[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #467

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op maandag 05-03-2018 om 13:26:49 New in this fantastic Chris Steele profile: Steele wrote another memo in November 2016 that said the Kremlin had intervened to block Trump’s initial choice for Secretary of State, Mitt Romney. https://t.co/Jtdj72CjJi https://t.co/NWWkJGr5DJ reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 05-03-2018 om 15:46:49 Reuters reported many months ago that Jared Kushner had a call of unspecified duration on an unspecified topic with Russian ambassador Sergey Kislyak in November of 2016. Given the November 2016 Steele memo uncovered by the New Yorker, one wonders if Mitt Romney was discussed. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 05-03-2018 om 16:02:21 2/ The recent New Yorker story discussing Steele's "November Memo" underscores what this and other Trump-Russia feeds that collate public reporting have been saying a long time: the chief topic of Trump-Russia contact was always Trump's willingness to drop sanctions unilaterally. reageer retweet

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They spent their first year in Washington as an untouchable White House power couple, commanding expansive portfolios, outlasting rivals and enjoying unmatched access to the president. But Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump have undergone a swift and stunning reckoning of late, their powers restricted, their enemies emboldened and their future in the West Wing uncertain.

Kushner, long the second-most powerful man in the West Wing, is under siege. President Donald Trump’s son-in-law has lost influential White House allies. He remains under the shadow of the Russia probe and has seen his business dealings come under renewed scrutiny. He has been stripped of his top security clearance, raising questions how he can successfully advance his ambitious agenda — including achieving Mideast peace, a goal that has eluded presidents for generations.

Kushner’s most powerful patron, the president himself, has wavered recently on whether his daughter and son-in-law belong in the White House anymore.

A frustrated Trump has griped about the wave of bad headlines generated by probes into Kushner’s business dealings and the status of his security clearance, according to two people familiar with the president’s thinking but not authorized to publicly discuss private conversations. The president also has wondered aloud if the couple would be better off returning home to New York.

At the same time, though, Trump has said he believes many of the attacks against Kushner are unfair and has lamented that the couple is going through such a turbulent time, according to the two people close to the situation who spoke on condition of anonymity because they weren’t authorized to speak publicly about Trump’s private comments.

“I think he’s been treated very unfairly,” Trump said late last month. “He’s a high-quality person.”

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Op maandag 5 maart 2018 17:00 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Is dit serieus of sarcastisch?

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Op maandag 5 maart 2018 18:20 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Poll: Hoe beoordeel je het presidentschap van president Trump?
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Meeste mensen zijn negatief zo te zien, niet echt verrassend

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Trump’s Voter Fraud Czar, And His Claims About Illegal Voting, Are About To Go On Trial

The morning after the 2016 election, Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach (R) wrote to a Trump transition official that he was working on an amendment that would make it acceptable for states to ask people to prove they were citizens when they registered to vote. Later that month, Kobach met with Trump and brought a memo recommending to allow states to ask for proof of citizenship. Shortly after that meeting, Trump tweeted that he would have won the popular vote had it not been for illegal votes and would later go on to say that 3 to 5 million people voted illegally in the election. The White House has failed to substantiate that claim, but has publicly pointed to Kobach as someone who can.

Early in 2013, Kansas implemented a law requiring people to prove their citizenship when they register to vote. Spearheaded by Kobach, officials said it was necessary to prevent noncitizens from getting on the voting rolls. Kobach put anyone who didn’t prove they were a citizen on a "suspense list" and purged them from the rolls if they couldn’t prove it.

While the Kansas law might not pose a hurdle to anyone with easy access to a passport or other proof of citizenship documents, the plaintiffs say that it targets young people, who may move around a lot, as well as the poor and minorities who don’t have access to proof of citizenship documents or can’t pay to get them. Arizona, Georgia and Alabama have also sought to impose proof of citizenship requirements on new voters.

The Kansas law has been on hold since 2016, when a federal judge stepped in to issue a temporary injunction ordering Kobach to register 18,000 people who had tried to register at the DMV but failed to prove their citizenship. At the time of the judge’s ruling, there were over 32,000 people in the state whose registration, was in limbo. A federal appeals court upheld the judge’s decision, saying Kansas and Kobach needed to show the current practice of allowing people to swear they were citizens under penalty of perjury wasn’t doing enough to prevent noncitizens from voting.

Trial in the case begins Tuesday in Kansas City. The case, which will determine whether Kansas can continue to block tens of thousands of people from registering to vote if they can’t prove their citizenship, hinges on the question at the center of the national debate over voting restrictions: Is there enough evidence of noncitizens registering to vote to justify a law that imposes a substantial hurdle to registering?

more: https://www.huffingtonpos(...)072fe4b0a0ba4ad37328

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Op maandag 5 maart 2018 19:08 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Als er rechtse en conservatieve mensen komen in dit topic, worden ze nog net niet verjaagd. Maar wel continu aangevallen ( zowel politiek als persoonlijk ) en worden ze soms zelfs persoonlijk beledigd.

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Op maandag 5 maart 2018 19:31 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Was in 2012 hetzelfde als je Romney steunde of in 2014 tijdens de midterms de republikeinen.

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Op maandag 5 maart 2018 19:32 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Dat hangt natuurlijk geheel van de gebruikte argumentatie af.

Als iemand een paar punten opnoemt aan wat die precies goed vind aan Trump maar niet kan uitleggen waarom dat is dan heb ik die persoon niet erg hoog zitten.