[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #498 Vragen voor Trump

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Three high-ranking officials at the Environmental Protection Agency have resigned this week amid the storm of scandals plaguing agency chief Scott Pruitt.

Liz Bowman, the EPA’s top spokeswoman, submitted a resignation earlier this week and will take a job as director of communications for Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa), The Washington Examiner reported Thursday. Bloomberg also confirmed she’s stepping down.

“I leave extremely grateful for the opportunity to serve the Trump Administration and Administrator Pruitt,” Bowman wrote in her April 30 resignation letter, according to the Examiner. Her last day agency is May 11.

News of Bowman’s departure comes just two days after the resignation of two of Pruitt’s other top aides: Albert “Kell” Kelly, who was in charge of overhauling the agency’s cleanup of America’s most contaminated sites, and Pasquale “Nino” Perrotta, the head of Pruitt’s controversial round-the-clock security detail. Perrotta stepped down 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.

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Federal investigators have wiretapped the phone lines of Michael Cohen, the longtime personal lawyer for President Donald Trump who is under investigation for a payment he made to an adult film star who alleged she had an affair with Trump, according to two people with knowledge of the legal proceedings involving Cohen.

It is not clear how long the wiretap has been authorized, but NBC News has learned it was in place in the weeks leading up to the raids on Cohen's offices, hotel room, and home in early April, according to one person with direct knowledge.

At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted, the person said.

Previously, federal prosecutors in New York have said in court filings that they have conducted covert searches on multiple e-mail accounts maintained by Cohen.

Spokespeople for the U.S. Attorney's Office and the FBI in New York declined comment.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller is focusing intensely on alleged interactions between former top Trump campaign official Rick Gates and political operative Roger Stone, one of President Donald Trump's closest confidants, according to sources with direct knowledge of the matter.

Stone, a longtime advisor to Trump, is apparently one of the top subjects of the Mueller investigation into potential collusion between the Kremlin and the Trump campaign, sources told CNBC on condition of anonymity.

The questions have been largely about what was discussed at meetings, including dinners, between Stone and Gates, before and during the campaign, said the sources, who have knowledge of the substance of the recent interviews.

In February, Gates pleaded guilty to two counts stemming from the Russia investigation, and he is cooperating with Mueller's probe.

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Op donderdag 3 mei 2018 19:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik zit te wachten op de tweets van Het Oranje Fiasco die ze schuimbekkend gaat schrijven.

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It appears China has stopped buying soybeans from the US altogether because of trade fight (CNBC)

• "Whatever they're buying is non-U.S.," Soren Schroder, CEO of New York-based Bunge, the world's largest oilseeds processor, told Bloomberg in a phone interview.
• China canceled a net 62,690 metric tons of U.S. soybean purchases in the two weeks ended April 19, the Bloomberg article pointed out, citing USDA data for the current marketing year.
• The country is the second largest market for U.S. agricultural exports, and soybeans have historically have been one of the top products sold to the Asian giant, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service.

China is apparently no longer buying U.S. soybeans amid the rise in trade tensions, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.

"Whatever they're buying is non-U.S.," Soren Schroder, CEO of New York-based Bunge, the world's largest oilseeds processor, told the news outlet in a phone interview. "They're buying beans in Canada, in Brazil, mostly Brazil, but very deliberately not buying anything from the U.S."

A Bunge representative did not immediately respond to a CNBC request for comment.

China canceled a net 62,690 metric tons of U.S. soybean purchases in the two weeks ended April 19, the Bloomberg article pointed out, citing USDA data for the current marketing year.

Soybean futures fell 1 percent Wednesday, but are up 8 percent on the year.

In response to the Trump administration's proposed tariffs on $50 billion worth of Chinese imports, China's Ministry of Commerce announced duties in early April on 106 U.S. products, including soybeans. No effective date was announced at the time.

China is the second-largest market for U.S. agricultural exports, and soybeans have historically been one of the top products sold to the Asian country, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture Foreign Agricultural Service.

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Op donderdag 3 mei 2018 19:17 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Feds tapped Trump lawyer Michael Cohen's phones

At least one phone call between a phone line associated with Cohen and the White House was intercepted, a source said.

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It is not clear how long the wiretap has been authorized, but NBC News has learned it was in place in the weeks leading up to the raids on Cohen's offices, hotel room, and home in early April, according to one person with direct knowledge.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 03-05-2018 om 21:05:21 Neither Don McGahn nor Emmet Flood knew that Trump reimbursed Michael Cohen for the Stormy Daniels payment until Giuliani said it on live TV, WaPo reports. https://t.co/zo6UWr7HJn reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 03-05-2018 om 21:13:13 The below is offered in support of my earlier point that the White House Counsel's Office is in chaos and ineffectual. It's now clear Trump has been lying to his White House attorneys about issues relating to Cohen. We'll soon learn he's been lying to them about much, much else. https://t.co/oyAovZdgXL reageer retweet

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Rudy Giuliani called for Attorney General Jeff Sessions to intervene in the Michael Cohen case and put the people behind the probe “under investigation” in a phone call with The Hill on Thursday.

“I am waiting for the Attorney General to step in, in his role as defender of justice, and put these people under investigation,” Giuliani said, reacting to an NBC News report that phones belonging to Cohen, President Trump’s longtime personal attorney, had been tapped by investigators.

The former New York City mayor argued that the reported wiretapping of Cohen, if true, was a blatant transgression of attorney-client privilege.

Giuliani, who joined President Trump’s personal legal team about two weeks ago, predicted that Trump would share his anger at the reported wiretapping, though he said he had not yet spoken to the president about it.

When he does so, Giuliani predicted, “He is going to say to me, ‘Isn’t there an attorney-client privilege?’ And I am going to tell him, ‘No, the Department of Justice seems to want to trample all over the Constitution of the United States.’ ”

Giuliani’s explosive comments further heighten the stakes in the legal battles in which Trump is enmeshed.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller on Thursday filed a request for 70 blank subpoenas in the Eastern District of Virginia on Thursday, where former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort is facing charges including tax fraud and failing to report foreign bank accounts.

The two-page filing reveals that each subpoena recipient must appear in the Alexandria, Va., courthouse on July 10 to testify in the case.

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House Chaplain Pat Conroy is rescinding his resignation, opting to stay in his position through the end of this Congress, he wrote in a letter to House leaders Thursday.

Conroy’s decision follows a firestorm of controversy after he was forced to retire at the request of Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.).

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 03-05-2018 om 22:31:54 2/ So it appears that Paul Ryan fired the House Chaplain *for cause*, but the cause was... he's Catholic??? JFC! reageer retweet

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justinsink twitterde op donderdag 03-05-2018 om 23:05:58 whoa: NBC is correcting its wiretap story on MSNBC right now, saying it was not a wiretap on Cohen phone. Says it was instead a log of phone calls known as a "pen register," so couldn't listen in reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 3 mei 2018 23:20 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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justinsink twitterde op donderdag 03-05-2018 om 23:05:58 whoa: NBC is correcting its wiretap story on MSNBC right now, saying it was not a wiretap on Cohen phone. Says it was instead a log of phone calls known as a "pen register," so couldn't listen in reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 3 mei 2018 23:24 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Zucht.... slordig!

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Op donderdag 3 mei 2018 16:21 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Ik post hier al weken zo niet maanden nauwelijks meer. Heeft niks met eer te maken, maar eerder met het feit dat het altijd uitmondt in een 20 vs 1 circlejerkfest. Zonder uitzondering. Al leg je tig keer uit niet pro-Trump te zijn, al zeg je vaak genoeg kritische dingen over Trump... dan nog krijg je zo'n acties als Dustpuppy net deed, er wordt praktisch ge-eist dat je iets kritisch zegt over Trump.
Als je niet zeer uitgesproken anti-Trump bent dan moet je je constant en continue verantwoorden tegenover een bepaalde kliek hier... diezelfde kliek die constant "russische troll dit", "trumpanzee dat" roept zonder enige gevolgen of commentaar van anderen.

Vind het knap dat DeParo het nog zolang volhoudt en zo netjes blijft tegenover jullie constante ge-etter en geklier.

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Op donderdag 3 mei 2018 19:54 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dit gaat wel consequenties hebben. Hoe dan ook.

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Jared Kushner’s ethics disclosure filing misstated the financials on two Brooklyn loans, the latest in a long series of errors and omissions on the form.

A Kushner representative confirmed the errors, attributing them to data entry and accounting mistakes. The representative said the figures will be revised in the next annual filing, which is due soon.

The form has been updated at least 40 times since Kushner first submitted it in March 2017. Each update can contain multiple revisions.

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Op donderdag 3 mei 2018 23:30 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
@Refragmental... ik kan pas sinds kort plaatsen waar je het onlangs over had ... dat is QAnon ... kunnen we allebij vaststellen dat je weer bezig was of wellicht bent met onzin?

Er is geen bizar grote pedokring van democrats van duizenden die opgerold gaat worden ... het antwoord op fout zijn bij pizzagate is niet om pizzagate^10 te verzinnen, maar terug te komen naar de realiteit.

Wat kunnen we doen om een gelijk beeld te krijgen van de werkelijkheid zonder dat jij je uniekheid verliest? Althans, dit veronderstelt mijn gelijk, maar ik zie niet hoe we een ander referentiekader kunnen kiezen, aangezien ik over de grote dingen geen ongelijk heb gehad en jij wel.