[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #581: Geen titel

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Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) announced Wednesday that he is canceling votes on nearly two dozen of President Trump’s judicial nominees that were expected to come up in the Judiciary Committee this week.

The cancellation of the committee’s Thursday business meeting comes as Senate Republicans are in a standoff with outgoing Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), who has vowed to oppose all court picks until he gets a vote on legislation protecting special counsel Robert Mueller.

The notification from the Judiciary Committee didn’t specify when, or if, the committee votes on the nominations would be rescheduled. Six circuit court nominees had been expected to get a vote, as well as 15 district court nominees.

But Grassley warned late Wednesday afternoon that he would likely cancel the meeting unless he could get a deal with Flake that would allow the nominations to move forward.

“We haven’t cancelled the meeting yet,” Grassley said roughly an hour before the announcement. “If we don’t get a positive out of it, we’ll probably cancel the meeting.”

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The calls almost always came deep into the night.

Caller ID labeled them “unknown,” but Roger Stone said he knew to pick up quickly during those harried months of the 2016 presidential campaign. There would be a good chance that the voice on the other end of the line would belong to his decades-long friend — the restless, insomniac candidate Donald Trump — dialing from a blocked phone number.

Those nocturnal chats and other contacts between the man who now occupies the Oval Office and an infamous political trickster have come under intensifying scrutiny as special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation bores into whether Stone served as a bridge between Trump and WikiLeaks as the group was publishing hacked Democratic emails.

Mueller’s keen interest in their relationship was laid out in a draft court document revealed this week in which prosecutors drew a direct line between the two men — referring to Stone as someone understood to be in regular contact with senior Trump campaign officials, “including with then-candidate Donald J. Trump.”

The inclusion of the president by name in the draft filing rattled his legal team and indicated how closely the special counsel is scrutinizing what Trump may have learned from Stone about WikiLeaks’ release of emails that prosecutors say were hacked by Russian intelligence operatives.

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Paul Manafort’s alleged misstatements to special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigators include comments about his personal business dealings and about his contacts with a former associate in Ukraine, say people familiar with the matter.

Those statements—among those described by Mr. Mueller as “lies” and Mr. Manafort as “truthful information” in a court filing Monday—are what led the special counsel this week to take the unusual step of ending the former Trump campaign chairman’s plea agreement 2½ months after it was reached, the people said.

The content of those statements don’t appear to be central to the allegations of Russian interference in the 2016 election that Mr. Mueller is investigating. It is unclear if prosecutors plan to accuse Mr. Manafort of additional lies.

But Mr. Mueller’s move to end the cooperation deal reflects more broadly a combative relationship that has developed between Mr. Manafort and Mr. Mueller’s investigators, as well as the special counsel’s conclusion that Mr. Manafort fell short of his cooperation agreement, court filings show.

Investigators alleged that Mr. Manafort made inaccurate statements in interviews with Mr. Mueller’s team about his communications with Konstantin Kilimnik, said the people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Kilimnik, who Mr. Mueller charged earlier this year along with Mr. Manafort with trying to influence the testimony of two witnesses against Mr. Manafort, had worked for Mr. Manafort’s lobbying firm in Ukraine. Messrs. Manafort and Kilimnik communicated earlier this year about contacting others who worked with them in an alleged effort to coordinate their stories, according to an indictment Mr. Mueller filed against them.

Mr. Kilimnik, whom the FBI has assessed to have ties to Russian intelligence, according to a filing by the special counsel’s office, isn’t in custody and hasn’t responded to the charges in court.

A spokesman for Mr. Mueller declined to comment.

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ScottMStedman twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 00:01:27 BREAKING from me/@NatashaBertrand: An explosive letter has been sent to Schiff's office claiming that Papadopoulos coordinated with Russians with Trump's knowledge in the weeks following the election. Authorities are taking the letter "very seriously" https://t.co/3uT4q0g4nL reageer retweet

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ScottMStedman twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 00:24:06 Here it is, folks. We had to redact portions of the letter as to not give away any details about the Papadopoulos confidant. It's real, and federal authorities are investigating thoroughly. https://t.co/mFGwc0usw4 reageer retweet

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11thHour twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 05:36:12 Fmr. Bush 43 ethics lawyer @RWPUSA on Trump & Manafort's attorneys talking after Manafort took a plea deal from Mueller: "These lawyers better hire some lawyers." Learn more: https://t.co/0pV151IIts #11MSNBC #11thHour https://t.co/cpPV9jLNIk reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 00:02 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ja, oké, maar dat ziet niet toe op het tekenen van de kiesdistricten, toch? Hoe dan ook zijn de Republikeinen hun vetoproof meerderheid nu kwijt daar.

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Updated: What we know - and need to know soon - about the Board of Elections 9th District bombshell (Charlotte Observer)


BY THE OBSERVER EDITORIAL BOARD

What’s going on in North Carolina’s 9th Congressional District? An election certification is being held up. The person behind the delay is being a bit coy about it. The public is in the dark. That needs to change — and soon.

The state board of elections refused Tuesday to certify the results of the 9th District race, in which Republican Mark Harris defeated Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes. That certification was expected to be routine, but election board member Joshua Malcolm raised a last minute issue concerning the 9th and asked board members to remove the results from the list of those to be certified.

Malcolm, a Robeson County Democrat, cited a statute that allowed the board to do so, but he declined to be specific about what caused him to raise his objection. That, in itself, is troubling.

Here’s what we do know:

We know that board members twice voted 9-0 not to certify the 9th District results. That means the board, which consists of Democrats and Republicans, was overwhelmingly persuaded of the seriousness of Malcolm’s concerns.

We know that Elections board spokesman Patrick Gannon told the Associated Press Wednesday that the board is investigating “irregularities” involving absentee ballots in Bladen County, which Harris won by 1,557 votes. We also know that Bladen has what can charitably be described as a colorful political history of alleged arson and fraud.

We know that Malcolm’s move Tuesday was a surprise. Neither campaign knew Malcolm’s complaint was coming, which indicates that it likely doesn’t involve an election day complaint of fraud, at least not one significant enough to cause McCready to call for an investigation before conceding this razor-thin result.

Malcolm’s comments Tuesday also seem to indicate that the issues troubling him are ongoing. “I am not going to turn a blind eye to what took place to the best of my understanding which has been ongoing for a number of years that has repeatedly been referred to the United States attorney and the district attorneys for them to take action and clean it up,” he said. “And in my opinion those things have not taken place.”

Update, 11/28, 6:30 pm: Two sources tell the editorial board that the issue specifically involves a person who allegedly gained access to absentee ballots, perhaps through voters who request them from the county or state. The ballots were filled out for Harris. This individual was suspected of similar fraud in 2016, sources said, but investigators didn’t find enough to prosecute. The number of ballots involved in the 2018 race, however, wouldn’t be enough to swing the outcome to McCready, sources said.

Malcolm isn’t offering specifics, but there are plenty of questions he can answer without jeopardizing an investigation. Such as: Are the issues he raised widespread enough to change the 9th District results? Is he merely trying to get the attention of investigators he feels have been ignoring serious long-term problems?

If that’s the case, mission accomplished. Now stop it. Holding a congressional election hostage is not the appropriate way to resolve longstanding issues, regardless of how serious they might be.

We’re in a fragile period regarding elections in this country. We have a president too ready to declare — even just this week — that results he doesn’t like are tainted. It’s become too common for members of both parties to question the legitimacy of outcomes they don’t like.

Malcolm and the board certainly might have legitimate concerns about fraud or other malfeasance in Bladen, and the investigation raises obvious questions about whether the Harris campaign knew anything about tainted absentee ballots. Malcolm, however, should address whether the issue directly changed the outcome in November’s 9th District race. If so, he owes the public more specifics, immediately. If not, this is not the best way to raise his concerns.

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 00:09 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SecPompeo twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 17:02:24 Iran’s regime has no interest in easing Yemeni suffering; the mullahs don’t even care for ordinary Iranians. Saudi Arabia has invested billions to relieve suffering in #Yemen. Iran has invested zero. reageer retweet

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chrislhayes twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 21:04:04 This is monstrously Orwellian. The impurity of Iranian intentions aside, the Saudis are quite literally bombing and starving civilians by the tens of thousands. https://t.co/jyQAAQBt61 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 09:18 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:
Hoeveel betaalt SA voor deze propaganda.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 21:28 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Laten we nog maar even afwachten wat er daadwerkelijk gespeeld wordt om teleurstelling te voorkomen.

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GStephanopoulos twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 15:02:32 Michael Cohen, Pres Trump’s former personal attorney, reaches new plea deal with Mueller this morning. Expected to enter guilty plea for false statements to Congress coupled with dozens of hours of testimony potentially damaging to Pres Trump--Special Counsel values testimony. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 15:25:51 NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Trump real estate project in Russia. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 15:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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GStephanopoulos twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 15:02:32 Michael Cohen, Pres Trump’s former personal attorney, reaches new plea deal with Mueller this morning. Expected to enter guilty plea for false statements to Congress coupled with dozens of hours of testimony potentially damaging to Pres Trump--Special Counsel values testimony. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 15:25:51 NEW YORK (AP) -- Michael Cohen pleads guilty to lying to Congress about Trump real estate project in Russia. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 16:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Een vastgoeddeal in Moskou anno 2015/2016.
Dat is gewoon dealen met de Russen tijdens de campagne. Slecht nieuws voor Trump.

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 16:28 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 16:28 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Wat vinden jullie van de democratische kandidaat Richard Ojeda?

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 16:28 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Wat vinden jullie van de democratische kandidaat Richard Ojeda?

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 16:25 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik ben benieuwd wat Cohen aan Mueller heeft gegeven. De man weet alles van Trump's manier van werken.

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 16:36 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:

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Statement Trump: Cohen is een 'zwakkeling' die liegt en enkel uit is op strafvermindering.

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 17:00 schreef Toby56 het volgende:
Hoe dan ook, Mueller zit nu echt diep te wroeten in Trumps (al dan niet dubieuze) zakendeals. Ik geloof nooit dat Trump dit zomaar laat gebeuren. Individual One moet zich steeds grotere zorgen maken. Het zou mij niet verbazen als Matthew Whitaker een klusje opgedragen gaat krijgen. Benieuwd wat dat allemaal gaat geven in Washington, DC.

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 17:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Met al die sealed indictments die bij de rechtbank liggen? Het lijkt me dat die dan niet zo ineens verdwijnen....

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 17:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:
En had Trump nou al schriftelijk antwoord op vragen van Mueller gegeven?

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 17:30 schreef Toby56 het volgende:

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Ja zekers.

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 17:32 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Kans dat die antwoorden naast die van die van Cohen (en anderen) worden gelegd: 100%

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 17:00:05 Of note in this passage: Michael Cohen "briefed family members of Individual 1 within the Company about the [Moscow] project."Cohen previously identified individual one as Trump. https://t.co/oQiJcoglg3 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 17:32 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Kans dat die antwoorden naast die van die van Cohen (en anderen) worden gelegd: 100%

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 17:36 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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En wat heeft Kushner onder ede verklaard?

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 17:00:05 Of note in this passage: Michael Cohen "briefed family members of Individual 1 within the Company about the [Moscow] project."Cohen previously identified individual one as Trump. https://t.co/oQiJcoglg3 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 17:42 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
Trump trekt zich terug uit de G20-ontmoeting met Poetin.

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PaulBegala twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 17:01:02 .@AshaRangappa_ made an important point just now on @CNNnewsroom: Yes, Mr. Trump was allowed to do business with Russia while a candidate. But he lied about it, which gave the Kremlin leverage over him, since Putin could have exposed Trump’s lie during the campaign. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 17:50 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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PaulBegala twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 17:01:02 .@AshaRangappa_ made an important point just now on @CNNnewsroom: Yes, Mr. Trump was allowed to do business with Russia while a candidate. But he lied about it, which gave the Kremlin leverage over him, since Putin could have exposed Trump’s lie during the campaign. reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 17:02:03 What Donald Trump Jr told Congress about Moscow Tower dealNote Michael Cohen plea: "briefed family members...within the Company about the project"Don Jr to Senate:Sater worked on deal "in 2015""I wasn't involved"Were you aware Cohen reached out to Kremlin? "No, I was not" https://t.co/ITyt6cc7dd reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 18:12 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Ontmoeting met Poetin tijdens de G20 geschrapt: https://www.nu.nl/buitenl(...)tuatie-oekraine.html

Edit: Owh, ik loop achter Excuus!

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In the past 24 hours...

1) Jerome Corsi admitted he and Roger Stone lied to Congress
2) Trump's main lender, Deutsche Bank, raided for money launderin'.
3) Michael Cohen enters plea deal and cooperation agreement with Mueller
4) Offices of Trump's tax guy in Chicago raided.

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 16:28 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Nou ja, "de Russen", een particuliere vatsgoeddeal is wel even iets anders dan direct contact met de Russische overheid. Maar het is wel pikant aangezien Trump altijd zei dat hij geen enkele business in Rusland had.

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 18:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik lees net het volgende:

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3 wist ik. Kloppen de andere zaken ook?

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 18:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik lees net het volgende:

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3 wist ik. Kloppen de andere zaken ook?

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fspielman twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 17:18:26 Source says feds showed up this am, asked everyone to leave and put brown paper on the doors. https://t.co/4qJBwzoKF4 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 18:58 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:

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4 klopt ook.

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fspielman twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 17:18:26 Source says feds showed up this am, asked everyone to leave and put brown paper on the doors. https://t.co/4qJBwzoKF4 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 29 november 2018 18:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik lees net het volgende:

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3 wist ik. Kloppen de andere zaken ook?

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THE SWAMP BUILDERS

How Stone and Manafort helped create the mess Trump promised to clean up

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“I don’t think they invented the swamp, they invented an innovative way to navigate the swamp.”
John Donaldson, veteran Washington strategist

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It was Stone who ushered then-candidate Trump into the fringy netherworld of Internet conspiracy enthusiasts and far-right activists by arranging for him to appear on “Infowars,” the program hosted by Alex Jones that boasts a massive digital following and has a penchant for spreading outrageously false stories.

Stone would also help Trump reach out to mainstream Republicans by suggesting that he hire Manafort as campaign chairman. Manafort, who owned an apartment in Trump Tower but wasn’t close to the candidate, was sold to Trump by Stone and others as the perfect man to tap long-standing connections with party regulars in the event of a floor fight at the Republican convention.

Trump — who vowed to bring “all the best people” to Washington as president — is now knit in scandal with both Manafort and Stone. Manafort has been convicted in a fraud case and has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and obstruction of justice in another legal matter in return for cooperating in the special counsel’s investigation of Russian interference in support of Trump in 2016.

Stone, an early adviser to Trump’s election effort, has been the subject of intensifying grand jury scrutiny in the same special counsel probe related to statements he made in 2016 predicting the release by WikiLeaks of documents damaging to Hillary Clinton’s campaign.

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There was little that Stone wasn’t willing to do for Trump in those days, as now. When the New York developer bought a yacht — then one of the largest in the world — from the arms dealer Adnan Khashoggi, Stone maneuvered to get approval for a dredging operation so it could be docked at a marina in New Jersey.

“Those permits can take years,” Stone recalled. “I got it done in months.”

How?

“I’m Roger Stone,” he said.

Trump was a famous client but not necessarily a huge revenue generator for the firm, even as they worked on projects such as getting around height restrictions for a Chicago skyscraper and blocking competition for his casinos from Indian tribes.

“Donald Trump never pays anybody a lot,” Stone said.

Nor was he particularly easy to handle when bills came due, Black said.

“We had trouble getting paid on time,” he recalled.

A pattern developed, Black said. He would call Trump to ask him to pay an overdue bill, and Trump would start off saying he’d pay half.

“When I have cash, I’ll pay you the rest,” Trump would say, according to Black.

Black would respond: “I’m sure, Donald, you’ve got cash.”

Trump would then tell Black to come up to New York to see him. Black would fly to Manhattan to collect a check.

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Though Manafort and Stone were no longer inside the campaign, the two friends had already left their stamp on the presidency to come.

“Roger’s relationship with Trump has been so interconnected that it’s hard to define what’s Roger and what’s Donald,” Manafort said in the documentary “Get Me Roger Stone.” “While it will be clearly a Trump presidency, I think it’s influenced by a Stone philosophy.”

On the eve of Trump’s inauguration, the three partners got together, along with their wives, for dinner at the Palm, one of their old hangouts. It was the first time they’d had a meal together in at least two decades, Stone said.

Before they ordered, they got word that an article was coming out saying that Stone and Manafort were under investigation as part of a probe of possible Russian influence in the 2016 campaign, and that the inquiry included intercepted communications.

It was worrisome. But it seemed to Stone as more of a curiosity than a serious threat. They didn’t think they had too much to worry about, he said.

After all, their man was now in the White House.

Bron: WaPo

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New insurance guidelines would undermine rules of the Affordable Care Act

The Trump administration is urging states to tear down pillars of the Affordable Care Act, demolishing a basic rule that federal insurance subsidies can be used only for people buying health plans in marketplaces created under the law.

According to advice issued Thursday by federal health officials, states would be free to redefine the use of those subsidies, which have since 2014 provided the first help the government ever has offered consumers to afford monthly insurance premiums.

States could allow the subsidies to be used for health plans the administration has been promoting outside the ACA marketplaces that are less expensive because they provide skimpier benefits and fewer consumer protections. Even more dramatic, states could let residents with employer-based coverage set up accounts in which they mingle the federal subsidies with health-care funds from their job or personal tax-deferred savings funds to use for premiums or other medical expenses.

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Bron: WaPo

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keithboykin twitterde op donderdag 29-11-2018 om 14:19:56 Trump reportedly owes between $175 million to $300 million to Deutsche Bank US. The loans were given to him despite his record of at least six bankruptcy filings. The bank even sued him for failure to repay loans. Special Counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed the bank’s records. https://t.co/PGMMPBnkoB reageer retweet

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The bank refused last year to hand over documents requested by five Democratic lawmakers related to its relationship with Trump, citing the confidentiality of nonpublic customer information, and the GOP refused to subpoena the records. Bron

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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 30-11-2018 om 00:34:04 Looks like Don Jr is in hot water:WSJ now reporting: “Investigators obtained emails about the project from late 2015 and January 2016...in which Mr. Cohen communicated with or copied Mr. Trump’s son, Donald Trump Jr., and his daughter, Ivanka Trump”Compare Don Jr told Senate: https://t.co/3ABZQow3Q9 reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 00:54 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:
We zitten diep in de derde akte, volgens mij.

Ik hoop dat de MAGA’s niet overgaan tot geweld als het hele kaartenhuis straks in elkaar stort.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 01:01 schreef trein2000 het volgende:

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Ik heb ook het gevoel dat de endgame op het punt van beginnen staat. Maar dat is een gevoel, concreet heb ik niks.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 01:06 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Definieer endgame. Het rapport van Mueller zit er aan te komen. Dat zal niet lang meer duren. Maar dan is Trump niet ineens van het toneel verdwenen.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 01:13 schreef trein2000 het volgende:

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Ja ik weet niet wat het gaat zijn. Maar ik denk aan iets dat boven water komt dat Trump of tot aftreden dwingt of vleugellam maakt.
Maar misschien moet ik het iets breder trekken en het gewoon ‘iets groots’ noemen. Want wat, tja wist ik het maar.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 01:14 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Als er een rapport naar buiten komt waarin Trump van strafbare feiten wordt beschuldigd zie ik hem niet zo snel aftreden. Dan is hij immers zijn onschendbaarheid en invloed kwijt. Tenzij Pence hem dan een pardon geeft.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 01:19 schreef trein2000 het volgende:

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Ik zie die Republikeinen nog wel een grotere truc uithalen. Namelijk aftreden, pardon, Trump VP maken, Pence aftreden en klaar. Dus ik denk idd dat het niet zoiets zal zijn. Het moet iets zijn wat z’n geloofwaardigheid bij de bevolking wegslaat. Dan durven er waarschijnlijk ook lui binnen de GOP tegen hem op te staan. Nu is ie nog te machtig binnen de GOP.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 01:40 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dat zal niet werken want een VP die niet door het volk gekozen is moet door beide kamers goedgekeurd worden.

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Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into President Trump’s efforts to build a skyscraper in Moscow has led him to ask questions about the role two of the president’s children played in attempting to secure a Russian real estate deal, sources tell Yahoo News.

Mueller’s interest in the Trump family real estate company’s plans for a skyscraper in Russia was confirmed on Thursday when Michael Cohen, the president’s former attorney and fixer, pleaded guilty to lying to Congress about the proposed deal. In charging documents, Mueller said Cohen falsely claimed that the effort to build a Trump Tower Moscow “ended in January 2016” in an attempt to “minimize” links between Trump and the project and to “give the false impression” the effort ended before the Republican primaries in 2016. Yahoo News first reported in May that congressional investigators had obtained text messages and emails showing Cohen’s work on Trump Tower Moscow continued for longer than he admitted under oath.

But Cohen wasn’t the only person at the Trump Organization who was pursuing deals to build a skyscraper in the Russian capital. Multiple sources have confirmed to Yahoo News that the president’s elder daughter, Ivanka, who is now a top White House adviser, and his eldest son, Don Jr., were also working to make Trump Tower Moscow a reality. The sources said those efforts were independent of Cohen’s work on the project. One of the sources said Ivanka was also involved in Cohen’s efforts. And a separate source familiar with the investigation told Yahoo News that Mueller has asked questions about Ivanka and Don Jr.’s work on Trump Tower Moscow.

Mueller’s charging documents against Cohen included a line that described the Trump family’s involvement in the project. According to Mueller, one of the things Cohen lied about was that he “briefed family members” of Trump’s who worked at the Trump Organization about the proposed Moscow skyscraper. Prior to joining the White House, Ivanka was an executive at the company. Don Jr. and Trump’s middle son, Eric, remain with the Trump Organization.

A spokesperson for the special counsel’s office declined to comment on this story. Cohen and his attorney, Guy Petrillo, did not respond to requests for comment, nor did lawyers representing the president.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 30-11-2018 om 03:50:59 “This demonstrates the Robert Mueller and his partisans have no evidence, not a whiff of collusion, between Trump and the Russians. Russian project legal. Trump Tower meeting (son Don), perfectly legal. He wasn’t involved with hacking.” Gregg Jarrett. A total Witch Hunt! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 30-11-2018 om 04:04:34 Alan Dershowitz: “These are not crimes. He (Mueller) has no authority to be a roving Commissioner. I don’t see any evidence of crimes.” This is an illegal Hoax that should be ended immediately. Mueller refuses to look at the real crimes on the other side. Where is the IG REPORT? reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 01:55 schreef trein2000 het volgende:

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Je hebt gelijk! Ik had senaat in m’n hoofd...

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 01:19 schreef trein2000 het volgende:

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Ik zie die Republikeinen nog wel een grotere truc uithalen. Namelijk aftreden, pardon, Trump VP maken, Pence aftreden en klaar. Dus ik denk idd dat het niet zoiets zal zijn. Het moet iets zijn wat z’n geloofwaardigheid bij de bevolking wegslaat. Dan durven er waarschijnlijk ook lui binnen de GOP tegen hem op te staan. Nu is ie nog te machtig binnen de GOP.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 08:50 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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VP wordt niet gekozen door de president. Mochten Trump en Pence aftreden, dan zou Nancy Pelosi President worden. Ik heb veel geks gezien de afgelopen jaren, maar dat scenario gaat hem echt never nooit niet worden (tenzij Pence bv sterft oid).

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 08:50 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dan zou Nancy Pelosi President worden. Ik heb veel geks gezien de afgelopen jaren, maar dat scenario gaat hem echt never nooit niet worden (tenzij Pence bv sterft oid).

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 08:54 schreef trein2000 het volgende:

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Zoals westwood al zegt moeten beide kamers akkoord gaan. volgens mij wel op voordracht van de president...

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 08:57 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Pence is te diep betrokken bij de malversaties van Trump. Hij is deelgenoot geweest van de campagne van 2016, en heeft er dus ook van geweten. Dat maakt hem dus NET zo strafbaar als Trump. Als Vicepresident is hij dus besmet. Pence probeert niet voor niets angstvallig in de luwte te blijven.

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‘Tangled web’ in Bladen County has questions swirling about votes in the 9th District

Allegations of voting irregularities in and around Bladen County swirled on Thursday, with the North Carolina Democratic Party calling for an official hearing and a flurry of affidavits surfacing involving absentee ballots.

The allegations are apparently behind this week’s decision by the State Board of Elections and Ethics Reform to not certify the results of the congressional race in the 9th District.

The decision came after board member Joshua Malcolm of Robeson County cited what he called “unfortunate activities” in that part of the district. The board voted 9-0 not to certify the 9th District results.

Republican Mark Harris beat Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes. He carried Bladen County by 1,557 votes.

The man at the center of speculation about the alleged activities, McCrae Dowless, was paid by the Harris campaign as a contractor for the candidate’s top consultant.

In a letter to the chairman of the state elections board, Democratic Party attorney John Wallace urged the board to delay certification beyond Friday’s scheduled meeting.

“After pulling the fire alarm on Tuesday, the State Board cannot in good conscience certify the election three days later, when so much smoke continues to hang over this election,” he wrote.

Wallace went on to say a review of public records “confirms that serious irregularities and improprieties may have occurred.” Bladen County had the highest percentage of absentee ballot requests in the state. There, 7.5 percent of registered voters requested absentee ballots. In most counties it was less than 3 percent.

An analysis by Catawba College political scientist Michael Bitzer suggested more aberrations.

In seven of the eight counties in the 9th District, for example, McCready won a lopsided majority of the mailed-in absentee ballots. But not in Bladen County. There, Republican Mark Harris won 61 percent even though registered Republicans accounted for only 19 percent of the county’s accepted absentee ballots.

Unaffiliated voters accounted for 39 percent. Bitzer said Harris’ margin “could potentially come from all those unaffiliated voters.”

“But to have each and every one of those unaffiliated voters vote Republican, that’s pretty astonishing,” he added. “If that’s the case, there’s a very concerted effort to use that method to one candidate’s advantage. . . . But at that level there’s something else beyond a concerted effort that could be at work.”

In his letter to the board, Wallace included notarized affidavits from a handful of voters:

• Datesha Montgomery said that on Oct. 12, a woman came by her house and told her she was collecting absentee ballots. In the affidavit, Montgomery said she voted for two candidates: one for sheriff, the other for school board. The woman told her “the others were not important. I gave her the ballot and she said she would finish it herself. I signed the ballot and she left. It was not sealed up at any time.”

• Emma Shipman said a woman came to her house and told her she was assigned to collect absentee ballots. “I filled out the ballot while she waited outside and gave it to her. . . . She took the ballot and put it in an envelope and never sealed it or asked me to sign it. Then she left. . . . I thought she was legitimate.”

• Lucy Young said she received an absentee ballot even though she didn’t request one. She’d already voted early in person.

In 2016, then-Gov. Pat McCrory complained about what he called a “massive voting fraud scheme” in Bladen County. At the time, there was a protest filed by Dowless, a soil and water district supervisor. He claimed irregularities in mail-in absentee ballots.

This year he worked as a contractor for Huntersville-based Red Dome group, according to founder Andy Yates.

He was an independent contractor who worked on grassroots for the campaign, independent of the campaign . . . as he’s done for a number of campaigns over the years,” said Yates, Harris’ top strategist.

In this year’s primary, Harris won 437 absentee votes in Bladen to 17 for GOP incumbent Rep. Robert Pittenger. This month Harris won 420 absentee votes to McCready’s 258.

In the 2016 congressional primary, Dowless worked for Todd Johnson. Johnson got 221 absentee votes to 4 for Harris and 1 for Pittenger. In the district as a whole, Johnson finished third.

Dwight Sheppard, a fire investigator from Bladen County who also gave the Democratic Party an affidavit, said he believes Dowless is in the thick of the controversy. Dowless has denied any wrongdoing.

“It’s a tangled web when you start getting into it,” Sheppard told the Observer.

In the primary, Harris carried Bladen County by 852 votes. In the district, he defeated Pittenger by 828 votes.

Asked by text if he blamed his loss on any voting irregularities, Pittenger said, “Others can determine that. I won’t speculate.”

“Look at the votes,” he added. “Follow the money.”

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 09:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Klopt. Ik had hem al bijgewerkt, maar bedankt voor de correctie. Historisch gezien is het ook nog nooit gebeurd dat een nieuwe VP ingezworen is btw.

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Dat kan best, maar politiek blijft politiek en ik kan me echt niet voorstellen dat er genoeg republikeinen in de senaat Pence zouden af zetten met Pelosi als president tot gevolg... hoe een hilarische plottwist dat ook zou zijn.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 09:14 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Weer een updateje over de mogelijkewaarschijnlijk ogende stemfraude in NC-09:

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 09:27 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Nate Silver zei al op Twitter dat Bladen County de enige county in dat district was waar Republikeinen het ineens een stuk beter hadden gedaan dan 2 jaar geleden. En dat de Republikeinse kandidaat 96% van de absentee ballots had gewonnen. Wat opzich al verdacht is. Begint er aardig op te lijken dat er stemmen geronseld zijn van nietsvermoedende mensen.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 09:44 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Het zou wel een bak zijn als na alle tamtam van de GOP omtrent kiezersregistratie en vermeende fraude van illegalen zij degenen zouden zijn die zich schuldig hebben gemaakt aan een dergelijk vergrijp.