[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #541 - Guilty

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 01:02 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, voor je eigen update is het makkelijker, maar voor het onderlinge overleg om meningen te vormen niet zo?

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 01:04 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Heb jij FOK-users nodig om die artikelen te duiden dan?

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 01:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Nee, en ik snap ook niet waarom je mn positie belachelijk probeert te maken.

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Lawyers for alleged Russian agent Maria Butina accused of violating court rules

The lawyer for Maria Butina, an alleged Russian agent who was recently indicted by the Justice Department, is being accused of violating court rules by talking to the press about her case.

In a new letter to attorney Robert Driscoll and entered into federal court in Washington on Thursday, prosecutors say they have “concerns” about his “apparent ongoing violations” of local criminal rules that set limits on what both the government and defense counsel can say publicly.

“Despite this clear prohibition, the government has encountered multiple recent instances of you in the press commenting about the merits and evidence of this case,” prosecutors wrote, citing comments Driscoll made in articles published in July and August in Politico, the Washington Post, and RT.

Butina was arrested in Washington on July 15 and charged with violating the Foreign Agents Registration Act by acting as an unregistered Russian agent within the United States. Her work at the direction of a high-level Russian official, believed to be Aleksandr Torshin, began as early as 2015 and continued until at least February 2017.

Prosecutors note that Driscoll’s comments were made despite a warning from the judge, when they alerted U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan at a status hearing last month about comments he had already made to the press.

At the time, Chutkan said she would hold off on issuing a gag order, but told Driscoll: “Do you think it’s in your client’s interest to have her case tried in the press?”

“Your comments in the press since that hearing appear to have been made without any regard to the court’s admonition,” prosecutors said Thursday, adding that they could ask for a gag order if his comments continue.

Prosecutors allege that Butina had attempted to create a “backchannel” of communications between Republicans and Russian officials, by developing relationships with conservatives inside the National Rifle Association, the National Prayer Breakfast, and other religious organizations.

Butina has pleaded not guilty, and is currently being held in an Alexandria, Va., jail — right outside Washington — after federal magistrate judge Deborah Robinson ordered her detained pending trial.

At a press briefing Thursday, Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova said Moscow demands the U.S. drop the charges against her.

"We demand that all necessary assistance is provided to Maria Butina and politically motivated charges are dropped," Zakharova reportedly said. "We hope that the global community will pay attention to the U.S. law enforcement agencies’ actions against the Russian citizen that humiliate human dignity."

The Russian Embassy in Washington has also accused the U.S. of mistreating Butina in custody.

“It seems as if Washington is trying to force her to cooperate with the investigation by making her living conditions as difficult as possible,” the embassy tweeted last week.

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 02:03 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 01:15:02 Prosecutors in the case against Mariia Butina have sent a letter to her defense attorney saying that he's violating local court rules about making statements about the case—and they may seek relief from the Court if he continues. https://t.co/EHa37c2Ntx reageer retweet

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ColinKahl twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 00:38:03 <THREAD> BOMBSHELL from @adamentous & @RonanFarrow: A memo circulating in the Trump NSC in early 2017 alleging a vast conspiracy of former Obama officials may be linked to efforts by the Israeli firm Black Cube to target me, @brhodes, & our families. https://t.co/EWUzhJwKer 1/ reageer retweet

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In early 2017, some of Donald Trump’s advisers concluded that they faced a sophisticated threat responsible for “coordinated attacks” on the new Administration. They circulated a memo, titled “The Echo Chamber,” which read like a U.S. military-intelligence officer’s analysis of a foreign-insurgent network. Instead of being about enemies in a distant war zone, however, the network described in the memo consisted of former aides to President Barack Obama.

The memo claimed that the “communications infrastructure” that the Obama White House used to “sell Obamacare and the Iran Deal to the public” had been moved to the private sector, now that the former aides were out of government. It called the network the Echo Chamber and accused its members of mounting a coördinated effort “to undermine President Trump’s foreign policy” through organized attacks in the press against Trump and his advisers. “These are the Obama loyalists who are probably among those coordinating the daily/weekly battle rhythm,” the memo said, adding that they likely operated a “virtual war room.” The memo lists Ben Rhodes, a former deputy national-security adviser to President Obama, as “likely the brain behind this operation” and Colin Kahl, Vice-President Joe Biden’s former national-security adviser, as its “likely ops chief.” Rhodes and Kahl both said in interviews that the allegations are false and no such organization exists.

The memo is unsigned and undated, and Trump Administration officials familiar with it offered conflicting accounts of who authored it and whether it originated inside or outside the White House. The officials said that it was circulated within the National Security Council and other parts of the Trump White House in early 2017. They said the memo may have had additional pages. A National Security Council spokesperson declined to comment.

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 04:33:46 Read this and remember that Jacob Zamel--the founder of Black Cube's rival in Israel, PsyGroup--met with Trump Jr. in Trump Tower on August 3, 2016. The meeting was set up and attended by Erik Prince; George Nader was there, too. What was Zamel selling? A domestic psy-ops campaign. https://t.co/uQXHOg2UVL reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 04:35:39 2/ Trump Jr.'s response to being offered a massive domestic fake news campaign to help his dad win the election? "Very interested." I think we're going to be hearing much more about that meeting--as what Zamel offered was much less controversial than what *Nader* offered Trump Jr. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 04:36:18 3/ Did I mention Nader is cooperating with Mueller? reageer retweet

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Eric Swalwell told @maddow tonight that the House Judiciary Committee has scheduled a meeting tomorrow on Hillary Clinton's emails. The day after Michael Cohen's plea agreement, that's what was scheduled.

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Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) reportedly said the death of Iowa college student Mollie Tibbetts could be politically advantageous to Republicans heading into the November midterm elections.

"If Mollie Tibbetts is a household name by October, Democrats will be in deep trouble," he told Axios in an article published Wednesday. "If we can be blocked by Manafort-Cohen, etc., then GOP could lose [the House] badly."(....)

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 22:59 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Dus in een maand tijd zijn we gegaan van

"Het is niet waar", naar
"Als het waar is, is het niet crimineel", naar
"Als het crimineel is, is het niet erg", naar
"Als het erg is, is het resultaat nog veel erger".

Hij gaat lekker Donnie!

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 05:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het is lachwekkend. Die HJC is gewoon een parodie geworden. Wat een sneue bende.

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 07:17 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Je meent toch niet dat het nog steeds over die emails gaat, hè?

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 07:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het is erg belangrijk.Stel dat Cruz en O'Rourke gaan debatteren over windenergie in Texas, dan is het handig als Cruz ineens kan roepen:" But her emails!". Dan is Beto meteen stil.

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Critics fear Trump’s attacks are doing lasting damage to the justice system

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Taken together, critics said, the president’s actions demonstrate his shifting, inconsistent principles when it comes to law enforcement and suggest a dangerous lack of understanding about the criminal justice system that is likely to have repercussions well beyond the White House.

“When people at the top show contempt for law and contempt for the legal process, that’s bound to trickle down,” said Pamela Karlan, a Stanford University law professor.

In recent months, Republicans have increasingly lost confidence in the Justice Department and the FBI. One lawmaker accused of crimes, Rep. Duncan D. Hunter (R-Calif.), has modeled his response on Trump’s, describing Justice as “the Democrats’ arm of law enforcement” this week after he and his wife were charged with spending more than $250,000 in campaign funds on family vacations and other personal expenses.

In the interview with “Fox & Friends,” which was recorded Wednesday and aired in full Thursday morning, Trump decried the long-established practice of “flipping,” in which a person accused of a crime is offered leniency by prosecutors in exchange for becoming a cooperating witness.

The practice is one of the most powerful tools investigators use to dismantle secretive, insular criminal organizations, including gangs, and to uncover other crimes. Advisers said Trump’s remarks were largely out of pique with Cohen.

“For 30, 40 years I’ve been watching flippers,” Trump told Fox News Channel’s Ainsley Earhardt. He added: “It almost ought to be outlawed.”

The remarks drew rebukes from both Democrats and Republicans, including Giuliani.

“When it’s done right, it’s fine,” Giuliani said, noting that prosecutors offer witnesses leniency for their cooperation in criminal probes and that it’s a valuable tool for getting to the truth if they do it properly.

“It’s one of the tools prosecutors use,” he added. “Then it gets tested by a jury. You can’t stop that.”

Alberto R. Gonzales, who was attorney general under President George W. Bush, and Neal Katyal, solicitor general under President Barack Obama, both said it was a necessary tool.

“If President Trump’s views were the law, literally thousands of criminals would be on the street today,” Katyal wrote in an email.

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Bron: WaPo

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 07:49 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Je kan een hoop zeggen, maar Manafort en Cohen hadden geen illegale mailserver thuis staan. Dus dan valt het allemaal wel mee.

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 01:30 schreef monkyyy het volgende:

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Ze had ook kunnen zeggen:
This is an incredibly insensitive attempt to use a young person’s death for political purposes and you should be ashamed. It’s too early to talk about immigration and we offer our thoughts and prayers to her and her family.

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Op donderdag 23 augustus 2018 04:21 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 23-08-2018 om 01:10:41 Three hours ago this case was put forward as the centerpiece of the GOP midterm strategy... on illegal immigration. Damn you, facts! Why must you get in the way of a political party exploiting a family's grief for political gain (even after family members begged them *not* to)? https://t.co/9BlkXfVQrJ reageer retweet

Man charged with killing Iowa college student was in U.S. legally, lawyer says

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 09:27 schreef IkStampOpTacos het volgende:

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Toevallig dat haar dood gepushed werd, niet echt.

https://www.independent.c(...)tm_source=reddit.com

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 06:06 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Oh wacht, we hadden het over het diep zinken van de GOP....

http://thehill.com/blogs/(...)nt-could-help-gop-in

Newt Gingrich is blij met twee vermoorde studenten Iowa, want dat kan de Republikeinen helpen bij de verkiezingen.

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 09:43 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dit gaat vast weer zo'n Seth Rich dingetje worden, waarbij de familie Fox en co smeekt om op te houden met het misbruiken van de dood van hun dochter en het verspreiden van samenzweringen, zonder dat er gevolg aan gegeven wordt.

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 10:12 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Misschien heeft de dader ooit wel als stagiair bij de Clinton Foundation gewerkt, dat zou helemaal fijn zijn.

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 10:45 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Misschien heeft de dader ooit wel eens een folder van de Clinton-campagne in ontvangst genomen. Dat tekent de kwaadaardigheid van de Democraten.

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tedlieu twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 10:07:53 MOST SUCCESSFUL SPECIAL COUNSEL EVER! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 11:57:15 Target CEO raves about the Economy. “This is the best consumer environment I’ve seen in my career.” A big statement from a top executive. But virtually everybody is saying this, & when our Trade Deals are made, & cost cutting done, you haven’t seen anything yet! @DRUDGE_REPORT reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 12:04:45 Our Economy is setting records on virtually every front - Probably the best our country has ever done. Tremendous value created since the Election. The World is respecting us again! Companies are moving back to the U.S.A. reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 12:17:34 “Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.” Jeff, this is GREAT, what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the “other side” including deleted Emails, Comey lies & leaks, Mueller conflicts, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr...... reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 24 augustus 2018 12:18 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 24-08-2018 om 12:17:34 “Department of Justice will not be improperly influenced by political considerations.” Jeff, this is GREAT, what everyone wants, so look into all of the corruption on the “other side” including deleted Emails, Comey lies & leaks, Mueller conflicts, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr...... reageer retweet

eh? Wut?

Dus omdat Sessions zegt dat Trump zich niet met zijn zaken moet bemoeien zegt Trump dat dat een goed idee is en bemoeit zich vervolgens met de zaken van Sessions' ministerie.