[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #530 America's Baby President

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 18:10 schreef MichieldeRuyter het volgende:

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Zou zo maar kunnen, maar dat kan je niet op basis van de door jou geposte peilingen zeggen. En dat is wel wat je deed. Onzinnige duiding dus

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 18:10 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Kerel, je post peilingen voor de presidentsverkiezingen in 2020. Dat terwijl de Democraten nog geen kandidaat hebben aangewezen.

Het heeft totaal geen toegevoegde waarde.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 18:00 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Ik plaats de peilingen omdat ik en sommige andere het wel leuk en/of interessant vinden. Als jij er geen behoefte aan hebt, reageer dan niet.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 18:13 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Ik weet dat de meeste hier zich nu willen richten op de midterms en pas na de midterms, wanneer de kandidaten zich verkiesbaar stellen(begin 2019), over 2020 willen praten. Maar 2020 is gewoon interessant.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 18:13 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Ik weet dat de meeste hier zich nu willen richten op de midterms en pas na de midterms, wanneer de kandidaten zich verkiesbaar stellen(begin 2019), over 2020 willen praten. Maar 2020 is gewoon interessant.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 18:56 schreef Szura het volgende:
‘Is Russia still targeting the US?’
Trump: No.


En weer z’n inlichtingendiensten afvallen, die gek.

http://www.msnbc.com/msnb(...)ing-us-1280310851661

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 19:08 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Hij bedoelde denk ik Yes

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'Trump's son should be concerned': FBI obtained wiretaps of Putin ally who met with Trump Jr.

The FBI has obtained secret wiretaps collected by Spanish police of conversations involving Alexander Torshin, a deputy governor of Russia’s Central Bank who has forged close ties with U.S. lawmakers and the National Rifle Association, that led to a meeting with Donald Trump Jr. during the gun lobby’s annual convention in Louisville, Ky., in May 2016, a top Spanish prosecutor said Friday.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 19:29 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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A joint investigation by BuzzFeed News and partners has uncovered new information that rewrites the story of the fake news boom in the Macedonian town of Veles.

A week before Election Day in 2016, BuzzFeed News revealed that young men and teens in Veles were running over a hundred websites that pumped out often false viral stories that supported Donald Trump.

Media outlets from around the world descended upon Veles to tell the story of how the so-called fake news teens — many of whom had a shaky understanding of English — made large sums of money from digital ads shown next to their misleading stories about US politics.

But after reviewing social media posts, government records, domain registry information, and archived versions of fake news sites, as well as interviewing key players, BuzzFeed News, the Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project, and the Investigative Reporting Lab Macedonia can now reveal that Veles’ political news industry was not started spontaneously by apolitical teens.

Rather, it was launched by a well-known Macedonian media attorney, Trajche Arsov — who worked closely with two high-profile American partners for at least six months during a period that overlapped with Election Day.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 20:26 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Als we dan toch gaan speculeren: ik zet mijn geld op Sherrod Brown. Als hij meedingt. Of anders Harris. De rest is te oud of te jong of heeft teveel bagage.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 20:24 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
Zo press briefing met HuckaSanders

Press Briefing with the Press Secretary Sarah Sanders

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 20:47 schreef Szura het volgende:
Via Reuters zie ik binnenlopen dat Sanders weer wat recht moet zetten

‘WH says Trump was saying ‘no’ to answering questions, not to whether Russia continues to target US’

‘WH says Trump believes that Russia would target US elections again’

Tuuuuuuuuuuuurlijk

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RobbieGramer twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 20:07:27 State prepared a fiery statement rebuking Russia on the 4th anniversary of the downing of MH17 amid the Trump-Putin firestorm. The statement never went out. Here’s a draft copy. My latest scoop @ak_mack https://t.co/CCygSFGtna reageer retweet

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Exclusive - State Department Silent on MH17 Anniversary Following Trump-Putin Firestorm
The department prepared to criticize Russia’s role in the 2014 downing of a civilian airliner over Ukraine, but the statement was never released.

Every year since a Russian missile downed Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 over Ukraine on July 17, 2014, killing all 298 passengers and crew, the U.S. State Department has issued a statement to mark the anniversary.

But on the anniversary this year—a day after U.S. President Donald Trump met in Helsinki with his Russian counterpart, Vladimir Putin—the State Department was conspicuously silent about it. (Foreign Policy).

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 21:01 schreef Nibb-it het volgende:
Sanders heeft het zwaar.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 21:01 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Geen zelfrespect, dat mens

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 20:47 schreef Szura het volgende:
Via Reuters zie ik binnenlopen dat Sanders weer wat recht moet zetten

‘WH says Trump was saying ‘no’ to answering questions, not to whether Russia continues to target US’

‘WH says Trump believes that Russia would target US elections again’

Tuuuuuuuuuuuurlijk

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 21:01:00 Sarah Sanders says that Trump was saying "no" to answering questions, but this video shows that Trump then answered the questions of other reporters. https://t.co/i1FV25kEdw reageer retweet

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JohnJHarwood twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 20:53:41 WH press sec Sanders acknowledged that Putin talked to Trump about his interest in prosecuting financier Bill Browder and former US ambassador Michael McFaul. she declined to rule out US cooperation in that effort, saying Trump would consult his national security team reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 21:16 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Ja, dat viel te verwachten. Putin wil Browder maar wat graag in z'n handen krijgen en het boeit Trump geen flikker waarom.

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The biggest mistake that Putin made in his offer today to effectively swap me for the 12 Russian agents is that he went to the wrong head of state. Although I was born in America, I emigrated to the United Kingdom 29 years ago and am a British citizen. If he really wants me, he better go talk to Theresa May, who might have a few choice words for him after Russian agents spread the military-grade nerve agent Novichok across the cathedral town of Salisbury, England.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 20:34 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Harris leek mij altijd wel een goede. Maar heb haar te weinig gevolgd.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 21:47 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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De primary in California is nu naar Super Tuesday gehaald. Dat is goed voor haar kansen, aangezien ze die waarschijnlijk wint en dan heeft ze in één keer een hele hoop delegates en momentum. Denk ook dat een vrouw goed gaat scoren, daar zit echt een hele hoop energie bij Democraten. Bovendien is veel van het primary publiek bij de Democraten in de zuidelijke staten Afro-Amerikaan, en daar heeft ze ook een voordeel (tenzij Booker ook mee doet, of iemand anders met die achtergrond). Haar posities zijn misschien iets te centristisch maar ik denk dat haar persoonlijkheid en achtergrond dat deels goedmaakt.

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badler twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 16:21:55 "Montenegro says a group of Serb and Russian nationalists had a plan to attack state institutions on the day of an election last year and kill then-Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic," https://t.co/2yLI9w1oGT reageer retweet

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mattyglesias twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 16:23:07 It’s weird that Donald Trump had a long private meeting with Vladimir Putin and suddenly emerged with a newfound interest in undermining US security guarantees to Montenegro. https://t.co/I8msFXPN26 reageer retweet

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The trial of 14 people in Montenegro accused of an election day plot to kill the prime minister and bring a pro-Russian party to power began on Wednesday, with defense lawyers demanding the state prosecutor be removed from the case.

Montenegro says a group of Serb and Russian nationalists had a plan to attack state institutions on the day of an election last year and kill then-Prime Minister Milo Djukanovic, who held the post for a total of 21 years.

The Kremlin has dismissed the accusation as absurd. Montenegro’s opposition accuses the government of fabricating the plot in order to keep Djukanovic and his Democratic Party of Socialists in power, which it did by a narrow win.

“This is a politically staged process,” said an aide to Andrija Mandic, one of two pro-Russian opposition leaders on trial.

The defendants include 2 Russians, 9 Serbians and 3 Montenegrins, of which four are being tried in absentia. Among them are two Russian nationals accused of masterminding the plot.

At the first hearing on Wednesday, defense lawyers called for state prosecutor Milivoj Katnic to be dismissed from the case after his office published a transcript of a conversation between a defendant and his lawyer on its website on Monday.

“It is clear that after this the prosecutor has to stop working on this case,” said Mandic’s lawyer, Miroje Jovanovic.

A spokeswoman at the state prosecutor’s office denied to comment.

Montenegro says one of the aims of the coup attempt was to prevent it from joining NATO, which it did in June this year.

Montenegro and other countries in the region fear meddling from Moscow to further what they believe is a Russian foreign policy of expansion.

No date has been set for the next hearing.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 21:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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JohnJHarwood twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 20:53:41 WH press sec Sanders acknowledged that Putin talked to Trump about his interest in prosecuting financier Bill Browder and former US ambassador Michael McFaul. she declined to rule out US cooperation in that effort, saying Trump would consult his national security team reageer retweet

Wow ... just ... wow...

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McFaul twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 22:27:51 I hope the White House corrects the record and denounces in categorical terms this ridiculous request from Putin. Not doing so creates moral equivalency between a legitimacy US indictment of Russian intelligence officers and a crazy, completely fabricated story invented by Putin https://t.co/K1ZvrNwTu3 reageer retweet

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waltshaub twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 23:08:58 This is stunning, outrageous and very very dangerous. The thought that the president would commit to even considering turning a former US Ambassador over to Russia -- in connection with his federal service, no less -- is amazing even for this administration. Where is Congress?! https://t.co/udHOzs5sA7 reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 22:35 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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McFaul twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 22:27:51 I hope the White House corrects the record and denounces in categorical terms this ridiculous request from Putin. Not doing so creates moral equivalency between a legitimacy US indictment of Russian intelligence officers and a crazy, completely fabricated story invented by Putin https://t.co/K1ZvrNwTu3 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 22:40:12 The State Department prepared a draft statement that was sharply critical of Russia for its alleged role in the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. But for reasons the State Department has not explained, it was never issued, Foreign Policy reports. https://t.co/pC3oZ39IFD reageer retweet

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A federal judge on Wednesday denied a request by President Donald Trump’s former campaign manager Paul Manafort to suppress evidence seized by the FBI from his home as part of Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s ongoing probe into whether Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign colluded with Russia.

Manafort’s lawyers had sought to limit the scope of evidence that prosecutors can rely on for his upcoming September trial in Washington, D.C., claiming that the search warrant was overly broad and unconstitutional.

“Given the nature of the investigation, the warrant was not too broad in scope,” wrote Judge Amy Berman Jackson for the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in her ruling.

Wednesday’s decision marks the latest in a string of setbacks for Manafort, who is facing two criminal trials in Washington and neighboring Alexandria, Va. in connection with lobbying work he performed for the pro-Russia Ukrainian government.

His Virginia trial is slated to begin next week, though his lawyers are seeking to delay it and will argue for the delay in a hearing on July 23 before Judge T.S. Ellis for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Between the two cases, he faces a slew of charges ranging from bank and tax fraud, to conspiring to launder money and failing to register as a foreign agent for Ukraine.

He is currently being held in an Alexandria jail, after Jackson revoked his bail after prosecutors filed new charges alleging he was trying to tamper with witnesses while under house arrest.

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SethAbramson twitterde op donderdag 19-07-2018 om 01:47:09 FYI: from a defense attorney's standpoint, loss of a critical Motion to Suppress is often what compels a defendant to enter a plea agreement rather than proceed to trial. https://t.co/tHsbNgqLIu reageer retweet

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ZoeTillman twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 23:36:19 Govt has provided exhibits shown today at Maria Butina's hearing — handwritten list referring to Russian FSB, photo of Butina at a restaurant with an expelled Russian diplomat, and Butina at the Capitol on Inauguration Day. Prev: https://t.co/1TRABDBimV https://t.co/7E8gW6ypRo reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 18-07-2018 om 23:39:13 Interesting that she wrote those notes in English. https://t.co/IrTLPPdS9z reageer retweet

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Two days after President Trump’s summit with Russian President Vladi­mir Putin, Russian officials offered a string of assertions about what the two leaders had achieved.

“Important verbal agreements” were reached at the Helsinki meeting, Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Anatoly Antonov, told reporters in Moscow Wednesday, including preservation of the New Start and INF agreements, major bilateral arms control treaties whose futures have been in question. Antonov also said that Putin had made “specific and interesting proposals to Washington” on how the two countries could cooperate on Syria.

But officials at the most senior levels across the U.S. military, scrambling since Monday to determine what Trump may have agreed to on national security issues in Helsinki, had little to no information Wednesday.

At the Pentagon, as press officers remained unable to answer media questions about how the summit might impact the military, the paucity of information exposed an awkward gap in internal administration communications. The uncertainty surrounding Moscow’s suggestion of some sort of new arrangement or proposal regarding Syria, in particular, was striking because Gen. Joseph Votel, who heads U.S. Central Command, is scheduled to brief reporters on Syria and other matters Thursday.

Current and former officials said it’s not unusual for it to take at least several days for aides to finalize and distribute internal memos documenting high-level conversations. Adding to the delay in the case of Trump’s Russia summit is the fact that the president’s longest encounter with Putin, a two hour-plus session, included no other officials or note-takers, just interpreters.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 19-07-2018 om 03:00:00 The Trump admin has summoned at least 70 infants to immigration court for their own deportation proceedings since Oct. 1, Texas Tribune reports.These are children who need frequent touching and naps every few hours. Some were of breastfeeding age. https://t.co/NtWgLBueWv reageer retweet

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When a Mexican company bought Mid Continent Nail Corp. in 2012, workers at the factory here feared it was the beginning of the end. Their jobs, they suspected, would be given to lower-paid workers in Mexico, more casualties of the hollowing out of U.S. manufacturing driven in part by an embrace of global trade.

Instead, Mid Continent’s factory has doubled in size since Deacero’s purchase. The company, facing fewer restrictions on steel exports after the North American Free Trade Agreement, shipped steel into Missouri, willing to pay skilled workers more to take advantage of cheaper energy costs in the United States and a location that allowed swift delivery to U.S. customers.

But President Trump has put 25 percent tariffs on steel imports, bumping production costs and prompting Deacero to reconsider this arrangement. With Mid Continent charging more for nails, orders are down 70 percent from this time a year ago despite a booming construction industry. Company officials say that without relief, the Missouri plant could be out of business by Labor Day — or that remaining production could move to Mexico or another country.

And so trade restrictions aimed at preventing U.S. jobs from heading to Mexico and elsewhere have instead hampered a Mexican company’s multimillion-dollar effort to create jobs in the United States — an unintended consequence of Trump’s trade war that demonstrates the difficulty of attacking trading partners without hurting workers at home.

The layoffs have already begun. The company now employs fewer than 400 workers, down from about 500 before the tariffs took effect last month. Temporary contract workers have been let go. Some permanent workers have left for other jobs, in anticipation of a new wave of employment losses or the possible shuttering of the plant.

“We’re in a situation where we’re fighting against our own country,” said Chris Pratt, operations general manager at Mid Continent. “It seems like a battle we shouldn’t be having to fight.”

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Two weeks before his inauguration, Donald J. Trump was shown highly classified intelligence indicating that President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia had personally ordered complex cyberattacks to sway the 2016 American election.

The evidence included texts and emails from Russian military officers and information gleaned from a top-secret source close to Mr. Putin, who had described to the C.I.A. how the Kremlin decided to execute its campaign of hacking and disinformation.

Mr. Trump sounded grudgingly convinced, according to several people who attended the intelligence briefing. But ever since, Mr. Trump has tried to cloud the very clear findings that he received on Jan. 6, 2017, which his own intelligence leaders have unanimously endorsed.

The shifting narrative underscores the degree to which Mr. Trump regularly picks and chooses intelligence to suit his political purposes. That has never been more clear than this week.

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Op woensdag 18 juli 2018 19:11 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Yesn't.

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Op donderdag 19 juli 2018 08:17 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
Trump: Defending NATO ally Montenegro could mean ‘World War III’

Waar komt deze Montenegro shit ineens vandaan?

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Op donderdag 19 juli 2018 08:20 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Normaal van Fox, maar nu zit hij bij Fox, dus ik heb geen idee.

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Op donderdag 19 juli 2018 08:17 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
Trump: Defending NATO ally Montenegro could mean ‘World War III’

Waar komt deze Montenegro shit ineens vandaan?