[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #533 Draaiende Donald

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Op zaterdag 28 juli 2018 17:07 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Hoe zou dat dan gaan met die economische cijfers.?
Daarbij ga ik ervan uit, dat trump geen snars begrijpt van dit alles of kritisch evalueert.
Dan is er dus een ( senior) staffer, die ( met een team) moedwillig de boel verdraait en trump papagaait het verhaal van een A4.
“Someone told me...”

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Op zaterdag 28 juli 2018 23:20 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Het nieuwe programma van Sacha Baron Cohen heeft zijn eerste politieke slachtoffer geëist:
https://www.npr.org/2018/(...)utm_content=20180725

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A day after President Trump hailed “a breakthrough agreement” on trade with Europe, European officials said the president and his aides are exaggerating the scope of their new pact.

While Mr. Trump told an Iowa crowd Thursday that “we just opened up Europe for you farmers,” officials in Brussels later said he did no such thing.

“On agriculture, I think we’ve been very clear on that—that agriculture is out of the scope of these discussions,” Mina Andreeva, the European Commission spokeswoman, told reporters in Brussels on Friday. “We are not negotiating about agricultural products,” added Ms. Andreeva, who was part of the European delegation visiting Washington earlier this week.

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Op zondag 29 juli 2018 03:58 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump Says He ‘Opened Up Europe’ for Farmers. Europeans Disagree.

The gap over what was agreed to at the White House on Wednesday indicates the perils of rifts re-emerging

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White House uses foreign aid agency to give jobs to Trump loyalists

The White House has assumed control over hiring at a small federal agency that promotes economic growth in poor countries, installing political allies and loyalists in appointed jobs intended for development experts, according to documents and interviews.

Until the Trump administration, only the chief executive and several other top officials of the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) were selected by the White House, former agency officials said. The chief executive, in turn, used authority granted to the agency by Congress to appoint about two dozen other staffers, primarily for their technical ­expertise.

But starting last year, the White House began naming political appointees to the lower-level positions, according to internal rosters obtained by The Washington Post and interviews with former employees and other knowledgeable people. The employees were warned by an agency leader they could lose their jobs to make way for the new political appointees, the former employees said.

Fourteen allies and Trump loyalists have been placed at the agency as political appointees so far — more than double the number of political staff on the day the president took office, the rosters show. Among them are a 2016 college graduate with a degree in English literature whose grandmother is a senior personnel official in the White House and a recent congressional intern who graduated in May with a master’s degree from the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.

The White House’s reach into MCC operations sheds new light on the administration’s appointment process and shows how even obscure parts of the federal bureaucracy traditionally viewed as nonpartisan are being drawn into partisan orbits.

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Bron: WaPo

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Op zondag 29 juli 2018 06:04 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Intelligence experts warn Russian hackers close to being able to shut down U.S. power grid:
http://thehill.com/policy(...)ps://t.co/My8SoNzGHB

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-07-2018 om 15:13:59 I would be willing to “shut down” government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 29 juli 2018 16:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
We zijn weer hier aanbeland in de carrousel:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-07-2018 om 15:13:59 I would be willing to “shut down” government if the Democrats do not give us the votes for Border Security, which includes the Wall! Must get rid of Lottery, Catch & Release etc. and finally go to system of Immigration based on MERIT! We need great people coming into our Country! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 29 juli 2018 17:05 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Is dit niet gewoon een oude tweet?

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From Dow’s ‘Dioxin Lawyer’ to Trump’s Choice to Run Superfund
The lawyer nominated to run the Superfund toxic cleanup program is steeped in the complexities of restoring polluted rivers and chemical dumps. He spent more than a decade on one of the nation’s most extensive cleanups, one involving Dow Chemical’s sprawling headquarters in Midland, Mich.

But while he led Dow’s legal strategy there, the chemical giant was accused by regulators, and in one case a Dow engineer, of submitting disputed data, misrepresenting scientific evidence and delaying cleanup, according to internal documents and court records as well as interviews with more than a dozen people involved in the project. (New York Times).

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Op zondag 29 juli 2018 19:44 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:
De fanclubs en de trollen zijn ook aan een offensief (of defensief?) begonnen:
https://www.facebook.com/(...)712363496180/?type=3
https://www.facebook.com/(...)270375521896/?type=3
https://www.facebook.com/(...)383813044424/?type=3
En nog meer onzin, een soort bombardement van dit soort dingen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-07-2018 om 14:30:04 Had a very good and interesting meeting at the White House with A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher of the New York Times. Spent much time talking about the vast amounts of Fake News being put out by the media & how that Fake News has morphed into phrase, “Enemy of the People.” Sad! reageer retweet

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Earlier this month, A.G. received a request from the White House to meet with President Trump. This was not unusual; there has been a long tradition of New York Times publishers holding such meetings with presidents and other public figures who have concerns about coverage.

On July 20th, A.G. went to the White House, accompanied by James Bennet, who oversees the editorial page of The Times. Mr. Trump’s aides requested that the meeting be off the record, which has also been the practice for such meetings in the past.

But with Mr. Trump’s tweet this morning, he has put the meeting on the record, so A.G. has decided to respond to the president’s characterization of their conversation, based on detailed notes A.G. and James took.

Statement of A.G. Sulzberger, Publisher, The New York Times:

My main purpose for accepting the meeting was to raise concerns about the president’s deeply troubling anti-press rhetoric.

I told the president directly that I thought that his language was not just divisive but increasingly dangerous.

I told him that although the phrase “fake news” is untrue and harmful, I am far more concerned about his labeling journalists “the enemy of the people.” I warned that this inflammatory language is contributing to a rise in threats against journalists and will lead to violence.

I repeatedly stressed that this is particularly true abroad, where the president’s rhetoric is being used by some regimes to justify sweeping crackdowns on journalists. I warned that it was putting lives at risk, that it was undermining the democratic ideals of our nation, and that it was eroding one of our country’s greatest exports: a commitment to free speech and a free press.

Throughout the conversation I emphasized that if President Trump, like previous presidents, was upset with coverage of his administration he was of course free to tell the world. I made clear repeatedly that I was not asking for him to soften his attacks on The Times if he felt our coverage was unfair. Instead, I implored him to reconsider his broader attacks on journalism, which I believe are dangerous and harmful to our country.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-07-2018 om 21:09:17 When the media - driven insane by their Trump Derangement Syndrome - reveals internal deliberations of our government, it truly puts the lives of many, not just journalists, at risk! Very unpatriotic! Freedom of the press also comes with a responsibility to report the news... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-07-2018 om 21:09:18 ...accurately. 90% of media coverage of my Administration is negative, despite the tremendously positive results we are achieving, it’s no surprise that confidence in the media is at an all time low! I will not allow our great country to be sold out by anti-Trump haters in the... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-07-2018 om 21:09:18 ...dying newspaper industry. No matter how much they try to distract and cover it up, our country is making great progress under my leadership and I will never stop fighting for the American people! As an example, the failing New York Times... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 29-07-2018 om 21:09:19 ...and the Amazon Washington Post do nothing but write bad stories even on very positive achievements - and they will never change! reageer retweet