[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #580: Still flipping house seats

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 01:40:24 NBC News calls NM-02: Xochitl Torres Small (D) is the apparent winner in New Mexico 2. Democrat gain. —@NBCPoliticsThis now puts Democrats with a net gain of 38 seats in the House. reageer retweet

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NateSilver538 twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 02:13:20 Democrats are about even-money right now to wind up with *40* or more House seats. Unless there's something we don't know about, it looks like they'll win UT-4, bringing their floor to 39. CA-21 is a Tossup. Then they have outside chances in GA-7 and NY-27 reageer retweet

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NateSilver538 twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 02:02:47 McAdams (D) now leads Mia Love (R) and there isn't really supposed to be a lot left out there to count. We're moving this race to Likely D for now.https://t.co/5dIAMh5SDu reageer retweet

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dsamuelsohn twitterde op maandag 19-11-2018 om 22:03:28 NEW Mueller brief filed in Court of Appeals, DC Circuit, addressing Whitaker appointment and what it does to a subpoena fight to get testimony from a Roger Stone associate. In short, special counsel lawyers say the change in who's in charge "has no effect on this case." https://t.co/UnO6si450H reageer retweet

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MaddowBlog twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 03:43:29 In state after state, Republicans have tilted the playing field, perverting democracy to their advantage. https://t.co/xmF6vFfhrn reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 08:10 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Lock her up. Ivanka doet een Hillary.
Washington (CNN)Ivanka Trump last year used a personal email account to discuss or relay official White House business, according to emails released by a nonpartisan watchdog group.

The Washington Post reported Monday the White House conducted an investigation into Trump's email usage and that she used her personal email address for much of 2017.

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President Trump is surrounded by fools.

There’s that fool William H. McRaven, Special Operations commander of the raid that killed Osama bin Laden, and the other fools in the U.S. military, who should have brought down bin Laden “a lot sooner,” because “everybody in Pakistan” — all 208 million of them — knew the terrorist leader was living in “a nice mansion.” Trump alone “predicted Osama bin Laden” in 2000 when “nobody really knew who he was.”(Were they waiting for Trump to give them bin Laden’s Zip code plus four?)

There are the fools in the CIA, who have concluded based on so-called evidence that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered last month’s killing of Post contributor Jamal Khashoggi. But Trump alone understands that we’ll never know the truth, because the crown prince denied involvement “maybe five different times.”

There’s that fool Chris Wallace at Fox News, who didn’t understand why Trump skipped Arlington National Cemetery on the Monday after Veterans Day after skipping a visit to a U.S. military cemetery in France two days earlier. But Wallace, if he were wiser, would have known Trump was “extremely busy on calls for the country” as well as “doing other things.”

There are the foolish Finns who, after Trump claimed Finland avoided forest fires because “they spent a lot of time on raking,” are now mocking him by posing with garden tools in the woods. But Trump knows Finnish forest-raking is real because Finland’s president, Sauli Niinisto, told him about it just last week (even if Niinisto can’t remember this).

Worst of all are the fools in California — people who insist on calling the fire-destroyed town there “Paradise” instead of “Pleasure,” as Trump prefers to call it — who assert that the fires were caused by drought instead of their own mismanagement. As Trump well knows, “there is no drought” in California and there is “plenty of water.”

No one has suffered as many fools as Trump has. But this is to be expected when a “very stable genius” leads a “stupid country.”

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 10:28 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 08:10 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Lock her up. Ivanka doet een Hillary.
Washington (CNN)Ivanka Trump last year used a personal email account to discuss or relay official White House business, according to emails released by a nonpartisan watchdog group.

The Washington Post reported Monday the White House conducted an investigation into Trump's email usage and that she used her personal email address for much of 2017.

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https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)l-account/index.html

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 10:56 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:
Maar Hillary moet nog steeds de bajes in en niet enkel voor het vergrijp m.b.t. de mailserver.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 06:29 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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MaddowBlog twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 03:43:29 In state after state, Republicans have tilted the playing field, perverting democracy to their advantage. https://t.co/xmF6vFfhrn reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 11:18 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Het is wel een vertekend grafiekje, bv. in Wisconsin deden in veel races met een Democratische incumbent überhaupt geen Republikein mee. Dit heeft ook deels met gerrymandering te maken natuurlijk maar op die manier kom je wel al snel bij dit soort verhoudingen.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 11:18 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Het is wel een vertekend grafiekje, bv. in Wisconsin deden in veel races met een Democratische incumbent überhaupt geen Republikein mee. Dit heeft ook deels met gerrymandering te maken natuurlijk maar op die manier kom je wel al snel bij dit soort verhoudingen.

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Trump administration officials suggested sharing census responses with law enforcement, court documents show

Trump administration officials have privately discussed the possibility that in the future census information could be shared with law enforcement, according to documents filed in a legal challenge over plans for a new citizenship question on the 2020 survey.

The subject came up after a Democratic lawmaker asked whether responses to the survey could ever be shared with law enforcement agencies, something that has been strictly illegal according to federal law governing the census.

After a congressional hearing in May about the citizenship question, Rep. Jimmy Gomez (D-Calif.) submitted a written query about whether the Justice Department agreed with a memo it had issued in 2010 saying the USA Patriot Act could not override the confidentiality of the census.

In a June 12 email, department officials discussed among themselves how to answer Gomez’s question in a way that left the answer open. Justice Department attorney Ben Aguinaga suggested to acting assistant attorney general John Gore that they not say “too much” in response to Gomez’s question, in case the issue were to “come up later for renewed debate.”

Confidentiality is considered a fundamental premise of the census and crucial to the success of the constitutionally mandated count, which surveys each household in the country every 10 years. That confidentiality is enshrined in the Census Act of 1879.

In 1954, Congress codified the rules, which say that the Commerce Department, which oversees the survey, cannot share the data with any other government agency or court. Violators are subject to up to five years in federal prison and up to $250,000 in fines. The law can be changed only by Congress.

The Justice Department email was included in documents filed in San Francisco federal court for a trial slated to begin in January.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 10:56 schreef Oostwoud
[b]Maar Hillary moet nog steeds de bajes in en niet enkel voor het vergrijp m.b.t. de mailserver.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 11:30 schreef archito het volgende:

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Ik zou het best frustrerend vinden om als Democraat in een diep Republikeins district te wonen of andersom, kun je je stem gewoon weggooien.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 11:43 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Als er gronden waren om Clinton te vervolgen, dan was dat allang gebeurd.

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Rep. Joe Kennedy III: It’s time to legalize marijuana at the federal level

The first recreational marijuana shops in the commonwealth of Massachusetts are opening their doors Tuesday, two years after Massachusetts resoundingly voted in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana. It’s a familiar trend across the country, where popular support for marijuana has surged. Thirty-three states and the District of Columbia have now legalized marijuana in some form — three on Election Day just this month.

I’ve remained skeptical.

My reluctance to embrace legalization stems primarily from one place: my ongoing work with the mental health and addiction communities. I’ve seen the devastating effects of drugs that are used and abused. I’ve met family after family torn apart by addiction. And I’ve heard — repeatedly — from mental health advocates on the frontlines who have grave concerns about what access to marijuana might do for those prone to abuse. They worry about research showing marijuana can be addictive, particularly for adolescents.

At the same time, I’ve heard from others who see marijuana quite differently. The parent whose epileptic child needs marijuana to calm her seizures. The veteran whose trauma it eases. The black teen arrested for smoking a joint while his white friends did the same with impunity.

Over the past year, I’ve worked to rectify these perspectives. I’ve read, I’ve researched, I’ve had countless conversations with people on both sides. One thing is clear to me: Our federal policy on marijuana is badly broken, benefiting neither the elderly man suffering from cancer whom marijuana may help nor the young woman prone to substance use disorder whom it may harm. The patchwork of inconsistent state laws compounds the dysfunction. Our federal government has ceded its responsibility — and authority — to thoughtfully regulate marijuana.

This needs to change. Given the rapid pace of state-level legalization and liberalization, I believe we must implement strong, clear, and fair federal guidelines. To do that requires us to remove marijuana from the Controlled Substances Act (CSA) and legalize it at the federal level.

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A federal judge has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from denying asylum to migrants who crossed the southern border illegally, saying the president violated a “clear command” from Congress to allow them to apply.

In a ruling late Monday, Jon S. Tigar of the U.S. District Court in San Francisco issued a temporary nationwide restraining order barring enforcement of the policy, which President Trump has billed as an urgent attempt to halt the flow of thousands of asylum-seeking families across the border each month.

Several thousand migrants are now waiting to cross a legal entry point at San Ysidro, across from Tijuana. Many are from a caravan that drew Trump’s wrath in the weeks leading up to the midterm elections, when he made illegal immigration his closing argument. He and his allies spread fear about the “Caravan heading to the Southern Border,” which, as he asserted without evidence in one pre-election tweet, included “criminals and unknown Middle Easterners.” In another, he warned of “some very bad thugs and gang members.” Labeling the movements of Central American migrants a “national emergency,” Trump last month deployed active-duty troops to the border.

As a result of Tigar’s restraining order, migrants may once again seek asylum either at legal entry points or after crossing illegally onto U.S. soil.

The order that Tigar blocked was announced Nov. 9, though the White House had as early as last month floated dramatic changes to the way the United States affords sanctuary to people fleeing persecution in their home countries.

The judge’s order remains in effect until Dec. 19, at which point the court will consider arguments for a permanent order. The administration offered no immediate comment overnight but has routinely appealed adverse decisions.

Tigar said the president could not shift asylum policy on his own.

“Whatever the scope of the President’s authority, he may not rewrite the immigration laws to impose a condition that Congress has expressly forbidden,” wrote the judge, nominated to the federal bench in 2012 by President Barack Obama. He reasoned that the “failure to comply with entry requirements such as arriving at a designated port of entry should bear little, if any, weight in the asylum process.”

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 15:30:07 Chuck Schumer is calling on the DOJ inspector general to "conduct an investigation of whether any potentially unlawful or improper communications have occurred between Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker, the White House, and other entities." https://t.co/ILdc4L1Grx reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 16:30:22 Ethics watchdog American Oversight has sent a letter to the House Oversight and Senate Judiciary leaders demanding an investigation into Ivanka Trump's e-mail use. https://t.co/oAxljNFZHh https://t.co/dp8TFehodq reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 19:01 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Trump's statement, met maar liefst 8 uitroeptekens...

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 19:42 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Over gerrymandering en proportionaliteit; in andere staten profiteren Dems juist weer van first past the post. Neemt niet weg dat het een inherent oneerlijk systeem is.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 19:32 schreef rockstah het volgende:
Is wel een eerlijk statement wat mij betreft. Ze hebben er zelf voor gekozen om SA als proxy in te zetten in hun dwaze kruistocht tegen Iran en dat heeft hun lot nog dieper verbonden dan al het geval was.

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Op dinsdag 20 november 2018 20:35 schreef Lord-Ronddraai het volgende:

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Niet bepaald eerlijk om te doen alsof Iran flink aanwezig is in Yemen en op die manier SA uitlokt. Dat conflict is voornamelijk burgeroorlog en daar heeft SA een zijde gekozen. Iran heeft vervolgens de andere zijde wel wat politieke steun en misschien wat wapens geleverd maar voornamelijk om SA's belangen dwars te zitten.
Niet echt eerlijk om te doen alsof SA een geweldige bondgenoot is terwijl de meeste Europese leiders worden uitgemaakt voor rotte vis.
Niet bepaald eerlijk om te doen alsof hij ook maar een fuck geeft om die Kashoggi.

Maar ik ben het wel met je eens dat het des te duidelijker wordt dat Trump een soort dubbel down op SA en het verhaal met Iran als boeman doet. Ik denk dat die regio een stuk stabieler zou worden als Trump uit de reet van SA kruipt en Iran een eerlijke kans geeft.

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maggieNYT twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 22:52:45 SCOOP: Trump wanted to order Justice to prosecute Clinton, Comey. @nytmike and me https://t.co/KsfO8DHqwd reageer retweet

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nytmike twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 22:52:19 EXCLUSIVE: White House lawyers warned the president in a memo that he could be impeached if he tried to get the Justice Department to investigate his rivals. With @maggieNYT https://t.co/zwhqJcdXBt reageer retweet

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President Trump told the White House counsel in the spring that he wanted to order the Justice Department to prosecute two of his political adversaries: his 2016 challenger, Hillary Clinton, and the former F.B.I. director James B. Comey, according to two people familiar with the conversation.

The lawyer, Donald F. McGahn II, rebuffed the president, saying that he had no authority to order a prosecution. Mr. McGahn said that while he could request an investigation, that too could prompt accusations of abuse of power. To underscore his point, Mr. McGahn had White House lawyers write a memo for Mr. Trump warning that if he asked law enforcement to investigate his rivals, he could face a range of consequences, including possible impeachment.

The encounter was one of the most blatant examples yet of how Mr. Trump views the typically independent Justice Department as a tool to be wielded against his political enemies. It took on additional significance in recent weeks when Mr. McGahn left the White House and Mr. Trump appointed a relatively inexperienced political loyalist, Matthew G. Whitaker, as the acting attorney general.

It is unclear whether Mr. Trump read Mr. McGahn’s memo or whether he pursued the prosecutions further. But the president has continued to privately discuss the matter, including the possible appointment of a second special counsel to investigate both Mrs. Clinton and Mr. Comey, according to two people who have spoken to Mr. Trump about the issue. He has also repeatedly expressed disappointment in the F.B.I. director, Christopher A. Wray, for failing to more aggressively investigate Mrs. Clinton, calling him weak, one of the people said.

A White House spokesman declined to comment. A spokeswoman for the F.B.I. declined to comment on the president’s criticism of Mr. Wray, whom he appointed last year after firing Mr. Comey.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 23:35:51 aaaaand voilā—Matthew Whitaker in July 2016: I would indict Hillary Clinton https://t.co/gAVKMmNFWj (h/t @matthewamiller) https://t.co/HH23mgxN6L reageer retweet

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According to FBI Director James Comey’s statement on Tuesday, former secretary of State Hillary Clinton could have been charged with violating several different code sections, and he detailed the evidence that supports bringing criminal charges.

Yet, Director Comey’s judgment was that “no reasonable prosecutor” would bring the case. I disagree. I believe myself to have been a reasonable prosecutor, and when the facts and evidence show a criminal violation has been committed, the individuals involved should not dictate whether the case is prosecuted.

One statute that Secretary Clinton could be charged with violating is 18 U.S.C. section 793(f). Under this section, a prosecutor must prove that:

•The person had lawful possession of information relating to national defense.

•Through gross negligence that person permits that information to be removed from its proper place of custody (or given to someone else, or lost, or stolen).

Although it might be intuitive that a secretary of State lawfully possess information that relates to national defense, the facts laid out by Director Comey also establish that this is exactly the type of information in this case.

Of the emails either turned over or recovered by the FBI, 110 contained information that was classified at the time it was sent or received, of which eight email chains contained information that was top secret at the time it was sent.

The facts also show it was gross negligence when she removed the information from State Department security. Secretary Clinton made the decision to use a personal email system, one that had inferior security to the State Department’s or even another commercial vendor’s email service.

A reasonable prosecutor may ask, if on numerous occasions, an unknown State Department employee had taken top secret information from a secured system, emailed that information on a Gmail account, and stored the information on a personal server for years, would that individual be prosecuted? I believe they would.

Matthew Whitaker, U.S. attorney 2004-09, is executive director of the Foundation for Accountability and Civic Trust.

Published 7:45 PM EDT Jul 5, 2016

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 14:31:23 New: Former FBI lawyer Jim Baker—a close @Comey friend who knew about Trump's loyalty requests & efforts to protect Flynn in 2017—breaks his silence, notes that Nixon's contact with the officials investigating him was included in his articles of impeachment. https://t.co/anYCFBDlxI reageer retweet

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Nearly 45 years ago, the House Judiciary Committee concluded that President Richard Nixon’s contact with high-level Justice Department officials overseeing the Watergate investigation, detailed in a 62-page “road map” of evidence collected by prosecutors in 1972–73, amounted to an impeachable misuse of executive power.

A half century later, the FBI’s former top lawyer, Jim Baker—a close friend and associate of fired FBI Director James Comey—is laying out parallels, albeit subtly, to President Donald Trump’s interactions with the law-enforcement officials who have been investigating him and his campaign team since July 2016.

In a piece for Lawfare published on Monday, Baker and co-author Sarah Grant, a student at Harvard Law School, used the newly unsealed Watergate road map to show how one president’s attempts to control an investigation targeting him and his associates were quickly exposed and, ultimately, used against him. As the road map laid out, Nixon interacted regularly with the man supervising the Watergate investigation—Henry Petersen, then the assistant attorney general for the Justice Department’s Criminal Division—and pumped him for information.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 21-11-2018 om 03:00:00 Ron Wyden says that he'll introduce legislation requiring the U.S. Intelligence Community to publicly release an assessment of their findings regarding Jamal Khashoogi's murder. https://t.co/rKx1D10ea2 reageer retweet

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Wyden Statement In Response to Khashoggi Announcement

Wyden Intends to Introduce Legislation to Require Public Assessment Next week

Washington, D.C. –Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., released the following statement in response to Donald Trump’s announcement today giving Saudi Arabia a pass for the murder of Jamal Khashoggi:

“Donald Trump’s statement makes clear that he does not care who ordered the brutal murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi.

“Putting America first does not include subservience to the leaders of an authoritarian and murderous monarchy. Under Donald Trump’s reasoning, there is no atrocity Saudi Arabia can commit that will lead the U.S. to act independently, according to our own values and interests.

“I reject that reasoning. Giving the Saudis a free pass here reveals this administration’s crippling weakness, even in the face of the murder of a journalist and U.S. resident.

“I renew my call for CIA Director Haspel and DNI Coats to state publicly what the U.S. Intelligence Community believes about the murder of Jamal Khashoggi. If they will not, I intend to offer legislation to require the IC to release an unclassified public assessment of who ordered Mr. Khashoggi’s killing when the Senate returns next week.”

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Redistrict twitterde op woensdag 21-11-2018 om 04:42:14 Dems' national lead in raw House votes - now 8.8 million - just broke the record for largest for either party in the history of midterm elections (previous record was 8.7 million set by Dems in 1974). https://t.co/0pm7oW1pFE reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 21 november 2018 09:08 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Leuk, maar hoe gaan ze dit effectief gebruiken?

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Op woensdag 21 november 2018 09:51 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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De Republikeinen hadden tot voor een maand geleden zowel het huis als de senaat. En hebben die niet effectief benut. De dems mogen dan nu de meerderheid in het huis hebben, maar de vraag is hoe nu verder? Er zit nu een president in het Witte Huis die categorisch weigert om advies in te winnen bij zijn partijgenoten (laat staan de oppositie), en voornamelijk zijn eigen doelen nastreeft. In de visie van Trump zijn mensen die een andere mening hebben VIJANDEN. De dems moeten dus waken dat het huis een politiek oorlogsgebied puur voor eigenbelang wordt.

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Op woensdag 21 november 2018 09:51 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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De Republikeinen hadden tot voor een maand geleden zowel het huis als de senaat. En hebben die niet effectief benut. De dems mogen dan nu de meerderheid in het huis hebben, maar de vraag is hoe nu verder? Er zit nu een president in het Witte Huis die categorisch weigert om advies in te winnen bij zijn partijgenoten (laat staan de oppositie), en voornamelijk zijn eigen doelen nastreeft. In de visie van Trump zijn mensen die een andere mening hebben VIJANDEN. De dems moeten dus waken dat het huis een politiek oorlogsgebied puur voor eigenbelang wordt.

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Op woensdag 21 november 2018 01:02 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 20-11-2018 om 14:31:23 New: Former FBI lawyer Jim Baker—a close @Comey friend who knew about Trump's loyalty requests & efforts to protect Flynn in 2017—breaks his silence, notes that Nixon's contact with the officials investigating him was included in his articles of impeachment. https://t.co/anYCFBDlxI reageer retweet

The Eerie Parallels Between Trump and the Watergate ‘Road Map’

Lawmakers thought Nixon’s gathering of inside information about the Watergate probe from DOJ was an impeachable offense.

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Op woensdag 21 november 2018 12:56 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Nog steeds vallen over Watergate in een wereld waar van iedereen informatie verzameld wordt. Watergate is vooral nog een media-dingetje van butthurt-journalisten.

Richard Nixon was een briljante man en een geweldige president, zeer onderschat. Omdat hij op bepaalde tenen stond, het politieke spel beter begreep dan de meesten en een introverte hork was met weinig charisma wordt hij vooral langs de meetlat gelegd van het ik-mag-je-niet-gehalte.

Kijken we naar zijn daden: op buitenlandbeleid gemakkelijk een van de top-5 presidenten van de VS, als het niet top-3 is. Op binnenlandbeleid de laatste progressieve Republikein: equal pay-equal employment, legalisering abortus, oprichting EPA, Clean Water Act, afschaffing van dienstplicht, verlagen leeftijd voor stemrecht, 70% van de staatsschuld afbetaald, National Cancer Act, ik kan nog wel even door gaan. Zijn plan voor een basisinkomen en toegang tot gezondheidszorg voor alle Amerikanen (later overgenomen door Mitt Romney die 'Romneycare' als gouverneur invoerde, waarvan Obama het op zijn beurt weer van afkeek) zijn helaas nooit van de grond gekomen.

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Op woensdag 21 november 2018 12:56 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Nog steeds vallen over Watergate in een wereld waar van iedereen informatie verzameld wordt. Watergate is vooral nog een media-dingetje van butthurt-journalisten.

Richard Nixon was een briljante man en een geweldige president, zeer onderschat. Omdat hij op bepaalde tenen stond, het politieke spel beter begreep dan de meesten en een introverte hork was met weinig charisma wordt hij vooral langs de meetlat gelegd van het ik-mag-je-niet-gehalte.

Kijken we naar zijn daden: op buitenlandbeleid gemakkelijk een van de top-5 presidenten van de VS, als het niet top-3 is. Op binnenlandbeleid de laatste progressieve Republikein: equal pay-equal employment, legalisering abortus, oprichting EPA, Clean Water Act, afschaffing van dienstplicht, verlagen leeftijd voor stemrecht, 70% van de staatsschuld afbetaald, National Cancer Act, ik kan nog wel even door gaan. Zijn plan voor een basisinkomen en toegang tot gezondheidszorg voor alle Amerikanen (later overgenomen door Mitt Romney die 'Romneycare' als gouverneur invoerde, waarvan Obama het op zijn beurt weer van afkeek) zijn helaas nooit van de grond gekomen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 21-11-2018 om 13:49:51 Oil prices getting lower. Great! Like a big Tax Cut for America and the World. Enjoy! $54, was just $82. Thank you to Saudi Arabia, but let’s go lower! reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 21-11-2018 om 14:53:08 What better day to issue a big THANK YOU to Saudi Arabia than the day after the Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia was confirmed by U.S. intelligence as the architect of the assassination and dismemberment of a Washington Post journalist https://t.co/aHmi5IS93b reageer retweet

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) released Matthew Whitaker’s personal financial disclosures today, which revealed that the forms had been edited five times in the two weeks since his appointment as Acting Attorney General.

CREW filed a FOIA request with the DOJ today asking for all versions of Whitaker’s OGE form 278e, a list of staff who reviewed and approved the form, and any correspondence by DOJ staff about the form and delays in its certification.

On November 7, 2017, Attorney General Jeff Sessions resigned at the request of the President. President Trump then named Whitaker, Sessions’ chief of staff, as acting Attorney General rather than Deputy Assistant Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who was next in the line of succession.

Whitaker was not Senate-confirmed, and therefore never faced questions about potential conflicts of interest. This elevates the importance of Whitaker’s Public Financial Disclosure Report and OGE Form 278e because they are the only public window into his business ties and potential conflicts. The requested documents will shed light on the extent of any conflicts of interest Whitaker may have and the extent to which he has fully and accurately advised DOJ of those conflicts since his initial appointment as Chief of Staff to the Attorney General.

While DOJ has made the most recent certified version of Whitaker’s form publicly available, it has not yet disclosed all prior versions, which CREW requested at the time of his appointed and should have been made immediately available.

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Op woensdag 21 november 2018 12:56 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Nog steeds vallen over Watergate in een wereld waar van iedereen informatie verzameld wordt. Watergate is vooral nog een media-dingetje van butthurt-journalisten.

Richard Nixon was een briljante man en een geweldige president, zeer onderschat. Omdat hij op bepaalde tenen stond, het politieke spel beter begreep dan de meesten en een introverte hork was met weinig charisma wordt hij vooral langs de meetlat gelegd van het ik-mag-je-niet-gehalte.

Kijken we naar zijn daden: op buitenlandbeleid gemakkelijk een van de top-5 presidenten van de VS, als het niet top-3 is. Op binnenlandbeleid de laatste progressieve Republikein: equal pay-equal employment, legalisering abortus, oprichting EPA, Clean Water Act, afschaffing van dienstplicht, verlagen leeftijd voor stemrecht, 70% van de staatsschuld afbetaald, National Cancer Act, ik kan nog wel even door gaan. Zijn plan voor een basisinkomen en toegang tot gezondheidszorg voor alle Amerikanen (later overgenomen door Mitt Romney die 'Romneycare' als gouverneur invoerde, waarvan Obama het op zijn beurt weer van afkeek) zijn helaas nooit van de grond gekomen.