quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 19:58 schreef nostra het volgende:
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Het mag toch wel duidelijk zijn dat voor Trump c.s. de levens van een paar Spaans sprekende aanhangsels een stuk minder tellen dan dat van Echte Mensen.
twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 29-05-2018 om 19:32:01 4,500. 50% more deaths than 9/11—and we weren't even told about it until now. Nor does Trump care about it.But we've heard the name "Kate Steinle" from Trump's mouth 100 times.Does anyone doubt that 4,500 brown people < 1 white person to the President of the United States? https://t.co/Ay3Gcamga9 reageer retweet
In tegenstelling tot die show was de beslissing van ABC nou wel weer iets waar ik om kon lachen.quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 20:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://www.cnbc.com/amp/(...)valerie-jarrett.html
ABC stopt met Roseanne. Ze hebben genoeg van haar racistische tweets. Trump zal wel los gaan.
Durf ik jou naar meer informatie te vragen?quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 20:32 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
Zegt veel over de pers dat Roseanne Bar haar racistische grap het nieuws is, en niet dat de CIA zich met Franse politiek bemoeide.
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 29-05-2018 om 20:35:55 ICYMI: Don Jr. has been retweeting Roseanne. https://t.co/0sv8XjOSLb reageer retweet
Toen de westerse wereld nog mooi en onschuldig wasquote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 21:12 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
Oudje SNL uit 1990
Gisteren 20 jaar geleden overleed Phil Hartman.
Dropbox linkje met documenten in de tweet.twitter:MichaelAvenatti twitterde op dinsdag 29-05-2018 om 17:14:02 See below. 1) the WSJ had the story in the closing days of the campaign but sat on it and 2) Mr. Davidson lied to them and conspired with Mr. Cohen in 2016. This is why we have demanded to see all of Davidson's docs for mos and will sue if need be. #Bastahttps://t.co/iCUrQg3VoT reageer retweet
WSJ is eigendom van Murdoch net als FOX News, enough said.quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 21:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:Dropbox linkje met documenten in de tweet.twitter:MichaelAvenatti twitterde op dinsdag 29-05-2018 om 17:14:02 See below. 1) the WSJ had the story in the closing days of the campaign but sat on it and 2) Mr. Davidson lied to them and conspired with Mr. Cohen in 2016. This is why we have demanded to see all of Davidson's docs for mos and will sue if need be. #Bastahttps://t.co/iCUrQg3VoT reageer retweet
Om enkele zaken op te noemen, betreffende niet onafhankelijke media:
• de WSJ die beschadigend verhalen voor Trump laat liggen (althans, als de aantijging klopt); de betreffende journalist kwam gister nota bene nog met een stuk kritisch over Avenatti: Stormy Daniels’s Lawyer Michael Avenatti Complicates Michael Cohen Probe
• National Enquirer die datzelfde deed
• Trump die met regelmaat even babbelt met Rupert Murdoch, die Fox News, WSJ en nog wat media bezit in die hoek
• Trump die met regelmaat overlegt met Hannity
• Sinclair die zaken uitzendt wat niet anders gezien kan worden dan propaganda
Nog los natuurlijk van dat Keith Davidson er hier niet goed uitziet... to put it mildly.
quote:Should all government funding of higher education be abolished?
On May 14, 2018, that provocative resolution was debated by economists Edward Glaeser and Bryan Caplan, author of the new book, The Case Against Education: Why the Education System is a Waste of Time and Money. Two main arguments dominated the discussion. First, was the humanistic question: Is government support needed to foster new ideas and cultural expression? Second, the economics of the matter: Does the hundreds of billions in annual government funding to American universities and colleges benefit the country by boosting the earnings and productivity of its citizens?
Caplan is a professor of economics at George Mason University, research fellow at the Mercatus Center, and adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute. His other books include The Myth of the Rational Voter and Selfish Reasons to Have More Kids: Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think. He holds a Ph.D. in economics from Princeton University.
Edward Glaeser argued against the resolution. A professor of economics at Harvard University, where he has taught since 1992, Glaeser has served as director of the Taubman Center for State and Local Government, and director of the Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston. His academic work has focused on zoning, housing policy, and urbanism, and he's the author of the 2012 book Triumph of the City: How Our Greatest Invention Makes Us Richer, Smarter, Greener, Healthier, and Happier.
The Soho Forum, which Reason sponsors, is a monthly Oxford-style debate, meaning that the audience votes before and after the proceedings, and the debater who has moved the most people prevails. In this case, Caplan won by convincing 12 percent of the audience to switch over to his side.
The opening act was comedian Dave Smith, host of the podcast Part of the Problem.
Dat is denk ik wat kort door de bocht. De nieuwsafdeling staat volgens mij toch wel echt zeer hoog aangeschreven... althans als dit klopt en er geen goede journalistieke reden was om het niet te publiceren kon dat wel eens wat veranderen natuurlijk. Opinie waaronder de ‘editorial board’ zijn echter een stel gestoorde propagandisten van het allooi van Hannity.quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 22:10 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
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WSJ is eigendom van Murdoch net als FOX News, enough said.
Het is een nieuwtje, niet het nieuws.quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 20:32 schreef Pietverdriet het volgende:
Zegt veel over de pers dat Roseanne Bar haar racistische grap het nieuws is, en niet dat de CIA zich met Franse politiek bemoeide.
quote:https://www.politico.com/(...)ichard-pinedo-610843
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Prosecutors asked a federal judge to order a pre-sentencing report for Richard Pinedo, a Santa Paula, California, man who admitted in February to a felony identity fraud charge relating to the sale of bank account numbers that apparently helped Russian internet trolls pay for social media ads related to the U.S. presidential race.
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Hoog aangeschreven? Das war einmal, zoals bij alle media die door Murdoch overgenomen zijn is er nu een beleid wat een duidelijke politieke voorkeur heeft.quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 22:22 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Dat is denk ik wat kort door de bocht. De nieuwsafdeling staat volgens mij toch wel echt zeer hoog aangeschreven... althans als dit klopt en er geen goede journalistieke reden was om het niet te publiceren kon dat wel eens wat veranderen natuurlijk. Opinie waaronder de ‘editorial board’ zijn echter een stel gestoorde propagandisten van het allooi van Hannity.
quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 23:07 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
We hadden al ADHD, schietspelletjes, Ritalin, abortus, de "MSM", entreedeuren en tenslotte nu: pornografie. Maar nee, die wapens, dat heeft er natuurlijk niks mee te maken!
Porn Leads To School Shootings, GOP Congresswoman Says
https://m.huffpost.com/us/entry/us_5b0d6634e4b0568a880ede65?19
Zou ze wel eens van het internet gehoord hebben?quote:It’s available on the shelf when you walk in the grocery store. Yeah, you have to reach up to get it, but there’s pornography there,” she continued. “All of this is available without parental guidance. I think that is a big part of the root cause.”
Wat voor een creep koopt porno in de supermarkt? Dan zou je eigenlijk sowieso al in de gaten moeten worden gehouden.quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 23:19 schreef Monolith het volgende:
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Totaal wereldvreemd natuurlijk. Dat moet je ook wel zijn om zo'n redenering op te hangen.quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 23:19 schreef Monolith het volgende:
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Bijbel, moreel verval, Sodom en Gomorra en meer van dat soort reliredeneringen.quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 23:37 schreef Tchock het volgende:
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Totaal wereldvreemd natuurlijk. Dat moet je ook wel zijn om zo'n redenering op te hangen.
Waar slaat het überhaupt op dat porno er toe zou leiden dat je schoolgenootjes zou willen doodschieten? Ik wil het argument best serieus proberen te nemen maar ik zie met alle wil van de wereld de connectie niet.
quote:Trump continues to pursue a summit with Kim Jong Un even though the CIA casts doubt on his stated goal for the meeting, eliminating North Korea's nukes.
A new U.S. intelligence assessment has concluded that North Korea does not intend to give up its nuclear weapons any time soon, three U.S. officials told NBC News — a finding that conflicts with recent statements by President Donald Trump that Pyongyang intends to do so in the future.
President Trump is continuing to pursue a nuclear summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un even though the CIA analysis, which is consistent with other expert opinion, casts doubt on the viability of Trump's stated goal for the negotiations, the elimination of North Korea's nuclear weapons stockpile.
"Everybody knows they are not going to denuclearize," said one intelligence official who read the report, which was circulated earlier this month, days before Trump canceled the originally scheduled summit.
In an odd twist, a list of potential concessions by North Korea in the CIA analysis included the possibility that Kim Jong Un may consider offering to open a Western hamburger franchise in Pyongyang as a show of goodwill, according to three national security officials.
It suggests Kim is interested in a peaceful gesture to an American president whose love of fast-food burgers is well known — and who, during the 2016 campaign, had said he wanted to talk nukes over a burger with the North Korean leader.
On the nuclear question, the analysis suggests that a more realistic immediate objective would be convincing Kim to walk back recent progress on the country's nuclear weapons program, the officials said.
But it's not clear that would pass muster with Trump — or America's allies.
"If the North Koreans don't agree in a joint statement that lays out denuclearization — that is, getting rid of their nuclear weapons, having them put under control by international elements — then I don't think we are going to go very far," Chris Hill, a former ambassador to South Korea, said Tuesday on MSNBC.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 01:30:49 Paul Manafort’s defense team has lost a fight with Mueller’s prosecutors over two search warrants.A federal judge has ruled that Manafort’s lawyers can’t review an unredacted affidavit that supported warrants used to search his Alexandria residence. https://t.co/rxmPvDIOgZ reageer retweet
twitter:nycsouthpaw twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 01:24:39 A million items on three of Michael Cohen's phones... https://t.co/5xSgryQRVa reageer retweet
Maggie Haberman bij CNN:quote:By the time Attorney General Jeff Sessions arrived at President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort for dinner one Saturday evening in March 2017, he had been receiving the presidential silent treatment for two days. Mr. Sessions had flown to Florida because Mr. Trump was refusing to take his calls about a pressing decision on his travel ban.
When they met, Mr. Trump was ready to talk — but not about the travel ban. His grievance was with Mr. Sessions: The president objected to his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Mr. Trump, who had told aides that he needed a loyalist overseeing the inquiry, berated Mr. Sessions and told him he should reverse his decision, an unusual and potentially inappropriate request.
Mr. Sessions refused.
The confrontation, which has not been previously reported, is being investigated by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, as are the president’s public and private attacks on Mr. Sessions and efforts to get him to resign. Mr. Trump dwelled on the recusal for months, according to confidants and current and former administration officials who described his behavior toward the attorney general.
The special counsel’s interest demonstrates Mr. Sessions’s overlooked role as a key witness in the investigation into whether Mr. Trump tried to obstruct the inquiry itself. It also suggests that the obstruction investigation is broader than it is widely understood to be — encompassing not only the president’s interactions with and firing of the former F.B.I. director, James B. Comey, but also his relationship with Mr. Sessions.
Investigators have pressed current and former White House officials about Mr. Trump’s treatment of Mr. Sessions and whether they believe the president was trying to impede the Russia investigation by pressuring him. The attorney general was also interviewed at length by Mr. Mueller’s investigators in January. And of the four dozen or so questions Mr. Mueller wants to ask Mr. Trump, eight relate to Mr. Sessions. Among them: What efforts did you make to try to get him to reverse his recusal?
The president’s lead lawyer in the case, Rudolph W. Giuliani, said that if Mr. Trump agreed to answer the special counsel’s questions — an interview is the subject of continuing negotiations — he should not be forced to discuss his private deliberations with senior administration officials. Talking about the attorney general, Mr. Giuliani argued, would set a bad precedent for future presidents.
Mr. Giuliani said that he had not discussed Mr. Sessions’s recusal with Mr. Trump but that a request that Mr. Sessions reassert control over the Russia investigation would be within the bounds of the president’s authority.
“‘Unrecuse’ doesn’t say, ‘Bury the investigation.’ It says on the face of it: Take responsibility for it and handle it correctly,” Mr. Giuliani said on Tuesday evening.
A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.Days later, Mr. Priebus was out as chief of staff. The special counsel has told the president’s lawyers that he wants to ask Mr. Trump about those discussions with Mr. Priebus and why he publicly criticized Mr. Sessions.
Mr. Trump brought up the recusal again with associates later last year, expressing a desire for Mr. Sessions to reassert control over an investigation that has since resulted in the indictment of his former campaign chairman and guilty pleas by two other campaign aides and his former national security adviser.
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 04:20:00 "The counterintelligence investigation of Donald Trump was kicked off by not one, not two, but multiple SIGINT reports which set off alarm bells inside our Intelligence Community. This has been publicly known, in a general way, for some time." https://t.co/Uj2JDxQjRE reageer retweet
bronquote:WASHINGTON -- While the White House press corps has figured out to employ the "listening mode" function for conference calls with reporters, the administration is still mastering the task of gracefully dodging awkward questions that officials do not want to answer.
On a background call hosted by Ivanka Trump and Holli Richmond, director of the President Trump's Council on Sports, Fitness, and Nutrition, in advance of "White House Sports and Fitness Day," one of the hosts dropped off of the call after being asked to comment on her father's new exercise regimen and questions pertaining to Chinese trademarks being awarded to her fashion brand.
"You can refer those questions to the press office," press aide Ninio Fetalvo told reporters Tuesday after Ivanka Trump was asked to address questions about her company.
The White House did not respond to CBS News' request for comment.
Ivanka Trump in China: The trademarks raising an ethics firestorm
CNN followed up by asking Ivanka Trump for an update on her father's fitness after Dr. Ronny Jackson notified the White House press corps earlier in the year that he had advised the president to lose some weight in 2018.
"So Ivanka had to step out for another meeting, but Holli is here to take on the additional questions," Fetalvo replied after a brief pause.
Oh man, wtf. Is dit echt?quote:Op dinsdag 29 mei 2018 23:19 schreef Monolith het volgende:
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Zou ze wel eens van het internet gehoord hebben?
Het zijn keurige mensen volgens Trump.quote:Op woensdag 30 mei 2018 07:49 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:
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Jij kent het onderscheid niet tussen een conservatief en een neo nazi?
5.6 Mooches, to be exact.quote:
twitter:GeoffRBennett twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 03:11:10 Trump, in Nashville, says African Americans have blindly voted for Democrats “for over a hundred years.” If only black folks had the right to vote for that long ... reageer retweet
twitter:Mikel_Jollett twitterde op dinsdag 29-05-2018 om 23:01:34 For those of you who criticize Colin Kaepernick’s peaceful protest while championing Roseanne’s “free speech,” here is Roseanne mocking the National Anthem, then grabbing her crotch and SPITTING. https://t.co/bc55kxdbdo reageer retweet
Goedzo Alleen nu ook onthouden dat een reactie plaatsen met "TR gezet", ook niet gewenst is, aldus Euribobquote:Op woensdag 30 mei 2018 08:18 schreef SureD1 het volgende:
TR gezet (op verzoek van Refragmental nota bene)
Dat verpest wel het hele idee van een TR ja.quote:Op woensdag 30 mei 2018 09:50 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
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Goedzo Alleen nu ook onthouden dat een reactie plaatsen met "TR gezet", ook niet gewenst is, aldus Euribob
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 14:20:00 Rep. Trey Gowdy says the FBI’s use of an informant for the Trump campaign in 2016 was appropriate."I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got." https://t.co/e68Jq41Sdl reageer retweet
quote:Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), the chairman of the House Oversight Committee, said on Tuesday that the FBI’s use of an informant for the Trump campaign in 2016 was appropriate, joining top Democrats in disputing President Donald Trump’s characterization of the informant as a spy.
“I am even more convinced that the FBI did exactly what my fellow citizens would want them to do when they got the information they got, and that it has nothing to do with Donald Trump,” Gowdy said during an interview on Fox News.
In recent days, Trump has parroted misleading claims about the FBI’s use of the informant as part of its counter-intelligence investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, dubbing the individual a “spy” and referring to the controversy as “Spygate.”
Gowdy’s comments were significant because the former federal prosecutor participated in a classified briefing about the informant last week that was conducted by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and FBI Director Christopher Wray. The so-called “Gang of Eight”—which includes House and Senate leaders in addition to the top Republicans and Democrats on the intelligence committees—also joined the briefing. The Democrats present at the meeting previously released a joint statement saying they heard “no evidence” from Rosenstein and Wray that a “spy” was placed within the Trump campaign.(...)
twitter:MichaelAvenatti twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 14:26:10 We look forward to pushing for answers this morning as to why Mr. Cohen is leaking illegally recorded conversations relating to my client. Also interetsed in why he will not release all of the recordings, especially those with Mr. Trump. https://t.co/nsEUmAWBtV reageer retweet
quote:Adult film star Stormy Daniels’ attorney is expected to ask a federal judge on Wednesday to address claims that President Donald Trump’s longtime personal lawyer, Michael Cohen, leaked audio recordings seized from Cohen in raids of his home and office to news media outlets.
The issue was among several slated to come up in a hearing before U.S. District Judge Kimba Wood in Manhattan, who is also expected to get an update on a review of materials federal agents seized in the April raids.
Cohen, who has not been charged with any crime, is under investigation by the U.S. attorney’s office in Manhattan regarding his business dealings.
The investigation stems in part from a referral by Special Counsel Robert Mueller, who is probing whether Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia. Trump has repeatedly said there was no collusion, and Russia has denied interfering in the U.S. presidential elections.
Cohen has worked for Trump for more than a decade, first as counsel at the Trump Organization and later as his personal lawyer.
In 2016, Cohen paid Daniels $130,000. Daniels has said the payment was intended to buy her silence about a sexual encounter she says she had with Trump in 2006. The president has denied the allegation.
Daniels’ outspoken attorney, Michael Avenatti, said in a letter last week that he had reason to believe that Cohen had leaked audio recordings, which he said may relate to his client, to media outlets. Avenatti asked that Wood ask Cohen about the possible leaks.
Avenatti has also asked Wood to allow him to represent Daniels in the Cohen case. He has said he believes some of the seized materials could relate to Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford.
Cohen has asked Wood to deny Avenatti permission to appear before the federal court, saying he violated court rules by making what he characterized as false statements about Cohen in frequent news media appearances.
After the raids on Cohen’s home and office, Cohen and Trump asked the judge to block prosecutors from reviewing the seized documents, citing attorney-client privilege.
Wood responded by appointing former U.S. District Judge Barbara Jones as a so-called special master to review whether any of the documents were shielded by attorney-client privilege before turning them over to prosecutors.
In a court filing on Tuesday evening, Jones said she had already turned over to prosecutors more than 290,000 seized items that were not marked privileged by Cohen or Trump.
She said that more than a million items from three seized phones had also been designated as not privileged by Cohen and Trump, and would be turned over to prosecutors Wednesday after a final review.
Cohen and Trump have made at least 252 claims of privilege, according to the filing.
A number of Cohen’s financial dealings since Trump’s January 2017 inauguration have become public.
Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG has said it had paid Cohen nearly $1.2 million as a consultant; U.S. telecommunications company AT&T Inc said it made payments of $600,000; and South Korea’s Korea Aerospace Industries Ltd said it hired him for $150,000.
Cohen also received $500,000 from Columbus Nova Llc, a New York company linked to Russian businessman Viktor Vekselberg. The firm has said the transaction had nothing to do with Vekselberg.
Mueller’s investigation, which began in May 2017, has yielded 17 indictments and five guilty pleas so far.
Die Tax Bill heeft dus ook geen reet uitgehaaldtwitter:AP twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 14:31:15 BREAKING: US economic growth revised down to 2.2 percent annual rate in first quarter, as consumers slowed spending sharply. reageer retweet
Die tax bill kwam tijdens het 1st quarter, of ze dan al veel effect zou hebben? Consumer spending steeg met slechts 1%, maar dat kwam na een 4% stijging in Q4 vorig jaar.quote:Op woensdag 30 mei 2018 14:40 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Zijn we weer op weg naar beneden? Dit komt op een slecht moment voor Republikeinen.Die Tax Bill heeft dus ook geen reet uitgehaaldtwitter:AP twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 14:31:15 BREAKING: US economic growth revised down to 2.2 percent annual rate in first quarter, as consumers slowed spending sharply. reageer retweet
Sterker nog: Die taxbill was toen niet nodig. Als het consumentenvertrouwen verder omlaag gaat zou het handig kunnen zijn. Maar ja, nňg een taxbill? En zal de consument dit keer wel geloven dat ze er meer dan $1,50 per maand mee opschieten?quote:Op woensdag 30 mei 2018 14:40 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Zijn we weer op weg naar beneden? Dit komt op een slecht moment voor Republikeinen.Die Tax Bill heeft dus ook geen reet uitgehaaldtwitter:AP twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 14:31:15 BREAKING: US economic growth revised down to 2.2 percent annual rate in first quarter, as consumers slowed spending sharply. reageer retweet
Geen idee. Maar er werd beloofd dat iedereen in de middle class er vanaf 2018 geld bij zou krijgen. Dan verwacht je niet dat de groei van de consumentenuitgaven daalt. Hoe dan ook heeft die Bill niet het gewenste effect op dat moment.quote:Op woensdag 30 mei 2018 14:51 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
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Die tax bill kwam tijdens het 1st quarter, of ze dan al veel effect zou hebben? Consumer spending steeg met slechts 1%, maar dat kwam na een 4% stijging in Q4 vorig jaar.
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 14:46:57 Rep.Trey Gowdy, “I don’t think so, I think what the President is doing is expressing frustration that Attorney General Sessions should have shared these reasons for recusal before he took the job, not afterward. If I were the President and I picked someone to be the country’s.... reageer retweet
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 14:47:04 ....chief law enforcement officer, and they told me later, ‘oh by the way I’m not going to be able to participate in the most important case in the office, I would be frustrated too...and that’s how I read that - Senator Sessions, why didn’t you tell me before I picked you..... reageer retweet
twitter:realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 14:47:07 ....There are lots of really good lawyers in the country, he could have picked somebody else!” And I wish I did! reageer retweet
twitter:SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 15:13:06 You wanted him as AG because at the time he recused you knew he was hiding contacts with Russians and had helped you secretly negotiate sanctions with them—so you thought you and he were in the same boat legally and he'd protect you. It had *nothing* to do with him doing his job. https://t.co/XjuZHg5e1N reageer retweet
twitter:kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 14:55:05 Trump attacks Jeff Sessions the day after the NYT comes out with a big report that Mueller is investigating Trump's attacks on Jeff Sessions as part of his obstruction probe. https://t.co/Jip69oZLvM reageer retweet
http://www.euronews.com/2(...)-veiled-rebuke-to-usquote:WTO being 'asphyxiated', outgoing judge says, in veiled rebuke to U.S.
The World Trade Organization is being slowly strangled to death, a retiring trade judge whose replacement has been blocked by the United States said in his farewell speech, delivering a thinly-veiled rebuke to the Donald Trump administration.
Ricardo Ramírez-Hernández served two terms as a judge on the WTO’s Appellate Body, which acts as the final court for trade disputes between countries. Since his departure last year, the United States has been blocking the process to replace him and other judges, throwing the WTO into crisis.
“This institution does not deserve to die through asphyxiation,” Ramírez-Hernández said. “You have an obligation to decide whether you want to kill it or keep it alive.”
In a speech introducing Ramirez-Hernandez, WTO Deputy Director-General Karl Brauner said there was “no movement in sight” to unblocking appointments.
“This is frightening,” he said, adding that it was an illusion to believe the WTO could manage without its appeals judges. It remained to be seen if the WTO was an achievement of civilisation or only a temporary experiment, he added.
The Geneva-based World Trade Organization, founded in 1995, is the final arbiter for trade disputes between its 164 member economies and the main global forum for discussing trade.
Its appellate body normally has seven members, but because of the Trump administration’s veto on new hires, only four of the posts are now filled. One judge is due for reappointment in September and two are due to leave next year.
Three judges are needed to hear any case, which means the court will cease to function altogether next year unless Trump lifts his refusal to fill vacancies.
Trump and his trade advisers take a tough and unorthodox line on what they see as “unfair” treatment by the trade body.
Wil een ATO denk ikquote:Op woensdag 30 mei 2018 15:22 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Trump is goed op weg om de WTO uit te schakelen...
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018(...)ss-tells-the-eu.htmlquote:Tariffs shouldn't stop us from negotiating, Wilbur Ross tells the EU
U.S. Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross has called out the European Union for opposing trade negotiations at a time when China was willing to hold talks.
"China are paying their tariffs," Ross told the panel at an economic development forum in Paris on Wednesday, in response to EU criticism of sweeping import tariffs the White House announced on its trade partners all over the world in March.
"China hasn't used that as an excuse not to negotiate... It's only the EU that is insisting we can't negotiate if there are tariffs," he added.
https://www.bloomberg.com(...)ffs-investment-curbsquote:China Slams Trump's ‘Flip-Flop’ on Tariffs as Trade Spat Worsens
Duties on $50 billion of Chinese goods to take effect in June
Move comes 10 days after Mnuchin said trade war ‘on hold’
Wel grappig hoe een typische Trump hyperbool (ik zeg ook 'zo'n Carlovic is 3meter10, geen wonder dat ie 240km p/u serveert) ineens heel ongemakkelijk wordt in zo'n contextquote:Op woensdag 30 mei 2018 09:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:twitter:GeoffRBennett twitterde op woensdag 30-05-2018 om 03:11:10 Trump, in Nashville, says African Americans have blindly voted for Democrats “for over a hundred years.” If only black folks had the right to vote for that long ... reageer retweet
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