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

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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 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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http://thehill.com/blogs/(...)t-lady-from-giuliani

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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 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 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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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 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:
Interessant om te lezen:

Romney: Trump will be reelected in 2020
https://www.politico.com/(...)election-2020-632995

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.