[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #491The Tragedy of Paul Ryan

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 14:49 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Is Comey zijn leven eigenlijk nog wel zeker, zo? Voor je het weet wordt ie ineens gevonden en bleek het zelfmoord door meerdere schoten in de rug.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 14:01:47 James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 14:17:37 ....untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 14:02 schreef DeParo het volgende:

Maar als jij denk dat het geen bluf is prima we zullen het in de gaten houden.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 15:35 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump tweets: Comey a 'LEAKER' and 'LIAR'

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 14:01:47 James Comey is a proven LEAKER & LIAR. Virtually everyone in Washington thought he should be fired for the terrible job he did-until he was, in fact, fired. He leaked CLASSIFIED information, for which he should be prosecuted. He lied to Congress under OATH. He is a weak and..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 14:17:37 ....untruthful slime ball who was, as time has proven, a terrible Director of the FBI. His handling of the Crooked Hillary Clinton case, and the events surrounding it, will go down as one of the worst “botch jobs” of history. It was my great honor to fire James Comey! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 15:47 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Als Comey verantwoordelijk is voor de lekken in het Witte Huis, wie is er dan verantwoordelijk voor de lekken na 9 mei 2017?

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Candidate Trump repeatedly praised Comey for his decision to make a public announcement about the investigation. He commended the director for having the “guts” to act as he had and said he had “brought back his reputation” with that single announcement. Shortly after being sworn in, Trump singled out Comey at a White House ceremony and showered him with more praise.

After Comey wrote his Oct. 28 letter to Congress announcing the reopening of the investigation, Sessions joined in the acclaim, at least twice publicly defending the director. In a late October interview on the Fox Business network, Sessions said Comey “had an absolute duty … to come forward with the new information.” Just before the election, he said on Fox News Channel that Comey “did the right thing … He had no choice.”

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In one of the juicier scenes, Comey takes readers inside his "loyalty dinner" with Trump, in the White House residence on Jan. 27, 2017, a week after the inauguration:

• "He said lots of people wanted to be director of the FBI, but that he
thought very highly of me. He said he had heard great things about me
and knew the people of the FBI thought very highly of me as well."

• "He said despite that, he would understand if I wanted to 'walk away'
given all I had been through, although then he noted that that would
be bad for me personally because it would look like I had done
something wrong."

• "He finished by saying that he knew he could 'make a change at FBI' if he wanted to, but that he wanted to know what I thought."

• "Now it was pretty clear to me what was happening. The setup of the
dinner, both the physical layout of a private meal and Trump’s
pretense that he had not already asked me to stay on multiple
occasions, convinced me this was an effort to establish a patronage
relationship."

• "Somebody probably had told him, or maybe it just occurred to him at random, that he’d 'given' me the job for 'free' and that he needed to get something in return."

• "This only added to the strangeness of the experience. The president of the United States had invited me to dinner and decided my job security was on the menu."

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President Donald Trump's personal attorney, Michael Cohen, is trying to prevent the government from using materials the FBI seized in a search of his office and residence this week.

A federal prosecutor's office said a hearing has been scheduled before U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood for Friday morning to address a temporary restraining order related to the judicial warrant that authorized the search.

Federal agents raided Cohen's Manhattan office, home and hotel room Monday, seizing records on a variety of subjects, including payments that were made in 2016 to women who might have damaging information about Trump.

FBI and Justice Department officials in Washington and New York have refused to discuss the case publicly or say what crimes they are investigating, but people familiar with the investigation have told The Associated Press the search warrant used in the raids sought bank records, business records on Cohen's dealing in the taxi industry, Cohen's communications with the Trump campaign and information on payments made to a former Playboy model and a porn actress who say they had affairs with Trump.

Those people spoke on condition of anonymity to discuss the confidential details.

It was unclear how much prosecutors might have to reveal about the investigation in open court in the hearing scheduled for Friday.

Cohen has denied wrongdoing. Cohen's lawyer, Stephen Ryan, declined to comment to The Associated Press on Friday morning.

Trump has called the raids a "witch hunt," ''an attack on our country," and a violation of rules that ordinarily make attorney client communications confidential.

Those confidentiality rules can be set aside under certain circumstances if investigators have evidence that a crime has been committed.

Public corruption prosecutors in the U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan are trying to determine, according to one person familiar with the investigation, if there was any fraud related to payments to Karen McDougal, a former Playmate, and Stephanie Clifford, who performs under the name Stormy Daniels.

McDougal was paid $150,000 in the summer of 2016 by the parent company of the National Enquirer under an agreement that gave it the exclusive rights to her story, which it never published. Cohen said he paid Daniels $130,000 in exchange for her silence about her claim to have had a one-night-stand with Trump.

The White House has consistently said Trump denies either affair.

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Op vrijdag 13 april 2018 15:36 schreef RM-rf het volgende:

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het is geen blf omdat het heel duidelijk gewoon een belang van china is...

nogmaals, het is gewoon simpele basis-economie...

China heeft nu al een enorm belang in de amerikaanse staatsschuld, maar juist des te meer belang erbij dat deze zelf een goed beleid voeren en niet eindeloos hun staatsschuld laten oplopen,

Er komt gewoon altijd een omslagpunt waarop het niet zinnig is meer nog meer geld in kredietpapieren te gaan steken, als deze steeds risicovoller worden.
Op dat moment zal china overwegen haar investeringen in amrikaanse schuldpapieren terug te schroeven...
daarvoor geven ze nu een duidelijke waarschuwing.

war ij vandaan haalt dat china al zn schuldpapieren gaat verkopen wet ik niet, dat staat nergens en heeft niemand bewert tot jij er nu opeens over begint met je : "... wat er gaat gebeuren als China de schuldpapieren verkoopt "
China zal vorlopig zeker geen behoefte hebben al deze te verkopen, maar ik denk vooral dat ze dat willen houden zo, ook daar is er een punt dat dat wel nodig kan zijn, en dan zullen de gevolgen zeker enorm zijn, maar vermoedelijk het het allergrootste voor amerika zelf

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 16:00:05 It appears that Trump has deleted this tweet—the one where, in the last image, you can see John Kelly with his head buried in his palm. https://t.co/ExHgFzGYHH reageer retweet

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RepAdamSchiff twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 16:14:06 On the day the President wrongly attacks Comey for being a “leaker and liar” he considers pardoning a convicted leaker and liar, Scooter Libby. This is the President’s way of sending a message to those implicated in the Russia investigation: You have my back and I‘ll have yours. reageer retweet

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As trade tensions with China escalate, President Trump has found new appeal in a regional trade pact he once called a “rape of our country.”

The pact’s members — including some of America’s most stalwart allies — might not make it so easy to come back.

Officials in Japan, Australia and New Zealand reacted coolly on Friday to Mr. Trump’s remarks that he would be interested in joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership after rejecting it so publicly just a year ago. While the United States would significantly bolster the pact if it signed up, its entry would require intense negotiations — and current members will expect significant concessions from the American side.

Comparing the multicountry trade agreement to “a glasswork,” Yoshihide Suga, Japan’s chief cabinet secretary, cautioned against any efforts to change it to accommodate Mr. Trump.

“It’s difficult to bring part of the pact and renegotiate it,” he said, calling it a “well-balanced pact” that carefully addressed the needs of the current 11 member nations.

“We’ve got a deal” already, said Steven Ciobo, Australia’s trade minister, who added, “I can’t see that all being thrown open to appease the United States.”

An early test of the potential for the United States to rejoin could come as soon as next week, when Shinzo Abe, Japan’s prime minister and an ardent champion of the pact, is to meet with Mr. Trump at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Palm Beach, Fla.

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Mr. Trump faces a growing domestic backlash from corporations, farmers and others over fears that he is igniting a trade war with China, the United States’ largest single trading partner. Mr. Trump has warned that he could levy tariffs on $150 billion in Chinese goods, prompting Beijing to threaten retaliatory measures aimed at American soybeans, airplanes and other products.

Negotiating a new pact could take years. Still, rekindling negotiations could make it hard for China to play off the United States against its allies by promising to shift business from one to another if a trade war breaks out. It could be a way to assuage American farmers and businesses hurt by Chinese tariffs by assuring robust markets for American products in countries that signed onto the deal, like Japan, Australia and South Korea. It would give the pact a great deal more heft and help position it as an economic counterweight to China, which increasingly dominates the Asia-Pacific region.

More broadly, it signals to the region that the United States is not giving up on trade, despite Mr. Trump’s sometimes harsh words. Even as officials in other countries expressed skepticism on Friday, they said they would like to hear what Washington has to offer. “Japan would like to listen to the U.S.’s view,” said Mr. Suga, the Japanese official.

The barriers to a new pact are considerable. Many current members of the pact feel they already gave considerable ground to the United States to strike the original deal, particularly in sensitive areas like protections for pharmaceutical companies.

For its part, the Trump administration worries that the partnership will become a zero-tariff backdoor for Chinese goods into the American market. It worries that companies that have moved much of their supply chains to China could make components there, ship them to a member of the T.P.P. for assembly, then sell them in the United States tariff-free. It wants to toughen requirements for how much of the product is made within the T.P.P. country, which could make the goods less competitive.

Their worries focus largely on Vietnam, a member of the current version of the T.P.P. It has a large population, and a few big American companies, like Intel, have already invested heavily in setting up factories there that make products practically from scratch. But many other companies that are exporting goods from Vietnam rely heavily on imports from China. Vietnam’s huge garment industry, for example, relies greatly on fabric and accessories imported from China, according to garment manufacturing executives.

Vietnamese officials did not respond to requests for comment on Friday. Frederick Burke, managing partner for Vietnam at the American law firm Baker McKenzie, said that the Vietnamese government is “very aware of and focused on the issue of circumvention” in trade.

Renegotiating the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, may not be quick. Mr. Trump’s trade negotiators already have their hands full this spring trying to complete changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement. They need to decide whether to extend temporary exemptions from the president’s new tariffs on imported steel and aluminum. Above all, they are locked in a series of increasingly acrimonious trade spats with China.

China is making its own outreach efforts in the meantime. Wang Yi, its foreign minister, will travel to Tokyo on Sunday. China has played up free trade talks with Japan and with South Korea, which is not a member of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 13-04-2018 om 05:15:16 Would only join TPP if the deal were substantially better than the deal offered to Pres. Obama. We already have BILATERAL deals with six of the eleven nations in TPP, and are working to make a deal with the biggest of those nations, Japan, who has hit us hard on trade for years! reageer retweet

Sheila A. Smith, a Japan expert at the Council on Foreign Relations in Washington, said the Trump administration may have realized that it does not have the leverage it thought to renegotiate a new trade deal with Japan, and that embracing the regional pact may be the best fallback.

The Trump administration “could walk right back in with the exact same deal from last year that they walked out of, and claim victory,” said Ms. Smith, who noted that the government of Mr. Abe “has been continuously and quietly encouraging the U.S. administration to take another look” at the pact.

One lingering question would be how China would react. The pact’s rules were designed in part to challenge China by encouraging members to loosen state support of their economies and relax trade rules — steps Beijing would have to take if it hoped to someday join the pact and enjoy its lower trade barriers.

China is not likely to be troubled by a United States move to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership as long as the Trump administration is doing so for strictly trade reasons, said He Weiwen, a former Commerce Ministry official and trade specialist who is now a senior fellow at the influential Center for China and Globalization in Beijing.

But the Chinese government is likely to be dismayed if the United States is reconsidering it as part of any revival of the Obama administration’s geopolitical pivot to Asia, or as part of any attempt to isolate China, Mr. He cautioned.

“That’s what we should be careful about,” he said.

Some current members of the pact greeted Mr. Trump’s comments on Thursday warmly. A spokeswoman for Singapore’s Ministry of Trade and Industry said it welcomed the American interest. “The TPP was designed to be an inclusive agreement, which is open to like-minded countries willing and able to meet its high standards,” the spokeswoman said.

Still, even American allies suggest a long road ahead if Mr. Trump moves forward.

“If the United States genuinely did wish to re-enter, that would trigger another process of engagement and negotiation,” Jacinda Ardern, the prime minister of New Zealand, said on television, adding that she still planned to go forward with the deal as-is. “It’s not just a matter of slotting into an existing deal.”