[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #450 DACAnniet

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2018 15:06 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Truthful hyperbole, he. Mexico is ook niet superveilig, dus ergens heeft hij wel een punt als hij zegt dat het de onveiligste plek op aarde is.

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2018 15:04 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Mexico is het gevaarlijkste land ter wereld voor journalisten buiten actieve oorlogszones (bron). Buiten dat kan ik ook echt niets vinden wat in de buurt komt van deze uitspraak. Lijkt me een typisch gevalletje Trumpspeak (lees: een flagrante leugen).

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2018 15:08 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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Fans zullen het wel weer gooien op: zou jij er willen wonen, dan?

Als hij nu wat minder in superlatieven zou spreken, zou het al een stuk beter gaan.

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Congressional Republicans tried to make sense Thursday of President Trump’s early-morning tweets on immigration and children’s health, as the GOP struggled to muster the votes for a short-term spending bill and avert a government shutdown at midnight Friday.

With less than 48 hours before a possible shutdown, Trump on Twitter seemed to directly contradict the legislative strategy of congressional Republicans by calling for the separation of a long-term extension of the popular Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP) from a short-term spending bill to keep the government open through mid-February. While some Republicans suggested that the president was endorsing the GOP’s approach, albeit sloppily, others found the tweets inexplicable and unhelpful ahead of the November midterm elections.

“We don’t have a reliable partner at the White House to negotiate with,” Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) said as he walked into the Capitol.

“This has turned into an s-show for no good reason, and the only way out of this thing is to grow up a little bit — and I think that’s going to happen,” he said.

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2018 15:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Hoeveel deals heeft hij tot nu toe gemaakt?

Je kunt geen deals sluiten met iemand die elk half uur zijn mening verandert.

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"I alone can do it.” These five extraordinary words kept coming back to me as I reflected on Donald Trump’s first year as president of the US. He made this claim during his speech accepting the Republican nomination in July 2016. At the time, it struck me simply as a delusional expression of his grandiosity. Looking back, I also hear the plaintive wail of a desperate child who believes he is alone in the world with no one to care for him. “I alone can do it” is Trump’s survival response to: “I must do it all alone.”

There are two Trumps. The one he presents to the world is all bluster, bullying and certainty. The other, which I have long felt haunts his inner world, is the frightened child of a relentlessly critical and bullying father and a distant and disengaged mother who couldn’t or wouldn’t protect him.

“That’s why I’m so screwed up, because I had a father who pushed me so hard,” Trump acknowledged in 2007, in a brief and rare moment of self-awareness.

Trump’s temperament and his habits have hardened with age. He was always cartoonish, but compared with the man for whom I wrote The Art of the Deal 30 years ago, he is significantly angrier today: more reactive, deceitful, distracted, vindictive, impulsive and, above all, self-absorbed – assuming the last is possible.

This is the narrative I’ve been advancing for the past 18 months. With the recent publication of Michael Wolff’s Fire and Fury, it turns out that even those closest to Trump recognise his utter lack of fitness to be president, even if they are too cowed and cowardly to do anything about it.

Fear is the hidden through-line in Trump’s life – fear of weakness, of inadequacy, of failure, of criticism and of insignificance. He has spent his life trying to outrun these fears by “winning” – as he puts it – and by redefining reality whenever the facts don’t serve the narrative he seeks to create. It hasn’t worked, but not for lack of effort.

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Hungarian Police Have A Warrant Out For Former Trump Advisor Sebastian Gorka
Gorka's warrant on gun charges was in effect the entire time he was in the White House.

Former Trump White House staffer Sebastian Gorka has an active warrant out for his arrest in Hungary, according to the Hungarian police's website.

Gorka, whose exact role in the White House while serving as a deputy assistant to the president was never entirely clear, apparently is in trouble with the law over a charge of "firearm or ammunition abuse." The warrant, first reported in Hungarian online outlet 444, was issued on Sept. 17, 2016, prior to Trump's election.

That means that during the entire seven months Gorka spent in the White House, including when meeting with Hungarian Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártķ in Washington last March, an arrest warrant was pending overseas.

Details about the reasoning behind the warrant are sparse: The Hungarian police's website only notes the date it was issued, the charge, and that it was filed with the Budaörs police station in Budapest. 444 noted that the charge could have resulted from an incident as far back as 2009. The police station did not immediately respond to BuzzFeed News' request for comment.

Gorka declined to comment. "Don't waste your time," he said when reached by phone. "I don't talk to BuzzFeed, thank you." After this story's publication, Gorka noted on Twitter that he moved to the US in 2008 while not denying that the warrant exists.

Gorka's affinity for guns is well-known. He told Recoil magazine in November that he packs a pistol — along with a knife and tourniquet — every day. In February 2016, he had a gun confiscated after attempting to bring it through Washington's Reagan National Airport.

BuzzFeed News previously reported on Gorka's history in Hungary.

The details of Gorka's leaving the White House still remain murky: He claims to have resigned, but reports at the time indicated that he was fired and the Secret Service ordered not to let him into the building. Whether or not Gorka possessed a security clearance during his months in the Trump administration is also at question, with reports suggesting he had none. A background check prior to the issuance of a clearance likely would have turned up Gorka's warrant.

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2018 17:36 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Opiniestuk van Tony Schwarz (The Art of the Deal)

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2018 17:36 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Opiniestuk van Tony Schwarz (The Art of the Deal)

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2018 18:53 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Het laatste klopt niet. it did work!
Hij is rijk, president, heeft de grootste rechtse media stations aan het werk om zijn narrative tot werkelijkheid te verheffen en komt overal mee weg. Als mueller niet voldoende vindt, dan stapt ie ook gewoon als winnaar weer op.

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2018 19:15 schreef OllieA het volgende:
Je zou ook kunnen zeggen dat Trump een bange, eenzame man is, die niet weet wat vriendschap is en geen idee heeft van empathie en compassie. Geen intellectuele nieuwsgierigheid. Postliterate & total television.
Geld, geld, geld. Hij heeft wel wat weg van Scrooge uit A Christmas Carol.
Ik zie daar de winst niet zo.

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Op donderdag 18 januari 2018 19:15 schreef OllieA het volgende:

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Je zou ook kunnen zeggen dat Trump een bange, eenzame man is, die niet weet wat vriendschap is en geen idee heeft van empathie en compassie. Geen intellectuele nieuwsgierigheid. Postliterate & total television.
Geld, geld, geld. Hij heeft wel wat weg van Scrooge uit A Christmas Carol.
Ik zie daar de winst niet zo.