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Secretary of State - Mike Pompeo
Secretary of Treasury - Steven Mnuchin
Secretary of Defense - General Jim 'Mad Dog' Mattis
Attorney General - Jeff Sessions
Secretary of the Interior - Ryan Zinke
Secretary of Agriculture - Sonny Perdue
Secretary of Commerce - Wilbur Ross
Secretary of Labor - Alexander Acosta
Secretary of Health and Human Services - Alex Azar
Secretary of Housing & Urban Development - Ben Carson
Secretary of Transportation - Elaine Chao
Secretary of Energy - Rick Perry
Secretary of Education - Betsy DeVos
Secretary of Veterans Affairs - Ronny Jackson??? Robert Wilkie (Acting)
Secretary of Homeland Security - Kirstjen Nielsen

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White House Chief of Staff - John F. Kelly
Trade Representative - Robert Lighthizer
Director of National Intelligence - Dan Coats
Ambassador to the UN - Nikki Haley
Director of the Office of Management & Budget - Mick Mulvaney
Director of the Central Intelligence Agency - Gina Haspel
Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency - Scott Pruitt
Administrator of the Small Business Administration - Linda McMahon

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Ivanka Trump (Advisor to the President), Jared Kushner (Senior Adviser Strategic Planning), Stephen Miller (Senior Adviser Policy), John Bolton (National Security Adviser), Kellyanne Conway (Counselor), Donald McGahn (White House Counsel), Sarah Huckabee Sanders (Press Secretary), Christopher Wray (Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation), Robert Mueller (Special Counsel), Rod Rosenstein (United States Deputy Attorney General).

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Kabinet: Tom Price (HHS), David Shulkin (VA), Rex Tillerson (State)
DOJ/FBI: Sally Yates, James Comey, Preet Bharara, Andrew McCabe
Communicatie WH: Mike Dubke, Sean Spicer, Anthony Scaramucci, Hope Hicks
Adviseurs enzo: Michael Flynn, Herbert McMaster, Reince Priebus, Rob Porter, Gary Cohn, Steve Bannon, John McEntee

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WASHINGTON — In a major rebuke to President Donald Trump, the Senate has adopted a measure that would block the administration's deal with Chinese telecom giant ZTE, pitting the president against Congress on what many senators say is an issue of national security.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 10:06 schreef Chewie het volgende:
Als niemand anders het doet

ZTE deal lijkt ook op losse schroeven te staan.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/p(...)e-trump-deal-n882196
https://tweakers.net/nieu(...)n-zte-in-gevaar.html

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 10:06 schreef Chewie het volgende:
Als niemand anders het doet

ZTE deal lijkt ook op losse schroeven te staan.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/p(...)e-trump-deal-n882196
https://tweakers.net/nieu(...)n-zte-in-gevaar.html

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 09:23 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Die Trump zelf heeft geinstalleerd bedoel je?

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 10:15 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Maar the House kan de Senate toch blocken?

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Acosta twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 10:12:59 We are watching what looks like a campaign ad or movie trailer about the Trump Kim summit before Trump’s news conference. https://t.co/Wg7TjI0U0i reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 10:15 schreef grrrrg het volgende:

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Maar the House kan de Senate toch blocken?

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 10:56 schreef rockstah het volgende:
Het probleem met de Korea kwestie is dat het nooit vanuit Koreaans perspectief wordt bekeken. Er zijn zoveel ontwikkelingen geweest sinds de val van de Sovjet Unie die bijgedragen hebben aan de situatie zoals die nu is, veel meer nog dat de houding van de VS. Niemand heeft het over de voedselsituatie, de interne politiek, de houding van Zuid Korea en hoe die veranderd is tijdens de candlelight revolution in 2016 (nog zo'n ontzettend onderbelichte ontwikkeling), de rol van Moon Jae-In. We zijn zo gewend om alles wat in de wereld gebeurd aan de Amerikaanse Presidenten toe te schrijven dat er een behoorlijk verwrongen perspectief is ontstaan.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 10:44 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Trump zegt toe te willen stoppen met de gezamenlijke militaire oefeningen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 11:06 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat meen je niet.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 11:06 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat meen je niet.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 11:06 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat meen je niet.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 11:22 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Volkomen logisch toch, hij laat de Pacific aan China, zullen ze wel goed voor betaald hebben

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Nederland ondertekent oprichting Chinese investeringsbank
29-06-2015, 12:50

Door China-correspondent Marieke de Vries

Vijftig landen uit vijf continenten hebben vanmorgen de statuten van de Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) ondertekend. Zeven landen zullen nog voor het einde van het jaar tekenen.

Ook Nederland heeft de statuten ondertekend en is daarmee een van de kandidaat-medeoprichters van de nieuwe investeringsbank, die de Aziatische tegenhanger van de Wereldbank moet worden. Namens Nederland zette plaatsvervangend ambassadeur André Driessen zijn handtekening.

Garantie

Het totale startkapitaal is 100 miljard dollar, omgerekend iets meer dan 90 miljard euro. Nederland legt 1,03 miljard dollar in, waarvan 80 procent garantie is en 20 procent daadwerkelijk wordt gestort. China heeft 30 procent van de aandelen in handen en heeft het meeste te zeggen over wat er met het geld gaat gebeuren. India is met 8,4 procent de op een na grootste aandeelhouder, gevolgd door Rusland met 6,5 procent.

Met het kapitaal moeten enorme projecten in Azië worden gefinancierd. Het gaat om onder meer hogesnelheidslijnen van China naar Rusland, een nieuw spoorwegnet in India, bruggen en wegen in Vietnam en een nieuwe zijderoute van China naar Europa. Het zijn megaprojecten waardoor de Chinese staalfabrieken weer een nieuwe impuls moeten krijgen en de armere gebieden in Azië zich kunnen ontwikkelen.

Initiatief

De oprichting van de bank is een grote overwinning voor China, dat het initiatief nam voor de bank. Oude instituten zoals de Wereldbank en het Internationaal Monetair Fonds (IMF) wilden de veto- en inspraakregels niet aanpassen ten faveure van China, omdat Washington dat tegenhield.

Ook dit keer probeerde de Verenigde Staten hun bondgenoten te verhinderen deel te nemen aan de bank, maar onder andere bondgenoten Zuid-Korea, Engeland, Duitsland, Frankrijk en dus ook Nederland luisterden daar niet naar. Zij vinden het belangrijker om bij de oprichting van deze nieuwe belangrijke bank aan tafel te zitten en mee te onderhandelen dan aan de zijlijn af te wachten wat er met al die miljarden gaat gebeuren. Bovendien hopen de deelnemende landen natuurlijk een streepje voor te hebben bij China als er grote opdrachten te verdelen zijn.

Japan en de VS doen niet mee aan de AIIB, maar China heeft al aangegeven dat de deur nog altijd voor ze open staat.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 11:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Laten we in Nederland ook maar een atoombom gaan bouwen. Binnenkort stapt Trump uit de NAVO.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 12:27 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ook wel curieus dat Trump de oefeningen van de VS samen met anderen als provocatief bestempelde.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 12:27 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ook wel curieus dat Trump de oefeningen van de VS samen met anderen als provocatief bestempelde.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 12:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het erge is dat het halve land er nooit achter zal komen dat deze top inhoudelijk een blamage is.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 12:43 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Ik hoor en lees al overal dat het historisch was... Uit die intentieverklaring blijkt niets wat niet al eerder is afgesproken. Het is historisch dat ze elkaar de hand hebben geschud maar ik hoop niet dat het daar bij blijft.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 10:56 schreef rockstah het volgende:
Het probleem met de Korea kwestie is dat het nooit vanuit Koreaans perspectief wordt bekeken. Er zijn zoveel ontwikkelingen geweest sinds de val van de Sovjet Unie die bijgedragen hebben aan de situatie zoals die nu is, veel meer nog dat de houding van de VS. Niemand heeft het over de voedselsituatie, de interne politiek, de houding van Zuid Korea en hoe die veranderd is tijdens de candlelight revolution in 2016 (nog zo'n ontzettend onderbelichte ontwikkeling), de rol van Moon Jae-In. We zijn zo gewend om alles wat in de wereld gebeurd aan de Amerikaanse Presidenten toe te schrijven dat er een behoorlijk verwrongen perspectief is ontstaan.

Ik kan iedereen aanraden om bijvoorbeeld dit artikel van Christine Ahn eens te lezen:
https://truthout.org/arti(...)ee-korean-peninsula/

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 11:06 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat meen je niet.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 13:04 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Heeft Kim al eens in de microfoon gesproken? Ken zijn stem niet.
Hij deed een internationale school in Zwitserland, kent toch minimaal engels ?

Verder heb ik sterk het gevoel, dat iemand voor de gek wordt gehouden.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 13:12 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:
Zijn volk wordt nog het meest voor de gek gehouden.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 13:12 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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Ja daar heeft hij leren basketballen. Eigenlijk had men Kim moeten arresteren voor alle misstanden die hij zijn volk aandoet. Zijn volk wordt nog het meest voor de gek gehouden.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 13:13 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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En naar Den Haag brengen.

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elisewho twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 11:31:38 South Korean Blue House spox: “At this moment, the meaning and intention of President Trump's remarks requires more clear understanding.” reageer retweet

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jimsciutto twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 13:45:50 Just hours before Trump raised US troop withdrawal from Korean Peninsula, SecDef Mattis said “I don’t believe” troop reductions are part of NorthKorea talks, adding that any talk of a reduction “would be premature.” reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 13:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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jimsciutto twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 13:45:50 Just hours before Trump raised US troop withdrawal from Korean Peninsula, SecDef Mattis said “I don’t believe” troop reductions are part of NorthKorea talks, adding that any talk of a reduction “would be premature.” reageer retweet

Oeps....Trump heeft gewoon weer staan roeptoeteren en improviseren.....

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 13:54 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://abcnews.go.com/US(...)=social_twitter_abcn

Interview met Trump.

"His country does love him. His people, you see the fervor. They have a great fervor."

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 13:59 schreef ijs_beer het volgende:

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Knap hoe Trump blijft verbazen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 13:55 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
"A very talented man", "great personality, "very smart", "worthy negotiator".

Rara, van wie zijn deze citaten en over wie gaat het?

Oh the humanity...

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kaitlancollins twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 13:19:38 So neither the troops there nor the South Koreans were aware that Trump had agreed with Kim Jong Un that he would stop the U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises? https://t.co/g5Eez1kHok reageer retweet

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BruceKlingner twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 09:51:13 This is very disappointing. Each of the four main points was in previous documents with NK, some in a stronger, more encompassing way. The denuke bullet is weaker than the Six Party Talks language. And no mention of CVID, verification, human rights. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 13:25:16 Revealing moment from Trump's presser:Trump says he trusts Kim. If he's wrong? "I may be wrong, I mean, I may stand before you in six months and say, 'Hey I was wrong,'" said Trump, adding, "I don't know that I'll ever admit that, but I'll find some kind of an excuse." reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 13:35:07 Trump at his news conference: "As an example, they have great beaches. You see that whenever they're exploding their cannons into the ocean. I said, 'Boy look at that view. Wouldn’t that make a great condo?' ... Think of it from a real estate perspective." reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 14:10:17 Trump on his concession to Kim: "I wanted to stop the war games ... they were very provocative. But I also think they’re very expensive ... we have to fly planes in from Guam ... I said, 'Who’s paying for this?' I mean, who pays, in order to practice." https://t.co/KQZAx29EDU reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 14:30:52 Hallie Jackson: "Kim Jong Un has killed family members, has starved his own people ... why are you so comfortable calling him 'very talented'?"Trump: "Well, he is very talented ... I don't say 'he was nice.'" reageer retweet

President Donald Trump opens up about historic summit in exclusive interview with ABC News

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 11:37 schreef RM-rf het volgende:

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China betaald steeds vaker voor alles.... Debtbook politics noemen ze dat, de chinezen nemen langzaam door hun financiele middelen en het fnancieren van allerhande zaken een steeds grotere invloedssfeer in Azie in

https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)macy-intl/index.html
https://www.belfercenter.org/publication/debtbook-diplomacy

Wat amerika hiertegen zou kunnen doen is bv door de banden met haar Partners aan te trekken, zelf ook sterker gebruik te maken van alle internationale instellingen en partnerschappen die amerika in de laatste 75 jaar opgezet heeft om de internationale politiek te domineren en naar hun zin te zetten, IMF, Wereldbank, UN, NATO, G7/8/G20, ASEAN etc.

Maar, wat Trump effectief doet is precies het tegenovergestelde en juist dat speelt compleet in het voodeel van de chinese pogingen hun invloed specifiek in Azie te versterken en uit te breiden

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 12:38 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het erge is dat het halve land er nooit achter zal komen dat deze top inhoudelijk een blamage is.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 14:47 schreef Sloggi het volgende:

Wel ironisch dat deze meer gematigde aanpak van iemand als Trump moet komen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 14:54 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Kwam het van hem dan? Kim begon na de laatste rakettest met een detente..

Trump Speaks to VOA's Greta

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Trump: "Really, he's got a great personality. He's a funny guy, he's very smart, he's a great negotiator. He loves his people, not that I'm surprised by that, but he loves his people."

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mitchellreports twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 09:42:55 Now that we’ve been given their statement it is far less than advertised. No new commitments. No timetable. No definitions. Glad they met but no breakthroughs reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 15:05:05 NBC's Richard Engel says Kim Jong-un was "the biggest winner": "He got the recognition with the president of the United States on a world stage, and all he had to do was sign a piece of paper reaffirming something that he has already said in the past." https://t.co/NYMBXcGtkd reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 15:12 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Ik dacht misschien wat minder oefeningen als concessie, maar helemaal stoppen is wel lekker voor Kim.

Verder uiteraard een inhoudsloze deal, maar goed, had iemand anders verwacht?

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 15:12 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Ik dacht misschien wat minder oefeningen als concessie, maar helemaal stoppen is wel lekker voor Kim.

Verder uiteraard een inhoudsloze deal, maar goed, had iemand anders verwacht?

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 15:25:57 Ambassador Chris Hill — who served under Presidents Clinton, Bush and Obama — said on @MSNBC that the document appeared to be "drafted in haste," and is missing words like "verified": "There needs to be a companion action document." https://t.co/NYMBXcGtkd reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 15:45:30 Fmr. Amb. Wendy Sherman: "I was a little taken aback by the North Korean flags and the American flags side by side ... We aren’t equals to each other and this conferred power to Kim Jong Un that I don’t believe he has yet earned in terms of the respect from the U.S." @Morning_Joe reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 16:15:09 Q: What has North Korea given up in talks with the United States?Lindsey Graham: "Nothing yet." (via CBS) https://t.co/7K2SH0TtjF reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 15:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik had niet verwacht dat Trump eenzijdig allerlei concessies zou gaan doen.

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said any agreement between the U.S. and North Korea that comes from President Trump's meeting with Kim Jong Un should come to Congress for approval.

“Not only do I want to see the details, I want to vote on them," Graham said on NBC's "Today."

"So here’s what I would tell President Trump: I stand with you…but anything you negotiate with North Korea will have to come to the Congress for our approval," he continued. "But I’m hopeful."

He also signaled some doubt about the details of the denuclearization agreement Trump achieved with Kim.

"I think he has convinced Kim Jong Un that he’s better off giving up his nuclear weapons than he is keeping them, and that's the goal," Graham continued. "And if he has failed to do that then we're going to have a military conflict.”

Trump met Tuesday in Singapore with Kim, marking the first summit between sitting leaders of the U.S. and North Korea. The two leaders met face-to-face, joined only by translators, followed by expanded meetings with members of their respective administrations.

After hours of discussions, the two men signed an agreement Tuesday committing the United States to unspecified “security guarantees” in exchange for a denuclearized Korean peninsula. The document did not include specifics on the timeline or nature of denuclearization, however.

“I think both sides are going to be impressed with the result,” Trump told reporters. “We’re going to take care of a very big and very dangerous problem for the world.”

Trump also announced the U.S. would call off military exercises with South Korea while negotiations continue with the North.

Graham, who has drafted an authorization for use of military force and expressed support for military use in North Korea as a last resort, said he doesn't believe the lack of military exercises will be a significant factor in the long-term.

"The one thing that I would violently disagree with is removing our troops," Graham said. "I can’t imagine I would vote for any agreement that requires us to withdraw our forces because that would destabilize Asia. That’s what China wants. That doesn’t make the world more peaceful, it makes it more dangerous.”

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 16:27 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Graham warns that Trump's deal with North Korea needs approval from Congress

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SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 16:03:32 This week Trump treated the leader of our closest ally (Canada) like an enemy of America, and praised to the heavens a man who executes innocent people with anti-aircraft guns on a killing field in front of an audience. Not one American—not one American—should be celebrating now. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 16:31 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Haha, die Graham, denkt dat Trump hier ook maar één tel over na gaat denken.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 16:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 16:03:32 This week Trump treated the leader of our closest ally (Canada) like an enemy of America, and praised to the heavens a man who executes innocent people with anti-aircraft guns on a killing field in front of an audience. Not one American—not one American—should be celebrating now. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 16:31 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Haha, die Graham, denkt dat Trump hier ook maar één tel over na gaat denken.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 15:05 schreef Sloggi het volgende:
maar het zorgt er wel voor dat de twee landen voor het eerst een constructief gesprek op topniveau hebben gevoerd.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 16:41:55 Just in: In response to a motion by Manafort, Mueller's team must inform defense of "the identify of any individuals or entities alleged to be the 'others, including former senior foreign politicians' whom Manafort allegedly cause to act as foreign agents without registering. https://t.co/nLJF4efPSy reageer retweet

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Navarro apologizes for saying there's a 'special place in hell' for Trudeau

Peter Navarro, an adviser to President Trump on trade, apologized Tuesday for saying there is a “special place in Hell” for Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau for crossing President Trump.

“My job was to send a signal of strength. In conveying that message I used language that was inappropriate and basically lost the power of that message,” Navarro said, according to Bloomberg and other outlets.

“I own that, that was my mistake, my words,” Navarro added.

He issued his apology during remarks at a Wall Street Journal conference in Washington, D.C.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 17:23 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://thehill.com/homene(...)al-place-in-hell-for

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 18:13 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
Bizarre reacties op de FP over dit nieuws. Trump is de messias voor sommigen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 08-05-2014 om 03:39:15 Dennis Rodman was either drunk or on drugs (delusional) when he said I wanted to go to North Korea with him. Glad I fired him on Apprentice! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 18:15 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Trump is een soort rattenvanger van simplistische zielen: ze lopen allemaal blind achter hem aan.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 18:13 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
Bizarre reacties op de FP over dit nieuws. Trump is de messias voor sommigen terwijl 'ie, zoals altijd, eigenlijk niks heeft klaargespeeld. Voor zijn vertrek nog grote woorden dat hij Kimmetje wel even zou opdragen zijn kernwapens in te leveren en dan nu met zo'n nietszeggend verdragje komen. De enige die hier beter van is geworden is Kim.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 18:20 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Maar als je zijn fans dat probeert duidelijk te maken, dan ben je een linkse Trump-hater.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 17:11 schreef Zelva het volgende:

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Dit is een grapje hè?

Zoek anders eens op Wikipedia of zo naar de Six-Party Talks.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 18:20 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat komt vanwege de Muur die Mexico gaat betalen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 18:26 schreef Sloggi het volgende:

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Geen grapje maar een onjuiste voorstelling van zaken. Dan nog blijft mijn punt overeind: het is een goede zaak dat beide landen weer aan de praat zijn. Los van het feit dat er inhoudelijk weinig bereikt is en Trump incompetent is.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 18:54 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
Wat weet de American Idiot eigenlijk van het Noord-Koreaanse regime, behalve dat ze kernwapens hebben? Als ik al die lofuitingen lees over Kim Jong Un, dan krijg ik de indruk dat Trump helemaal niets weet.

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In an interview with Voice of America, Trump said “I like him” and added: “He’s smart, loves his people, he loves his country.”

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Well, you know, over my lifetime I've done a lot of deals with a lot of people, and sometimes the people that you most distrust turn out to be the most honorable ones, and the people that you do trust they are not the honorable ones, so we are starting from a very high plane, we’re starting from a very good relationship.

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I have great relationship with the new man who I like a lot as you know from Italy. He just won and you know, we had very good.

https://abcnews.go.com/Po(...)pt/story?id=55831055

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 18:26 schreef Sloggi het volgende:

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Geen grapje maar een onjuiste voorstelling van zaken. Dan nog blijft mijn punt overeind: het is een goede zaak dat beide landen weer aan de praat zijn. Los van het feit dat er inhoudelijk weinig bereikt is en Trump incompetent is.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 18:58 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Kim houdt van zijn volk, aldus Trump

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 19:16 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Zoals een almachtige demi-god die vraagt om volledige gehoorzaamheid en ongelovigen laat opsporen en executeren?

Ja, dan klopt het wel.

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OTTAWA – As a retaliation in an escalating trade war between the US and the rest of the world, Canada is considering placing a 25% tariff on all American canned and glass bottled water including Budweiser, Coors, and Busch.

The carbonated drinks sometimes referred to as “beer” in America are sold throughout Canada and purchased by at least one lonely person with no concept of taste.

“A 25% tariff on Canada’s steel and aluminum is unacceptable,” said Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a press conference in the House of Commons. “That’s why our government is considering a targeted duty on all imported US piss water and piss water with lime.”

…more to come on this developing story.

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Senators Move To Reverse Trump's Deal Lifting Sanctions On China's ZTE

Days after the Trump administration agreed to restore Chinese telecom firm ZTE's access to its U.S. parts suppliers, a bipartisan group of senators moved to block the deal.


An amendment sponsored by Sens. Tom Cotton, R-Ark., Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., added language to the National Defense Authorization Act to reinstate a ban on ZTE buying U.S. components. That sanction was put in place after the Chinese company violated the terms of an earlier agreement to punish it for illegal sales to Iran and North Korea.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 19:17 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat moet je respecteren.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 20:42 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Dat niet maar dat hij in zijn hoofd het beste voor heeft met de toekomst van dat land geloof ik wel. Wij willen hem als dictator het liefst berecht zien in Den Haag. Hij wil blijven leven en zegt dat hij economische hervormingen door wil voeren hij moet dus zijn eigen elite tevreden houden zodat hij niet op een ochtend dood wakker wordt en de internationale gemeenschap allemaal tevreden houden geen makkelijke opgave als hij doet wat hij zegt.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 18:26 schreef Sloggi het volgende:

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Geen grapje maar een onjuiste voorstelling van zaken. Dan nog blijft mijn punt overeind: het is een goede zaak dat beide landen weer aan de praat zijn. Los van het feit dat er inhoudelijk weinig bereikt is en Trump incompetent is.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 19:59 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
Ondertussen in Canada:

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https://www.thebeaverton.(...)-on-us-canned-water/

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 20:42 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Dat niet maar dat hij in zijn hoofd het beste voor heeft met de toekomst van dat land geloof ik wel. Wij willen hem als dictator het liefst berecht zien in Den Haag. Hij wil blijven leven en zegt dat hij economische hervormingen door wil voeren hij moet dus zijn eigen elite tevreden houden zodat hij niet op een ochtend dood wakker wordt en de internationale gemeenschap allemaal tevreden houden geen makkelijke opgave als hij doet wat hij zegt.

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ZachBlanchard twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 16:40:36 #BREAKING: @Governor_LePage tells me he will 'PROBABLY NOT' certify the results of today's election, will 'leave it up to the courts to decide'—calling ranked-choice voting the 'most horrific thing in the world.' #NEWSCENTERmaine https://t.co/wrKSofz7ov reageer retweet

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LePage has vetoed 182 bills as governor, which broke the record of 118 set by Governor James B. Longley. Most of LePage's vetoes have come since 2013, when Democrats regained control of the Legislature from the Republicans. Democrats overrode 20 of LePage's vetoes. Five of them, including an override of the 2013-2014 state budget, came in the 2013 session of the Legislature, while 15 came in the 2014 session.[27][28][29] In the 2015 session of the Legislature, LePage had 14 more vetoes overridden as of June 11. That number is expected to climb as LePage has promised to veto every bill sponsored by a Democrat, regardless of its merits, in retaliation for the rejection of his proposal for a constitutional amendment referendum to eliminate Maine's income tax. If he does so, LePage would be on pace to break Gov. James B. Longley's record of having 64 vetoes overridden in a single term.[30] LePage later expanded his veto threat to all bills sponsored by all legislators in order to force needing a 2/3 vote on them for passage. He stated that he feels it is the only way he can "get the most representation that I can for the people of the state of Maine" and that Democrats had convinced Republicans to sponsor bills to get around his initial veto threat.[31]

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SenCoryGardner twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 21:13:07 .@VP was very clear: regular readiness training and training exchanges will continue. https://t.co/9tnKhqxnMz reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het is toch een prachtige dag voor de wereldvrede?

Noord Korea en de VS die serieus werk maken van betere betrekkingen na jaren van oorlog en dreigen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het is toch een prachtige dag voor de wereldvrede?

Noord Korea en de VS die serieus werk maken van betere betrekkingen na jaren van oorlog en dreigen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het is toch een prachtige dag voor de wereldvrede?

Noord Korea en de VS die serieus werk maken van betere betrekkingen na jaren van oorlog en dreigen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het is toch een prachtige dag voor de wereldvrede?

Noord Korea en de VS die serieus werk maken van betere betrekkingen na jaren van oorlog en dreigen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:59 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Er is al geen oorlog meer geweest tussen de VS en NK sinds 1953 hoor.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:10 schreef Freak188 het volgende:
Het enige dat telt is het foto moment en die heeft trump te pakken. Inhoud van de deal maakt niks uit. Wat dat betreft zijn we er allemaal weer ingetrapt.

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Reporters crowded into a Singapore auditorium Tuesday, expecting President Trump to walk out and announce the results of his historic meeting with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.

Suddenly, two huge screens on either side of the empty podium came to life. Soaring music boomed over the speakers, and the reporters were bombarded with a montage portraying North Korea as some sort of paradise.

Golden sunrises, gleaming skylines and high-speed trains. Children skipping through Kim Il Sung square in Pyongyang. North Korean flags fluttering between images of Egyptian pyramids, the Taj Mahal and the Lincoln Memorial.

In a split-screen shot, Kim Jong Un waved to an adoring crowd while President Trump stood beside him with his thumb in the air. The pair appeared over and over again, like running mates in a campaign video.

The film went on like this for more than four minutes, with brief interludes of missiles, soldiers and warships interrupting the pageantry. Some journalists, unable to understand the Korean-language narration, assumed they were watching one of Pyongyang's infamous propaganda films. “What country are we in?” asked a reporter from the filing center.

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AndrewBeatty twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 10:10:06 They are playing a propaganda video before Trump presser. Not kidding. What is happening??!! reageer retweet

SPOILER

But then the video looped, playing this time in English. And then Trump walked onto the stage and confirmed what some had already realized.

The film was not North Korean propaganda. It had been made in America, by or on the orders of his White House, for the benefit of Kim.

“I hope you liked it,” Trump told the reporters. “I thought it was good. I thought it was interesting enough to show. ... And I think he loved it.”

The crowd sounded skeptical. Some wondered if Trump had not, in fact, just provided U.S.-sanctioned propaganda to one of the country's oldest adversaries.

But as the president explained it, the video was more like an elevator pitch. It was the type of glitzy production that Trump might have once used to persuade investors to finance his hotels, and now hoped could persuade one of the most repressive regimes in the world to disarm its nuclear weapons and end nearly 70 years of international isolation and militant hostility to the United States.

The nearly five-minute movie even had its own Hollywood-style vanity logo: “A Destiny Pictures Production,” though a film company by the same name in Los Angeles denied any involvement in making it, and the White House has not yet responded to questions about it.

“Of those alive today, only a small number will leave a lasting impact,” the narrator said near the beginning, as alternating shots of Trump, Kim and North Korean pageantry flashed on the screen. “And only a very few will make decisions or take actions to renew their homeland, or change the course of history.”

The message was clear: Kim had a decision to make. Then the film progressed from grim black-and-white shots of the United States' 1950s-era war with North Korea into a montage of rose-colored parades and gold-tinted clouds.

“The past doesn't have to be the future,” the narrator said. “What if a people that share a common and rich heritage can find a common future?”

The same technique repeated even more dramatically a minute later in the film, when the footage seemed to melt into a horror montage of war planes and missiles bearing down on North Korean cities — much like the apocalyptic propaganda videos Pyongyang had produced just a few months ago, when Kim and Trump sounded as if they were on the brink of nuclear war.

But in Trump's film, the destruction rewound itself. The missiles flew back into to their launchers, and a science fiction-like version of North Korea took its place — one of crane-dotted skylines, crowded highways, computerized factories and drones, all presided over by a waving, grinning Kim.

“You can have medical breakthroughs, an abundance of resources, innovative technology and new discoveries,” the narrator said, the footage more and more resembling a Hollywood movie trailer as it built to its finale:

“Featuring President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un in a meeting to remake history,” the narrator concluded, as Korean words flashed on a black background: “It is going to become a reality?”

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ZekeJMiller twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 10:08:55 Haven't seen this before: Before POTUS comes out for press conference, WH shows a Michael Bay-esque video showing Trump and Kim, military weapons, bombs reageer retweet

The reporters had many questions.

“Do you now see Kim Jong Un as an equal?” asked a Time magazine correspondent.

“In what way?” Trump asked.

“You just showed a video that showed you and Kim Jong Un on equal footing, and discussing the future of the country.”

The president may have misunderstood the question, as he referred in his answer to his closed-door talks and a few carefully negotiated photo ops with Kim — not the U.S.-made video that presented the totalitarian autocrat as a hero.

“If I have to say I'm sitting on a stage with Chairman Kim and that gets us to save 30 million lives — it could be more than that — I'm willing to sit on a stage, I'm willing to travel to Singapore, very proudly,” Trump said.

“Are you concerned the video you just showed could be used by Kim as propaganda, to show him as ...”

Trump cut the question off. “No, I'm not concerned at all. We can use that video for other countries.”

The president was more talkative when discussing how Kim had reacted to the video, which Trump had presumably played for him during a brief, private meeting hours earlier.

“We didn’t have a big screen like you have the luxury of having,” Trump said. “We didn't need it, because we had it on cassette, uh, an iPad.

“And they played it. About eight of their representatives were watching it, and I thought they were fascinated by it. I thought it was well done. I showed it to you because that's the future. I mean, that could very well be the future. And the other alternative is just not a very good alternative. It's just not good.”

International reviews of the video were decidedly mixed.

"Schlocky" — Vanity Fair.

"Odd." — The Canadian Broadcasting Corp.

"One observer dismissed it as 'a word salad topped with gratuitous appeasement of a monstrous regime,'" the South China Morning Post reported.

The Daily Mail noted that as the narrator described North Korea's glorious future of technology and international investment, the video showed stock footage of the Miami Beach shoreline, not far from a Trump-owned hotel. The Spectator called the whole sequence "real-estate politik" — which wasn't necessarily a bad thing.

"The text reads like some godawful martial-arts movie trailer crossed with a corporate advertisement for an ambitious construction project," Freddy Gray wrote for the British newspaper. "But clearly, in some peculiar way, it works."

The president acknowledged that some of the film's imagery may seem far-fetched. North Korea is mired in poverty, internationally isolated, and has been mismanaged for decades by a family of dictators — Kim, his father and grandfather.

“That was done at the highest level of future development,” Trump told the reporters in Singapore, as if he had just offered Kim a multi-tiered vacation package. “I told him, you may not want this. You may want to do a much smaller version. ... You may not want that, with the trains and everything.”

He waved his hands. “You know, with super everything, to the top. It's going to be up to them."

And then, in his usual style, Trump was thinking out loud about the “great condos” that might one day be built on the “great beaches” of North Korea.

“I explained it,” he said. “You could have the best hotels in the world. Think of it from the real estate perspective.”

As the screens above Trump emphasized, he certainly had.

The White House's Trailer for North Korea

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:13 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Er is geen deal. Er is een intentieverklaring die nog nietszeggender is dan eerdere intentieverklaringen. En de enige die daadwerkelijk iets lijkt op te geven is de VS.

En daarbij heeft Trump Kim gelegitimeerd. Wow, wat een prestaties...

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:14 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Reporters thought this video was North Korea propaganda. It came from the White House.

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The White House's Trailer for North Korea

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:19 schreef Freak188 het volgende:

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Dat zeg ik toch?

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:10 schreef Freak188 het volgende:
Het enige dat telt is het foto moment en die heeft trump te pakken. Inhoud van de deal maakt niks uit. Wat dat betreft zijn we er allemaal weer ingetrapt.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Fuck-a-doodle-doo. Shit just got surreal.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:24 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Trump?

Kim heeft zijn momentje.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:25 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Dat filmpje was vanmiddag toch al gepost?

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:26 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Kim heeft de winst, Donald had zijn momentje. Vond hij zelf. En zijn bewonderaars vonden dat uiteraard ook.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:24 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Trump?

Kim heeft zijn momentje.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:29 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:

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Als Trump een drol bakt en zegt dat het chocola is, zullen zijn volgelingen dat beamen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:24 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump?

Kim heeft zijn momentje.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:31 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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FOX draagt hem natuurlijk ook weer op handen. Terwijl Hannity en co een paar jaar geleden Obama met de grond gelijk maakten, toen hij suggereerde met dictators te willen praten.

Dodelijk vermoeiend, die gekleurde journalistiek in dat land.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:32 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Trump natuurlijk ook. Another episode of The Great Donald & Friends Show.
Eerst die kwezel Trudeau aan diggelen.
Merkel in d'r lelijke bek kunnen spugen.
En nu ineens dikke maatjes met die mafklapper uit Korea.

What a week! , .

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het is toch een prachtige dag voor de wereldvrede?

Noord Korea en de VS die serieus werk maken van betere betrekkingen na jaren van oorlog en dreigen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:30 schreef Freak188 het volgende:

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Kim interesseert niemand.

Zal achter dit hele gevrij tussen Kim en Trump ook Poetin zitten? Rusland is een van de weinigen die NK heeft erkend. Volgens mij kijkt Poetin gewoon hoe ver hij kan gaan met trump voordat de common sense ingrijpt. Ultieme puppet.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:38 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het zou me niets verbazen. Die wil de westerse democratieën verzwakken en laten zien dat een sterke leider veel beter is.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:35 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
Kunnen figuren zoals Nintex niet gewoon een eigen ophemeltopic krijgen, zoals PVV'ers en FvD'ers dat ook hebben? Ze gooien hier constant een knuppel in het hoenderhok met trigger reacties en blijven verder stil. Ik snap niet de mods dit soort gedrag tolereren. Ze zitten hier zeker heel erg om users/clicks verlegen?

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:46 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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De meeste anti-trumperts hier zitten ook te cirkeljerken met sarcastische one-liners en over hoe kut het allemaal wel niet is met net zulke weinige inhoudelijke bijdrage. Doe ik zelf ook aan mee, maar Nintex moet zoiets ook gewoon kunnen doen.
Eigen keus om er op te reageren. Ik doe het niet meer iig.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:46 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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De meeste anti-trumperts hier zitten ook te cirkeljerken met sarcastische one-liners en over hoe kut het allemaal wel niet is met net zulke weinige inhoudelijke bijdrage. Doe ik zelf ook aan mee, maar Nintex moet zoiets ook gewoon kunnen doen.
Eigen keus om er op te reageren. Ik doe het niet meer iig.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:14 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Reporters thought this video was North Korea propaganda. It came from the White House.

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The White House's Trailer for North Korea

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:34 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:

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Dat twee-partijenstelsel is dan ook het grote probleem. Moeten ze ook eens vanaf. Het is of zwart of wit. Er is geen middenweg.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:55 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Het twee-partijenstelsel is het gevolg van het kiesstelsel. Dat gaan ze niet veranderen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 21:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ok, bericht wat ik net postte wordt weer ontkent door de woordvoerder van Pence ... curieuze zaak...
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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 23:00 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
In other news...

U.S. Inflation Accelerates to Six-Year High, Eroding Wages (Bloomberg)

U.S. government posts $147 billion deficit in May (Reuters)

Exclusive: Trump looking to erect tent cities to house unaccompanied children (McClatchy)

Mueller warns that election, politics meddling by foreigners is still happening (CNBC)

Judge orders Mueller to identify unnamed figures in Manafort indictment (Politico)

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:41 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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De westerse democratieën hebben Putin niet nodig om te verzwakken en het is allang duidelijk dat een "sterke man" momenteel meer gewicht in de schaal legt dan het zooitje stuurloze politici dat zich legitiem verkozen acht.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 22:57 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Zo'n ranked voting systeem dat ze nu in Maine uitproberen kan wat helpen.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 23:21 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Kleven ook wel een hele hoop nadelen aan, hoor. Eigenlijk zouden ze gewoon naar een proportioneel systeem moeten.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 23:03 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Kortom, hij heeft het wel gezegd maar ontkent het nu omdat anders Trump boos op hem is.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 23:55 schreef DePen het volgende:
Ik moet toegeven dat president Trump dit slim heeft gedaan. Intentieverklaringen zijn geen concrete afspraken, maar hij kan deze historische ontmoeting spinnen zoals hij wil. In tegenstelling tot zijn voorgangers probeert hij in ieder geval vrede te bewerkstelligen, is zijn gedachte. Ik denk dat Trump hier flink wat extra punten mee gaat scoren. De Amerikaanse kiezer richt zich meer op uiterlijk vertoon dan op inhoud, is gebleken. Dat Kim hiermee een prominante plaats op het wereldtoneel heeft verworven en uiteraard het ultieme propagandamateriaal, is een prijs die we volgens Trump moeten betalen om een nucleaire oorlog te voorkomen. Ook het feit dat Kim kan blijven doen met zijn volk wat hij blieft. En dat is heel erg jammer.

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Op dinsdag 12 juni 2018 23:26 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Waar net zo goed weer nadelen aan kleven. Bovendien krijg je dan weer kadaverdiscipline. Zoals het systeem in de VS nu werkt krijg je in ieder geval nog kandidaten die een eigen lijn kunnen volgen.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 13-06-2018 om 00:15:08 The ongoing Rod Rosenstein-Devin Nunes battle is escalating. Rosenstein has reportedly threatened to call on the House General counsel to investigate the conduct of Nunes' staff on the Intel Committee. https://t.co/EJMuZN690d reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 00:23 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 13-06-2018 om 00:15:08 The ongoing Rod Rosenstein-Devin Nunes battle is escalating. Rosenstein has reportedly threatened to call on the House General counsel to investigate the conduct of Nunes' staff on the Intel Committee. https://t.co/EJMuZN690d reageer retweet

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(...)

"The Deputy Attorney General never threatened anyone in the room with a criminal investigation," a Justice Department official said. "The FBI Director, the senior career ethics adviser for the Department, and the Assistant Attorney General for Legislative Affairs who were all present at this meeting are all quite clear that the characterization of events laid out here is false.

"The Deputy Attorney General was making the point -- after being threatened with contempt -- that as an American citizen charged with the offense of contempt of Congress, he would have the right to defend himself, including requesting production of relevant emails and text messages and calling them as witnesses to demonstrate that their allegations are false," the official said. "That is why he put them on notice to retain relevant emails and text messages, and he hopes they did so."

Another former US official, also present at the meeting, agreed that at no time did Rosenstein threaten any House staff with a criminal investigation.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 00:28 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hij wees de staffers zo te lezen op de eventuele gevolgen van hun handelen...

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Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein threatened to "subpoena" emails, phone records and other documents from lawmakers and staff on a Republican-led House committee during a tense meeting earlier this year, according to emails reviewed by Fox News documenting the encounter and reflecting what aides described as a "personal attack."

The emails memorialized a January 2018 closed-door meeting involving senior FBI and Justice Department officials as well as members of the House Intelligence Committee. The account claimed Rosenstein threatened to turn the tables on the committee's inquiries regarding the Russia probe.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 00:15 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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maar die hebben ook allemaal het debacle in Canada gezien

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Het inflatiecijfer in de Verenigde Staten heeft het hoogste niveau in zes jaar bereikt. De inflatie lag in mei op 2,8 procent op jaarbasis, tegen 2,5 procent in april.

De consumentenprijsindex van de Amerikaanse overheid ligt daarmee op het hoogste niveau sinds februari 2012. Het cijfer komt overeen met de gemiddelde analistenverwachting.

De kerninflatie bedroeg jaar-op-jaar 2,2 procent, tegen 2,1 procent een maand eerder. Dit is de inflatie exclusief de prijzen van energie en voedingsmiddelen.

Persbureau Bloomberg constateert dat de nieuwe inflatiestijging de druk op de Federal Reserve opvoert om over te gaan op geleidelijke renteverhogingen.

De prijsontwaarding doet de loonstijgingen grotendeels verdampen, die ondanks de lage werkloosheid in de VS toch al matig zijn.

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North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and U.S. President Donald Trump have agreed on the importance of adhering to the principle of "step-by-step and simultaneous action" in denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, the North's state media reported Wednesday.

The Korean Central News Agency said the two leaders, in their Tuesday summit in Singapore, "shared recognition to the effect that it is important to abide by the principle."

Trump expressed his intention to suspend joint military drills between the United States and South Korea -- drills the North has denounced as preparations for invasion -- over a period of "good-will dialogue" with Pyongyang, the news agency said.

The U.S. president also promised to offer security guarantees to Pyongyang from Washington and lift sanctions against North Korea "along with advance in improving the mutual relationship through dialogue and negotiation," KCNA said.

If the United States takes "genuine" steps to build trust to improve relations with North Korea, Pyongyang can continue to implement "additional good-will measures of next stage," Kim was quoted by the news agency as telling Trump.

Kim urged Trump to make a "bold decision" to halt "irritating and hostile military actions against each other," while they accepted invitations of each other to visit Pyongyang and Washington, according to the KCNA.

The official news agency, meanwhile, did not mention whether Trump and Kim at their meeting discussed the issue of North Korea's abductions of Japanese nationals in the 1970s and 1980s.

The Trump-Kim summit was the first in history between a sitting U.S. president and a North Korean leader. The two leaders signed a joint document that includes Pyongyang's commitment to "complete denuclearization" and Washington's pledge to provide it with security guarantees.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 13-06-2018 om 02:55:06 A line of credit Jared Kushner and his father hold with Israel Discount Bank jumped to as much as $25,000,000 during the past year, from under $5,000,000 in late 2017. It comes as Kushner oversees Trump admin policy in the Middle East. https://t.co/RuLxd7eQFq reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 03:03 schreef Za het volgende:
Wat een negatieve praat toch weer overal.

Eigenlijk zou iedereen die indertijd beweerde dat Trump een gevaarlijke gek was die WO III zou ontketenen met de staart tussen de benen moeten afdruipen.

Het is zo standaard geworden alles af te zeiken, in alle media overigens.

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Senator-elect Caleb Frostman won the special election for Senate District 1, a district Trump carried by 18 points in 2016. Frostman’s win flips the seat to Democratic control, making it the 44th legislative district to flip from red to blue since the 2016 election and putting Wisconsin Democrats and the DLCC only two seats away from taking the targeted chamber in November.

DLCC

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 03:27 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump made Kim a movie trailer. We made it better.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 01:27 schreef DePen het volgende:

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De economie draait als een tierelier en de werkloosheid daalt. Dat zijn belangrijke pijlers bij verkiezingen.
Ik denk niet dat die confrontatie in Canada negatieve invloed gaat hebben. In tegendeel zelfs.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 02:23 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Verklaring in de Noord-Koreaanse staatsmedia:

Kim, Trump agree on 'step-by-step, simultaneous action' on nukes: KCNA

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Trump allies view the legal cloud hanging over Trump’s former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, as at least as ominous as the obstruction investigation. According to a source close to Cohen, Cohen has told friends that he expects to be arrested any day now. (Reached for comment, Cohen wrote in a text message, “Your alleged source is wrong!”) The specter of Cohen flipping has Trump advisers on edge. “Trump should be super worried about Michael Cohen,” a former White House official said. “If anyone can blow up Trump, it’s him.”

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JeffRathke twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 14:08:43 @Julie_C_Smith His characterization of US exercises as “provocative” mirrors Russian propaganda about the presence of small NATO forces in Balts+Poland and NATO exercises. reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 22:53:37 Robert De Niro, a very Low IQ individual, has received to many shots to the head by real boxers in movies. I watched him last night and truly believe he may be “punch-drunk.” I guess he doesn’t... reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 03:03 schreef Za het volgende:
Wat een negatieve praat toch weer overal.

Eigenlijk zou iedereen die indertijd beweerde dat Trump een gevaarlijke gek was die WO III zou ontketenen met de staart tussen de benen moeten afdruipen.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 10:09 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Een plan om Californië op te delen in drie staten heeft voldoende handtekeningen opgehaald om in november op het stembiljet te komen:

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Volgens de peilingen is een grote meerderheid tegen, en als het aangenomen zou worden moet het parlement van Californië en het Congres er ook nog mee instemmen, maar een interessant idee is het wel.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 10:24 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Ik zie niet in hoe dit de Amerikaanse zaak helpt. Het klinkt mij teveel als koren op de molen van mogendheden die de VS zoveel mogelijk intern willen verdelen.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 10:26 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het helpt de Amerikaanse zaak ook niet. Het is vooral een project van mensen die het onterecht vinden dat een Senator uit California 25 miljoen mensen bedient, en eentje uit Wyoming 250.000 mensen. Waar ze opzich wel een punt hebben, maar zo werkt het systeem nou eenmaal.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 10:31 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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"Zo werkt het systeem nou eenmaal" is niet zo'n heel beste reden om niets te veranderen aan een bestaande situatie.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 10:31 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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"Zo werkt het systeem nou eenmaal" is niet zo'n heel beste reden om niets te veranderen aan een bestaande situatie.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 10:33 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Eens, maar meer staten maken om de verhouding wat meer in proportie te krijgen is natuurlijk ook symptoombestrijding.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 11:04 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Is het uberhaupt rechtsgeldig op federaal niveau? Puerto Rico kan bv. ook niet eenzijdig bepalen dat ze een staat zijn in de VS. Als ze trouwens toch bezig zijn kunnen ze zich ook splitsen in 5 staten ofzo.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 07:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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JeffRathke twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 14:08:43 @Julie_C_Smith His characterization of US exercises as “provocative” mirrors Russian propaganda about the presence of small NATO forces in Balts+Poland and NATO exercises. reageer retweet

Goede vraag. Moeten wij buigen voor Poetin en de troepen terugtrekken? Scheelt veel geld.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 11:10 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Het is rechtsgeldig op het moment dat het Congres er mee akkoord gaat, dat is de wijze waarop nieuwe staten worden erkend. Puerto Rico zou eenzelfde verzoek kunnen doen, maar dat hebben ze simpelweg nog nooit gedaan. Dat zou namelijk ook betekenen dat ze federale belastingen moeten gaan betalen, terwijl ze daar nu nog van vrijgesteld zijn. Los van het feit dat het er met het huidige Congres waarschijnlijk niet door zou komen aangezien Puerto Rico waarschijnlijk een Democratische staat zou worden.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 11:23 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, maar ik kan me inbeelden dat als Californie gesplitst zou worden in n kust-delen ze (bijna) allen ook democratic zouden zijn. In die zin ligt daar dan ook een horde in congress.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 13-06-2018 om 12:01:40 Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer - sleep well tonight! reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 13:04 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 13-06-2018 om 12:01:40 Before taking office people were assuming that we were going to War with North Korea. President Obama said that North Korea was our biggest and most dangerous problem. No longer - sleep well tonight! reageer retweet

Er is werkelijk nog geen ene donder bereikt, maar meneer hangt de vlag al uit

Volgens mij denkt Trump ook dat het hiermee klaar is en dat verdere onderhandelingen soepeltjes zullen verlopen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 13-06-2018 om 13:10:03 We save a fortune by not doing war games, as long as we are negotiating in good faith - which both sides are! reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 13:33 schreef rockstah het volgende:
Velen zijn echt van mening dat Europa en Canada klaplopers zijn die over de rug van Amerikaanse offers op het gebied van defensie allerlei sociaaldemocratische paradijsjes konden stichten zonder de echte rekening ervan gepresenteerd te krijgen.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 14:42 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Feitelijk is dat toch ook zo?

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 14:42 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Feitelijk is dat toch ook zo?

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 14:42 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Feitelijk is dat toch ook zo?

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 14:42 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Feitelijk is dat toch ook zo?

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 15:13 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Dit idd moet NL zijn defensie weer op peil brengen conform standaarden dan kost ons dat meer dan 11 miljard structureel per jaar. Dat zijn behoorlijk wat uitkeringen.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 01:27 schreef DePen het volgende:

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De economie draait als een tierelier en de werkloosheid daalt. Dat zijn belangrijke pijlers bij verkiezingen.
Ik denk niet dat die confrontatie in Canada negatieve invloed gaat hebben. In tegendeel zelfs.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 14:42 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Feitelijk is dat toch ook zo?

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 16:08 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Inflatie schiet omhoog, overheids tekort schiet omhoog, lonen stijgen niet. Dat gaat niet lang goed gaan.

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Former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen likely to cooperate as his attorneys leave case, sources say (ABC News)

As attorneys for Michael Cohen rush to meet Judge Kimba Wood's Friday deadline to complete a privilege review of over 3.7 million documents seized in the April 9 raids of Cohen's New York properties and law office, a source representing this matter has disclosed to ABC News that the law firm handling the case for Cohen is not expected to represent him going forward.

To date, Cohen has been represented by Stephen Ryan and Todd Harrison of the Washington and New York firm, McDermott, Will & Emery LLP.

No replacement counsel has been identified as of this time.

Cohen, now with no legal representation, is likely to cooperate with federal prosecutors in New York, sources said. This development, which is believed to be imminent, will likely hit the White House, family members, staffers and counsels hard.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 16:37 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 16:37 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 16:45 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Mja, maar het gaat dan over samenwerking met aanklagers in New York zoals in het bericht staat. Dus niet met Mueller? Of wat?

Aan de andere kant staat er wel dat het nieuws waarschijnlijk is dat het het witte huis en aanhang hard zou raken (veronderstellend dat er strafbare zaken zijn waaraan men zich heeft schuldig gemaakt).

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 16:37 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Special counsel Robert Mueller on Wednesday filed a request for 150 blank subpoenas in the Eastern District of Virginia, where former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort lives.

The two-page filing reveals little, but says that that each subpoena recipient must appear in the Alexandria, Va., courthouse on July 25 to testify in the case.

Judge T.S. Ellis III has now moved the trial date twice, first from July 10 to July 24, and then from that date to July 25.

The 150 blank subpoenas amount to 75 total possible subpoenas — in each case, a subpoena is needed for the witness and another is needed for the defense. Court documents filed in April show that Mueller's team was pushing to subpoena 35 witnesses in the trial.

In May, court documents showed he had filed 70 blank subpoenas.

A blank subpoena means the party serving the subpoena, in this case the federal government, can fill in the name later, as long as it is done so before the subpoena is served.

The document says each recipient “must also bring with you the following documents, electronically stored information or objects” — but what follows that line is under seal.

In Virginia, Manafort is facing charges including tax fraud and failing to report foreign bank accounts.

Manafort is due in court Friday in Washington, when Judge Amy Berman Jackson will hear arguments from Mueller’s team why she should revoke his bail and jail him due to allegations he sought to tamper with potential witnesses in the case against him.

Last week, Mueller unveiled a superseding indictment against Manafort, charging him with obstruction. Russian businessman Konstantin Kilimnik was also charged with obstruction.

The indictment alleged that Manafort and Kilimnik “knowingly and intentionally attempted to corruptly persuade” two people connected with the Hapsburg Group, a firm Manafort worked with while lobbying for Ukrainian clients “with intent to influence, delay, and prevent the testimony of any person in an official proceeding.”

Jackson ruled Tuesday that Mueller must reveal the identities of the unnamed people he's hoping to use in the case against Manafort.

“[The] defendant is obliged to prepare for a complex trial with a voluminous record within a relatively short period of time, and he should not have to be surprised at a later point by the addition of a new name or allegation,” Jackson wrote.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 17:14 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Hoe lang nog tot Trump tweet: "I hardly knew the guy"?

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 19:55 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Ondertussen proberen Kaine en Corker een vrij vergaande wet door het congres te krijgen:
https://trib.al/beyUMkn

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Corker: GOP becoming 'cult-like' on Trump (The Hill)

GOP Sen. Bob Corker (Tenn.) warned on Wednesday that members of his party are becoming "cult-like" in their support of President Trump, pointing to leadership's unwillingness to challenge the White House on tariffs.

"We are in a strange place. I mean, it’s almost, it’s becoming a cultish thing, isn’t it? And it’s not a good place for any party to end up with a cult-like situation as it relates to a president that happens to be of — purportedly, of the same party," Corker told reporters.

Pressed on whether he feels Republicans are currently in a "cult-like situation," Corker acknowledged that there are some GOP lawmakers who stand up to Trump and it would be "unfair to try to say" that "about every member."

"[But] is leadership in general not wishing to poke the bear? Absolutely, because it's all about the next election, right?" said Corker, who is retiring after 2018.

Corker's comments come after he was blocked from getting a vote on his bill to rein in Trump on tariffs. His bill, which is backed by roughly a dozen senators, would require congressional approval if Trump wanted to impose tariffs in the name of national security.

Corker added on Wednesday that leadership is "wary" of upsetting the president and "there's a definite fear there."

"It's not a good place for us to be. You know, I think about the things that we, generally speaking, have stood for ... sort of where the Republican Party has been traditionally and were it is today is quite divergent," Corker told reporters.

Trump sparked a backlash from GOP lawmakers with his decision to impose steep tariffs on steel and aluminum imports from the European Union, Canada and Mexico.

But GOP leadership, as well as many rank-and-file members, have shown little interest in legislation that would rein in Trump.

Such a move would set up a high-stakes showdown between the president and members of his own party months before a midterm election, and likely provoke Trump to lash out at individual members.

"There's no question that leadership in general is wary of doing anything that might upset the president. I mean, we're going to be here during recess, generally speaking, which is fine with me but, look, it's more about Trump being upset than it is about anything else," Corker said.

Corker's comments echo that of MSNBC's Joe Scarborough on Wednesday's "Morning Joe," with the former GOP congressman arguing that "primary voters in the Republican Party have devolved into a Trumpist cult."

"There is no more conservative person on protecting tax dollars, balancing the budget, paying down the debt," Scarborough said of GOP Rep. Mark Sanford (S.C.), who lost his primary on Tuesday night as his opponent labeled him a Trump critic. Trump also tweeted 11th-hour criticism of Sanford on Tuesday afternoon.

"But primary voters said no, we don’t care that he’s one of the most conservative people in Congress. He said one or two bad things about Trump," said Scarborough.

“Why don’t we just say it has devolved into a cult? Primary voters in the Republican Party have devolved into a Trumpist cult," the host added.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 16:45 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Mja, maar het gaat dan over samenwerking met aanklagers in New York zoals in het bericht staat. Dus niet met Mueller? Of wat?

Aan de andere kant staat er wel dat het nieuws waarschijnlijk is dat het het witte huis en aanhang hard zou raken (veronderstellend dat er strafbare zaken zijn waaraan men zich heeft schuldig gemaakt).

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renato_mariotti twitterde op woensdag 13-06-2018 om 16:50:14 3/ Although Cohen is cooperating with federal prosecutors in Manhattan (not Mueller’s team), cooperation deals typically require the cooperator to provide all information about any criminal activity he knows about. Prosecutors then share that info with other jurisdictions. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 21:14 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Blijkbaar kan igv medewerking alle informatie over criminele activiteiten vervolgens met andere 'jurisdictions' gedeeld worden:

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renato_mariotti twitterde op woensdag 13-06-2018 om 16:50:14 3/ Although Cohen is cooperating with federal prosecutors in Manhattan (not Mueller’s team), cooperation deals typically require the cooperator to provide all information about any criminal activity he knows about. Prosecutors then share that info with other jurisdictions. reageer retweet

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Trump Appointee Compiles Loyalty List of U.S. Employees at U.N., State (Foreign Policy)
Mari Stull’s arrival at the State Department’s International Organization Bureau is triggering an exodus of top career staffers.

A senior advisor to the State Department appointed just two months ago has been quietly vetting career diplomats and American employees of international institutions to determine whether they are loyal to President Donald Trump and his political agenda, according to nearly a dozen current and former U.S. officials.

Mari Stull, a former food and beverage lobbyist-turned-wine blogger under the name “Vino Vixen,” has reviewed the social media pages of State Department staffers for signs of ideological deviation. She has researched the names of government officials to determine whether they signed off on Obama-era policies — though signing off does not mean officials personally endorsed them but merely cleared them through the bureaucratic chain. And she has inquired about Americans employed by international agencies, including the World Health Organization and the United Nations, asking their colleagues when they were hired and by whom, according the officials.

“She is actively making lists and gathering intel,” said one of the sources, a senior diplomat. Stull was named in April as a senior advisor to the State Department’s Bureau of International Organization Affairs, which manages U.S. diplomatic relations with the United Nations and other international institutions.

Her probing, along with a highly secretive management style, has become so uncomfortable that at least three senior officials are poised to leave the bureau, according to the sources. Officials there have warned some Americans employed by the U.N. to sidestep traditional meet-and-greet sessions with the department’s upper management to avoid drawing attention to themselves.

“She is gunning for American citizens in the U.N. to see if they are toeing the line,” the diplomatic source added.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 21:27 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Laura Ingraham, een van Fox News belangrijkste propagandisten, is kennelijk klaar met Pruitt.

Top conservative media personality turns on EPA chief Scott Pruitt: He's 'gotta go'

Hoeveel tijd zou hij dan nog hebben?

President Donald Trump: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Is Doing A Great Job | CNBC

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 14:42 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Feitelijk is dat toch ook zo?

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Trump: “We are paying from 60 percent of 90 percent of NATO.”

Nope, nope, nope. Trump never gets this correct.

There are two types of funding for NATO: direct funding and indirect funding. Direct funding, for military-related operations, maintenance and headquarters activity, is based on gross national income — the total domestic and foreign output claimed by residents of a country — and adjusted regularly. With the largest economy in NATO, the United States pays the largest share — about 22 percent. Germany is second, with about 15 percent. A significant portion of the U.S. share is operating the Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) fleet, according to the Congressional Research Service.

The U.S. share of the actual military budget is negotiated each year, but largely based on the cost-sharing formula, and amounts to less than $500 million a year, according to Defense Department documents. That’s chump change in a $700 billion military budget.

As for indirect funding, since 2006, each NATO member has had a guideline of spending at least 2 percent of gross domestic product on defense spending. At a 2014 summit, responding to Russian aggression in Ukraine, NATO members pledged to meet that guideline by 2024.

As of 2017, 12 of the 28 members exceed the guideline — with the United States leading the way at 3.6 percent. But this is simply money that each country would spend on its own military — or on missions that do not include NATO, such as peacekeeping in Africa.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 21:36 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Scott Pruitt is doing a great job!

President Donald Trump: EPA Chief Scott Pruitt Is Doing A Great Job | CNBC

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maggieNYT twitterde op woensdag 13-06-2018 om 18:33:19 Trump has been fuming about Cohen in private, blaming him for the messy Stormy Daniels situation. But he also is fearful of making that public because of chances it further pushes Cohen toward SDNY https://t.co/5laelv5IjO reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 23:03 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Stuk bewijs om getuigen te binvloeden:
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Op zich is whatsapp verkeer wel versleuteld, maar ja, als je het dan zelf backupped naar iCloud ...

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 07:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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JeffRathke twitterde op dinsdag 12-06-2018 om 14:08:43 @Julie_C_Smith His characterization of US exercises as “provocative” mirrors Russian propaganda about the presence of small NATO forces in Balts+Poland and NATO exercises. reageer retweet

Goede vraag. Moeten wij buigen voor Poetin en de troepen terugtrekken? Scheelt veel geld.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 23:39 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Van de man die zijn criminele loopbaan als belasting- en bankfrauder per ongeluk minutieus heeft gedocumenteerd via email omdat hij niet wist hoe je een word naar een pdf omzet, verbaast niets mij meer.

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Op woensdag 13 juni 2018 23:44 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Wow, what's next? "He often omits articles in his texts, mirroring the Russian language which has no articles"?

- Tegenwoordig is het vooral het Westen dat klaagt over troepenopbouw en oefeningen aan de grens.
- Wanneer Amerikaanse senatoren openlijk pleiten voor militair ingrijpen, uitspraken doen als "we’re going to end N Korea's threat to the American homeland in Trump's first term", en reeds een authorization for the use of military force opstellen, dan lijken die oefeningen wel degelijk provocerend (of minstens intimiderend), imo.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 00:03 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Die oefeningen zijn natuurlijk ook provocerend. Tenminste, niet zozeer provocerend, maar meer als afschrikking. "Kijk ons eens sterk zijn!". Alleen moet je dat als staatshoofd uiteraard niet over je eigen oefeningen zeggen. Dat is echt de domheid zelve!

De stelregel is is gewoon dat je klaagt over andermans oefeningen en andermans geklaag negeert. Niet de ander gelijk geven

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Norway to ask US for additional Marine presence near Russia border

Norway will ask the United States to send 700 U.S. Marines to the country amid heightened concerns about Russia.

The U.S. initially sent Marines to the country in 2017 to train for fighting in winter conditions. Those troops are scheduled to leave Norway at the end of the year.

But Oslo is expected to ask the U.S. to send 700 Marines in 2019, Norwegian Foreign Minister Ine Eriksen Soereide told reporters, according to Reuters. The additional troops would be based near the border with Russia.

Soereide said that the Marines' presence in Norway is not intended to establish a permanent U.S. military base nor is the move intended to target Russia.

"There are no American bases on Norwegian soil," she said.

Still, Oslo has become increasingly wary of Russia's intentions after Moscow annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, Reuters noted. The U.S. Marines are the first foreign troops to be stationed in the country since World War II.

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Norway and the United States enter into political talks about an increased US military presence in Norway. This confirms defense minister Frank Bakke-Jensen. But he does not want to say what the United States wants to deploy in Norway.

We have received some inquiries from the USA, says Bakke-Jensen.

- Then we'll see what's appropriate for us, and we'll take it in the political channels before it can be published.

- Can you say something about what the United States really wants to do in Norway, beyond what they do today?

"No," replies Bakke-Jensen.

From before, it is known that the United States wants to place a larger portion of the US Marine Corps at Værnes in Trøndelag, beyond the American soldiers who have so far practiced there.

Since 2016, Norway and the United States have had an agreement on rotation training for up to 330 troops from the Navy Corps. The agreement was renewed in 2017.

Last year, VG announced that the US Marine Corps wanted to make Værnes its main base in Europe.

Last week, Colonel Doug Bruun told the Adresseavisen that they wanted to double the framework for soldiers to 650.

Also, Rygge and Andøya can get American aircraft for shorter or longer periods.

In President Donald Trump's defense budget, $ 12 million has been set up for rebuilding Rygge Airport in Østfold, and preparing the airport for a progressive base for a group of American combat aircraft, according to the Air Force Times news site.

Here it is a matter of advance equipment, and then rotating training at Rygge and another eight flight stations around Europe.

Andøya can also be the base for increased American activity. On Tuesday, the Storting confirmed that the airplane should be shut down and the Norwegian navy surveillance aircraft will be moved to Evenes when delivered in a few years.

But this week, the site Aldmer.no announced that up to five P-8A Poseidon from the US Navy is waiting for Andøya to commute in June.

Bakke-Jensen does not want to say anything about the different bases. But he confirms that the government and parliamentary majority want more Allied forces to work in Norway:

"We have said in the Armed Forces' long-term plan that we will have increased allied training, so it's a little bit insightful with the different processes. In the United States, you can often raise ideas and start budgeting processes before contacting us, "he says.

Frank Bakke-Jensen will also not respond when the government is ready to answer the US request.

"We'll look at that," he answers.

- Will it be this year?

"We'll see," said the minister of defense.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 00:03 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Die oefeningen zijn natuurlijk ook provocerend. Tenminste, niet zozeer provocerend, maar meer als afschrikking. "Kijk ons eens sterk zijn!". Alleen moet je dat als staatshoofd uiteraard niet over je eigen oefeningen zeggen. Dat is echt de domheid zelve!

De stelregel is is gewoon dat je klaagt over andermans oefeningen en andermans geklaag negeert. Niet de ander gelijk geven

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 00:40:12 BAIER: Kim Jong Un is "clearly executing people."TRUMP: "He's a tough guy. Hey, when you take over a country, tough country, tough people, and you take it over from your father ... if you could do that at 27-years old, I mean, that's 1 in 10,000 that could do that." (via FOX) https://t.co/R8FfkREDYX reageer retweet

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Two of the most visible members of the Trump administration are planning their departures, the latest sign of upheaval in a White House marked by turmoil.

Press secretary Sarah Sanders and principal deputy press secretary Raj Shah are both heading for the exits, according to sources inside the White House and close to the administration. Sanders, who has become a confidante of President Trump since the departure of former communications director Hope Hicks, has told friends that she plans to leave the administration at the end of the year.

Shah is also considering his exit, but he has not yet settled on an exact date. Neither Sanders nor Shah immediately responded to repeated requests for comment.

Several other lower-level positions in the communications department left vacant in recent weeks are likely to remain unfilled, with more departures expected in the coming weeks, according to a former official.

SPOILER

Numerous staffers have left the White House over the last several months, some voluntarily and others having been forced out. Those departures include Hicks; Jared Kushner's top communications aide, Josh Raffel; homeland security adviser Tom Bossert; National Security Council spokesman Michael Anton; Trump personal aide John McEntee; director of White House message strategy Cliff Simms; communications aide Steven Cheung; congressional communications director Kaelan Dorr; assistant press secretary Natalie Strom; and deputy director of media affairs Tyler Ross.

Over the course of the Trump administration, the White House has consolidated its workforce, eliminating jobs and assigning multiple portfolios of responsibility to individual staffers. Some positions have never been filled. Despite the smaller number of positions, the record-setting turnover rate has not slowed. Less than halfway through Mr. Trump's term, the turnover rate stands at 51 percent, according to the Brookings Institution. Turnover during Mr. Trump's first year in office was 34 percent -- nearly four times higher than turnover during the first year of the Obama administration.

"There will be even more people leaving the White House sooner rather than later, laid off or just leaving out of exhaustion. And it is going to be harder to find good people to replace them," a source close to the administration told CBS News. "I do think they're going to have a harder time getting the second wave of people in than the first, because those people were loyalists, and [new] folks will have to be recruited and encouraged and then survive the vetting process. In addition to all of that, the president prefers to have a small communications staff."

Kathryn Dunn Tenpas, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who has studied turnover dating back to the Reagan administration, published a report that tracks senior-level departures of the Trump administration compared to previous presidencies. She told CBS News that the sheer number of top-level exits indicates a troubling inconsistency in the ranks of those who see the president on a regular basis.

If the White House were a private-sector business, Tenpas said the level of turnover among senior staffers would result in the "stock and shareholders ... going nuts."

The White House has been plagued by leaks that have infuriated top White House officials, including one about communications aide Kelly Sadler making an insulting joke about Arizona Sen. John McCain, who is suffering from brain cancer. The incident spawned an Oval Office meeting with Sadler and senior communications aide Mercedes Schlapp that ended in recriminations and expletives over leaking. Many staffers have described the White House as a dysfunctional and toxic place to work. Sadler, too, recently left the White House.

"So many people haven't even stayed in these jobs to master the learning curve," Tenpas told CBS News. "You don't hear much about the importance of expertise. This is a White House that doesn't seem to value that or understand the consequences of it. It's kind of one of those things where we may not know the vulnerability of lacking expertise unless there is a crisis -- or a crisis that may have been averted had a person been in the room."

Sources close to the administration fear that while Mr. Trump has been able to bring in a handful of senior, high-profile replacements like national security adviser John Bolton, National Economic Council director Larry Kudlow and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, there aren't many more qualified people willing to sign up for such an unpredictable high-wire job.

"Nobody wants to come in," a source close to the administration said. "So they've gone through two rounds and now they're at third tier of people who are just lucking out -- battlefield promotion ends up promoting people who aren't qualified for the position."

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jacobsoboroff twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 01:12:08 Just finished tour, don’t even know where to start. One of the first things you notice when you walk into the shelter — no joke — a mural of Trump with the quote “sometimes losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”Presidential murals everywhere. But that one is 1st. reageer retweet

Kids In Immigrant Detention Center 'Effectively' Incarcerated | All In | MSNBC

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 05:09 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Draadje van het bezoek aan het opvangcentrum voor migrantenkinderen in Brownsville (1400 kinderen) waar op 4 juni senator Berkeley de toegang werd geweigerd.

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jacobsoboroff twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 01:12:08 Just finished tour, don’t even know where to start. One of the first things you notice when you walk into the shelter — no joke — a mural of Trump with the quote “sometimes losing a battle you find a new way to win the war.”Presidential murals everywhere. But that one is 1st. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 07:21 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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What.The.Actual.Fuck!?

Dat zijn nog dystopische afbeeldingen, yo!

We are truly on the darkest timeline.

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atrupar twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 00:16:09 Trump claims, preposterously, that parents of Korean War veterans came up to him during the 2016 campaign and said, "when you can, we'd love our son to be brought back home -- you know, the remains."The Korean War ended in 1953. https://t.co/f4HEHZ22YM reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 08:13 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Yup - het huilen staat Chris Hayes nader dan het lachen... is de VS partij bij het VN Kinderrechtenverdrag?

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Currently 196 countries are parties to the treaty (some with stated reservations or interpretations). This includes every member of the United Nations (except the United States), plus the Cook Islands, Niue, the State of Palestine, and the Holy See.[5][7] The United States has not ratified it.[18] South Sudan did not sign the convention, however ratification was complete in January 2015.[19] Somalia's domestic ratification finished in January 2015 and the instrument was deposited with the United Nations in October 2015.[20]

All successor states of Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, Czech Republic, Macedonia, Montenegro, Serbia, Slovenia, and Slovakia) made declarations of succession to the treaty and currently apply it.[18]

The convention does not apply in the territories of Akrotiri and Dhekelia, Gibraltar, Guernsey and Tokelau.[18]

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The United States government played an active role in the drafting of the Convention and signed it on 16 February 1995, but has not ratified it. It has been claimed that American opposition to the Convention stems primarily from political and religious conservatives.[55] For example, The Heritage Foundation sees "a civil society in which moral authority is exercised by religious congregations, family, and other private associations is fundamental to the American order".[56] and the Home School Legal Defense Association (HSLDA) argues that the CRC threatens homeschooling.[57]

The United States had permitted the execution and life imprisonment of juvenile offenders, in contravention of the Article 37 of the Convention.[1] In 2005, a Supreme Court decision declared juvenile executions to be unconstitutional as "cruel and unusual punishment";[58][59][60] in 2012, the Court held that mandatory sentences of life without the possibility of parole are unconstitutional for juvenile offenders.[61]

State laws regarding the practice of closed adoption may also require overhaul in light of the Convention's position that children have a right to identity from birth.

During his 2008 campaign for President, Senator Barack Obama described the failure to ratify the Convention as "embarrassing" and promised to review the issue[62][63] but he never did. No President of the United States has submitted the treaty to the United States Senate requesting its advice and consent to ratification since the US signed it in 1995.[64]

The United States has ratified two of the optional protocols to the Convention,[9][10] the Optional Protocol on the Involvement of Children in Armed Conflict, and the Optional Protocol on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 09:13 schreef Bluesdude het volgende:

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atrupar twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 00:16:09 Trump claims, preposterously, that parents of Korean War veterans came up to him during the 2016 campaign and said, "when you can, we'd love our son to be brought back home -- you know, the remains."The Korean War ended in 1953. https://t.co/f4HEHZ22YM reageer retweet

Stel , Amerikaanse gesneuvelde in Korea was 20 jaar in 1953, ouders geboren ca 1913..
Die moeten dan 100+ zijn in 2016.
Zie de film bij de tweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 12:23 schreef grrrrg het volgende:
Hoe lang zal het duren voor NK en de VS weer ruzie maken?

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 11:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik heb zin in Felony Friday.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 12:23 schreef grrrrg het volgende:
Hoe lang zal het duren voor NK en de VS weer ruzie maken?

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 12:23 schreef grrrrg het volgende:
Hoe lang zal het duren voor NK en de VS weer ruzie maken?

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tedlieu twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 15:12:58 One result is that this week, Dems flipped the 43rd office from red to blue since @realDonaldTrump took office. Frostman won Wis Senate Dist 1, which no Dem has won in over 40 years. It was an over 20 point swing from 2016.#GOPTaxScam benefits top 1%. N Korea still has nukes. https://t.co/dFCixGWO5I reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 15:25:02 Trump salutes a man who appears to be a North Korean military general. https://t.co/r5KM7tws4A reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 15:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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tedlieu twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 15:12:58 One result is that this week, Dems flipped the 43rd office from red to blue since @realDonaldTrump took office. Frostman won Wis Senate Dist 1, which no Dem has won in over 40 years. It was an over 20 point swing from 2016.#GOPTaxScam benefits top 1%. N Korea still has nukes. https://t.co/dFCixGWO5I reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 12:37 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Eerst wordt het nog AG Horowitz Thursday ...

All sides brace for release of report on FBI conduct
The Justice Department inspector general’s 18-month review is the focus of competing political forces.

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 15:58:32 (THREAD) The Inspector General of the Department of Justice, Michael Horowitz, will release his much-anticipated report on the Clinton email probe today. Here are 10 things you need to remember/understand BEFORE the report is released this afternoon. I hope you'll read and share. https://t.co/xOJ30ebzl6 reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 14:34:25 The Republican Party is starting to show very big numbers. People are starting to see what is being done. Results are speaking loudly. North Korea and our greatest ever economy are leading the way! reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 16:50:19 The New York A.G. has filed a lawsuit against Trump and his three eldest children alleging "persistently illegal conduct" at Trump's personal charity, saying Trump repeatedly misused the nonprofit. The suit asks a state judge to dissolve the foundation. https://t.co/Pe9yELkqdu reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 16:55:04 The New York A.G. has asked that Trump be forced to pay at least $2,800,000 million in restitution and penalties. Underwood also asks that Trump be banned from leading any other New York nonprofit for 10 years. https://t.co/gkt7Cqo1Qz reageer retweet

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AP twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 16:57:20 New York's attorney general says President Trump's foundation served as a personal piggy bank for his businesses, legal bills and presidential campaign. https://t.co/qMJ7aAylsS reageer retweet

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NEW YORK (AP) -- New York's attorney general says President Donald Trump's foundation served as a personal piggy bank for his businesses, legal bills and presidential campaign.

Democratic Attorney General Barbara Underwood filed a lawsuit Wednesday against the foundation and its directors, Trump and his children Donald Trump Jr., Eric Trump and Ivanka Trump. The suit seeks $2.8 million in restitution and the dissolution of the foundation.

Underwood says the foundation illegally helped support the Republican's campaign by raising money at a nationally televised fundraiser in January 2016, then allowing campaign staffers to dictate how the money was spent in grants.

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:02:19 BREAKING NEWS: Horowitz Report Will Say No Evidence of Political Bias in the Work of Comey, Strzok, or Page, Contradicting Claims Made By Republicans for a Year https://t.co/aKyTqbqT3j reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:02 schreef speknek het volgende:
Als ik 3 miljoen aan belastingfraude pleeg moet ik volgens mij naar de gevangenis, maar goed.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 16:53 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 14:34:25 The Republican Party is starting to show very big numbers. People are starting to see what is being done. Results are speaking loudly. North Korea and our greatest ever economy are leading the way! reageer retweet

Noord Korea wijst de weg wel!

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:05:12 Trump's children Don Jr., Ivanka and Eric were named in the lawsuit because they’ve been official board members.The New York A.G. says that the three children exercised no oversight of Trump's foundation's spending. The board had not actually met since 1999. https://t.co/gkt7Cqo1Qz reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:02:19 BREAKING NEWS: Horowitz Report Will Say No Evidence of Political Bias in the Work of Comey, Strzok, or Page, Contradicting Claims Made By Republicans for a Year https://t.co/aKyTqbqT3j reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:06 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dit is dus waarom Trump al een tijd bezig is om dat rapport te delegitimiseren. Wist waarschijnlijk al dat dit eraan zat te komen.

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NewYorkStateAG twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 16:44:43 @realDonaldTrump Our investigation found that the Trump Foundation raised in excess of $2.8 million in a manner designed to influence the 2016 presidential election at the direction and under the control of senior leadership of the Trump presidential campaign. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:02 schreef speknek het volgende:
Als ik 3 miljoen aan belastingfraude pleeg moet ik volgens mij naar de gevangenis, maar goed.

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Republican Reps. Andy Biggs (Ariz.), Ron DeSantis (Fla.) and Matt Gaetz (Fla.) are requesting all unrevised drafts of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) report on the procedures it used during the investigation into Hillary Clinton's email use.

In a letter sent to DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz on Thursday, the lawmakers -- all members of the House Judiciary Committee -- argue congressional oversight is needed, as drafts were circulated within the DOJ and FBI before the report was made public.

"Your team has worked to ensure that this report is thorough and accurate; however, an investigation of this magnitude and consequence deserves heightened scrutiny to ensure that the process has not been compromised in any way," they wrote. "The trust of the America people depends on it. We are concerned that during this time, people may have changed the report in a way that obfuscates your findings."
The lawmakers noted the DOJ has previously rebuked requests for documents related to the investigation, adding they don't believe the security concerns cited by the agency are valid.

"Unfortunately, over the past year, the DOJ has repeatedly fought requests by Congress to produce documents related to this investigation, and when the DOJ actually provided documents, the materials have been heavily redacted," they continued. "Past and present DOJ officials have asserted security concerns, even though the documents have not legitimately contained security issues."

The lawmakers said they have "every confidence" the investigation was "thorough and accurate,"

"We request the various drafts of the report, particularly the draft provided to the DOJ and FBI, before those agencies made any changes to the draft report, be provided to us," they wrote.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:02:19 BREAKING NEWS: Horowitz Report Will Say No Evidence of Political Bias in the Work of Comey, Strzok, or Page, Contradicting Claims Made By Republicans for a Year https://t.co/aKyTqbqT3j reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:09 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
GOP lawmakers demand drafts of DOJ report on Clinton email investigation

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NewYorkStateAG twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 16:48:49 The Trump Foundation also entered into at least five self-dealing transactions that were unlawful because they benefitted Mr. Trump or businesses he controls. reageer retweet

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NewYorkStateAG twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 16:49:58 These include a $100K payment to settle legal claims against Mr. Trump’s Mar-A-Lago resort, $158K to settle legal claims against Trump National Golf Club, and $10K to purchase a painting of Mr. Trump displayed at the Trump National Doral. reageer retweet

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NewYorkStateAG twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 16:52:04 We are seeking restitution of $2.8 million plus penalties, and we have sent referral letters to the IRS and FEC for further investigation and legal action. reageer retweet

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NewYorkStateAG twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 16:53:54 In light of this misconduct and total lack of oversight, we are also suing to dissolve the Trump Foundation under court supervision and bar @realDonaldTrump and the other members of the Trump Foundation’s Board of Directors from serving on the board of any other New York charity. reageer retweet

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NewYorkStateAG twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 16:58:47 @realDonaldTrump You can read our petition here: https://t.co/1NPGPnSwiB https://t.co/FtRZqPGm1f reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:08:44 Now that I am back from Singapore, where we had a great result with respect to North Korea, the thought process must sadly go back to the Witch Hunt, always remembering that there was No Collusion and No Obstruction of the fabricated No Crime. reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:08:51 So, the Democrats make up a phony crime, Collusion with the Russians, pay a fortune to make the crime sound real, illegally leak (Comey) classified information so that a Special Councel will be appointed, and then Collude to make this pile of garbage take on life in Fake News! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:09:12 The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:09:21 ....Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:16 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:08:44 Now that I am back from Singapore, where we had a great result with respect to North Korea, the thought process must sadly go back to the Witch Hunt, always remembering that there was No Collusion and No Obstruction of the fabricated No Crime. reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:08:51 So, the Democrats make up a phony crime, Collusion with the Russians, pay a fortune to make the crime sound real, illegally leak (Comey) classified information so that a Special Councel will be appointed, and then Collude to make this pile of garbage take on life in Fake News! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:09:12 The sleazy New York Democrats, and their now disgraced (and run out of town) A.G. Eric Schneiderman, are doing everything they can to sue me on a foundation that took in $18,800,000 and gave out to charity more money than it took in, $19,200,000. I won’t settle this case!... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:09:21 ....Schneiderman, who ran the Clinton campaign in New York, never had the guts to bring this ridiculous case, which lingered in their office for almost 2 years. Now he resigned his office in disgrace, and his disciples brought it when we would not settle. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Yep. Trump gaat straks wel weer over de rooie.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:20 schreef OMG het volgende:
Aangezien er niet minimaal 15 minuten tussen iedere twiet zit geloof ik niet dat hij dit zelf heeft gepost.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:25:10 Just realized that the New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Trump on Trump's birthday. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 17:25:10 Just realized that the New York Attorney General filed a lawsuit against Trump on Trump's birthday. reageer retweet

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brianklaas twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 15:35:37 Unhinged DC area racist, misogynist conspiracy theorist liar who admires dictators, emulates despots, and condones neo-Nazi marches turns 72 today. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:20 schreef OMG het volgende:
Aangezien er niet minimaal 15 minuten tussen iedere twiet zit geloof ik niet dat hij dit zelf heeft gepost.

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Former FBI Director James Comey “deviated” from bureau and Justice Department procedures in handling the probe into Hillary Clinton, damaging the agencies’ image of impartiality even though he wasn’t motivated by politics, the department’s watchdog found in a highly anticipated report.

"While we did not find that these decisions were the result of political bias on Comey’s part, we nevertheless concluded that by departing so clearly and dramatically from FBI and department norms, the decisions negatively impacted the perception of the FBI and the department as fair administrators of justice,” Inspector General Michael Horowitz said in the report’s conclusions, which were obtained by Bloomberg News.

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Speaking in an interview with Fox News’ Bret Baier about the G-7 summit, which Trump attended in Canada, the president touched on the fact he had suggested Russia be permitted to rejoin the group, despite Russia being ousted in 2014 for annexing Crimea.

“I’m not for Russia. I’m for the United States. But as an example, if Vladimir Putin were sitting next to me at a table instead of one of the others and we were having dinner the other night in Canada, I could say, ‘Would you do me a favor? Would you get out of Syria?’ ‘Would you do me a favor, would you get out of Ukraine? You shouldn’t be there. Just come on,” he said.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 17:57 schreef Montov het volgende:
Dus Trump geeft in een tweet toe dat er pogingen/onderhandelingen waren over settlements, en nu Trump daar niet mee akkoord is gegaan er alsnog een strafzaak komt? En dan klaagt Trump dat ze hebben gewacht?

Oh boy. Swampy McSwampFace. Ik heb medelijden met mensen die in zo'n oplichter trappen.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 18:01 schreef Montov het volgende:

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He joh, doe eens lief, vertrek eens uit Syrie en Oekraine. Alsjeblieft?
Putin hoeft maar 1 keer te zeggen dat Rusland niet in Oekraine zit, en Trump zal dat meteen accepteren. Net als de inmenging bij Amerikaanse verkiezingen.

Waanzin of wanhoop?

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 18:01 schreef Montov het volgende:

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He joh, doe eens lief, vertrek eens uit Syrie en Oekraine. Alsjeblieft?
Putin hoeft maar 1 keer te zeggen dat Rusland niet in Oekraine zit, en Trump zal dat meteen accepteren. Net als de inmenging bij Amerikaanse verkiezingen.

Waanzin of wanhoop?

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 18:15 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Rusland heeft meer te zoeken in Syrië dan die illegale Amerikaanse landrovers

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 18:16 schreef Tchock het volgende:

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Ironisch om de VS 'landrovers' te noemen in de context van de Russische annexatie van de Krim.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 18:17 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Ik zou hem juist omdraaien. Iedereen is het eens over de illegale annexatie door Rusland van de Krim, maar over de illegale aanwezigheid van de Amerikanen in Syrië hoor je nooit zulke grote veroordelingen .

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 18:17 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Ik zou hem juist omdraaien. Iedereen is het eens over de illegale annexatie door Rusland van de Krim, maar over de illegale aanwezigheid van de Amerikanen in Syrië hoor je nooit zulke grote veroordelingen .

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 15:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 15:25:02 Trump salutes a man who appears to be a North Korean military general. https://t.co/r5KM7tws4A reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 19:23 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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En nu weet ook heel Noord Korea wie Donald J Trump is.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 19:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ja. De televisie daar zond het moment vrijwel meteen uit. Met hoogstwaarschijnlink commentaar als:"Zie hoe Trump onze militairen respecteert. Onze wapens dwongen de imperialisten naar de onderhandelingstafel. Leve onze Geliefde Leider Kim Jong-un!"

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 19:06 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Volgens mij zijn de Russen een stuk aanweziger in Syrië dan de Amerikanen.

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Retired Rear Adm. John Kirby, a military and diplomatic analyst for CNN, called the moment "striking."
"They can see a propaganda value here and this is basically them showing the level of deference and respect that Trump has paid to them and to their military leaders," Kirby told CNN's Poppy Harlow on "CNN Newsroom." "It was an inappropriate for him to do from a protocol perspective, but now he's played right into the North's propaganda about their legitimacy on the world stage."
Kirby said the appropriate thing for Trump to do in that situation would have been to nod his head and shake the general's hand.
"(Trump's) the commander in chief. He doesn't even salute his own generals. They salute him. That's the way it works. You don't certainly don't do it with leaders of foreign military and you most certainly don't do it with the leaders of foreign militaries of an adversary nation."

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 19:41 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Ja op uitnodiging van Assad. Dat is wel een verschil.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 19:41 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Ja op uitnodiging van Assad. Dat is wel een verschil.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 19:06 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Volgens mij zijn de Russen een stuk aanweziger in Syrië dan de Amerikanen.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 19:45 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
Protocol is a bitch.

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Captain Bone Spurs

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 20:16 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Je ziet Kim en die generaal ook kijken, van WTF.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 20:18 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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De cameraman heeft vast een extra bord rijst gekregen.

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Op donderdag 14 juni 2018 19:45 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:
Protocol is a bitch.

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Captain Bone Spurs

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 20:13:20 Jim Baker, former general counsel for the FBI, said "the discussion was somebody in New York will leak this" prior to Comey sending his letter to Congress reopening the Clinton probe.Page said there were suspicions that the NY office was leaking Clinton Foundation stories. https://t.co/KWlJAg48wd reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 14-06-2018 om 20:25:54 YES! This is EXACTLY what I wrote about... in December 2016. It's all out in the open, now. https://t.co/2Pc7SnIz0J reageer retweet