[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #581: Geen titel

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Op maandag 26 november 2018 20:30 schreef speknek het volgende:

die stemmen net zoals Hans en Ingrid hier ook volgende keer weer Republikeins want mensen met een kleurtje zijn enger dan het verlies van hun eigen bestaanszekerheid

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Op dinsdag 27 november 2018 11:13 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Ze hebben PBS toch al? Die maken zelfs nog aardige docus ook en hebben ook nog een zooi interessante youtubekanalen. Al kan ik me zo voorstellen dat een kanaal als PBS Space Time een beetje te hoog gegrepen is voor de doorsnee evangelistische Trumpstemmer.
https://m.youtube.com/cha(...)snd2hF82MAbjStRNQLGV

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Mueller has emails from Stone pal Corsi about WikiLeaks Dem email dump
"Word is (Julian Assange) plans 2 more dumps...Impact planned to be very damaging," Jerome Corsi said in email to Stone, say draft court documents.

Two months before WikiLeaks released emails stolen from the Clinton campaign, right-wing conspiracy theorist Jerome Corsi sent an email to former Trump campaign adviser Roger Stone anticipating the document dump, according to draft court papers obtained by NBC News.

"Word is friend in embassy plans 2 more dumps," Corsi wrote on Aug. 2, 2016, referring to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, according to the draft court papers. "One shortly after I'm back. 2nd in Oct. Impact planned to be very damaging." (NBC).

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ZoeTillman twitterde op dinsdag 27-11-2018 om 21:21:34 NEW: Statement from Paul Manafort about today's Guardian story, via a spokesman: "This story is totally false and deliberately libelous. I have never met Julian Assange or anyone connected to him." https://t.co/4hZDK29neE reageer retweet

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wikileaks twitterde op dinsdag 27-11-2018 om 15:49:02 Remember this day when the Guardian permitted a serial fabricator to totally destroy the paper's reputation. @WikiLeaks is willing to bet the Guardian a million dollars and its editor's head that Manafort never met Assange. https://t.co/R2Qn6rLQjn reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 00:06 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Het lijkt me sterk dat een ambassade geen gastenlijst onderhoud.

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DeadlineWH twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 00:20:44 "I think Manafort is protecting other interests. He has his eyes on other things than the President... you should look at his client list... Manafort may have worries about his family's well-being because of the people he's done business with..."- @TimOBrien with @NicolleDWallace https://t.co/UdFM7MR45h reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 02:45:44 A lawyer for Paul Manafort repeatedly briefed Trump's lawyers on his client's discussions with federal investigators after Manafort agreed to cooperate with Mueller, one of Trump's lawyers and two other people familiar with the conversations tell NYT. https://t.co/AwWiUe8Bao reageer retweet

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A lawyer for Paul Manafort, the president’s onetime campaign chairman, repeatedly briefed President Trump’s lawyers on his client’s discussions with federal investigators after Mr. Manafort agreed to cooperate with the special counsel, according to one of Mr. Trump’s lawyers and two other people familiar with the conversations.

The arrangement was highly unusual and inflamed tensions with Mr. Mueller’s office when prosecutors discovered it after Mr. Manafort began cooperating two months ago, the people said. Some legal experts speculated that it was a bid by Mr. Manafort for a presidential pardon even as he worked with the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, in hopes of a lighter sentence.

Rudolph W. Giuliani, one of the president’s personal lawyers, acknowledged the arrangement on Tuesday and defended it as a source of valuable insights into the special counsel’s inquiry and where it was headed. Such information could help shape a legal defense strategy, and it also appeared to give Mr. Trump and his legal advisers ammunition in their public relations campaign against the special counsel’s office.

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rgoodlaw twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 03:37:00 Mueller draft doc connects Stone-Corsi plot to Trump campaign and Donald J Trump by name:Says Corsi "understood [Stone] to be in regular contact with senior members of the Trump Campaign, including...Donald J. Trump" with goal to get docs "relevant to the presidential campaign" https://t.co/4ih7n3v1Y4 reageer retweet

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K8brannen twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 04:03:37 Here's a weak denial: "Rudolph W. Giuliani, an attorney for Trump, said the president does not recall ever speaking to either Stone or Corsi about WikiLeaks." https://t.co/5Ge4LDaR0B reageer retweet

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SteveKornacki twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 04:12:38 NBC News projects that Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) wins the Mississippi Senate runoff over Mike Espy (D) reageer retweet

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axios twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 04:00:00 The White House is barring CIA Director Gina Haspel and other intelligence officials from briefing the Senate on the killing of Jamal Khashoggi, The Guardian reportshttps://t.co/KJJ8f6M3kO reageer retweet

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The White House has denied preventing the CIA director, Gina Haspel, from briefing the Senate on the murder of Saudi dissident and Washington Post columnist, Jamal Khashoggi.

The secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, and the defence secretary, James Mattis, are due to give a briefing on US relations with Saudi Arabia to the entire Senate behind closed doors on Wednesday, ahead of a vote that could cut off US support for Riyadh's military campaign in Yemen.

On a national security issue of such importance, it would be customary for a senior intelligence official to take part, Senate staffers said. On this occasion, the absence of the intelligence community is all the more glaring, as Haspel travelled to Istanbul to hear audio tapes of Khashoggi's murder provided by Turkish intelligence, and then briefed Donald Trump.

Senior senators - including the chairman of the foreign relations committee, Bob Corker - have called for Haspel to appear, but there was no sign on Tuesday evening that she will take part.

Officials said that the decision for Haspel not to appear in front of the committee came from the White House, but the national security adviser, John Bolton, denied it. "Certainly not," he told reporters, but left it unclear why there would be no intelligence presence.

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NC elections board refuses to certify 9th District race, leaving it in limbo (Charlotte Observer)

The state board of elections Tuesday refused to certify the results of the 9th Congressional District election after one board member cited what he called “unfortunate activities” in the eastern part of the district.

It’s unclear what those activities involved or what the failure to certify might mean. The board discussed the matter in closed session.

Republican Mark Harris defeated Democrat Dan McCready by 905 votes.

Election board member Joshua Malcolm raised the issue in what was expected to be a routine certification of the results of North Carolina’s 13 congressional races. He asked the board to remove the 9th District from the list of those to be certified.

“I’m very familiar with unfortunate activities that have been happening down in my part of the state,” vice chair Malcolm, a Robeson County Democrat, told the board. “And 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. And in my opinion those things have not taken place.”

Malcolm cited a statute that allows the board the authority to take any necessary action “to assure that an election is determined without taint of fraud or corruption and without irregularities that may have changed the result of an election.”

Republicans cried foul.

“We think they have abused their discretion and violated the statute,” said Dallas Woodhouse, executive director of the state GOP. “This will inevitably end up in court. The fact of the matter is Mark Harris won the race. He got more votes.”

McCready conceded to Harris the day after the election.

Woodhouse said Republicans believe the issue stems from Bladen County, the district’s eastern-most county. Harris won Bladen by 1,557 votes.

The 9th District stretches from southeast Charlotte east through eight counties.

A spokesman for the Harris campaign would not comment. The McCready campaign could not be reached.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 09:28 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Trump wil de subsidie aan GM intrekken. Ben benieuwd hoe dit gaat lopen.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 09:28 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Trump wil de subsidie aan GM intrekken. Ben benieuwd hoe dit gaat lopen.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 09:28 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Trump wil de subsidie aan GM intrekken. Ben benieuwd hoe dit gaat lopen.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 10:05 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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En hoe moet dat precies banen terugbrengen?

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 04:19 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SteveKornacki twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 04:12:38 NBC News projects that Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) wins the Mississippi Senate runoff over Mike Espy (D) reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 04:19 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SteveKornacki twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 04:12:38 NBC News projects that Cindy Hyde-Smith (R) wins the Mississippi Senate runoff over Mike Espy (D) reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 12:06 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het werd wel een stuk spannender dan verwacht. 53.9% voor CHS, 46.1% voor Espy. Het was voor het laatst zo spannend in een Senaatsverkiezing in Mississippi in 1988 (!). Toont aan dat CHS een uitermate zwakke kandidaat is die vrijwel zeker een primary challenge gaat krijgen in 2020. Espy was altijd de underdog maar verliezen met maar 7.8% is een respectabele prestatie voor een Dem in Mississippi. Volgend jaar zijn er Gouverneursverkiezingen dus dat moet ze zeker moed geven.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 12:38 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Inderdaad, wederom zaten ze heel dicht bij elkaar. Het is een trend die de republikeinen in het Congres niet lekker zit. Voor hun achterban hebben ze de Blue Wave als marginaal afgedaan, maar de harde cijfers geven toch een heel ander beeld.

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Op dinsdag 27 november 2018 10:53 schreef archito het volgende:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1067142819008122885

Stelt Trump nu min of meer voor om een propagandakanaal te beginnen?

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 14:13 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Ze hebben radio free europe en aanverwanten toch al?

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 15:00:03 Trump just retweeted an image that said Rod Rosenstein, his own deputy Attorney General, and many others should be tried for treason. reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 16:05:34 Update: DOJ declines to comment on the president accusing the deputy AG of treason. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 15:30:05 Chris Coons tells @Morning_Joe that he and Jeff Flake plan to head to the floor today to ask to hold an immediate vote on the bill to protect Robert Mueller. He says he's confident they have the votes to pass it. reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op dinsdag 27-11-2018 om 20:21:08 An interesting approach by CNN here - putting actual facts in a big box beside Sarah Sanders. Would be worth exploring this kind of Factual Pop-Up Video for Trump's own speeches. https://t.co/FrpvfSviT5 reageer retweet

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asharock twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 00:56:40 PolitiFact pitched this to the cables in 2016. No takers. Interesting to see if 2020 will be different. https://t.co/GZa4xA0dmr reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 16:36:47 Last week was a quiet week by Trump standards. He made 29 false claims, a normal number for him in 2017 but not in 2018; it was his lowest since mid-September. He uttered just 12,156 total words, per @FactbaseFeed, down from 80,000+ in weeks before the midterms. reageer retweet

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President Trump placed responsibility for recent stock market declines and this week’s announcement of General Motors plant closures and layoffs on the Federal Reserve during an interview Tuesday, shirking any personal blame for cracks in the economy and declaring that he is “not even a little bit happy” with his hand-selected central bank chairman.

In a wide-ranging and sometimes discordant 20-minute interview with The Washington Post, Trump complained at length about Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. “Jay” Powell, whom he nominated last year. When asked about declines on Wall Street and GM’s announcement that it was laying off 15 percent of its workforce, Trump responded by criticizing higher interest rates and other Fed policies, though he insisted that he is not worried about a recession.

“I’m doing deals, and I’m not being accommodated by the Fed,” Trump said. “They’re making a mistake because I have a gut, and my gut tells me more sometimes than anybody else’s brain can ever tell me.”

He added: “So far, I’m not even a little bit happy with my selection of Jay. Not even a little bit. And I’m not blaming anybody, but I’m just telling you I think that the Fed is way off-base with what they’re doing.”

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 16:35 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 15:30:05 Chris Coons tells @Morning_Joe that he and Jeff Flake plan to head to the floor today to ask to hold an immediate vote on the bill to protect Robert Mueller. He says he's confident they have the votes to pass it. reageer retweet

Dat gaat O'Connell weer tegenhouden?

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 13:05 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Netto komt voor de Dems de winst neer op -1 in de Senaat, +40 in het Huis, +7 Governor's en ongeveer +400 lokale zetels. Als je dat geen "wave" vindt ben je delusional.

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seungminkim twitterde op woensdag 28-11-2018 om 17:16:28 OMG -->; A Senate panel delays confirmation vote on Trump's pick to lead ICE, Ron Vitiello, as senators sort out concerns raised by ICE local unions. One concern is how Vitiello apparently shared images on Twitter comparing Trump to Dennis the Menacehttps://t.co/Mc1aPNoGCI reageer retweet

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President Donald Trump on Wednesday shared a post from a parody account of Vice President Mike Pence giving thanks “for every day Hillary Clinton is not president.”

The post was originally shared by @MikePenceVP, a profile that uses the same photo as one of Pence’s verified accounts but describes itself as a “fan account. My Goal is to expose liberal hypocrisy and Fake News Bias.” The vice president’s official Twitter accounts are @VP and @Mike_Pence.

“I’m thankful for every day Hillary Clinton is not President!” the @MikePenceVP account tweeted on Thanksgiving.

Trump retweeted the post Wednesday morning to his 56 million Twitter followers. The tweet had been retweeted 4,700 times by 10 a.m.

It is unclear whether the president thought he was retweeting the vice president or knew it is a parody account. Trump was active throughout the morning on Twitter, sharing several other posts criticizing his 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 18:07 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Heel net resultaat, vooral die -1 in de Senaat valt me mee. Kennelijk heb ik niet opgelet.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 18:43 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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En hoe zit het met de AGs? Want die werden ook gekozen toch of heb ik dat mis?

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 18:49 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Ik zag daarover wat van John Oliver, vandaar . Bedankt voor de informatie.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 17:53 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
En ook nog eens fake accounts retweeten

Trump retweets fake Pence account giving thanks for Clinton's 2016 loss

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Trump was active throughout the morning on Twitter, sharing several other posts criticizing his 2016 Democratic opponent, Hillary Clinton.

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 19:24 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Trump ontkent alles, zegt van helemaal niets te weten in antwoord op vragen van Mueller:

Exclusive: Two key answers from Trump to Mueller
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2(...)ump-tower/index.html

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 21:09 schreef Re het volgende:
blijkbaar wel slim gedaan van Mueller, geen gag order voor Manafort, en hem met Trump laten overleggen omdat ze een joint defence hebben, Trump zijn open book questions laten invullen en dan Manafort zijn plea deal torpederen want leugens verteld. Bijkomend voordeel is dat bij de afhandeling van de strafmaat van Manafort een groot stuk report van Mueller meegenomen wordt en Whitaker kan daar niets aan doen om het tegen te houden

als er iemand 4D chess speelt is het Mueller wel

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Op woensdag 28 november 2018 21:18 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ja die is natuurlijk gepokt en gemazeld, terwijl de advocaten van Trump hem moeten smeken om geen domme dingen te doen.
Het morele faillissement van de GOP zorgt er natuurlijk voor dat Trump zelf vrijwel zeker buiten schot blijft ongeacht de uitkomst van het onderzoek, maar zijn familie is nog best een potentieel interessant doelwit.