[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #577: Midterm aftermath

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The White House on Wednesday faced swift backlash after it announced its suspension of CNN Chief White House Correspondent Jim Acosta's press credentials following an extended verbal confrontation between Acosta and President Trump earlier that afternoon.

In a statement Wednesday night, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders claimed Acosta "[placed] his hands on" a young female White House intern who attempted to take a microphone from him.

“We will ... never tolerate a reporter placing his hands on a young woman just trying to do her job as a White House intern. This conduct is absolutely unacceptable," said Sanders. "As a result of today’s incident, the White House is suspending the hard pass of the reporter involved until further notice."

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benshapiro twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 02:37:41 This is not what happened. You could have banned him simply for refusing to abide by any of the normal rules of the press room. No need to state something happened that didn’t. https://t.co/p9hgtVE8eZ reageer retweet

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JenniferJJacobs twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 02:53:19 I sat next to Acosta at the press conference today. The White House intern came to take the microphone to the next reporter called on for a question, and Acosta, right or wrong, refused to give it to her when she reached out to grab it. https://t.co/ZHi7sbEKUf reageer retweet

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jeffmason1 twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 02:25:43 I was seated next to ⁦@Acosta⁩ at today’s press conference and did not witness him “placing his hands” on the young intern, as the White House alleges. He held on to the microphone as she reached for it. The ⁦@Reuters⁩ pictures below depict what happened accurately. https://t.co/nO68Hf4eQM reageer retweet

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DanRather twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 02:14:19 News the White House pulled Jim @Acosta’s credentials is not an attack on one journalist but all of the press. There should be complete solidarity. This is a moment for any Republican who says they believe in the Constitution to stand up. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 8 november 2018 03:31 schreef Lyrebird het volgende:
Nee, ondanks al zijn tekortkomingen speelt hij het spelletje veel slimmer dan een LePen of Wilders.

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Dat het voor de Democraten lastig is om een antwoord te vinden, komt omdat ze nog steeds in de jaren 90 leven.

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Het moet anders. Importheffingen en op de pof stemmen kopen - de oplossingen van Trump - zijn MI niet de oplossingen,

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maar ik heb niet het idee dat zo'n Bernie Sanders, Hillary Clinton of Nancy Pelosi het beter snappen.

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Op donderdag 8 november 2018 04:30 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://thehill.com/homen(...)-pass-of-cnns-acosta

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benshapiro twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 02:37:41 This is not what happened. You could have banned him simply for refusing to abide by any of the normal rules of the press room. No need to state something happened that didn’t. https://t.co/p9hgtVE8eZ reageer retweet

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JenniferJJacobs twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 02:53:19 I sat next to Acosta at the press conference today. The White House intern came to take the microphone to the next reporter called on for a question, and Acosta, right or wrong, refused to give it to her when she reached out to grab it. https://t.co/ZHi7sbEKUf reageer retweet

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jeffmason1 twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 02:25:43 I was seated next to ⁦@Acosta⁩ at today’s press conference and did not witness him “placing his hands” on the young intern, as the White House alleges. He held on to the microphone as she reached for it. The ⁦@Reuters⁩ pictures below depict what happened accurately. https://t.co/nO68Hf4eQM reageer retweet

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DanRather twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 02:14:19 News the White House pulled Jim @Acosta’s credentials is not an attack on one journalist but all of the press. There should be complete solidarity. This is a moment for any Republican who says they believe in the Constitution to stand up. reageer retweet

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whca twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 03:24:25 .@WHCA Statement On Revoked White House Access via President @OKnox https://t.co/EVXpy272ut reageer retweet

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DKElections twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 02:39:53 Holy smokes. Dem Xochitl Torres Small has taken the lead in #NM02! https://t.co/uShXF1vKZM reageer retweet

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MattFriedmanNJ twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 02:33:36 Andy Kim just declared victory in #NJ3. If that becomes official, he’ll have unseated Tom MacArthur, who revived the ultimately unsuccessful Obamacare repeal. reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 03:18:02 AP says a Democrat has flipped a House district in which her opponent made a victory speech 21 hours ago after media outlets called it for her: https://t.co/335BxBnc5N reageer retweet

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AP_Politics twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 03:05:36 BREAKING: Democrat Xochitl Torres Small wins election to U.S. House in New Mexico's 2nd congressional district. #APracecall at 7:04 p.m. MST. @AP election coverage: https://t.co/miEWlbTVZW #Election2018 #NMelection reageer retweet

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ForecasterEnten twitterde op donderdag 08-11-2018 om 03:35:10 To butcher a quote from Newt Gingrich after 1994, if this isn't a wave, I'd like to know what a wave is. This is this biggest net gain in the House for the Dems in the House since Watergate. reageer retweet

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If elected to the U.S. Senate, former U.S. Attorney Matt Whitaker says he would only support federal judges who have a Biblical view, and specifically a New Testament view, of justice. "If they have a secular world view, then I'm going to be very concerned about how they judge," Whitaker said at an April 25, 2014, Family Leader debate.

Whitaker didn't return my call to his office, but as a lawyer, one might expect him to know that setting religious conditions for holding a public office would violate the Iowa and U.S. constitutions. He was effectively saying that if elected, he would see no place for a judge of Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Buddhist, agnostic or other faith, or of no faith. Yet no one in the audience or on the podium seemed to have a problem with that, and his answer drew applause.

The debate venue had something to do with that. The event was sponsored by the Family Leader, the conservative Christian organization that engineered the ouster by voters in 2010 of three Iowa Supreme Court justices who ruled in favor of same-sex marriage. The moderator, blogger Erick Erickson, asked questions designed to compel the four Republican candidates to prove their Christian credentials. And though U.S. senator is a secular office, they mostly obliged.

Candidate Sam Clovis responded to Erickson's question about what criteria he would use to block President Obama's judicial nominees by saying he would vote for a judge who could link "natural law" to the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Mark Jacobs said he would look for someone who would "not legislate from the bench." Joni Ernst echoed that view, adding the judge would need to understand that America's laws "all came from God."

But Whitaker went the farthest: "Natural law often times is used from the eye of the beholder and what I would like to see — I'd like to see things like their world view, what informs them. Are they people of faith? Do they have a biblical view of justice? — which I think is very important because we all know that our government ..."

"Levitical or New Testament?" interrupted Erickson.

"I'm a New Testament," continued Whitaker. "And what I know is as long as they have that world view, that they'll be a good judge. And if they have a secular world view, where this is all we have here on Earth, then I'm going to be very concerned about that judge."

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Trump's acting attorney general was part of firm US accused of vast scam

Matthew Whitaker sat on advisory board of World Patent Marketing, which was ordered to pay $26m settlement in May

Donald Trump’s new acting attorney general was part of a company accused by the US government of running a multimillion-dollar scam.

Matthew Whitaker was paid to sit on the advisory board of World Patent Marketing, which was ordered in May this year to pay a $26m settlement following legal action by federal authorities, which said it tricked aspiring inventors.

Whitaker was appointed acting attorney general on Wednesday afternoon after the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, was fired by Trump.

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President Trump threatened on Wednesday to adopt a “warlike posture” against Democrats if they use their newly won control of the House to investigate his financial and political dealings, drawing a line at the start of a new era of divided government.

The president began a postelection news conference with an offer to work across party lines, but his conciliatory tone quickly turned contentious. And barely an hour later, he announced the firing of Attorney General Jeff Sessions in defiance of Democrats who saw an effort to impede the Russia investigation.

House Democrats also made the traditional nod to bipartisanship after their victory in Tuesday’s midterm elections even as they emphasized that they would scrutinize everything from Mr. Trump’s taxes to his campaign’s ties to Russia in 2016. But after Mr. Sessions was fired, the incoming chairman of the House Judiciary Committee said the decision would be investigated once Democrats took over in January.

The instant exchange of fire indicated that there may be no lull in the conflict that has cleaved Washington during the Trump era, and if anything, it may escalate beyond what the last two years have brought. Once in control of all the levers of power in the capital, the president and his party now face the prospect of an opposition House armed with subpoena power and stocked by Democrats who won office on the promise of imposing a check on him.

Any talk of lowering the temperature after a harsh campaign seemed to dissipate as the president angrily scolded reporters whose questions or behavior he did not like. By the end of the day, the White House suspended the credentials of Jim Acosta of CNN, a move that other presidents did not take even during times of great tension with the news media.

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There were historic firsts across the country on Tuesday night, as voters chose from a set of candidates that was among the most diverse ever to run in the United States. Native American, Muslim and African-American women, and L.G.B.T. candidates, were among those who broke barriers.

Here are some of the winners who made history.

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Op donderdag 8 november 2018 03:31 schreef Lyrebird het volgende:

Iets zegt me dat Jeff Bezos ook een betrouwbaar en goed product voor een goede prijs af zou leveren als hij een ziekenhuis zou beginnen. Of een lagere school. Of universiteit.

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Op donderdag 8 november 2018 07:17 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Ah, binnen 24 uur na de midterms is Trump als een dolle tekeer gegaan, zo te zien. Ik vraag me af hoe mensen deze rabiate obstruction of justice weg gaan praten. Waarschijnlijk door zich te focussen op Jim Acosta die een vrouw praktisch neergehoekt heeft, als we Sarah Backbone Needed Sanders moeten geloven.

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Op donderdag 8 november 2018 07:55 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:

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Jeff bezos is bezig alle bedrijven kapot te maken om een monopolie te bouwen op een heleboel vlakken, en hij heeft nooit winst gemaakt om dat te financieren.

Normaal zou een bedrijf nooit zo een dominante positie moeten krijgen, maar politici laten silicon valley angstvallig hun gang gaan in Amerika.

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Op donderdag 8 november 2018 07:58 schreef trein2000 het volgende:

Hij heeft acosta de toegang tot het WH ontzegt , das ongekend en bizar.

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Op donderdag 8 november 2018 08:19 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Ja inmiddels klotst het geld aan alle kanten over de plinten heen, ze weten van gekkigheid niet welke sector ze nu moeten overnemen alles maakt winst.Zelfs een verlieslatend bedrijf als je dat in het Amazon empire integreerd dan word het heel snel winstgevend door de enorme scale-up.

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Op donderdag 8 november 2018 08:20 schreef Copycat het volgende:

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Ik zie net de beelden op TMZ. En dan nu het zo draaien dat Acosta een intern zou hebben bepoteld.