[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #447 Oprah 4 talk show host

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 18:21 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Iedereen is een onervaren President. Trump is een ongeschikt mens voor wat voor functie dan ook.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 18:37 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ach, ondenkbaar is een groot woord, maar om nou te doen of na Trump de Amerikaanse presidentsverkiezingen gelijk een soort van 'celebrity contest' zou zijn geworden is ook wat kort door de bocht.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 18:26 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Laten we nu even niet gaan doen alsof Presidenten alles zelf weten, de klapmongool die nu in het Witte Huis zit even daargelaten is normaliter zo dat Presidenten capabele mensen om zich heen verzamelen en daar leiding aan geven.

Bovendien zijn de betere Presidenten in staat om die goede mensen loyaal aan hun te laten zijn waar meestal een dosis charisma voor nodig is.

Het idee dat een president zelf alles moet snappen van de overheid is een hele rare karikatuur die totaal niet strookt met de werkelijkheid, een President moet kunnen luisteren en kunnen beslissen op basis van informatie.

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President Trump is expected to attend the World Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland, in the coming weeks, an administration official said on Tuesday.

In a statement, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said the president was looking forward to attending the gathering of world leaders and business executives.

“The president welcomes opportunities to advance his America First agenda with world leaders,” Ms. Sanders said. “At this year’s World Economic Forum, the president looks forward to promoting his policies to strengthen American businesses, American industries and American workers.”

Mr. Trump’s planned appearance at an event that is synonymous with wealth and elite prestige comes as he enters the second year of a term he won on a message of economic populism.

Presidents have rarely attended the forum in Davos, in part out of a concern that it would send the wrong message to be rubbing shoulders with some of the world’s richest individuals.

Mr. Trump won the 2016 election in part by attacking elites in the United States and promising to “drain the swamp” in Washington of lobbyists, corporate influence and members of the establishment — the very description of those who regularly attend the Davos forum.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:00 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Ik zit ook niet zo te wachten op de kandidatuur van bijvoorbeeld een Zückerberg. Je kan best vanuit het bedrijfsleven een succesvolle politieke carrière beginnen, maar gelijk maar instappen als president is wel erg ambitieus.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 09-01-2018 om 19:15:50 This is big. Dianne Feinstein has released the transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee http://bit.ly/2CWRtdE reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:20 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 09-01-2018 om 19:15:50 This is big. Dianne Feinstein has released the transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee http://bit.ly/2CWRtdE [ afbeelding ] reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ah nice. Dat zullen de Trumpanzees niet zo leuk vinden.

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kyledcheney twitterde op dinsdag 09-01-2018 om 19:12:12 @SenFeinstein I'm told there was "NO AGREEMENT" from @ChuckGrassley to release this transcript. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:20 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 09-01-2018 om 19:15:50 This is big. Dianne Feinstein has released the transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee http://bit.ly/2CWRtdE [ afbeelding ] reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:23 schreef Tchock het volgende:
Is er ook iemand die kan uitleggen wat of waarom het "big" is of moet ik 312 pagina's rapport doorlezen?

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Q. And what, if anything, did you conclude about the connection between and in the business dealings that then Candidate Trump had had with Mr. Sater?

A. Well, somewhat analogous to the Browder situation I found it notable this was something he didn't want to talk about and testified under oath he wouldn't know Felix if he ran into him in the street. That was not true. He knew him well and, in fact, continued to associate with him long after he learned of Felix's organized crime ties. So, you know, that tells you something about somebody.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Omdat men nogal selectief gelekt heeft. Het gelul van redpilled was daar op gebaseerd. Dat is bij deze opgelost.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:32 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Dat vind ik nogal een optimistische conclusie.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:20 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 09-01-2018 om 19:15:50 This is big. Dianne Feinstein has released the transcript of Fusion GPS co-founder Glenn Simpson's testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee http://bit.ly/2CWRtdE [ afbeelding ] reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:23 schreef Tchock het volgende:
Is er ook iemand die kan uitleggen wat of waarom het "big" is of moet ik 312 pagina's rapport doorlezen?

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In the year since the publication of the so-called Steele dossier -- the collection of intelligence reports we commissioned about Donald Trump's ties to Russia -- the president has repeatedly attacked us on Twitter. His allies in Congress have dug through our bank records and sought to tarnish our firm to punish us for highlighting his links to Russia. Conservative news outlets and even our former employer, The Wall Street Journal, have spun a succession of mendacious conspiracy theories about our motives and backers.

We are happy to correct the record. In fact, we already have.

Three congressional committees have heard over 21 hours of testimony from our firm, Fusion GPS. In those sessions, we toppled the far right's conspiracy theories and explained how The Washington Free Beacon and the Clinton campaign -- the Republican and Democratic funders of our Trump research -- separately came to hire us in the first place.

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Republicans have refused to release full transcripts of our firm's testimony, even as they selectively leak details to media outlets on the far right. It's time to share what our company told investigators.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:32 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Dat vind ik nogal een optimistische conclusie.

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:39 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

Een snippet uit deze op-ed:

(Sort of. )

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:39 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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In feite kwam het in een stroomversnelling door deze op-ed in de NYTimes door een oprichter en een partner van FusionGPS: The Republicans’ Fake Investigations

Hierop werd in feite gereageerd door Grassley dat hij het goed vond om ze nog eens te horen en public, dit terwijl wat hun betreft de huidige transcripts al prima publiek gemaakt kon worden ...

Een snippet uit deze op-ed:

[Republicans have refused to release full transcripts of our firm's testimony, even as they selectively leak details to media outlets on the far right. It's time to share what our company told investigators]

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Broadening their political counterattack in defense of the White House, President Donald Trump's allies in Congress are placing new scrutiny on contacts between top Justice Department officials and reporters covering the Trump-Russia investigation.

In recent weeks, GOP congressional investigators have publicly and privately questioned senior Justice Department and FBI leaders about interactions with reporters covering the Trump campaign’s connections to Russia. The goal, according to a half-dozen lawmakers and aides, is to expose any concerted effort by law enforcement officials to spin an anti-Trump narrative in the media through unauthorized leaks.

"There are a number of other inappropriate communications that have transpired between the FBI/DOJ and media outlets that have not been disclosed," said Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a top House conservative and member of the Oversight Committee.

On Thursday, Republicans demanded more information from the Justice Department officials about a meeting Andrew Weissman, a career federal prosecutor now on special counsel Robert Mueller's investigative team, held with reporters last April. In a Jan. 4 op-ed, Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio) called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to be replaced, citing in part an "alarming number of FBI agents and DOJ officials sharing information with reporters."

Last month, House Republicans cast public suspicion on communication they say occurred in the fall of 2016 between former FBI general counsel James Baker and a Mother Jones reporter who wrote stories at the time about the FBI’s probe of Trump-Russia ties. The lawmakers cited Justice Department documents for the claim but have provided no further details.

Republicans have offered no evidence of wrongdoing and say they are merely seeking more information for now. Democrats call the focus on reporter contacts the latest front in a wide-ranging campaign by some GOP lawmakers to discredit the Russia probe as an anti-Trump conspiracy fueled by what Trump has characterized as a “deep state” determined to bring him down.

They also warn that Republicans are seeking to intimidate government officials and chill investigative reporting.

“Republicans don’t seem to want to conduct a fair investigation," said Matt Miller, a former Justice Department spokesman in the Obama administration. "Looking at officials you want to target and trying to find out whether they’ve had any contact with media is a backwards way to conduct an investigation.”

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kyledcheney twitterde op dinsdag 09-01-2018 om 20:02:24 !!!Glenn Simpson's lawyer said someone has been killed as a result of the Steele dossier being published. reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op dinsdag 09-01-2018 om 20:03:58 Colleagues are pointing to this story suggesting this could be what Levy was referring to: https://t.co/azOIsZIRwQ reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 9 januari 2018 19:35 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat de Republikeinen selectief gelekt zouden hebben? Zo bijzonder gewaagd lijkt die aanname me niet.