[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #531 Sic Semper Tyrannis

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 16:42:23 Here's an article by a guy who's given this feed a lot of sh*t since Trump's inauguration. https://t.co/EqJi5NXCrb reageer retweet

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When I wrote, back in February, that I was skeptical that President Donald Trump would ever be proved to have secretly colluded with Russia to sway the 2016 election in his favor, I mistyped.

What I meant to write was that I wasn’t skeptical.

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NatSecGeek twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 17:12:48 Today, I'm releasing a searchable transcript of over 285,000 #Manafort text messages that #WikiLeaks wouldn't publish. You can find the what, why and where at: https://t.co/SXFm4kxRg9 reageer retweet

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AndreaChalupa twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 16:30:38 Russian firm indicted in special counsel probe cites Kavanaugh decision to argue that charge should be dismissed https://t.co/wXKZG24gHY reageer retweet

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A Russian company accused by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III of being part of an online operation to disrupt the 2016 presidential campaign is leaning in part on a decision by Supreme Court nominee Brett M. Kavanaugh to argue that the charge against it should be thrown out.

The 2011 decision by Kavanaugh, writing for a three-judge panel, concerned the role that foreign nationals may play in U.S. elections. It upheld a federal law that said foreigners temporarily in the country may not donate money to candidates, contribute to political parties and groups or spend money advocating for or against candidates. But it did not rule out letting foreigners spend money on independent advocacy campaigns.

Kavanaugh “went out of his way to limit the decision,” said Daniel A. Petalas, a Washington lawyer and former interim general counsel for the Federal Election Commission.

A motion filed by the Russian company this week repeatedly cites Kavanaugh’s decision, bringing new attention to his rulings on campaign finance laws and regulations during his tenure on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 17:32 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
Ik snap de importheffingen tegenover China echt niet.

Dat gaat zo belachelijk veel schade doen aan de VS. en vooral de kleinere bedrijven, maar zeker ook de grote franchises.

Al dat handeltekort is toch niet negatief, dat betekent gewoon dat je goedkoper in het buitenland koopt. So fucking what? En Trump heeft nooit anders gedaan, petjes, goedkope mexicaanse arbeiders om zijn torens te bouwen, etc etc

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 18:04 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://twitter.com/maggieNYT/status/1020333479761006592?s=19

Lordy, there is a tape....And the FBI has it...

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When The Wall Street Journal revealed the existence of the payment days before the election, Mr. Trump’s campaign spokeswoman, Hope Hicks, said, “We have no knowledge of any of this.” She said Ms. McDougal’s claim of an affair was “totally untrue.” NYT

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 18:34 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Even vrij vertaald zegt Guiliani dat Trump de betalingen met Cohen heeft besproken, maar dat deze betalingen niet hebben plaatsgevonden. Vervolgens zegt hij dat Trump er vooraf geen kennis van had, maar dat hij wel heeft gezegd om checks te gebruiken in plaats van cash.

Ben ik nu zo dom, of spreekt hij zichzelf binnen dezelfde alinea nog tegen?

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 19:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dit gaat wel groot worden denk ik. Als Trump en Cohen samenzweerden om illegale dingen te doen en het staat op tape heeft Trump wat uit te leggen.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 19:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dit gaat wel groot worden denk ik. Als Trump en Cohen samenzweerden om illegale dingen te doen en het staat op tape heeft Trump wat uit te leggen.

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 19:18:41 21/ Giuliani is now reporting to CNN Trump's reaction to all this: "I can't believe Michael would do this to me."Why the *hell* does Rudy Giuliani keep breaching attorney-client privilege?Or allow Trump to *convince* him (Giuliani) to release these *inculpatory* exclamations? reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 18:16:38 What I'm saying is this new recording may well be evidence of Trump committing a crime. In the final stretch of a presidential campaign, he explicitly authorized what was almost certainly a payoff by check via a shell corporation that would constitute a violation of election law. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 20:08 schreef OMG het volgende:
Knap dat hij de uitkomst van een lopend onderzoek al weet.

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APWestRegion twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 02:40:35 Flag on fire: A small crowd that gathered to support Democratic US Rep. Maxine Waters in LA pulled a flag from a passing pickup truck and burned it after chanting 'black power.' https://t.co/csQZW9YrTX reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 20:28 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Wel leuk om te zien dat Leon de Winter op reddit rondhangt .

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Bij de gesprekken achter gesloten deuren tussen Trump en Poetin zat aan Trumps kant van de tafel niet alleen de meedogenloze machtsdenker John Bolton maar ook Fiona Hill, een van de scherpste en best geïnformeerde Poetin-critici in de wereld.

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A story on Facebook said Lisa Page testified that her former bosses at the FBI instructed her to cover-up the fact that China, not Russia, hacked the Democratic National Committee server. But that isn't substantiated at all.

"Lisa Page squeals: DNC server was not hacked by Russians," said the July 17 headline by Your News Wire which frequently publishes fake news.

This story was flagged as part Facebook’s efforts to combat false news and misinformation on its News Feed. (Read more about our partnership with Facebook.) We found no credible evidence to back up the headline.

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Op vrijdag 20 juli 2018 21:03 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
No evidence that former FBI lawyer Lisa Page blamed the Chinese for DNC hack

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 21:15:15 WSJ reports that Michael Cohen taped that Playboy model payment conversation "in person" with Trump.The recording of the conversation cut off before the conversation ended, sources tell WSJ.https://t.co/nUY2dkCrsr reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 21:35:03 Kristin Davis, the Manhattan Madam who went to prison and was connected to Eliot Spitzer, has reportedly been subpoenaed by Robert Mueller, according to TMZ.Davis worked for former Trump aide Roger Stone for a decade. https://t.co/qrfn8MUaBe reageer retweet

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dabeard twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 20:12:04 Before he was president: #Trump had cocaine at sex parties with 14- and 15 yo girls, reports @BBC @BBCPanorama h/t @yashar https://t.co/hffJ2YAom9 reageer retweet

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Republicans have agreed to water down legislation designed to punish Chinese telecom company ZTE, delivering a victory to President Donald Trump, according to a person close to negotiations in Congress.

Lawmakers reconciling House and Senate versions of a must-pass defense bill chose to go with the House approach of excluding ZTE from U.S. government contracts but leaving it free to do business with private companies in the United States. The Senate-passed version of the defense bill would have restored a full U.S. ban on ZTE that the Trump administration imposed but then lifted.

"By stripping the Senate’s tough ZTE sanctions provision from the defense bill, President Trump — and the Congressional Republicans who acted at his behest — have once again made President Xi and the Chinese Government the big winners and the American worker and our national security the big losers,” Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer said in a statement Friday.

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The Trump administration's push to accommodate ZTE — which U.S. officials for years have warned could provide China with a vehicle for cyber-espionage and intellectual property theft — sparked heavy resistance from members of both parties. Republicans like Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas and Marco Rubio of Florida joined with Democrats like Schumer and Sen. Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts in warning about ZTE's threat to national security.

They supported the Senate's ZTE provision, passed by a vote of 85-10 in June, which would require the president to certify that Chinese telecoms had not violated U.S. law for a full year and cooperated with U.S. investigators before granting relief from civil penalties.

Rubio on Friday called the decision to drop the Senate's approach a "cave" and suggested it was a part of a trade-off between lawmakers and Trump administration officials on language to broaden the powers of the Committee on Foreign Investment in the U.S.

“So chances that a #China controlled [telecom] will not just stay in business, but do so here inside the U.S. sadly just went up," he tweeted.

But Republican leaders like Majority Whip John Cornyn appeared eager to avoid a showdown with Trump over the issue. And Trump supporters like David Perdue (R-Ga.) argued against congressional intervention, saying they did not want to tie the president’s hands amid his broader trade negotiations with China.

Final language on the defense bill has yet to be unveiled, but lawmakers say they hope to wrap up overall negotiations on the measure by the end of July.

The uncertainty surrounding U.S. policy on ZTE has caused the company's stock price to gyrate in recent months. The Chinese telecom is the the fourth-largest vendor of mobile phones in the U.S. and buys many of its component parts from U.S. chipmakers.

The Commerce Department this month officially lifted the ban on ZTE after the company put $400 million in an escrow account that the U.S. would draw from if any further violations occur.