[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #542 - in memoriam: John McCain

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 13:21 schreef zalkc het volgende:

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Je doet Nixon wel een beetje tekort vind ik.

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karentravers twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 12:20:23 Flags at the White House were lowered to half staff this weekend for the passing of John McCain but this morning they are back to full staff. There was no official proclamation from President Trump (as he has done in the past for other notable figures passing) https://t.co/rmUO6xbtrp reageer retweet

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MarshallCohen twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 01:29:29 Roger Stone's latest pitch to his email list of supporters boils down to this: Donate right now because, literally, I am the next guy to get indicted. https://t.co/sWAx2BQtSJ reageer retweet

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 14:08 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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MarshallCohen twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 01:29:29 Roger Stone's latest pitch to his email list of supporters boils down to this: Donate right now because, literally, I am the next guy to get indicted. https://t.co/sWAx2BQtSJ reageer retweet

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39 jaar de koffie rondbrengen. Dat is toch ook geen carrière?

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 11:43 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Nu nog uit het witte huis. Er gaan stemmen op bij de democraten om hem (wanneer ze het huis en de senaat kunnen veroveren) Trump tot aan de presidentsverkiezingen te laten zitten waar hij zit zonder al te veel blijvende schade te kunnen veroorzaken. Ondertussen kan dan de hele Trump org. ontmanteld worden en kan Trump zich later niet meer verschuilen achter zijn poen.

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 14:17 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Lijkt me wel mooi. Trump vs Elizabeth Warren, waarbij Trump niet verder komt dan haar elke dag Pocahontas te noemen, waarna een vernederende nederlaag volgt. Maar eigenlijk heb ik 0 vertrouwen meer in de Amerikaanse kiezers.

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 15:12 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Die krijgt gewoon nog een tweede termijn hoor. Zolang het economisch nog voorspoedig gaat als de herverkiezing begint. Het enige wat hem tegenhoudt is als Mueller genoeg vind. En zelf dan moeten ze hem schoppend en schreeuwend het Witte Huis uitdragen

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 14:08 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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MarshallCohen twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 01:29:29 Roger Stone's latest pitch to his email list of supporters boils down to this: Donate right now because, literally, I am the next guy to get indicted. https://t.co/sWAx2BQtSJ reageer retweet

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39 jaar de koffie rondbrengen. Dat is toch ook geen carrière?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 15:39:02 A big deal looking good with Mexico! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 15:42 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 15:39:02 A big deal looking good with Mexico! reageer retweet

Kan dit buiten NAFTA zonder dat Canada meedoet?

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 15:20:30 Manafort saw managing the 2008 Republican Convention as almost a birthright, according to The Atlantic. But McCain denied him the job. He couldn’t abide Manafort's pro-Russian clients—and told him so, a rejection that sent Manafort into a fit of rage. https://t.co/vJOyyBNk4d reageer retweet

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A central feature of John McCain’s biography was his capacity for change. After he sullied himself in the Savings and Loan scandal of the late eighties, he self-consciously transformed into a warrior on behalf of the cause of political reform. And then, in the course of his insurgent challenge to the anointed candidacy of George W. Bush—which McCain referred to as the “Death Star”—he came to understand how the mindless libertarianism of his early political career didn’t fully reflect his true beliefs. McCain began to criticize the regressive tax cuts that he once supported—what began as a tactical maneuver, then seemingly acquired the weight of conviction. Luke Skywalker didn’t win that fight, but he returned to fight the Bush tax cuts in the Senate.

This is what made McCain so admirable to those who disagree with his politics: a profound sense of humility, openness to learning from his own error, an ability to adjust core beliefs in response to changing evidence, an insatiable hunger for rebellion.

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SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 16:11:47 This underscores how *widely known* Manafort's shady Russian ties were when Trump hired him in March 2016 https://t.co/CmeEpD7Uts reageer retweet

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agearan twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 15:55:14 U.S., Mexico reach partial agreement to resolve trade conflict, a step towards a NAFTA deal https://t.co/7tAa20QJtF reageer retweet

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GeoffRBennett twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 13:12:35 The flags at the White House are back at full staff this morning. Traditionally, sitting senators who die in office have flags lowered in their honor from date of death until burial. And we've received no presidential proclamation for McCain. reageer retweet

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tedlieu twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 16:13:55 Dear #SecDef: You served on active duty. As a nation mourns McCain, it would be appropriate to lower the flag to half staff at all @DeptofDefense buildings. I respectfully request you give that order, regardless of the views of @realDonaldTrump. It is the honorable thing to do. https://t.co/KSHnUuYPPc reageer retweet

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tedlieu twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 16:06:39 Dear @SecPompeo: You served on active duty. As a nation mourns McCain, it would be appropriate to lower the flag to half staff at all @StateDept buildings. I respectfully request you give that order, regardless of the views of @realDonaldTrump. It is the honorable thing to do. https://t.co/yIllKANhMq reageer retweet

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tedlieu twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 15:38:57 Dear @SecretaryZinke: You served on active duty. As a nation mourns McCain, it would be appropriate to lower the flag to half staff at all @Interior buildings. I respectfully request you give that order, regardless of the views of @realDonaldTrump. It is the honorable thing to do https://t.co/HnxooCDRfP reageer retweet

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"We are worse off than where we were when the summit happened because, in the meantime, China and Russia have alleviated sanctions pressure on North Korea. We've also unilaterally canceled our military exercises with South Korea with our own president even labeling these exercises provocative which certainly unnerved Japan," said Sean King, senior vice president at public policy and business development firm Park Strategies.

Even during the June summit, King said, both parties seemed to have misunderstood to what the other was agreeing.

"Trump thinks he (Kim) said he will give up his nukes and then we will work toward some kind of peace deal. But in Kim's mind, it is the end of the U.S.-South Korea alliance first and then maybe he will denuclearize," King said.

King suggested that part of the problem was a difference of opinion about strategy within the White House.

"You have a professional staff that is talking a hard line, and the president feels he could do his own deal based on personal chemistry. It is like we have two parallel administrations and North Korea is trying to exploit that," King said.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 15:50:00 No tweets from the president yet about the shooting in Jacksonville. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 16:50:12 WASHINGTON (AP) — Nation's top official overseeing student loans resigns, citing White House hostility to protecting borrowers. reageer retweet

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The federal official in charge of protecting student borrowers from predatory lending practices has stepped down.

In a scathing resignation letter, Seth Frotman, who until now was the Student Loan Ombudsman at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau says current leadership "has turned its back on young people and their financial futures." The letter was addressed to Mick Mulvaney, the bureau's acting director.

In the letter, obtained by NPR, Frotman accuses Mulvaney and the Trump administration of undermining the CFPB and its ability to protect student borrowers.

"Unfortunately, under your leadership, the Bureau has abandoned the very consumers it is tasked by Congress with protecting," it read. "Instead, you have used the Bureau to serve the wishes of the most powerful financial companies in America."

The letter raises serious questions about the federal government's willingness to oversee the $1.5 trillion student loan industry and to protect student borrowers.

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Republicans on the Hill have again and again claimed that there is no Donald Trump scandal worth investigating. But in a sign that maybe they aren’t operating totally on the level, Jonathan Swan at Axios reports that a “senior House Republicans office” has compiled a spreadsheet of all the things they believe House Democrats will investigate if they win a majority in November — and they are terrified what these inquiries might turn up.

In total defiance of the (flawed) logic of the Madisonian constitutional system, Republicans have used their control of the congressional agenda to stymie any kind of rigorous investigation into dozens of urgent scandals swirling around the Trump administration.

Swan reports that “it has churned Republican stomachs” and includes the following:

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It’s natural, normal, and almost certainly inevitable for Congress to go softer on a same-party president than they would on an opposite-party president. But the sheer length and gravity of this list is an indictment of congressional Republicans’ total abdication of their responsibilities to the country.

But instead of seeing it that way, they’re just using it as a scare story to try to motivate greater effort toward winning the midterms so they can continue the coverup.

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 17:50 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Het raaskaalt weer live met president elect van Mexico over de “ elegante” naam voor de U.S.-Mexico agreement. Fascinerend.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 17:50:07 Can't stop watching Trump trying to get the President of Mexico on speakerphone. (via CBS) https://t.co/1KDrFHV2qp reageer retweet

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 17:55 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 17:50:07 Can't stop watching Trump trying to get the President of Mexico on speakerphone. (via CBS) https://t.co/1KDrFHV2qp reageer retweet

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 17:55 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 17:50:07 Can't stop watching Trump trying to get the President of Mexico on speakerphone. (via CBS) https://t.co/1KDrFHV2qp reageer retweet

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Op maandag 27 augustus 2018 18:37 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Gvd

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JenniferJJacobs twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 18:26:50 Lots of warmth between Trump and Mexico's Enrique Peña Nieto, who was on speaker phone in Oval Office for trade deal announcement. Peña Nieto offered a "toast, with tequila, of course" to celebrate. And Trump told him, at end of call: "A hug from you would be very nice." reageer retweet

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jdawsey1 twitterde op maandag 27-08-2018 om 00:33:18 Lanny Davis, Michael Cohen's lawyer, tells the Post on the record that he was saying things he did not know to be true. https://t.co/gLmhRo6v9i reageer retweet