[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #493 Hannity is swamp

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 10:51 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Dit gaf ik een tijde geleden al aan hier. (maar werd direct gebagatelliseerd door een paar niet nader te noemen users)

Als er een president de media onder controle heeft, spreken we van despotisme, en wordt die verketterd door democratische krachten. Maar wat nu als de media een president onder controle houdt? Hoe moeten we als democratie reageren op een "vrije pers" die een staatshoofd beïnvloedt??

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 11:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Rupert Murdoch als schaduw-president?

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A sketch years later about a nonexistent man. A total con job, playing the Fake News Media for Fools (but they know it)! https://t.co/9Is7mHBFda

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LIBERAL, Kan. — Kay Burtzloff, a 61-year-old small-business owner who’s lived in this area for nearly 20 years, likes to joke that she’s one of Liberal’s only liberals. The county, after all, went to Donald Trump by more than 30 points, and in the runup to the 2016 election, Burtzloff decided against putting a Hillary Clinton sticker on her car, fearing vandals. Tensions were high, she said.

It’s a conservative place for sure, but also a diverse one. For years, immigrant workers — from Vietnam, Mexico and eventually Somalia — have moved to this flat stretch of prairie and farmland on the Oklahoma border to work at the meatpacking plants. For the most part, people got along, Burtzloff said, but something changed when Trump entered the political scene.

“I will be the first to tell you I do not fear getting killed by a Muslim,” Burtzloff said. “I fear getting killed by an angry white guy. That is much more likely to happen.”

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 12:39 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
These Three "Angry White Men" Had A Plan To Kill Muslims. How Were They Radicalized?
(HuffPo mediumread; words: 1,727, reading time: 6:17)

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Nikki Haley, U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, sharply responded to the suggestion that she was confused when she said that President Donald Trump’s administration would be imposing more sanctions on Russia. “With all due respect, I don’t get confused,” the ambassador said in a statement to Fox News’ Dana Perino, who read the comment during her Tuesday show.

Haley was responding specifically to Trump’s newly appointed economic adviser Larry Kudlow, who said earlier on Tuesday that the ambassador “got ahead of the curve” when she told CBS’s “Face the Nation” on Sunday that Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin would announce additional sanctions on Russia for supporting Syrian dictator Bashar Assad.

“There might have been some momentary confusion about that,” Kudlow told reporters in West Palm Beach, Florida, a day after reports surfaced that Trump had reversed his position on imposing sanctions. The reversal surprised fellow Republicans and seemed to clearly undermine Haley.

Kudlow walked back his comment in an interview with The New York Times, saying he was wrong to say Haley was confused. “She was certainly not confused. I was wrong to say that — totally wrong,” he said. He added that Haley was not informed of a change in policy.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said a decision on additional sanctions would be finalized “in the near future.”

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 13:05 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Nikki Haley: Ik ben helewar niet in de maal!

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Nikki Haley Hits Back At White House: ‘I Don’t Get Confused’ (HuffPo)

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Despite stiff competition , Scott Pruitt, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, is by common consensus the worst of the ideologues and mediocrities President Trump chose to populate his cabinet. Policies aside — and they’re terrible, from an environmental perspective — Mr. Pruitt’s self-aggrandizing and borderline thuggish behavior has disgraced his office and demoralized his employees. We opposed his nomination because he had spent his career as attorney general of Oklahoma suing the federal department he was being asked to lead on behalf of industries he was being asked to regulate. As it turns out, Mr. Pruitt is not just an industry lap dog but also an arrogant and vengeful bully and small-time grifter, bent on chiseling the taxpayer to suit his lifestyle and warm his ego.

Any other president would have fired him. Mr. Trump praises him. “Scott is doing a great job!” the president tweeted on April 7. He agrees with Mr. Pruitt on policy — indeed, many of the administrator’s worst moves have been responses to Mr. Trump’s orders. And — no small chiseler in his own right — Mr. Trump seems to care not a whit about Mr. Pruitt’s mounting ethical problems, which have lately reached a point where Mr. Trump’s chief of staff, John Kelly, has reportedly told the president that he should think seriously about letting Mr. Pruitt go.

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 12:39 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
These Three "Angry White Men" Had A Plan To Kill Muslims. How Were They Radicalized?
(HuffPo mediumread; words: 1,727, reading time: 6:17)

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 15:16 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dotard ontkent nu ineens dat hij Comey ontsloeg wegens het Rusland onderzoek.

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 12:39 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
These Three "Angry White Men" Had A Plan To Kill Muslims. How Were They Radicalized?
(HuffPo mediumread; words: 1,727, reading time: 6:17)

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alanhe twitterde op dinsdag 17-04-2018 om 22:31:10 McConnell on the special counsel protection bill: "I'm the one who decides what we take to the floor. That's my responsibility as the Majority Leader and we will not be having this on the floor of the Senate." reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 13:13 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Klopt, haar baas is degene die in de war is.

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Op dinsdag 17 april 2018 17:08 schreef SureD1 het volgende:
Ik weet trouwens niet wat ik hinderlijker vind, ronduit trollen of al dat apologisme hier...

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 16:47 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
En uncut:

LSSC Full Uncut Interview: James Comey

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Today, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-CA) introduced the Abuse of the Pardon Prevention Act, legislation to prevent this President or any other from abusing the pardon power for their own personal benefit or to obstruct justice. The legislation would require that if the President pardons someone in connection with an investigation in which the President or one of his family members is a target, subject, or witness, the evidence against recipient of the pardon would be provided by the Department of Justice to Congress.

“President Trump already has signaled that he is willing to use his constitutional powers in order to protect those who remain loyal to him, even if they are convicted of obstruction or perjury,” said Rep. Schiff. “By pardoning Scooter Libby last week, Trump has sent a clear and unmistakable message to potential witnesses against him or members of his family that: ‘if you have my back, I’ll have yours.’

At a time of constitutional peril, it is incumbent on the Congress to stand up for the rule of law by creating a strong disincentive to the President issuing pardons to protect himself and obstruct ongoing investigations.”

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If you’ve seen video or images of Michael Cohen, President Donald Trump’s personal attorney, they’ve probably been set in locations that exude power and importance: Cohen berating a CNN anchor in a TV studio, for example, or striding across the sleek marbled interior of Trump Tower, or more recently, smoking cigars in front of Cohen’s temporary residence, the Loews Regency Hotel on Manhattan’s Park Avenue.

But to understand how Michael Cohen arrived in those precincts, you need to venture across New York City’s East River. There, in a Queens warehouse district in the shadows of an elevated No. 7 subway line, is a taxi garage that used to house his law practice. The office area in the front is painted a garish taxicab-yellow, with posters of hockey players on the wall and a framed photo of the late Hasidic rabbi Menachem Schneerson. Cohen practiced law there and invested in the once-lucrative medallions that grant New York cabs the right to operate.

Or you could drive 45 minutes deep into Brooklyn, near where Gravesend turns into Brighton Beach. There, in a desolate stretch near a shuttered podiatrist’s office, you’d find a medical office. According to previously unexamined records, Cohen incorporated a business there in 2002 that was involved in large quantities of medical claims. Separately, he represented more than 100 plaintiffs who claimed they were injured in auto collisions.

At the same time, in Brooklyn and Long Island, New York prosecutors were investigating what Fortune magazine called possibly “the largest organized insurance-fraud ring in U.S. history.” That fraud resulted in hundreds of criminal prosecutions for staging car accidents to collect insurance payments. Cohen was not implicated in the fraud.

A distinctive pattern emerged early in Cohen’s career, according to an examination by WNYC and ProPublica for the “Trump, Inc.” podcast: Many of the people who crossed paths with Cohen when he worked in Queens and Brooklyn were disciplined, disbarred, accused or convicted of crimes.

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 18:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
The Company Michael Cohen Kept — “Trump, Inc.”

Long before Donald Trump’s attorney paid Stormy Daniels or had his office raided by the FBI, a pattern was established: The associates of Michael Cohen have often been disciplined, disbarred, accused or convicted of crimes.

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