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Trump-allied House conservatives draft articles of impeachment against Rosenstein as ‘last resort’ (WP)

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Conservative House allies of President Trump have drafted articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who oversees the ongoing special counsel probe, setting up a possible GOP showdown over the federal investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

The document, which was obtained by The Washington Post, underscores the growing chasm between congressional Republican leaders, who have maintained for months that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III should be allowed to proceed, and rank-and-file GOP lawmakers who have repeatedly battled the Justice Department during the past year.

The draft articles, which one of its authors called a “last resort,” would be unlikely to garner significant support in Congress. But it could serve as a provocative political weapon for conservatives in their standoff with Mueller and the Justice Department.

Members of the conservative House Freedom Caucus — led by Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), a Trump confidant — finalized the draft in recent days. It came after weeks of disputes with Rosenstein over the Justice Department’s response to congressional requests for documents about the decisions and behavior of federal law-enforcement officials working on the Russia investigation and other federal probes, including the investigation into 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton’s email server.

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EPA whistleblower says Pruitt 'lied' to Congress (ABC)

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A whistleblower from the Environmental Protection Agency says that Administrator Scott Pruitt was "bold-faced" lying when he told members of Congress that no EPA employees were retaliated against for raising concerns about his spending decisions.

In an exclusive interview with ABC News' Kyra Phillips, former deputy chief of staff Kevin Chmielewski said he was "100 percent" forced out after raising concerns about Pruitt's spending on first-class travel.

Chmielewski said chief of staff Ryan Jackson called him into his office and said: "Hey — Administrator Pruitt either wants me to fire you or put you in an office so that he doesn't have to see you again,” Chmielewski told ABC News adding that "And in addition to that, he wants to put Millan (Hupp) in your spot, as your title and your pay grade."

"I think Ryan Jackson, the chief of staff, is a very honorable guy. I think he's just in a weird situation," Chmielewski said. "Because he was — he was the biggest advocate about doing the right thing. We would talk about it all the time."

ABC News has reached out to Jackson and Hupp for comment.

The EPA declined to comment in response to questions about Chmielewski’s allegations against Pruitt and his staff. ABC News obtained a personnel form filled out by an EPA HR officials that says he resigned on March 17.

The form is not signed by Chmielewski, who says he was actually forced to leave a month before that date.

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Mueller Has Dozens of Inquiries for Trump in Broad Quest on Russia Ties and Obstruction (NYT)

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Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russia’s election interference, has at least four dozen questions on an exhaustive array of subjects he wants to ask President Trump to learn more about his ties to Russia and determine whether he obstructed the inquiry itself, according to a list of the questions obtained by The New York Times.

[Read the questions here.]

The open-ended queries appear to be an attempt to penetrate the president’s thinking, to get at the motivation behind some of his most combative Twitter posts and to examine his relationships with his family and his closest advisers. They deal chiefly with the president’s high-profile firings of the F.B.I. director and his first national security adviser, his treatment of Attorney General Jeff Sessions and a 2016 Trump Tower meeting between campaign officials and Russians offering dirt on Hillary Clinton.

But they also touch on the president’s businesses; any discussions with his longtime personal lawyer, Michael D. Cohen, about a Moscow real estate deal; whether the president knew of any attempt by Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, to set up a back channel to Russia during the transition; any contacts he had with Roger J. Stone Jr., a longtime adviser who claimed to have inside information about Democratic email hackings; and what happened during Mr. Trump’s 2013 trip to Moscow for the Miss Universe pageant.

The questions provide the most detailed look yet inside Mr. Mueller’s investigation, which has been shrouded in secrecy since he was appointed nearly a year ago. The majority relate to possible obstruction of justice, demonstrating how an investigation into Russia’s election meddling grew to include an examination of the president’s conduct in office. Among them are queries on any discussions Mr. Trump had about his attempts to fire Mr. Mueller himself and what the president knew about possible pardon offers to Mr. Flynn.

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https://www.politico.com/(...)ts-from-trump-218115

Waarom een wanhopige Trump wel eens zou kunnen zorgen dat de VS de grote verliezer gaat worden bij een deal met Noord-Korea.

Importheffingen (staal en aluminium) voor Europa uitgesteld tot juni. Idem voor Canada en Mexico.
https://www.nu.nl/economi(...)opese-unie-juni.html

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 06:20 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Importheffingen (staal en aluminium) voor Europa uitgesteld tot juni. Idem voor Canada en Mexico.
https://www.nu.nl/economi(...)opese-unie-juni.html

Elke keer een maand uitstel, en je als EU maar als speelbal laten gebruiken, gaat lekker zo...

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 08:24 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Elke keer een maand uitstel, en je als EU maar als speelbal laten gebruiken, gaat lekker zo...

Wat moeten ze dan doen? Dit is nog altijd te verkiezen boven wel tarieven.

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 08:24 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Elke keer een maand uitstel, en je als EU maar als speelbal laten gebruiken, gaat lekker zo...

Daarom des te belangrijker dat Europa gaat overleggen met landen als Mexico en Canada om het gevaar van Amerika in te dammen.

Roy Moore (bekend van o.a. zijn paard Sassy) kan zich nog steeds niet bij zijn verlies neerleggen...


Roy Moore Files Complaint Claiming He Was Targeted By Political Conspiracy (HuffPo)

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Former Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore filed a complaint on Monday claiming he was the target of a political conspiracy ahead of the Alabama special election in December.

Moore, a former judge, lost to Democrat Doug Jones in a special election to fill a Senate seat vacated by Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Jones defeated Moore by about 20,000 votes ― or 1.5 percentage points.

Controversy swirled around Moore in the final months of the campaign as several women came forward to accuse him of sexual misconduct, including allegations that he pursued and harassed teenage girls when he was in his 30s and sexually assaulted one. Moore has denied the allegations.

In a statement released on a campaign Facebook page, Moore’s attorney, Melissa Isaak, said the allegations against Moore “arose from a political conspiracy to destroy his personal reputation and defeat him in the special Senate election for United States Senate.”

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Shocking Gun Ad By Georgia Gubernatorial Candidate Brian Kemp Backfires (HuffPo)

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Negative comments have rained down on a pro-gun political ad by controversial Georgia gubernatorial candidate Brian Kemp in which the Republican points a shotgun at a young man supposedly interested in dating one of Kemp’s daughters as the teen professes a “healthy appreciation” for the Second Amendment.

Viewers are demanding that an Atlanta television station stop running it. “We are gun owners and we are outraged,” one told Atlanta NBC affiliate 11 Alive. Kemp is currently Georgia’s secretary of state.

“I’m a conservative businessman with a four-point plan to put hardworking Georgians first,” Kemp said in a tweet Friday when he unveiled the ad. ”I’m also the proud father of three teenage girls. Here’s the thing: If you want to date one of my daughters, you better have respect for women and a healthy appreciation for the Second Amendment.”

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 12:47:30 So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were “leaked” to the media. No questions on Collusion. Oh, I see...you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 13:34:13 It would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened! Witch Hunt! reageer retweet

U.S. EPA grants biofuels waiver to billionaire Icahn's oil refinery

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has granted a financial hardship waiver to an oil refinery owned by billionaire Carl Icahn, a former adviser to President Donald Trump, exempting the Oklahoma facility from requirements under a federal biofuels law, according to two industry sources briefed on the matter.

The waiver enables Icahn’s CVR Energy Inc (CVI.N) to avoid tens of millions of dollars in costs related to the U.S. Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) program. The regulation is meant to cut air pollution, reduce petroleum imports and support corn farmers by requiring refiners to mix billions of gallons of biofuels into the nation’s gasoline and diesel each year.

The Small Refiners Coalition, which represents companies that operate small refining facilities, said the EPA is required by law to help small refineries struggling with these regulations and that such exemptions are crucial to their financial well-being. It applauded EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt for protecting small refineries, regardless of ownership, from the RFS requirements.

But the exemption for CVR’s Wynnewood, Oklahoma plant prompted criticism from a corn state lawmaker and the powerful corn lobby, which has already accused Trump’s EPA of overusing the hardship waiver program in a way that hurts demand for ethanol.

“Hundreds of millions - and in some cases billions - of dollars in profits isn’t my definition of ‘hardship,’” Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley said in statement condemning the CVR waiver. “President Trump promised to support home-grown biofuels, and Administrator Pruitt is breaking that promise.”

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Another top Scott Pruitt aide resigns at EPA

House panel expected to interview EPA chief Scott Pruitt's former head of security in conduct probe

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The House Oversight Committee is expected to interview Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt's former head of security Wednesday, the latest indication that Pruitt still faces scrutiny from Congress after back-to-back hearings last week.

Pasquale "Nino" Perrotta, a former Secret Service agent whose career in law enforcement included a stint investigating the Gambino crime family for the Bronx district attorney in New York City, led Pruitt's 24-hour security detail, putting him at the center of several of the ethics and spending episodes under review by the EPA inspector general and congressional investigators.

In a phone interview this morning, Perrotta, who said he resigned from his job at the EPA Monday, said he plans to "fully cooperate and answer any and all questions" from Congress, starting with the transcribed interview with the House Oversight Committee Wednesday.

"All of this press is taking a toll on my family. I decided to move on and it's been an honor to serve," he said.

An EPA spokesman did not respond to a request for comment on the transcribed interview or Perrotta's resignation.

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Tot Trump vorig jaar weigerde te komen, heeft er maar 1 president ooit verstek laten gaan, maar die had een geldig excuus (hij had namelijk net een aanslag overleefd, maar liet zich niet kennen en belde vanaf zijn ziekenhuisbed). Maar hoe geef je als conferencier een reaktie op een speech van een president (= de oorspronkelijke volgorde) die niet komt opdagen?

Did Michelle Wolf Kill the White House Correspondents’ Dinner? (NYTimes)

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As the power elite of Washington filed out of the White House Correspondents’ Association dinner on Saturday, chattering about the rough-and-tumble set by the comedian Michelle Wolf, the White House press secretary, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, was invited to pose for a portrait with her fellow honorees on the dais.

Ms. Wolf smiled for the camera. But Ms. Sanders declined, not wanting to appear in a photo alongside the comedian, according to two people who described the exchange.

It was an early ripple of the tsunami to come. Ms. Wolf’s punch lines about Ms. Sanders and Kellyanne Conway, another prominent woman in the Trump administration, set off a high-dudgeon debate that raised the possibility that Saturday’s edition of the nearly 100-year-old dinner could be the last of its kind.

“It will not surprise you to hear that my email inbox is overflowing with advice on how to improve the dinner,” Olivier Knox, the incoming president of the White House Correspondents’ Association, said in an interview on Monday. He reeled off the possibilities now on the table: “No entertainer. No comic. A serious speaker. Maybe a musician. Maybe don’t televise it.”

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Trump's team heeft die vragen nota bene zelf gelekt. Mueller lekt nooit iets en heeft daar ook geen belang bij. En dan nu gaan huilen dat het allemaal zo "disgraceful" is. Wat een doorzichtige set-up.

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 17:10 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Trump's team heeft die vragen nota bene zelf gelekt. Mueller lekt nooit iets en heeft daar ook geen belang bij. En dan nu gaan huilen dat het allemaal zo "disgraceful" is. Wat een doorzichtige set-up.

Hij is ook wel geinteresseerd naar de duizenden creatieve antwoorden op deze vragen die al zijn fans gaan bedenken natuurlijk zodat hij die eventueel kan gebruiken. Beter dat de hele goegemeente nadenkt over de antwoorden dan alleen zijn team. Misschien dat iemand met een mooi nieuw talking point komt dat ze kunnen gebruiken.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 15:50:04 The U.S. just borrowed $488,000,000,000, a record high for the first quarter. https://t.co/VZWbtn9keh reageer retweet

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The promise was that the tax cut would produce a huge surge in business investment — not in the long run, not five or 10 years from now, but right away. And it's not happening.

How’s That Tax Cut Working Out? (NYTimes)

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So far, Donald Trump and his allies in Congress have achieved one and only one major legislative victory: passing a large tax cut, mainly aimed at corporations and business owners. The tax cut’s proponents promised that it would lead to a dramatic acceleration of economic growth and produce big gains in wages; they hoped that it would also yield big political dividends for the midterm elections.

So how’s it going? Politically, the tax cut is a damp squib: Most voters say they haven’t seen any boost to their paychecks, and Republicans are barely talking about the law in their political campaigns. But what about the economics?

You might be tempted to say that it’s too early to tell. After all, the law has been in effect for only a few months, and we got our first look at post-tax-cut economic growth only last week. But here’s the thing: To deliver on its backers’ promises, the tax cut would have to produce a huge surge in business investment — not in the long run, not five or 10 years from now, but more or less right away. And there’s no sign that anything like that is happening.

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 16:57 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 12:47:30 So disgraceful that the questions concerning the Russian Witch Hunt were “leaked” to the media. No questions on Collusion. Oh, I see...you have a made up, phony crime, Collusion, that never existed, and an investigation begun with illegally leaked classified information. Nice! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 13:34:13 It would seem very hard to obstruct justice for a crime that never happened! Witch Hunt! reageer retweet

John Dean Says It Could Be Act of Obstruction if Trump Team Leaked Mueller's Questions

Waarom zou men valse informatie, leugens dus, geheim willen houden?

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 17:22 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:

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How’s That Tax Cut Working Out? (NYTimes)

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Tegelijkertijd merkt men nauwelijks dat er meer besteedbaar inkomen is, en vinden nog altijd meer mensen de belastingwet een slecht idee dan een goed idee. Uitstekend talking point van de Democraten.

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 17:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 15:50:04 The U.S. just borrowed $488,000,000,000, a record high for the first quarter. https://t.co/VZWbtn9keh reageer retweet

Absolute cijfers zeggen ook weer niet heel veel. Het achterliggende artikel van Bloomberg is een stuk verhelderender. Het tekort groot ook als percentage van het BBP lekker door naar verwachting. Kennelijk is het faillissement van de VS niet zo'n issue meer voor het gros van de Republikeinen.

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 17:50 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Waarom zou men valse informatie, leugens dus, geheim willen houden?

Omdat het een complot is vanuit de 'deep state' om zijn administratie te schaden dat zo lang mogelijk in stand gehouden moet worden natuurlijk! Dat is wat Trump zijn fanbase wil laten weten.

Als bewijs daarvoor: er zijn geen Mueller-vragen over 'collusion'. Dat is een beetje een semantisch spelletje aan het worden. Trump hoeft nl niet direct ZELF samengespannen te hebben met de Russen om zich schuldig te maken aan 'obstruction' van het onderzoek. Het is ook obstructie als hij ervan geweten heeft dat zijn campagne-medewerkers dat deden en daar was wel degelijk een Mueller-vraag over:

Update database Trump leugens, halve waarheden en misleidingen:

In 466 days, President Trump has made 3,001 false or misleading claims

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The Fact Checker’s ongoing database of the false or misleading claims made by President Trump since assuming office.

Trump is de leaker!
Zoveel gescheld en getier om het lekken, en zelf de bron zijn van diverse lekken. Fake President.

Trump doc says Trump bodyguard, lawyer 'raided' his office, took medical files

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In February 2017, a top White House aide who was Trump's longtime personal bodyguard, along with the top lawyer at the Trump Organization and a third man, showed up at the office of Trump's New York doctor without notice and took all the president's medical records.

The incident, which Dr. Harold Bornstein described as a "raid," took place two days after Bornstein told a newspaper that he had prescribed a hair growth medicine for the president for years.

In an exclusive interview in his Park Avenue office, Bornstein told NBC News that he felt "raped, frightened and sad" when Keith Schiller and another "large man" came to his office to collect the president's records on the morning of Feb. 3, 2017. At the time, Schiller, who had long worked as Trump's bodyguard, was serving as director of Oval Office operations at the White House.

"They must have been here for 25 or 30 minutes. It created a lot of chaos," Bornstein said, who described the incident as frightening.

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JaxAlemany twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 20:37:01 .@KaciSokoloff just spoke w Dr. Harold Bornstein, who refused an interview but said that NBC's piece was "a pretty good story." Bornstein also said that he spoke to the NBC reporter "in the bathroom" of his office. He signed off with: "Sweetheart, this is watergate, goodbye!" reageer retweet

Volgens Sanders is dit de 'standaard procedure'

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Yamiche twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 21:07:04 Reminder: Sarah Sanders just said this was "standard procedure." https://t.co/Ft87xdwhWl reageer retweet

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Weer een goed segment van Colbert:

Over het tegenstrijdige reactie van Trump over de Russische informant en de meeting in Trump Tower.

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 18:51 schreef Montov het volgende:
Trump is de leaker!
Zoveel gescheld en getier om het lekken, en zelf de bron zijn van diverse lekken. Fake President.

Nou ja niet zelf natuurlijk. Trump laat dat doen en wast zijn handen in onschuld. Dat is zijn hele leven al zijn werkwijze. Laat het vuile werk opknappen door anderen en blijf zelf buiten schot.

Only the best people...

EPA Aide On Toxic Cleanups Resigns Amid Scott Pruitt Scandals (HuffPo)

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Albert Kelly, a top aide to Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt in charge of overhauling the organization’s cleanup of America’s most contaminated sites, has resigned.

His departure, which Axios first reported Tuesday, comes the same day Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta, the head of Pruitt’s controversial round-the-clock security detail, stepped down early ahead of planned testimony before the House Oversight Committee. The resignations add to the chaos that has engulfed the EPA since Pruitt’s whirlwind of corruption accusations and ethical scandals began in late March.

Kelly, a former banking executive, was banned for life from that industry in 2016 as The Intercept reported. Almost immediately thereafter, Pruitt appointed him to lead the EPA’s effort to prioritize and streamline the Superfund program.

Kelly has been closely involved with Pruitt’s ongoing scandals. Last month, he canceled a trip to a West Virginia coal town contaminated with toxic chemicals to stay behind in Washington and help the administrator deal with the fallout from the controversies. Last week, Reps. Don Beyer and Gerald Connolly, both Virginia Democrats, called on the EPA’s inspector general to investigate why Pruitt hired Kelly despite his complete lack of experience in toxic cleanup. The former banker became a magnet for criticism himself after reports emerged that Kelly owned at least $75,000 in fossil fuel stocks, including in a company responsible for contaminating a Louisiana bayou.

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Er zijn vandaag weer special elections. 2 zonder tegenkandidaat en bij de overige 2 zou het best ogenschijnlijk wel eens zo kunnen zijn dat een democraat een zetel van de republikeinen afpakt en een republikein er eentje pakt van de democraten:

Massachusetts State Senate First Suffolk District
Oorzaak: Linda Dorcena Forry (D) nam ontslag nadat ze een baan had gekregen bij Suffolk Construction Company.
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: D won, geen tegenkandidaat
2014 verkiezing deze zetel: D 72,8% - 13.8% I, 13% Blank, 0.3% All Others
2013 verkiezing deze zetel: D 84,1% - 15,9% R
2012 verkiezing deze zetel: D won, geen tegenkandidaat
2016 presidentiële verkiezing: Clinton 80,84% - 15,56% Trump
2012 presidentiële verkiezing: Obama 80,43% - 18,48% Romney
Kandidaten: Nick Collins (D)

Florida House of Representatives District 39
Oorzaak: Neil Combee (R) nam ontslag nadat hij een baan kreeg bij de U.S. Department of Agriculture.
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: R 62,22% - 37,78% D
2014 verkiezing deze zetel: R 64,73% - 35,27% D
2012 verkiezing deze zetel: R 64,8% - 35,2% I
2016 presidentiële verkiezing: Trump 57,77% - 38,74% Clinton
2012 presidentiële verkiezing: Romney 55,62% - 43,29% Obama
Kandidaten: Ricky Shirah (D), Josie Tomkow (R)

Florida House of Representatives District 114
Oorzaak: Daisy Baez (D) nam ontslag nadat ze een pleadeal sloot waarin ze bekende meineed gepleegd te hebben over haar (vermeende) woonplaats.
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: D 50,99% - 49,01% R
2014 verkiezing deze zetel: D 43,98% - 52,66% R - 3,36% I
2012 verkiezing deze zetel: D 48,8% - 51,2% R
2016 presidentiële verkiezing: Clinton 55,75% - 41,60% Trump
2012 presidentiële verkiezing: Obama 50,14% - 49,27% Romney
Kandidaten: Andrew Vargas (R), Javier Fernandez (D), Liz de las Cueavas (I)

South Carolina House of Representatives District 69
Oorzaak: Rick Quinn (R) nam ontslag nadat hij schuld bekende voor 'misconduct in office'.
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: R won, geen tegenkandidaat
2014 verkiezing deze zetel: R 75,4% - 24,6% D
2012 verkiezing deze zetel: R 71,1% - 28,8% D - 0,2% Write-Ins
2016 presidentiële verkiezing: Trump 62,14% - 30,88% Clinton
2012 presidentiële verkiezing: Romney 66,96% - 31,53% Obama
Kandidaten: Chris Wooten (R)

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 21:20:22 Deputy A.G. Rosenstein: “I can tell you that there are people who have been making threats privately and publicly against me for quite some time. And I think they should understand by now the Department of Justice is not going to be extorted.” (via CPSAN) https://t.co/bhXVJ4OCd6 reageer retweet

The Professor At The Center Of The Trump-Russia Probe Was In Moscow Just Weeks Before Court Documents Were Unsealed (BuzzFeed)

Joseph Mifsud's trip to Moscow coincided with an official visit by the king of Saudi Arabia.

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Joseph Mifsud, the enigmatic Maltese professor at the center of the Trump-Russia probe, was in Moscow just weeks before special counsel Robert Mueller unsealed court documents alleging that Mifsud had told a Trump campaign adviser that Russia had “dirt” on Hillary Clinton, BuzzFeed News has learned.

The trip, which hasn’t been previously reported, is the last time Mifsud is known to have been in Russia.

Three weeks after his Russia trip, Mifsud was identified as the unnamed “overseas professor” who allegedly told foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos in April 2016 that Russia had thousands of emails from the Democrats. That was weeks before the Democrats themselves were aware that their computer systems had been hacked.

Mifsud was last seen in public Oct. 31, 2017, in Rome. His current whereabouts are unknown.

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Drradje Abramson hierover:

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SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 01-05-2018 om 22:00:50 BREAKING: This could be big. Tom Barrack and Flynn lobbied Trump to give Saudi Arabia nuclear tech—which enriches Russia, as they'd build the facilities. Barrack got Manafort atop Trump's campaign just as Flynn joined. Now Mifsud is in a Saudi delegation? https://t.co/L9nIU4ukcX reageer retweet

Mueller's former assistant says grammatical errors prove leaked questions came from Trump

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Michael Zeldin, a CNN legal analyst and former assistant to Robert Mueller, said Tuesday he believes President Trump leaked the list of nearly 50 questions the special counsel allegedly wants to ask Trump.

“I think these are notes taken by the recipients of a conversation with Mueller’s office where he outlined broad topics and these guys wrote down questions that they thought these topics may raise,” Zeldin said on CNN's "New Day."

“Because of the way these questions are written ... lawyers wouldn’t write questions this way, in my estimation. Some of the grammar is not even proper," he continued. "So, I don’t see this as a list of written questions that Mueller’s office gave to the president. I think these are more notes that the White House has taken and then they have expanded upon the conversation to write out these as questions.”

Zeldin worked as special counsel to Mueller in the early 1990s, when he served as the assistant attorney general of the Justice Department's Criminal Division.

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Het nytimes artikel was ook wel ongewoon duidend waar ergens hun anonieme bron zat:

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Mr. Mueller planned to ask, according to questions read by the special counsel investigators to the president’s lawyers, who compiled them into a list. That document was provided to The Times by a person outside Mr. Trump’s legal team.

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 23:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Het nytimes artikel was ook wel ongewoon duidend waar ergens hun anonieme bron zat:

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Ja idd, viel mij ook al op.

Robert Mueller asks for 2 more months before Michael Flynn sentencing (CNN)

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 23:43 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Nou, laten we daar maar eerst op wachten dan, toch? Het zou niet de eerste keer zijn dat er toenadering gezocht is. Trumps rol in het geheel is me verder ook niet duidelijk. Hij heeft sancties aangescherpt, maar verder...?

Het is ook niet bepaald de eerste keer dat een paar beloften hier met heel veel bombarie gebracht werden, maar vervolgens een stille dood stierven. Geopolitiek is nou eenmaal geen tv-show.

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 18:15 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Absolute cijfers zeggen ook weer niet heel veel. Het achterliggende artikel van Bloomberg is een stuk verhelderender. Het tekort groot ook als percentage van het BBP lekker door naar verwachting. Kennelijk is het faillissement van de VS niet zo'n issue meer voor het gros van de Republikeinen.

Zolang de rest van de wereld deze tax cut betaald loopt alles op rolletjes natuurlijk. De rente in de vs zal wel moeten klimmen om buitenlandse investeerders blij te maken.

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Op woensdag 2 mei 2018 00:30 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:

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Zolang de rest van de wereld deze tax cut betaald loopt alles op rolletjes natuurlijk. De rente in de vs zal wel moeten klimmen om buitenlandse investeerders blij te maken.

De rest van de wereld betaalt natuurlijk niets, maar de slogan "geld lenen kost geld" bleek in Nederland ook niet te landen. Uiteindelijk wordt de Amerikaanse bevolking of in ieder geval de volgende generatie met de problemen opgezadeld.

Bornstein claims Trump dictated the glowing health letter

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Now, as Bornstein re-enters the spotlight claiming Trump's ex-bodyguard Keith Schiller robbed his office when Schiller retrieved Trump's medical records, the story behind the letter is becoming clearer.

"That's black humor, that letter. That's my sense of humor," he said. "It's like the movie 'Fargo': It takes the truth and moves it in a different direction."

He said Trump read out the language as Bornstein and his wife were driving across Central Park.

"(Trump) dictated the letter and I would tell him what he couldn't put in there," he said. "They came to pick up their letter at 4 o'clock or something."

Bizar wel

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 02-05-2018 om 03:15:06 Can you *imagine* what the right's reaction would be if it came out that Obama or Clinton had, during an election, dictated a letter about their health to their personal doctor who then released it knowing it was at best incomplete or, at worst, false. Can. you. imagine. reageer retweet

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Nog meer Pruitt gerotzooi

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 02-05-2018 om 03:05:12 NYT confirms WaPo report: Scott Pruitt allowed a lobbyist friend to play an influential role in setting his agenda for a Morocco trip.Just months after the trip, the lobbyist was hired by the government of Morocco as a $40,000/month foreign agent.https://t.co/THUS6xxd2c reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 1 mei 2018 21:21 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Er zijn vandaag weer special elections. 2 zonder tegenkandidaat en bij de overige 2 zou het best ogenschijnlijk wel eens zo kunnen zijn dat een democraat een zetel van de republikeinen afpakt en een republikein er eentje pakt van de democraten:

Florida House of Representatives District 114
Oorzaak: Daisy Baez (D) nam ontslag nadat ze een pleadeal sloot waarin ze bekende meineed gepleegd te hebben over haar (vermeende) woonplaats.
2016 verkiezing deze zetel: D 50,99% - 49,01% R
2014 verkiezing deze zetel: D 43,98% - 52,66% R - 3,36% I
2012 verkiezing deze zetel: D 48,8% - 51,2% R
2016 presidentiële verkiezing: Clinton 55,75% - 41,60% Trump
2012 presidentiële verkiezing: Obama 50,14% - 49,27% Romney
Kandidaten: Andrew Vargas (R), Javier Fernandez (D), Liz de las Cueavas (I)

Fernandez heeft gewonnen, zetel blijft in handen Democraten

DLCC Holds Critical Seat in FL House

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tribelaw twitterde op woensdag 02-05-2018 om 02:21:38 The news tonite is that Mueller raised the prospect of issuing a subpoena to force Trump to testify under oath. If that occurs, I predict Trump wd ask a federal court to quash the subpoena. When the case reaches the SCt, I predict this Court wd rule agnst Trump. Gorsuch wd agree. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 02-05-2018 om 04:10:42 .@JoyceWhiteVance tells @maddow Rod Rosenstein would have also had to be "on board" with Mueller's subpoena threat, "would have had to authorize the use of a subpoena against the President of the United States.""The issue would have been fully vetted inside the Department." reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 02-05-2018 om 04:23:23 Former FBI Director and current Special Counsel Bob Mueller doesn't threaten to serve a grand jury subpoena on the President of the United States unless what he's seeing on his end warrants it. Lace up, America--it'll take a while yet, but this is every bit as bad as we've feared. reageer retweet

Attorney: Mueller team floated possible subpoena for Trump

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Special counsel Robert Mueller's team raised the prospect of issuing a grand jury subpoena to compel President Donald Trump to testify as part of the Russia probe, the president's former attorney said Tuesday.

Attorney John Dowd told The Associated Press that Mueller's team broached the subject in March during a meeting with Trump's legal team while they were negotiating the terms of a possible interview with the president

The meeting marked the first time the special counsel's office raised the possibility of compelling Trump to testify as part of the ongoing investigation. Mueller is probing not only Russian election interference and possible coordination with Trump associates but possible obstruction of justice by Trump.

Dowd's comments come more than a month after he resigned from the legal team, and they provide a new window into the nature of the Trump legal team's interactions with the special counsel, who the president has increasingly tried to undermine through public attacks.

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Op woensdag 2 mei 2018 03:22 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Bornstein claims Trump dictated the glowing health letter

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Bizar wel

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 02-05-2018 om 03:15:06 Can you *imagine* what the right's reaction would be if it came out that Obama or Clinton had, during an election, dictated a letter about their health to their personal doctor who then released it knowing it was at best incomplete or, at worst, false. Can. you. imagine. reageer retweet

Dit verbaast natuurlijk helemaal niemand. Trump en z'n fastfoodpens werden neergezet als superhuman. Kom op man.

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Op woensdag 2 mei 2018 07:35 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Dit verbaast natuurlijk helemaal niemand. Trump en z'n fastfoodpens werden neergezet als superhuman. Kom op man.

Oud nieuws, toch !?

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Op woensdag 2 mei 2018 07:35 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Dit verbaast natuurlijk helemaal niemand. Trump en z'n fastfoodpens werden neergezet als superhuman. Kom op man.

Trump is niet meer dan een leugen. Hij is de super-leugenaar, die klakkeloos wordt aanbeden een geloofd door zijn "aanhang" die in hem een soort Zonnegod zien.

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Op woensdag 2 mei 2018 04:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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tribelaw twitterde op woensdag 02-05-2018 om 02:21:38 The news tonite is that Mueller raised the prospect of issuing a subpoena to force Trump to testify under oath. If that occurs, I predict Trump wd ask a federal court to quash the subpoena. When the case reaches the SCt, I predict this Court wd rule agnst Trump. Gorsuch wd agree. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 02-05-2018 om 04:10:42 .@JoyceWhiteVance tells @maddow Rod Rosenstein would have also had to be "on board" with Mueller's subpoena threat, "would have had to authorize the use of a subpoena against the President of the United States.""The issue would have been fully vetted inside the Department." reageer retweet

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 02-05-2018 om 04:23:23 Former FBI Director and current Special Counsel Bob Mueller doesn't threaten to serve a grand jury subpoena on the President of the United States unless what he's seeing on his end warrants it. Lace up, America--it'll take a while yet, but this is every bit as bad as we've feared. reageer retweet

Attorney: Mueller team floated possible subpoena for Trump

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Kijk, als Mueller met een dagvaarding dreigt, dan heeft hij echt wel iets gevonden. Trump denkt dat hij alles onder controle heeft , en baseert dit op een vragenlijst die is opgesteld door Jay Sekulow en die gisteren is gepubliceerd door de NY times is gepubliceerd. De vragen van Mueller zullen een heel andere strekking hebben.

Ok, popcorntime.

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Op woensdag 2 mei 2018 03:22 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Bornstein claims Trump dictated the glowing health letter

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Bizar wel

twitter:

NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 02-05-2018 om 03:15:06 Can you *imagine* what the right's reaction would be if it came out that Obama or Clinton had, during an election, dictated a letter about their health to their personal doctor who then released it knowing it was at best incomplete or, at worst, false. Can. you. imagine. reageer retweet

Vooral dat laatste ja, dit is gewoon valsheid in geschrifte en daar is nog nooit een president makkelijk mee weggekomen.

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Op woensdag 2 mei 2018 09:55 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Vooral dat laatste ja, dit is gewoon valsheid in geschrifte en daar is nog nooit een president makkelijk mee weggekomen.

Het scheelt dat hij toen nog geen president was. Verder is dat natuurlijk gewoon een probleem voor die arts, die liegt, niet voor degene die een brief dicteert.

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Op woensdag 2 mei 2018 09:57 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Het scheelt dat hij toen nog geen president was. Verder is dat natuurlijk gewoon een probleem voor die arts, die liegt, niet voor degene die een brief dicteert.

Het is dan ook vooral hilarisch. Ik zie er niet zo snel een schandaal in.