[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #388 Rocketman

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Op woensdag 20 september 2017 15:48 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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horror..

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Op woensdag 20 september 2017 19:02 schreef Urb het volgende:
Die VN speech van Melania net was wel bizar tov van Donalds gedrag enzo.

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Op woensdag 20 september 2017 19:37 schreef heywoodu het volgende:
Hoe wordt Trump wat speeches betreft gezien? Niet de inhoud, maar hoe hij ze brengt. Ik zit nu naar een speech over Afrika bij de VN te kijken, maar net als bij zijn speech van gisteren (?) staat hij zo bizar onge�nteresseerd te praten

Zelfs een kind op de basisschool leest in een spreekbeurt nog minder van zijn papier, en elke zin wordt wel onderbroken door een.........pauze die er op dat moment in de.........zin eigenlijk niet hoort..

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Trump says he's 'decided' on Iran deal

President Trump said Wednesday he has decided whether or not to pull the U.S. out of the Iran nuclear deal, but declined to share his decision publicly.

"I have decided," Trump told reporters.

Pressed about his decision, the president responded, "I’ll let you know what the decision is.”

Trump spoke during a meeting with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas at the United Nations.

The president’s comments are the clearest sign yet he is close to announcing a decision on the 2015 pact between Iran and six world powers.

Trump faces an Oct. 15 deadline to certify whether the Iranian government is honoring the terms of the deal. If he decides Tehran has violated them, Congress has 60 days to decide whether to restore sanctions related to its nuclear program that were waived under the agreement.

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Trump on Wednesday congratulated the leaders of several African nations at the U.N. for the fact that “so many” of his friends are going to their countries “trying to get rich.”

“Africa has tremendous business potential. I have so many friends going to your countries trying to get rich. I congratulate you. They're spending a lot of money. It does have that tremendous business potential and representing huge amounts of different markets and for American firms it's really become a place that they have to go, that they want to go,” Trump told the leaders, noting that “six of the world's 10 fastest growing economies are in Africa.”

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McConnell spokeswoman: Senate to vote next week on Graham-Cassidy

The Senate will vote next week on the latest bill to repeal Obamacare — but the outcome is anything but certain.

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McConnell has told colleagues he will only bring up the bill if it will succeed. The statement does leave some wiggle room to not proceed with a vote.

It's still anyone's guess whether the bill's backers can get to 50 votes.

Sens. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Susan Collins (R-Maine) are viewed as hard “no's.” And Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska), who opposed a previous iteration of repeal in July, are not sold on the proposal.

In an interview, McCain sounded like he could end up tanking a bill written by Graham, his close friend.

“Nothing has changed. If McConnell wants to put it on the floor, that’s up to McConnell,” McCain said. “I am the same as I was before. I want the regular order.”

Asked if that means he’s a "no" vote, McCain said: “That means I want the regular order. It means I want the regular order!”

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The state of California filed a lawsuit on Wednesday against President Trump's proposed plan for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

Xavier Becerra, the state's attorney general, announced in a statement that he has filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

The lawsuit argues that the Department of Homeland Security improperly waived the National Environmental Policy Act and other laws pertaining to immigration and the environment to expedite construction of the border wall in two California counties.

The lawsuit also claims that the DHS violated the 10th Amendment of the Constitution and the separation of powers doctrine.

Xavier Becerra, the state's attorney general, announced in a statement that he has filed the lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of California.

The lawsuit argues that the Department of Homeland Security improperly waived the National Environmental Policy Act and other laws pertaining to immigration and the environment to expedite construction of the border wall in two California counties.

The lawsuit also claims that the DHS violated the 10th Amendment of the Constitution and the separation of powers doctrine.

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Op woensdag 20 september 2017 21:15 schreef Nintex het volgende:
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Die titel en dan de hysterische slogan van de WAPO

Bron

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Op woensdag 20 september 2017 21:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Bron

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Op woensdag 20 september 2017 21:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Van een dag eerder: https://www.washingtonpos(...)75285475e_story.html

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RVeelo twitterde op woensdag 20-09-2017 om 23:00:37 Wiretaps may prove Trump right — and that's absolutely terrifying https://t.co/CoZw1ihkif via @nypost reageer retweet

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John_Hudson twitterde op donderdag 21-09-2017 om 00:15:35 Mogherini enters Iran deal meeting. Asked her if she was going to save the deal. No answer. #unga https://t.co/C0GwTDKq7U reageer retweet

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Federica Mogherini, the EU’s foreign-affairs chief, made no bones in a speech today at the Bloomberg Global Business Forum about Brussels’ differences with the Trump administration. “It’s clear that policies in Washington have shifted, and this has brought us to a new reality,” she said. “If Americans, or the president of the United States for that matter, have a different view [to us], we are mature friends enough to say, ‘We don’t agree; let’s stay friends, continue to work together in other fields but we have a different view.'”

Mogherini was unabashed about chiding Trump for his threat to “totally destroy” North Korea if provoked. “We [Europeans] don’t talk about destroying countries. We talk about finding peaceful solutions,” she said. “We believe a peaceful solution is the only one really available…there are tens of millions of Koreans in the North and South that would be the first victims.”

Reflecting on Trump’s focus on American “sovereignty” in his speech (he used the word 21 times), she argued that it doesn’t mean ending multilateralism: “Our union [the EU] is a union of sovereign states,” she said. Her speech seemed to calculatedly push Europe forward as an alternative world leader: “The rest of world is now looking at Europe for leadership and we can do it.”

That divergence from the US extended—albeit very tentatively—to security matters. Seemingly alluding to Trump’s threat to leave NATO if Europe doesn’t step up its military investments, Mogherini acknowledged that it was “important…that Europeans invest better in defense.” However, she presented that not as a way to keep the US from leaving NATO but to give Europe “strategic autonomy, which potentially we may one day need to use.” The not-so-subtle message: Europe is preparing for a military future without America. Deliberately or not, it echoes a hint German chancellor Angela Merkel gave in May, after Trump seemed to be weakening the US’s support for NATO.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 02:11 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://qz.com/1082972/un(...)-the-us-under-trump/

De Britten uit de EU en een Europa dat zich losmaakt van de Amerikaanse dominantie.

Damn, al m'n dromen komen uit!

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 21-09-2017 om 03:06:25 Senator (Doctor) Bill Cassidy is a class act who really cares about people and their Health(care), he doesn't lie-just wants to help people! reageer retweet

Jimmy Kimmel on Bill Cassidy’s Health “Care” Bill

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 00:00 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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RVeelo twitterde op woensdag 20-09-2017 om 23:00:37 Wiretaps may prove Trump right — and that's absolutely terrifying https://t.co/CoZw1ihkif via @nypost reageer retweet

al die moeite en dan won hij toch

Ding dong the deal is dead

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John_Hudson twitterde op donderdag 21-09-2017 om 00:15:35 Mogherini enters Iran deal meeting. Asked her if she was going to save the deal. No answer. #unga https://t.co/C0GwTDKq7U reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 03:56 schreef Hdero het volgende:
Iedereen zegt dat Robert Mueller het net rondom Trump sluit, zou dit kloppen?

From Russia with Love
ROBERT MUELLER IS OFFICIALLY CLOSING IN ON TRUMP
https://www.vanityfair.co(...)hite-house-documents

Speciale aanklager Mueller eist uitgebreide reeks documenten van Witte Huis
https://www.demorgen.be/b(...)witte-huis-b742d882/

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 08:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ah, het gaat nu echt leuk worden.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 08:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ah, het gaat nu echt leuk worden.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 08:50 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Ik hoop van niet, hoog tijd dat Europa Amerika's rol als wereldleider overneemt

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 02:11 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
The not-so-subtle message: Europe is preparing for a military future without America. Deliberately or not, it echoes a hint German chancellor Angela Merkel gave in May, after Trump seemed to be weakening the US’s support for NATO.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 08:55 schreef bluemoon23 het volgende:

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Nou, dan mogen landen als Duitsland en Nederland wel flink gaan investeren in defensie.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 08:50 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Meh, er komen per week 2 van dit soort berichten voorbij. Zo'n onderzoek duurt jaren, Mueller is daar nu echt nog niet klaar mee.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 08:55 schreef bluemoon23 het volgende:

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Nou, dan mogen landen als Duitsland en Nederland wel flink gaan investeren in defensie.

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Op de vraag wat hij van de bijnaam 'raketman' voor de Noord-Koreaanse leider vindt, antwoordde Ri alleen: 'Ik heb medelijden met Trumps medewerkers.'

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 08:55 schreef bluemoon23 het volgende:

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Nou, dan mogen landen als Duitsland en Nederland wel flink gaan investeren in defensie.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 09:22 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Lijkt mij prima. Europese kernwapens, een wat groter leger en Amerika zoekt het maar uit.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 09:34 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Groter leger hoeft niet. Gewoon wat nukes bouwen en een riedel ICBM's. Daar doet Trump niet moeilijk over.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 09:44 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Duitsland aan de kernwapens.
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)weapons.html?mcubz=0

Overigens zou het niet raar zijn omdat Frankrijk zijn kernwapens voorbehouden houdt aan de verdediging van Frankrijk. Maar idd meer geld naar defensie.

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The assessment provides a legal framework for such a plan. Britain or France, it finds, could legally base nuclear warheads on German soil.

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Op donderdag 21 september 2017 14:43 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Gewoon een vrachtwagenchauffeur op een WO functie neerplempen omdat ie geholpen heeft in de campagne:
http://www.politico.com/s(...)kers-242951?cmpid=sf

Draining the swamp enzo.

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There is no campaign promise that Donald Trump has failed to honor more flagrantly than his oft repeated pledge to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. He has violated the letter of his promise and trampled all over its spirit. His supporters ought to be furious. But few perceive the scale of his betrayal or its brazenness.

Are they skeptics of the Russia investigation?

Forget the Russia investigation. Even if no wrongdoing is proved on that matter, the Trump Administration’s behavior would still be epically swampy. A list of examples is clarifying:

Corey Lewandowski, who worked as Trump’s campaign manager, moved to Washington, D.C., and started a Beltway lobbying firm, where he accepted lots of money from special interests that were trying to influence Trump. Meanwhile, The New York Times reported, “Established K Street firms were grabbing any Trump people they could find: Jim Murphy, Trump’s former political director, joined the lobbying giant BakerHostetler, while another firm, Fidelis Government Relations, struck up a partnership with Bill Smith, Mike Pence’s former chief of staff. All told, close to 20 ex-aides of Trump, friends, and hangers-on had made their way into Washington’s influence business.”

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Judge Andrew Napolitano: Trump's frightening and tightening legal noose

The Donald Trump I know is a smart guy who often thinks a few steps ahead of those whose will he is trying to bend. But I lately wonder whether he grasps the gravity of the legal peril that is beginning to show up around him. In the past week, we learned of an unfiltered public confession of frustration and weakness among his lawyers and we learned that his former chief confidant and campaign manager is about to be indicted. This is very bad news for President Trump.

Here is the back story.

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Sean Spicer filled 'notebook after notebook' on Trump campaign and White House meetings — and it could have major implications for the Russia investigation

Sean Spicer, the former White House press secretary and Republican National Committee spokesman, was reportedly well-known for being a copious note-taker during his time working on the Trump campaign and later at the White House — a habit that could prove relevant as special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation heats up.

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‘How do we use [this] to get whole?’: The most intriguing new Paul Manafort-Russia email

The trouble Paul Manafort is in is still coming into focus. The latest development: emails he sent to a Ukraine-based employee of his consulting business talking about setting up a briefing with a Russian oligarch close to Vladimir Putin.

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In one April exchange days after Trump named Manafort as a campaign strategist, Manafort referred to his positive press and growing reputation and asked, “How do we use to get whole?”

Manafort spokesman Jason Maloni said Wednesday that the email exchanges reflected an “innocuous” effort to collect past debts.

“It’s no secret Mr. Manafort was owed money by past clients,” Maloni said.

We can argue over what's innocuous and what's not, but that seems to be an acknowledgment from his own spokesman that Manafort was discussing how he could leverage his status as a leading strategist on an American presidential campaign to chase down debts he was owed — i.e. to enrich himself financially.

https://www.washingtonpos(...)e-this-to-get-whole/