quote:Sessions told White House that Rosenstein’s firing could prompt his departure, too
Attorney General Jeff Sessions recently told the White House he might have to leave his job if President Trump fired his deputy, Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to people familiar with the exchange.
Sessions made his position known in a phone call to White House counsel Donald McGahn last weekend, as Trump’s fury at Rosenstein peaked after the deputy attorney general approved the FBI’s raid April 9 on the president’s personal attorney Michael Cohen.
Sessions’s message to the White House, which has not previously been reported, underscores the political firestorm that Trump would invite should he attempt to remove the deputy attorney general. While Trump also has railed against Sessions at times, the protest resignation of an attorney general — which would be likely to incite other departures within the administration — would create a moment of profound crisis for the White House.
In the phone call with McGahn, Sessions wanted details of a meeting Trump and Rosenstein held at the White House on April 12, according to a person with knowledge of the call. Sessions expressed relief to learn that their meeting was largely cordial. Sessions said he would have had to consider leaving as the attorney general had Trump ousted Rosenstein, this person said.
Another person familiar with the exchange said Sessions did not intend to threaten the White House but rather wanted to convey the untenable position that Rosenstein’s firing would put him in.
A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.
Rosenstein’s status remains uncertain, but the pressure he is facing seemed to subside after last week.
Last summer, when it appeared Trump was going to fire Sessions or pressure him to resign, Republican lawmakers and conservative advocacy groups rallied to Sessions’s side and warned the president not to move against him.
Trump had told senior officials last week that he was considering firing Rosenstein, who was confirmed by the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support last year. Since then, alumni of the Justice Department have rallied to Rosenstein’s defense.
As of Friday afternoon, more than 800 former Justice Department employees had signed an open letter calling on Congress to “swiftly and forcefully respond to protect the founding principles of our Republic and the rule of law” if Trump were to fire the deputy attorney general, special counsel Robert S. Mueller III or other senior Justice Department officials. The group MoveOn.org has sought to organize nationwide protests if such an event were to occur.
Rosenstein, on behalf of the Justice Department, is set to argue a sentencing case, Chavez-Meza v. United States, before the Supreme Court on Monday. Appearing before the high court has long been a professional goal, people close to Rosenstein say.
A senior administration official said Sessions does not like the way Rosenstein has been treated by the president and had expressed such concerns for months. He has regularly sought guidance from the White House about Rosenstein’s standing with the president and asked about his interactions with Trump, this official said.
But Sessions has had little ability to do anything about it, given his own shaky standing with Trump for recusing himself from the Russia investigation, this official said. Trump has, at times, referred to Sessions as “Mr. Magoo” and Rosenstein as “Mr. Peepers,” a character from a 1950s sitcom, according to people with whom the president has spoken.
The relationship between Sessions and Rosenstein — and their staffs — has been strained at times over the first year of the Trump administration. But people familiar with Sessions’s thinking say that he has said several times that he would find it difficult to remain as attorney general if Trump fired for no good reason the veteran prosecutor in Baltimore that Sessions chose to be his deputy. The two men, along with Solicitor General Noel Francisco, were spotted in February dining together at a restaurant near the Justice Department, generating some speculation that they were attempting a display of solidarity.
Rosenstein, the Justice Department’s No. 2 official, is tasked with running the day-to-day operations of the sprawling agency of 113,000 employees who work for the FBI; the Drug Enforcement Administration; the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; the Bureau of Prisons; U.S. attorneys offices; and Main Justice, the agency’s headquarters. But from the time he was confirmed in May of last year, the investigation into possible coordination during the 2016 presidential campaign between Trump associates and agents of the Russian government has overshadowed everything he has done.
James M. Trusty, a partner at Ifrah Law and a friend of Rosenstein’s, said the deputy attorney general “went into the job with a pretty fatalistic view,” but he “probably didn’t know it was going to be this much of a storm.”
“I remember him joking at his going-away party that nine months was the average tenure for the deputy attorney general,” Trusty said.
A wall of photographs outside Rosenstein’s fourth-floor office at the Justice Department illustrates the high-stress and political nature of the deputy attorney general’s position. President Barack Obama’s first deputy attorney general, David Ogden, stepped down from the job after less than a year. One of President Bill Clinton’s deputy attorneys general, Philip B. Heymann, lasted 10 months.
Trusty, who said he had spoken with Rosenstein about three weeks ago, said Rosenstein had kept his views on the situation largely private and had not sought surrogates or anyone else to press his case.
“I think he tends to view things in a very long-range way, kind of a this-too-shall-pass philosophy about the slings and arrows that will come at you,” Trusty said.
A month after Rosenstein became deputy attorney general, he was criticized for his role in the firing of FBI Director James B. Comey. Rosenstein authored a critical memo lambasting Comey for his handling of the Hillary Clinton email investigation, and the White House later used the document as a pretext to remove the FBI director. After a few days, though, Trump said he was thinking about the Russia investigation when he fired Comey. Comey has said in recent days he believed Rosenstein “acted dishonorably” and could not be trusted.
At that point, Rosenstein was overseeing the Russia investigation because Sessions had recused himself. On May 17, about a week after the Comey firing, Rosenstein announced that he had appointed Mueller as special counsel to conduct the Russia investigation.
Rosenstein took the action without first consulting Sessions and notified him when he was at the White House meeting with Trump. The decision took Trump by surprise and greatly angered him.
A person close to the White House and the Justice Department said Sessions has “vacillated, I think, from being concerned about the deputy leaving or being fired and recognizing that Rosenstein has not been a friend of either him or the department.”
During the past year, Rosenstein has been involved in several policy issues in the Justice Department, as well as complex prosecutions involving cybercrimes and the first charges against Chinese-based fentanyl manufacturers and distributors.
But Russia continues to consume his days. This week, two of Trump’s top legislative allies and leading members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus met with Rosenstein and pressed him for more documents about the conduct of law enforcement officials involved in the Russia probe. They warned him that he could face impeachment proceedings or an effort to hold him in contempt of Congress if he did not satisfy Republican demands for more documents.
Wendytwitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 00:34:26Just heard the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good news in that we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the Wendy Wasserman Schultz Servers and Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man and Clinton Emails. reageer retweet
Ze willen net als de vorige keer, een schadevergoeding.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 01:00 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Die rechtszaak van de democraten, is dat niet gewoon een publiciteitsstunt? Wat hopen ze hiermee te gaan bereiken? Er is nog onvoldoende bewijs om een rechtszaak te winnen, toch?
Maar ze kunnen dat nog helemaal niet onderbouwen.. waarom gaan ze nu het onderzoek voor de voeten lopen? Ik vind het geen verstandige zet.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 01:02 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Ze willen net als de vorige keer, een schadevergoeding.
Hij is dementerend hè.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 01:02 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Wendytwitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 00:34:26Just heard the Campaign was sued by the Obstructionist Democrats. This can be good news in that we will now counter for the DNC Server that they refused to give to the FBI, the Wendy Wasserman Schultz Servers and Documents held by the Pakistani mystery man and Clinton Emails. reageer retweet
quote:The Trump administration will shift federal funding aimed at reducing teen pregnancy rates to programs that teach abstinence.
The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced Friday the availability of grants through the Teen Pregnancy Prevention Program, (TPPP) a grant program created under former President Obama that funds organizations and programs working to reduce teen pregnancy rates.
Trump's HHS announced, however, that unlike under the Obama administration, grants will be geared toward organizations that teach abstinence education to teens instead of the comprehensive sex ed approach the previous administration supported.
One of the programs uses a "sexual risk reduction model," which is designed to reduce sexual risk behaviors.
The other program uses a "sexual risk avoidance model," which teaches teens to avoid sex completely.
"Projects will clearly communicate that teen sex is a risk behavior for both the physical consequences of pregnancy and sexual transmitted infections; as well as sociological, economic and other related risks," the funding announcement reads. "Both risk avoidance and risk reduction approaches can and should include skills associated with helping youth delay sex as well as skills to help those youth already engaged in sexual risk to return toward risk-free choices in the future."SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
quote:The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights has begun dismissing hundreds of civil rights complaints under a new protocol that allows investigators to disregard cases that are part of serial filings or that they consider burdensome to the office.
Department officials said the new policy targeted advocates who flooded the office with thousands of complaints for similar violations, jamming its investigation pipeline with cases that could be resolved without exhausting staff and resources. But civil rights advocates worry that the office’s rejection of legitimate claims is the most obvious example to date of its diminishing role in enforcing civil rights laws in the nation’s schools.
Liz Hill, a spokeswoman for the Education Department, said the new provision was part of the office’s revision of its manual that lays out procedures for processing civil rights cases. The goal of the new manual, which took effect last month, is to help the office better manage its docket, investigations and resolutions, she said.
Among the changes implemented immediately is a provision that allows the Office for Civil Rights to dismiss cases that reflect “a pattern of complaints previously filed with O.C.R. by an individual or a group against multiple recipients,” or complaints “filed for the first time against multiple recipients that” place “an unreasonable burden on O.C.R.’s resources.”
So far, the provision has resulted in the dismissal of more than 500 disability rights complaints.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
quote:Keith Davidson, the former attorney for two women who were paid to keep quiet about their alleged affairs with Donald Trump, has been contacted by federal authorities investigating Trump attorney Michael Cohen and is cooperating with them, a spokesman for Davidson confirmed.
Davidson was asked to provide “certain limited electronic information” for the probe led by prosecutors in the Southern District of New York, spokesman Dave Wedge said. “He has done so and will continue to cooperate to the fullest extent possible under the law,” Wedge said in a statement Friday.
Shortly before the 2016 election, Davidson negotiated a confidentiality agreement with Cohen under which porn star Stormy Daniels was paid $130,000.
Davidson also represented Karen McDougal, a Playboy centerfold, in the $150,000 agreement she struck in August 2016 with the National Enquirer’s parent company, American Media Inc., for the rights to her story. AMI never published the story.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Trump is impulsief, luistert niet naar z'n adviseurs, is gevoelig voor vleierij. Kim denkt misschien dat ie met Trump meer kan bereiken dan met een normale president. Kan me zelfs voorstellen dat Trump een betere relatie met Kim dan met Moon ontwikkelt: hij maakt zich meer druk over de handelsbalans dan over mensenrechten, de militaire aanwezigheid in Z Korea kost hem geld, en de Z Koreanen hebben een handelsoverschot tov de VS. N Korea daarentegen heeft economisch niets te betekenen, en als Trump bvb voedselhulp belooft in ruil voor ontwapening scoort ie meteen bij de Amerikaanse boeren...quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 00:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Wat heeft hij goed geregeld? Noord-Korea die een test stopzet en nog met ICBMs zit?
quote:North Korea’s leader, Kim Jong-un, announced early Saturday that his country no longer needed to test nuclear weapons or long-range missiles and would close a nuclear test site.
“The nuclear test site has done its job,” Mr. Kim said in a statement carried by North Korea’s state media.
Mr. Kim’s announcement came just days before a scheduled summit meeting with President Moon Jae-in of South Korea; Mr. Kim is also planning to meet with President Trump soon. It was the second time in two days that he made what appeared to be a significant concession to the United States but in reality cemented the status quo. North Korea already had stopped testing its weapons.
Mr. Kim made no mention in his latest remarks of dismantling the nuclear weapons and long-range missiles North Korea has already built. On the contrary, he suggested he was going to keep them.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 05:13:07James Comey illegally leaked classified documents to the press in order to generate a Special Council? Therefore, the Special Council was established based on an illegal act? Really, does everybody know what that means? reageer retweet
twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 05:21:13"Special Council"? No. No idea what that means.Unless it's when Steve Bannon and Erik Prince get together two weeks before the 2016 presidential election and, with your blessing, hatch a plot to peddle fake Clinton emails as part of a Breitbart domestic disinformation campaign. https://t.co/1Wttb4ELKU reageer retweet
Deze:https://www.telegraph.co.(...)ite-leaves-200-dead/quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 06:48 schreef Montov het volgende:
Was er een paar maanden geleden ook niet een incident waardoor de nucleaire installatie half ontploft was en daarmee onbruikbaar, dat NK nu hoopt te kunnen onderhandelen omdat ze toch al niet verder kunnen opbouwen van hun arsenaal?
De witte middelbare achterban vindt dit prachtig.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 03:59 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump admin announces abstinence-focused overhaul of teen pregnancy program
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Hoe bedoel je? Is het niet een redenatie als: "De DNC is een organisatie die zaken wil bereiken... door de illegale diefstal van e-mails en de samenzwering in het verspreiden van deze e-mails zijn ze minder goed in staat geweest deze doelen te bereiken --> schade"?quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 01:12 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
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Maar ze kunnen dat nog helemaal niet onderbouwen.. waarom gaan ze nu het onderzoek voor de voeten lopen? Ik vind het geen verstandige zet.
Het is goedkoper dan gun control.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 08:21 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
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De witte middelbare achterban vindt dit prachtig.
Ik denk eerlijk gezegd dat Amerikaanse boeren het niet heel veel zullen interesseren wat bereikt zou worden in Noord Korea. De potentiële importheffingen van China zullen ze grosso modo meer geïnteresseerd in zijn lijkt me.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 04:30 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
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Trump is impulsief, luistert niet naar z'n adviseurs, is gevoelig voor vleierij. Kim denkt misschien dat ie met Trump meer kan bereiken dan met een normale president. Kan me zelfs voorstellen dat Trump een betere relatie met Kim dan met Moon ontwikkelt: hij maakt zich meer druk over de handelsbalans dan over mensenrechten, de militaire aanwezigheid in Z Korea kost hem geld, en de Z Koreanen hebben een handelsoverschot tov de VS. N Korea daarentegen heeft economisch niets te betekenen, en als Trump bvb voedselhulp belooft in ruil voor ontwapening scoort ie meteen bij de Amerikaanse boeren...
Dit zinnetje alleen al... *ril* *bibber*quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 04:11 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
...a new protocol that allows investigators to disregard cases that are part of serial filings or that they consider burdensome to the office.
Dat hoef je ze niet te leren, dat kunnen ze al.quote:
Niet iedereen daar is als de familie Palin hè?quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 11:42 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
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Dit zinnetje alleen al... *ril* *bibber*
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Dat hoef je ze niet te leren, dat kunnen ze al.
Je kunt er beter voor zorgen dat er bv 's winters in Alaska ook nog andere dingen te doen zijn dan slapen, zuipen, vechten en neuken.
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 01:00:10Trump has, at times, referred to Sessions as “Mr. Magoo” and Rosenstein as “Mr. Peepers,” a character from a 1950s sitcom, people with whom the president has spoken tell WaPo. https://t.co/c2R8Y3cXbL reageer retweet
Wat een bruut getrol zeg. Iemand "Mr Magoo" noemen! Ha! Daar heeft hij mooi niet van terug. Wauw!quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 12:33 schreef Nintex het volgende:
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 01:00:10Trump has, at times, referred to Sessions as “Mr. Magoo” and Rosenstein as “Mr. Peepers,” a character from a 1950s sitcom, people with whom the president has spoken tell WaPo. https://t.co/c2R8Y3cXbL reageer retweet
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En terecht. Die kids moeten zich laten afschieten in plaats van neuken. Weet je plek.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 08:21 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
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De witte middelbare achterban vindt dit prachtig.
Je zou toch denken dat pro-lifers voor seksuele voorlichting en anticonceptie zijn, zodat gezinnen gepland kunnen worden, en er kinderen worden gekregen wanneer die zeer gewenst zijn.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 11:42 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
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Dit zinnetje alleen al... *ril* *bibber*
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Dat hoef je ze niet te leren, dat kunnen ze al.
Je kunt er beter voor zorgen dat er bv 's winters in Alaska ook nog andere dingen te doen zijn dan slapen, zuipen, vechten en neuken.
Dat bevordert losbandig gedrag, een zonde.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 14:17 schreef OllieA het volgende:
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Je zou toch denken dat pro-lifers voor seksuele voorlichting en anticonceptie zijn, zodat gezinnen gepland kunnen worden, en er kinderen worden gekregen wanneer die zeer gewenst zijn.
Ik begrijp dat slordige denken van die puriteinen niet...
Het doel is om te zorgen dat een en ander goed wordt uitgezocht.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 01:00 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Die rechtszaak van de democraten, is dat niet gewoon een publiciteitsstunt? Wat hopen ze hiermee te gaan bereiken? Er is nog onvoldoende bewijs om een rechtszaak te winnen, toch?
Gewoon Fox & Friends kijken. Dan weet je meteen het beleid voor de rest van de dag en soms zelfs de dag erop als Trump zijn geheugen een goede dag heeft.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 09:46 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Al het (amerikaanse) nieuws volgen is toch ook een overbelaste dagtaak.![]()
quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 14:50 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Toch zijn er volgens ultraconservatieve bronnen wel degelijk aanwijzingen dat abstinentietherapie helpt:
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Religie en vrouwvijandigheid... Tja, en dan krijg je dus dit soort zaken (artikel uit 2012):quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 14:32 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
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Dat bevordert losbandig gedrag, een zonde.
quote:This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion. Because the great majority of abortions occur during the first 12 weeks, that means most women will be forced to have a transvaginal procedure, in which a probe is inserted into the vagina, and then moved around until an ultrasound image is produced. Since a proposed amendment to the bill—a provision that would have had the patient consent to this bodily intrusion or allowed the physician to opt not to do the vaginal ultrasound—failed on 64-34 vote, the law provides that women seeking an abortion in Virginia will be forcibly penetrated for no medical reason. I am not the first person to note that under any other set of facts, that would constitute rape under the federal definition.*
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Er worden allerlei vuile tactieken uit de kast getrokken. Vrouwen verplichten om een echo te ondergaan voor abortus is daar één van. Het doel is om de vrouw het kloppende hartje te laten zien etc zodat ze moreel bezwaard raakt om nog afstand te doen van het ongeboren kind.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 14:55 schreef OllieA het volgende:
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Religie en vrouwvijandigheid... Tja, en dan krijg je dus dit soort zaken (artikel uit 2012):
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Inderdaad. Heb ik gezien, en ik heb er nog het een en ander over gelezen. Die CPC's hanteren leugens en bedrog om vrouwen ervan te weerhouden abortus te ondergaan.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 14:57 schreef Tchock het volgende:
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Er worden allerlei vuile tactieken uit de kast getrokken. Vrouwen verplichten om een echo te ondergaan voor abortus is daar één van. Het doel is om de vrouw het kloppende hartje te laten zien etc zodat ze moreel bezwaard raakt om nog afstand te doen van het ongeboren kind.
John Oliver had er ook een interessant item over vorige week:
Echt weerzinwekkend.
Maarre:quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 14:55 schreef OllieA het volgende:
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Religie en vrouwvijandigheid... Tja, en dan krijg je dus dit soort zaken (artikel uit 2012):
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http://nvog-documenten.nl(...)4%20weken%5B1%5D.pdfquote:Herziene NVOG-richtlijn ‘Zwangerschapsafbreking tot 24 weken'
De intake kent drie onderdelen:
1.anamnese waarin een gesprek over de besluitvorming (paragraaf 1.a.), echoscopie van de
zwangerschap (paragraaf 1.b.) en laboratoriumonderzoek (paragraaf 1.c.), waaronder
bloedgroep/rhesus en seksueel overdraagbare aandoeningen.
2.informatie over de soorten procedures, inclusief de kans op complicaties.
3.bespreking van de nazorg. Het gesprek over procedure en nazorg vindt bij voorkeur plaats na verifiëring van de diagnose intacteintra-uteriene zwangerschap en de termijn
1.b. Echoscopisch onderzoek
•Voorafgaand aan de behandeling
Echoscopisch onderzoek heeft als doel een intra-uteriene graviditeit aan te tonen, de zwangerschapsduur te verifiëren en meerlingzwangerschap, mola, EUG of niet-intacte zwangerschap uit te sluiten. Het is belangrijk de vrouw te vragen of zij het echobeeld van haar zwangerschap wil zien. Het zien van de echobeelden in het eerste trimester wordt over het algemeen ervaren als positief en heeft nagenoeg geen invloed op de besluitvorming. Als zij het echobeeld niet wil zien, moet dit buiten haar gezichtsveld blijven. Bewaar wel een foto in het dossier; soms blijken vrouwen deze achteraf toch te willen zien (zie ook link naar NGvA richtlijn ‘begeleiding’
1.c. Laboratoriumonderzoek
•Bloedgroep/rhesus
Bij zwangerschapsafbrekingen dient de rhesusfactor bekend te zijn, behoudens bij vrouwen die een zwangerschapsafbreking voor 7 weken ondergaan.
Tja, dat kan toch ook met een (externe) buikecho?quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 15:12 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
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Maarre:
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De verplichte wachttijd van 5 dagen die in België en Nederland geldt wordt in de VS ook als een onaanvaardbare belemmering gezien.
quote:More "News of the Weak" ...
MUELLER SAYS THAT UNTIL YESTERDAY HE HAD ALMOST FORGOTTEN TO INVESTIGATE GIULIANI
WASHINGTON (The Borowitz Report)—The independent counsel, Robert Mueller, told reporters that, prior to news reports on Thursday, he had “almost forgotten” to investigate the former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani.
“Like most Americans, I had totally forgotten about Rudy Giuliani’s existence,” he said. “But then when he popped up on the news I was, like, ‘Hold on—shouldn’t we be investigating him?’ ”
Mueller was at a loss to explain why he had failed to investigate Giuliani earlier. “I have no idea how it could have slipped my mind,” he said. “His role in Trump’s campaign was as fishy as all get-out.”
He said that other members of his team were “poking fun” at him for not deciding to investigate Giuliani before Thursday. “I mean, think about it: how do you do a criminal investigation of the Trump campaign and leave Rudy out of it?” he said. “I’ve got to say, I’m pretty darn embarrassed about the whole thing.”
When asked for an estimate of when the Russia inquiry might wrap up, Mueller responded, “I honestly can’t say. I was hoping to bring it to a close in the next month or two, but now that we’re also investigating Rudy Giuliani, God only knows how long it’ll take.”
twitter:Scaramucci twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 15:25:00The Mayor is back.! It’s time to resolve and settle all outstanding issues. Great things happening around the country and there will be tons of good news overseas. @POTUS @realDonaldTrump Let’s get there together. https://t.co/dF0oOMYzcV reageer retweet
quote:The New York Times and a third rate reporter named Maggie Haberman, known as a Crooked H flunkie who I don’t speak to and have nothing to do with, are going out of their way to destroy Michael Cohen and his relationship with me in the hope that he will “flip.” They use....
...non-existent “sources” and a drunk/drugged up loser who hates Michael, a fine person with a wonderful family. Michael is a businessman for his own account/lawyer who I have always liked & respected. Most people will flip if the Government lets them out of trouble, even if....
...it means lying or making up stories. Sorry, I don’t see Michael doing that despite the horrible Witch Hunt and the dishonest media!
Deze kunnen we bewaren voor als Cohen een bekentenis aflegt en Trump op hém gaat zeiken. Dat hij Cohen nauwelijks kende en zo.quote:
"Donnie! I want HALF!"quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 16:29 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Wat ik mij (ook) afvraag, zou Melania dit allemaal meekrijgen in haar gouden toren?
Zij zat lachend aan tafel met Abe.
quote:A biographer of Donald Trump says the president’s habit of lying can be traced back to his school days. Pulitzer Prize-winning author Michael D’Antonio, who wrote the 2016 book The Truth About Trump, on Friday told CNN’s Anderson Cooper that the president has been fabricating stories since childhood.
“This is Donald, really going back to his school days when he was a boy, he insisted to others that he had hit home runs he had never hit in ball games,” D’Antonio said. The author made the comments while discussing reports that Trump previously tried to deceive journalists by using false names in phone interviews.
Trump “left the New York Military Academy declaring himself the greatest baseball player in New York state and it just went on and on and on,” D’Antonio said. “He was named the ladies man at a school that had no young women at it, so you tell me, he has been doing this forever.”
Trump is een pathologische leugenaar of vertoont daar in elk geval alle kenmerken van. Hij kan het niet laten om te liegen, of het belangrijk is of niet maakt wat dat betreft totaal niet uit.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 16:35 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Het maakte niet uit hoe klein of onbelangrijk iets was... hij moest en zou er over liegen
Blijkbaar niet altijdquote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 15:16 schreef OllieA het volgende:
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Tja, dat kan toch ook met een (externe) buikecho?
Een vaginale echoscopie geeft een beeld van betere kwaliteit (meer details zichtbaar), bij het begin van de zwangerschap is de vrucht kleiner en is dat dus aangewezen.quote:Afhankelijk van de zwangerschapsduur en dikte van de buikwand van de moeder wordt de echo uitwendig (via de buik) of inwendig (via de vagina) gemaakt.
quote:This week, the Virginia state Legislature passed a bill that would require women to have an ultrasound before they may have an abortion. Because the great majority of abortions occur during the first 12 weeks, that means most women will be forced to have a transvaginal procedure,
Nee, dat is zwartgelakt in officiële stukken. Alleen is bekend dat het iets met hemzelf en zijn bedrijf te maken heeft.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 16:51 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Is eigenlijk al uberhaupt bekend waar Cohen concreet van verdacht werd?
Dan wordt hij veroordeeld voor contempt of court, en kan Trump hem wederom een pardon gevenquote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 16:31 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Cohen heeft geen keuze dan meewerken. Die wil echt geen decennia de cel in. Trump kan hem geen pardon geven want dan roept men Cohen gewoon op als getuige en door het pardon kan hij zichzelf niet belasten dus geen 5th....
Nog een paar zaken waarin Gorsuch niet doet wat Trump zou willen en ik denk dat er dan tweets komen over termlimits voor SC rechters.quote:Trump also complained this week about Supreme Court Justice Neil M. Gorsuch, saying the judge had proved too liberal in recent cases, according to administration officials who heard about the complaints. Associates said he was incensed that Gorsuch had voted against the administration on an immigration case and said it renewed his doubts that Gorsuch would be a reliable conservative. One top Trump adviser played down the comments as unhappiness with Gorsuch’s decision rather than with Gorsuch broadly.
Wat mij overigens niet eens zo'n heel slecht idee lijkt. In veel staten worden SC judges benoemd voor bijvoorbeeld 10-15 jaar. Één benoeming heeft nu zo'n enorme invloed.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 17:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Nog een paar zaken waarin Gorsuch niet doet wat Trump zou willen en ik denk dat er dan tweets komen over termlimits voor SC rechters.
Dan lijkt me een pardon niet geldig. Dat gaat de vraag of dat mag door naar het SC. Die vraag is iets als "Mag een President actief ingrijpen in lopende rechtzaken om zijn eigen belangen veilig te stellen?".quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 17:46 schreef Reya het volgende:
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Trump die aan machtsmisbruik doet, je kunt het je inderdaad niet voorstellen.
En welke juridische argumenten denk je daarvoor te hebben?quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 17:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Dan lijkt me een pardon niet geldig. Dat gaat de vraag of dat mag door naar het SC. Die vraag is iets als "Mag een President actief ingrijpen in lopende rechtzaken om zijn eigen belangen veilig te stellen?".
Ik denk dat het SC dan gaat oordelen van niet.
twitter:maggieNYT twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 18:26:38A few things - Trump is referring to @NunbergSam in his tweet. He’s too aware of what Stone could do to him to be that direct. Also, Trump has been abusive to all his staffers at various points, but continues to greet @CLewandowski_ better than most https://t.co/coxNMRVCUl reageer retweet
twitter:PreetBharara twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 18:43:15Donald Trump is afraid of Roger Stone? https://t.co/0pqSQu1LRK reageer retweet
twitter:maggieNYT twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 18:47:42For years https://t.co/IdvM2QP1j4 reageer retweet
En straks ziet hij deze.... overkokende tweets in 5... 4... 3...quote:
quote:Amnesty International heeft in Amsterdam de Ambassador of Conscience Award uitgereikt aan American Football-speler Colin Kaepernick. Die knielde twee jaar geleden tijdens het spelen van het Amerikaanse volkslied voor een wedstrijd, in plaats van te blijven staan. Zijn stille protest tegen politiegeweld en discriminatie is sindsdien regelmatig herhaald door football-spelers, soms tot woede van de Amerikaanse president Trump.
"Niet alleen in de Verenigde Staten is Kaepernick een groot voorbeeld voor zijn strijd tegen discriminatie en politiegeweld, maar ook in Nederland en de rest van de wereld", zei directeur Eduard Nazarski van Amnesty Nederland. "Hij laat zien dat je met een ogenschijnlijk simpel gebaar een grote beweging op gang kan brengen."
Amnesty reikt de mensenrechtenprijs ieder jaar uit aan activisten die zich volgens de organisatie op een bijzondere manier inzetten voor mensenrechten. Eerder ging de prijs naar Nelson Mandela, de Pakistaanse kinderrechtenactivist Malala en zangeres Alicia Keys.
Amnesty Nederland bestaat dit jaar vijftig jaar.
hier wellicht...quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 19:15 schreef Monolith het volgende:
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https://www.quora.com/Wou(...)-cover-by-the-pardonquote:A presidential pardon, particularly a pre-emptive pardon like the one Ford gave to Nixon, which would prevent future prosecution, would have the same effect. So if the president granted someone such a pardon, and then that person was subpoenaed to testify, they would be in no danger of prosecution, and therefore would not be able to assert their 5th amendment right not to answer a question on the witness stand.
Edit: It's worth noting pardons apply only to federal crimes, not state crimes, so if testifying were to place the recipient of a presidential pardon at risk if state prosecution, the 5th amendment would still apply.
Dat het machtsmisbruik, obstruction of justice en/of witness tampering lijkt te zijn als de POTUS met een getuige zo'n deal sluit.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 19:15 schreef Monolith het volgende:
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En op basis van welk deel van de grondwet zou het SC om die redenen presidentiële gratie kunnen terugdraaien?quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 20:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Dat het machtsmisbruik, obstruction of justice en/of witness tampering lijkt te zijn als de POTUS met een getuige zo'n deal sluit.
Het hoeft ook niet uit te maken als hij Cohen een pardon geeft, men zou direct op staatsniveau Cohen kunnen oproepen te getuigen. Mogelijkheden genoeg volgens mij.
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 21:02:05Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. His trials and tribulations were great, his life complex and controversial. Others have looked at this over the years, most thought it would be done, but yes, I am considering a Full Pardon! reageer retweet
Het is bijna alsof hij verzoekjes neemt. "Iemand nog een pardon? Lekker pardonnetje erbij? Kan gewoon! Wel je mond houden. Wie maakt me los?"quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 21:13 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Party of law and orderMaareh, ja, kennelijk wil hij aan iemand duidelijk maken dat het er mogelijk toch wel in zou zitten dat hij niet hoeft te praten.
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 21:02:05Sylvester Stallone called me with the story of heavyweight boxing champion Jack Johnson. His trials and tribulations were great, his life complex and controversial. Others have looked at this over the years, most thought it would be done, but yes, I am considering a Full Pardon! reageer retweet
quote:Born on March 31, 1878, in Galveston, Texas, Johnson became a rising star in the realms of boxing. He won the Texas State Middleweight title as a professional athlete, and later he became the World Colored Heavyweight Championship between 1903-1908. But his biggest prize came on December 26, 1908, when he defeated Tommy Burns for the World Heavyweight Championship. He defeated the defending champion in 14 rounds until authorities had to intervene and stop the bout.
His rise occurred in the midst of the Jim Crow era, where the lynching of black men was all too common. Boxing businesspeople were hoping to find the "Great White Hope" to defeat the black boxer. Former world heavyweight champion James J. Jeffries was capable of beating Johnson in Havana, Cuba, on April 1915 in the 26th round, the New York Post reported.
But his relationships with white women made him a notorious man at the time. In 1913, he was accused of transporting a white woman for "immoral purposes" according to The Chicago Tribune. Persecutors cited the Mann Act, a federal law that sought to prevent the trafficking of women for prostitution. An all-white jury found him guilty, and Johnson was sentenced to a year in prison.
To date, his criminal record has not been cleared.
http://www.newsweek.com/j(...)xing-champion-896275
twitter:mkraju twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 15:14:00On the day the political world comes together to mourn a former First Lady, Trump falsely says he doesn’t speak to @maggieNYT and unfairly attacks her, defames a person by calling him “drugged up,” and tries to convince his personal lawyer from flipping. Then heads to golf course https://t.co/zasRrbPAqn reageer retweet
Voor het eerst in lange tijd dat je Melania oprecht ziet lachenquote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 22:40 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
President Trump won't attend Barbara Bush funeral, to 'avoid disruptions'
Melania is er wel
[ afbeelding ]twitter:mkraju twitterde op zaterdag 21-04-2018 om 15:14:00On the day the political world comes together to mourn a former First Lady, Trump falsely says he doesn’t speak to @maggieNYT and unfairly attacks her, defames a person by calling him “drugged up,” and tries to convince his personal lawyer from flipping. Then heads to golf course https://t.co/zasRrbPAqn reageer retweet
Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.quote:The Washington Post said I refer to Jeff Sessions as “Mr. Magoo” and Rod Rosenstein as “Mr. Peepers.” This is “according to people with whom the president has spoken.” There are no such people and don’t know these characters...just more Fake & Disgusting News to create ill will!
365 dagen per jaar correspondents dinnerquote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 22:44 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
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Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States.
Logisch, begrafenissen zijn altijd dikke pret.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 22:43 schreef Falco het volgende:
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Voor het eerst in lange tijd dat je Melania oprecht ziet lachen
Jack Johnson was een koning.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 22:06 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Trump weet al dat Johnson zwart is?
meer info: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Johnson_(boxer)
(volgens een biograaf van Trump is Johnson overigens exact het soort man aan wie Trump nou juist een gloeiende hekel heeft)
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het "misdrijf" in kwestie:
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Want begrafenissen zijn kei-leukquote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 22:43 schreef Falco het volgende:
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Ach joh. Niet zo serieus hee. Er is heus wel een moment tijdens een begrafenis om ontspannen een grapje te maken. Je ziet duidelijk aan de mimiek van Melania dat Obama net iets aardigs heeft verteld en dat ze ongeforceerd lacht. Denk dat ze blij is dat ze eens keer niet naast die oranje aap mag zitten met alle genante scènes die dat met zich mee zou brengen. Moet kunnen toch?quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 00:06 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:
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quote:In Message to Trump, Europe and Mexico Announce Trade Pact
WASHINGTON — The European Union and Mexico on Saturday announced a major update to their existing free trade pact signed nearly two decades ago, a development that will allow almost all goods, including agricultural products, to move between Europe and Mexico duty-free.
The deal, which has yet to be formally signed, is expected to increase trade in dairy, pork, services, digital goods and medicines between the economies. It will also give Mexico greater access to an advanced consumer market, as negotiations with the Trump administration over the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement still appear to be on uncertain ground.
And it sends a message to Mr. Trump that some of America’s closest trading partners are moving ahead with deals of their own — potentially leaving American exporters on the losing end in foreign markets.
In its announcement, Mexico said the agreement would help modernize its existing commercial relationship.
Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, said in a statement that “trade can and should be a win-win process and today’s agreement shows just that.” He added, “With this agreement, Mexico joins Canada, Japan and Singapore in the growing list of partners willing to work with the E.U. in defending open, fair and rules-based trade.”
The European Union and Mexico said that they had reached an agreement in principle on the most important elements of the agreement, with some technical details yet to be resolved. They are aiming to finalize it by year’s end, after which it must be ratified by the European Parliament and Mexican Senate.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
quote:[...]
The fake claim seems to have first appeared in public in a Wikipedia biography of Pompeo, which was changed anonymously in December 2016. Pompeo has never repeated it himself, but he and the CIA have never corrected the prominent error.
The Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the New Yorker reported incorrectly last month that Pompeo was an Army officer who served in the 1991 Gulf War. South Carolina Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy cited his Gulf War service in an April 12 letter expressing his support for Pompeo's nomination as Secretary of State, and Florida senator Marco Rubio referred to his service in the Gulf in a Senate session in January last year.
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quote:Donald Trump may have chosen not to attend Barbara Bush’s funeral on Saturday, but social media users still found a way to talk about him in his absence.
After the president’s wife Melania Trump was spotted smiling and sharing a laugh with Barack Obama before the service in Houston, it didn’t take long before social media users began to joke about how even though she was at a funeral, she appeared to be having a good time away from her husband.
“Melania looks happier at a funeral than she has in ages. Wouldn’t you too if you went from being with Donald every day to sitting next to Barack?” wrote one social media user.
One of Hillary Clinton’s aides Philippe Reines added, “Obama is a funny guy, but that’s a woman craving distance from a monster being reminded what dignity looks like.”
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Gewoon drie uur met een uitgestreken gezicht rondlopen, ja toch?quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 00:48 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Eh ja, dat was bij mij ietsje anders ... althans, dat wil zeggen ... tijdens de plechtigheid is lachen geen gemeengoed, maar vooraf of achteraf een geintje, ook tijdens het zittend wachten op de plechtigheid in een dergelijke setting is denk ik niet ongewoon, zeker niet aangezien zowel Obama als Melania Trump haar niet of nauwelijks kenden (Obama zal haar zeker wel gekend hebben, over Melania ben ik minder zeker).
Hangt af van wiens begrafenis...quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 00:06 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:
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SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.Commentaar van Barbara Bush:quote:Almost everyone I’ve talked to says, ‘We’re going to move to Houston.’ What I’m hearing, which is sort of scary, is they all want to stay in Texas. Everyone is so overwhelmed by the hospitality.
And so many of the people in the arena here, you know, were underprivileged anyway, so this, this is working very well for them.are we infinite or am I alone
Mevrouw Trump kan dat heel goed.quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 01:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Melania zat bij de begrafenis van Barbara Bush naast Barack Obama.
Mevrouw Trump kan dus ook trollen.
Het is meer grappig dat het vaak lijkt te gebeuren.quote:
Mijn favoriet blijft nog steeds "Trump is a complete and utter nincompoop" waar de voormalig MP van Schotland mee kwam.quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 13:02 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Maar goed, weinig kan tippen aan de bijnaam 'mentally deranged US dotard' waar Kim Jong-Un mee kwam, dus hij heeft nog wat te leren.
https://twitter.com/Micha(...)687032439717889?s=20quote:As I predicted, panic has set in at the WH. So much so, that we now have bogus tweets aimed at kissing Mr. Cohen's a** and giving him a false sense of security and friendship with the hope that he doesn't tell the truth and bring the house of cards down. Too little too late.
Sing Mikey, or it's Sing Sing.quote:My Dear Friend: Don’t you remember how I demeaned you to others and made you look like a fool? How I always over-charged you for the real estate? How I never defended you? How I abandoned you when I won and blew you off? Now that is true love Michael, and you know it! Now shush.
https://twitter.com/realD(...)774054651301888?s=20quote:James Comey’s Memos are Classified, I did not Declassify them. They belong to our Government! Therefore, he broke the law! Additionally, he totally made up many of the things he said I said, and he is already a proven liar and leaker. Where are Memos on Clinton, Lynch & others?
De kiezer zal ongetwijfeld voor de bekendere Romney gaan, maar toch wel pijnlijk dat hij bij z'n eigen partij niet eens wint van Kennedy.quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 13:08 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Mitt Romney will face primary after setback in run for US Senate
Former Republican presidential candidate fails to win enough votes to secure candidacy at party convention in Utah. Instead he was edged out by state lawmaker Mike Kennedy, who got 51% to Romney’s 49 percent. Voters will decide between the two in a 26 June primary.
https://www.theguardian.c(...)in-run-for-us-senate
I'M ANGRY BUT I DON'T KNOW WHAT I'M YELLING ABOUT.quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 13:32 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dus als ik het goed begrijp is Comey een leugenaar die verzinsels roeptoetert, maar die verzinsels zijn wel staatsgeheim?
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https://twitter.com/realD(...)774054651301888?s=20
quote:Things were already looking bad when, several people told me, Chelsea Clinton popped the Champagne. It was just after 9 p.m. on election night and she was having her hair and makeup done in the family’s suite at the Peninsula hotel. She stopped to pour what someone said was Veuve Clicquot into everyone’s glasses, figuring that in a couple of hours Donald Trump’s run of early victories in red states (West Virginia, Oklahoma, Alabama) would end and the map would turn back in her mom’s favor.
Three hours later, the Rust Belt was awash in red, and somebody had to tell Hillary Clinton.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
quote:Rep. Chris Collins (R-NY) has sponsored several bills that would have benefited a drug company in which he is the lead shareholder, a Daily Beast investigation has found.
Collins is also trying to make changes to a government program that would save the company millions of dollars if its drug is approved by the FDA.
Collins’s office says he doesn’t believe his bills represent a conflict of interest, but he is already accused by independent Office of Congressional Ethics of violating House ethics rules and U.S. securities law for his dealings with the drug company.(...)
Iedereen weet toch dat Donnie en trophy wife Melania een schijnhuwelijk hebben? Waarschijnlijk blijft ze bij die mafketel totdat Barron oud genoeg is en poetst ze daarna de plaat.quote:Op zaterdag 21 april 2018 22:43 schreef Falco het volgende:
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https://www.huffingtonpos(...)ac66e4b009869bfa472dquote:President Donald Trump commemorated Earth Day on Sunday by applauding his administration’s efforts to roll back key environmental protections.
In Noord Korea zien ze de God emperor als een gevaarlijke wolf.twitter:AJEnglish twitterde op zondag 22-04-2018 om 17:15:07"Is he even a human?"North Koreans on Donald Trump https://t.co/qosiYeE5qV https://t.co/OQg8teAqDz reageer retweet
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 22-04-2018 om 20:43:38Funny how all of the Pundits that couldn't come close to making a deal on North Korea are now all over the place telling me how to make a deal! reageer retweet
Niet om de reden die jij denkt. Jij weet ook wel dat al het nieuws dat naar buiten komt door de staat is gereguleerd en indoctrinatie van het volk hoog in het vaandel staat in Noord Korea. Geen enkele burger die daar weet van een aanstaande ontmoeting.quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 21:26 schreef Nintex het volgende:
In Noord Korea zien ze de God emperor als een gevaarlijke wolf.![]()
Nee joh, totdat ze de prenup ongeldig kan laten verklaren!quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 17:58 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
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Iedereen weet toch dat Donnie en trophy wife Melania een schijnhuwelijk hebben? Waarschijnlijk blijft ze bij die mafketel totdat Barron oud genoeg is en poetst ze daarna de plaat.
Precies.quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 22:04 schreef Mula het volgende:
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Nee joh, totdat ze de prenup ongeldig kan laten verklaren!
quote:Fox News host who said Trump’s fixer ‘knows real estate’ has a portfolio that includes support from Department of Housing and Urban Development, a fact he did not mention when interviewing secretary Ben Carson last year
When Sean Hannity was named in court this week as a client of Donald Trump’s embattled legal fixer Michael Cohen, the Fox News host insisted their discussions had been limited to the subject of buying property.
“I’ve said many times on my radio show: I hate the stock market, I prefer real estate. Michael knows real estate,” Hannity said on television, a few hours after the dramatic hearing in Manhattan, where Cohen is under criminal investigation.
Hannity’s chosen investment strategy is confirmed by thousands of pages of public records reviewed by the Guardian, which detail a real estate portfolio of remarkable scale that has not previously been reported.
The records link Hannity to a group of shell companies that spent at least $90m on more than 870 homes in seven states over the past decade. The properties range from luxurious mansions to rentals for low-income families. Hannity is the hidden owner behind some of the shell companies and his attorney did not dispute that he owns all of them.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 23-04-2018 om 03:30:58The claim that Mike Pompeo was deployed or fought in the Gulf War has been repeated by, among others, 51 members of Congress, led by Trey Gowdy, voicing their support for his appointment as Secretary of State. But the CIA confirms Pompeo was not deployed. https://t.co/tQMXAHf0Wf reageer retweet
Het gebruik van nicknames is kinderlijk, vooral als een president die toepast, zelfs al zijn ze origineel.quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 12:59 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Weet niet of ik het geloof. Trump's nicknames zijn doorgaans beter en origineler.
quote:Mueller team said to be amused as Giuliani pledges to end Russia probe
Investigators inside the office of Special Counsel Robert Mueller reacted with a mixture of skepticism and laughter at Rudy Giuliani’s claim that he will negotiate a swift end to Mueller’s probe of President Donald Trump and his alleged involvement in possible Russian election meddling and obstruction of justice, FOX Business has learned.
Giuliani, the latest addition to the president’s legal team, has stated both to associates and to reporters in recent days that he will be reaching out to Mueller with the intention of ending the probe into Trump’s conduct and that he will achieve this goal in a matter of weeks, according to people with direct knowledge of the situation.
As the former New York City mayor’s remarks made their way to Mueller’s investigators, they were said to be “amused,” according to one person with direct knowledge of the matter. Mueller’s team has signaled that its probe of Russia’s possible meddling in the 2016 presidential election is exploring new avenues presented by at least two cooperating witnesses and that there is little Giuliani can do to force Mueller’s hand, these people add.
“If Rudy comes to Mueller trying to negotiate anything short of a presidential guilty plea, he will likely be met by deaf ears,” said a lawyer who follows the case from Washington.
A spokeswoman for Giuliani hadn’t return calls and email messages requesting comment. A spokesman for the special prosecutor declined to comment.
“Giuliani’s great, but I don’t think he’s going to move the dial one way or another,” Chris Swecker, a white-collar criminal attorney and former assistant director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, said in an interview with Neil Cavuto on FOX Business. “I know how Mueller operates. He’s not going to let anyone stampede him into it early or bring this case to an early conclusion.”
Swecker, however, did say he believes the Mueller investigation is coming to a conclusion.
“I do think something’s going to happen in the next month or two,” Swecker said.
Mueller has put off the sentencing until later this month of two former Trump aides charged in the Mueller probe: Former National Security Adviser Michael Flynn and former campaign aide George Papadopoulos.
“This leads me to believe he is keeping his witnesses on ice until the next indictment,” Swecker added. “Working your way up the food chain to the next level … related to Russia collusion … I don’t think the president is going to get brought into this, but I do think there is something else coming.”
Swecker cited as possible targets of criminal prosecution Donald Trump Jr., the president’s son who met with Russian operatives promising compromising information on Hillary Clinton, his father’s Democratic opponent during the 2016 campaign, and Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and currently a White House adviser, who also appeared at that meeting.
http://foxbusiness.com/po(...)-to-end-russia-probe
Dat is gewoon iemand die dat denkt, niet iets dat Mueller van plan is te gaan doen. Die stopt volgens mij gewoon als dat onderzoek klaar is, of dat nou bij Jr of Sr of geen van beide is.quote:Op maandag 23 april 2018 09:51 schreef speknek het volgende:
Ben benieuwd wat Mueller denkt te bereiken met stoppen bij Don Jr. Die krijgt toch een pardon. Misschien gewoon de naam besmeuren? Ik denk dat ie wel tot aan Don sr moet om iemand in de rechtzaal te krijgen.
Of iemand wel of geen bescherming krijgt van Trump maakt Mueller niet uit.quote:Op maandag 23 april 2018 09:51 schreef speknek het volgende:
Ben benieuwd wat Mueller denkt te bereiken met stoppen bij Don Jr. Die krijgt toch een pardon. Misschien gewoon de naam besmeuren? Ik denk dat ie wel tot aan Don sr moet om iemand in de rechtzaal te krijgen.
quote:WASHINGTON -- Congressional Republicans and conservative leaders rallied around President Trump Friday, attempting to minimize political damage after Trump shot down a man in the middle of Fifth Avenue in New York City.
“I’m not going to put myself in the position of having to respond to every presidential shooting,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a hastily called press conference at the Capitol, surrounded by members of his leadership team. “I just happen to think it’s important to keep our focus where it belongs, on enacting a conservative, pro-growth agenda that regular Americans care about, such as tax cuts for the rich and the repeal of Medicare.”
Privately, however, at least some Republican members expressed concern about the long-term political impact of such incidents, especially with midterms looming in less than seven months.
“I think that each elected Republican has to make a series of decisions, day in and day out, about whether they find the president's conduct acceptable and to what extent it's appropriate to work with him,” as one frustrated GOP congressman put it, demanding anonymity so he could speak freely. “This shooting is fine for Trump -- he’s not on the ballot this fall -- but he’s putting the rest of us in a really tough position.”
The reaction was similar among Senate Republicans.
“I think we should criticize the president when he’s done something wrong, and applaud him when he’s done something right,” said U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, who nonetheless refused to condemn the shooting directly. “The president and I are scheduled to play golf together next week,” Graham said. “If I have concerns -- and I’m not saying I do -- I think it’s more appropriate to express them to the president in private.”
Others, however, were more blunt. Sen. Bob Corker of Tennessee and Sen. Jeff Flake of Arizona quickly introduced a resolution warning the president of potential censure should he again pull out a gun and shoot somebody. They withdrew that measure after Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear that he would not bring it to a floor vote, calling it “divisive”and “unnecessary.”
“I’ve been assured by people in the White House that there are no plans to shoot anybody else, at least not at this point,” McConnell said.
The victim, attorney Michael Avenatti, was shot twice in the back as he left the studios of NBC News at Rockefeller Center after an interview. According to doctors at Mount Sinai Beth Israel Hospital, Avenatti is expected to recover with no permanent damage to his mouth or other, less vital organs.
At a regularly scheduled White House press briefing Thursday, spokesperson Sarah Sanders referred all questions about the shooting to the president’s private attorneys.
“Look, I know you folks in the mainstream media are looking for every opportunity to criticize this president, who continues to accomplish amazing things for the American people,” Sanders said. “The economy is stronger than it’s been in ages, ISIS is on the run, the remaking of the judiciary. That’s all far more important than any distractions the media likes to throw out there.”
Sanders also refused to rule out the possibility of Trump issuing an immediate pardon for himself, as first proposed by famed legal scholar Alan Dershowitz.
Despite network TV video of Trump emerging from the presidential limousine, gun in hand, other prominent Trump supporters are questioning whether the shooting occurred at all. Fox News host Sean Hannity used his entire Thursday night segment to explore secret links between Hillary Clinton and Avennati, describing the attorney as a “paid crisis actor” as well as “a clear descendant of immigrants.” According to Hannity, the attack has all the earmarks of a “false flag” operation choreographed by the FBI.
“This is the deep state at work, undermining our democracy, my friends,” Hannity told his audience. “This is an unelected part of your government, looking to overturn a duly elected president. Don’t think this a coincidence -- it is the biggest scandal in American history.”
According to an overnight Quinnipiac poll, 68 percent of Republicans now agree that the shooting never happened. A similar poll from Rasmussen put the number at 93 percent.
er is niet zo heel veel te onderhandelen, de posities zijn al behoorlijk vaststaand...quote:Op zondag 22 april 2018 21:53 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Trump moet vooral hoog van de toren blijven blazen. Daarmee versterkt hij de onderhandelingspositie van de Noord-Koreanen. Hij wekt immers de indruk dat een deal al praktisch in kannen en kruiken is. Daardoor kan hij niet met lege handen huiswaarts keren zonder gezichtsverlies te lijden.
quote:President Trump recently tweeted, “The United States, under my administration, has done a great job of ridding the region of ISIS. Where is our ‘Thank you, America?’ ”
President Trump has often criticized Americans for not being grateful enough. Now he has chastised the whole world as a thankless lot of humanity — a globe of ingrates.
Mr. Trump’s obsession with gratitude is a regular feature of his unscripted remarks and speeches. When people thank him, he likes them. But when slighted, he is quick to criticize unappreciative offenders. He has attacked Puerto Rican leaders as “politically motivated ingrates”; demanded public thanks from his cabinet and members of Congress; wants people to thank him for stock market gains; and excoriated a corporation as failing to thank him when he approved a project to its benefit.
Last December, a pro-Trump “super PAC” expressed its gratitude with a commercial, “Thank you, President Trump,” that expressed appreciation to him for, among other things, “letting us say ‘Merry Christmas’ again.”
Gratitude is central to Mr. Trump’s politics. He demands it of his followers, his cabinet and, indeed, of all citizens. He deploys gratitude against his enemies and critics to embarrass and shame. Being grateful is not an option. It is a requirement.
Donald Trump has made “thank you” divisive.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
Goeie move om de belastingen te verlagen op het moment dat de economie goed liep. Echt slim.quote:Op maandag 23 april 2018 12:46 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Meer dan een biljoen door de wc gespoeld:
Still Waiting for the Tax-Cut Boost
The U.S. economy slowed down in the first quarter. That isn’t a surprise, but considering the stimulus hitting the economy it counts as disappointment.
https://www.wsj.com/artic(...)cut-boost-1524475800
Gewoon de vorige president de schuld voor het falen hiervan in de schoenen schuiven. Succes verzekerd!quote:Op maandag 23 april 2018 12:57 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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Goeie move om de belastingen te verlagen op het moment dat de economie goed liep. Echt slim.
En nu?
twitter:MichaelAvenatti twitterde op maandag 23-04-2018 om 13:23:01How do we know that Mr. Cohen and Mr. Trump are in full panic mode? Because they have now called in the propaganda machine and people masquerading as journalists to do their dirty work for them. Why can’t they handle us directly? I thought they were tough guys? #pathetic #basta reageer retweet
Hij is ongeschikt voor de klus. Waarom zou je dan bezorgd zijn dat hij de baan niet krijgt? Dan moet je juist blij zijn.twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 23-04-2018 om 13:30:01Senior administration officials and senators from both parties on the Veterans Affairs Committee are growing increasingly concerned that Ronny Jackson, Trump's new VA Secretary pick, may not get confirmed. https://t.co/tcfeo1Dzfa reageer retweet
Merrick Garlandtwitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-04-2018 om 15:15:19Hard to believe Obstructionists May vote against Mike Pompeo for Secretary of State. The Dems will not approve hundreds of good people, including the Ambassador to Germany. They are maxing out the time on approval process for all, never happened before. Need more Republicans! reageer retweet
Dat mag hij niet doen van de NRA. Dat een onbewapende man iemand met een geweer weet uit te schakelen is niet de bedoeling.quote:Op maandag 23 april 2018 15:27 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
People are still waiting for Donald Trump to congratulate the unarmed black man who had no specialist training whatsoever, yet singlehandedly stopped the Tennessee Waffle House shooting last Sunday.
Still nothing in 5.... 4.... 3....
Waar heeft hij het over?twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-04-2018 om 15:44:46Despite the Democrat inspired laws on Sanctuary Cities and the Border being so bad and one sided, I have instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security not to let these large Caravans of people into our Country. It is a disgrace. We are the only Country in the World so naive! WALL reageer retweet
Over die karavanen die Mexico al tegenhoudt.quote:Op maandag 23 april 2018 15:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Waar heeft hij het over?twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-04-2018 om 15:44:46Despite the Democrat inspired laws on Sanctuary Cities and the Border being so bad and one sided, I have instructed the Secretary of Homeland Security not to let these large Caravans of people into our Country. It is a disgrace. We are the only Country in the World so naive! WALL reageer retweet
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-04-2018 om 15:51:17Mexico, whose laws on immigration are very tough, must stop people from going through Mexico and into the U.S. We may make this a condition of the new NAFTA Agreement. Our Country cannot accept what is happening! Also, we must get Wall funding fast. reageer retweet
quote:Op maandag 23 april 2018 15:51 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
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Over die karavanen die Mexico al tegenhoudt.
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 23-04-2018 om 16:30:19Jessica Drake, an adult-film star, says Stormy Daniels told her twice that she was threatened by someone to stay silent about her alleged affair with Trump. Drake also claims she refused a $10,000 offer to have sex with Trump. https://t.co/FtWPoIMXHK reageer retweet
Een psychiatrisch patiënt die 's nachts naakt naar een restaurant gaat om daar willekeurige mensen neer te knallen kan echter sowieso wel worden gezien als een "well-regulated militia".quote:Op maandag 23 april 2018 17:22 schreef speknek het volgende:
Evangelicals hebben geen moeite met mensen in een nazikostuum als decent folks te zien, maar een onzedig iemand in Adamskostuum wordt een stuk lastiger, dus waarschijnlijk is de GOP nog druk aan het bedenken hoe ze deze terroristische white supremacy daad dan wel positief moeten spinnen.
twitter:NYDailyNews twitterde op maandag 23-04-2018 om 17:12:18This morning, @realDonaldTrump took time to complain about Democrats, NAFTA and immigration.There have been zero tweets about the #WaffleHouse victims or the courageous black man, James Shaw, Jr., whose heroism may have prevented a further loss of life. reageer retweet
twitter:SallyDeal4 twitterde op zondag 22-04-2018 om 21:55:06.@realDonaldTrump I just happened to notice you've not tweeted out thoughts & prayers for the 4 people who were shot & killed with an assault rifle at a TN #WaffleHouse. No doubt many lives were saved by James Shaw Jr., an UNARMED hero. No praise for him? ?#BanAssaultWeapons reageer retweet
twitter:4everNeverTrump twitterde op zondag 22-04-2018 om 21:26:26Wayne LaPierre, 2012: "The only thing that stops a bad guy with a gun, is a good guy with a gun."Today: A good guy with no gun, James Shaw Jr., stopped the #WaffleHouse shooter. reageer retweet
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