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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 22-06-2017 om 16:08:50 ...Why did the DNC REFUSE to turn over its Server to the FBI, and still hasn't? It's all a big Dem scam and excuse for losing the election! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 22-06-2017 om 16:15:48 I certainly hope the Democrats do not force Nancy P out. That would be very bad for the Republican Party - and please let Cryin' Chuck stay! reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 22 juni 2017 16:22 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Hij is lekker op dreef

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 22-06-2017 om 16:08:50 ...Why did the DNC REFUSE to turn over its Server to the FBI, and still hasn't? It's all a big Dem scam and excuse for losing the election! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 22-06-2017 om 16:15:48 I certainly hope the Democrats do not force Nancy P out. That would be very bad for the Republican Party - and please let Cryin' Chuck stay! reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 22 juni 2017 16:24 schreef Mike het volgende:
Twee jaar geleden kon je je toch niet voorstellen dat de leider van de vrije wereld dit soort berichten de wereld in zou sturen. En nu is het al bijna gewoon.

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Op donderdag 22 juni 2017 16:24 schreef Mike het volgende:
Twee jaar geleden kon je je toch niet voorstellen dat de leider van de vrije wereld dit soort berichten de wereld in zou sturen. En nu is het al bijna gewoon.

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Trump doesn’t really want to be president. If he did, he’d nominate candidates to the 404 important but vacant administration jobs and get on with the job of governance. He doesn’t seem to want to be commander in chief of the armed forces, either, having outsourced Afghanistan troop-level decisions to Secretary of Defense James Mattis. Don’t burden him with foreign policy—which so daunts him that he’s postponed an official trip to Britain because (as some report) he fears the inevitable protests that will greet him. Nor is he much interested in upholding the oath he took on Inauguration Day, promising to “preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.” He proves this lack of interest every day by ignoring the Constitution’s foreign emoluments clause.

To control and edit the messages radiating out of the White House is media hound Trump’s keenest ambition. He wants to conduct himself the way he did during those New York decades when he fed the tabloids items like Skittles from a fun-size bag. For his labors, he became the city’s most famous developer, and arguably the nation’s. In 2015, when he decided to run for president, he met with the New York Times’ Maggie Haberman for lunch and offered her the chance to break the story (not believing him, she declined). Trump kept calling her throughout the campaign and well after, as CNN’s Dylan Byers writes, seeming at times to lay siege on her phone in a scheme to win her over. During the presidential campaign, Trump earned a reputation as “leaker-in-chief” among his staff for blurting out sensitive information over the phone.

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Op donderdag 22 juni 2017 16:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Klopt. Geef hem een medaille en hij is onder de indruk

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Op donderdag 22 juni 2017 15:57 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Als psycholoog zijnde ben ik waanzinnig geïnteresseerd hoe hij dit dan zo weet te spinnen dat hem geen blaam treft. De cognitieve dissonantie van narcisten heeft me altijd geïnteresseerd.

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Senate GOP brings Obamacare repeal bill out of the shadows
After weeks of work behind closed doors, the GOP released its plan and will try to find the votes to pass it.

Senate Republican leaders unveiled their long-secret plan to repeal Obamacare on Thursday, giving GOP senators and the public the first glimpse at a bill that would rewrite the nation’s health care system.

The broad contours of the 142-page bill — which would tear down large parts of the 2010 health law, cap one of the nation’s biggest entitlement programs and overhaul one-sixth of the U.S. economy — have come into focus in recent days.

But GOP senators trickling out of an all-conference meeting this morning said while the reaction was broadly positive, it amounted to just an initial step toward winning over a host of still-skeptical lawmakers.

"A lot of questions," Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.) said of the closed-door session. "But there wasn't paper. Until they get a chance to read it, I'm sure they won't firm up."

Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is pushing for a vote as early as next Thursday, ahead of Congress’ July 4 recess. Since Democrats are unified in their opposition, Republicans are using a fast-track process that can evade filibusters.

GOP leaders need the support of at least 50 of the chamber’s 52 Republican senators to pass the bill, and several this week said they’re withholding their support until they see final legislation. Thursday’s represented the “start of the process” of getting requisite votes, said Senate Majority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas).

“We’ve been talking about these concepts for a long time. This is an attempt to bring us to … how we resolve the differences and achieve consensus. I think it’s going to be very detailed,” Cornyn said.

It won’t immediately be clear if McConnell has the votes until sometime next week, after a Congressional Budget Office analysis illustrates how many fewer Americans are likely to be insured by the bill and answers the crucial political question of whether premiums would be reduced.

And the proposal, which is being called a discussion draft, is likely to change before next week’s vote as senators engage in last-minute negotiations on the legislation.

Republicans are hoping for broader buy-in from the healthcare industry Thursday than the House bill received, some senators said. Republicans also said they expected the bulk of the caucus will endorse the bill immediately, with leadership allies expected to give the legislation a quick jolt of momentum.

“We’ll have some people who will say: ‘I’ll vote for it immediately,’ because they realize that failing to do anything will be very disastrous for the people that are hurt by the meltdown of Obamacare,” Cornyn said. “Others are going to have specific concerns that we’re going to have to talk our way though.”

Indeed, conservatives, moderates and senators from Medicaid expansion states all remained on the fence going into the meeting. And the lack of specificity gave them cover to keep their feelings about the bill private.

“Today I don’t know anything more than I knew yesterday. And so [Thursday] I’m going to know so much more and I’m going to have better responses to all of your questions,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), a key moderate swing vote.

Still, the cajoling had already begun in earnest after Wednesday’s lunch, with Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) spotted working Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah) during an afternoon vote. And President Donald Trump dialed up Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) on Tuesday to take his temperature.

The bill is expected to repeal Obamacare’s mandates and Medicaid expansion and impose significant cuts to the long-term Medicaid program. Republicans also want to reshape the Obamacare insurance subsidies to help low-income people buy insurance, but it is still unclear whether additional language to prohibit those plans from covering abortion will be allowed under Senate rules.

There are still many unanswered questions. Republicans want to defund Planned Parenthood for one year and repeal Obamacare’s taxes but those could change based on funding and political calculations. The proposal, which is being called a discussion draft, is expected to change before next week’s vote as senators engage in last-minute negotiations on the legislation.

Republicans plan to allow states to opt out of some of Obamacare’s insurance requirements, including one requiring states to have an exchange, as well as rules for what benefits insurers must cover, what qualifies as a health plan, and the actuarial value of the plans.

The bill is not expected to allow states to waive Obamacare requirements that insurers accept everyone and charge the same rates, with few exceptions. The House waived the latter requirement, triggering a storm of criticism that it was abandoning people with pre-existing conditions. Keeping those Obamacare requirements would mark a victory for GOP moderates but prompt pushback from conservatives, who want the waiver to be broader and allow more exclusions.

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Op donderdag 22 juni 2017 17:02 schreef cynicus het volgende:

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Hé, als psycholoog mag je geen diagnose stellen van iemand die niet in jouw praktijk is geweest! Dus laat dat maar aan de leken in dit topic over.

Ik ben waanzinnig geïnteresseerd hoe hij dit dan zo weet te spinnen dat hem geen blaam treft. De cognitieve dissonantie van narcisten heeft me altijd geïnteresseerd.

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Op donderdag 22 juni 2017 18:45 schreef Szura het volgende:
https://www.bloomberg.com(...)ersations-with-comey

Trump Doesn’t Have Recordings of Conversations With Comey, Source Says

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Op donderdag 22 juni 2017 18:45 schreef Szura het volgende:
https://www.bloomberg.com(...)ersations-with-comey

Trump Doesn’t Have Recordings of Conversations With Comey, Source Says

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 22-06-2017 om 18:54:50 With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 22-06-2017 om 18:55:02 ...whether there are "tapes" or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 22 juni 2017 19:03 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 22-06-2017 om 18:54:50 With all of the recently reported electronic surveillance, intercepts, unmasking and illegal leaking of information, I have no idea... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 22-06-2017 om 18:55:02 ...whether there are "tapes" or recordings of my conversations with James Comey, but I did not make, and do not have, any such recordings. reageer retweet