[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #496 Candyman Jackson

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The Senate Judiciary Committee advanced legislation Thursday that would protect special counsel Robert S. Mueller III from being fired by President Trump after the panel’s Republican chairman backed off changes that threatened bipartisan support for the bill.

A draft released by Chairman Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) on Wednesday night omitted language that would require the special counsel to notify congressional leaders “if there is any change made to the specific nature or scope” of the investigation. Democrats had feared that would allow Republicans to meddle and potentially tip off Trump and his allies to developments in the probe.

With those changes, all of the Democrats on the committee joined Grassley and several other Republicans to advance the bill on a 14-to-7 vote.

“It is possible the bill goes too far,” Grassley said at a committee meeting Thursday. “But at the very least, if my amendment is adopted, it will require the executive branch to give more information to Congress, and that will allow Congress to do its job more effectively and to safeguard the interests of the American people.”

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 17:34 schreef DeParo het volgende:
Als Trump iets zegt wat het wereldbeeld van sommige posters hier bevestigt zijn het leugens, als hij iets zegt wat hun wereldbevestigt dan klopt het opeens wel, als hij zoveel onwaarheden en leugens zit dan is er geen reden om aan te nemen dat deze Fox-uitspraak daar ook niet onder valt.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 17:34 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Probeer het anders eens in het Nederlands.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 16:57 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Dat is het probleem met Trump: die blijft maar ratelen. Het gevolg is dat je jezelf vanzelf een keer in de nesten werkt.

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President Trump had been ranting for 2 minutes and 52 seconds about former FBI director James B. Comey, “fake news CNN” and the Justice Department when “Fox & Friends” co-host Steve Doocy interjected.

“It's your Justice Department!” Doocy exclaimed while interviewing Trump by phone on Fox News's morning show on Thursday. “Mr. President, Mr. President, you're the Republican in charge. You've got a Republican running it.”

Even Doocy, an ardent Trump apologist, seemed flabbergasted by the logical fallacy of Trump's deep-state conspiracy theory.

But Trump was undeterred.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 17:35 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Stoer hoor.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 17:39 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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‘It’s your Justice Department!’: Fox News hosts tried and failed to halt Trump’s rant (WaPo)

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 14:30 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Gezocht: geld voor tweede eethoek.

Ben Carson Thinks Poor People Should Pay Higher Rent If They Want Government Help (HuffPo)

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 17:52 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Dit maakt hem oh zo populair bij zijn aanhang, even lekker bellen om alles wat hem dwarszit te ventileren, .

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 18:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Een stampvoetende kleuter in een supermarkt. Schreeuwend en tierend dat hij snoep wil en een Suske en Wiske.

De act begint na anderhalf jaar wel te vervelen.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 18:31 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Zelfs voor Fox & Friends.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 18:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ander onderwerp dan maar.

China?

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 18:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ander onderwerp dan maar.

China?

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FANTASTIC news that President @realdonaldtrump will at last come to Britain on 13 July. Looking forward to seeing our closest ally and friend on the GREATest visit ever. 👌🇬🇧🇺🇸
https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/989546562073309184?s=19

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 19:02 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Tweet van Boris Johnson:

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Tsja..

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 19:02 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Tweet van Boris Johnson:

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Tsja..

Have I Got News For You - Boris Johnson' Mastermind Challenge

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 11:43 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Nee dat waren ze niet.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 19:11 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Johnson en Macron hebben heel goed door wat werkt bij Trump. Merkel heeft er wat moeite mee, maar als je 'm maar heel enthousiast benadert en genoeg complimenten geeft, dan is Trump als was in je handen.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 19:33 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ik denk dat Merkel zich intellectueel te ver van hem verwijderd voelt om zo bij hem te gaan slijmen.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 19:36 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Er wordt ook wel eens gezegd dat Merkel asperger heeft, dus wellicht kan ze het ook gewoon niet.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 17:52 schreef DeParo het volgende:
Dit maakt hem oh zo populair bij zijn aanhang, even lekker bellen om alles wat hem dwarszit te ventileren, .

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 17:52 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Dit maakt hem oh zo populair bij zijn aanhang, even lekker bellen om alles wat hem dwarszit te ventileren, .

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tedlieu twitterde op donderdag 26-04-2018 om 16:27:16 Dear @realDonaldTrump: Can you please go on Fox & Friends once a week and rant? Let America hear your unfiltered self on live TV. It's exciting and helps Dems. Thanks. https://t.co/J7mUTx2y7s reageer retweet

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Most interesting fact from today’s hearing IMO - FBI imaged 16 (by my count) cell phones and blackberries seized in MC raids. Usually not a good sign when the target appears to have saved old phones and there are that many phones recovered. BIGLY bad...for many. #basta

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 19:53 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Dat intervie-euh rant monoloogje van hem bij Fox...mijn god zeg. Not so stable genius...

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 20:17 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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https://twitter.com/Micha(...)567719132614657?s=20

Oeps.....

Daarmee kun je wel wat verklaringen van DT en MC en SH onderuit schoppen denk ik.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 20:18 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Lachen man, hij weet zichzelf weer in één zin tegen te spreken. Comey released classified memos, about me and they were phoney memo's.

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Bryan Rice has resigned just six months after Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke appointed him to lead the Bureau of Indian Affairs, multiple sources familiar with the situation told HuffPost.

The bureau, which is part of the Interior Department and handles government relations with more than 500 federally-recognized tribes, has made no official announcement about Rice’s departure. Agency officials are not discussing details of his resignation.

“It is our policy not to discuss DOI personnel matters in the press,” BIA spokeswoman Nedra Darling said in an email. She ignored follow-up questions about whether Rice was still employed.

The resignation comes roughly two weeks after the agency’s internal watchdog concluded that poor Interior Department staff record keeping made it impossible to determine if the reassignment of dozens of senior agency staff last year was legal. Nearly a third of the transferred staffers were Native American, Talking Points Memo reported.

When Zinke announced Rice as his choice to lead the bureau in October, he said the veteran Interior official “has a wealth of management expertise and experience that will well serve Indian Country.”

“I have full confidence that Bryan is the right person at this pivotal time as we work to renew the department’s focus on self-determination and self-governance, give power back to the tribes, and provide real meaning to the concept of tribal sovereignty,” Zinke said.

Rice is a member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma and previously led Interior’s Office of Wildland Fire beginning under the Obama administration in 2016.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 22:47 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Wat bedoelde Trump trouwens in het telefoongesprekrant met Fox & Friends toen hij zei "They are all, I don't mean Democrats, I mean, they are the real deal."

Fox & Friends abruptly ends unhinged interview with President Trump

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 23:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dit nieuws is denk ik echt onderschat. Dat betekent dus dat een aanzienlijk deel van de belangrijke republikeinen breken met McConnel hierover. Grassley is in de senaat echt geen nobody ofzo.

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 00:17 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Sowieso heb je voor een stemming van 14-7, waar de verhouding 11-10 is, 4 "muitende" republikeinen nodig, naast dat het hoofd het in stemming wil brengen (wat bij de huidige anti-democratische/pro-despotische houding van de republikeinen best wel soms een issue is).

Ik vind dat niet niks. Sterker, weet je hoeveel dat in verhouding is naar de hele senaat? 4/11 * 51 + 49 = 67,5%

Edit: En nu ik deze cijfers eruit kreeg vraag ik me dan weer af of dat dan weer toeval was ...

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President Donald Trump issued a veiled warning to nations that don’t support the North American bid to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 27-04-2018 om 01:39:32 The U.S. has put together a STRONG bid with Canada & Mexico for the 2026 World Cup. It would be a shame if countries that we always support were to lobby against the U.S. bid. Why should we be supporting these countries when they don’t support us (including at the United Nations)? reageer retweet

Members of soccer’s international governing body, FIFA’s Congress, will meet in Moscow on June 13 to select the host. The bidding process will reopen if voters decide neither Morocco nor North America is appropriate.

The U.S. last hosted the tournament in 1994, with games taking place in nine cities across the country.

The 2018 World Cup kicks off in Russia on June 14. The U.S. men’s national team did not qualify.

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America hasn’t always, or even usually, been governed by the best and the brightest; over the years, presidents have employed plenty of knaves and fools. But I don’t think we’ve ever seen anything like the collection of petty grifters and miscreants surrounding Donald Trump. Price, Pruitt, Zinke, Carson and now Ronny Jackson: At this point, our default assumption should be that there’s something seriously wrong with anyone this president wants on his team.

Still, we need to keep our eye on the ball. The perks many Trump officials demand — the gratuitous first-class travel, the double super-secret soundproof phone booths, and so on — are outrageous, and they tell you a lot about the kind of people they are. But what really matters are their policy decisions. Ben Carson’s insistence on spending taxpayer funds on a $31,000 dining set is ridiculous; his proposal to sharply raise housing costs for hundreds of thousands of needy American families, tripling rents for some of the poorest households, is vicious.

And this viciousness is part of a broader pattern. Last year, Trump and his allies in Congress devoted most of their efforts to coddling the rich; this was obviously true of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, but even the assault on Obamacare was largely about securing hundreds of billions in tax cuts for the wealthy. This year, however, the G.O.P.’s main priority seems to be making war on the poor.

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 11:47 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Geef ons WK Voetbal 2026! Of anders!!!1!1

Donald Trump Tries Bullying His Way Into Hosting The 2026 Soccer World Cup (HuffPo)

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FIFA heeft nog niet officieel gereageerd, maar volgens een aantal Twieters heeft de VS zichzelf hiermee gediskwalificeerd. (Hoewel ik verwacht ladingen stoom uit Donalds oren te zien komen als hij straks de lijst met eisen en vrijstellingen van de FIFA onder ogen krijgt, plus de extra garanties die ze van een notoir onbetrouwbare onderhandelingspartner als de VS ongetwijfeld zullen eisen.)

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 14:26 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Welke ambassadeur was het, die van de Amerikaanse ambassadeur te horen kreeg "dat is de de duurste stem die je ooit hebt uitgebracht",

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WHO SAYS votes in the United Nations have little effect? Twenty years ago the U.S. was corralling together the coalition for Desert Storm—the first step for which, under the law-abiding Bush Senior, were U.N. Security Council resolutions authorizing action against Iraq. For most U.N. members, the annexation of a sovereign member state was sufficient cause for such a resolution. Although some members were concerned that Washington seemed to be rushing to a military resolution of the conflict rather than a diplomatic solution, Saddam Hussain’s idea of diplomacy probably won Kuwait and the U.S. more allies than otherwise.

However, temporary Security Council members Cuba—which, of course, had its own issues with the U.S.—and newly reunified Yemen resisted American pressure. They abstained and even voted against the resolutions moved by the U.S., which did not affect the comfortable majority enjoyed by Washington, with Gorbachev’s support.

Whether one agrees or not, that vote was brave, even foolhardy, of Yemen. A member of the U.S. delegation candidly told the Yemeni ambassador that it was “the most expensive vote you ever cast,” and indeed it was, and might even play a part in the chaos there today. Not only did Washington cut off its $70 million foreign aid program, but the Saudis also abandoned their long-standing treaty with Yemen which allowed its nationals preferential treatment as immigrant workers. The Kingdom and the Gulf states brusquely repatriated a million or so Yemenis, whose missing remittances over the past two decades have contributed to the poverty and underdevelopment of the state.

https://www.wrmea.org/201(...)ty-council-veto.html

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 19:45 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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dan geef je gelijk aan uit wat voor hout die aanhangers gesneden zijn. Misschien moeten ze zich eens met iets anders bezig houden dan politiek.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 19:42 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Zijn fanatieke aanhang kun je dan ook het beste beschouwen als een hospitaal vol terminale kankerpatiënten, daarvoor is geen redding mogelijk. Richt je op de mensen in wier brein nog wel gezonde cellen willen groeien.

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Op donderdag 26 april 2018 19:26 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Niet? Michele Bachmann om er eens een te noemen uit mijn hoofd. Gohmert? Wilson? Allen West?

De lijst is lang, hoor.

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 16:46 schreef DeParo het volgende:
De rol van de Trump-administratie in het vredesproces tussen beide Korea's verdient lof.

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 16:46 schreef DeParo het volgende:
De rol van de Trump-administratie in het vredesproces tussen beide Korea's verdient lof.

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 18:48 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Kun je beschrijven wat deze rol geweest is?

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 18:48 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Kun je beschrijven wat deze rol geweest is?

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 18:48 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Kun je beschrijven wat deze rol geweest is?

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 18:57 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Niet doen, daar is hij juist op uit

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 15:11 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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Yemen, in 1990.

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 20:18 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat district ziet er vooralsnog als volgt uit:

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Former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort has lost his lawsuit claiming that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and special counsel Robert Mueller exceeded their authority in charging him with alleged crimes that he says have nothing to do with the 2016 campaign.

A judge said Friday that Manafort can't use this lawsuit to stop the special counsel's office from continuing to pursue an investigation of him.
"A civil case is not the appropriate vehicle for taking issue with what a prosecutor has done in the past or where he might be headed in the future," Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the US District Court in Washington, DC, wrote Friday.

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 16:46 schreef DeParo het volgende:
De rol van de Trump-administratie in het vredesproces tussen beide Korea's verdient lof.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 03-01-2018 om 01:49:19 North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un just stated that the “Nuclear Button is on his desk at all times.” Will someone from his depleted and food starved regime please inform him that I too have a Nuclear Button, but it is a much bigger & more powerful one than his, and my Button works! reageer retweet

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House chaplain forced out by Ryan

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Ryan’s and Pelosi’s offices agree that Pelosi was told in advance that the chaplain was leaving.

AshLee Strong, a spokeswoman for Ryan, said it was Ryan’s decision, but declined to offer a reason for the move. She added that Pelosi and her office “were fully read in and did not object.”

"The speaker told Leader Pelosi that he would not move forward with the decision if she objected and she chose not to," Strong said.

In a separate statement to media outlets late Thursday, Strong said, "The speaker consulted with the minority leader, but the decision was his. He remains grateful for Father Conroy’s service."

Pelosi’s office disputed that the Democrat did not object.

“Leader Pelosi was given advance notice by Speaker Ryan," said a Pelosi spokesman, but she “also made it clear to Speaker Ryan that she disagreed with this decision.”

A second Democratic aide said Conroy’s ouster was “largely driven by a speech on the tax bill that the Speaker didn't like.” But the source also offered a second reason.

“Some of the more conservative evangelical Republicans didn't like that the Father had invited a Muslim person to give the opening prayer,” the source said.

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Ryan explains decision to dismiss House chaplain

Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) told the House Republican Conference Friday morning that he fired Chaplain Patrick Conroy because members felt like their “pastoral needs” were not being met and not for a political reason, according to several Republicans inside the room.

Ryan told members his decision to ask Conroy to step aside had nothing to do with politics, a policy conflict or a prayer.

A number of lawmakers had approached Ryan and told him they needed someone in the chaplain’s role who could offer more “spiritual counseling,” according to Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.), who attended the meeting.

Ryan agreed, he told the members.

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May all Members be mindful that the institutions and structures of our great Nation guarantee the opportunities that have allowed some to achieve great success, while others continue to struggle," Conroy said at the time. "May their efforts these days guarantee that there are not winners and losers under new tax laws, but benefits balanced and shared by all Americans."

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Lawyer Who Was Said to Have Dirt on Clinton Had Closer Ties to Kremlin Than She Let On

MOSCOW — The Russian lawyer who met with Trump campaign officials in Trump Tower in June 2016 on the premise that she would deliver damaging information about Hillary Clinton has long insisted she is a private attorney, not a Kremlin operative trying to meddle in the presidential election.

But newly released emails show that in at least one instance two years earlier, the lawyer, Natalia V. Veselnitskaya, worked hand in glove with Russia’s chief legal office to thwart a Justice Department civil fraud case against a well-connected Russian firm.

Ms. Veselnitskaya also appears to have recanted her earlier denials of Russian government ties. During an interview to be broadcast Friday by NBC News, she acknowledged that she was not merely a private lawyer but a source of information for a top Kremlin official, Yuri Y. Chaika, the prosecutor general.

“I am a lawyer, and I am an informant,” she said. “Since 2013, I have been actively communicating with the office of the Russian prosecutor general.”

Bron: NYT

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Op vrijdag 27 april 2018 21:18 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://thehill.com/homene(...)n-forced-out-by-ryan

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http://thehill.com/homene(...)-closed-door-meeting
Meerdere leden bevestigen dat Ryan gezegd heeft dat meerdere leden geklaagd hadden. En nu gaat men een meer passende chaplain zoeken, iemand met een gezin, maar dat is niet om Katholieken uit te sluiten...

Z'n gebed op de dag dat men aan de Tax Bill begon:

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