[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #541 - Guilty

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 18:45 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
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Tricky Donald

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President Donald Trump says he gets his legal advice from watching tv

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When asked about former Trump Organization attorney Cohen’s legal problems, the president responded that the counts that his long-time friend pleaded guilty to weren’t actually crimes. “By the way, he pled to two counts which aren’t a crime which nobody understands,” he said. The president then claimed that he knew these weren’t crimes because “I watched a number of shows, sometimes you get good information by watching shows, those two counts aren’t a crime.”

The president has been criticized for his excessive dependence on TV programs like Fox News. Some reports say the president gets in about eight hours of screen time each day.

https://www.newsweek.com/(...)ent-tv-shows-1087243

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Jeff Sessions fires back at Trump after president insults him

Attorney General Jeff Sessions pushed back against President Donald Trump on Thursday, saying in a statement that the Department of Justice will not be "improperly influenced by political considerations" hours after Trump attacked him on television.

"I took control of the Department of Justice the day I was sworn in, which is why we have had unprecedented success at effectuating the President's agenda," Sessions said in the statement, which was posted on Twitter by Justice Department spokesperson Sarah Isgur Flores.

Earlier in the day Trump said that Sessions "never took control of the Justice Department" during an interview on Fox & Friends, and criticized the former Alabama senator for recusing himself from the department's investigation into links between Trump's 2016 presidential campaign and Russia.

Sessions "took the job and then he said, 'I'm going to recuse myself.' I said what kind of a man is this?" Trump said in the interview.

Bron: CNBC

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Key Republicans Signal Trump May Fire Sessions After Election

Two key Republican senators signaled to President Donald Trump that he could replace Attorney General Jeff Sessions after the midterm elections in November, a move that would open the way for firing Robert Mueller or constraining his probe into Russian meddling in the 2016 election.

“The president’s entitled to an attorney general he has faith in, somebody that’s qualified for the job, and I think there will come a time, sooner rather than later, where it will be time to have a new face and a fresh voice at the Department of Justice,” Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, who may be in line to head the Judiciary Committee next year, told reporters Thursday. “Clearly, Attorney General Sessions doesn’t have the confidence of the president.”

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Graham warned against acting against Sessions before the election, calling that possibility “a nonstarter.” That “would create havoc” with Senate efforts to confirm Trump’s Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh and with the midterm elections in November, he said.

That represents a significant shift from Graham’s stance a year ago, when he warned Trump publicly that if he fired Sessions “there will be holy hell to pay.”

Senator Chuck Grassley, the current Judiciary chairman, also changed his position on Thursday, saying in an interview that he’d be able to make time for hearings for a new attorney general after saying in the past that the panel was too busy to tackle that explosive possibility.

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Bron: Bloomberg

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South Africa‘s government pushed back against Mr. Trump’s tweet on its own Twitter account.

“South Africa totally rejects this narrow perception which only seeks to divide our nation and reminds us of our colonial past,” it said. It added that “South Africa will speed up the pace of land reform in a careful and inclusive manner that does not divide our nation.”

South African Foreign Minister Lindiwe Sisulu said she instructed her department to seek clarification from the U.S. Embassy in Pretoria on Mr. Trump’s “unfortunate comments” based on “false information.” A spokeswoman for the U.S. Embassy confirmed the request for clarification but declined to comment further.

WSJ

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 17:53 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Populism: the politics of fear

The Politics of Fear: Charting the Rise of Populist Movements – Public Lecture, February 2018

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joshgerstein twitterde op donderdag 23-08-2018 om 19:59:40 NEW: Verdict form confirms Manafort jury had single holdout n 10 hung counts Doc: reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 21:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Kennelijk was Manafort bijna nog op 2 meer punten schuldig bevonden:

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joshgerstein twitterde op donderdag 23-08-2018 om 19:59:40 NEW: Verdict form confirms Manafort jury had single holdout n 10 hung counts Doc:[ afbeelding ] reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 21:28 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Bijna op alle aanklachten toch?

Alleen iemand die de paper trail niet meer snapte en toen maar zei dat ze twijfelde.

Neem bij dit soort zaken dan een jury van 12 accountants ofzo.

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 15:08 schreef Sloggi het volgende:
“If I ever got impeached, I think the market would crash. I think everybody would be very poor,” adding that Americans would see economic “numbers that you wouldn’t believe in reverse”. In characteristic ebullient style, he also doubted it will happen.

“I don’t know how you can impeach somebody who’s done a great job,” he said in an interview with the conservative Fox News channel.

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 22:25 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:
https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show

https://www.msnbc.com/rac(...)family-1304666179927

Dat is nog eens een liefdadigheidsinstelling, die Trump Foundation.

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2018 legal actions by New York State

On June 14, 2018, the new New York Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a civil lawsuit against the foundation, alleging that it had engaged in "extensive unlawful political conduct" and accused Donald Trump of using the foundation "as his personal checkbook".[122][10] The lawsuit seeks $2.8 million in restitution and the dissolution of the Foundation.[123] Named in the suit are Donald Trump, the Trump Foundation, and three of his adult children: Ivanka, Eric, and Donald Jr.[124] The suit says that Trump himself made all decisions about disbursement of foundation funds, noting that the nominal board of directors didn't have a meeting for 18 years. It alleges that Trump illegally used the foundation to settle his personal legal debts and to support his presidential campaign.[125]. The office also referred possible legal violations to the Federal Election Commission and the IRS.[31]

In July 2018 the New York State Governor's chief counsel announced that it was ready to provide the state's Attorney General's office with a referral to the state's Division of Taxation and Finance. Such a referral could lead to criminal criminal prosecution under state law. Such a referral is required because the AG's office cannot receive a referral from its own office by law[10]

The New York Times reported on August 22, 2018 that Michael Cohen had received a subpoena for documents related to the Trump Foundation. This came the day after Cohen had pleaded guilty to charges that implicated Trump in campaign finance violations.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 23-08-2018 om 23:00:28 Elijah Cummings: "I just find it phenomenal that we could have someone like Mr. Cohen ... come in and testify under oath, in federal court that the president directed him to commit crimes, and then the Republicans sit around and act like nothing big happened." @MSNBC reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 23:44 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Tekenend idd...

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 23-08-2018 om 23:00:28 Elijah Cummings: "I just find it phenomenal that we could have someone like Mr. Cohen ... come in and testify under oath, in federal court that the president directed him to commit crimes, and then the Republicans sit around and act like nothing big happened." @MSNBC reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 23:57 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:

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Ik vind het eerder onbegrijpelijk. Er moeten toch _{(oorspronkelijk???)} ook heel veel door en door fatsoenlijke mensen bij die Republikeinen hebben gezeten, waar zijn die gebleven? Laten die nou echt stilzwijgend en zelfs applaudisserend toe dat hun partij met het uur ongeloofwaardiger wordt?

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 23:57 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:

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Ik vind het eerder onbegrijpelijk. Er moeten toch _{(oorspronkelijk???)} ook heel veel door en door fatsoenlijke mensen bij die Republikeinen hebben gezeten, waar zijn die gebleven? Laten die nou echt stilzwijgend en zelfs applaudisserend toe dat hun partij met het uur ongeloofwaardiger wordt?

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 23:57 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:

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Ik vind het eerder onbegrijpelijk. Er moeten toch _{(oorspronkelijk???)} ook heel veel door en door fatsoenlijke mensen bij die Republikeinen hebben gezeten, waar zijn die gebleven? Laten die nou echt stilzwijgend en zelfs applaudisserend toe dat hun partij met het uur ongeloofwaardiger wordt?

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 00:10:23 The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its relationship with Trump leading up to 2016 election, people familiar with the arrangement told The AP. https://t.co/SOWwFKNzV9 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 00:20:09 Interesting. Fearful the Trump docs might be used against American Media, David Pecker and his chief content officer removed them from the safe in the weeks before Trump's inauguration, according to the AP. https://t.co/l3lJL8D3mc reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 23:43 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:
Voor wie niet slapen kan, deze kilometer tekst op wikipedia is ook aardig up to date https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_J._Trump_Foundation

(Ik wilde wel eens weten wat die liefdadige instelling allemaal deed, behalve een soort afboekingspost zijn om over bepaalde inkomsten geen belasting te hoeven betalen.)

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 00:40 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 00:10:23 The National Enquirer kept a safe containing documents on hush money payments and other damaging stories it killed as part of its relationship with Trump leading up to 2016 election, people familiar with the arrangement told The AP. https://t.co/SOWwFKNzV9 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 00:20:09 Interesting. Fearful the Trump docs might be used against American Media, David Pecker and his chief content officer removed them from the safe in the weeks before Trump's inauguration, according to the AP. https://t.co/l3lJL8D3mc reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 00:56 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Vroeger had je een of meerdere artikelen waarin dit dan te lezen was. Nu heb je tweets waarin verwezen wordt naar zichzelf of hetzelfde artikel waarin dan in de tweet de mening of hoofdzaak gegeven wordt volgens die persoon, terwijl in zo'n artikel juist altijd zoveel meer nuance zit.

Ikzelf maak er ook veel gebruik van, maar is het maatschappelijke debat niet veel armer geworden hierdoor?

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 01:01 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Het lijkt me juist wel handig voor mensen die niet de tijd hebben om alle artikelen te lezen en het artikel is toch gewoon beschikbaar? Zie het probleem niet zo.