[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?
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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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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 19:38 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Avenatti trollt Trump gewoon lekker verder.

https://twitter.com/Micha(...)448070404640768?s=20

De beloning is nu 131.000$

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op woensdag 18-04-2018 om 17:16:00 Warning: As the walls close and reality sets in that the most damaging witnesses, secrets and evidence are no longer protected, fully expect the following: sheer panic, personal attacks, tirades, and distraction. But none of it will change the outcome in the end... #basta reageer retweet

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Het wordt waarschijnlijk binnenkort voor alle Amerikanen verboden om honden- en katten te eten. De landbouwcommissie van het Huis van Afgevaardigden komt met een wetsvoorstel dat menselijke consumptie van deze huisdieren strafbaar wordt gesteld.

Verwacht wordt dat een meerderheid in het Huis voor de wet zal stemmen.

Het slachten van honden en katten komt in de Verenigde Staten weinig voor en was al verboden in slachthuizen. Maar in sommige Amerikaanse culturen komt het slachten en eten van honden en katten sporadisch nog voor. In slechts een paar Amerikaanse staten waaronder New York, New Jersey en Californië is slacht op dit moment al verboden.

In de nieuwe wet wordt voorgesteld dat de maximumstraf voor overtreding van deze regels een jaar gevangenisstraf zal zijn. Dierenwelzijnsorganisaties ijveren al jaren voor strengere wetten tegen de slacht van huisdieren voor menselijke consumptie.

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 20:45 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
VS komt met wetsvoorstel dat opeten honden en katten verbiedt (NU.nl)

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Woef! (en Miauw natuurlijk!)

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 16:13 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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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 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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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 23:01 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 23:14 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Hadden we juist net nog zo mooi geleerd (weet je nog? ) om plaatjes voortaan op imgur te doen, blokt imgur zomaar alles op fok!

(Ik ben inmiddels weer terug op tinypic... ach zolang ik alles onder de 80K hou... )

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 23:14 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Hadden we juist net nog zo mooi geleerd (weet je nog? ) om plaatjes voortaan op imgur te doen, blokt imgur zomaar alles op fok!

(Ik ben inmiddels weer terug op tinypic... ach zolang ik alles onder de 80K hou... )

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An electrical contractor working to restore power in Puerto Rico accidentally knocked out a major transmission line on Wednesday, leaving the entire island without power nearly seven months after Hurricane Maria destroyed the electrical grid.

It could take up to 36 hours to restore electricity to nearly 1.5 million affected customers, the Puerto Rico Electric Power Authority said.

Justo González, the agency’s chief operating officer, said the outage occurred after a bulldozer operated by a subcontractor, working to pick up a fallen tower in a rural area, got too close to a high-voltage line. The resulting electrical fault had a domino effect at power plants across the south, where the bulk of the island’s power is generated.

The subcontractor has been fired, Mr. González said in a telephone interview. “I’m angry. This is the second time in a row,” he said. “I give the people of Puerto Rico my word: We are going to restore power to every last house.”

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The tabloid news company American Media Inc. agreed to let a former Playboy model out of a contract that had kept her from talking freely about an alleged affair with Donald J. Trump, her lawyer said.

The settlement agreement, reached Wednesday, ends a lawsuit brought by the model, Karen McDougal, and protects the president from being drawn into a legal case involving efforts to buy the silence of women who had stories to tell about him during the 2016 campaign.

He still faces another lawsuit, from the pornographic film star Stephanie Clifford, who is suing to get out of a deal that Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, arranged in 2016 for her silence about an alleged affair.

In August 2016 American Media, which owns The National Enquirer, acquired the rights to Ms. McDougal’s story about Mr. Trump — which it never ran — in return for $150,000 and commitments to use its magazines to promote her current career as a fitness specialist.

Under the terms of Wednesday’s settlement, American Media has the right to up to $75,000 of any future profits from her story about the alleged affair, which Mr. Trump denies. According to her lawyer, Peter K. Stris, Ms. McDougal can keep the $150,000 payment and the publisher will retain the rights to photographs of her that it already has.

“It’s a total win,” Mr. Stris said in an interview. “We got everything we were fighting for — she got out of the contract, gets the life rights back and owes A.M.I. nothing more.”

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 23:29 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Nee joh, wat kut. Ik had er al problemen mee.

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The White House had reached no final decision about whether to strike Syria — let alone, whether to target Russian assets within it — when the president tweeted this pledge. Over the ensuing days, Defense Secretary James Mattis implored Trump to hold off on bombing the Assad regime until its responsibility for the Douma attack could be fully verified, and Congress could be given a chance to authorize the act of war.

But the president couldn’t abide a delay. In his view, it was better to bomb Syria without a strategy or legal authorization than to invite doubts about the credibility of the threats he makes on social media. As the New York Times reports:

Defense Secretary Jim Mattis urged President Trump to get congressional approval before the United States launched airstrikes against Syria last week, but was overruled by Mr. Trump, who wanted a rapid and dramatic response, military and administration officials said.


Mr. Trump, the officials said, wanted to be seen as backing up a series of bellicose tweets with action, but was warned that an overly aggressive response risked igniting a wider war with Russia.


… Mr. Trump’s drumbeat of threats last week of a sharp response to the suspected gas attacks all but guaranteed that the United States military would strike Syria, according to two Defense Department officials who spoke on condition of anonymity … Mr. Trump did not necessarily want to hit Syria hard enough to bring Russia into the war, administration officials said. But he did want to appear aggressive in his response.

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Op donderdag 19 april 2018 00:01 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Officials Confirm That Trump Bombed Syria to Validate His Tweets
http://nymag.com/daily/in(...)e-trumps-tweets.html

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You can't make this shit up.

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Former prosecutor Jay Goldberg says he cautioned president that his personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, could be compelled to cooperate with prosecutors

One of President Donald Trump’s longtime legal advisers said he warned the president in a phone call Friday that Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer and close friend, would turn against the president and cooperate with federal prosecutors if faced with criminal charges.

Mr. Trump made the call seeking advice from Jay Goldberg, who represented Mr. Trump in the 1990s and early 2000s. Mr. Goldberg said he cautioned the president not to trust Mr. Cohen. On a scale of 100 to 1, where 100 is fully protecting the president, Mr. Cohen “isn’t even a 1,” he said he told Mr. Trump.

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Diplomats and investors are starting to dismiss Trump’s policy tweets and other quickly shifting statements.

Wall Street, corporate America and the diplomatic world are settling on a strategy to deal with President Donald Trump’s rapidly shifting statements on critical issues like trade deals and Russia sanctions: Just ignore him.

Trump last week shocked the world by suggesting he might rejoin the giant Trans-Pacific Partnership, an 11-nation pact among nations representing 13 percent of the global economy. He reversed himself days later.

Beyond TPP, Trump in recent weeks has declared war on Amazon then not done very much about it. He settled on Russia sanctions only to ditch them, leaving American allies and members of his own administration completely befuddled.

In ordinary times, a declaration like the one Trump made about TPP would have sent stocks soaring, thrilled exporters and sent corporate strategists scrambling to assess the impact.

But none of that really happened.

Financial markets and America’s trading partners largely ignored the comments as a throwaway line, and the market wisdom proved to be correct when Trump tweeted that he did not "like the deal for the U.S," deflating the TPP trial balloon before it left the ground.

All of this has led investors, executives and diplomats to the conclusion that trying to act on any single thing Trump says or tweets is a fool’s game. The more effective strategy, these people say, is to look for trends in the broad sweep of Trump’s approach to governance and ignore all the noise.

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Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) is in a statistical dead heat with Rep. Beto O’Rourke (Texas), his Democratic challenger, a poll released Wednesday showed.

The first Quinnipiac University poll of the race deemed it too close to call. Cruz leads O’Rourke by 3 percentage points — 47 to 44 percent — which falls within the margin of error.

Eighty-seven percent of Democrats said they support O’Rourke's bid to replace Cruz, according to the poll, while 88 percent of the state's Republicans said they back the incumbent.

Forty-six percent of Texas voters view Cruz favorably, while 44 percent who view him unfavorably, the poll found. By comparison, 30 percent of voters view O’Rourke favorably, 16 percent view him unfavorably and 53 percent said they don’t know enough about him to form an opinion.
O’Rourke has drummed up significant momentum in his race to unseat Cruz and become Texas's first Democratic U.S. senator in more than two decades.

He reported a fundraising haul of $6.7 million in the first three months of 2018, compared to Cruz, who reportedly raised $3.2 million in the same time period.

President Trump won Texas in the 2016 election with 53 percent of the vote, while Democrat Hillary Clinton received roughly 43 percent of the vote.

The new Quinnipiac poll, conducted April 12–17, has a margin of error of 3.6 percentage points. Pollsters surveyed 1,029 Texas voters.

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Op woensdag 18 april 2018 23:01 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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