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Inside Michael Cohen's aggressive pitch promising access to Trump

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On November 8, 2016, Cohen's stock suddenly soared: He was now the personal attorney to the President-elect of the United States, with unique understanding of a man that everyone was scrambling to get access to.

Cohen quickly got to work. According to multiple people familiar with Cohen's conduct following the election, he aggressively pitched himself to potential clients, reminding them of his proximity to the most powerful man in the world. Those efforts landed Cohen lucrative consulting deals. New reporting this week revealed that in the months following the 2016 election, Cohen received hundreds of thousands of dollars from powerful entities based in and outside of the United States.

"I don't know who's been representing you, but you should fire them all. I'm the guy you should hire. I'm closest to the President. I'm his personal lawyer," was how one GOP strategist described Cohen's sales pitch.

One company that Cohen immediately sought out was pharmaceutical giant Novartis. "He was shopping himself around," a source familiar told CNN.

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https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2(...)tter_impression=true

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 09:32 schreef AnneX het volgende:
...don't call him "moron" or "idiot;" call him what he is:...

.https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)ot-begala/index.html

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We are Republican, Democratic and independent. We come from the East, South, Midwest and West. We are conservative, progressive and liberal. We are men and women. We include eight members of the Circle of Chiefs, the highest conservation honor of the Outdoor Writers Association of America. We are all different in many ways, but we have important commonalities. We are Americans; we are gun owners; we are hunters; and we support responsible firearm regulation.

Yes, the Second Amendment conveys a right to “keep and bear” firearms. But rights come with responsibilities, and we all have a moral responsibility to address America’s crisis of gun violence.

We avoid the term ”common sense,” understanding the wisdom in Voltaire’s words ― “Common sense is not so common.”

We are at a turning point. There are now 265 million guns in private ownership — more than at any time in our nation’s history, and owned by a smaller proportion of the population than ever. Only about 30 percent of Americans own guns, and about 60 percent live in gun-free households. The long-term trend away from gun ownership will continue. As people who own and use guns respectfully, we feel an urgency to speak up for a simple, sensible approach.

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Perhaps nature’s unpredictability, or the predictability that either our abilities or our equipment will fail at the most inopportune moment, have conditioned us to find solace in simplicity. We believe simple and responsible steps can and must be taken to end the cycle of gun violence and tragedy to which we are all witness in today’s America.

Hunters and hunting are also declining. In 1955, 10 percent of Americans hunted. Today, it’s less than 5 percent. But the positive image of the hunter as a skilled and conscientious “sportsman” is being abused in defense of an out-of-control gun culture.

Most hunters own guns principally to hunt game. We use them safely and respectfully: If someone is injured during their use, it will most likely be a friend or family member, since that is who we hunt with. We don’t buy a lot of guns. We usually have a few favorites, often passed down to us by fathers or grandfathers. The gun industry figured that out decades ago, and switched to creating guns for a different market.

That’s not to say that all hunters are like-minded on the issue of regulating firearms. As our numbers have dwindled, many have found a comforting alliance with Second Amendment radicalism. But we believe this is not representative of most hunters, and certainly not the tradition of the hunter-sportsman.

We do not need AR-15s or any assault-style weapon to hunt game. That’s not to say some people won’t use them to hunt. But they are simply not necessary, and are actually not preferable for legitimate, fair-chase hunting.

We believe that simple, responsible reforms in firearm policy are an urgent necessity. Hunting and hunters should not be seen, or used, as a shield against constructive bipartisan solutions. We see the need and opportunity to frame compromise between the Second Amendment’s right to keep and bear arms and the Fifth Amendment’s right to life and liberty.

Here’s where we would begin:

1. An age minimum of 21 years to purchase any gun;

2. Anyone on the Terrorist Screening Center’s “no-fly list” may not purchase or possess firearms;

3. Anyone on Social Security disability due to mental illness may not purchase or possess firearms;

4. Prohibit new sales of semiautomatic assault or tactical-style weapons;

5. Prohibit new sales of semiautomatic shotguns or rifles (except .22-caliber rim fire) that can hold more than 10 rounds;

6. Prohibit any accessory designed or mechanical modification intended a) to increase the rate at which any firearm may be discharged; or b) to increase the magazine capacity of a semiautomatic rifle beyond 10 rounds (except .22-caliber rim fire);

7. Mandatory and universal background checks for all firearm sales;

8. Prohibit sales of firearms except through registered/licensed dealers (no direct private sales);

9. Enact gun violence restraining order authorities allowing courts to temporarily prohibit a person from purchasing or possessing firearms when a family member, community welfare expert or law enforcement officer presents evidence of a threat; and

10. Repeal the “Dickey ban” on scientific research in the area of gun violence and implement the Institute of Medicine’s 2013 gun violence research agenda.

These suggestions are simple to implement and enforce. They do limit the rights of honest and law-abiding citizens, but they are responsible limitations that do not infringe the ability of Americans to hunt, shoot, or protect themselves and their families. And in comparison to the 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School who have been stripped of all of their rights, and of life and liberty, it is a small price to pay.

There are simple, responsible solutions. No one should use hunters and hunting as an excuse to avoid pursuing them.

Daniel M. Ashe, former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service director
Ted Williams, environmental journalist*
Paula Del Giudice, outdoor writer and hunter*
Mike Furtman, outdoor writer and photographer, hunter and former gun dealer*
Jim Low, former president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America and 13-time recipient of the Izaak Walton League’s Outdoor Ethics Communication Award*
Dr. Leonard Lee Rue III, wildlife photographer*
Brian Rutledge, conservation leader and naturalist
Scott Stouder, outdoor writer, conservationist and lifelong hunter*
Dr. Kris Thoemke, outdoor writer, conservationist and hunter*
Joel Vance, current member and former president of the Outdoor Writers Association of America*
George Harrison, retired nature journalist*

^{*Member of the Circle of Chiefs, the highest conservation honor of the Outdoor Writers Association of America}

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"We do not need AR-15s or any assault-style weapon to hunt game."

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Rear Adm. Tim Ziemer, the head of global health security on the White House’s National Security Council, left the Trump administration on Tuesday. The news was announced one day after an Ebola outbreak was declared in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.

The departure comes amid a reshuffling of the NSC under newly named national security adviser John Bolton, which includes a change in organizational structure that eliminates the office Ziemer led. Ziemer’s staff has been placed under other NSC departments.

Ziemer, who had been described as “one of the most quietly effective leaders in public health,” was widely lauded in the global health community for his work on the President’s Malaria Initiative, which helped save 6 million lives, before joining this administration.

“Admiral Ziemer’s departure is deeply alarming, especially when the administration is actively working to cut funds that addressed past pandemics like Ebola,” Rep. Ami Bera (D-Calif.), the vice ranking member of the foreign affairs committee, told HuffPost in a statement. “Expertise like his is critical in avoiding large outbreaks.”

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According to Robert Palladino, NSC spokesman, the reorganization will streamline the process, and he said Ziemer left “on the warmest of terms.”

Ziemer’s exit follows the departure last month of White House homeland security adviser Tom Bossert, who was another champion of investment in global health security. Bossert left the day after Bolton began as national security adviser.

Ron Klain, the former Ebola “czar” under President Barack Obama, told HuffPost the combination of their departures was a blow to global health security.

“Proposing a rescission of Ebola contingency funds on the very day that a new Ebola outbreak is announced is badly misguided; forcing out the two top officials in charge of epidemic response at the White House – Tom Bossert and Tim Ziemer – is even worse,” Klain said. “Doing it all at the same time shows a reckless disregard for the dangers we face.”

Some global health security experts also aren’t so sure about whether the reorganization will maintain global health security and biothreats ― such as potential pandemics like Ebola ― as a priority.

Beth Cameron, who previously served as the senior director for global health security and biodefense on Obama’s NSC staff and is currently the Nuclear Threat Initiative’s vice president for global biological policy and programs, called his departure “a major loss for health security, biodefense, and pandemic preparedness.”

“It is unclear in his absence who at the White House would be in charge of a pandemic,” Cameron said, calling it “a situation that should be immediately rectified.”

Tim Rieser, a staffer for the Senate Appropriations committee and senior foreign policy aide for Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.), who has been called one of the “most powerful staffers in Congress presiding over U.S. foreign policy and U.S. foreign assistance,” echoed Cameron’s comments.

“We have no idea at this point who at the White House is in charge of global health security, at a time when infectious diseases can spread like wildfire in a matter of days threatening millions of Americans here and abroad,” Rieser said.

Loyce Pace, the president and executive director of the Global Health Council, a membership organization that lobbies for global health priorities, reiterated the need to know who is leading pandemic response.

“We really need a strong leader in place from the U.S. who will help coordinate an interagency response and can really provide that kind of assurance and contribute to the progress made in global health security,” Pace said.

The development is also troubling some global health leaders, as it points to a larger pattern within the White House not to put adequate resources behind global health preparedness, said Jeremy Konyndyk, a senior policy fellow for the Center for Global Development. Konyndyk previously led parts of the 2014 Ebola response for the Obama administration as the director of USAID’s Office of U.S. Foreign Disaster Assistance.

Konyndyk cited President Donald Trump’s recent proposal to rescind unspent funds that had targeted Ebola, as well as the administration’s “failure to seek sustained funding for some of the global health security investments that began under the last administration.”

While advocates were happy to see that Congress almost doubled global health security funding for the U.S. Agency for International Development and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention for the 2018 fiscal year, Trump’s stance has been to call for cuts to overall global health aid. Previous versions of the president’s budgets have called for spending reductions at the CDC, USAID and the Global Fund.

Reiser also pointed to the White House’s choice not to push for more funding in this arena, saying bipartisan support has meant Congress has appropriated “significantly larger amounts than the White House has requested to help less developed countries improve their capabilities to conduct surveillance and respond quickly to disease outbreaks.”

When asked about the proposed rescission of the Ebola funds, a spokesperson for the NSC told HuffPost that sufficient funds were available through USAID for an outbreak and that if additional funds were needed, the State Department could appropriate them through funding for other programs.

The spokesperson also stated that in such a situation, other donor countries would be expected to contribute, including by supporting the World Health Organization’s Contingency Fund for Emergencies.

Ultimately for Konyndyk, the change in structure at the NSC could be an “unraveling of some capabilities and resource streams that date back across two administrations and have pretty bipartisan support on the Hill.”

“I hope it’s not lost on anyone that it happened the exact week that we have new reports on the Ebola outbreak,” Konyndyk added.

^{by Lauren Weber}

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"It is unclear in his absence who at the White House would be in charge of a pandemic."

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 08:41 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
"Drain the swamp"

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Betekent wel nog meer juridische problemen voor Cohen, aangezien hij zich niet registreerde als lobbyist en dat een overtreding van de Lobbying Disclosure Act is.

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 15:38 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dat Novartis 1,2 miljoen betaalde voor iets dat na zeer korte tijd een nothingburger bleek te zijn baart me zorgen. Een gigant als Notaris geeft niet zomaar geld weg. Novartis heeft genoeg advocaten.

Dus waarmee dreigde Cohen?

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 15:40 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Kandidaat in de Democratische primaries voor gouverneur van Maryland overlijdt plotseling:
https://politi.co/2KLCUKd

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 15:40 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:

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Verplichte prijsverlaging natuurlijk, de industrie verdient miljarden op medicijnen met een veel te hoge winstmarge om goed te zijn voor de volksgezondheid of verzekerings industrie.

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On April 9, the FBI raided Mr. Cohen’s home, office and hotel room. Within 48 hours, Mr. Cohen sent the below email to Mr. Davidson. Why? They had no ongoing legal matter at the time. Was it part of an attempt by Mr. Cohen to obstruct justice or worse? #basta

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 16:23 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Hoe komt Avenatti aan die mail??

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 16:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Wikileaks

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 16:23 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Hoe komt Avenatti aan die mail??

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 16:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Nah, ik zie niet echt in hoe de Russen hier baat bij hebben.

Maar stel dat iemand binnen de DOJ/de FBI zit te lekken naar Avenatti, zou dat dan geen invloed hebben op eventuele strafvervolging van Cohen?

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This returns to the basic who-is-paying-whom question. Trump, at one point, said that he did not know where the money that Cohen used to pay Clifford came from. Perhaps he just let other people take care of the getting-it-back-to-Michael part; using other people’s money is a prime Trump business directive. But, again, Cohen took care of Trump’s problems—Trump’s expenses. That’s what he was being paid back for, and that is the transaction that the companies that paid him risk being drawn into.

This all starts to sound pretty much like the textbook definition of a slush fund. The amounts, by Trump standards, might not be so high—what's two hundred thousand dollars to either him or A.T. & T.?—but, at least from Trump’s perspective, it is hard to calculate the premium on the availability of funds for the discreet payment of expenses of a “personal nature.” One reason that the Reagan Administration diverted money to the Contras was that it was hard, otherwise, to think of an inconspicuous place to put the cash. Money laundering, like influence peddling, can take many strange forms. Perhaps economists should get to work calculating the hush-fund multiplier effect—or perhaps prosecutors already are.

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 16:41 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Maar wat is die Trumpkliek een allejezus zwaar corrupt zooitje tuig zeg. Godskolere.

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Mr. Giuliani claims that Mr. Cohen is no longer Mr. Trump's lawyer. As of when? Because as of April 11, 2018 this year, he was still his lawyer as evidenced by the email I just posted (see also Mr. Trump's comments on AF1 that same month). #basta

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annafifield twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 00:27:17 Did Kim Jong Un just call Trump the "supreme leader" of the U.S.? Yes he did."He exchanged with Mike Pompeo the appraisal and view on the acute situation of the Korean peninsula... and the stance and opinions of the supreme leaderships of the DPRK and the U.S. on their summit." https://t.co/ZzVjFPv7Cx reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 17:47 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Kim weet wel hoe hij Trump moet bespelen. Ik ben benieuwd wanneer Trump hem complimentjes gaat geven.

twitter:

FoxNews twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 14:57:00 .@nytimes: 5 top ISIS officials captured. https://t.co/GJugYdbl84 reageer retweet

twitter:

charliekirk11 twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 16:39:57 3.9% unemploymentKorean War is overLargest tax cut everISIS destroyedUS energy independent 3 million + jobs created99 stock market record highsApproval rating over 50%Black male approval doubledSounds like a President who will be re-elected convincingly reageer retweet

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LACaldwellDC twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 18:05:41 NEWS: A Trump Treasury nominee, Adam Lerrick, with controversial ties to Argentina's sovereign debt crisis withdraws. But he is still expected to be a senior adviser to Mnuchin, per a Finance Committee Democratic aide. reageer retweet

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NBCNews twitterde op woensdag 09-05-2018 om 11:30:31 Iranian lawmakers set fire to the U.S. flag inside the country's parliament following President Trump's decision to withdraw from the Iran nuclear agreement. https://t.co/z3vo5f3oLq https://t.co/aYLPdYMpgG reageer retweet

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De score kaart na minder dan 2 jaar

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charliekirk11 twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 16:39:57 3.9% unemploymentKorean War is overLargest tax cut everISIS destroyedUS energy independent 3 million + jobs created99 stock market record highsApproval rating over 50%Black male approval doubledSounds like a President who will be re-elected convincingly reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 18:14 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Waarom trollt een troll lijkt me een beetje een onzinnige vraag.

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 18:14 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Misschien is dan de vraag beter gericht aan de mods waarom een troll hier mag trollen.

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 18:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Geloof je dit nou echt? Dat is ook weer moeilijk te geloven...

- De oorlog tussen de Korea's is nog niet over, slechts de intentie is uitgesproken.

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 18:17 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Ze zijn per direct gestopt met schieten en hebben zelfs de propaganda luidsprekers weggehaald. Noord Korea en Zuid Korea vliegen elkaar voorlopig niet meer in de haren. Grootste vraagteken is de economische sancties / toekomst van het land. Kim en Moon waren het al prima eens.

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 17:47 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Kim weet wel hoe hij Trump moet bespelen. Ik ben benieuwd wanneer Trump hem complimentjes gaat geven.

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 18:06 schreef Nintex het volgende:
ISIS leiders opgepakt

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FoxNews twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 14:57:00 .@nytimes: 5 top ISIS officials captured. https://t.co/GJugYdbl84 reageer retweet

Can't Stump the Trump

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 18:38 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Kijk wie weer van zich laat horen:

Cheney calls for US to restart interrogation programs

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 18:58 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Goddomme, leeft die fossiele oorlogsmisdadiger nog?

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 18:21 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Is al gebeurd

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 18:38 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Kijk wie weer van zich laat horen:

Cheney calls for US to restart interrogation programs

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 19:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dus Kim neemt een paar gijzelaars, en als hij die een jaartje later vrijlaat is hij een toffe peer? Mmmkaaaayyyyy....

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President Donald Trump warmly received three Americans back from North Korean imprisonment early Thursday, calling their release a vindication of his aggressive foreign policy strategy. But many Americans jailed by other repressive regimes around the world appear to have gained little from Trump’s ad-hoc and often confrontational international approach, their advocates say, and in several cases the president may have actually made it harder for them to come home.

After tweets promoting the event and White House emails inviting camera crews, Trump posed at Joint Base Andrews in Maryland with Kim Hak-song, Tony Kim and Kim Dong-chul, whom the North Koreans released to show goodwill ahead of a summit between the U.S. commander in chief and North Korean ruler Kim Jong Un.

Elsewhere, American families remained separated from their loved ones. Consider the Americans trapped in Iran. At least six are known to be there: Robert Levinson, Xiyue Wang, Karan Vafadari, Morad Tahbaz and father and son Baquer and Siamak Namazi. Some U.S. green card holders are also detained.

Trump’s decision this week to withdraw the U.S. from a groundbreaking international agreement over Iran’s nuclear program dramatically escalated tensions between the two countries and torpedoed the main dialogue between American and Iranian officials.

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Supporters of the jailed U.S. citizens were already worried that the administration did not focus on their plight as it frequently issued laundry lists of various other troubling Iranian actions and did not impose punishments specifically over the detentions.

“The rhetoric and the commitment and the inclusion of a need to secure the release of the American citizen hostages and the end of hostage-taking as a matter of their foreign policy has not been operationalized into meaningful and unequivocal action,” Jared Genser, an attorney for the Namazis, told HuffPost.

Genser had a White House meeting less than 24 hours after Trump withdrew from the deal and noted that the issue was on officials’ radar. He even got a top aide to take Trump a laminated printout of a tweet about the Namazis that he issued during his campaign. ”We hope the president is able to do for the Namazis what he’s now done on North Korea,” Genser told HuffPost.

But without deal-related economic benefits to use as leverage with Iran, Trump might have little influence over Tehran on the prisoner issue, according to Jason Rezaian, a Washington Post journalist who had been jailed in the Islamic Republic and was released in 2016, at least in part because of goodwill the Obama administration created through the nuclear negotiations.

“If Trump decides to leave the deal, he will effectively be abandoning American citizens — the very same ones he has vowed to save,” Rezaian wrote last month. After Trump’s speech, Rezaian asked what happened to concern for those Americans.

They didn’t make it into Trump’s address, which instead repeated criticisms of the Iranian government. Asked about the cases at a State Department background briefing, an official said Americans’ safety was the administration’s priority but then acknowledged the skepticism among the press. “Well, I know, you can make that face, but it’s true,” the official added.

The Trump administration has also harshly criticized the government of Venezuela and on Tuesday called for the ouster of President Nicolas Maduro. American Joshua Holt has been imprisoned in the country since 2016. Trump mentioned Holt by name when he announced new sanctions against Venezuela last year. But the dialogue that might secure Holt’s release is being led not by his administration but by key outside figures who are talking with Maduro’s inner circle.

And in Syria, Trump officials’ efforts to start a dialogue with the regime of President Bashar Assad over the fate of missing journalist Austin Tice appear to have fallen apart because of poor coordination. Weeks after then-CIA Director Mike Pompeo broached the subject with the Syrian government, U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley surrendered what could have been a key bargaining chip: She walked back the United States’ anti-Assad position, handing Damascus a boon that Washington might have used as leverage.

Assad further damaged hopes for Tice once the Syrian leader turned chemical weapons on his people again that April and Trump responded with airstrikes.

Conversely, other governments holding U.S. citizens have received warm words from Trump ― and little pressure to send the Americans back.

The president repeatedly praised Egypt’s strongman President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi on the campaign trail and in his early months in office. He then held a high-profile celebration when Sisi released an American aid worker who spent nearly three years in jail, Aya Hijazi. More than one year later, Trump has yet to publicly name any of the multiple other U.S. citizens who are among more than 50,000 people in Egypt’s poorly run jails.

“There’s a sentiment in Congress and among those families who’ve been victimized by Egyptian officials in various ways that the administration isn’t doing enough,” said Praveen Madhiraju of the nonprofit Pretrial Rights International. He represents two of an estimated 15 Americans held in Egypt: Mustafa Kassem and Ahmed Etiwy. Earlier this year, Vice President Mike Pence became the highest-ranking U.S. official to mention them in public. (Many families of Americans detained abroad choose to keep their identities hidden, often on the advice of U.S. officials who say a public outcry can hinder diplomacy.)

Capitol Hill pressure and anger over Cairo’s dealings with North Korea has pushed the Trump administration to withhold $300 million of the $1.3 billion military aid package Egypt receives from the U.S. annually. But the perception that Sisi will have an easy ride under Trump persists, and there’s little indication of consistent attention to the issue.

“The United States has enormous leverage with Egypt to secure the release of the Americans and the green card holders jailed there, and the only way that we will see all these cases resolved is for the White House to follow up on Pence’s comments,” said Genser, who also represents two U.S. permanent residents held without due process since last summer.

Turkey, whose autocratic leader, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has also received plaudits from Trump, is meanwhile holding American pastor Andrew Brunson and trying him before what his home-state senator, Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), has called a “kangaroo court.” While the president has mentioned that case repeatedly, his approach to helping Brunson so far has involved multiple steps aimed at pleasing Erdogan. The Trump team has discouraged congressional talk of sanctions against Turkey and encouraged Washington law enforcement to drop charges against Turkish security guards who beat protesters in the capital last year.

“Despite the fact that the Turks have an almost 100 percent track record of responding to sticks, we still feed them carrots,” a Senate aide told the Wall Street Journal last month. “It makes no sense.”

^{by Akbar Shahid Ahmed}

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"If Trump decides to leave the deal, he will effectively be abandoning American citizens -- the very same ones he has vowed to save."

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Firm partners had chafed over Mr. Giuliani’s public comments about payments that another of Mr. Trump’s lawyers, Michael D. Cohen, made to secure the silence of a pornographic film actress who said she had an affair with Mr. Trump. The president has denied her allegations.

Mr. Giuliani suggested that such payments were common at his firm, even without the knowledge of the clients. “That was money that was paid by his lawyer, the way I would do, out of his law firm funds,” he said on Fox News. He added, “Michael would take care of things like this like I take care of this with my clients.”

The New York Times asked Greenberg Traurig about those remarks early this week. Shortly after Mr. Giuliani’s resignation was announced, the firm responded.

“We cannot speak for Mr. Giuliani with respect to what was intended by his remarks,” said a spokeswoman, Jill Perry. “Speaking for ourselves, we would not condone payments of the nature alleged to have been made or otherwise without the knowledge and direction of a client.”

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 22:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Republicans Fill Court Seat They Denied To Obama For 6 Years

Mitch McConnell. Wat een walgelijk figuur... echt de persoon die de senaat kapot gemaakt heeft waar zijn tegenhangers in het Huis met de majority of the majority "regel" het daar kapot hebben gemaakt. _{Uiteraard hebben de republikeinen daar dan weer voor gestemd in de betreffende fracties... dus die schuld ligt wel breder... en nee de democrats zijn niet volledig onschuldig, maar je kunt niet volledig op je rug gaan liggen als de ander alleen maar power politics speelt.}

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 22:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Republicans Fill Court Seat They Denied To Obama For 6 Years

Mitch McConnell. Wat een walgelijk figuur... echt de persoon die de senaat kapot gemaakt heeft waar zijn tegenhangers in het Huis met de majority of the majority "regel" het daar kapot hebben gemaakt. _{Uiteraard hebben de republikeinen daar dan weer voor gestemd in de betreffende fracties... dus die schuld ligt wel breder... en nee de democrats zijn niet volledig onschuldig, maar je kunt niet volledig op je rug gaan liggen als de ander alleen maar power politics speelt.}

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Cohen’s $600,000 deal with AT&T specified he would advise on Time Warner merger, internal company records show

Three days after President Trump was sworn into office, the telecom giant AT&T turned to his personal attorney Michael Cohen for help on a wide portfolio of issues pending before the federal government — including the company’s proposed merger with Time Warner, according to documents obtained by The Washington Post.

The internal documents reveal for the first time that Cohen’s $600,000 deal with AT&T specified that he would provide advice on the $85 billion merger, which required the approval of federal antitrust regulators.

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 23:04 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
What ... The ... Fuck ... Fox News Military Guest: Torture Is Good, ‘It Worked on John McCain’

twitter:

aidnmclaughlin twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 01:54:37 TRUMP ON PHONE CALLS: "I go bum bum bum baba baba ba" https://t.co/Q0xlOnG6B6 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 17:41 schreef Nintex het volgende:


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Kim Jun Un: Trump is supreme leader of the US

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annafifield twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 00:27:17 Did Kim Jong Un just call Trump the "supreme leader" of the U.S.? Yes he did."He exchanged with Mike Pompeo the appraisal and view on the acute situation of the Korean peninsula... and the stance and opinions of the supreme leaderships of the DPRK and the U.S. on their summit." https://t.co/ZzVjFPv7Cx reageer retweet

GEOTUS

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 19:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dus Kim neemt een paar gijzelaars, en als hij die een jaartje later vrijlaat is hij een toffe peer? Mmmkaaaayyyyy....

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A top White House communications aide made fun of Sen. John McCain's brain cancer diagnosis on Thursday, sources with direct knowledge said — comments that enraged the senator's wife.

The comments, which were first reported by The Hill, a Washington political newspaper, came during a meeting a day after McCain, R-Ariz., announced that he was opposing the nomination of Gina Haspel to be permanent director of the CIA.


"He's dying anyway," said Kelly Sadler the White House's director of surrogate and coalitions outreach, according to three sources with direct knowledge of the meeting.

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President Donald Trump’s national security team is weighing the elimination of the top White House cybersecurity job, multiple sources told POLITICO — a move that would come as the nation faces growing digital threats from adversaries such as Russia and Iran.

John Bolton, Trump’s hawkish new national security adviser, is leading the push to abolish the role of special assistant to the president and cybersecurity coordinator, currently held by the departing Rob Joyce, according to one current and two former U.S. officials with direct knowledge of the discussions.

The sources spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of deliberations about internal White House operations.

Cybersecurity experts and former National Security Council officials expressed alarm at the idea of eliminating the job, saying it would undo much of the progress the U.S. has made on cyber efforts and send the wrong message about U.S. priorities in the digital domain. The coordinator — a post created at the beginning of the Obama administration — leads a team of NSC staffers who manage federal cyber strategy on everything from election security to encryption policies to digital warfare.

Bolton’s deputy, Mira Ricardel, supports the idea of eliminating the coordinator role, according to two of the sources. “She’s thinking about whether to simply pick up the [cyber] function on her own,” said one of the former U.S. officials, who added that the odds were “60-40” that the White House would eliminate the job.

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RepAdamSchiff twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 03:23:57 Trump Administration holds up merger involving parent company of CNN, whose coverage Trump hates, while Trump’s lawyer secretly takes $600,000 to “advise” on the same merger.Swamp level today: Overflowing. https://t.co/T3jXkDCPkn reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 02:58:01 In case you were wondering no this is not what good lawyering looks like https://t.co/laTp4vu8C2 reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 02:20 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Novartis, for example, acknowledged paying $1.2 million to Cohen’s company, Essential Consultants LLC. In an email to employees on Thursday, Novartis CEO Vasant Narasimhan wrote, “We made a mistake entering into this engagement.”

Adding to the intrigue, the payments were made to the same shell company, Essential Consulting LLC, that Cohen used to make a $130,000 payment to Daniels.

Cohen denies any wrongdoing.

Since the allegations came to light, Trump critics including Avenatti have insisted that the cloud of suspicion hovers over the president, too.

Avenatti told The Hill in a phone interview on Wednesday that the allegations “appear to reflect a pattern and practice by Michael Cohen of accepting money in return for access to the president.”

Avenatti added: “It’s beyond that it doesn’t look good. This is the right-hand attorney of the president. If that attorney is selling access to the president without the requisite disclosures, that is a serious problem.”

A CNN report on Thursday morning quoted an unnamed GOP strategist describing Cohen’s pitch to potential clients after Trump’s election in November 2016.

"I don't know who's been representing you, but you should fire them all. I'm the guy you should hire. I'm closest to the President. I'm his personal lawyer,” CNN quoted the strategist, apparently paraphrasing Cohen.

Giuliani pushed back against the coverage, saying Cohen’s consulting work did not touch the president at all.

“There is a sort of media frenzy about it. They ought to calm down. It doesn’t have any connection” to Trump, Giuliani said. “The main thing is, we are not involved.”

Asked if he had spoken to Trump about the latest twists and turns in the Cohen saga, Giuliani said, “I haven’t in a few days. He’s been very busy.”

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Naked Gun - Please disperse 1080p

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 07:48 schreef Klaphark het volgende:
Heeft er ergens al een analyse van de mogelijk gepleegde strafbare feiten van Cohen gestaan, met een strafmaat?

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 07:48 schreef Klaphark het volgende:
Heeft er ergens al een analyse van de mogelijk gepleegde strafbare feiten van Cohen gestaan, met een strafmaat?

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 08:50 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Cohen heeft bij het openen van de bankrekening voor Essential Consultants gezegd dat hij real estate advies zou gaan geven met zijn nieuwe bedrijfje. Daar klopt natuurlijk geen reet van. Met andere woorden, dat is bank fraud.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 08:55 schreef VEM2012 het volgende:

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Dat is natuurlijk niet het echte probleem. Het echte probleem is dat als je maar betaalt je toegang kan krijgen tot de president.

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tedlieu twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 08:26:39 I think @EPAScottPruitt would like this. It would really separate him from coach class passengers. https://t.co/x8epA496Xy reageer retweet

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businessinsider twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 08:20:00 This aircraft was inspired by Mercedes-Benz and features six first-class private suites https://t.co/Y5Bt3E3efZ reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:06 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Zelfs dat is geen probleem. Zolang je je maar registreert als lobbyist. Helemaal als je voor buitenlandse bedrijven gaat werken.

Dat daarmee de swamp door de gangen van het Witte Huis blubbert is een ander verhaal.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:27 schreef VEM2012 het volgende:

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Wel als dat een verdienmodel is van de president.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ja. Het is te hopen voor Trump dat er geen bewijs gevonden wordt dat hij wist van dit handeltje.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoezo dat dan? Het maakt zijn volgelingen ogenschijnlijk geen reet uit wat de man allemaal uitspookt.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoezo dat dan? Het maakt zijn volgelingen ogenschijnlijk geen reet uit wat de man allemaal uitspookt.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoezo dat dan? Het maakt zijn volgelingen ogenschijnlijk geen reet uit wat de man allemaal uitspookt.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:45 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Inderdaad. Toen deze week de pay to play verhalen naar buiten kwamen, zag je overal reacties online als 'oh, zo deden Obama en Clinton dat toch ook?'.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:45 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Inderdaad. Toen deze week de pay to play verhalen naar buiten kwamen, zag je overal reacties online als 'oh, zo deden Obama en Clinton dat toch ook?'.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:52 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Daily Mail, niet gelezen.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:58 schreef Ulx het volgende:
De NY Post meldt het ook.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 10:11 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
Ergens wel jammer dat tabloids als de Daily Mail (of Express, Bild) er in NL niet zijn

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 10:12 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Waarom zou dat jammer zijn?

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 10:14 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:

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een verrijking van het medialandschap, net zo goed als dat er op het FD na geen kwaliteitskranten zijn in NL

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 08:35 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Het Midden-Oosten was altijd al een kruitvat maar daar heeft Trump nu dus een lucifer ingegooid.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 10:55 schreef Re het volgende:
https://www.businessinsid(...)ernational=true&r=US

welja joh.... dictator trump incoming...

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:38 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:

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Ik hoop dat gauw uitlekt waar zijn online volgers uit worden betaald en dat daar maar ook even word ingevallen.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:16 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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De FBI mag meteen bij mij thuis langskomen hoor. Wellicht lusten ze wel Grolsch of Jupiler

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ja. Het is te hopen voor Trump dat er geen bewijs gevonden wordt dat hij wist van dit handeltje.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 09:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoezo dat dan? Het maakt zijn volgelingen ogenschijnlijk geen reet uit wat de man allemaal uitspookt.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 10:55 schreef Re het volgende:
https://www.businessinsid(...)ernational=true&r=US

welja joh.... dictator trump incoming...

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 10:55 schreef Re het volgende:
https://www.businessinsid(...)ernational=true&r=US

welja joh.... dictator trump incoming...

Obama Says He Could Win A Third Term As President

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:26 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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Oh? Dus als Obama een beetje speculleert over een third term is hij dan ook stiekem dictatoriaal?

Obama Says He Could Win A Third Term As President

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Trump went on a Twitter tirade against The New York Times and other media outlets on Wednesday, and suggested taking away some of their press credentials.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:26 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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Oh? Dus als Obama een beetje speculleert over een third term is hij dan ook stiekem dictatoriaal?

Obama Says He Could Win A Third Term As President

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:01 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Net of hij over acht jaar leeft, met z'n cholesterolpens.

"Trump Is as Healthy as a Horse!" - Tucker Carlson Tonight

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:26 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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Oh? Dus als Obama een beetje speculleert over een third term is hij dan ook stiekem dictatoriaal?

Obama Says He Could Win A Third Term As President

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:32 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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"Trump Is as Healthy as a Horse!" - Tucker Carlson Tonight

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:33 schreef Falco het volgende:

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Leuk filmpje hoor. Als je geen autist bent, begrijp je dat dit in een losse setting met humor plaats vond en dat Obama een derde termijn niet serieus kan overwegen.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:33 schreef Falco het volgende:

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Leuk filmpje hoor. Als je geen autist bent, begrijp je dat dit in een losse setting met humor plaats vond en dat Obama een derde termijn niet serieus kan overwegen.

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Now, let me be honest with you -- I do not understand this. (Laughter.) I am in my second term. It has been an extraordinary privilege for me to serve as President of the United States. I cannot imagine a greater honor or a more interesting job. I love my work. But under our Constitution, I cannot run again. (Laughter and applause.) I can't run again. I actually think I'm a pretty good President -- I think if I ran I could win. (Laughter and applause.) But I can't.

So there’s a lot that I'd like to do to keep America moving, but the law is the law. (Applause.) And no one person is above the law. Not even the President. (Applause.) And I'll be honest with you -- I’m looking forward to life after being President. (Laughter.) I won't have such a big security detail all the time. (Laughter.) It means I can go take a walk. I can spend time with my family. I can find other ways to serve. I can visit Africa more often. (Applause.) The point is, I don't understand why people want to stay so long. (Laughter.) Especially when they’ve got a lot of money. (Laughter and applause.)

When a leader tries to change the rules in the middle of the game just to stay in office, it risks instability and strife -- as we’ve seen in Burundi. (Applause.) And this is often just a first step down a perilous path. And sometimes you’ll hear leaders say, well, I'm the only person who can hold this nation together. (Laughter.) If that's true, then that leader has failed to truly build their nation. (Applause.)

You look at Nelson Mandela -- Madiba, like George Washington, forged a lasting legacy not only because of what they did in office, but because they were willing to leave office and transfer power peacefully. (Applause.) And just as the African Union has condemned coups and illegitimate transfers of power, the AU’s authority and strong voice can also help the people of Africa ensure that their leaders abide by term limits and their constitutions. (Applause.) Nobody should be president for life.
And your country is better off if you have new blood and new ideas. (Applause.) I'm still a pretty young man, but I know that somebody with new energy and new insights will be good for my country. (Applause.) It will be good for yours, too, in some cases.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:34 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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OH, Trump mag niet in een losse sessie met wat humor over een third term spreken, maar Obama wel. Duidelijk

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(....) But his description of Kim as being “excellent” to the prisoners didn’t seem to match up with their experiences. When asked by a reporter about how he was treated, Kim Dong-chul replied, after a long pause, “We were treated in many different ways. For me, I had to do a lot of labor. But when I got sick, I was also treated by them.”

North Korean authorities arrested Kim in October 2015 and later sentenced him to 10 years of hard labor for espionage and subversion.

Tony Kim, one of the other captives, spent a month last year teaching at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. But as he boarded a plane in April 2017 to leave North Korea, authorities arrested him on unknown charges.

The third captive, Kim Hak-song, also worked at the Pyongyang University of Science and Technology. North Korean authorities arrested him in early May, two weeks after detaining Tony Kim, for committing what the North Korean state media described as “hostile acts.”

The status of their health is unclear, but they certainly seem to be in better shape than Warmbier, who returned to the US in a vegetative state and showed signs of extensive brain damage. Human rights watchdogs have documented systematic torture, starvation, and forced labor in North Korean prisons for many years.

As the US and North Korea head toward a historic summit to discuss a solution to their impasse over North Korea’s nuclear program, calmer rhetoric is to be expected. But what’s concerning is that Trump could swing too hard in the opposite direction at a time when he needs to stay disciplined for negotiations.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:46 schreef Falco het volgende:
De nabestaanden van Wambier kunnen het best waarderen dat Trump nu Kim Jong-Un een fantastische leider vindt.

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Michael Avenatti has a warning for Michael Cohen, the embattled personal attorney to President Donald Trump: There’s more.

“We haven’t even scratched the surface with this email today and the information that we released earlier in the week,” Avenatti said on CNN on Thursday. “We’ve got emails, we’ve got text messages, we’ve got other financial information, and people better be very careful in the representations that they make.”

Avenatti earlier this week released a trove of documents linking Cohen’s consulting firm to numerous payments, including $500,000 from a company tied to a Russian oligarch.

Cohen used that same consulting firm to pay $130,000 to Avenatti’s client Stormy Daniels as part of a nondisclosure agreement just before the 2016 presidential election.

Daniels, a porn actress whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, is suing to get out of the deal so she can talk about an alleged 2006 affair with Trump.

“I’m speaking to you, Michael Cohen,” Avenatti warned on Thursday. “You’d better be really careful in the representations you make in court filings and to the American people because we’re going to prove you wrong if the need be, period.”

See his full exchange with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer above.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:44 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump just thanked Kim Jong Un for being “excellent” to US captives

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Die lui moeten niet zo zeuren over een beetje werk! Trump zegt dat Kim een toffe gozer is, dus is Kim een toffe gozer!

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:49 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Kim is gewoon een vriendelijke man die uitstekend voor zijn gevangenen zorgt. Heel normaal regime, straks nog even een handje geven op de ontmoeting en een persbericht uitgeven dat ze 'voornemens zijn de voorbereidingen te gaan treffen om te zijner tijd het kernwapenarsenaal in meer of mindere mate af te gaan bouwen' en Kim kan lekker als gelegitimeerde dictator blijven zitten.

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IamConiglio twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 06:12:35 If people are saying merry Christmas right now then they should be sent to Gitmo. It's May. https://t.co/F6J1af1wkn reageer retweet

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PaulNiemeyer1 twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 06:13:39 Trump said today that stores are now wishing you Merry Christmas. Does he know it’s May? reageer retweet

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vicschleich twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 06:07:52 It’s May and @realDonaldTrump is talking about saying “Merry Christmas” in stores....and I thought I had a hard time staying on topic. reageer retweet

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RVAwonk twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 02:46:52 May, 10, 2018: Trump celebrates victory in the non-existent war on Christmas, telling a crowd in Elkhart, Indiana: "Now they're saying Merry Christmas, again." reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 12:50:00 Today is the one year anniversary of Trump's interview with Lester Holt.To my knowledge, that was the last formal TV interview with a non-friendly news outlet. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 10:52 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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De escalaties van conflicten waar Iran in betrokken was begonnen vooral pas na de Iran Deal.

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The Trump administration has quietly eliminated funding for NASA’s research program that tracks greenhouse gases around the world.

According to Science, the Carbon Monitoring System (CMS) tracks the world’s flow of carbon dioxide from space. Such a system is critical to monitoring any improvements — or failures — in attempts to cut the pollution linked to climate change.

NASA spokesman Steve Cole told the magazine that the program was canceled due to ”budget constraints and higher priorities within the science budget.” Usually, Congress battles such cuts, but this time, there was simply no mention of the program’s $10 million annual budget in the White House budget.

Although existing grants will finish, Cole said, no new projects will be undertaken. NASA’s budget report for fiscal year 2019 assumes the “termination” of CMS.

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Many of the projects CMS has tracked involved how effectively forests, including tropical forests, trap carbon dioxide. Carbon measurements were also critical for compliance with air pollution reduction goals, such as those required by the Paris climate agreement. In June 2017, Trump announced that the U.S. would withdraw from the accord.

“If you cannot measure emissions reductions, you cannot be confident that countries are adhering to the agreement,” Tufts University environment professor Kelly Sims Gallagher told Science. She also called canceling the NASA program a “grave mistake.”

Climate change expert Rachel Licker of the Union of Concerned Scientists also told the BBC that “dismantling CMS will adversely affect our ability to track flows of carbon through our land, oceans and atmosphere.”

Europe has one carbon-monitoring satellite of its own and is on track to develop more. As the U.S. under Trump turns increasingly to fossil fuels, including coal, experts warn that it will cede developing cutting-edge technology focusing on pollution reduction and alternative fuels to other nations.

“We really shoot ourselves in the foot if we let other people develop the technology” and lose that edge in the economies of the future, Phil Duffy, president of the Woods Hole Research Center in Massachusetts, told Science.

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Kirstjen Nielsen, the homeland security secretary, told colleagues she was close to resigning after President Trump berated her on Wednesday in front of the entire cabinet for what he said was her failure to adequately secure the nation’s borders, according to several current and former officials familiar with the episode.

Ms. Nielsen, who is a protégée of John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, has drafted a resignation letter but has not submitted it, according to two of the people. As the head of the Department of Homeland Security, Ms. Nielsen is in charge of the 20,000 employees who work for Immigration and Customs Enforcement.

Mr. Trump’s anger toward Ms. Nielsen, who was sitting several seats to his left at the meeting, was part of a lengthy tirade in which the president railed at his cabinet about what he said was its lack of progress toward sealing the country’s borders against illegal immigrants, according to one person who was present at the meeting.

Asked about the heated exchange at the meeting, Sarah Huckabee Sanders, the White House press secretary, said Thursday that “the president is committed to fixing our broken immigration system and our porous borders.”

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In a statement, Ms. Nielsen said she intended to “continue to direct the department to do all we can to implement the president’s security-focused agenda.” She said Mr. Trump was “rightly frustrated that existing loopholes and the lack of congressional action have prevented this administration from fully securing the border.”

Tyler Q. Houlton, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, disputed that Ms. Nielsen had drafted a resignation letter and was close to resigning, calling those assertions “false.”

Mr. Trump’s anger about immigration has grown in recent weeks, according to several officials. He repeatedly claimed credit for the fact that during his first year in office, illegal border crossings dropped to their lowest levels in decades. But this year, they have risen again, robbing him of one of his favorite talking points.

In remarks to reporters before Wednesday’s meeting, Mr. Trump hinted at the anger that would cause him to erupt once TV cameras were led out of the room.

“We’ve very much toughened up the border, but the laws are horrible,” Mr. Trump said. “The laws in this country for immigration and illegal immigration are absolutely horrible. And we have to do something about it — not only the wall, which we’re building sections of wall right now.”

One person familiar with Mr. Trump’s blowup at the meeting said it was prompted by a discussion about why Mexico was not doing more to prevent illegal border crossings into the United States. Another person said the president was primarily focused on the Homeland Security Department because he viewed Ms. Nielsen as primarily responsible for keeping illegal immigrants out of the country.

During the meeting, Mr. Trump yelled about the United States’ porous border and said more needed to be done to fix it. When members of his cabinet pointed out that the country relies on day laborers who cross the border each day, Mr. Trump said that was fine, but continued to complain, one person said.

The president also complained about the continued failure of his administration to find a way to build a wall along the southern border with Mexico, two people familiar with the episode said.

Ms. Nielsen viewed the president’s rant as directed mostly at her, and she told associates after the meeting that she should not continue in the job if he did not view her as effective. One person close to Ms. Nielsen said she was miserable in her job.

Mr. Trump has clashed with Ms. Nielsen for weeks about his belief that more should be done to secure the border. In early April, the president repeatedly expressed frustration with Ms. Nielsen that her department was not doing enough to close loopholes that were allowing illegal immigrants into the country, according to one official familiar with those discussions.

During those discussions, officials had presented Mr. Trump with a list of proposals that would help border agents crack down on those trying to cross the border illegally and send them back more quickly. The president urged Ms. Nielsen to be more aggressive, the official said.

One persistent issue has been Mr. Trump’s belief that Ms. Nielsen and other officials in the department were resisting his direction that parents be separated from their children when families cross illegally into the United States, several officials said. The president and his aides in the White House had been pushing a family separation policy for weeks as a way of deterring families from trying to cross the border illegally.

On Monday, Justice Department officials announced that border agents will refer 100 percent of illegal crossings for prosecution, a decision that will most likely result in more family separations.

But one official said the family separation issue is just one part of the president’s broader frustration with the pace of progress on an immigration crackdown, which was a central promise that he made to voters during his 2016 presidential campaign.

Since taking office, Mr. Trump’s efforts to impose a travel ban on several predominantly Muslim countries were held up for months in the courts. The courts have also interfered with his push to end an Obama-era program to help people brought to the United States illegally as young children.

In recent weeks, Mr. Trump has been increasingly focused on the obstacles to immigration changes, even in public speeches where he had planned to talk about other topics.

“We don’t have laws. We have laws that were written by people that truly could not love our country,” the president told members of the National Rifle Association last week in Dallas during lengthy remarks about immigration.

“We’re going to start defending our country. We’re going to start defending our borders,” he said with the same enthusiasm that he demonstrated when he talked about immigration during his campaign.

The episode at the cabinet meeting on Wednesday is the latest evidence of staff turmoil at the White House, where many of Mr. Trump’s top advisers have either been fired or have resigned in recent weeks.

The president fired Rex W. Tillerson, his secretary of state, and pushed out Lt. Gen. H. R. McMaster, his second national security adviser, replacing him with John R. Bolton, who in turn fired several top aides at the National Security Council.

Those staff changes followed the announced departures of Gary D. Cohn, the president’s top economic adviser in the White House, and Hope Hicks, who was Mr. Trump’s communications director and confidante. Thomas P. Bossert, the president’s homeland security adviser, also quit.

Mr. Trump’s relationship with Mr. Kelly, who was the president’s first secretary of homeland security, has also soured in recent months as the president has grown weary of Mr. Kelly’s attempts to impose order on his White House operations.

Ms. Nielsen was Mr. Kelly’s chief of staff at the Homeland Security Department, and followed Mr. Kelly to the White House when he became chief of staff. She frequently clashed with other members of the president’s staff as she and Mr. Kelly sought to end the chaotic access to Mr. Trump in the Oval Office.

Mr. Trump later nominated Ms. Nielsen to be the new homeland security secretary on Mr. Kelly’s recommendation.

Even so, people close to Mr. Trump said he viewed her with suspicion because she had spent years working for President George W. Bush as a homeland security aide and later as a top official for the Transportation Security Administration in the Homeland Security Department.

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 14:03:38 Knowing what we know now, no wonder Mr. Cohen was doing everything he could to interfere with Ms. Daniels' efforts to get new counsel. He was desperate to avoid the cover-up from surfacing and was afraid that competent counsel would expose him and Mr. Trump. #MoreToCome #Basta https://t.co/FCzzFwcEsP reageer retweet

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 14:08:27 And BTW, look at the subject line Mr. Cohen drafted. He has claimed in the case that DD was never a party to the NDA. But he specifically described it as the "PP vs DD NDA" in this email (his words). reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 14:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 14:03:38 Knowing what we know now, no wonder Mr. Cohen was doing everything he could to interfere with Ms. Daniels' efforts to get new counsel. He was desperate to avoid the cover-up from surfacing and was afraid that competent counsel would expose him and Mr. Trump. #MoreToCome #Basta https://t.co/FCzzFwcEsP reageer retweet

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 14:08:27 And BTW, look at the subject line Mr. Cohen drafted. He has claimed in the case that DD was never a party to the NDA. But he specifically described it as the "PP vs DD NDA" in this email (his words). reageer retweet

Whooooooops!


Michael
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Great
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You know you are crushing them when surrogates like @tuckercarlson resort to name calling and claim your “eyes are too close together." What are you, 6 yrs old? And you expect to be taken seriously as a journalist? When you have that mop hair? #So1980s #pathetic #basta

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 13:07 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:

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Lees “de joodse oorlog” eens, een 2000 jaar oud boek. Een feest van herkenning
https://nl.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Joodse_oorlog

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The more you peel back the onion, the more Cohen and Avenatti seem alike. Both are fixers who bend every rule they can get away with. Fairly or unfairly, Cohen is being put under the microscope and we can rest assured that every payment in or out will be fully scrutinized by law enforcement. But Avenatti can’t be given a pass on these issues. Americans are entitled to know just who this guy is, who is writing his checks and whether he legally obtained his information.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:06 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Goed stuk over die advocaat van Stormy die niet door Stormy wordt betaald, Michael Avenatti.

http://thehill.com/opinio(...)ing-michael-avenatti

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Hij kan flink in de problemen komen door zijn acties.

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 17:55:41 Too bad @Mark_Penn didn't do any basic research for his ridiculous piece in The Hill. Had he merely bothered to review google or this feed, he would know exactly who is paying me. And we did nothing wrong re the release of the financial info. #basta reageer retweet

twitter:

MichaelAvenatti twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 19:22:57 Who is paying my legal bills? Yet again, here is the answer (in Dropbox). The next time you see a "journalist" ask this same question, please join me in mocking them for their inability to do basic research. #bastahttps://t.co/3KmODQxb69 reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:09 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Alleen is dat stuk volgens Avenatti bij elkaar gelogen. Hij geeft continue aan betaald te worden door Daniels en crowdfunding.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:06 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Goed stuk over die advocaat van Stormy die niet door Stormy wordt betaald, Michael Avenatti.

http://thehill.com/opinio(...)ing-michael-avenatti

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Hij kan flink in de problemen komen door zijn acties.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:10 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Daniels heeft zelf al aangegeven niet te betalen voor haar advocaat.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 14:57 schreef DeParo het volgende:

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Ik heb dat lang geleden eens op de UvA-Boekenmarkt gekocht bij Oudemanhuispoort, hoe dan ook, wat voor herkenning bedoel je dan precies?

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik zie Avenatti in tegenstelling tot de raadslieden van Trump niet snel in de problemen komen. Hij weet precies wat hij wel en niet kan maken. Team Trump heeft er iets meer moeite mee.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:14 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:

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Dat er 2000 jaar geleden dezelfde ellende was

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:16 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Beetje wensdenken dit natuurlijk.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:20 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik constateer gewoon feiten.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:06 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Goed stuk over die advocaat van Stormy die niet door Stormy wordt betaald, Michael Avenatti.

http://thehill.com/opinio(...)ing-michael-avenatti

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Hij kan flink in de problemen komen door zijn acties.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:10 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Daniels heeft zelf al aangegeven niet te betalen voor haar advocaat.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 15:23 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Je kan natuurlijk niet weten of Avenatti brandschoon is, simpelweg omdat je niet weet wat hij mogelijk misdaan heeft tot dat naar buiten wordt gebracht.

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 11:58 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Have a good time!

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 17:50 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ooh goody

https://mobile.twitter.co(...)s/994967698739286017

Let this serve as formal notice - there is significantly more evidence and facts to come relating to Mr. Cohen's dealings and Mr. Trump's knowledge and involvement. You can come clean now or wait to be outed. Your choice. We have only just begun...#Basta

[ afbeelding ]

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 18:24 schreef Montov het volgende:

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In die Twitter thread wordt Eric Schneidermann genoemd in relatie met Cohen. De voorspellende tweet van Trump een paar jaar geleden over Schneiderman krijgt daarmee weer een nieuwe dimensie...

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 18:48 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Wat kwalificeert voor jou dan als een goede president?

Wie beschouw je als goed en wie slecht?

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Op donderdag 10 mei 2018 09:32 schreef AnneX het volgende:
...don't call him "moron" or "idiot;" call him what he is:...

.https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)ot-begala/index.html

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 18:24 schreef Montov het volgende:

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In die Twitter thread wordt Eric Schneidermann genoemd in relatie met Cohen. De voorspellende tweet van Trump een paar jaar geleden over Schneiderman krijgt daarmee weer een nieuwe dimensie...

twitter:

NYHammond twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 19:37:46 Lawyer inserting himself in Schneiderman-Trump craziness once tried to buy Elvis’s house with Uri Geller. Another master stroke from the author of the satiric novel we’re all trapped in. https://t.co/y7vKX2BTEv reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 19:19 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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Goed detective bureau heeft Avenatti achter de hand.
Of hoe komt hij aan al die info.
Mueller en consorten zullen niet lekken, naar ik aanneem.

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As a matter of practice, lawyers maintain case files for the benefit of their clients. If the client decides to seek new representation, the information in the case file is generally deemed to belong to the client, and it’s then forwarded to the new attorney. In this case, it appears that Davidson turned over these communications to Avenatti as part of Daniels’ case file.

Avenatti hinted as much during a hearing in New York in late April in which he sought to intervene in a dispute about how the materials seized in the raid of Michael Cohen’s office would be handled. Avenatti argued that Davidson and Cohen were continuing to discuss his client’s case and that those communications were part of her case file, which belongs to her.

"Of course, those communications, whether they be by email, text messages, or otherwise, would technically belong to my client because it would be part of her attorney-client file."

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 19:50 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Thinkprogress had er een artikeltje over.

In het kort, waarschijnlijk overgedragen gekregen van Davidson:

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Althans, dat gaat over de mails, hoe hij gekomen is aan de financiele gegevens is nog een ander vraagstuk wat me niet helder is...

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 18:57 schreef Nintex het volgende:


Trump werkt met de Russen
Trump heeft geld gekregen van de Russen
Trump heeft zaken gedaan met de Russen
Trump heeft pornosterren omgekocht
Trump heeft een grote handtekening

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“Fox & Friends” host Pete Hegseth trashed the “failing New York Times” on Friday for supposedly not reporting on the recent capture of five ISIS leaders.

“I looked for the five ISIS leaders captured in the failing New York Times,” Hegseth said, flipping through the newspaper. “And in the print edition today, I have not seen it yet.”

Hegseth didn’t find the story in Friday’s New York Times because the paper covered it on Wednesday. (Hegseth’s own station, Fox News, reported on the Times’ coverage a day later, on Thursday.)

more (& with Trumptweets): https://www.huffingtonpos(...)cb60e4b032b10bfa59e9

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White House: AT&T's Cohen payment shows Trump can't be bought

The White House pushed back on concerns regarding newly-discovered payments to President Trump's lawyer Michael Cohen from corporations looking to lobby the White House, arguing that the episode proves Trump will not cater to “special interests.”

Cohen has been at the center of a legal storm for weeks since federal agents raided his office following a referral from special counsel Robert Mueller.

This week, reports surfaced that corporate clients including AT&T and Novartis paid Cohen hundreds of thousands of dollars after the 2016 election after he promised access to the new administration.

White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders told reporters Friday that the revelations prove that Trump can't be bought by companies looking to change his mind, pointing to the fact that the Justice Department came out against AT&T's merger with Time Warner.

"This further proves the president is not going to be influenced by special interests. This is actually the definition of 'draining the swamp,'" she said, directing other questions to the president's outside counsel.

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 23:10:14 Rudy Giuliani says he won't debate Michael Avenatti because he doesn't "get involved with pimps."https://t.co/h7rHf0rEEX reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 23:51 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 23:10:14 Rudy Giuliani says he won't debate Michael Avenatti because he doesn't "get involved with pimps."https://t.co/h7rHf0rEEX reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 20:18 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Mueller gains credibility among swing voters/independents
https://www.axios.com/new(...).html?chunk=5#story5

(in 4 swing states FL, OH, WI, PA)

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 23:52 schreef Zelva het volgende:

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't Meest schokkende is dat kennelijk zelfs nog 15 procent van de Democraten Trump betrouwbaarder vinden

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 23:51 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 11-05-2018 om 23:10:14 Rudy Giuliani says he won't debate Michael Avenatti because he doesn't "get involved with pimps."https://t.co/h7rHf0rEEX reageer retweet

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According to European diplomats and Israeli officials the French and other member states wanted to publish the statement today as a statement by the EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini supported by all 28 EU members.

But earlier today, Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania announced they object to the statement and made it impossible to reach the consensus needed to publish it.
A senior European diplomat told me with a lot of frustration: "The Hungarians didn’t want to poke Trump in the eye and the Czechs and the Romanians are considering to move their embassies to Jerusalem against the EU position. This is the state of the EU these days".

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Op vrijdag 11 mei 2018 23:26 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://thehill.com/homene(...)trump-cant-be-bought

Wat impliceert dat Trump op de hoogte was van de betalingen...

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 00:44 schreef Mr.Major het volgende:
Deze post staat ook in polcafé, maar is hier misschien meer op zijn plek.

Iedereen is natuurlijk bekend met de hoeveelheid racisme waarmee de zwarte gemeenschap in Amerika te maken krijgt/zou krijgen. Door democraten wordt gezegd dat zij een slachtoffer zijn van racisme, republikeinen zeggen dat het aan henzelf ligt.

Zwarte kinderen zitten vast in een cultuur waar zij zelf voor verantwoordelijk zijn. De democraten houden ze natuurlijk maar wat graag als slachtoffer, want dan is het eenvoudiger hun stemmen te ronselen. Zonder de black vote zullen ze nooit meer de macht kunnen pakken. Een steeds groter deel van de zwarten wordt nu echter republican. Ik zal niet ontkennen dat ze daar niet door genaaid worden, maar de republikeinen naaien iedereen ter wille van het grote geld. Ik denk dat verantwoordelijkheid nemen een veel betere uitwerking zal hebben dan de slachtofferrol die de democrats ze aanpraten.

Een keiharde, maar op een of andere manier ook goede uitspraak van Trump, is deze:

Trump to Black Voters: What Do You Have to Lose?

Ik denk dat Trump hier gigantisch gelijk in heeft. Ook de black community realiseert zich dit meer en meer. Onder zwarten was de populariteit van (support voor moet ik zeggen) trump (uit mijn hoofd) van 11 naar 20% gestegen. Ik gun het hen van harte dat de republikeinen hun stem nu als een mogelijkheid gaan zien, en ze dus ook met beleid zullen paaien. Een ding moet je Trump namelijk nageven: in de politiek zal weinig na zijn presidentsperiode nog hetzelfde zijn. Dat betekent dus ook dat de zwakten die sinds jaar en dag in beide partijen zitten zullen verschuiven.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 01:55 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Mooi verhaaltje, maar probeer het eens met feiten en niet met verzinsels:

https://www.factcheck.org/2016/02/trump-and-the-black-vote/

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 00:28 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Gaat helemaal goed komen met die Europese vuist tegen Trump.

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Trump: Other nations extort drug-makers

US President Donald Trump has accused foreign governments of extorting "unreasonably low prices" from pharmaceutical firms.

Speaking in Washington on Friday, he said he had directed his top trade negotiator to make the issue a priority in trade talks.

"It is time to end the global freeloading once and for all," he said.

The president is under pressure to deliver on campaign promises to reduce the high costs of prescription drugs.

In his speech, the president pinned the problem in part on price controls in other countries that he said "extort unreasonably low prices" from drug-makers, forcing Americans to pay more to "subsidise the enormous costs of research and development".

"That is unacceptable," he said.

However, experts say foreign pricing is not a major influence on US costs and changing it will not help Americans.

Paul Ginsburg, a professor of health policy at USC and the director of the USC-Brookings Schaeffer Initiative for Health Policy, said firms set prices to maximise profits and already have ample incentives to innovate.

"The notion that if other countries pay more for drugs that US consumers will pay less, that's just not true," said

"If they are able to get other countries to pay more, I don't believe it will have any effect on prices in the United States," he added. "It will only raise drug company profits."

Shares of health care companies jumped after the president's speech.

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-44087735

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 07:44 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Trumps zero-sum wereldbeeld in actie. En eindelijk krijgt Novartis de play waar ze voor betaald hebben.

Hoeveel meer zou Nintex bereid zijn te betalen voor zijn pillen hier om Trump te steunen?

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 07:58 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

New Rule: Married to the Mob | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Maher

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 09:35 schreef Beatific het volgende:
Ik ben op dit moment in Amerika en ik verbaas me erover hoe populair Trump hier is en hoe impopulair Clinton. Zelfs in de linkse staten bemerk ik een sympathie voor Trump bij een doelgroep als millenials die ik zeker niet verwacht had.

Begrijpen doe ik het niet. Ik had zelf graag Clinton als president gezien.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 09:49 schreef Falco het volgende:

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Zolang de economie nog lekker draait, is er voor de meeste mensen ook weinig te klagen.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 10:45 schreef Monolith het volgende:
De regering komt met een "plan" om wat te doen aan de hoge medicijnprijzen:
https://politi.co/2KVfIcz

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 09:35 schreef Beatific het volgende:
Ik ben op dit moment in Amerika en ik verbaas me erover hoe populair Trump hier is en hoe impopulair Clinton. Zelfs in de linkse staten bemerk ik een sympathie voor Trump bij een doelgroep als millenials die ik zeker niet verwacht had.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 09:35 schreef Beatific het volgende:
Ik ben op dit moment in Amerika en ik verbaas me erover hoe populair Trump hier is en hoe impopulair Clinton. Zelfs in de linkse staten bemerk ik een sympathie voor Trump bij een doelgroep als millenials die ik zeker niet verwacht had.

Begrijpen doe ik het niet. Ik had zelf graag Clinton als president gezien.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 07:58 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

New Rule: Married to the Mob | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Maher

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 13:02 schreef Re het volgende:
Ik denk dat Trump keihard bakzeil haalt met zijn drug pricing

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 09:35 schreef Beatific het volgende:
Ik ben op dit moment in Amerika en ik verbaas me erover hoe populair Trump hier is en hoe impopulair Clinton. Zelfs in de linkse staten bemerk ik een sympathie voor Trump bij een doelgroep als millenials die ik zeker niet verwacht had.

Begrijpen doe ik het niet. Ik had zelf graag Clinton als president gezien.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 07:44 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Trumps zero-sum wereldbeeld in actie. En eindelijk krijgt Novartis de play waar ze voor betaald hebben.

Hoeveel meer zou Nintex bereid zijn te betalen voor zijn pillen hier om Trump te steunen?

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In 2017-18 - Why was Mr. Cohen paying Demeter Direct Inc. in Los Angeles large sums of money from his Essential Consultants LLC account? Keep attacking me Mr. Giuliani and @foxnews. Please. #Basta

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 07:58 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

New Rule: Married to the Mob | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Maher

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Let this serve as formal notice - there is significantly more evidence and facts to come relating to Mr. Cohen's dealings and Mr. Trump's knowledge and involvement. You can come clean now or wait to be outed. Your choice. We have only just begun...#Basta

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 07:44 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Trumps zero-sum wereldbeeld in actie. En eindelijk krijgt Novartis de play waar ze voor betaald hebben.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 07:58 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

New Rule: Married to the Mob | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

Maher

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This Wednesday, Trump boasted that he was responsible for getting members of the military a pay raise for the first time in a decade. In fact, service members have gotten raises every year for more than four decades. (HuffPo)

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 15:07 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Stop de persen! Trump heeft... gejokt?!?

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Lock him up! Lock him up! (Jokkende presidenten kunnen we niet hebben hoor! )

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 00:28 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Gaat helemaal goed komen met die Europese vuist tegen Trump.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 15:07 schreef brokjespoes het volgende:
Stop de persen! Trump heeft... gejokt?!?

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Lock him up! Lock him up! (Jokkende presidenten kunnen we niet hebben hoor! )

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 15:24 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Hij is de 3000 leugens al ruim gepasseerd..

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Eleven days before President Trump erupted in anger at his homeland security secretary in a cabinet meeting on Wednesday, he complained at a rally in Michigan about what he called “the dumbest immigration laws anywhere on earth.”

Six days later, he told the National Rifle Association about “deadly immigration loopholes,” “horrible killer gang members” and “laws that were written by people that truly could not love our country.” And hours after berating his secretary of homeland security, Kirstjen Nielsen, for failing to secure the border, Mr. Trump headed to Indiana, where he vented that Democrats have given the country “the worst immigration laws in the history of mankind.”

Mr. Trump’s fury at Ms. Nielsen was a long time coming, White House officials said. They described it as part of the president’s longstanding desire to close the United States’ borders and part of his increasing belief that his administration is moving too slowly to make good on the central promise of his 2016 presidential campaign.

The courts and Congress have resisted his demands, and even his own staff keeps telling him no. As a result, the president brings up the issue constantly, in private and public, as if the power of persuasion can change the reality on the ground.

SPOILER

“The president has every right to be frustrated,” said Dan Stein, the president of the Federation for American Immigration Reform, which advocates tough restrictions on immigration. “He wants people around him who can get around the bureaucracy and overcome the deep state and make things happen.”

But Frank Sharry, the president of America’s Voice, a pro-immigration group, said that Mr. Trump’s anger revealed ignorance about the cyclical nature of illegal border crossings into the United States.

Early in the president’s term, Mr. Sharry noted, Mr. Trump repeatedly cited his own tough messaging and initial actions on immigration — including announcing a travel ban from predominantly Muslim countries — as the reason for a big drop in people crossing the Mexican border.

“You see what’s happened: 61 percent down now in terms of illegal people coming in,” Mr. Trump said at a union conference in April 2017. “Way, way down in terms of drugs pouring into our country and poisoning our youth. Way down.”

Those numbers have since risen to more normal levels, pro-immigration groups speculate, because illegal immigrants were initially stunned by the president’s early messaging but are now disregarding it. In March and April this year, about 50,000 people crossed from Mexico into the United States illegally, about three times the number who did so a year earlier.

“He doesn’t understand what’s happening,” Mr. Sharry added. “He thinks that he should be able to issue dictates and yell at his staff and make the world move. But this is a 20-year trend.”

Hard-liners on immigration say Mr. Trump’s anger is partly explained by a suspicion inside the West Wing that Ms. Nielsen, who served on the Homeland Security Council in the George W. Bush administration, is not sufficiently committed to Mr. Trump’s agenda of tougher immigration policies.

In testimony to a congressional committee on Tuesday, the day before the president’s tirade at the cabinet meeting, Ms. Nielsen urged people seeking asylum to present themselves at United States ports of entry rather than trying to sneak into the country.

Aides say she was trying to send a strong message about not breaking the law. But many hard-line conservatives viewed her statement as an invitation to asylum seekers, many of whom end up living in the United States for years while their claims are adjudicated.

An all-caps headline in Breitbart News screamed: “EXPERT: DHS SEC KIRSTJEN NIELSEN MADE ‘COLOSSAL MISTAKE’ IN ‘INVITING’ FOREIGN NATIONALS ‘TO COME TO PORTS OF ENTRY.’”

Mark Krikorian, the executive director of the Center for Immigration Studies, another hard-line group, said Ms. Nielsen’s approach to border security is less like Mr. Trump’s campaign messaging and more like the moderate approach taken by Mr. Bush.

“The D.H.S. headquarters staff under Nielsen isn’t really that committed to the president’s immigration agenda,” Mr. Krikorian said. “I’m not sure the president was making a mistake when he was expressing the frustration.”

In her statement after Mr. Trump’s comments were made public, Ms. Nielsen said: “I share his frustration. Border security is the most basic and necessary responsibility of a sovereign nation. These are complex issues and I will continue to direct the department to do all we can to implement the president’s security-focused agenda.”

Mr. Trump remains angry that the wall he promised along the southern border with Mexico is not yet funded or under construction — and he was so upset about the issue in March that he threatened to veto a $1.3 trillion spending plan because it included no money for the project.

He is also unhappy with what he calls legal loopholes — laws or policies that in his view are too lax but remain on the books.

“I understand his frustration because the reality is that there’s only so much a president can do without the help of Congress,” said Roy Beck, the president of NumbersUSA, a conservative immigration group.

One of those loopholes is a policy that allows families who cross the border illegally to remain together while their case is decided. Mr. Trump has pushed Ms. Nielsen and others in the government to adopt a policy that separates parents from their children if they cross into the United States illegally.

In an interview with National Public Radio this week, John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, said that most of the people who cross the border illegally “are not bad people. They’re not criminals. They’re not MS-13” gang members.

But he added that the policy of separating families is an appropriate deterrence to illegal border-crossers, most of whom are “also not people that would easily assimilate into the United States into our modern society.”

“They’re overwhelmingly rural people in the countries they come from,” Mr. Kelly said.

Conservatives say the president could do more to dissuade immigrants from coming to the United States in the first place. Mr. Beck’s group has urged Mr. Trump to aggressively campaign for Congress to require businesses to use “e-verify,” a technical system to check for citizenship before hiring a worker.

But officials at the Department of Homeland Security say the administration has not been sitting idly by.

Tyler Houlton, a spokesman for the department, said that under Ms. Nielsen, enforcement has increased, the National Guard has been deployed to the border and vetting of immigrants has tightened. The department also terminated visa programs that granted temporary status to some immigrants for decades and pledged to refer for prosecution 100 percent of those arrested crossing the border illegally.

“This is a record of success,” Mr. Houlton said, adding, “But we are committed to doing more.”

_{by Michael D. Shear}

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 00:44 schreef Mr.Major het volgende:


De democraten houden ze natuurlijk maar wat graag als slachtoffer, want dan is het eenvoudiger hun stemmen te ronselen.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 17:24 schreef Falco het volgende:
Al dat gekuch... Geef die renners maar weer Salbumatol

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 17:01 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Haha, die Giuliani maakt er echt zo’n enorme puinhoop van in slechts enkele Mooches. Onvoorstelbaar...

https://mobile.twitter.com/SchneiderCNN/status/995298296334897152

Rudy Giuliani clarifying comments on AT&T merger to @DanaBashCNN, after telling @HuffPost Trump "denied the merger." Giuliani now says Trump "didn't interfere." The White House maintains DOJ denied the deal, not @POTUS himself. An effective walkback? Still seems curious to me...

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 18:40 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Het is toch HuckaSanders die de puinhoop in dit geval maakte, met haar opmerking dat Trump "denied the merger" als onderdeel van Drain The Swamp?

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"I think this further proves that the president is not going to be influenced by special interests," Sanders said. "This is actually the definition of draining the swamp, something the president talked about repeatedly during the campaign."

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"I think it's pretty clear that the Department of Justice opposed the merger, and so certainly the president has not been influenced by any, or his administration influenced by any outside special interests," Sanders said.

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https://www.cnbc.com/2018(...)ining-the-swamp.html

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“Whatever lobbying was done didn’t reach the president,” Giuliani said, offering as proof the fact that AT&T’s proposed merger with Time-Warner has not gone through. “He did drain the swamp ... The president denied the merger. They didn’t get the result they wanted.”

[...]

https://www.huffingtonpos(...)06e6e4b0e57cd9f979c7

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Squire Patton Boggs hiring/working with Mr. Cohen makes no sense. That firm usually only hires and works with the most highly educated, competent lawyers. We know of money flowing between EC, LLC & the law firm. They need to come clean & release ALL of the details re: Mr. Cohen.

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Oliver North worked with cocaine traffickers to arm terrorists. Now he’ll be president of the NRA.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 09:35 schreef Beatific het volgende:
Ik ben op dit moment in Amerika en ik verbaas me erover hoe populair Trump hier is en hoe impopulair Clinton. Zelfs in de linkse staten bemerk ik een sympathie voor Trump bij een doelgroep als millenials die ik zeker niet verwacht had.

Begrijpen doe ik het niet. Ik had zelf graag Clinton als president gezien.

SPOILER

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Good Morning, CBER Researchers,

Please excuse me for sending this out to your entire group via your listserv, but I was alerted by a member in your group and I wanted to let everyone know that the reason for the change from CNN to FOX.

The reason for the change is that a decision from the current administration administrative officials has requested that all monitors, under our control, on the White Oak Campus, display FOX news.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I am unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time.

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CBS said:
CBS News has confirmed an email was sent to researchers at the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research responding to apparent efforts to change the channel on internal television screens.
FDA Response said:
"There was no directive or memorandum from the Administration that went out to employees about broadcast news channels displaying on monitors in common areas throughout the FDA's White Oak campus."

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 21:35 schreef popolon het volgende:

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Oh je bent een weekje weg en dan zie je dat zo even?

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 22:16 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:
Hier moet men verplicht Fox News kijken. Wie zou nou met zo'n soort beslissing komen?

Hint: Het is wss een man met verschrikkelijk goede genen...

https://www.cbsnews.com/n(...)nd-cant-be-switched/

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From: WO Digital Display
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2017 9:49 AM
To: CBER Researchers
Subject: Attention: Regards about the news on the monitors in your locations

Good Morning, CBER Researchers,

Please excuse me for sending this out to your entire group via your listserv, but I was alerted by a member in your group and I wanted to let everyone know that the reason for the change from CNN to FOX.

The reason for the change is that a decision from the current administration administrative officials has requested that all monitors, under our control, on the White Oak Campus, display FOX news.

Sorry for the inconvenience, but I am unable to change any of the monitors to any other news source at this time.

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Friday morning, after an image of the email explaining the shift to Fox News was tweeted, monitors were switched back so that some displayed CNN and some Fox News, FDA doctors said.
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https://www.snopes.com/news/2017/05/05/fda-tv-monitors-fox-news/

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The FBI warned four years ago that a foundation controlled by the Russian oligarch who allegedly reimbursed Donald Trump's personal lawyer might have been acting on behalf of Russia's intelligence services.

FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Lucia Ziobro wrote an unusual column in the Boston Business Journal in April of 2014 to warn that a foundation controlled by Russian energy baron Viktor Vekselberg might be part of a Moscow spying campaign that sought to siphon up American science and technology.

"The foundation may be a means for the Russian government to access our nation's sensitive or classified research, development facilities and dual-use technologies with military and commercial applications," Ziobro wrote. "This analysis is supported by reports coming out of Russia itself."

Fast forward to this week: Vekselberg's name has been in U.S. headlines because of allegations about his involvement with payments to Trump's longtime lawyer, Michael Cohen.

A lawyer suing Trump and Cohen, Michael Avenatti, released a document on Tuesday charging that Vekselberg might have reimbursed Cohen for the payment he made to Avenatti's client, porn actress Stormy Daniels. Avenatti's document has not been fully verified but important aspects of it have been confirmed.

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 22:22 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Is van 5 mei 2017 ... is inmiddels rechtgezet:

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Althans, Fox News zou wmb totaal geen plek hebben op een tv waar nieuws op zou horen te komen, maar vooruit...

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 23:40 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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ben ik een jaar te laat. Scherp van jou op de zaterdagavond!

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 00:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://www.independent.c(...)ong-un-a8346836.html

De testsite die Kim gaat sluiten is veel zwaarder beschadigd dan tot nu toe werd gedacht. Trump laat zich blij maken met een dode mus.

twitter:

AP_Politics twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 20:46:27 The federal government swung to a surplus of $214.3 billion in April, primarily reflecting the revenue from that month's annual tax filing deadline: https://t.co/raYM4njrh3 reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 21:35 schreef popolon het volgende:

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Oh je bent een weekje weg en dan zie je dat zo even?

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 01:07 schreef Beatific het volgende:

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Het is mijn derde maand hier.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 01:13 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Het betekent geen reet in ieder geval. Kunnen we het daar over eens zijn?

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 01:06 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Gemist in alle heisa

De overheid in de VS heeft in april 200 miljard winst gedraaid

twitter:

AP_Politics twitterde op donderdag 10-05-2018 om 20:46:27 The federal government swung to a surplus of $214.3 billion in April, primarily reflecting the revenue from that month's annual tax filing deadline: https://t.co/raYM4njrh3 reageer retweet

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 01:13 schreef EggsTC het volgende:

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Jonge, waar ben je op IRC

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 01:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Wie ben je?

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 01:16 schreef EggsTC het volgende:

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 01:21 schreef Treinhomo het volgende:
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Raman_Ghavami twitterde op dinsdag 08-05-2018 om 21:16:39 H.J.Ansari Zarif’s senior advisor: “If Europeans stop trading with Iran and don’t put pressure on US then we will reveal which western politicians and how much money they had received during nuclear negotiations to make #IranDeal happen.”That would be interesting.#JCPOA reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 12 mei 2018 16:51 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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ja dit is natuurlijk de grootste onzin. Het is zelfs pure racisme.

Maar dat zal je wel niet begrijpen.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 01:55 schreef Mr.Major het volgende:
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Is deze al langsgekomen? Trump noemt het sluiten van de nuclear testsites een gesture; "gebaar". Slechts een gebaar... Hij lijkt dus wel vrij hard de onderhandelingen in te willen gaan. Ben ik blij mee, want ik zag the dealmaker er wel voor aan om terug te komen met "ja ze stoppen met kernwapens, great winning" (wat eigenlijk niets anders is dan de situatie een jaar geleden, hoewel toch een belangrijke aanpassing)

En zou iemand nog even kunnen uitleggen hoe je een post met een tweet moet opstellen? Bvd.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 00:34 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Volgens alt-media bronnen was de test site door de Amerikanen gesloopt met een nieuw type wapen. Er is nooit een verklaring gekomen waarom er 200 slachtoffers waren toen de hele boel plofte.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 02:14 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Een post met een tweet opstellen is volgens mij voorbehouden aan de desktop site... en ook dat is niet ideaal... zo worden enters bv niet mee genomen. Je hebt er daar een knopje voor.

Verder natuurlijk allemaal schattig dat je denkt dat Trump er streng in wil gaan, maar voor een eerlijke assessment is het mss handig als je voor jezelf schetst wat acceptabel is en wat in je verwachting ligt... Noord Korea heeft bijvoorbeeld immers onder andere de eis dat de VS verdwijnen van het schiereiland.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 02:24 schreef Mr.Major het volgende:

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Je kan wel de formulering van de codetaal exact overnemen. Dan maakt de fok website er wel een goede post van; maar het is een wat ingewikkelder proces dan iets als [i ][/i]

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Een eerlijk assesment van wat er uit die onderhandelingen gaat komen is volgens mij "weinig". Maar het doel van mijn schrijven was dat Trump toch wel meer verwacht of hoopt of wil bereiken dan enkel: kernwapen testen over. Als je het weghalen van testsites slechts een gebaar noemt, lijkt hij dus meer te willen dan dat.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 02:30 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, de desktop knop gooit er wat magie overheen... weet ook niet.

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Die indruk heb ik ook. Er wordt nota bene gedaan alsof Trump zelf (al) vrede gebracht zou hebben. Niks van dat alles natuurlijk, maar maak dat zijn aanhang maar eens wijs.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 02:30 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, de desktop knop gooit er wat magie overheen... weet ook niet.

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Die indruk heb ik ook. Er wordt nota bene gedaan alsof Trump zelf (al) vrede gebracht zou hebben. Niks van dat alles natuurlijk, maar maak dat zijn aanhang maar eens wijs.

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A United States military aircraft flown in to bring home Col. Joseph Emanuel Hall, a U.S. military attaché, had to leave without him, the intelligence official said.

Pakistan’s Interior Ministry said Mr. Joseph is on a “blacklist” and is not allowed to leave because of the criminal case pending against him.

Colonel Hall is accused of involvement in a road accident in which his car ran a red light and killed a motorcyclist named Ateeq Baig in the capital, Islamabad, on April 7. Pakistan officials have demanded the United States waive his diplomatic immunity so that he can face a criminal trial, but American officials have refused.

On Friday, Islamabad’s High Court, noting that Colonel Hall did not have full diplomatic immunity, left it up to the government to decide whether to add his name to a travel ban list. Also on Friday, Pakistan placed travel restrictions on United States diplomats based in the country, the latest in a series of retaliatory measures that threaten to plunge already strained relations to their worst level in years.

The restrictions in Pakistan were imposed on the same day that the United States barred diplomats working at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington from traveling outside a 25-mile radius around the city without approval.

The United States has long complained that the police and security officials in Pakistan frequently harass American diplomats and their staff with traffic stops and citations that require considerable time and effort to resolve. Six weeks ago, the State Department threatened to impose a travel restriction on Pakistan’s Washington diplomatic corps if the harassment did not end by Friday.

U.S.-Pakistan relations have worsened since January, when the Trump administration announced it had suspended nearly all of the $1.3 billion in annual security aid given to Pakistan. That came days after President Trump complained on Twitter that Pakistan had “given us nothing but lies & deceit” and accused it of providing “safe haven to the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan.”

The Trump administration has also sought to strengthen ties with India, Pakistan’s bitter rival.

“This is a development that could well develop into a full-blown crisis for relations if it’s not resolved soon,” said Michael Kugelman, a South Asia specialist at the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington. “Since Joseph is understood to have diplomatic immunity, Pakistan’s refusal to let him leave the country will be seen by Washington as a wholly unjustifiable and illegal act.”

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BREAKING: Pompeo: US to assist North Korea with its economy if it gets rid of nuclear weapons

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 02:00 schreef Mr.Major het volgende:

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Hoe de fuck is dit racisme wat een onzin, graag uitleggen ipv "dat begrijp je toch niet".

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Iedereen is natuurlijk bekend met de hoeveelheid racisme waarmee de zwarte gemeenschap in Amerika te maken krijgt/zou krijgen. Door democraten wordt gezegd dat zij een slachtoffer zijn van racisme, republikeinen zeggen dat het aan henzelf ligt.

Zwarte kinderen zitten vast in een cultuur waar zij zelf voor verantwoordelijk zijn. De democraten houden ze natuurlijk maar wat graag als slachtoffer, want dan is het eenvoudiger hun stemmen te ronselen.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 08:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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https://twitter.com/AP/status/995020899014373376?s=20

Net zoals Obama deed bij de deal met Iran. Whooptiedoo.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 09:52 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Dus de VS gaat geld pompen in een regime dat vrijwel alle mensenrechten aan de laars lapt? Of denkt deze administratie dat Noord-Korea na deze deal plots een normaal land en dat er een punt wordt gezet achter het onderdrukken van de eigen bevolking?

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A former aide to President Trump's campaign and transition team is helping a Russian company owned by a sanctioned oligarch strike a deal to lift penalties against the firm, CNN reports.

The aide, Bryan Lanza, is reportedly lobbying on behalf of former British energy minister Lord Gregory Barker, the chairman of EN+ Group, an energy and aluminum firm controlled by Oleg Deripaska.

Deripaska, a billionaire close to Russian President Vladimir Putin, was among 13 Russian nationals hit with U.S. sanctions in April in response to what the Trump administration said were Moscow's broad "destabilizing activities."

Deripaska currently owns a majority stake in EN+. But according to CNN, Lanza is lobbying on behalf of the firm as it seeks to reduce Deripaska's ownership enough to shed the U.S. sanctions.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 09:52 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Dus de VS gaat geld pompen in een regime dat vrijwel alle mensenrechten aan de laars lapt? Of denkt deze administratie dat Noord-Korea na deze deal plots een normaal land is en dat er een punt wordt gezet achter het onderdrukken van de eigen bevolking?

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 09:50 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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ik zei toch dat je het niet zou begrijpen?

Dat klopt dus. Uitleggen gaat je ook niet helpen.


Even nog waar het om ging:

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Het zit vol met aannames en racisme. Dat is vrij duidelijk en is geen uitleg voor nodig.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 10:14 schreef rockstah het volgende:

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Je moet ergens beginnen, en nu er weer gepraat kan worden kunnen er ook voorwaarden aan gesteld worden. Dat regime gaat niet zomaar weg ondanks dat de VS het land al 50+ jaar aan het "bevrijden" is. Daarnaast geven ze al jaar en dag voedselhulp omdat ook gewone Iraniërs daar wat aan hebben, wat economische hulp erbij zou ze er minder afhankelijk van kunnen maken. Denk ook aan wat er gebeurde toen ze daar plotseling mee stopten in de jaren 90.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 09:52 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Dus de VS gaat geld pompen in een regime dat vrijwel alle mensenrechten aan de laars lapt? Of denkt deze administratie dat Noord-Korea na deze deal plots een normaal land is en dat er een punt wordt gezet achter het onderdrukken van de eigen bevolking?

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 12:24 schreef chibibo het volgende:

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Een van de expliciete voorwaarden van Noord-Korea is dat de mensenrechtensituatie aldaar géén onderdeel van de onderhandelingen worden, aldus Remko Beuker een week of twee geleden bij Pauw. Maar goed, dat mensenrechten voor de VS niet de hoogste prioriteit hebben mag geen verrassing heten.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 11:22 schreef Mr.Major het volgende:

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Noem dan wat er racistisch aan is. Het is namelijk zeer minderhedenvriendelijk, dat begrijp je toch niet; maar ik wil het je graag uitleggen. Iets stellen maar daarna weigeren het uit te leggen (kan je dat uberhaupt?) is namelijk een enorm zwaktebod.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 12:37 schreef archito het volgende:

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Hoe is het minderhedenvriendelijk door te beweren dat ‘zwarte kinderen’ zelf verantwoordelijk zijn voor de cultuur waarin ze vast zitten? Dat betekent impliciet dat het ze niet lukt om uit die situatie te komen en dat dat hun eigen schuld is.
Dat een bepaalde bevolkingsgroep minder kansen krijgt komt echt niet alleen omdat deze groep zijn verantwoordelijkheid niet zou nemen. Voor een groot deel ligt het aan de ongelijkheid in Amerika waardoor sommige bevolkingsgroepen minder kans krijgen zich te ontwikkelen en daarmee de ongelijkheid in stand wordt gehouden. Een deel van de Amerikanen vindt dat wel prima.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 13:40 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 12:31 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Waarin schuilt dan straks de winst? Op z'n hoogst doet Kim een vage belofte over het op termijn ontmantelen van zijn kernwapens. Ondertussen kan hij rustig blijven zitten en heeft hij nog eens erkenning op zak van de leider van de vrije wereld.

Niet slecht voor Kim.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 15:01 schreef chibibo het volgende:

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Voor Kim is de winst inderdaad duidelijk: die heeft straks kernwapens, voedselhulp én financiële steun. Welke voordelen het de VS brengt zie ik ook niet. Misschien dat ze een deel van hun troepenmacht naar huis kunnen sturen? Dat zal het thuis voor de bühne wellicht goed doen, maar ze verliezen dan wel invloed in Zuid-Oost Azië.

Heeft Trump toch gelijk dat internationale politiek een zero-sum game is.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 15:12 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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De NYT betoogd dat juist Trump's ervaring met de mobsters en andere louche figuren hem handig maakt in het onderhandelen met andere criminele regimes (Noord Korea / Iran) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/opinion/donald-trumps-lizard-wisdom.html

Hij ziet dingen die anderen missen of kan zich beter inleven in wat de motivaties zijn.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 15:12 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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De NYT betoogd dat juist Trump's ervaring met de mobsters en andere louche figuren hem handig maakt in het onderhandelen met andere criminele regimes (Noord Korea / Iran) https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/10/opinion/donald-trumps-lizard-wisdom.html

Hij ziet dingen die anderen missen of kan zich beter inleven in wat de motivaties zijn.

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Eddie Devine voted for President Donald Trump because he thought he would be good for American business. Now, he says, the Trump administration’s restrictions on seasonal foreign labor may put him out of business.

“I feel like I’ve been tricked by the devil,” said Devine, owner of Harrodsburg-based Devine Creations Landscaping. “I feel so stupid.”

Devine says it has been years since he could find enough dependable, drug-free American workers for his $12-an-hour jobs mowing and tending landscapes for cemeteries, shopping centers and apartment complexes across Central Kentucky.

So for years he has hired 20 seasonal workers, mostly from Guatemala, through the U.S. Labor Department’s H2-B “guest worker” program. Importing these workers for a few months cost him an additional $18,000 in fees and expenses beyond their wages, which must be the same as he pays American workers. But that’s the only way he could serve his customers.(...)

twitter:

MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 17:49:34 Warning ignored. So here it goes.December 12, 2016 - Trump Tower. Details to follow... https://t.co/aEuuhRHB4a reageer retweet

General Flynn Meets Rick Perry at Trump Tower (12-12-16)

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 18:01 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 17:49:34 Warning ignored. So here it goes.December 12, 2016 - Trump Tower. Details to follow... https://t.co/aEuuhRHB4a reageer retweet

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Ik weet niet goed wat hij bedoelt? Ik herken iig Flynn en Cohen, maar verder? ... in de comments staat dat het plaatje van Flynn van deze video is:

General Flynn Meets Rick Perry at Trump Tower (12-12-16)

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 11:22 schreef Mr.Major het volgende:

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Noem dan wat er racistisch aan is. Het is namelijk zeer minderhedenvriendelijk, dat begrijp je toch niet; maar ik wil het je graag uitleggen. Iets stellen maar daarna weigeren het uit te leggen (kan je dat uberhaupt?) is namelijk een enorm zwaktebod.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 17:01:00 President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 18:07 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Stills van een YouTube video. Kan onmogelijk een scoop zijn als het op YouTube stond. Avenatti probeert gewoon het vuurtje brandend te blijven.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 18:01 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 17:49:34 Warning ignored. So here it goes.December 12, 2016 - Trump Tower. Details to follow... https://t.co/aEuuhRHB4a reageer retweet

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Ik weet niet goed wat hij bedoelt? Ik herken iig Flynn en Cohen, maar verder? ... in de comments staat dat het plaatje van Flynn van deze video is:

General Flynn Meets Rick Perry at Trump Tower (12-12-16)

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 19:44 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Misschien dat het ook gaat om die andere thugs op die foto's, maar dat is een gokje mijnerzijds.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 18:27 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 17:01:00 President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done! reageer retweet

Benieuwd welke dreigementen de Chinezen geuit hebben...

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 19:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Misschien dat het te maken heeft met Noord Korea? Wel saillant dat dit Chinese bedrijf vorig jaar een boete heeft gekregen van $1.2 miljard omdat ze sancties tegen Iran hadden genegeerd en dat dit bedrijf een grote cyberthreat is volgens hun intelligence agencies...

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 18:27 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 17:01:00 President Xi of China, and I, are working together to give massive Chinese phone company, ZTE, a way to get back into business, fast. Too many jobs in China lost. Commerce Department has been instructed to get it done! reageer retweet

Benieuwd welke dreigementen de Chinezen geuit hebben...

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.@SecPompeo says sanctions relief dependent on North Korea getting rid of its chemical biological weapons program (CBW), & no longer holding America at risk via its “nuclear weapons arsenal” & missiles @FaceTheNation

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 22:26 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Tweet van Brennan van CBS:

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De doelpalen worden al verschoven. Pompeo is blijkbaar al tevreden met een deal die inhoudt dat NK haar nukes gewoon mag houden. Alles om van de meeting het succes te maken dat Trump nodig heeft.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 22:26 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
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De doelpalen worden al verschoven. Pompeo is blijkbaar al tevreden met een deal die inhoudt dat NK haar nukes gewoon mag houden. Alles om van de meeting het succes te maken dat Trump nodig heeft.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 22:40 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Betwijfel of hij dat bedoelde, Bolton noemde dat ook, maar als bijkomende voorwaarden.
http://thehill.com/homene(...)le-and-that-includes

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 18:01 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

twitter:

MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 17:49:34 Warning ignored. So here it goes.December 12, 2016 - Trump Tower. Details to follow... https://t.co/aEuuhRHB4a reageer retweet

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Ik weet niet goed wat hij bedoelt? Ik herken iig Flynn en Cohen, maar verder? ... in de comments staat dat het plaatje van Flynn van deze video is:

General Flynn Meets Rick Perry at Trump Tower (12-12-16)

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 23:00 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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"No longer holding America at risk with" is niet hetzelfde als "getting rid of". Met andere woorden, als NK haar langeafstandsraketten afgeeft en daardoor alleen nog maar doelen dichtbij kan raken, zijn de VS blijkbaar tevreden.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 21:22:03 China and the United States are working well together on trade, but past negotiations have been so one sided in favor of China, for so many years, that it is hard for them to make a deal that benefits both countries. But be cool, it will all work out! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 23:08 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 21:22:03 China and the United States are working well together on trade, but past negotiations have been so one sided in favor of China, for so many years, that it is hard for them to make a deal that benefits both countries. But be cool, it will all work out! reageer retweet

Lol, hij lijkt weinig zin in een handelsoorlog te hebben. Ik denk dat Trump beseft dat de economie (lage werkloosheidscijfers) de GOP meer stemmen en hem een hogere approval rating kan opleveren dan een verlaging van het handelstekort.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 21:08 schreef Montov het volgende:

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China First?
Of komt Trump er eindelijk achter hoe internationale betrekkingen invloed hebben op handel?

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Now the crisis for ZTE may be nearing an end, a development that stunned trade and national security experts. The Treasury Department and the Commerce Department had been strongly aligned against ZTE as recently as several days ago.

A high-level Chinese delegation was in Washington on Friday and raised the issue of whether the Trump administration could relax its stance on ZTE, but Trump’s announcement on Sunday in the Twitter post caught many of his advisers flat-footed as there had not been a broad agreement to change the administration's approach, according to U.S. officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the sensitivity of the matter.

It’s highly unusual for a president to personally intervene in a regulatory matter, which could undercut the leverage of Treasury and Commerce officials seeking to enforce sanctions and trade rules. It could send the signal to foreign leaders that anything can be put on the bargaining table as Trump seeks to cut trade deals, trade analysts said.

“It seems to cut across the concern about tech competition with China, supplying Iran, and jobs in China, so it all seems pretty confusing,” Adam Segal, the director of the Digital and Cyberspace Policy Program at the Council on Foreign Relations, said of Trump's tweet. “That’s why everybody’s so flabbergasted by it. We’ve had from the beginning of this administration an increased drumbeat of warnings about ZTE and Huawei and the threat to U.S. security by having any of their products in the United States or U.S. supply chains.”

ZTE's business in the United States has long raised concerns among national security officials. Shortly after Trump's tweet, Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Calif.) said, “Our intelligence agencies have warned that ZTE technology and phones pose a major cyber security threat. You should care more about our national security than Chinese jobs.

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As part of the settlement, ZTE also was required to punish employees involved in the matter and tighten its internal monitoring.

But U.S. officials said this year that ZTE didn’t discipline all the employees involved in the violations.

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“It was clear to me that there was a range of options between a handslap and ‘I destroy you as a company’ and Secretary Ross decided to go with ‘I destroy you as a company,’” said Chris Johnson, a former CIA analyst and a senior adviser at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 23:00 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ahmed Al-Rumaihi wordt genoemd als zijnde de kale.

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 23:41:24 Why was Ahmed Al-Rumaihi meeting with Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn in December 2016 and why did Mr. Al-Rumaihi later brag about bribing administration officials according to a sworn declaration filed in court? reageer retweet

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Op maandag 14 mei 2018 00:04 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 23:41:24 Why was Ahmed Al-Rumaihi meeting with Michael Cohen and Michael Flynn in December 2016 and why did Mr. Al-Rumaihi later brag about bribing administration officials according to a sworn declaration filed in court? reageer retweet

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 20:38 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Het is Amerikaanse bedrijven nu verboden om chips aan ZTE te leveren, waardoor ZTE niet meer kan produceren. Als je een Chinees bedrijf met een jaaromzet van 17 miljard dollar en 74000 werknemers uitschakelt kan je verwachten dat China terugslaat. China heeft een quasi monopolie op zeldzame aarden, eeen verbod op levering aan specifieke Amerikaanse bedrijven zou hetzelfde effect kunnen hebben.

Trump heeft bovendien een gevaarlijk precedent gecreëerd toen hij national security inriep om de tarieven op staal te rechtvaardigen. Daarmee heeft hij de lat zo laag gelegd dat China heel wat maatregelen kan rechtvaardigen met hetzelfde "national security" excuus. Ze zouden bvb de door NSA gebruikte exploits van MS Windows kunnen aanvoeren om het gebruik van MS software te beperken.

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Op maandag 14 mei 2018 00:20 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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De verklaring onder ede:
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De case: https://www.documentcloud(...)cv-03466-DMG-SK.html

Verder ook een kennelijke opvallendheid dat zo’n 19% stake van Rosneft waarover gesproken is in het Steele dossier, wat bestemd zou zijn voor Trump, gekocht is door het Qatarese fonds onder zijn beheer...

Qatar steps in to rescue Rosneft's troubled stake sale to China (Reuters)

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LucasFoxNews twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 16:19:36 Pompeo: “I think Chairman Kim [Jong Un] shares the objectives with the American people, I am convinced of that,” secretary of state says on @FoxNewsSunday reageer retweet

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jimsciutto twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 18:29:18 This is an odd conviction to hold about a leader who starves his people, assassinates relatives, holds thousands in prison labor camps & has cheated on every previous nuclear treaty. https://t.co/T35T4ZwWfY reageer retweet

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jaketapper twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 17:59:41 A source familiar with the phone call tells me that after @kellysadler45 apologized to @MeghanMcCain for the “joke” about @SenJohnMcCain dying of brain cancer, Meghan told her she needed to apologize publicly and asked her if she would do so. Sadler said she would. She has not. reageer retweet

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foxandfriends twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 13:25:00 List of President Trump’s accomplishments keeps growing https://t.co/rhe7ISzjyu reageer retweet

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Op maandag 14 mei 2018 08:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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LucasFoxNews twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 16:19:36 Pompeo: “I think Chairman Kim [Jong Un] shares the objectives with the American people, I am convinced of that,” secretary of state says on @FoxNewsSunday reageer retweet

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jimsciutto twitterde op zondag 13-05-2018 om 18:29:18 This is an odd conviction to hold about a leader who starves his people, assassinates relatives, holds thousands in prison labor camps & has cheated on every previous nuclear treaty. https://t.co/T35T4ZwWfY reageer retweet

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Op zondag 13 mei 2018 12:31 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Waarin schuilt dan straks de winst? Op z'n hoogst doet Kim een vage belofte over het op termijn ontmantelen van zijn kernwapens. Ondertussen kan hij rustig blijven zitten en heeft hij nog eens erkenning op zak van de leider van de vrije wereld.

Niet slecht voor Kim.

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Op maandag 14 mei 2018 08:42 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Het valt mij op dat de ECHTE onderhandelingen NIET tussen Trump en Kim worden gedaan maar tussen diplomaten in Noord- en Zuid Korea onder de "vlag" van China. Ik heb zo'n donkerbruin vermoeden dat ze Trump gaan trollen, en hij straks voor spek en bonen besprekingen gaat voeren met Kim.

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Op maandag 14 mei 2018 08:42 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Het valt mij op dat de ECHTE onderhandelingen NIET tussen Trump en Kim worden gedaan maar tussen diplomaten in Noord- en Zuid Korea onder de "vlag" van China. Ik heb zo'n donkerbruin vermoeden dat ze Trump gaan trollen, en hij straks voor spek en bonen besprekingen gaat voeren met Kim.