[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #581: Geen titel

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 09:50 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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De GOP heeft alweer wat gevonden om te klagen over fraude:
https://www.politico.com/(...)-republicans-1031072

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Darry Sragow, the publisher of the California Target Book, a nonpartisan election resource, agrees that “for them to suggest the system here is rigged is beyond outrageous.’’

Sragow, who teaches election law at the University of Southern California, says the complaints are especially ludicrous in light of recent elections in Florida and Georgia, where he said Republicans have sought “to deny the right to vote to people of color, to college students and the poor people.''

Voting experts like Sragow say Republican critics are refusing to accept the realities of a solidly-blue state that has made every effort to make voting easier and more accessible: including early voting, vote by mail — now the preferred means for nearly two-thirds of state voters — and allowing voters to register and vote provisionally up until the day of the election. The changes were manifested in 2018 as millions of younger voters cast ballots for the first time — the overwhelming number of them Democratic, South noted.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 10:18 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Moedwillig onbegrip van allerlei concepten omtrent het tellen van stemmen is wel een typisch GOP-dingetje ja. Het is feitelijk natuurlijk zoals Sragow aangeeft in het artikel:

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Zolang de GOP de lijn Trump blijft volgen zullen ze noodgedwongen allerhande vormen van voter surpression moeten steunen omdat ze puur kijkend naar de popular vote onder het gehele electoraat steeds verder achter zullen gaan lopen.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 09:49 schreef Montov het volgende:
Trump gaat niet aftreden en de GOP zal alles negeren of stilzwijgen. Ik verwacht geen concrete acties, zelfs niet wanneer het bewijs openbaar wordt. De les van Watergate voor de GOP is om de rangen te sluiten en nooit te knipperen met de ogen. En alle Law & Order mensen houden hun ogen dicht.

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kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 30-11-2018 om 16:06:34 NEWS: Manafort sentencing date tentatively set for March 5. Late January arguments about whether he breached his plea deal.Mueller team will file their argument that he breached the deal on Dec. 7 and defense has until January to respond. reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 30-11-2018 om 16:12:38 Biggest news of the morning: Prosecutors are considering retrying Manafort on the 10 charges that resulted in a hung jury in Virginia in August. They’re also still weighing whether to file new charges based on what they say is Manafort’s breach of the plea agreement. reageer retweet

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In two major developments this week, President Trump has been labeled in the parlance of criminal investigations as a major subject of interest, complete with an opaque legal code name: “Individual 1.”

New evidence from two separate fronts of special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation casts fresh doubts on Trump’s version of key events involving Russia, signaling potential political and legal peril for the president. Investigators have now publicly cast Trump as a central figure of their probe into whether Trump’s campaign conspired with the Russian government during the 2016 campaign.

Together, the documents show investigators have evidence that Trump was in close contact with his lieutenants as they made outreach to both Russia and WikiLeaks — and that they tried to conceal the extent of their activities.

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A DC neighborhood group just voted to rename the street in front of the Saudi embassy for Jamal Khashoggi

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 20:56 schreef speknek het volgende:
‘Individual 1’: Trump emerges as a central subject of Mueller probe

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https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.4a232db6be9c

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 23:24 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Weten we in ieder geval wat de titel wordt van de film over deze clusterfuck.

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Op vrijdag 30 november 2018 23:24 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Weten we in ieder geval wat de titel wordt van de film over deze clusterfuck.

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AFP twitterde op zaterdag 01-12-2018 om 05:57:00 #BREAKING Former US President George H. W. Bush dies at 94: son https://t.co/NS0TsIe0Tu reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 07:12 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Trump moet daar dus iets aardigs over zeggen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 01-12-2018 om 06:49:46 Statement from President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on the Passing of Former President George H.W. Bush https://t.co/qxPsp4Ggs7 reageer retweet

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Trump’s acting attorney general once referred to the president’s behavior as ‘a little dangerous’ and ‘a little outlandish’

A review of hundreds of public comments by acting attorney general Matthew G. Whitaker shows that while he has primarily functioned as a defender of President Trump, he has also criticized the president on numerous occasions, sometimes harshly, while working as a commentator on radio and television.

Whitaker has repeatedly suggested that Trump plays with the truth. He has said Trump should release his tax returns and was “self-serving” in the way he fired FBI Director James B. Comey. Whitaker said during the run-up to the 2016 election that neither Trump nor Hillary Clinton was a very good option for the presidency. “I mean, both these candidates are unlikable,” he said.

The critique of the president by Whitaker, a former U.S. attorney who rose to prominence over the past four years as the head of a conservative nonprofit group, has often come in unguarded moments, and sometimes late into on-air discussions. “Sometimes I wonder if anybody has the president’s ear or if he just kind of watches news accounts and responds to, which is a little dangerous,” Whitaker said in June 2017 on a radio show.

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Whitaker was perhaps most critical five months later when, as Trump fired Comey, the president asserted that the FBI director told him he was not under investigation.

In four radio interviews over two days, Whitaker repeatedly blasted Trump’s public letter to Comey as “self-serving.”

“That whole sentence about, you know, ‘We’ve talked three times and you’ve told me I’m not under investigation,’ I mean for a president to include that in a letter of termination is — just I’ve never seen anything like that,” Whitaker told WHO radio in Des Moines. “It’s so self-serving.”

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Bron: WaPo

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 07:24 schreef pullup het volgende:

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Yup, alhoewel ik betwijfel of hij dit zelf geschreven heeft

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 01-12-2018 om 06:49:46 Statement from President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on the Passing of Former President George H.W. Bush https://t.co/qxPsp4Ggs7 reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 07:24 schreef pullup het volgende:

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Yup, alhoewel ik betwijfel of hij dit zelf geschreven heeft

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 01-12-2018 om 06:49:46 Statement from President Donald J. Trump and First Lady Melania Trump on the Passing of Former President George H.W. Bush https://t.co/qxPsp4Ggs7 reageer retweet

Former President Obama visits George H.W. Bush in Houston prior to passing

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BarackObama twitterde op zaterdag 01-12-2018 om 06:36:23 America has lost a patriot and humble servant in George Herbert Walker Bush. While our hearts are heavy today, they are also filled with gratitude. Our thoughts are with the entire Bush family tonight – and all who were inspired by George and Barbara’s example. https://t.co/g9OUPu2pjY reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 06:01 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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AFP twitterde op zaterdag 01-12-2018 om 05:57:00 #BREAKING Former US President George H. W. Bush dies at 94: son https://t.co/NS0TsIe0Tu reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 14:48 schreef fliert het volgende:
Het echte vuurwerk kan natuurlijk ook van onze oosterburen komen. Misschien schat ik de situatie wat optimistisch in maar de invallen bij Deutsche Bank (Trump's favoriete geldschieter) kunnen wel eens vernietigend zijn voor wat er nog over is van Trump's geloofwaardigheid. Ik ben bang dat hij met Cohen's verklaringen weg kan komen met wat kleerscheurtjes.

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 15:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Is eigenlijk bekend waar die inval betrekking op had? Trump is natuurlijk niet de enige klant die ze hebben...

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The special counsel’s draft Statement of Offense for Jerome Corsi includes much extraordinary information. But what are the most legally significant details to emerge? At bottom, the draft court document supplies additional reason to believe that Bob Mueller can charge Trump Campaign associates and the campaign itself for violations of federal campaign finance law either directly under the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA) or as part of a conspiracy to defraud the United States by obstructing the capacity of the Federal Election Commission to enforce the FECA. The federal offense of a conspiracy to defraud the United States serves as the backbone of the special counsel’s February 2018 indictment of Russian nationals, which then raised the question whether the special counsel would subsequently indict any Americans for knowingly participating in the general conspiracy. The activities of Roger Stone, Jerome Corsi, and Ted Malloch, as shown by what Mueller decided to include in the draft document, points to legal jeopardy for them and any others who knowingly participated with them in this scheme with Wikileaks.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 01-12-2018 om 15:30:00 Trump fundraiser and former deputy RNC finance chair Elliott Broidy received laundered funds, according to federal prosecutors. https://t.co/R0MM5cJa30 reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 15:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Is eigenlijk bekend waar die inval betrekking op had? Trump is natuurlijk niet de enige klant die ze hebben...

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Cohen: Trump Knew I Called Kremlin for Help With Trump Tower Moscow

The president downplays his knowledge of the project, but his ex-fixer says he knew a lot—and that a cover-up before Congress was crafted while talking to Trump’s lawyers.

https://www.thedailybeast(...)h-trump-tower-moscow

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GOP seeks to limit Wisconsin early voting, strip powers from Tony Evers and Josh Kaul in lame-duck session (Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)

MADISON - Republican lawmakers are seeking to limit voter turnout and want to take away key powers from the incoming Democratic governor and attorney general before GOP Gov. Scott Walker leaves office in January.

The sweeping plan — to be taken up Tuesday — would remove Gov.-elect Tony Evers' power to approve major actions by Attorney General-elect Josh Kaul and give that authority to Republican lawmakers.

That could mean the campaign promise made by Evers and Kaul to immediately withdraw Wisconsin from a federal lawsuit to overturn the Affordable Care Act would likely be blocked.

A hearing that could stretch into the night is slated for 12:30 p.m. Monday before the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee. The two houses are expected to meet Tuesday to pass at least parts of their plan.

The 141-page plan goes further than what Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald and Assembly Speaker Robin Vos suggested lawmakers would take up during the so-called lame-duck legislative session before Evers takes office.

"It’s real kind of inside baseball, kind of legislative stuff that it’s hard for me to believe people will get too excited about," Fitzgerald said three days before the plan was released.

But among the proposals are ones to limit the governor's powers, weaken the attorney general and restrict early voting to two weeks before an election. Currently, some communities provide as many as six weeks of early voting.

The early voting plan would be all but certain to draw a legal challenge given that a federal judge in 2016 struck down a similar law limiting early voting that he found "intentionally discriminates on the basis of race."

The measures would strip many powers from Kaul and eliminate a powerful office within the Department of Justice that was created in 2015 under Republican Attorney General Brad Schimel and handles high-profile cases on appeal.

Lawmakers are also considering separating the 2020 presidential primary election from an April spring election to reduce voter turnout in an effort to boost the election chances of a conservative Supreme Court justice. In another proposal, lawmakers will consider using new revenue from online sales taxes to slightly reduce the individual income tax rate.

"Wisconsin law, written by the Legislature and signed into law by a governor, should not be erased by the potential political maneuvering of the executive branch," Fitzgerald and Vos said in a statement about the slate of measures. "In order to find common ground, everyone must be at the table."

But Evers and Kaul said Republicans were ignoring the voters who elected them just three weeks ago.

"I’ve said all along I’m committed to working across the aisle, but I will not tolerate attempts to violate our constitutional checks and balances and separation of powers by people who are desperate to cling to control. Enough is enough," Evers said in a statement.

Democrats said Republicans were throwing a fit following the defeat of Walker and Schimel.

"It's clear they're out to try to cripple the incoming governor and attorney general as best they can," said Sen. Jon Erpenbach, a Middleton Democrat on the Legislature's finance committee. "It's a tantrum because Scott Walker lost. It's frustrating because they're not even giving Tony Evers a chance to be governor."

The legislation is wide-ranging and would limit Evers’ power in a host of ways. His agencies would have less freedom to run their programs. He would not be able to ban guns from the state Capitol without the OK of lawmakers.

The power of the incoming attorney general also would be greatly diminished.

The Legislature — not the attorney general — would have control of how to spend money from court settlements. The recently created office of the solicitor general, which oversees high-profile litigation, would be eliminated.

Legislators would gain the power to intervene in any litigation when a state law is challenged, and they would have the ability to appoint their own private attorneys — at taxpayer expense — to handle the case instead of the attorney general.

“This bill is a full-employment bill for Republican law firms,” said Madison attorney Lester Pines, who often defends Democrats. “It will drive up the cost through the roof.”

Legislators would also have the ability to sign off on court settlements.

In another change that has broad implications for the lawsuit over the Affordable Care Act, the Legislature’s budget committee — rather than the governor —would get to decide whether to continue or drop legal actions.

Covering pre-existing conditions

Even as they are making it harder to get out of the Obamacare lawsuit, Republicans are planning to pass a bill that would protect coverage of pre-existing conditions. Democrats said that legislation was inadequate because the protections would not go as far as the ones in Obamacare.

The proposals also include provisions aimed at protecting past measures they have already approved. One would compel Evers to implement a work requirement for some in the BadgerCare Plus health care program. Others would make it tougher for Evers to change rules affecting the state’s voter ID law or alter a new program to keep premiums down for people who get insurance through Obamacare’s marketplace for individuals.

The governor also would no longer be able to choose who leads the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp., which oversees taxpayer-funded incentive packages provided to businesses in exchange for job creation.

Lawmakers would have more control over the jobs agency, which Evers has promised to disband and replace with a state Commerce Department. The WEDC board would choose the agency's leader instead of the governor.

“Our state must stay open for business," Fitzgerald and Vos said. "WEDC, our economic development agency, must continue to have the ability to help spur job creation and business opportunities without fear of being shut down."

Senate Minority Leader Jennifer Shilling and Assembly Minority Leader Gordon Hintz also could appoint one member each to the board, and Evers' appointments would be unchanged at six members.

Walker has shown support for some of the plans but has not said what he thinks of others. His aides did not say whether Walker backed the limits on early voting or other measures that came to light Friday.

Evers did not comment on the plans, but incoming Democratic Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes said the plan "is the path of most resistance."

"It’s the dysfunction people just said no to a few weeks ago," Barnes said on Twitter.

The Republican legislative leaders said theirs is "the most representative branch in government and we will not stop being a strong voice for our constituents.”

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ddale8 twitterde op zaterdag 01-12-2018 om 17:47:23 Michigan Republicans have also introduced an anti-democratic proposal to take power away from the newly elected Democratic governor and attorney general before they take office: https://t.co/n8qbEj22GM reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 22:00 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Nou, Bush sr. was natuurlijk ook gewoon een rotzak. Maar hij was wel pragmatisch en had enige principes.

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 22:12 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Nou, hij gaf iedereen die bij Iran-Contra betrokken was gratie om zichzelf in te dekken.

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 22:15 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat laatste weet je niet. Was bovendien na zijn verkiezingsnederlaag... hij had het al veel eerder kunnen doen.

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 22:05 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Everyone's a critic ...

Natuurlijk was het niet rozegeur en maneschijn, maar los van dat je het politiek oneens kan zijn met zijn keuzes zijn grote schandalen verder wel uit gebleven. Hij was ook bereid tot samenwerken met democraten en stond, zoals je zelf ook zegt, wel voor wat goede principes. Hij leek me best een fatsoenlijk mens, binnen het kader van zijn politieke visie.

Retired Lieutenant Colonel: 'Infantile' Trump Is No Patriot | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

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President Trump’s lies about doing business in Moscow may not be crimes, but they could have serious implications for U.S. National Security. Retired Lieutenant Colonel Ralph Peters tells Ari Melber he “can’t imagine a more serious national security threat that a U.S. President who is compromised” by Russia and says he does not “buy” that Trump is a patriot, and does not believe “he would sacrifice his life to save the lives” of Americans.

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 21:57 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ergens misschien wel symbolisch, het overlijden van G. W. Bush ... de enige verkozen republikeinse president die nog wel ergens voor stond waar ik dan wel wat mee had zonder zweem van corruptie en criminaliteit sinds mogelijk Eisenhower of misschien moeten we nog verder terug?

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Op zondag 2 december 2018 11:46 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Totaal in de "democraten zijn ten alle tijden goed"-bubbel, wat een jammerlijk onkritische houding. Alle vergrijpen die in deze reeks benoemd zijn over Republikeinen, zijn ook echt door Democraten uitgevoerd hoor.

Je kunt wel vallen over bijvoorbeeld gerrymandering, maar daar hebben de Democraten zich schuldig aan gemaakt sinds haar oprichting. Immigratie aanmoedigen zodat je meer stemvee krijgt is bovendien geen gijzeling van de democratie?

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Op zaterdag 1 december 2018 21:57 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ergens misschien wel symbolisch, het overlijden van G. W. Bush ... de enige verkozen republikeinse president die nog wel ergens voor stond waar ik dan wel wat mee had zonder zweem van corruptie en criminaliteit sinds mogelijk Eisenhower of misschien moeten we nog verder terug?

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Trump to terminate NAFTA, pressuring Congress to approve new trade deal

President Trump said late Saturday that he plans to formally terminate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) in an effort to pressure Congress to approve a new trade deal with Canada and Mexico.

“I will be formally terminating NAFTA shortly,” Trump told reporters on Air Force One while returning from the Group of 20 summit in Argentina.

“Then Congress will have a choice of approving the USMCA, which is a phenomenal deal,” he said, referring to the United States-Mexico-Canada-Agreement. “Much, much better than NAFTA. A great deal.”

The president also called NAFTA a “disaster” for the U.S. -- a description he has used since the presidential campaign.

“It’s caused us tremendous amounts of unemployment and loss and company loss and everything else. That’ll be terminated,” he said.

“And so Congress will have a choice of the USMCA or pre-NAFTA, which worked very well. You got out, you negotiate your deals. It worked very well. Okay?”

Trump and the leaders of Mexico and Canada on Friday signed a revised North American trade agreement that rewrites many of the rules governing free trade and caps off a bitter trade dispute between the three nations.

The required congressional approval for the new pact is far from certain, however.

Democrats, who took control of the House in the midterm elections, have traditionally been skeptical of free trade and may be reluctant to hand Trump a political victory heading into the 2020 elections.

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Given what politics looks like in America and around the world today, it’s easy to sigh and say George H.W. Bush belonged to an era that is gone and never coming back — where our opponents are not our enemies, where we are open to different ideas and changing our minds, where facts matter and where our devotion to our children’s future leads to honest compromise and shared progress. I know what he would say: “Nonsense. It’s your duty to get that America back.”

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On Jan. 20, 1993, I entered the Oval Office for the first time as president. As is the tradition, waiting for me was a note from my predecessor, George Herbert Walker Bush. It read:

Dear Bill,

When I walked into this office just now I felt the same sense of wonder and respect that I felt four years ago. I know you will feel that, too.

I wish you great happiness here. I never felt the loneliness some Presidents have described.

There will be very tough times, made even more difficult by criticism you may not think is fair. I’m not a very good one to give advice; but just don’t let the critics discourage you or push you off course.

You will be our President when you read this note. I wish you well. I wish your family well.

Your success now is our country’s success. I am rooting hard for you.

Good Luck — George

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Comey twitterde op zondag 02-12-2018 om 16:36:54 Grateful for a fair hearing from judge. Hard to protect my rights without being in contempt, which I don’t believe in. So will sit in the dark, but Republicans agree I’m free to talk when done and transcript released in 24 hours. This is the closest I can get to public testimony. reageer retweet

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Op zondag 2 december 2018 04:26 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Retired Lieutenant Colonel: 'Infantile' Trump Is No Patriot | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

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Senate headed for clash over Saudi Arabia

The Senate is barreling toward a floor brawl over how to respond to Saudi Arabia's role in the slaying of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi.

Senators took a significant step this week advancing a bipartisan resolution to end U.S. support for the Saudi-led military campaign in Yemen, marking a sharp break from President Trump, who has stood by Riyadh and Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman, even in the face of reports that the prince personally ordered Khahoggi’s death.

But now, lawmakers need to figure out what a final bill will look like as they prepare to take a next step of bringing the resolution up for debate — and a potentially raucous floor drama. The wars powers fight is uncharted waters for a Senate that has repeatedly rejected attempts to challenge the White House’s combat authority.

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“Absent a consent agreement, there is a potential for unlimited vote-a-rama where we could be voting on anything from immigration reform to criminal justice reform,” said Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the No. 2 Senate Republican, adding the free-wheeling votes could be “rather confusing.”

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Graham, reacting to a photo of the Saudi crown prince and Russian President Vladimir Putin warmly greeting each other at Friday’s Group of 20 summit, predicted in a tweet Friday that “the vote total is going up in the Senate to pass MBS sanctions legislation.”

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The White House is threatening to veto the Senate resolution and dispatched Defense Secretary James Mattis and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo to brief senators in an unsuccessful bid to squash it.

Murphy said that the looming Senate vote could be a “leverage moment” for the administration with Saudi Arabia and let them avoid a “messy” floor fight in Congress.

“I think there’s some Republicans that think the administration’s going to pull a rabbit out of the hat before a motion to proceed,” Murphy said. “So let’s see if the administration has anything to announce. If they don’t then the motion to proceed succeeds and we have to come up with some consent.”

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LindseyGrahamSC twitterde op vrijdag 30-11-2018 om 22:24:35 Birds of a feather.....One 'positive' after this display of affection -- the vote total is going up in the Senate to pass MBS sanctions legislation. https://t.co/HJLIkiQkZj reageer retweet

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Op zondag 2 december 2018 21:17 schreef JohnnyBraincloud het volgende:
Dank je voor deze link @Kijkertje
Ben een grote fan van de Coen Brothers

Maar serieus, trumps ego is inderdaad té groot om het grote geheel te zien.
Hoop dat deze seniel snel van het toneel verdwijnt.

Naast politieke gevolgen is zijn "administration" ook desdastreus voor hoe we met deze aardkloot omgaan, het constante liegen, 25thAmendment, een klimaat rapportage waarvan hij iets gelezen heeft maar niets gelooft, seismische tests in de oceaan...

Dit zielig excuus voor president moet gewoon weg.
Ik hoop dat Muellers werk zoden aan de dijk zet.

Gewoon te triest voor woorden dat zo'n figuur het heeft kunnen schoppen tot f-ing president...

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Roger Stone: 'No evidence to support' that I was link between WikiLeaks and Trump

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ThisWeekABC twitterde op zondag 02-12-2018 om 15:42:44 Rep. Adam Schiff says Roger Stone is vulnerable to charges of lying to Congress."It also looks like Mr. Stone was attempting to enlist Mr. Corsi's help in covering for false testimony. So I think the testimony alone is reason for great exposure for Mr. Stone." #ThisWeek https://t.co/YMaqhyXUKI reageer retweet

Schiff on ABC’s This Week: The President and His Business are Compromised

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 05:00:25 China has agreed to reduce and remove tariffs on cars coming into China from the U.S. Currently the tariff is 40%. reageer retweet

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The separate statements, which offered conflicting characterizations of what the agreement entailed, were vague on details. The U.S. statement highlighted a 90-day window it had created to push through trade talks with Beijing, while the Chinese statement made no mention of it. The Hill

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Op maandag 3 december 2018 05:49 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 05:00:25 China has agreed to reduce and remove tariffs on cars coming into China from the U.S. Currently the tariff is 40%. reageer retweet

Kan nog nergens een bevestiging vinden...

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Last year, interest on the federal debt was $263 billion, or 1.4% of GDP. The Congressional Budget Office expects it will rise to $915 billion by 2028, or 3.1% of GDP.

Let’s stop right there for a minute.

The total projected 2028 deficit (on and off budget) is $1.5 trillion. Take that number with a grain of salt. They were only projecting the total debt for this year (2018) to increase $779 billion, when it actually rose $1.2 trillion including off-budget items.

The CBO also assumes no recessions, wars, or other crises in the next 10 years.

And yet they still project, even with optimistic assumptions, that interest on the debt will overtake defense spending plus other “discretionary” expenses.

It is quite likely that fiscal 2019 will see a $1.5 trillion deficit (assuming no recession), and that if (when) we have a recession, total debt will increase at least $2 trillion a year.

Given today’s $23 trillion of total debt, it’s very likely that by the mid-2020s we will have $30 trillion worth of debt—and see that $915 billion interest expense projected for the end of the decade.

But that’s not all...

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Op maandag 3 december 2018 09:21 schreef speknek het volgende:
Fiscal conservatives aan het werk tijdens hoogconjunctuur.

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Op maandag 3 december 2018 09:11 schreef rockstah het volgende:
Schuldsituatie escaleert verder:

https://www.forbes.com/si(...)t-default-is-coming/

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Op maandag 3 december 2018 13:53 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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De politieke erfenis van Paul Ryan..

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Op zondag 2 december 2018 13:22 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Inderdaad... Ik heb nergens beweerd dat democraten niet gerrymanderen. Sterker, die hele post gaat niet over gerrymanderen... Probeer het nog eens.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 14:30:46 I am certain that, at some time in the future, President Xi and I, together with President Putin of Russia, will start talking about a meaningful halt to what has become a major and uncontrollable Arms Race. The U.S. spent 716 Billion Dollars this year. Crazy! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 16:24:37 “Michael Cohen asks judge for no Prison Time.” You mean he can do all of the TERRIBLE, unrelated to Trump, things having to do with fraud, big loans, Taxis, etc., and not serve a long prison term? He makes up stories to get a GREAT & ALREADY reduced deal for himself, and get..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 16:29:31 ....his wife and father-in-law (who has the money?) off Scott Free. He lied for this outcome and should, in my opinion, serve a full and complete sentence. reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 16:48:12 “I will never testify against Trump.” This statement was recently made by Roger Stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about “President Trump.” Nice to know that some people still have “guts!” reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 16:56:06 Bob Mueller (who is a much different man than people think) and his out of control band of Angry Democrats, don’t want the truth, they only want lies. The truth is very bad for their mission! reageer retweet

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Kudlow: US to end subsidies for electric cars, renewables

White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow said on Monday the Trump administration will end subsidies for electric cars and renewable energy sources, Reuters reports.

Kudlow said he expected subsidies for electric cars would end by 2020 or 2021, according to the report. The remarks were made in response to a question about what the administration would do about General Motors' plans to layoff 15,000 people and shutter five plants across North America.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 17:37:38 Looking forward to being with the Bush Family to pay my respects to President George H.W. Bush. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 3 december 2018 21:47 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://thehill.com/homen(...)newables-white-house

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Op maandag 3 december 2018 21:58 schreef Falco het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 17:37:38 Looking forward to being with the Bush Family to pay my respects to President George H.W. Bush. reageer retweet

Deze man...

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Op maandag 3 december 2018 22:06 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Mag hij wel komen dan, ik kan me indenken dat de Bushes niet op de man zitten te wachten.

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Op maandag 3 december 2018 20:31 schreef Montov het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 16:24:37 “Michael Cohen asks judge for no Prison Time.” You mean he can do all of the TERRIBLE, unrelated to Trump, things having to do with fraud, big loans, Taxis, etc., and not serve a long prison term? He makes up stories to get a GREAT & ALREADY reduced deal for himself, and get..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 16:29:31 ....his wife and father-in-law (who has the money?) off Scott Free. He lied for this outcome and should, in my opinion, serve a full and complete sentence. reageer retweet

Liegen zou inderdaad een volledige veroordeling moeten betekenen. "No Deals" with Russia? No Collusion?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 16:48:12 “I will never testify against Trump.” This statement was recently made by Roger Stone, essentially stating that he will not be forced by a rogue and out of control prosecutor to make up lies and stories about “President Trump.” Nice to know that some people still have “guts!” reageer retweet

Als je Roger Stone gaat ophemelen, dan ben je wel heel wanhopig in het moeras aan het wegzakken.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 23:00:17 CIA Director Gina Haspel will brief lawmakers tomorrow on the murder of Jamal Khashoggi after being criticized for her absence at a briefing on the killing last week. https://t.co/jXMOUNSB0k reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 23:11:18 DC and Maryland attorneys general say they're moving forward with subpoenas for records in their case accusing Trump of profiting off the presidency. https://t.co/ff8lDiohmH reageer retweet

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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors have told defense lawyers in recent weeks that they are “tying up loose ends” in their investigation, providing the clearest clues yet that the long-running probe into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election may be coming to its climax, potentially in the next few weeks, according to multiple sources close to the matter.

The new information about the state of Mueller’s investigation comes during a pivotal week when the special counsel’s prosecutors are planning to file memos about three of their most high profile defendants — former Trump national security adviser Michael Flynn, former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and former Trump personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

A Flynn sentencing memo is due Tuesday, and memos about Manafort and Cohen are slated for Friday. All three documents are expected to yield significant new details on what cooperation the three of them provided to the Russia investigation.

There has been much speculation that Mueller might file his memo in Manafort’s case under seal in order to prevent public disclosure of the additional crimes his office believes Manafort committed when he allegedly lied to prosecutors and broke a plea deal after agreeing to cooperate.

But Peter Carr, spokesman for the special counsel, confirmed to Yahoo News on Monday that the Manafort memo “will be public,” although he added there could be some portions that are redacted or filed as a sealed addendum. The Manafort memo has been requested by the federal judge in his case so that prosecutors could, for the first time, spell out what matters they believe Manafort has lied to them about.

The fact that Mueller is planning a public filing about Manafort suggests he may no longer feel the need to withhold information about his case in order to bring additional indictments against others. That would be consistent with messages his prosecutors have given defense lawyers in recent weeks indicating that they are in the endgame of their investigation.

“They’ve been telling people they are tying up loose ends and trying to conclude,” said one source familiar with the communications between Mueller’s office and defense lawyers who represent key witnesses in the case.

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In mid-May 2017, Paul Manafort, facing intensifying pressure to settle debts and pay mounting legal bills, flew to Ecuador to offer his services to a potentially lucrative new client — the country’s incoming president, Lenín Moreno.

Mr. Manafort made the trip mainly to see if he could broker a deal under which China would invest in Ecuador’s power system, possibly yielding a fat commission for Mr. Manafort.

But the talks turned to a diplomatic sticking point between the United States and Ecuador: the fate of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange.

In multiple meetings with Mr. Manafort, Mr. Moreno and his aides discussed their desire to rid themselves of Mr. Assange, who has been holed up in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, in exchange for concessions like debt relief from the United States, according to three people familiar with the talks, the details of which have not been previously reported.

They said Mr. Manafort suggested he could help negotiate a deal for the handover of Mr. Assange to the United States, which has long investigated Mr. Assange for the disclosure of secret documents and which later filed charges against him that have not yet been made public.

Within a couple of days of Mr. Manafort’s final meeting in Quito, Robert S. Mueller III was appointed as the special counsel to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election and related matters, and it quickly became clear that Mr. Manafort was a primary target. His talks with Ecuador ended without any deals.

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StevenTDennis twitterde op maandag 03-12-2018 om 23:39:54 New on @TheTerminal: Chuck Grassley refusing Blumenthal's request to have committee re-interview Don Jr., says "there is nothing inconsistent" about his statement to the committee that he was aware "peripherally" of the Trump Tower Moscow proposal... reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op dinsdag 04-12-2018 om 05:35:57 Greta Van Susteren asked Trump about climate change. Talking nonsense as usual, he said the problem is that other countries have "not-good air that comes over to the United States." He said of China's Xi: "He's got to do something with his climate." https://t.co/1L3ennh0z8 https://t.co/W6XIRWVmDC reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op dinsdag 04-12-2018 om 05:38:40 This is the climate version of his immigration rhetoric. When other countries send their air, they're not sending their best. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 06:00 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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ddale8 twitterde op dinsdag 04-12-2018 om 05:35:57 Greta Van Susteren asked Trump about climate change. Talking nonsense as usual, he said the problem is that other countries have "not-good air that comes over to the United States." He said of China's Xi: "He's got to do something with his climate." https://t.co/1L3ennh0z8 https://t.co/W6XIRWVmDC reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op dinsdag 04-12-2018 om 05:38:40 This is the climate version of his immigration rhetoric. When other countries send their air, they're not sending their best. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 10:01 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Dat geratel van Trump went nooit. Mijn hemel, wat kraamt die man een onzin uit.

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 11:00 schreef Sloggi het volgende:

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Hij bedoelt het goed, het komt er alleen een beetje rottig uit.

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 11:00 schreef Sloggi het volgende:

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Hij bedoelt het goed, het komt er alleen een beetje rottig uit.

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 11:00 schreef Sloggi het volgende:

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Hij bedoelt het goed, het komt er alleen een beetje rottig uit.

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 11:05 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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Op die manier kun je wel onderscheid maken in “eigen” tweets en tweets van de staf, zoals de eerste tweet reactie op overlijden vanuit Argentinië.

Overigens heeft ie het wel zwaar: klampt nu Melania overal vast.

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 11:05 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Overigens heeft ie het wel zwaar: klampt nu Melania overal vast.

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SecretaryZinke twitterde op vrijdag 30-11-2018 om 18:02:35 My thoughts on Rep. Grijalva’s opinion piece. #TuneInnForMore https://t.co/VMGxdtHwvU reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op dinsdag 04-12-2018 om 16:01:01 Fast! Trump has gone from "it's an incredible deal" to "seeing whether or not a REAL deal with China is actually possible," and "China will be buying massive amounts of product from us, including agricultural," to "China is supposed to start buying Agricultural product." https://t.co/WPa8mSYsjc reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op dinsdag 04-12-2018 om 16:23:53 Local Tariff Man Still Doesn't Appear To Understand Foreign Countries Don't Pay His Tariffs, Americans Do https://t.co/4SFvd94JgD reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 04-12-2018 om 17:00:02 Why hasn't President Trump, who says he cares about the integrity of elections, tweeted about what's going on in the North Carolina 9th? reageer retweet

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PhilipinDC twitterde op dinsdag 04-12-2018 om 17:30:05 Lies being re-tweeted by the President: Europe is obviously not burning, and “we want Trump” is not being chanted through the streets of Paris. Also, the fuel taxes are not radical leftist and France is not socialist. Any other lies? https://t.co/fOZSvAPMYW reageer retweet

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politico twitterde op dinsdag 04-12-2018 om 17:55:00 Breaking: Thousands of sensitive emails were stolen from the National Republican Congressional Committee in a major hack during the 2018 election https://t.co/X0CAw2ykuX reageer retweet

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Exclusive: Emails of top NRCC officials stolen in major 2018 hack
Republican leaders were not informed until POLITICO contacted committee officials about the incident.

The House GOP campaign arm suffered a major hack during the 2018 election, exposing thousands of sensitive emails to an outside intruder, according to three senior party officials.

The email accounts of four senior aides at the National Republican Congressional Committee were surveilled for several months, the party officials said. The intrusion was detected in April by an NRCC vendor, who alerted the committee and its cybersecurity contractor. An internal investigation was initiated and the FBI was alerted to the attack, said the officials, who requested anonymity to discuss the incident. (Politico).

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“We want Trump” being chanted through the streets of Paris

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You know what’s been overheard in some of the cheering over there? I kid you not. I know friends who are there. There are some people wearing the yellow vests chanting, “We want Trump” among the rioters in Paris. “We want Trump.”

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This is how trump spreads propaganda. This tweet is a flat out lie. Rush Limbaugh posted a article on iheart radio with the clams "friends told him" French was saying this. Now trump has this guy repeat it as truth. Trump can now repeat it as true.

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 18:16 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Avenatti's presidentiële campagne is - godzijdank - over voordat 'ie überhaupt begonnen is:

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 18:35 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Politico daarover:
https://politi.co/2G0LlTw

Zat er zelf ook niet op te wachten. Ik zie toch liever politiek die over de inhoud gaat.

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 18:47 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dit tweet Nate Silver er over:

Avenatti was polling at 1 percent. His handling of Julie Swetnick was a disaster. He was recently charged with domestic violence. He doesn't have Trump's instincts and Democrats don't have an appetite for a Trump-like candidate. He would have lost badly and embarrassed himself.

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Op dinsdag 4 december 2018 18:47 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dit tweet Nate Silver er over:

Avenatti was polling at 1 percent. His handling of Julie Swetnick was a disaster. He was recently charged with domestic violence. He doesn't have Trump's instincts and Democrats don't have an appetite for a Trump-like candidate. He would have lost badly and embarrassed himself.