was 3 years old, 68 years ago, check.”

“I suspect that if Trump walked across Lake Mille Lacs,” Mr. Westling added, “the media would announce, ‘Trump can’t swim!’”

As measured by the Gallup daily presidential approval tracking poll, Mr. Trump has averaged 87 percent job approval from fellow Republicans in his second year in office, up from 83 percent in his first year. And during the past two weeks, his approval rating hit 90 percent with Republicans.

Yet some say their patience with Mr. Trump’s divisive style is not limitless. Gary Winthorpe, a 17-year-old high school student who was on his way to see the president speak in Minnesota on Wednesday, said he hopes that the first vote he casts for president in 2020 is for Mr. Trump. But he acknowledged being wary at times, aware of protests against the president.

“I’m not blindly for Donald Trump,” he said. “I have a fair bit of skepticism toward him. But I feel like he is trying his best.”

Mr. Trump fared much worse than prior Republican candidates among well-educated and affluent white voters, and became the first Republican to win the presidency while losing white college graduates. But he nonetheless won considerable support among college-educated and affluent voters. He retains much of that support today. According to a Pew Research survey this month, approximately 31 percent of Trump approvers are white men without a college degree, and 66 percent are either college graduates, women or nonwhite.



According to Gallup, Mr. Trump’s popularity with college-educated voters has remained about equal to his popularity with Americans overall this year.

There is some evidence that Mr. Trump’s base of support may have shrunk slightly, though. In recent polls from Gallup and Morning Consult, the numbers of people who identified as Republicans were about 2 percentage points smaller than they were in early 2017.

Among Democrats, Mr. Trump’s initial approval has been historically low, failing to reach 15 percent since he took office. Presidents have traditionally come in with at least a moderate amount of support from the opposing party.



Just as Mr. Trump has changed the makeup of the Republican coalition, he also appears to have helped change the views of the people who support him.

Republicans appear to have developed more forgiving views on morality and public service in recent years, for example. In 2011, one in three Republicans thought an elected official who commits immoral acts in private life could act ethically in public life, according to a Public Religion Research Institute/Brookings survey. By 2016, seven out of 10 did. The trend was especially pronounced among white evangelicals, who strongly supported Mr. Trump and went from being the least likely to the most likely to agree that a candidate’s personal immorality had nothing to do with public service.

The percentage of Republicans who say they have a favorable view of Vladimir Putin, the Russian president for whom Mr. Trump has repeatedly expressed fondness, has doubled from 2015 to 2017 to 24 percent, according to Gallup. Among Democrats, Mr. Putin’s popularity has plummeted.

Even if Mr. Trump wasn’t at the center of the national conversation, Ms. Anders, the Loudoun County business executive, said she thinks that the country would still be polarized. But as long as he is, she said, people on the right and the left will probably continue to dig in based on what Mr. Trump does and how his opponents respond.

“It all coalesces around Trump,” she said. “It’s either, ‘Trump wants to put people in cages, in concentration camps.’ Or, on the other side, ‘Oh the left just wants everybody to come into the country illegally so they can get voters.’”

She concluded: “We can’t have a conversation.”

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 21:17 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Huckabee Sanders uit restaurant gezet omdat ze voor Trump werkt liegt : https://www.nu.nl/buitenl(...)uurd-restaurant.html

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 21:17 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Huckabee Sanders uit restaurant gezet omdat ze voor Trump werkt: https://www.nu.nl/buitenl(...)uurd-restaurant.html

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Nail manufacturing exec who voted for Trump blames him for layoffs, asks Democrat for help

An executive for the largest U.S. nail producer who voted for President Trump, said he is so dismayed by the president's trade policies that he is lobbying a Democratic senator for help.

George Skarich, vice president of sales for Missouri-based Mid Continent Nail Corporation, told The New York Times that his nail company could soon go out of business.

“He ran on ‘Make America Great Again,’ and the point was to defend and protect jobs in the United States,” Skarich told the Times.

“Now here is an action he decides to take that has the potential to cost 500 U.S. citizens their jobs,” he added, referring to the 25 percent tariffs on steel imports that Trump announced in March.

The tariffs, Skarich said, prompted his company to have to raise its prices by almost 20 percent. Skarich told the Times that his company's orders have dropped by half this month, facing stiff competition from cheaper foreign manufacturers.

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 21:38 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Prijs van Amerikaans staal gestegen van rond 700 dollar per ton in januari naar 941 dollar/ton in april.
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https://reason.com/blog/2(...)merican-steel-prices

En buitenlands staal wordt 25% duurder door de tarieven, waardoor Amerikaanse spijkers 20% duurder worden, ongeacht ze binnenlands of buitenlands staal gebruiken. Geïmporteerde spijkers daarentegen stijgen niet in prijs...

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http://thehill.com/homene(...)him-for-layoffs-asks

Will Trump's tariffs help U.S. workers? It could be a wash

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 21:43 schreef livelink het volgende:

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Interessant. Ik zag laatst ook een filmpje over Whirlpool, die ook om tariffs had gevraagd en gekregen en vervolgens zelf de prijzen had verhoogd.

Will Trump's tariffs help U.S. workers? It could be a wash

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 21:17 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Huckabee Sanders uit restaurant gezet omdat ze voor Trump werkt: https://www.nu.nl/buitenl(...)uurd-restaurant.html

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 21:57 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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De omschrijving lijkt me niet terecht, ze zou uit het restaurant zijn gezet vanwege uitspraken die ze zelf heeft gedaan (in haar hoedanigheid als woordvoerder van Trump) en dus niet enkel vanwege haar werkgever.

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 21:57 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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De omschrijving lijkt me niet terecht, ze zou uit het restaurant zijn gezet vanwege uitspraken die ze zelf heeft gedaan (in haar hoedanigheid als woordvoerder van Trump) en dus niet enkel vanwege haar werkgever.

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zaterdag 23-06-2018 om 21:25:06 There are few things more gratifying in my role as an advocate than when a whistleblower trusts me with explosive information (docs, images, etc.) and looks to me to ensure it is released for maximum impact for the public good. Today is another such day. #BuckleUp #Basta reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 22:06 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Het artikel is aangepast (expliciete redenen van wegsturen staat er nu bij). De link naar de naar de WaPo stond er eerder ook niet.

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Lexington, population 7,000, had voted overwhelmingly against Trump in a county that voted overwhelmingly for him.

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 21:38 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Nail manufacturing exec who voted for Trump blames him for layoffs,

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 17:38 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Mja, conservatieven misschien, republikeinen lijkt het niet te deren, integendeel ... zojuist nog een artikel in de NYTimes:

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Religious leaders and former judges filed a complaint on Wednesday asking the Washington D.C. Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to revoke the Trump International Hotel’s liquor license because of President Trump’s character.

The complaint argues that a D.C. liquor license can be suspended or revoked if the “true and actual owner" of an establishment is not a person of "good character."

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The group lists lies the president has told, sexual assault accusations against Trump and alleged racist acts.

They also call out Trump for his “failure to abide by the law and to repudiate associations with known criminals.”

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poniewozik twitterde op zaterdag 23-06-2018 om 20:09:22 The Red Hen should have just taken Sarah Sanders' order, then spent an hour saying, "We'll get back to you on that." reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 24-06-2018 om 14:15:00 Flashback. September 2017.The Trump administration rejects a study showing the positive effect of refugees. https://t.co/wZAMSZ6rl2 reageer retweet

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Trump administration officials, under pressure from the White House to provide a rationale for reducing the number of refugees allowed into the United States next year, rejected a study by the Department of Health and Human Services that found that refugees brought in $63 billion more in government revenues over the past decade than they cost.

The draft report, which was obtained by The New York Times, contradicts a central argument made by advocates of deep cuts in refugee totals as President Trump faces an Oct. 1 deadline to decide on an allowable number. The issue has sparked intense debate within his administration as opponents of the program, led by Mr. Trump’s chief policy adviser, Stephen Miller, assert that continuing to welcome refugees is too costly and raises concerns about terrorism.

Advocates of the program inside and outside the administration say refugees are a major benefit to the United States, paying more in taxes than they consume in public benefits, and filling jobs in service industries that others will not. But research documenting their fiscal upside — prepared for a report mandated by Mr. Trump in a March presidential memorandum implementing his travel ban — never made its way to the White House. Some of those proponents believe the report was suppressed.

The internal study, which was completed in late July but never publicly released, found that refugees “contributed an estimated $269.1 billion in revenues to all levels of government” between 2005 and 2014 through the payment of federal, state and local taxes. “Overall, this report estimated that the net fiscal impact of refugees was positive over the 10-year period, at $63 billion.”

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John Graham, the acting assistant secretary for planning and evaluation at the health department, said: “We do not comment on allegedly leaked documents” and that no report had been finalized. He noted that Mr. Trump’s memorandum “seeks an analysis related to the cost of refugee programs. Therefore, the only analysis in the scope of H.H.S.’s response to the memo would be on refugee-related expenditures from data within H.H.S. programs.”

The three-page report the agency ultimately submitted, dated Sept. 5, does just that, using government data to compare the costs of refugees to Americans and making no mention of revenues contributed by refugees.

“In an average year over the 10-year period, per-capita refugee costs for major H.H.S. programs totaled $3,300,” it says. “Per-person costs for the U.S. population were lower, at $2,500, reflecting a greater participation of refugees in H.H.S. programs, especially during their first four years” in the United States.

It was not clear who in the administration decided to keep the information out of the final report. An internal email, dated Sept. 5 and sent among officials from government agencies involved in refugee issues, said that “senior leadership is questioning the assumptions used to produce the report.” A separate email said that Mr. Miller had requested a meeting to discuss the report. The Times was shown the emails on condition that the sender not be identified. Mr. Miller personally intervened in the discussions on the refugee cap to ensure that only the costs — not any fiscal benefit — of the program were considered, according to two people familiar with the talks.

He has also played a crucial role in the internal discussions over refugee admissions, which are capped by an annual presidential determination that is usually coordinated by the National Security Council and led in large part by the State Department.

This year, officials at the State Department as well as the Department of Defense have argued vociferously that the United States should admit no fewer than the 50,000-refugee cap that Mr. Trump imposed in January as part of the travel ban, but Mr. Miller has advocated for a much lower number — half or less, according to people familiar with the internal talks who described them on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to detail them. The Department of Homeland Security last week proposed a cap of 40,000. The limits being debated would be the lowest in more than three decades.

“We see an administration that’s running a program that it’s intent on destroying,” said Mark Hetfield, the president of HIAS, one of nine refugee resettlement agencies opposing the cut in admissions. “We do have champions in the White House and in the administration, but they’re not being given a voice in this.”

The issue is coming to a head as Mr. Trump attends the United Nations General Assembly this week for the first time as president. The United Nations has repeatedly appealed to nations to resettle 1.2 million refugees fleeing war and persecution from all over the world, and former President Barack Obama used the gathering last year to tout his goal of admitting 110,000 refugees in the fiscal year that ends this month, and to pressure other countries to follow the lead of the United States in embracing more displaced people.

Mr. Trump, by contrast, has highlighted his goal of radically cutting refugee admissions. The president moved swiftly after taking office to crack down on refugees, issuing his original ban against travelers from seven predominantly Muslim countries only a week after taking office.

Facing legal challenges to that order, his administration released a second travel ban two months later against six countries, along with a presidential memorandum in which Mr. Trump called on the secretary of state to consult with the secretaries of Health and Human Services and Homeland Security and his White House budget director and submit within 180 days “a report detailing the estimated long-term costs of the United States Refugee Admissions Program at the federal, state, and local levels, along with recommendations about how to curtail those costs.”

The budget Mr. Trump released in May argued that refugees and other immigrants were a fiscal drain. “Under the refugee program, the federal government brings tens of thousands of entrants into the United States, on top of existing legal immigration flows, who are instantly eligible for time-limited cash benefits and numerous noncash federal benefits, including food assistance through SNAP, medical care and education, as well as a host of state and local benefits,” the document said.

It would be less costly, it argued, if there were fewer refugees, since “each refugee admitted into the United States comes at the expense of helping a potentially greater number out of country.” Inside the administration, those who espouse this view argue that any research purporting to illustrate fiscal benefits of refugees is flawed and reflects only wishful thinking.

As Mr. Trump deliberates privately about the issue, a coalition of human rights and religious groups as well as former national security officials in both parties has formed to encourage him not to allow the refugee cap to plummet.

“From a national security standpoint, while we can’t take an unlimited number of refugees, we need to show our friends and allies that we stand with them and this is a shared burden,” said Michael Chertoff, the secretary of homeland security under George W. Bush.

“They’ve generated a lot of economic value,” Mr. Chertoff added in an interview. “I don’t think refugees are coming to take American jobs.”

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Op zondag 24 juni 2018 07:52 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
De VS tarieven op 50 miljard aan Chinese import zijn vooral gericht op produktiegoederen. Op de eerste voorlopige lijst stonden nog consumptiegoederen, op de definitieve lijsten zijn die afwezig.

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"Secretary Nielsen, Class of ’90, does not reflect the core values that were taught at our independent high school, especially the value ingrained in most graduates’ heads: Make a positive difference, and use your privilege for good," the group of alumni wrote in a press release.

This comes just a day after Nielsen declined to apologize for the administration’s family separation practices.

"We will not apologize for the job we do or for the job law enforcement does for doing the job that the American people expect us to do," Nielsen said on Monday. "Illegal actions have and must have consequences. No more free passes, no more get out of jail free cards."

The group of alumni says that Secretary Nielsen’s agency has the power to halt the practice of separating children from their parents at the border but that she instead, shifted the blame to Congress.

In a letter to Berkeley Preparatory School Headmaster Joseph Seivold, the group asked:

"Today, we respectfully request that you condemn the policies causing the separation of children from their families at the US-Mexico border, implemented and enforced by Secretary of Homeland Security Kirstjen Nielsen — known to us as Kirstjen Nielsen, Class of 1990."

The petition has already received more than 500 signatures.

Wednesday, ABC Action News spoke to one of the co-writers of the letter.

Richard Stull said, "A huge part of the school's mission is to bring up students that make a positive difference in the world. I don't think there is any way to spin creating camps for children in this kind of manner makes a positive difference in the world."

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STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Three-quarters of Americans think immigration is a good thing

• 65% of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents agree

• 39% say immigration should be kept at present level, 28% say increased

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A record-high 75% of Americans, including majorities of all party groups, think immigration is a good thing for the U.S. -- up slightly from 71% last year. Just 19% of the public considers immigration a bad thing.



The latest findings are based on a Gallup poll conducted June 1-13, a key time for immigration reform in the U.S. as the House of Representatives debates the issue. The House will vote this week on two pieces of legislation that address several key immigration policy reforms. Among them are the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) protections for immigrants who entered the U.S. illegally at a young age with their parents and the border wall that has been the cornerstone of President Donald Trump's immigration policy.

At the same time, Trump has been under strong bipartisan pressure to amend the "zero-tolerance" policy that resulted in the separation from their parents of more than 2,000 children of migrants illegally crossing the U.S. border from Mexico in recent months. Trump bowed to the pressure on Wednesday, signing an executive order to keep children and their parents in the same location.

Meanwhile, proposed legislation by conservative members of Congress would include actions to cut back on the number of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S. legally. Republican legislators are facing a public that is largely supportive of immigration into the U.S., in general. In all but one year since Gallup started asking this question in 2001, majorities of Americans across party lines have viewed immigration as positive for the U.S. The exception came in 2002, when slightly less than half of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents thought immigration was a good thing, although 58% of Democrats and Democratic leaners held this view. So a majority nationally, 52%, were still positive. This was recorded about nine months after the 9/11 terrorist attacks were committed by hijackers holding legal visas. Currently, 85% of Democrats and Democratic leaners and 65% of Republicans and Republican leaners view immigration positively.

Given attempts by the Trump administration to cut back on legal immigration, Gallup tested an alternative wording to this question for the first time this year -- asking half of the respondents about "legal immigration," whereas the trend question does not specify a particular type of immigration. Americans are more likely to support legal immigration, with 84% describing it as a good thing, nine percentage points higher than the reading for "immigration."



Eighty percent of Republicans and leaners and 92% of Democrats and leaners say legal immigration is a good thing for the U.S.

Fewer Americans Call for a Decrease in Immigration Levels

Corroborating the data that show Americans believe immigration is good for the country, a separate Gallup trend question shows a record-low number of Americans -- 29% -- saying that immigration into the U.S. should be decreased. A plurality of 39% think immigration into the U.S. should be kept at its present level, while 28% say it should be increased.

These results mark a six-point drop from one year ago in the percentage of those preferring a reduction in immigration. In the past 20 years, the highest reading for those calling for a decrease in immigration levels was in October 2001, about a month after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the U.S.



The change in "decreased" sentiment was roughly uniform across party affiliation. Currently, 44% of Democrats and Democratic leaners would prefer immigration to be kept at the present level, 36% would like it increased and 15% say it should be decreased. Among Republicans and Republican leaners, 35% think immigration should be kept at its current level, 20% would like it increased and 42% say decreased.

Gallup also tested an alternative wording on this question for the first time by asking half of respondents about "immigration" and half about "legal immigration." Those asked the "legal immigration" question were more likely than those asked the "immigration" question to support increasing the level, 34% versus 28%, respectively.

Implications

U.S. immigration policy was a key part of Trump's 2016 presidential campaign, and it has been an area of significant action because his administration has targeted both legal and illegal immigration with its policies. Since taking office, Trump has issued a travel ban for residents of a number of primarily Muslim countries, continued to press for a wall along the Southern U.S. border and sought to end the DACA program, in addition to a number of other less visible actions.

Gallup polling has shown that the public is at odds with Trump over the border wall and strongly favors allowing DACA children to remain in the U.S. and have a path to citizenship. More generally, Americans' strong belief that immigration is a good thing for the country and that immigration levels shouldn't be decreased present the president and Congress with some tough decisions as the midterm elections loom.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 24-06-2018 om 17:02:02 We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents... reageer retweet

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Op zondag 24 juni 2018 18:25 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 24-06-2018 om 17:02:02 We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents... reageer retweet

'with no Judges or Court Cases'

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Op zaterdag 23 juni 2018 17:38 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Mja, conservatieven misschien, republikeinen lijkt het niet te deren, integendeel ... zojuist nog een artikel in de NYTimes:

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tedlieu twitterde op zondag 24-06-2018 om 09:06:06 Dear @nytimes: Is the Gina Anders who you feature in your story as not having "a stitch of MAGA gear" the same one who is a BOARD MEMBER of the ultraconservative WVLPAC? That PAC seeks to defend Confederate statues & nullify the ACA.You may want to correct your misleading story https://t.co/gn6TCY9ebn reageer retweet

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The Loyal Trump Supporter Isn’t The Same As The Persuadable Trump Voter (Washington Monthly)

Yesterday the New York Times published yet another entry in the “Trump supporters still support Trump” genre that has become so tired by now as to venture into self-parody. Once again, we hear from base Republican voters who don’t seem the sort to have voted for a Democrat in decades, explain their cognitive dissonance in continuing to support a cruel, incompetent serial abuser and philanderer. And in each of these stories, it’s fairly obvious that most core Trump support boils down to a few standard issues: racism, sexism, and/or allegiance to standard Republican worldviews on taxes, the role of government and such. In the latest story, the particular Trump supporter interviewed, a woman named Gina Anders, turns out to be a board member of an ultra-conservative PAC. A previous piece at the New York Times by SE Cupp failed to disclose in the original version that its interviewee was literally a county Republican official. How is this useful journalism?

Numerous studies have shown that there is a huge difference between the two party bases in terms of how malleable their values by whoever happens to be the party leader at the time: Republicans, being more authoritarian in general, are much quicker to shift their views and morph their value systems depending on whatever Fox News and the GOP leadership happen to be saying at the time. So it’s entirely unsurprising that the same people who pretended to be aghast over the moral direction of the country when a Democratic president lied about some hanky panky, are now utterly unconcerned about Trump’s grossly immoral sexual behavior. Partisans of all stripes will make some excuses for their own, and interviewing fierce partisans about the foibles of their own candidates is rarely interesting.

Far more interesting is what the persuadable voter thinks. Asking strong Democrats about Bill Clinton in the 1990s would have made for boring and repetitive interviews, but it’s possible that Clinton’s behavior was the last straw for some socially conservative Democrats who finally flipped to the GOP and presaged the election of George W. Bush. Those would have been valuable journalism.

Similarly, it’s not compelling to talk to people who voted for McCain and Romney and are still committed to conservative worldviews and find that lo and behold, they also still support Trump. Of course they do! Trump is still the best avenue they have to enacting their agenda, flawed as they may or may not see him. There is a preponderance of Never Trump conservatives like George Will in the media and political consulting business, but they are vanishingly rare in the general electorate.

Much more interesting are the Obama-Trump voters who switched from Democratic to Trump after voting twice for an African-American president. There aren’t many of them, but they’re much more interesting than the standard racist Republican, and their votes in the upper midwest were determinative. Similarly, the 5% to 10% of Trump voters who no longer have a favorable impression of the president are the difference between a massive blue wave that sweeps Democrats into power in Congress, and a fizzle that keeps the House in Republican hands. Profiles of disaffected Trump voters would be far more instructive in the current political moment.

This difference also tends impact the way in which the participants in the “racism versus economic anxiety” debate tend to talk past one another, because they’re both right. Almost no one in the progressive movement would deny that racism is the core driving motivator for the vast bulk of the Republican electorate, including Trump’s base and those who attend his rallies. The average Trump voter is an economically comfortable white suburbanite who politics are unquestionably deplorable. The question of economic anxiety concerns the much smaller group of persuadable voters: Obama-Trump switchers in economically depressed rural communities who made massive, double-digit swings from one side to the other in just four years, whose factories have not returned and who stand to lose big in Trump’s trade wars. It’s entirely possible if not highly likely that the Trump phenomenon was 95% racism and 5% economic anxiety–and most progressives would argue that Republicanism has always been thus in almost all its aspects–but that it was the economics that proved determinative with the swing portion of the electorate. Is that still the case, or has Trump lost them? That would be interesting and useful content.

Similarly, suburban socially liberal but economically conservative voters seem to be engaged in a realignment toward the Democrats very similar to the realignment of socially conservative Dixiecrats to the Republican Party from 1970 through to 2000. That’s a crucial story waiting to be better profiled as well.

As Jeet Heer says at The New Republic:
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At issue here is the risk of misreading the political landscape. The voters who are sticking with Trump are hard-core partisans like Anders and Maurer. But there might be another class of marginal Republicans who are wavering in their commitment or who have abandoned the party altogether. Deep in his article, Peters notes, “There is some evidence that Mr. Trump’s base of support may have shrunk slightly, though. In recent polls from Gallup and Morning Consult, the numbers of people who identified as Republicans were about 2 percentage points smaller than they were in early 2017.” It might be more illuminating to interview those who are leaving the Republican Party to figure out who the real persuadable voters are.
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Indeed.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 24-06-2018 om 18:05:08 Republican lawmakers are preparing to vote on a more narrow immigration bill that would allow immigrant children to stay in detention facilities with their parents for more than 20 days, senior White House and Hill officials tell ABC News. https://t.co/A1cAR0EB4S reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 24-06-2018 om 18:30:23 Central American men separated from their children and held in a detention facility outside Houston are being told they can reunite with their kids at the airport if they agree to sign a voluntary deportation order now, the Texas Tribune reports. https://t.co/N5vLe6AgjQ reageer retweet

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Op zondag 24 juni 2018 18:25 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 24-06-2018 om 17:02:02 We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents... reageer retweet

'with no Judges or Court Cases'

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Op zondag 24 juni 2018 19:22 schreef Doublepain het volgende:

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Hoe durft hij illegalen meteen terug te sturen!!

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Op zondag 24 juni 2018 19:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Precies, wie is er niet gewoon voor om alle moordenaars en dieven op te sluiten? Rechters zijn gewoon baantjesjagers in de bureaucratie.

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Op zondag 24 juni 2018 18:25 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order.

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Op zondag 24 juni 2018 19:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Precies, wie is er niet gewoon voor om alle moordenaars en dieven op te sluiten? Rechters zijn gewoon baantjesjagers in de bureaucratie.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 24-06-2018 om 22:12:25 The United States is insisting that all countries that have placed artificial Trade Barriers and Tariffs on goods going into their country, remove those Barriers & Tariffs or be met with more than Reciprocity by the U.S.A. Trade must be fair and no longer a one way street! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 24 juni 2018 22:59 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 24-06-2018 om 22:12:25 The United States is insisting that all countries that have placed artificial Trade Barriers and Tariffs on goods going into their country, remove those Barriers & Tariffs or be met with more than Reciprocity by the U.S.A. Trade must be fair and no longer a one way street! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 24 juni 2018 22:59 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 24-06-2018 om 22:12:25 The United States is insisting that all countries that have placed artificial Trade Barriers and Tariffs on goods going into their country, remove those Barriers & Tariffs or be met with more than Reciprocity by the U.S.A. Trade must be fair and no longer a one way street! reageer retweet

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Stormy Daniels’ lawyer says the porn actress’ meeting with federal prosecutors in New York who are investigating President Donald Trump’s longtime lawyer has been cancelled.

Michael Avenatti says he received a call late Sunday night from two prosecutors who said they were concerned about media interest in the interview and cancelled the meeting.

A person familiar with the matter had told The Associated Press that the meeting planned for Monday was in anticipation of a possible grand jury appearance. They are investigating the business interests of Trump’s longtime personal attorney, Michael Cohen.

The person wasn’t authorized to discuss the matter publicly and spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity.

Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has said she had sex with Trump in 2006 when he was married. Trump has denied it.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 02:42 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
‘You’re out of your cotton-picking mind’: A Fox News guest explains hate speech to a black man

David Bossie Tells Democrat Joel Payne ‘You’re Out of Your Cotton-Picking Mind’ About Dog Whistles

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Nikki Haley: 'Ridiculous' for UN to analyze poverty in America

U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley on Thursday dismissed a poverty report by the United Nations, saying it’s “ridiculous” for the intergovernmental body to analyze American poverty.

“It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America,” Haley said in a letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

“The Special Rapporteur wasted the UN’s time and resources, deflecting attention from the world’s worst human rights abusers and focusing instead on the wealthiest and freest country in the world.”

Sanders, along with several Democratic lawmakers in both chambers, earlier this month sent a letter to Haley asking her to show President Trump the conclusions of the report published by the United Nations Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights.

The report blamed poverty in the United States on politics.

“At the end of the day, however, particularly in a rich country like the United States, the persistence of extreme poverty is a political choice made by those in power,” the report reads. “With political will, it could readily be eliminated.”

The report said American democracy "is being steadily undermined" and provided several suggestions for how to alleviate poverty in the U.S. The recommendations said American citizens must realize taxes "are in their interest" and that the U.S. "must recognize a right to health care."

Sanders and the other Democrats called upon the Trump administration to provide Congress with a strategy to act on suggestions made in the United Nations report.

But Haley in her response to Sanders slammed the report as “misleading and politically motivated.”

“The report categorically misstated the progress the United States has made in addressing poverty and purposely used misleading facts and figures in its biased reporting,” Haley wrote.

“There is no question that poverty in America remains a serious concern, but it does no one any good to inaccurately describe its prevalence or its causes.”

Sanders quickly responded to Haley, saying he believes “it is totally appropriate” for the United Nations to publish a report on poverty in America.

“I hope you will agree that in a nation in which the top three people own more wealth than the bottom half, we can and must do much better than that,” Sanders wrote in his reply.

The senator told Haley he’d “love the opportunity” to talk to her about poverty when he is in New York.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 08:56 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Kan iemand mij uitleggen wat in vredesnaam het idee is achter die handelsoorlog en hoe Trump daar profijt van denkt te hebben?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 08:56 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Kan iemand mij uitleggen wat in vredesnaam het idee is achter die handelsoorlog en hoe Trump daar profijt van denkt te hebben?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 04-06-2014 om 17:37:14 US trade deficit hit $64B+ in April, 2 yr record high http://t.co/e5RuDJxexp We must do better. China is ripping us. Bring the jobs home! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 08:26 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
“It is patently ridiculous for the United Nations to examine poverty in America,” Haley said in a letter to Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.).

“The Special Rapporteur wasted the UN’s time and resources, deflecting attention from the world’s worst human rights abusers and focusing instead on the wealthiest and freest country in the world.”

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Alston carried out his investigation at the formal invitation of the Trump administration.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 09:15 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://www.theguardian.c(...)olitically-motivated

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 09:17 schreef nostra het volgende:

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_!
Wat bestaan er toch een zeldzaam domme mensen.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 08:56 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Kan iemand mij uitleggen wat in vredesnaam het idee is achter die handelsoorlog en hoe Trump daar profijt van denkt te hebben?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 02:42 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
‘You’re out of your cotton-picking mind’: A Fox News guest explains hate speech to a black man

David Bossie Tells Democrat Joel Payne ‘You’re Out of Your Cotton-Picking Mind’ About Dog Whistles

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 09:52 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Dit gaat over beperkingen op Chinese investeringen in Amerikaanse technologiebedrijven. Het is gericht tegen "Made in China 2025", ze willen de technologische vooruitgang van China afremmen, daarom ook dat de tarieven produktiegoederen viseerden. Ik neem aan dat dit plan ruime bipartisan steun zal krijgen. Je ziet het ook aan de haast dagelijkse berichten over Chinese hackers, spionage etc..

Andere landen beperken ook Chinese investeringen, in Vlaanderen was er bvb de 14% participatie in netwerkbeheerder Eandis (Elektriciteit, Aardgas, Netten en DIStributie) door het Chinese State Grid, afgeschoten nadat een nota van de Staatsveiligheid was uitgelekt over gevaar voor spionage en banden met het Chinese leger.
Elia heeft in maart haar belang in de Duitse dochtermaatschappij opgetrokken om daar een 20% participatie van State Grid tegen te houden, maar blijkbaar doen ze een nieuwe poging...

De Europese Commissie gaat ook strenger toezien op overnames door Chinese staatsbedrijven. Maar het Amerikaanse plan gaat verder, die willen China ook en vooral technologische ontwikkelingen onthouden.
Of het op lange termijn veel verschil zal maken? Zelf ontwikkelen gaat trager, maar het levert ervaring op. ZTE was twee jaar geleden wereldleider qua aantal goedgekeurde patentaanvragen dacht ik.

Betekent natuurlijk dat China ook minder geneigd is om zelf buitenlandse bedrijven toe te laten, en China is de grootste, snelst groeiende consumer market.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 10:03 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Trumps strijd gaat verder dan alleen China. Dat blijkt ook uit de Tweet die jij hier eerder hebt gepost. Hij lijkt met de hele wereld een handelsoorlog te willen voeren. Daar kan ik met mijn verstand niet bij.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 10:31 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Tja, overmoed, ego, achterban bespelen... In de sector waar hij in zat hadden zulke taktieken misschien succes, winst en verlies lijkt er eerder afhankelijk van naambekendheid en PR dan van goed managment (kijk hoe de prijzen omhoog gegaan zijn in z'n hotels en Mar a Lago sinds ie president is). En hij kan de tarieven elk moment stopzetten, het is niet alsof hij nog geloofwaardigheid te verliezen heeft. Van Zuid Korea hadden ze toegevingen afgedwongen, misschien denkt ie dat het met iedereen zal lukken. Met z'n flagrante leugens is het trouwens moeilijk te weten wat ie precies wil, hij liegt over de huidige situatie, zou hij een waardeloze deal als overwinning presenteren, of zou ie zelfs de beste deal als waardeloos bestempelen?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 09:03 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Mja, hij geeft onder andere deze reden aan:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 04-06-2014 om 17:37:14 US trade deficit hit $64B+ in April, 2 yr record high http://t.co/e5RuDJxexp We must do better. China is ripping us. Bring the jobs home! reageer retweet

Dus een handelstekort is voor hem een reden om het gelijk te willen trekken. Wie wil immers iets wat tekort in het woord heeft zitten, nietwaar? _{Behalve op de staatsbegroting.}

Daarnaast heeft hij in het verleden specifiek over China aangegeven dat hij vindt dat ze oneerlijke handelspraktijken erop nahouden, zoals het oneerlijk beinvloeden van de munt, het dichthouden van hun grenzen als protectionistische maatregel terwijl ze in zijn ogen geen ontwikkelingsland meer zijn, het zich niet houden aan intellectueel eigendomsrechten.

Hoe dit allemaal rijmt met bv. een handelsoorlog met Canada snap ik niet, maar met de EU en China is het volgens mij zo'n beetje bovenstaande.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 09:03 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

Hoe dit allemaal rijmt met bv. een handelsoorlog met Canada snap ik niet, maar met de EU en China is het volgens mij zo'n beetje bovenstaande.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 13:41:25 The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 13:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 13:41:25 The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside! reageer retweet

Mag je als POTUS en eigenaar van HOreca gelegenheden een concurrent afzeiken?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 14:19 schreef Tocadisco het volgende:

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Ik denk niet dat het zo veel minder kosjer is dan als eigenaar mensen waar je het politiek niet mee eens zet uit je zaak gooien.

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 14:20:09 Harley-Davidson, facing rising costs from new tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles heading for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas. https://t.co/3lGlc7LQBC reageer retweet

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MILWAUKEE (AP) — Harley-Davidson, up against spiraling costs from tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles headed for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas.

The European Union on Friday began rolling out tariffs on American imports like bourbon, peanut butter and orange juice. The EU tariffs on $3.4 billion worth of U.S. products are retaliation for duties the Trump administration is imposing on European steel and aluminum.

Harley-Davidson Inc. sold almost 40,000 motorcycles in the Europe Union last year, generating revenue second only to the United States, according to the company.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 14:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 14:20:09 Harley-Davidson, facing rising costs from new tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles heading for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas. https://t.co/3lGlc7LQBC reageer retweet

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Naar Nederland ermee! De hardwerkende monteur wil zo'n klus wel doen!

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 14:41 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Je komt toch niet meer bij van het lachen?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 14:19 schreef Tocadisco het volgende:

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Ik denk niet dat het zo veel minder kosjer is dan als eigenaar mensen waar je het politiek niet mee eens zet uit je zaak gooien.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 15:07 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ach, als een bakker mag weigeren homoseksuelen te bedienen, moet dit toch ook kunnen?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 15:07 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ach, als een bakker mag weigeren homoseksuelen te bedienen, moet dit toch ook kunnen?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 14:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 14:20:09 Harley-Davidson, facing rising costs from new tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles heading for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas. https://t.co/3lGlc7LQBC reageer retweet

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Naar Nederland ermee! De hardwerkende monteur wil zo'n klus wel doen!

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 15:22 schreef Re het volgende:

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dat was toch al voor de tariffs in gang gezet, weet nog dat ze de tax cut nog snel hadden ingecashed om vervolgens een fabriek te sluiten... lijkt wel een excuus after the fact dit

twitter:

AP_Politics twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 15:33:40 BREAKING: Supreme Court won't hear new partisan redistricting case for now, returns North Carolina dispute to lower court. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 15:31 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Staat ook in het artikel hè? Feitelijk is het samenvoegen van de fabriek in Kansas City met die in Pennsylvania een gevolg van de gestage neergang sinds 2005. De verschuiving van de productie van Europese motoren naar het buitenland kan nog wel 9-18 maanden duren.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 13:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 13:41:25 The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside! reageer retweet

Mag je als POTUS en eigenaar van HOreca gelegenheden een concurrent afzeiken?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 16:14 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Komt dit in de top 5 meest kinderachtige tweets van Trump? Alleen zijn IQ tweets waren kinderachtiger, maar misschien vergeet ik een paar?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 14:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 14:20:09 Harley-Davidson, facing rising costs from new tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles heading for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas. https://t.co/3lGlc7LQBC reageer retweet

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Naar Nederland ermee! De hardwerkende monteur wil zo'n klus wel doen!

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 14:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 14:20:09 Harley-Davidson, facing rising costs from new tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles heading for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas. https://t.co/3lGlc7LQBC reageer retweet

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Naar Nederland ermee! De hardwerkende monteur wil zo'n klus wel doen!

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 16:40 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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So much winning!

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 16:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Als je fietsen kunt maken kun je ook motorfietsen maken.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 14:19 schreef Tocadisco het volgende:

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Ik denk niet dat het zo veel minder kosjer is dan als eigenaar mensen waar je het politiek niet mee eens zet uit je zaak gooien.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 13:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 13:41:25 The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside! reageer retweet

Mag je als POTUS en eigenaar van HOreca gelegenheden een concurrent afzeiken?

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Poll: Majority approval of Trump's handling of the economy for first time

A majority of U.S. adults said they approve of President Trump's handling of the economy in a CNBC All-America Economic Survey released Monday.

Fifty-one percent of adults said they approved of Trump's performance on the economic front, the first time the poll has shown approval from more than half of respondents since the president took office. Thirty-six percent of poll participants said they disapproved of Trump on the economy.

Approval of Trump's handling of the economy has increased since March, when the CNBC survey found 45 percent support.

Fifty-four percent of respondents in the most recent poll said the economy is excellent or good, which CNBC said is the highest level it's found in the survey's 10-year history.

Forty-eight percent of adults said the economy has improved over the past year, while 13 percent said it's gotten worse and 35 percent said it's stayed the same. Of those who said they think the economy has gotten better, 55 percent gave Trump the most credit, while 12 percent give former President Obama the most credit and 5 percent credited congressional Republicans.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 17:37 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://thehill.com/policy(...)dling-of-the-economy
Nou moe...

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 08:26 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
'Trump wil handelsoorlog met China escaleren'
https://www.nu.nl/economi(...)laten-escaleren.html

twitter:

stevenmnuchin1 twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 16:41:59 On behalf of @realDonaldTrump, the stories on investment restrictions in Bloomberg & WSJ are false, fake news. The leaker either doesn’t exist or know the subject very well. Statement will be out not specific to China, but to all countries that are trying to steal our technology. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 17:48 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Het wordt nu (deels) tegengesproken.

twitter:

stevenmnuchin1 twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 16:41:59 On behalf of @realDonaldTrump, the stories on investment restrictions in Bloomberg & WSJ are false, fake news. The leaker either doesn’t exist or know the subject very well. Statement will be out not specific to China, but to all countries that are trying to steal our technology. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 13:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 13:41:25 The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside! reageer retweet

Mag je als POTUS en eigenaar van HOreca gelegenheden een concurrent afzeiken?

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18 U.S. Code § 227 - Wrongfully influencing a private entity’s employment decisions by a Member of Congress or an officer or employee of the legislative or executive branch


(a)  Whoever, being a covered government person, with the intent to influence, solely on the basis of partisan political affiliation, an employment decision or employment practice of any private entity--

(1)  takes or withholds, or offers or threatens to take or withhold, an official act, or

(2)  influences, or offers or threatens to influence, the official act of another,

shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for not more than 15 years, or both, and may be disqualified from holding any office of honor, trust, or profit under the United States.

(b)  In this section, the term “covered government person” means--

(1)  a Senator or Representative in, or a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to, the Congress;

(2)  an employee of either House of Congress;  or

(3)  the President, Vice President, an employee of the United States Postal Service or the Postal Regulatory Commission, or any other executive branch employee.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 19:02 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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Neen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 13:41:25 The Red Hen Restaurant should focus more on cleaning its filthy canopies, doors and windows (badly needs a paint job) rather than refusing to serve a fine person like Sarah Huckabee Sanders. I always had a rule, if a restaurant is dirty on the outside, it is dirty on the inside! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 15:07 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ach, als een bakker mag weigeren homoseksuelen te bedienen, moet dit toch ook kunnen?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 19:02 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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Neen.

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https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/227

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 20:45 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Er zullen hier weinig mensen rouwig om zijn:

Special counsel obtains Trump ally Erik Prince's phones, computer

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 17:45:35 Reasonable guess is that Prince used his many clandestine international connections to wipe anything incriminating and/or did his dirty work on other devices. Mueller better have the best digital forensics people in the world because Prince is very, very good at being a criminal. https://t.co/PeXu0GFlKO reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 20:52 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Die text lijkt me niet van toepassing. Hij tracht geen "employment decisions" te beïnvloeden, hij zegt dat hun restaurant vuil is.

Ik vermoed nog steeds dat ze de laatste weken met opzet restaurants gekozen hebben waar ze dachten geweigerd te kunnen worden. Het weigeren van diensten is actueel, de bakker loopt kans weer aangeklaagd te worden, en zoals Monolith schrijft, SCOTUS heeft net de zaak van de bloemist veroordeeld voor het weigeren van een same-sex wedding teruggezonden naar het Washington SC. Volgens mij willen ze hun achterban mobiliseren, "hypocritical liberals", die naar de rechter stappen als men hen weigert te bedienen, maar zelf ook mensen weigeren.

Beide kampen verwijten elkaar hypocrisie, en de tegenstanders argumenteren dat de zaken niet vergelijkbaar zijn, maar dat zal Trump's kiezers enkel sterken in hun overtuiging.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 20:43 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Ik denk dat je dat niet goed hebt begrepen, want de bakker doet wel gewoon verkopen aan homoseksuelen , het ging in dit geval om een taart speciaal te maken wat tegen zn geloof in ging.
Het is ongeveer hetzelfde als van een moslim slager te vragen om een stukje varkensvlees voor te bereiden.

IMO een terechte grens.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 21:41 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Weet je, daar heb je inderdaad gelijk in. Ze konden wel andere taarten kopen. Ik vind het ook een slecht argument ter verdediging van het andere incident.

Echter, het staat een restauranteigenaar volledig in zijn/haar recht om mensen weg te sturen tenzij het discriminatie betreft. En per staat staat netjes in lijsten vermeld wat daar onder valt. Andere politieke denkbeelden staat niet op de kaart. (wel bijv: ras, geaardheid, marital status, dat soort dingen). Sanders moet dus eigenlijk niet zo miepen. Als die eigenaar vindt dat Sanders een compleet verwerpelijk bewind vertegenwoordigt, dan ben je niet echt principieel als je zo iemand je tent binnenlaat.

Bovendien werd ze heel democratisch de tent uit gestemd door medewerkers.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 20:43 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Het is ongeveer hetzelfde als van een moslim slager te vragen om een stukje varkensvlees voor te bereiden.

twitter:

NBCPolitics twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 22:01:55 Sarah Sanders: "Thousands of illegal aliens are removed every month without seeing an immigration judge as a result of procedures in current law including voluntary removal and expedited removal. Just because you don't see a judge doesn't mean you aren't receiving due process." https://t.co/dNI71mWUud reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 22:06 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Als die moslimslager aan zijn andere klanten wel varkensvlees verkoopt, zou ik erg vreemd opkijken als hij het niet aan mij wil verkopen.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 22:06 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Als die moslimslager aan zijn andere klanten wel varkensvlees verkoopt, zou ik erg vreemd opkijken als hij het niet aan mij wil verkopen.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 22:13 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Hij gaat hem niet snappen, geloof me

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 22:19 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Daarom had ik het ook specifiek niet over verkopen, want als hij verkoopt aan de een moet hij het ook verkopen aan de ander, maar mischien is het een wat onduidelijk voorbeeld aangezien de verkoper van de taarten wel taarten wilde verkopen.

Nogmaals het probleem is dus niet het verkopen.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 22:23 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Een betere vergelijking lijkt me de portretfotograaf die weigert iemand op de foto te zetten als hij zijn keppeltje niet afdoet.

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Democrats Are Turning Out to Vote in the Most Competitive Primary Races (NYTimes)

In more than 20 of the most competitive House races of 2018, the share of Democrats voting in primaries notably increased, compared with 2014, the last midterm election cycle.



Democrats have appeared to be more enthusiastic than Republicans about the 2018 elections, showing up in massive numbers to protest President Trump and volunteer for campaigns.

But to win the midterms, Democrats still have to translate that energy into votes. The still-unfolding season of primary elections has been encouraging to Democrats on that front.

Democratic turnout has risen more sharply than Republican turnout in at least 123 congressional districts, including districts where Republican incumbents are most vulnerable, in states like California and New Jersey.

SPOILER

That turnout pattern is highly encouraging to Democrats who hope to flood the polls in November and unseat Republicans, even in districts that typically lean to the right. Midterm campaigns often hinge on voter enthusiasm: Without a presidential race to draw casual voters to the polls, the party out of power tends to benefit from disproportionate turnout among Americans who feel angry or aggrieved about politics in Washington.

That’s exactly what happened in the first midterm election of Barack Obama’s presidency, when Republicans and disaffected independent voters showed up in powerful numbers and pro-Obama voters did not. Democrats lost 63 House seats as a result, handing Republicans control of the House.

The turnout pattern in primary season that year looks a lot like 2018 so far, except with Republicans displaying far greater enthusiasm then. In 186 congressional primaries in 2010, the share of Republicans voting was higher than in the prior midterm election. Democrats improved upon their 2006 numbers in just 35 primaries in 2010 — a convincing indication, months before the general election, that the president’s party was in a slump.



There have been important exceptions to the trend of powerful Democratic enthusiasm this year, and Republicans have been encouraged by robust turnout among Republican voters in a number of statewide primaries, in places like Ohio and Texas.

And there is still time for the political environment to change, perhaps even before the end of primary season. Some of the most important states on the map — including Florida, Michigan and Wisconsin — are still months away from holding primary elections.

Michael Podhorzer, the political director of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., who tracks voting patterns closely, said the primary returns were a positive sign but Democrats should interpret them with caution. It remains uncertain, he said, whether Democrats are activating new and disaffected voters for the midterms, or mostly turning out people who would have voted in November anyway.

“If it wasn’t happening, I’d be really worried,” Mr. Podhorzer said of the turnout boost. “But that it is happening doesn’t make me confident.”

Still, for Republicans seeking to defend a precarious majority in the House, the Democratic turnout increase in closely divided districts has been unsettling. Four of the seats where Democrats improved markedly were in California, including the seats held by Representatives Steve Knight and Dana Rohrabacher, which national Republicans already saw as gravely endangered.

And Democrats surged, too, in the districts of Representatives Leonard Lance of New Jersey and Will Hurd of Texas — lawmakers from diverse, moderate areas where Mr. Trump is unpopular.

Mr. Trump himself has appeared sensitive to the disparity in political energy between the two parties, and he has taken to telling supporters at his campaign rallies that political disengagement could be lethal. At a convention of the National Rifle Association last month, Mr. Trump warned that liberals were “fighting like hell” ahead of the election.

“We cannot get complacent,” he declared. “We have to win the midterms.”

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 22:44 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:
Vind jij dat een bakker mag weigeren om een bruidstaart te maken voor een gemengd echtpaar omdat zijn KKK-lidmaatschap en rassenvermenging moeilijk samengaan?

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 23:05 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:
Die restauranteigenaar had overigens beter gewoon Sanders kunnen laten zitten, het dubbele in rekening brengen en als Sanders vervolgens zou zeggen dat op de kaart hele andere prijzen stonden gaan schuimbekken over fake news.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 14:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 14:20:09 Harley-Davidson, facing rising costs from new tariffs, will begin shifting the production of motorcycles heading for Europe from the U.S. to factories overseas. https://t.co/3lGlc7LQBC reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 23:57 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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MAGA: Motorcycle Assembly Going Abroad

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 23:57 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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MAGA: Motorcycle Assembly Going Abroad

twitter:

GeorgeHWBush twitterde op maandag 25-06-2018 om 22:58:00 Special visit today with a great friend -- and now, a best-selling author. Luckily I had a freshly laundered pair of @BillClinton socks to mark the occasion. https://t.co/v9jb4sRexh reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 22:55 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Onzinnige vergelijking.

Het weigeren van Sanders is een direct gevolg van haar eigen handelen inzake de kidnappings en de schofterige manier waarop die families worden behandeld. Het verdedigen daarvan. Het gelieg en gedraai. Veel mensen pikken dat gedrag gewoon niet meer. Een stel hooligans zou ook gevraagd zijn het restaurant te verlaten. D'r politieke overtuiging was niet de aanleiding.

Je laat je meetrekken in een non-discussie.

twitter:

mattsheffield twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 00:28:04 NEW: Documents show Trump admin almost offered temporary immunity deal to @JuIianAssagne but negotiations stalled after @Comey intervened: https://t.co/xvfEnM8oCN #infosec #CyberSecurity reageer retweet

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One of the more devastating intelligence leaks in American history — the unmasking of the CIA’s arsenal of cyber warfare weapons last year — has an untold prelude worthy of a spy novel.

Some of the characters are household names, thanks to the Russia scandal: James Comey, fired FBI director. Sen. Mark Warner (D-Va.), vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Department of Justice (DOJ) official Bruce Ohr. Julian Assange, grand master of WikiLeaks. And American attorney Adam Waldman, who has a Forrest Gump-like penchant for showing up in major cases of intrigue.

Each played a role in the early days of the Trump administration to try to get Assange to agree to “risk mitigation” — essentially, limiting some classified CIA information he might release in the future.

The effort resulted in the drafting of a limited immunity deal that might have temporarily freed the WikiLeaks founder from a London embassy where he has been exiled for years, according to interviews and a trove of internal DOJ documents turned over to Senate investigators. Read the draft immunity deal proffer that the Justice Department was considering for Assange here.

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twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 02:28:26 Still trying to process today's news that the attorney for Paul Manafort's ex-boss (Putin pal Oleg Deripaska) went to Trump asking for a deal for Julian Assange—whose crimes gave Trump the election—and Trump said yes. Then Comey intervened, and then Trump fired Comey.Oh my god. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 20:43 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Ik denk dat je dat niet goed hebt begrepen, want de bakker doet wel gewoon verkopen aan homoseksuelen , het ging in dit geval om een taart speciaal te maken wat tegen zn geloof in ging.
Het is ongeveer hetzelfde als van een moslim slager te vragen om een stukje varkensvlees voor te bereiden.

IMO een terechte grens.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 21:52 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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KLopt het is het recht van het restaurant, al denk ik wel dat men zich in de vingers zal snijden ,maar dat is een eigen keuze gelukkig.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 07:34 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Maakt niet echt uit wel excuus je wenst te gebruiken, religie, politieke overtuiging etc.

Komt er allemaal op neer dat je iemand bediening weigert omdat je het op een bepaald vlak niet met ze eens bent.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 07:35 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ik denk dat dit erg meevalt. Washington is een links bolwerk.

Kan 'm alleen maar extra klandizie opleveren.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 07:35 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ik denk dat dit erg meevalt. Washington is een links bolwerk.

Kan 'm alleen maar extra klandizie opleveren.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 07:59 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Maakt wel degelijk uit hoor.
Hij mag gewoon weigeren om een creatie te maken als dat tegen zn geloof is in dit geval meen ik 2 mannen kussend op een taart.
Maar de klant kon wel gewoon elke andere taart kopen met een bruidspaar erop , hij wilde alleen niet specifiek die 2 kussende mannetjes maken.
Tenminste zo stond het me bij.

En hij zou zn klant niet mogen weigeren omdat hij homo is en wel omdat hij een democraat zou zijn, zover ik weet is dat gedeelte weer wettelijk vast gelegd.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 07:59 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Maakt wel degelijk uit hoor.
Hij mag gewoon weigeren om een creatie te maken als dat tegen zn geloof is in dit geval meen ik 2 mannen kussend op een taart.
Maar de klant kon wel gewoon elke andere taart kopen met een bruidspaar erop , hij wilde alleen niet specifiek die 2 kussende mannetjes maken.
Tenminste zo stond het me bij.

En hij zou zn klant niet mogen weigeren omdat hij homo is en wel omdat hij een democraat zou zijn, zover ik weet is dat gedeelte weer wettelijk vast gelegd.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 08:12 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Volgens eigen zeggen wilde hij geen bruiloftstaart maken voor dit echtpaar. Hij wilde eventueel wel een taart voor ze maken voor een andere gelegenheid, maar dus niet voor een bruiloft.
Het valt me op dat je beide incidenten erg bijkleurt, is dat toeval?

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 08:21 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Het lijkt haast wel alsof er een bepaald 'narrative' wordt gecreëerd. Vreemd...

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 02:24 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:
Zover ik weet was het omdat ze voor trump werkte.

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Several Red Hen employees are gay, she said. They knew Sanders had defended Trump’s desire to bar transgender people from the military. This month, they had all watched her evade questions and defend a Trump policy that caused migrant children to be separated from their parents.

“Tell me what you want me to do. I can ask her to leave,” Wilkinson told her staff, she said. “They said ‘yes.’ ”

It was important to Wilkinson, she said, that Sanders had already been served — that her staff had not simply refused her on sight. And it was important to her that Sanders was a public official, not just a customer with whom she disagreed, many of whom were included in her regular clientele.

[...]

“I was babbling a little, but I got my point across in a polite and direct fashion,” Wilkinson said. “I explained that the restaurant has certain standards that I feel it has to uphold, such as honesty, and compassion, and cooperation.

“I said, ‘I’d like to ask you to leave.’ ”

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 06:44 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:
Toch wel vreemd dat elke keer het verhaal van comey en consorten veranderd en dat men nog steeds geen bewijzen heeft ondanks de in de memo toegegeven spionnen die ze overal voor de elections hadden geplaatst.

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Op maandag 25 juni 2018 21:52 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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KLopt het is het recht van het restaurant, al denk ik wel dat men zich in de vingers zal snijden ,maar dat is een eigen keuze gelukkig.

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In 2012, a bakery refused to serve Joe Biden because he worked for Obama. The baker was celebrated by the right. They made him a hero for his actions. He got rich selling "Freedom Cookies."

It gets better. Ryan and Romney took him on the campaign trail and brought him up on stage to congratulate him for kicking the Vice President out of his bakery.

Now, a few years later, Trump and his GOP are pretending like Sanders received ill treatment without precedent. Most have forgotten the incident because Joe Biden didn't act like Trump and cry like a little bitch.

https://www.roanoke.com/w(...)58-5a46a0461bb5.html

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A US border security chief says he has temporarily stopped launching criminal prosecutions of migrants who illegally enter the country with children.

Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAleenan told reporters in Texas the prosecution referrals were suspended last week.

He said it followed an order last week by President Donald Trump calling for an end to migrant family separations.

But Mr Trump had suggested the families would instead be detained together.

The Republican president bowed to public pressure last Wednesday, signing his executive order to "keep families together" in migrant detentions.

Mr McAleenan maintained that the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" tactics were still in effect, although the commissioner's guidance to his agents largely leaves the policy in limbo.

The CBP chief said parents cannot be prosecuted if US officials no longer intend to separate them from their children, who are legally not allowed to be kept in adult detention facilities.

He said his agency and the Department of Justice must figure out how to prosecute the parents without splitting them from their children, the Associated Press news agency reported.

The border official's decision paves the way for US immigration enforcement to revert largely to the approach under the Obama administration.

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The Trump administration appears to be headed for a trade war on three fronts. As far as anyone can tell, it is simultaneously going to take on China, the European Union and our partners in the North American Free Trade Agreement. The economic fallout will be ugly.

But that’s probably not the whole story: There’s also likely to be ugly political fallout, not just abroad but here at home, too. In fact, I predict that as the downsides of hard-line trade policy become apparent, we’ll see a nasty search by President Trump and company for people to scapegoat. In fact, that search has already started.

To understand what’s coming, you need to understand two crucial points.

First, the administration has no idea what it’s doing. Its ideas on trade don’t seem to have evolved at all from those expressed in a white paper circulated by Wilbur Ross, now the commerce secretary, and Peter Navarro, now the trade czar, in 2016. That white paper was a display of sheer ignorance that had actual trade experts banging their heads on their desks. So these people are completely unprepared for the coming blowback.

Second, this administration is infested — I use that word advisedly — with conspiracy theorists. In fact, it seems, literally, to treat belief in absurd conspiracy theories as a job qualification. You may remember the case of an official at the Department of Health and Human Services who was temporarily suspended after reports that she had worked for a conspiracy-theory website. Well, it turns out that she listed that connection on her résumé when she applied for government employment. She was hired not despite but because of her connection to paranoid politics.

So what will happen when cluelessness meets conspiracy theorizing?

About that trade blowback: Trump famously declared that “trade wars are good, and easy to win.” Never mind the goodness issue: It’s already becoming apparent that the “easy to win” part is delusional. Other countries won’t quickly give in to U.S. demands, in part because those demands are incoherent — Trump is demanding that Europe end the “horrific” tariffs it doesn’t actually impose, while the Chinese can’t even figure out what the Trump administration wants, with officials calling America “capricious.”

Add in the enormous amount of ill will Trump has generated around the world, and the idea that America is going to get major concessions anytime soon is deeply implausible. In fact, I’m finding it hard to see how we avoid a series of tit-for-tat retaliations that end up taking us well down the path toward full-blown trade war.

And while some import-competing industries might gain from such a trade war, there would be a lot of American losers. For one thing, a lot of American jobs — more than 10 million, according to the Commerce Department — are supported by exports. Agriculture, in particular, is a very export-centered sector, sending more than 20 percent of what it produces abroad. A trade war would eliminate many of these jobs; it would create new jobs in import-competing industries, but they wouldn’t be the same jobs for the same people, so there would be a lot of disruption.

And the damage wouldn’t be limited to export industries: More than half of U.S. imports, and 95 percent of the Chinese goods about to face Trump tariffs, are intermediate inputs or capital goods — that is, things that U.S. producers use to make themselves more efficient. So the coming trade war will raise costs and hurt prospects for many businesses, even if they aren’t exporters.

So how will this conspiracy-minded administration react when domestic victims of its trade policy start complaining? We’ve already had a preview.

To date we’ve only had some minor trade skirmishes; but even these have sent the price of soybeans, which we export to China, plunging, while the price of steel has soared. And farmers and steel-using businesses are unhappy.

So did the administration say, “Look, we’re taking a tough stand, and there will be some costs”? Why, no. Instead, Ross declared that the price changes were the work of “antisocial” speculators engaged in “profiteering,” and called for an investigation. See, we aren’t looking at the predictable effects of administration policy; we’re looking at an anti-Trump conspiracy.

By the way, this kind of accusation isn’t normal for a top government official. I follow these things, and I’ve never seen anything like it.

And remember, soybeans and steel offer just a minor preview of the disruptions ahead. How will the administration react to the blowback when the trade war really gets going? Will it admit that it misjudged the effects of its policies? Of course not.

What I predict, instead, is that it will start seeing villains under every bed. It will attribute the downsides of trade conflict not to its own actions, but to George Soros and the deep state. I’m not sure how they can work MS-13 into it, but they’ll surely try.

The point is that the politics of trade war will probably end up looking like Trump politics in general: a search for innocent people to demonize.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 12:47 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Harley-Davidson gaat nu buiten de VS motors bouwen vanwege de tariffs. So long jobs

https://www.reddit.com/r/(...)_some_production_of/

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 13:39 schreef pullup het volgende:

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Hij is er alweer lekker over aan het razen natuurlijk.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 14:17:49 A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end - they surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 14:17:49 A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end - they surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before! reageer retweet

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SenSchumer twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 14:33:58 .@realDonaldTrump, you said giving corporations like Harley a big tax giveaway would mean more jobs. Instead, many corporate executives announced buybacks and laid off American workers.https://t.co/JU9SOv9rdU https://t.co/fEbqWKT8g5 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 14:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 14:17:49 A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end - they surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 14:36 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Wat staat hier nou eigenlijk

Attack the messenger instead of the message. Ga lekker zo door Donald. Dit gaat nog veel meer pijn doen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 14:36:18 The face of the Democrats is now Maxine Waters who, together with Nancy Pelosi, have established a fine leadership team. They should always stay together and lead the Democrats, who want Open Borders and Unlimited Crime, well into the future....and pick Crooked Hillary for Pres. reageer retweet

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President Trump's approval rating in Gallup polling has sunk to 41 percent, down from his personal best of 45 percent approval just a week ago.

A Gallup survey released on Monday found that Trump's job approval rating fell this week after a peak likely boosted from the historic June 12 summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Singapore.

The 41 percent approval rating is slightly higher than his term-to-date average presidential approval rating of 39 percent.

The drop comes after a week of national outrage over his administration's zero tolerance immigration policy that aggressively prosecutes anyone who illegally crosses the southern border.

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More than 2,000 migrant children were separated from their parents while the adults await criminal proceedings, leading to bipartisan and global backlash.

Trump gave in to bipartisan pressure last week by signing an executive order to end the practice of family separations.

His approval ratings fell across all political parties, Gallup found.

Republicans rated Trump's performance at 90 percent during the prior two weeks, but that has since fallen to 87 percent.

Democrats are rating the president's job approval at 5 percent this week -- the lowest rating he has received from the group -- down from 10 percent the week before.

This is the fifth time Democrats have given him such a poor rating, including one week in December and three weeks in January.

The poll also found that Independents dipped their support from 42 percent to 38 percent this week.

Gallup's weekly presidential approval rating polls are conducted among 1,506 adults across the country, with a margin of error of plus or minus 3 percentage points.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 12:47 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Harley-Davidson gaat nu buiten de VS motors bouwen vanwege de tariffs. So long jobs

https://www.reddit.com/r/(...)_some_production_of/

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jiveDurkey twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 12:21:21 the first layoffs from the Trump tariffs are hitting a nail factory in Missouri with devastating fashion -- and the whole operation could be sunk by Labor Dayhttps://t.co/ZGktqixagl reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:05 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Dat waren ze volgens mij al een tijdje van plan. Nu hebben ze gewoon een makkelijk excuus.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 14:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 14:17:49 A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end - they surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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jiveDurkey twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 12:21:21 the first layoffs from the Trump tariffs are hitting a nail factory in Missouri with devastating fashion -- and the whole operation could be sunk by Labor Dayhttps://t.co/ZGktqixagl reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:19 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Oorlog met Harley Davidson!!!1!!!

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 08:57 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Bron dat de FBI heeft toegegeven 'spionnen' te hebben geplaatst?

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:30 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:
Er zijn genoeg bronnen dat men spionnen heeft geplaatst of zoals men zo mooi zegt informant wat gewoon precies hetzelfde is.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:05 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Dat waren ze volgens mij al een tijdje van plan. Nu hebben ze gewoon een makkelijk excuus.

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tedlieu twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 15:30:55 Dear @realDonaldTrump: The problem with your temper tantrum on Harley-Davidson is it shows the world you are weak & can't tolerate the pain from the trade war you started. China, India, Canada, Mexico & the EU will wait you out because they know you will fold. #TuesdayThoughts https://t.co/P1Bhn0TGQk reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 08:37 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hier is een interview met de uitbater van het etablissement: https://www.washingtonpos(...)d-would-do-it-again/

Het heeft te maken met verdedigen van hatelijk beleid, liegen en meer van dat en dus niet met het feit dat ze voor Trump werkt. Als ze voor een andere president had gewerkt die ook ditzelfde hatelijke beleid had gevoerd had ze het immers waarschijnlijk net zo goed gedaan.

Wat excerpts:

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Maar goed, je mag iemand gewoon weigeren, omdat je die persoon een klootzak vindt. Althans, voor zover ik weet. Dus verder een verhaal van niks en zoals crystal_meth geregeld opmerkt, mogelijkerwijze opgezocht door het Witte Huis.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Staat het hele woord spy niet in het artikel. Een informant is wat anders en gewoon legitiem in een onderzoek.

Een spion kan trouwens ook legitiem zijn, maar dat is alleen een woord wat de ronde doet omdat Trump het sinister vond klinken.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:39 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Wat is dan precies het verschil tussen een spion en een informant, want volgens mij doen ze beide aan het collecteren van info en doen dat stiekem.

Het is gewoon hetzelfde alleen klinkt informant wat minder heftig.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:39 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Wat is dan precies het verschil tussen een spion en een informant, want volgens mij doen ze beide aan het collecteren van info en doen dat stiekem.

Het is gewoon hetzelfde alleen klinkt informant wat minder heftig.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 08:12 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Volgens eigen zeggen wilde hij geen bruiloftstaart maken voor dit echtpaar. Hij wilde eventueel wel een taart voor ze maken voor een andere gelegenheid, maar dus niet voor een bruiloft.
Het valt me op dat je beide incidenten erg bijkleurt, is dat toeval?

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:51 schreef Re het volgende:
ineens trek in pizza's op een of andere manier

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:53 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

Bedoel jij soms kinderbilletjes?!

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:56 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Welke pizza was dat ook alweer?

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 15:40 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Een spion is een externe aan de organisatie die zich naar binnen gewerkt heeft en een informant is een interne aan de organisatie die meewerkt met een onderzoek.

Zo kun je je bijvoorbeeld afvragen of er een Russische spion werkte in de campagne (Carter Page comes to mind), maar bv. Papadopoulos was een informant.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 09:29 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Overigens, mensen wegsturen omdat deze je politiek niet aan staan is overigens niet nieuw:

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Trump en de GOP doen weer een klassiek hypocrietje dus. Vetgedrukte maakt overigens precies het verschil zichtbaar tussen de democraten en de GOP.

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Nog wat jubelende Fox filmpjes over de heldendaad van die bakker:

http://video.foxnews.com/v/1797731189001/?#sp=show-clips

Kortom, die homohatende bakker hoeft niet gebruikt te worden als argument, deze is veel beter en toont veel duidelijker de totale hypocrisie aan van de GOP.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:00 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Het is en blijft hetzelfde men collecteert beide naar info en doen dat stiekem.
En diegene waar ik het over had zijn niet die waar jullie het over hebben.
Page spion en papadopolous infromant.

Het ging meer over stefan halper o.a.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:00 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Het is en blijft hetzelfde men collecteert beide naar info en doen dat stiekem.
En diegene waar ik het over had zijn niet die waar jullie het over hebben.
Page spion en papadopolous infromant.

Het ging meer over stefan halper o.a.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:10 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Je verwacht dat de FBI volledig open en bloot onderzoek doet? Hoe stel je je dat voor? Voor het open & bloot gedeelte qua schuldvraag hebben we rechtbanken.

Trump was overigens wel gewaarschuwd dat zijn campagne mogelijk geinfiltreerd zou worden door Russische agenten: https://www.nbcnews.com/n(...)his-campaign-n830596

Hier heeft hij opvallend genoeg echter niks tegen gedaan. Later is hij ook nog gewaarschuwd over Flynn, maar ook daar heeft hij op dat moment niks tegen gedaan.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:12 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Vraagje:

Iemand die bij Trump zat, dingen opmerkte die niet legaal leken te zijn en die die zaken vervolgens meldde bij de FBI....Heeft die persoon volgens jou iets verkeerds gedaan?

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 14:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 14:17:49 A Harley-Davidson should never be built in another country-never! Their employees and customers are already very angry at them. If they move, watch, it will be the beginning of the end - they surrendered, they quit! The Aura will be gone and they will be taxed like never before! reageer retweet

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 16:17:29 WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court upholds Trump ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:18 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Wie was dat dan?
Want ik meen dat papadopolous door een Aussie ambassadeur in een bar met drank op vanalles had verteld en daardoor het fbi onderzoek gestart is.

Dat is nogal een flinterdun verhaal

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:19 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat is mijn vraag niet.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:21 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Nou antwoord op je vraag is heel simpel dan is hij imo niet fout.
Maar volgens mij is het gedrag van die spionnen en informanten nooit de issue geweest.
Het is het verbergen en obstructie plegen tov oversight door de fbi waar het probleem ligt.

Of is obstructie plegen wat op dit moment Rosenstein/fbi aan het doen is.
Of het verbergen van zaken voor oversight goed?

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:26 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Je draait. Geef nou eens concreet antwoord.

Mag je als je wat illegaals denkt te zien naar de politie stappen en eventueel meewerken met de politie?

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Trump’s trade war triggers recession fears
After seeing a boost from taxes and deregulation, businesses and investors are getting spooked by the president’s trade and immigration moves.

President Donald Trump could be running a “Morning in America” midterm campaign strategy, bragging about an economy growing as consistently as it has in over a decade with an unemployment rate tied for the lowest level in nearly half a century.

Instead, he’s banking on hard-line trade and immigration policies that could excite his base while undoing economic gains from other Trump policies and nudging the U.S. toward a recession.

On Monday alone, iconic motorcycle manufacturer Harley-Davidson said it would move some production out of the U.S. in response to Trump's tariff fight with the European Union while the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled over renewed fears from the president's expected new trade restrictions on China.

It's all part of a high-risk trade and immigration strategy that has many Republicans, business leaders and even Trump’s former advisers deeply worried about both the politics and the economics of the president’s strategy.

“The economy is doing exactly what we thought and hoped it would do based on what the administration was able to accomplish in tax reform and the deregulatory agenda,” Gary Cohn, Trump’s former National Economic Council director, said in an interview. “Both were aimed at stimulating the economy through growth and job creation. And that’s happened in a very positive way. Anything else that derails or confuses the economic agenda is confusing for the system.”

Confusion is certainly coursing through the system now on both trade and immigration.

Trump’s trade battles with Mexico, Canada, the European Union and China could wind up increasing costs for consumers while destabilizing markets and global supply chains, economists warn. They’ve already left the Dow down for the year despite the strong economy.

Wall Street analysts are now ramping up their warnings of a potential recession given Trump's aggressive trade moves. “Our calculations suggest that a major trade war would lead to a significant reduction in growth,” Bank of America Merrill Lynch economist Ethan Harris wrote in a recent research note. “A decline in confidence and supply chain disruptions could amplify the trade shock, leading to an outright recession.”

The impact of Trump's trade moves is starting to show up in economic data. For instance, a survey of manufacturing purchasing managers from IHS Markit — a closely tracked gauge of the factory sector’s health — dipped to a seven-month low of 54.6 last week.

"It is striking that the significant tailwind from corporate tax cuts is now being offset by other forces, most likely the uncertainties associated with the ongoing trade war," Torsten Slok, chief international economist at Deutsche Bank, wrote in a research note on Monday.

And the market disruption may have much further to run, according to some forecasters. “Markets have not taken trade wars seriously enough, we fear, believing for a long time that President Trump has been bluffing over his intentions as a negotiating tactic, and that other countries would back down,” Paul Mortimer-Lee, chief market economist at BNP Paribas, said in recent note. “It looks like both assumptions may turn out to be too optimistic.”

Trump upped the ante yet again on Friday with threats to impose 20 percent tariffs on all imported automobiles, something the industry itself mostly doesn’t want. He also mocked images of children in cages at the southern border as a result of his immigration policy as “phony stories of sadness and grief.” And threatened cutbacks in legal immigration reportedly coming from the administration later this year that risk adding to pressure on employers who already face difficulty filling open positions.

The president pushed back on the Harley news on Monday. “Surprised that Harley-Davidson, of all companies, would be the first to wave the White Flag,” he tweeted. “I fought hard for them and ultimately they will not pay tariffs selling into the E.U., which has hurt us badly on trade, down $151 Billion. Taxes just a Harley excuse - be patient! #MAGA"

All of this comes against a backdrop that should be a dream scenario for Republicans hoping to limit and perhaps even reverse expected Democratic gains in the November midterms. The U.S. economy has been the envy of the world with strong consumer spending, business confidence, rising wages, low unemployment and low inflation. Many forecasts call for close to 4 percent economic growth in the second quarter and perhaps 3 percent for the full year, a level not hit for a full year since 2005.

The biggest risk to it, many analysts say, is Trump himself.

“I detest using the words ‘sweet spot,’ but we are in a very good place in that we are generating very strong growth and households have more money from the tax stimulus and are enjoying income gains. It’s about as good as we can hope for,” Ellen Zentner, chief economist at Morgan Stanley, said in an interview. “The absolute top risk is trade tension and the potential for trade action and really just the lingering uncertainty over trade that can drive businesses down in terms of investment decisions.”

The immigration crackdown even has some Trump supporters in deeply red states worried.

Pete Wiersma, a dairy farmer from Buhl, Idaho, worries about an upcoming labor shortage.

“Most dairies have more cows than what the family can take care of themselves," he said in an interview for this week’s edition of the POLITICO Money podcast. "Most of our dairies in Idaho, we are very dependent on foreign-born workers. It's the engine that makes the machine run. We've really noticed a drop-off in applicants.”

Nationwide, business and consumer confidence remain generally high for now. But business groups from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce to the Business Roundtable have warned that trade fights could derail confidence and slow the economy. It’s less about the direct impact of any single Trump tariff than the overall concern about trade disputes potentially spinning out of control.

“The problem is, how many times can you be on the edge of your seat waiting for the shoe to drop,” Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein said at an event in New York last week.

The White House did not respond to a request for comment. White House Council of Economic Advisers Chairman Kevin Hassett told Fox Business Network on Friday that Trump would base his midterm message on the economy and that the trade fights wouldn’t hurt.

“I think that the president is a disrupter, right? He disrupts terrible policies,” he said. “And one of the terrible policies for American workers is that other countries have much higher tariff barriers.”

A Pew research survey out last week suggested Trump’s focus on immigration and trade has GOP interest in the midterms as high as for any midterm dating to 1994, bolstering the president’s view that his political instincts are correct.

Some Republicans, however, are worried about the economic impact of Trump’s actions on trade and immigration as well as on their midterm prospects. Other surveys suggest that while Trump’s base may be strongly with him on both issues, the broader electorate is not, leading to GOP concerns about voters in swing states and swing districts.

A recent Gallup poll found that 75 percent of voters across both parties view more immigration as a good thing. And a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll last month found that 70 percent of Americans want the president to focus on making trade deals while just 14 percent prefer imposing tariffs.

That’s left many Republicans wishing Trump would ditch the harsh immigration and trade policies and focus on the economy and tax cuts.

“Traditionally you would see a level of confidence, economic confidence, that would be good for the majority party,” said David Jolly, a former Republican congressman from swing-state Florida. “In this case the president’s behavior, when it comes to matters of the economy, is very erratic. We’ll see going into November what issues will define the election, but I doubt it will be the economy because even if the president were to try to make the case that it’s the economy, there are just too many other issues confusing voters right now.”

On immigration, some economic conservatives worry that Trump is both potentially alienating swing voters in the midterms with the border separation issue while undermining long-term economic growth with new limits on legal immigration.

POLITICO recently reported that top White House advisers led by Stephen Miller are devising new immigration crackdowns before the election including tightening rules on student visas and exchange programs; limiting visas for temporary agricultural workers; and making it harder for legal immigrants who have applied for welfare programs to obtain residency.

Many economists argue that any efforts to reduce legal immigration will slow the U.S. economy’s growth potential given current demographics showing lower birth rates among the native born and an aging workforce as members of the baby boom generation retire.

The U.S. is currently at 3.8 percent unemployment and government data recently showed more job openings than prospective employees, the first time that’s happened since the Bureau of Labor Statistics started collecting the data two decades ago.

“I always thought the core of Making America Great Again was making the economy great,” said analyst James Pethokoukis of the conservative American Enterprise Institute. “One of the reasons the growth outlook for the future is so low is because of the slowing in labor force growth. That is just a huge headwind.”

“One way to offset that is to make workers more productive and we haven’t figured out how to do that,” he said. “The other is to bring in more people and that is something we know how to do. If they have skills and are entrepreneurial, all the better.”

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AP twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 16:10:43 BREAKING: The Supreme Court says a California law that forces anti-abortion crisis pregnancy centers to provide information about abortion probably violates the Constitution. https://t.co/BpYzIwXdem reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:15 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Bij flynn heeft men blijkbaar het 302 formulier vervalst en daar is op dit moment onderzoek naar.
Maar welke rus is er dan gepakt voor werken onder trump?

http://thehill.com/hilltv(...)ht-have-been-changed

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Je hoeft geen Rus te zijn om een Russisch agent te zijn he. Bovendien was de waarschuwing dat hij een mogelijk doelwit zou zijn voor Russische agenten. Hoe dan ook, als voorbeeld had Carter Page de interesse gewekt van de FBI, maar er waren misschien ook anderen: https://www.wsj.com/artic(...)a-dossier-1517486401

Voor wat betreft de link naar een artikel over de mening van een republikeinse partisan hack en Trump-fanatiekeling: Je stelt hier als feit wat een partisan hack als suggestie opwerpt zonder bewijs. Aangezien die groep mensen leugen na leugen de wereld in helpen om het Mueller onderzoek zwart te maken is dat op voorhand niet te vertrouwen tot ze met dingen komen om hun onzin bij te staan, ofwel bewijs overleggen.

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danepps twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 16:17:03 Justice Sotomayor says the majority's decision in Trump v. Hawaii is like Korematsu, the Japanese internment decision. Strong words. https://t.co/ra1ocpQpCK reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:48 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

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Bewijs komt er aan,
let op het fisa onderzoek wat bijna afgerond is en ook het onderzoek in de mueller investigation zal snel duidelijkheid daarover geven.

Tot nog toe zie ik alles wat belangrijk is maar 1 kant op gaan en intussen zijn er al flink wat mensen verwijderd bij o.a. de FBI (maar dat zal ook wel op onzin rusten).
Ik zie dat leugens van Obama duidelijk worden zoals dat hij niets wist van de prive server van clinton.
Ik zie dat de fbi informatie achter houd voor diegene die oversight hebben en dus het moeten krijgen.
Het is ook duidelijk dat het clinton onderzoek gematst is want men had de conclusie al klaar eer dat men met haar gesproken had en een behoorlijk (meen 17 ) getuigen.
En o zo veel meer.

Het is niet voor niets dat de narrative telkens veranderd moet worden van in het begin collusion en daarna naar obstruction en nu weer naar collusion.
Waarom zou comey overigens een pardon voor assange torpederen?
Volgens mij heeft assange nog geen leugens gebruikt in zn wikileaks , maar mischien zit daar wat achter.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 17:02 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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danepps twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 16:17:03 Justice Sotomayor says the majority's decision in Trump v. Hawaii is like Korematsu, the Japanese internment decision. Strong words. https://t.co/ra1ocpQpCK reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 17:07 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Waar gaat het precies over? Zag Trump ook al iets tweeten maar kan het niet vinden.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 16:17:29 WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court upholds Trump ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 17:09 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Oh, ook weer een beslissing met de gestolen supreme court zetel. Feestelijk.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 16:34 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Deze is ook nog wel aardig. Democraten en Republikeinen hebben nogal een vertekend beeld van elkaar:
https://fivethirtyeight.c(...)ong-about-democrats/

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 17:25 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Wtf. Republikeinen die denken dat een derde van alle democraten gay is. Of democraten die denken dat bijna de helft van all republikeinen meer dan $250000 per jaar verdient

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 16:17:29 WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court upholds Trump ban on travel from several mostly Muslim countries. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 17:03 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Bewijs komt er altijd aan bij wappies zoals jij maar in al die tijd dat jullie dat roepen is er nog nooit iets geproduceerd behalve bewijs dat Trump heel erg fout is.

Je ziet ook een heleboel dingen die je zelf verzint.

7 onderzoeken vaan een Republikeins congress konden niets vinden om Clinton of Obama voor aan te klagen, weet je nog, wappie?

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 17:32 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Thanks. Schandalig dat zoiets goedgekeurd wordt. Maar dat krijg je met zo'n gepolitiseerde rechtspraak als je in Amerika hebt.

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Calls to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. are offensive and unconstitutional.

https://twitter.com/GovPenceIN/status/674249808610066433?s=19

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 18:10 schreef Re het volgende:
Iedereen zit idd lekker af te geven op Gorush maar die Kennedy wordt niet veel over gezegd

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 17:32 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Thanks. Schandalig dat zoiets goedgekeurd wordt. Maar dat krijg je met zo'n gepolitiseerde rechtspraak als je in Amerika hebt.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 19:35 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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Dat krijg je vooral dankzij:

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 19:35 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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Dat krijg je vooral dankzij:

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 19:41 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Toch altijd een heel boekwerk, die grondwet.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 20:04 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Is toch de bijbel? Of maak je een grapje

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 20:08 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat was een geintje inderdaad.
Ik vind dat ergens altijd wel tekenend dat je als rechter zweert op een religieus boek in plaats van op de wet.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 20:09 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik blijf me elke keer verwonderen/afvragen of in de advocatenwereld en juridisch-academische wereld er ook zo'n schisma is aan meningen of dat echt de meest extreem uit elkaar staande personen gekozen worden.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 20:13 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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De juridisch-academische wereld is, ook in de VS, overwegend liberaal georiënteerd. Vandaar ook dat Republikeinen altijd zo ontzettend focussen op benoemingen van rechters. Advocaten doen in overweldigende mate werk waarbij politieke mening geen enkele rol speelt.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 20:17 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat zou de conservatief georiënteerde rechters/constitutionalists/literalists dus een behoorlijke minderheid maken als je de juridische wereld in het geheel overziet? Heb je ook een bron hiervoor?

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 19:40 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Nja, als Scalia nog had geleefd, had je waarschijnlijk eenzelfde besluit gezien. Scalia was zo mogelijk nog extremer.

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 20:54 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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True, maar Scalia ging dood en Obama wilde Garland voordragen, maar dat werd onmogelijk gemaakt door de GOP.

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CBSNewYork twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 19:56:52 #BREAKING: Former New York City mayor @MikeBloomberg is revving up for a presidential run in 2020, sources tell @MKramerTV. https://t.co/zdmwISNL50 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 21:02 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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CBSNewYork twitterde op dinsdag 26-06-2018 om 19:56:52 #BREAKING: Former New York City mayor @MikeBloomberg is revving up for a presidential run in 2020, sources tell @MKramerTV. https://t.co/zdmwISNL50 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 juni 2018 21:14 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Als Democraat? Independent? Republikein? Bloomberg is zo'n beetje alles geweest.