[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #495 White House Zero & Waffle House Hero

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Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 21:40 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dit is tijdens/direct nadat de vraag gesteld werd over een eventueel pardon en dat Trump aangaf dat hij de vraag stom vond.

President Trump Holds Meeting With French President Macron4/24/18

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profcarroll twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 23:14:43 In the House of Representatives, the Republicans do not even show up to a hearing with a Cambridge Analytica whistleblower. In Ottawa, a committee is deep into it, even mentioning campaigns in the US, including Bolton, Cruz, Trump and lots of Brexit talk.https://t.co/BnhyxQJyMm reageer retweet

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profcarroll twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 16:46:22 Chair of Canadian Parliament committee ends a tense hearing with: “Something doesn’t smell right here.” Asks AggregateIQ to “do the right thing.” (wow.)https://t.co/xeYgf6xyIZ reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 22:33 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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AP twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 22:29:16 BREAKING: Watchdog report says VA nominee Ronny Jackson, in power struggle with rival doctor, exhibited 'unprofessional behaviors' reageer retweet

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AP twitterde op dinsdag 24-04-2018 om 22:33:17 BREAKING: 2012 inspector general report suggested removing VA nominee Ronny Jackson and rival from White House roles after finding 'severe and pervasive lack of trust in the leadership' reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 25 april 2018 01:19 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Only the best people!

IG-rapport was bij McCabe goed voor ontslag en een lading boze tweets, wat zou ie over dokter Ronny gaan tweeten?

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"I told Admiral Jackson just a little while ago, what do you need this for?" Trump said of his conversation with the White House physician. "This is a vicious group of people, they malign ... what do you need it for?"

In case there was still any doubt about what path Trump wants Jackson to take, the President noted that "I don't want to put a man through a process like this. It's too ugly and too disgusting. ... If I were him, I wouldn't do it."

Bron

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 25-04-2018 om 00:55:22 POLITICO confirms my thread from earlier today: Trump lying to Comey about whether he was at the Ritz Moscow at the time alleged in the Steele dossier could lead to additional referrals in Mueller's report to Rosenstein at DOJ. https://t.co/KlqdleXFsh reageer retweet

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The former NBC host won’t say if he has been interviewed by Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

In a fateful private White House dinner early last year, President Donald Trump raised with then-FBI Director James Comey the issue of “the golden showers thing”—a particularly salacious portion of an intelligence dossier claiming Trump hired Russian prostitutes to urinate on a Moscow hotel-room bed in 2013, while he was in town for the Miss Universe pageant.

According to Comey’s memos about that conversation, Trump claimed it was impossible for him to have done any such thing, because “he had spoken to people who had been on... the trip with him and they had reminded him that he didn’t stay over night in Russia for that.”

All available evidence proves otherwise—from flight records obtained by Politico to social-media posts from the time to testimony from Trump’s own bodyguard. And now there’s more proof.

Thomas Roberts, host of that year’s Miss Universe pageant, confirmed to The Daily Beast on Tuesday that Trump was in Moscow for one full night and at least part of another.

“The first time I met Donald Trump it was in Moscow on November 8th, 2013,” the former NBC anchor said. “I taped a sit-down interview with Trump the next day on November 9th. That was also the date for the Miss Universe broadcast.”

Roberts continued: “During the after-party for the Miss Universe event, Mr. Trump offered to fly me and my husband back to New York. He said he would be leaving directly from the party. We were unable to accept the invitation. That was the early morning hours of November 10th.”

Roberts’ retelling of those days in Moscow represents one of the first public contradictions of the timeline Trump offered Comey. While it does not necessarily prove the existence of a so-called “pee tape,” it does raise further questions as to why the president misled his one-time FBI director in the first place.

The findings of the dossier have already been of interest to Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team, with news emerging a few weeks ago that it had corroborated portions of the explosive document.

Asked whether he has been interviewed by Mueller‘s team, Roberts told The Daily Beast: “No comment.”

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ThomasARoberts twitterde op woensdag 25-04-2018 om 01:05:51 To be clear...I confirmed the dates of my introduction, interview, work and social interactions with Donald Trump in Moscow. The dates areNovember 8th, 2013November 9th, 2013November 10, 2013 https://t.co/EE9kH3xYof reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 20:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Yep. Kim laat mensen in stadions executeren door ze met een mortier of luchtafweerkanon te beschieten als ze geluk hebben, en met een vlammenwerper bij pech. Gebruikte VX tegen zijn halfbroer. Vermoordde zijn oom. En dan heb ik het niet over de kampen.

Inderdaad een toffe peer. Wat is Trump een domme klapjosti.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 25-04-2018 om 02:00:39 White House officials are cautioning Republican lawmakers and other conservative allies to temper their defense of Scott Pruitt, according to two people familiar with the discussions, in a sign that administration support may be waning. https://t.co/QWP0GvhduM reageer retweet

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White House officials are cautioning Republican lawmakers and other conservative allies to temper their defense of Scott Pruitt, according to two people familiar with the discussions, in a sign that administration support for the embattled EPA chief may be waning.

The warnings come as several top GOP lawmakers have stepped forward to publicly criticize Pruitt in recent days, marking a dramatic turn of fortune for one of the most conservative members of President Donald Trump’s cabinet who has been heralded for dismantling Obama-era regulations.

Republicans are now sharpening their criticisms of Pruitt amid a revelation that he met at least once with the lobbyist whose wife rented him a bedroom on Capitol Hill.

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 25-04-2018 om 02:02:16 Jeff Sessions should recuse himself from the Michael Cohen case. Otherwise, Trump will call him on his personal cell phone Lord knows how many times to get inside information (or at least try to). No one in America really thinks Donald Trump is above this. https://t.co/laFSJKyzDQ reageer retweet

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Attorney General Jeff Sessions has decided against recusing himself from the investigation into President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, but will consider stepping back from specific questions tied to the probe, according to a person familiar with the matter.

By contrast, Sessions recused himself from the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election that’s now led by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, a decision that angered Trump and left Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein in charge of the inquiry.

Sessions, who was a top adviser to Trump’s presidential campaign, announced in March 2017 that he had decided he should steer clear of “any matters arising from the campaigns” for president. Trump has called Sessions weak for doing so and said he never would have named him as attorney general had he known the recusal would follow.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 25-04-2018 om 03:00:42 Mick Mulvaney told banking industry executives and lobbyists today that they should increase their campaign donations to influence lawmakers, revealing that he would meet only with lobbyists who contributed to his campaign when he served in the House. https://t.co/jZe7Fhj3hB reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 25-04-2018 om 03:05:05 “We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” Mulvaney told 1,300 bankers and lobbyists at an American Bankers Association conference in Washington. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.” https://t.co/48Dg9VWfGi reageer retweet

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Mick Mulvaney, the interim director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, told banking industry executives and lobbyists on Tuesday that they should increase their campaign donations to influence lawmakers, revealing that he would meet only with lobbyists who contributed to his campaign when he served in the House.

“We had a hierarchy in my office in Congress,” Mr. Mulvaney, a former Republican lawmaker from South Carolina, told 1,300 bankers and lobbyists at an American Bankers Association conference in Washington. “If you’re a lobbyist who never gave us money, I didn’t talk to you. If you’re a lobbyist who gave us money, I might talk to you.”

Mr. Mulvaney, who also runs the White House budget office, is a longtime critic of the Obama-era consumer bureau, including while serving in Congress. He was tapped by President Trump in November to temporarily run the bureau, in part because of his promise to sharply curtail its enforcement actions.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 25-04-2018 om 03:45:28 Pasquale Perrotta, the man who leads the security detail for Scott Pruitt, worked on assignments for American Media Inc. (the parent company of the National Enquirer) during the 2016 campaign, according to records and interviews reported on by NYT. https://t.co/B7iYtkfPij reageer retweet

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The former Secret Service agent who leads the security detail for Scott Pruitt, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, worked on assignments for the tabloid news publisher American Media Inc. during the 2016 presidential campaign, according to records and interviews.

The security official, Pasquale Perrotta, had received a waiver from the E.P.A. under the Obama administration to hold outside employment, but the work has now become the subject of scrutiny in both the agency and Congress.

Federal law enforcement personnel face stringent restrictions on outside jobs to prevent conflicts of interest.

A.M.I.’s chairman, David J. Pecker, is a friend of President Trump’s, and his publications — The National Enquirer and Radar chief among them — have put an emphasis on helping Mr. Trump and hurting his rivals, including endorsing his presidential bid. The company’s payment in August 2016 to Karen McDougal, the former Playboy model who claimed to have had an affair with Mr. Trump, has been drawn into a federal investigation of Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen.

Mr. Perrotta declined to discuss the nature of his assignments for A.M.I. According to several people familiar with his work and documents reviewed by The New York Times, some of the activities included physical security, cybersecurity and investigative services involving litigation.

A spokesman for A.M.I. also declined to comment on Mr. Perrotta’s assignments, but did not challenge that the company had worked with him. It is unclear when he began working with A.M.I. or how he first came into contact with the company.

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Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 23:10 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Iets zegt me dat Trump Obama de schuld gaat geven van het niet goed vetten van Trumps VA secretary nominee.

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Documents provided to Fox News show Dr. Ronny Jackson received glowing praise for his work as White House physician by then-President Barack Obama, amid new allegations that President Trump's pick to run the Department of Veterans Affairs exhibited poor behavior in the workplace.

“Ronny’s positive impact cannot be overstated. He is a tremendous asset to the entire White House team. Already at a level of performance and responsibility that far exceeds is current rank, promote to Rear Admiral now,” said an undated performance review that was signed by Obama.

The former president sent years of positive reports about Trump’s White House doctor, who is giving no indication he will withdraw his nomination for the V.A.

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Op dinsdag 24 april 2018 19:59 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
New York State Senate District 37
Oorzaak: George Latimer (D) nam ontslag om een 'Westchester County executive' te worden
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: D 55,69% - 44,31% R
2014 verkiezing deze zetel: D 49,9% - 45,8% R - 4,3% "Blank" - 0% "Scattering"
2012 verkiezing deze zetel: D 54,1% - 45,9% R
2016 presidentiële verkiezing: Clinton 59,30% - 37,54% Trump
2012 presidentiële verkiezing: Obama 53,95% - 44,97% Romney
Kandidaten: Julie Killian (R), Shelley Mayer (D)

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New York State Assembly District 10
Oorzaak: Chad Lupinacci (R) nam onstlag om 'supervisor of Huntington' te worden.
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: R 58,77% - 41,23% D
2014 verkiezing deze zetel: R 62,7% - 37,3% D
2012 verkiezing deze zetel: R 55,3% - 44,7% D
2016 presidentiële verkiezing: Trump 44,85% - 52,08% Clinton
2012 presidentiële verkiezing: Romney 47,80% - 51,06% Obama
Kandidaten: Steve Stern (D), Janet Smitelli (R)

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Op woensdag 25 april 2018 05:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Als jij denkt dat dat de oplossing is.

Ik beweer het niet.

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Op woensdag 25 april 2018 06:46 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Dat doe je feitelijk wel.

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Op woensdag 25 april 2018 06:46 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Dat doe je feitelijk wel.

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Op woensdag 25 april 2018 06:46 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Dat doe je feitelijk wel.

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Op woensdag 25 april 2018 07:09 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Nee hoor. Dat maak jij ervan.

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Op woensdag 25 april 2018 08:27 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Ironisch dat je niet eens achter je eigen woorden kan staan, tekent je niveau hier, of in ieder geval wat je hier eigenlijk wilt bereiken.

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Op woensdag 25 april 2018 08:27 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Ironisch dat je niet eens achter je eigen woorden kan staan, tekent je niveau hier, of in ieder geval wat je hier eigenlijk wilt bereiken.

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Op woensdag 25 april 2018 08:46 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Vind jij het ook niet wat ongepast dat Trump een dictator een 'eervol man' noemt? Zou je ook schouderophalend reageren als hij hetzelfde zei over de leiders van Iran, die aan de lopende band Israël hebben bedreigd?