[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #513: Greatest Witch Hunt in history!

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 06-06-2018 om 23:30:03 Interesting note in the middle of Page 6 of the Stormy Daniels complaint: "Mr. Cohen recorded calls that he had with Mr. Davidson wherein Mr. Davidson disclosed client confidences and other confidential information relating to Ms. Clifford." https://t.co/Ro040i8GAV reageer retweet

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Mediaite twitterde op woensdag 06-06-2018 om 14:01:41 Dem Senator Joe Manchin: 'Im Open to Supporting' Trump in 2020 https://t.co/bZUpph06un https://t.co/wdEaZAp3JU reageer retweet

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“We just kind of do the man-bump type thing. That’s it. And I think he’s pulling me as much as I’m pulling him,” Manchin said in describing his physical embraces with the president.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 00:13 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Lijkt me slim voor iemand in zijn positie. Alhoewel hij ook weer niet zo ver moet gaan dat hij Democratisch enthousiasme gaat demperen.

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Wikistrat bills itself as a ‘crowdsourced’ analysis agency based in Washington. But interviews with current and former employees and documents tell a very different story.

In the fall of 2016, Donald Trump Jr. and other key aides to the future president reportedly met in Trump Tower with Joel Zamel, the founder of a company called Wikistrat.

Wikistrat bills itself as a “crowdsourced” geopolitical analysis firm based in Washington, D.C. But interviews with current and former employees and documents reviewed by The Daily Beast tell a different story: that the vast majority of Wikistrat’s clients were foreign governments; that Wikistrat is, for all intents and purposes, an Israeli firm; and that the company’s work was not just limited to analysis. It also engaged in intelligence collection.

Robert Mueller’s office is investigating Wikistrat and Zamel, according to The Wall Street Journal, as the special counsel’s probe expands into Middle Eastern governments’ attempts to influence American politics.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 06-06-2018 om 23:41:09 Thank you to everyone at @FEMA HQ for today’s briefing on preparations for the upcoming hurricane season. Disaster response and recovery is best achieved when it’s federally supported, state managed, and locally executed – this is the successful model we will continue to build. https://t.co/xpm7IRiZwn reageer retweet

Trump praises Pruitt, snubs Sessions at FEMA

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The scene: A FEMA briefing in which Trump and a number of his Cabinet officials were seated around a table. For most of the Cabinet officials, Trump was effusive in his praise of the job they were doing. And then there was Sessions.

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"Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Thank you, Jeff. Thank you very much."

Eleven words. And five of those 11 are either Sessions' name or his title!!! Trump was even capable of coming up with 91 nice words about Pruitt, his beyond embattled EPA administrator.

It's like if you are at a big company dinner and your boss praises everyone else and then turns to you and says: "Chris Cillizza. He works here. Chris Cillizza."

Ice cold.

Most other Cabinet members -- or, really, people -- would have quit long before this most devastating of embarrassments. Jeff Sessions isn't most people.

CNN

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The meeting was supposed to be about hurricane preparedness, as disaster officials gathered at Federal Emergency Management Agency headquarters days after the start of the 2018 season.

But President Trump had a lot else on his mind, turning the closed-door discussion into soliloquies on his prowess in negotiating airplane deals, his popularity, the effectiveness of his political endorsements, the Republican Party's fortunes, the vagaries of Defense Department purchasing guidelines, his dislike of magnetized launch equipment on aircraft carriers, his unending love of coal and his breezy optimism about his planned Singapore summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 04:00:28 In closed-door remarks at FEMA today, Trump said: "We saved $1.6 billion on Air Force One... Can you believe it? I got involved in the negotiations."Military officials haven't been able to explain where Trump got such a figure. https://t.co/ItX2HtyQet reageer retweet

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christinawilkie twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 02:37:15 On April 11, I called Trump’s favorite architect to ask about jobs he did in Eastern Europe that recently drew Mueller’s eye.Within hours, John Fotiadis closed down his 10 yr old architecture firm, deleted his portfolio and left Twitter. He’s still MIA.https://t.co/1hSyqfbARP reageer retweet

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jules_su twitterde op woensdag 06-06-2018 om 23:29:56 I am laughing so goddamn hard at this video of Trump inexplicably putting his water bottle on the floor, and Pence immediately doing the same for no reason whatsoever. https://t.co/qEFPzKClYj reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 09:39 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
In luchtiger 'nieuws'.

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jules_su twitterde op woensdag 06-06-2018 om 23:29:56 I am laughing so goddamn hard at this video of Trump inexplicably putting his water bottle on the floor, and Pence immediately doing the same for no reason whatsoever. https://t.co/qEFPzKClYj reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 09:44 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:08 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Is dat Melania naast hem of een real doll?

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 09:55 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
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https://www.pedestrian.tv(...)ooter-nursery-rhyme/

Gezongen op de melodie van Twinkle Twinkle little star.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:13 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Totaal krankzinnig. Wat is Amerika toch een verziekte samenleving geworden.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 05:07 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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christinawilkie twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 02:37:15 On April 11, I called Trump’s favorite architect to ask about jobs he did in Eastern Europe that recently drew Mueller’s eye.Within hours, John Fotiadis closed down his 10 yr old architecture firm, deleted his portfolio and left Twitter. He’s still MIA.https://t.co/1hSyqfbARP reageer retweet

Meet the New York architect who was a key figure in Donald Trump's deals and connections in Eastern Europe

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:17 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Geestelijke gezondheidszorg is daar helaas een ondergeschoven kindje.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:17 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Geestelijke gezondheidszorg is daar helaas een ondergeschoven kindje.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:33 schreef archito het volgende:

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Haha, nou doe je het er gewoon om.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:41 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dat is een deel van het probleem, ja.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:44 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Overigens, dit is niet een discussie voor hier, volgens mij loopt daar al een topic voor.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:43 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Ik denk eerder de kern van de zaak.
Of ben je echt van mening dat zonder vuurwapens er niet op een andere manier slachtoffers zullen worden gemaakt?

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Je was een beetje voorbarig over Avenatti laatst. Dat hij zijn client genadeloos heeft laten vallen klopt toch niet helemaal...

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 03:52 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 06-06-2018 om 23:41:09 Thank you to everyone at @FEMA HQ for today’s briefing on preparations for the upcoming hurricane season. Disaster response and recovery is best achieved when it’s federally supported, state managed, and locally executed – this is the successful model we will continue to build. https://t.co/xpm7IRiZwn reageer retweet

Trump praises Pruitt, snubs Sessions at FEMA

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Je zou haast medelijden krijgen met de arme man

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Trump kon zich zoals gewoonlijk maar weer moeilijk bij het onderwerp houden waar de briefing voor bedoeld was:

In private FEMA remarks, Trump's focus strays from hurricanes

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 04:00:28 In closed-door remarks at FEMA today, Trump said: "We saved $1.6 billion on Air Force One... Can you believe it? I got involved in the negotiations."Military officials haven't been able to explain where Trump got such a figure. https://t.co/ItX2HtyQet reageer retweet

Nahja iig heeft iedereen bij deze vertoning FLOTUS weer eens kunnen zien.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:42 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Juist. Want kijken naar het onderliggend probleem, dat doen we hier niet.

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US diplomats evacuated from China amid 'sonic attack' concerns

Two American diplomats stationed in China were reportedly evacuated from the region after being sickened by a mysterious ailment linked to odd sounds.

The two Americans evacuated worked at the American Consulate in the southern city of Guangzhou, the New York Times reported Wednesday, adding that their colleagues and relatives are also being tested by a State Department medical team.

American officials have been worried for months that American diplomats and their families in Cuba -- and now China -- have been subjected to a "sonic attack," leading to symptoms similar to those "following concussion or minor traumatic brain injury," the State Department said in a statement Tuesday.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 12:43 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
"What is the point of saying that there was a spy in the campaign when there was none?" Rooney said in an interview on Wednesday. "You know what I’m saying? It’s like, ‘Lets create this thing to tweet about knowing that it’s not true.’ … Maybe it’s just to create more chaos but it doesn’t really help the case."

Until Wednesday, no other Republican lawmakers had backed Gowdy's view.

That changed early in the day when Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) said he agreed with Gowdy's "initial assessment" of the matter. He emphasized that the House is still seeking answers, but Ryan said he'd seen "no evidence" that the FBI acted inappropriately.

https://www.politico.com/(...)pygate-rooney-629550
De eerste afvalligen?

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 13:54 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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King Me the First of the USA

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 14:20 schreef Ulx het volgende:
En zoals te verwachten: Men gaat zonder voorbereiding naar Singapore. Preparations are overrated.

https://www.politico.com/(...)n-north-korea-630362

We zullen zien...

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 14:32 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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lang leve gut feelings

Stiekem zullen ze toch wel hebben voor bereid / doorgesproken, de amateurs.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 12:50:00 The alleged Eagles fans who were attending Trump's 'Celebration of America' were apparently RNC staffers. An RNC intern tells @phillydotcom that she received a mass email from the White House earlier in the day, inviting her to attend the event. https://t.co/O1Eiiq6EVr reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 14:40 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Tis me wat.

Overigens bedacht ik mij, dat die mevrouw als first offender door team Obama niet was gesignaleerd en daarom van Trump gratie kreeg.

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Alan Dershowitz, Harvard Law Professor: “It all proves that we never needed a Special Councel....All of this could have been done by the Justice Dept. Don’t need a multi-million dollar group of people with a target on someone’s back. Not the way Justice should operate.” So true!

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Stormy Daniels' lawyer calls Rudy Giuliani an 'absolute pig' over comments

Rudy Giuliani and Michael Avenatti may be thousands of miles apart, but they are on each other's minds. Well, sorta.

Avenatti slammed Giuliani on Wednesday night over comments he made about his client, Stormy Daniels, that questioned her credibility because she made adult films.
"The business you were in entitles you to no degree of giving your credibility any weight," Giuliani said of Daniels, whose legal name is Stephanie Clifford.

"Explain to me how she could be damaged. I mean, she has no reputation. If you're going to sell your body for money, you just don't have a reputation. I may be old fashioned, I dunno."

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Bron: CNN

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 17:22 schreef skysherrif het volgende:
https://twitter.com/AbeShinzo/status/1004740027736133633

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 17:29 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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was deze neem ik aan?
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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 17:29 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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was deze neem ik aan?
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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 16:48 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Ah, de old fashioned Giuliani die bezig is met zijn derde scheiding. En wat zou Melania Trump van deze teksten vinden?

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 10:08 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Is dat Melania naast hem of een real doll?

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BREAKING: Trump on June 12 North Korea summit: “I don’t think I have to prepare that much. It’s about attitude.” per @justinsink

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 20:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
We hadden al een phone booth, appartement, bankstel, dure pennen, een Chick-Fil-A, oude matrassen, een tripje naar Marokko, salarisverhoging voor vrienden, tripjes naar Disneyland en de Superbowl (ik mis nu vast nog van alles), maar daar kunnen we vandaag aan toevoegen: hydraterende lotion. Kolderiek corrupt.

Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.06698e7c0a02

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 20:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
We hadden al een phone booth, appartement, bankstel, dure pennen, een Chick-Fil-A, oude matrassen, een tripje naar Marokko, salarisverhoging voor vrienden, tripjes naar Disneyland en de Superbowl (ik mis nu vast nog van alles), maar daar kunnen we vandaag aan toevoegen: hydraterende lotion. Kolderiek corrupt.

Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.06698e7c0a02

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 05:00:00 Scott Pruitt ate lunch so often in the White House mess that he was rebuked.A White House staffer told agency chiefs of staff that Cabinet members shouldn't treat the mess as their personal dining hall, Politico reports. https://t.co/AxGDfHYg5C reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 21:08 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 05:00:00 Scott Pruitt ate lunch so often in the White House mess that he was rebuked.A White House staffer told agency chiefs of staff that Cabinet members shouldn't treat the mess as their personal dining hall, Politico reports. https://t.co/AxGDfHYg5C reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 21:08 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 05:00:00 Scott Pruitt ate lunch so often in the White House mess that he was rebuked.A White House staffer told agency chiefs of staff that Cabinet members shouldn't treat the mess as their personal dining hall, Politico reports. https://t.co/AxGDfHYg5C reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 16:48 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Ah, de old fashioned Giuliani die bezig is met zijn derde scheiding. En wat zou Melania Trump van deze teksten vinden?

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Melania Trump's spokeswoman distances first lady from Giuliani comments on Daniels affair

Melania Trump on Thursday seemed to distance herself from Rudy Giuliani's comments that she believes President Trump's denials that he had an affair with adult-film star Stormy Daniels.

"I don't believe Mrs. Trump has ever discussed her thoughts on anything with Mr. Giuliani," Stephanie Grisham, the first lady's communications director, said in a statement to The Hill.

Maggie Haberman of The New York Times first reported Grisham's response.

The first lady's rebuke of Giuliani comes one day after the president's attorney commented on Daniels' allegations during an appearance at the "Globes" Capital Market Conference in Israel.

"She believes her husband and she doesn't think it's true," Giuliani, said, arguing that Daniels has no credibility because of her profession.

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FCC Emails Show Agency Spread Lies to Bolster Dubious DDoS Attack Claims (Gizmodo)

As it wrestled with accusations about a fake cyberattack last spring, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) purposely misled several news organizations, choosing to feed journalists false information, while at the same time discouraging them from challenging the agency’s official story.

Internal emails reviewed by Gizmodo lay bare the agency’s efforts to counter rife speculation that senior officials manufactured a cyberattack, allegedly to explain away technical problems plaguing the FCC’s comment system amid its high-profile collection of public comments on a controversial and since-passed proposal to overturn federal net neutrality rules.

The FCC has been unwilling or unable to produce any evidence an attack occurred—not to the reporters who’ve requested and even sued over it, and not to U.S. lawmakers who’ve demanded to see it. Instead, the agency conducted a quiet campaign to bolster its cyberattack story with the aid of friendly and easily duped reporters, chiefly by spreading word of an earlier cyberattack that its own security staff say never happened.

The FCC’s system was overwhelmed on the night of May 7, 2017, after comedian John Oliver, host of HBO’s Last Week Tonight, directed his audience to flood the agency with comments supporting net neutrality. In the immediate aftermath, the agency claimed the comment system had been deliberately impaired due to a series of distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS). Net neutrality supporters, however, accused the agency of fabricating the attack to absolve itself from failing to keep the system online.

The system similarly crashed after Oliver ordered his viewers to the FCC website in 2014. The FCC, at the time led by Democrat Tom Wheeler, determined that the comment system had been affected by a surge of internet traffic. The issue was compounded, sources told Gizmodo, by a weakness in the system’s out-of-date software.

Importantly, the agency never blamed a malicious attack for the system’s downtime in 2014—not in any official statement.

But in May 2017, under the Trump-appointed chairman, Ajit Pai, at least two FCC officials quietly pushed a fallacious account of the 2014 incident, attempting to persuade reporters that the comment system had long been the target of DDoS attacks. “There *was* a DDoS event right after the [John Oliver] video in 2014,” one official told reporters at FedScoop, according to emails reviewed by Gizmodo.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 22:44 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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atrupar twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 15:44:10 Here's @morningmika saying she heard from "someone who spoke to Donald Trump recently" who said Trump's biggest complaint about being president is that "he's not allowed to watch porn in the White House." https://t.co/yUcQFwLbwK reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 23:07 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Ondertussen in the oval office

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atrupar twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 15:44:10 Here's @morningmika saying she heard from "someone who spoke to Donald Trump recently" who said Trump's biggest complaint about being president is that "he's not allowed to watch porn in the White House." https://t.co/yUcQFwLbwK reageer retweet

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Asked about Donald Trump, Johnson was positive about the US President and even joked that he wouldn’t mind having him lead the Brexit negotiations.

“I am increasingly admiring of Donald Trump,” Johnson said. “I have become more and more convinced that there is method in his madness.”

“Imagine Trump doing Brexit,” Johnson said. “He’d go in bloody hard… There’d be all sorts of breakdowns, all sorts of chaos. Everyone would think he’d gone mad. But actually you might get somewhere. It’s a very, very good thought.”

Running through the threats and opportunities for Britain’s foreign policy, Johnson said he wanted a “much more energetic” approach to the UK’s diplomacy.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 23:57 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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En de megalomania, BoJo wil een eigen vliegtuig nu, door de staat betaald uiteraard, en dan niet in dat saaie grijs van het reguliere regeringsvliegtuig, natuurlijk.

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Op donderdag 7 juni 2018 20:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
We hadden al een phone booth, appartement, bankstel, dure pennen, een Chick-Fil-A, oude matrassen, een tripje naar Marokko, salarisverhoging voor vrienden, tripjes naar Disneyland en de Superbowl (ik mis nu vast nog van alles), maar daar kunnen we vandaag aan toevoegen: hydraterende lotion. Kolderiek corrupt.

Pruitt enlisted security detail in picking up dry cleaning, moisturizing lotion:
https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.06698e7c0a02

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EmmanuelMacron twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 21:49:49 The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be. Because these 6 countries represent values, they represent an economic market which has the weight of history behind it and which is now a true international force https://t.co/UA86fcjozs reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 00:52 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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EmmanuelMacron twitterde op donderdag 07-06-2018 om 21:49:49 The American President may not mind being isolated, but neither do we mind signing a 6 country agreement if need be. Because these 6 countries represent values, they represent an economic market which has the weight of history behind it and which is now a true international force https://t.co/UA86fcjozs reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 01:01:43 NEWS: Feinstein wants to talk to an ex-Congressman about his ties to Russia & the Trump campaign. The congressman, Curt Weldon, said last year at a private meeting that Viktor Vekselberg's NYC fund had financed the promotion of that so-called "peace plan." https://t.co/1UC08lljVU reageer retweet

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An ex-congressman has attracted scrutiny from the Senate Judiciary Committee, as it continues to investigate whether President Donald Trump’s campaign conspired with Moscow to sway the 2016 presidential election.

Curt Weldon, a Republican and former Pennsylvania congressman, lost his re-election campaign more than a decade ago following an FBI probe into his ties to two Russian companies. He has “connections to both Russia and the Trump campaign” that are raising suspicions among senators, a spokeswoman for Democratic Senator Dianne Feinstein said. Feinstein is the committee’s ranking member, and wants to interview Weldon, the spokeswoman said.

The reasons for the committee’s interest in Weldon are murky, but his ties to Russia are significant. Members of Congress believe, for example, that Weldon may lead to answers about why the Trump administration sought to lift sanctions on Russia in the aftermath of the 2016 election despite a public statement by intelligence agencies that the Kremlin tried to help Trump win. Weldon may also have information about the role a Russian oligarch may have played in trying to influence the Trump administration—though Weldon denied this when I asked him about it.

Additionally, Weldon appears to have knowledge of a key instance in which a foreign national sought to influence the president through one of his closest advisers—a central theme of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing investigation into Russia’s election interference.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 03:30:57 Trump's transition team told the Obama W.H. about Mike Flynn’s conversations with Sergey Kislyak, according to Ben Rhodes' memoir. That stands in contrast to claims the Obama team unmasked Flynn’s name after learning of the Kislyak convo from intercepts. https://t.co/IiqjfVbno7 reageer retweet

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The Trump transition team told Barack Obama’s White House about Mike Flynn’s fateful conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak, according to a senior Obama aide’s new memoir. That account stands in contrast to oft-repeated claims that the Obama team unmasked Flynn’s name after learning of the Kislyak conversation from surveillance intercepts.

Ben Rhodes, an Obama deputy national security adviser and a long-time right-wing bête noire, often features prominently in accusations from Donald Trump’s allies that the outgoing White House improperly “unmasked” Flynn from surveillance intercepts and then leaked his name to discredit him. In October, Rhodes testified behind closed doors to the House intelligence committee probe controlled by Trump ally Devin Nunes about unmasking.

But in his just-released book, The World as It Is, the former senior National Security Council staffer writes that the Obama White House learned about the Flynn-Kislyak talks from the Trump team itself. If Rhodes’ claim is true, then Obama aides had no need to “unmask” any surveillance intercept of Kislyak’s phone calls to determine Flynn was the interlocutor.

Flynn “took a couple of weeks after his own appointment to accept Susan Rice’s invitation to meet,” Rhodes writes. “His own transition team volunteered to us that he’d met with Sergei Kislyak, the Russian ambassador, before meeting with the American official he was replacing.”

Rhodes didn’t hear about that firsthand, he clarified, as the Trump transition team didn’t deal with Rhodes. (“You’re kind of PNG,” Rhodes quotes the outgoing Obama team’s transition director telling him, meaning ‘persona non grata,’ someone who is not welcome.) Instead, Rhodes’ White House colleagues informed him of the Trump team’s disclosure of the meetings.

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MSNBC twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 04:34:13 BREAKING: Former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer has been indicted for lying to the FBI about "repeated contacts with reporters," according to a statement form the DOJ. https://t.co/8iNC7SoGXK reageer retweet

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maddow twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 04:32:59 PDF of the indictment... https://t.co/QI4lfNPYrl reageer retweet

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A former Senate Intelligence Committee aide was arrested Thursday in an investigation of classified information leaks where prosecutors also secretly seized years' worth of a New York Times reporter's phone and email records.

The former aide, James A. Wolfe, 57, was charged with lying repeatedly to investigators about his contacts with three reporters. According to the authorities, Mr. Wolfe made false statements to the F.B.I. about providing two of them with private information related to the committee's work. They did not say whether it was classified.

Mr. Wolfe was slated to appear before a federal judge on Friday in Washington. Reached Thursday evening before his arrest, Mr. Wolfe declined to comment.

Mr. Wolfe's case led to the first known instance of the Justice Department going after a reporter's data under President Trump.

The seizure -- disclosed in a letter to the reporter, Ali Watkins -- suggested that prosecutors under the Trump administration will continue the aggressive tactics employed under President Barack Obama.

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The special counsel’s accusation this week that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, tried to tamper with potential witnesses originated with two veteran journalists who turned on Mr. Manafort after working closely with him to prop up the former Russia-aligned president of Ukraine, interviews and documents show.

The two journalists, who helped lead a project to which prosecutors say Mr. Manafort funneled more than $2 million from overseas accounts, are the latest in a series of onetime Manafort business partners who have provided damaging evidence to Robert S. Mueller III, the special counsel investigating Russian meddling in the 2016 election. Their cooperation with the government has increasingly isolated Mr. Manafort as he awaits trial on charges of violating financial, tax and federal lobbying disclosure laws.

Mr. Manafort’s associates say he feels betrayed by the former business partners, to whom he collectively steered millions of dollars over the years for consulting, lobbying and legal work intended to bolster the reputation of Viktor F. Yanukovych, the former president of Ukraine. Mr. Manafort has told associates that he believes Mr. Mueller’s team is using the business partners to pressure him to flip on Mr. Trump in a manner similar to the one used to prosecute the energy giant Enron in the early 2000s by a Justice Department task force that included some lawyers now serving on Mr. Mueller’s team.

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CNNPolitics twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 04:05:22 President Trump will skip the climate portion of G7 after Twitter spat with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau https://t.co/pnZkhXYlCg https://t.co/HF4HZYATgN reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 04:47 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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MSNBC twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 04:34:13 BREAKING: Former Senate Intelligence Committee staffer has been indicted for lying to the FBI about "repeated contacts with reporters," according to a statement form the DOJ. https://t.co/8iNC7SoGXK reageer retweet

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maddow twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 04:32:59 PDF of the indictment... https://t.co/QI4lfNPYrl reageer retweet

Ex-Senate Aide Charged in Leak Case Where Times Reporter's Records Were Seized

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 04:23 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 01:01:43 NEWS: Feinstein wants to talk to an ex-Congressman about his ties to Russia & the Trump campaign. The congressman, Curt Weldon, said last year at a private meeting that Viktor Vekselberg's NYC fund had financed the promotion of that so-called "peace plan." https://t.co/1UC08lljVU reageer retweet

Senate Investigators May Have Found a Missing Piece in the Russia Probe

An ex-congressman has alleged ties to the Trump campaign—as well as to powerful figures in Russia and Ukraine.
Finding out what he knows is crucial, a top Democrat in the Senate says.

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 05:36 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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CNNPolitics twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 04:05:22 President Trump will skip the climate portion of G7 after Twitter spat with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau https://t.co/pnZkhXYlCg https://t.co/HF4HZYATgN reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 09:45 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Als hij maar zo min mogelijk tijd hoeft door te brengen met (o.a.) zijn NAVO bondgenoten. Trump heeft lovendere woorden voor Kim dan voor Trudeau.

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 10:00 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Je zou bijna gaan denken dat Trump daadwerkelijk handelt in opdracht van de Russen.

En toch geloof ik daar niet in. Wel is het zo dat de koers die door deze administratie is uitgestippeld (voor zover je kunt spreken van een koers), vooral in het voordeel lijkt te werken van Poetin.

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 10:00 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Je zou bijna gaan denken dat Trump daadwerkelijk handelt in opdracht van de Russen.

En toch geloof ik daar niet in. Wel is het zo dat de koers die door deze administratie is uitgestippeld (voor zover je kunt spreken van een koers), vooral in het voordeel lijkt te werken van Poetin.

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 10:14 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Het is werkelijk waar ongelofelijk hoe die clown in een jaar tijd al zijn vrienden weet te beledigen.
Wat denkt hij er mee te bereiken.

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 05:36 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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CNNPolitics twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 04:05:22 President Trump will skip the climate portion of G7 after Twitter spat with French President Emmanuel Macron and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau https://t.co/pnZkhXYlCg https://t.co/HF4HZYATgN reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 10:14 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Het is werkelijk waar ongelofelijk hoe die clown in een jaar tijd al zijn vrienden weet te beledigen.
Wat denkt hij er mee te bereiken.

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 10:30 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Gewoon een makkelijk excuus om niet geconfronteerd te hoeven worden met ingewikkelde zaken als klimaatverandering.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 12:25:35 Looking forward to straightening out unfair Trade Deals with the G-7 countries. If it doesn’t happen, we come out even better! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 12:43 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 12:25:35 Looking forward to straightening out unfair Trade Deals with the G-7 countries. If it doesn’t happen, we come out even better! reageer retweet

Que?

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 12:43 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 12:25:35 Looking forward to straightening out unfair Trade Deals with the G-7 countries. If it doesn’t happen, we come out even better! reageer retweet

Que?

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 12:43 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 08-06-2018 om 12:25:35 Looking forward to straightening out unfair Trade Deals with the G-7 countries. If it doesn’t happen, we come out even better! reageer retweet

Que?

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 12:45 schreef archito het volgende:

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Beter zonder deal dan met een unfaire deal of is geen deal sowieso beter volgens Trump? Lekker vaag weer in ieder geval.

Heeft iemand trouwens een idee hoe dat zit met die 300% tariffs?

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 13:00 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Hij ook niet. Hier tweet hij 270%.

https://twitter.com/realD(...)030839019802625?s=19

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 13:07 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Op zich is natuurlijk niets mis het uiten van kritiek op bestaande handelsafspraken. Maar van TTIP en TPP wil Trump dan weer niets weten en door zelf tarieven te verhogen verergert hij de situatie alleen maar.

Er zit gewoon geen enkele logica achter zijn optreden.

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Op vrijdag 8 juni 2018 13:10 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
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Romney: Trump will be reelected in 2020
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samenvatting:

1. Economie VS blijft sterk. Aantal banen groeit.
2. Democraten komen met kansloze (“out of the mainstream”) kandidaat.
3. Trump wordt makkelijk herkozen in 2020.
Dat is de voorspelling van Mitt Romney, republikein, oud-presidentskandidaat en Trumphater.