[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #579: Koreaanse raketten

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The U.S. recorded a $100.5 billion budget deficit in October, an increase of about 60 percent from a year earlier, as spending grew twice as fast as revenue.

The deficit widened from $63.2 billion in the same month last year, the department said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. October marks the start of the U.S. fiscal year.

Receipts totaled $252.7 billion last month, up 7 percent from a year earlier, while outlays climbed 18 percent to $353.2 billion, according to the department.

A ballooning U.S. budget shortfall -- fueled by tax cuts, spending hikes and an aging population -- is driving the Treasury Department to raise its long-term debt issuance. Waning support for U.S. government debt from the Fed, combined with President Donald Trump’s deficit-boosting tax cuts, are weighing on the debt load that he inherited from Barack Obama.

In Trump’s first full fiscal year that ended in September, the budget gap grew to $779 billion, the highest level since 2012.

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hellofasandwich twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 02:00:31 #CA45: Boom goes the dynamite! Dem Katie Porter has now pulled AHEAD of GOP Rep. Mimi Walters after a fresh update from the Orange County Clerk's office: https://t.co/fzDEUDznEO https://t.co/sMX43mPXLn reageer retweet

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girlsreallyrule twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 22:32:22 You have got to see this. In order to defend Cindy Hyde-Smith from accusations of racism, MI Gov. Phil Bryant doubles down by singling out black people to ask what about the "20 million abortions black people have had" and that we should be talking about that. 😳 https://t.co/smG0GPUtXt reageer retweet

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith on "public hanging' comments

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Maryland’s top lawyer asked a federal judge Tuesday to block Matthew G. Whitaker from serving as acting U.S. attorney general, contending that the appointment is illegal.

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) said that President Trump’s appointment of Whitaker to the nation’s highest law enforcement post is unconstitutional and that he should be replaced by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who was confirmed by the Senate.

“Few positions are more critical than that of U.S. Attorney General, an office that wields enormous enforcement power and authority over the lives of all Americans,” Frosh said in a statement.

Trump tapped Whitaker to serve as acting attorney general last week after Jeff Sessions resigned at the president’s request. Whitaker’s elevation has raised concerns about his qualifications, his past statements as a U.S. Senate candidate and his business practices.

The legal challenge to Whitaker’s appointment comes as part of Maryland’s ongoing federal lawsuit that is trying to force the Trump administration to uphold a key provision of the Affordable Care Act.

“Who the attorney general is is at the core of this lawsuit,” Frosh said in an interview Tuesday.

“Aside from the constitutional issue, this guy, Mr. Whitaker, has extreme views and that’s dangerous in itself,” said Frosh, adding that he also expects any ruling in the state challenge to Whitaker’s role to be appealed.

Frosh was not required to notify Gov. Larry Hogan (R) about a motion in an existing case. Hogan spokeswoman Amelia Chasse said the governor’s office received no prior communication about the filing and declined to comment on it.

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thehill twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 03:46:04 Graham supports bill protecting Mueller https://t.co/C2er2RA8gZ https://t.co/beggRLqVhd reageer retweet

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said that he would support a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller.

“I would certainly vote for it,” he told reporters, according to Reuters.

“I don’t see any movement to get rid of Mueller. But it probably would be good to have this legislation in place just for the future.”

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AP twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 03:32:08 BREAKING: Democrat Josh Harder wins U.S. House seat in California farm belt, defeats 4-term Republican Rep. Jeff Denham. https://t.co/YfFnH2YEJH reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 04:16 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 03:46:04 Graham supports bill protecting Mueller https://t.co/C2er2RA8gZ https://t.co/beggRLqVhd reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 05:03 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
48 doden in Butte County, CA nu. En de commentaren van Trump trolls op sites als The Hill...

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 11:33 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Samenstelling van het nieuwe Congres:
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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 12:38 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Voor de mensen die het niet willen zien, kijk ff weg.

Peilingen 2020:

Biden 44% (+1) Trump 43% Bloomberg 10%
Trump 45% (+11) Warren 34% Bloomberg 17%
Trump 45% (+12) Bloomberg 33% Avenatti 14%

@SurveyMonkey/@axios, RV, 10/24-30

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 12:38 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Voor de mensen die het niet willen zien, kijk ff weg.

Peilingen 2020:

Biden 44% (+1) Trump 43% Bloomberg 10%
Trump 45% (+11) Warren 34% Bloomberg 17%
Trump 45% (+12) Bloomberg 33% Avenatti 14%

@SurveyMonkey/@axios, RV, 10/24-30

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 12:52 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Vroeger ging een Independent vooral af van de Republikeinse score maar nu lijkt Trump er weinig onder te lijden.

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 12:58 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Bloomberg is ook Democraat geweest naast Independent. Maar die ziet ook wel in dat runnen als independent vrij kansloos is waarschijnlijk.

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 13:03 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Op Bernie Sanders na dan

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maggieNYT twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 12:52:31 “Analysts, historians and veterans of previous administrations said there were few comparable instances of a commander in chief warning about what he called a looming threat, only to drop it as soon as people voted.” https://t.co/g6SH1ProwP reageer retweet

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For weeks before the midterm elections, President Trump warned ominously about the threat from a caravan of migrants streaming from Central America toward Mexico’s border with the United States. It was a fearsome mix of criminals and “unknown Middle Easterners,” Mr. Trump claimed darkly, one that constituted a genuine national emergency.

But since the election last week, Mr. Trump has tweeted about the caravan exactly once — to issue a proclamation preventing those who cross the border illegally from applying for asylum in the United States. Fox News, which faithfully amplified Mr. Trump’s warnings about the migrants, has gone similarly quiet on the subject.

There was little dispute, even before Election Day, that Mr. Trump was exploiting the caravan for political purposes. But analysts, historians and veterans of previous administrations said there were few comparable instances of a commander in chief warning about what he called a looming threat, only to drop it as soon as people voted.

While the caravan has faded from television screens, the costs of Mr. Trump’s response to it have not. Nearly 6,000 active-duty troops remain deployed from the Gulf Coast to Southern California, where they are putting up tents and stringing concertina wire to face a ragtag band that is still not near the border.

“Now that the political utility of troops on the southern border to face a fictitious caravan invasion threat is over,” said Adm. James G. Stavridis, a former commander of the military’s Southern Command, “let’s hope the president will stand down the troops so they can be with their families — especially over the holidays.”

But some officials in the Defense Department worry that Mr. Trump could do the opposite — seek an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, the 1878 law that prohibits the government from using active-duty troops to enforce laws inside the country’s borders.

As pure political calculation, analysts from both parties said that seizing on the caravan mobilized Republican voters, dramatizing immigration in a way that resonated with Mr. Trump’s political base. But it is far less clear that the dire warnings helped Republican candidates with independents or other late-deciding voters.

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 12:58 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Bloomberg is ook Democraat geweest naast Independent. Maar die ziet ook wel in dat runnen als independent vrij kansloos is waarschijnlijk.

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 13:03 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 14:31 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Sanders heeft zijn moment gehad. Je kunt hem credits geven voor het mainstream maken van veel linkse standpunten binnen de Democratische partij (m.n. Medicare 4 all) maar als persoon is hij echt uitgerangeerd.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 13:30:13 Just as the annual Federalist Society convention is about to begin, George Conway (Kellyanne's husband) has formed a new group of more than a dozen conservative lawyers who believe the Trump admin is betraying the bedrock legal norms. https://t.co/FJXHWBn6JU reageer retweet

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The annual convention of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, has long been a glittering and bustling affair. In the Trump era, though, the group has become more powerful than ever, supplying intellectual energy and judicial candidates to an assertive administration eager to reshape the legal landscape.

But as the group prepares to gather on Thursday for the start of this year’s convention, more than a dozen prominent conservative lawyers have joined together to sound a note of caution. They are urging their fellow conservatives to speak up about what they say are the Trump administration’s betrayals of bedrock legal norms.

“Conservative lawyers are not doing enough to protect constitutional principles that are being undermined by the statements and actions of this president,” said John B. Bellinger III, a top State Department and White House lawyer under President George W. Bush.

The group, called Checks and Balances, was organized by George T. Conway III, a conservative lawyer and the husband of President Trump’s counselor, Kellyanne Conway. In recent opinion articles, Mr. Conway has criticized Mr. Trump’s statements on birthright citizenship and argued that his appointment of Matthew G. Whitaker to serve as acting attorney general violated the Constitution.

The new group also includes Tom Ridge, a former governor of Pennsylvania and secretary of homeland security in the Bush administration; Peter D. Keisler, a former acting attorney general in the Bush administration; two prominent conservative law professors, Jonathan H. Adler and Orin S. Kerr; and Lori S. Meyer, a lawyer who is married to Eugene B. Meyer, the president of the Federalist Society.

“We believe in the rule of law, the power of truth, the independence of the criminal justice system, the imperative of individual rights and the necessity of civil discourse,” the group said in a statement. “We believe these principles apply regardless of the party or persons in power.”

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U.S. President Donald Trump should have shown some “common decency” and respect France’s day of mourning on the third anniversary of the Nov 13 attacks in Paris, the French government’s spokesman said on Wednesday.

Asked about Trump’s tweets, in which the U.S. leader criticized France’s record in World War One and Two, French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said:

“Yesterday was Nov 13, we were commemorating the murder of 130 of our people,” he said. “So I’ll reply in English: ‘common decency’ would have been appropriate.”

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Democrats contend that he needed to be in a Senate-confirmed position to take over as acting attorney general.

The Justice Department’s powerful Office of Legal Counsel went to bat for acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker on Wednesday morning, issuing an memo that declares his appointment didn’t break the law.

The memo says that before Jeff Sessions left the Justice Department, White House lawyers asked DOJ lawyers about their legal options if the attorney general’s position became vacant.

“This Office had previously advised that the President could designate a senior Department of Justice official, such as Mr. Whitaker, as Acting Attorney General,” the memo reads.

A senior Justice Department official who briefed reporters on the memo said DOJ lawyers told the White House a sufficiently senior Department official who received high enough pay would be eligible to take over as attorney general. The official declined to share more detail about the nature of the White House’s communications with the Department.

The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) is simultaneously one of the most secretive and most powerful arms of the Justice Department. Its battalion of attorneys assess thorny legal issues and issues memos that govern government agencies. And most of the time, those decisions are secret.

In this case, though, OLC is going public with its memo determining that the Trump administration had the power to install Whitaker—the former chief of staff for Sessions—as acting AG. Whitaker’s appointment instantly drew criticism because of a host of comments he made as a TV pundit lambasting Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Before being made the head of the Justice Department, Whitaker did not occupy a Senate-confirmed position. As a result, a host of legal experts, including former Solicitor General Neal Katyal, argued his appointment violated the Senate’s Constitutional right to provide advice and consent to the executive branch. Over the weekend, Democratic Senators huddled and discussed whether to sue over the appointment.

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 15:31 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
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Sahil kapur: ''Early in 2018, the head of CLFSuperPAC Corry Bliss said the question that'll determine if Republicans keep the House is whether or not Americans believe the 2017 tax law has helped them.''

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 16:38 schreef RM-rf het volgende:

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rare opiniepeiling en vooral de weergave van de uitslag in die tabel is raar,
Het gegeven dat kennelijk meer dan 98% van de respondenten aangeeft democraat of republikein te zijn, doet vermoeden dat het geen eerlijke dwarsdoorsnede is van de amerikaanse bevolking (en ook veels teveel democraten antwoord gegeven hebben op die vraag en relatief weinig republikeinen en vrijwel geen independent, een zeer vertekenend beeld)...

Het percentage amerikanen dat zich identificeert met een van beide grote partijen daalt redelijk snel, in 2017 peilde Gallup het op 42%, 29% van de amerikanen noemde zich toen democraat en 27% republikein.


sowieso verwarrend en onduidelijk dat ze uitgaan van de totale score op de vraag van invloed van de belastingverlaging, en dat daarna verdeeld welke percentage van die drie antwoorden afkwam van republikeinen verwart zeer:
Het totale aantal republikeinen dat aangegeven heeft dat de belastingverlaging hen geholpen heeft, zal vermoedelijk ongeveer gelijk zijn aan het aantal dat aangeeft dat het geen impact had of zelfs nadelig was, maar hoeveel is onduidelijk door de zeer beperkte visualisatie van de uitslag.
Ook mist er kennelijk 6% die geen antwoord gegeven heeft of de belastingverlaging negatief/positief/geen impact had.

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 17:53 schreef Roamnroll het volgende:
Fox News vervoegt CNN rechtzaaksgewijs: Twitter-meltdown incoming zou een mens zo durven veronderstellen :””).

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 13:28 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Waar de fuck gaat dit nou weer over? Macron wil geld investeren in defensie en dat is ook verkeerd of zo?

Of moeten andere landen meebetalen aan het amerikaanse defensiebudget?

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 18:15 schreef Tocadisco het volgende:

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Is het sowieso ook niet veel waarschijnlijker dat we Russisch zouden spreken als de Amerikanen niet hadden ingegrepen?

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 18:15 schreef Tocadisco het volgende:

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Is het sowieso ook niet veel waarschijnlijker dat we Russisch zouden spreken als de Amerikanen niet hadden ingegrepen?

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 23:39 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Over Kim gesproken, die wint een zeteltje in NJ:
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur

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passantino twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 23:51:53 News: Michael Avenatti has been arrested for felony domestic violence and is currently in LAPD custody, @CJRosenbaum reports reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 00:07 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Tot zover Avenatti 2020

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passantino twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 23:51:53 News: Michael Avenatti has been arrested for felony domestic violence and is currently in LAPD custody, @CJRosenbaum reports reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 00:11 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:
Godzijdank, dat de republikeinen voor een clown hebben gekozen is al erg genoeg, je moet er toch niet aan denken dat de democraten zich toch hetzelfde niveau zouden verlagen.

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 00:31 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
Je linkje doet het niet bij mij, maar gaat het om Is die dame die gisteren ontslagen was, toen niet, toen wel, toen niet, en nu weer wel?

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 15-11-2018 om 02:05:41 WH officials are struggling to understand the source of the fury fueling Trump's eruptions. "This is a level of insanity I've never seen before," one ex-West Wing staffer told VF."He's under a tremendous amount of mental stress," a prominent GOPer said. https://t.co/UrJsY1A7W8 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 15-11-2018 om 02:10:29 One Republican tells VF Trump didn't want to go to the cemetery in France was because there wasn't a tent to stand under. "He was worried his hair was going to get messed up in the rain," the source said. "Everyone was telling him this was a big mistake." https://t.co/UrJsY1A7W8 reageer retweet

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In a statement released by his law office, Avenatti said that the allegations against him were “completely bogus.”

“I wish to thank the hard working men and woman of the LAPD for their professionalism,” he said. “I have never been physically abusive in my life nor was I last night. Any accusations to the contrary are fabricated and meant to do harm to my reputation. I look forward to being fully exonerated.”

It was unclear who was involved in the alleged incident.

TMZ initially reported that Avenatti was arrested after his “estranged wife” filed a felony domestic violence report, but later amended its story after his ex-wife Lisa Storie Avenatti said through a lawyer that the assertion was not true.

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 00:08 schreef Klaphark het volgende:

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When Facebook users learned last spring that the company had compromised their privacy in its rush to expand, allowing access to the personal information of tens of millions of people to a political data firm linked to President Trump, Facebook sought to deflect blame and mask the extent of the problem.

And when that failed — as the company’s stock price plummeted and it faced a consumer backlash — Facebook went on the attack.

While Mr. Zuckerberg has conducted a public apology tour in the last year, Ms. Sandberg has overseen an aggressive lobbying campaign to combat Facebook’s critics, shift public anger toward rival companies and ward off damaging regulation. Facebook employed a Republican opposition-research firm to discredit activist protesters, in part by linking them to the liberal financier George Soros. It also tapped its business relationships, lobbying a Jewish civil rights group to cast some criticism of the company as anti-Semitic.

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patrickgaspard twitterde op donderdag 15-11-2018 om 02:54:13 My letter to @facebook regarding the smear campaign they paid for and disseminated against George Soros & @OpenSociety as reported by @nickconfessore in the @nytimes. These tactics out of Putin’s playbook have no place in an important debate about the integrity of our elections https://t.co/jF9RhC5vSy reageer retweet

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Redistrict twitterde op donderdag 15-11-2018 om 01:08:11 BREAKING: #UT04 Rep. Mia Love (R) narrowly wins latest batch of votes from Salt Lake Co., narrowing Ben McAdams (D)'s lead form 1,227 to 873. This makes her the favorite to prevail, once more Utah Co. votes are counted. reageer retweet

Trump Mocks Republican After 2018 Midterms Result: 'Mia Love Gave Me No Love'

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 02:43 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 15-11-2018 om 02:05:41 WH officials are struggling to understand the source of the fury fueling Trump's eruptions. "This is a level of insanity I've never seen before," one ex-West Wing staffer told VF."He's under a tremendous amount of mental stress," a prominent GOPer said. https://t.co/UrJsY1A7W8 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 15-11-2018 om 02:10:29 One Republican tells VF Trump didn't want to go to the cemetery in France was because there wasn't a tent to stand under. "He was worried his hair was going to get messed up in the rain," the source said. "Everyone was telling him this was a big mistake." https://t.co/UrJsY1A7W8 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 00:33 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Ja ze gaat naar ‘a new role within the administration’

Horrible Histories Henry VIII Royal Butt Wiper!

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Trump claims people illegally vote multiple times by changing their clothes

President Trump on Wednesday claimed that Republican candidates lost key races in last week's midterm elections due to voters casting multiple illegal ballots while wearing disguises.

In an interview with conservative outlet The Daily Caller, the president claimed that "potentially illegal votes" were responsible for Republicans candidates' losses, which he claimed resulted from voters returning to their homes or vehicles, exchanging clothes and returning to voting places.

“The Republicans don’t win and that’s because of potentially illegal votes,” Trump told the Caller.

“When people get in line that have absolutely no right to vote and they go around in circles. Sometimes they go to their car, put on a different hat, put on a different shirt, come in and vote again. Nobody takes anything. It’s really a disgrace what’s going on," he added.

The president also renewed his support for GOP-led voter ID efforts, while claiming again that Americans require IDs to purchase groceries.

“If you buy a box of cereal — you have a voter ID,” Trump said. “They try to shame everybody by calling them racist, or calling them something, anything they can think of, when you say you want voter ID. But voter ID is a very important thing.”

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 08:50 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://thehill.com/homen(...)-gop-losses-in-tight

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 08:52 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Hij slaat wel veel wartaal uit de laatste tijd. Misschien even een paar rally's inplannen om weer wat toegejuicht te worden, dat helpt altijd wel.

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 09:27 schreef Ringo het volgende:
Trump is zʼn eigen propaganda-apparaat, die heeft geen Goebbels of Riefenstahl nodig.

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 09:08 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 10:09 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Tja, het wordt hier wel heel erg in het absurde getrokken, maar dit is natuurlijk wel de standaarddrogreden vanuit Republikeinse hoek om mensen (of in ieder geval een bepaald deel van de bevolkin) het stemmen zo moeilijk mogelijk te maken. Er zouden zogenaamd miljoenen stemfraudeurs rondlopen en daarom moeten alle procedures worden aangehaald, het liefst op zo'n wijze dat het vooral Democratische kiezers benadeeld (of in ieder geval demografische groepen die in meerderheid Democratisch stemmen).

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Op donderdag 15 november 2018 10:14 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het eerste wetsvoorstel dat door de Dems in het huis aangenomen zal worden, wordt waarschijnlijk een soort Deltaplan voor voting rights. Automatische registratie, uniforme procedures, etc. Gaat er in de Senaat en bij Trump niet doorkomen maar dan zijn in ieder geval de standpunten over en weer zo duidelijk als ze maar kunnen zijn. Republikeinen haten democratie als het in de weg staat van hun oligargische nachtwakersheilstaat.