[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #531 Sic Semper Tyrannis

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Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 17:39 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:
Blijft het apart vinden dat hij over zichzelf spreekt in de derde persoon.

"The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong!"

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Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 19:22 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:

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Hij praat dan over Putin.

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theintercept twitterde op zaterdag 21-07-2018 om 18:45:06 Ecuador will imminently withdraw asylum for @JulianAssange and hand him over to the UK. What comes next? https://t.co/UKx11G6I78 by @ggreenwald reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 21-07-2018 om 19:42:42 Assange is about to become the most hunted man in the world. Putin (and, I suspect, if he can't find a way to pardon him, Trump) wants him dead. Mueller wants him to flip. The Swedes no longer want him for rape, so now the UK must figure out what to do. First job: keep him alive. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 19:31 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Ik hoorde zojuist dit van Salman Rushdie: "Sometimes, the work of art is vastly more intelligent than the artist". Hij refereerde hiermee aan de overwinning van Trump in 2016 . Vond ik wel gevat.

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a_cormier_ twitterde op zaterdag 21-07-2018 om 18:50:50 UPDATE: The Cohen-Trump tapes seized by FBI were among the items shielded by attorney-client privilege. But it was Trump side that waived the privilege, not Cohen. Not sure I understand this strategy; seems to have backfired on WH. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 21-07-2018 om 19:22:39 Yesterday I said Team Trump might have allowed this tape (or a summary of it) into the public sphere because it *knew* the tape would get out eventually and wanted to start spinning now. It appears I was right. This is a desperate gambit you only use when there's no other option. https://t.co/h6xEj9hFep reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 20:16 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
De Trump/Cohen-tape is wsl opzettelijk openbaar gemaakt door Trump&Co.

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a_cormier_ twitterde op zaterdag 21-07-2018 om 18:50:50 UPDATE: The Cohen-Trump tapes seized by FBI were among the items shielded by attorney-client privilege. But it was Trump side that waived the privilege, not Cohen. Not sure I understand this strategy; seems to have backfired on WH. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 21-07-2018 om 19:22:39 Yesterday I said Team Trump might have allowed this tape (or a summary of it) into the public sphere because it *knew* the tape would get out eventually and wanted to start spinning now. It appears I was right. This is a desperate gambit you only use when there's no other option. https://t.co/h6xEj9hFep reageer retweet

En het leidt natuurlijk ook lekker af van het Helsinki-fiasco

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Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 20:32 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Maar hoe kan je dit spinnen? Wat mis ik dan?

"Kijk mij eens oneerlijk behandeld zijn door Cohen, die man is niet te vertrouwen?"

Zoiets?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 21-07-2018 om 14:10:58 Inconceivable that the government would break into a lawyer’s office (early in the morning) - almost unheard of. Even more inconceivable that a lawyer would tape a client - totally unheard of & perhaps illegal. The good news is that your favorite President did nothing wrong! reageer retweet

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LannyDavis twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 23:14:08 Obviously, there is an ongoing investigation, and we are sensitive to that. But suffice it to say that when the recording is heard, it will not hurt @MichaelCohen212. Any attempt at spin can not change what is on the tape. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 16:21 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Als hij zijn vrouw gedrogeerd heeft om tegen haar wil seks te hebben en dit opgenomen, dan is dat weer een nieuwe zaak waarmee ze hem kunnen flippen.

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Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 21:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het mag in New York.

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Op zaterdag 21 juli 2018 21:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het mag in New York.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 22-07-2018 om 00:40:06 The Rigged Witch Hunt, headed by the 13 Angry Democrats (and now 4 more have been added, one who worked directly for Obama W.H.), seems intent on damaging the Republican Party’s chances in the November Election. This Democrat excuse for losing the ‘16 Election never ends! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 22-07-2018 om 00:50:38 No Collusion, No Obstruction - but that doesn’t matter because the 13 Angry Democrats, who are only after Republicans and totally protecting Democrats, want this Witch Hunt to drag out to the November Election. Republicans better get smart fast and expose what they are doing! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 00:56 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 22-07-2018 om 00:40:06 The Rigged Witch Hunt, headed by the 13 Angry Democrats (and now 4 more have been added, one who worked directly for Obama W.H.), seems intent on damaging the Republican Party’s chances in the November Election. This Democrat excuse for losing the ‘16 Election never ends! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 22-07-2018 om 00:50:38 No Collusion, No Obstruction - but that doesn’t matter because the 13 Angry Democrats, who are only after Republicans and totally protecting Democrats, want this Witch Hunt to drag out to the November Election. Republicans better get smart fast and expose what they are doing! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 00:59 schreef Treinhomo het volgende:

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Als advocaat een gesprek met je cliënt opnemen.

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 01:01 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Nee.

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 01:05 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Huh wat, mag dat niet volgens jou?

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 01:09 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Opnames maken in een vertrouwelijk gesprek, nee natuurlijk niet.

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 01:22 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Waarom zou dat niet mogen dan? En bedoel je moreel of juridisch?

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 01:24 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Juridisch, moreel doet er niet toe.

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 01:09 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

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Opnames maken in een vertrouwelijk gesprek, nee natuurlijk niet.

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 01:44 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Volgens mij is NY een one party consent state, wat inhoudt dat maar één partij (de opnemende partij dus) toestemming hoeft te geven voor het opnemen van gesprekken. Wel heb je als advocaat natuurlijk een geheimhoudingsplicht maar daar is uitgebreid naar gekeken in deze zaak.

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pwnallthethings twitterde op zondag 22-07-2018 om 00:38:16 The full 412 page FISA application for surveillance directed against Carter W. Page, pursuant to Title I of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, released under FOIA. https://t.co/guq8lxK6ik reageer retweet

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In private, Trump vents frustration over lack of progress on North Korea

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Diplomats say the North Koreans have canceled follow-up meetings, demanded more money and failed to maintain basic communications, even as the once-isolated regime’s engagements with China and South Korea flourish.

Meanwhile, a missile-engine testing facility that Trump said would be destroyed remains intact, and U.S. intelligence officials say Pyongyang is working to conceal key aspects of its nuclear program.

The lack of immediate progress, though predicted by many analysts, has frustrated the president, who has fumed at his aides in private even as he publicly hails the success of the negotiations.

“Discussions are ongoing and they’re going very well,” Trump told reporters Tuesday.

The accounts of internal administration dynamics come from conversations with a half-dozen White House aides, State Department officials and diplomats, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the sensitive ­negotiations.

Officials say Trump has been captivated by the nuclear talks, asking staffers for daily updates on the status of the negotiations. His frustration with the lack of progress has been coupled with irritation about the media coverage of the joint statement he signed on June 12 in Singapore, a document that contains no timeline or specifics on denuclearization but has reduced tensions between the two countries.

“Trump has been hit with a strong dose of reality of North Korea’s negotiating style, which is always hard for Americans to ­understand,” said Duyeon Kim, a Korea expert at the Center for a New American Security.

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But when Pompeo arrived in Pyongyang, the North Koreans insisted they were still not ready to commit to specific plans, according to diplomats familiar with the discussions.

The delay angered U.S. officials, who were under pressure to ­deliver given Trump’s premature ­announcement on June 20 that North Korea had already “sent back” the remains of 200 soldiers.

The sentiment worsened when Kim Jong Un chose not to meet with Pompeo during his stay as had been expected. Pompeo later denied that a meeting was planned, a claim contradicted by diplomats who said the secretary initially intended to see the North Korean leader.

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On Wednesday, Trump said he secured a commitment from Russia to “help” with the North Korea issue. “The process is moving along,” he tweeted. “Big benefits and exciting future for North Korea at end of process!”

But late last week in meetings with his aides, Trump bristled about the lack of positive developments in the negotiations. And on Friday at the United Nations, his ambassador, Nikki Haley, accused Russia of blocking efforts to discipline North Korea’s illegal smuggling.

Trump and his senior team “haven’t given up entirely” on the goal of full denuclearization, but they are worried, said one person familiar with the discussions.

Climbing down from earlier soaring rhetoric, Trump told CBS this week that “I’m in no real rush. I mean whatever it takes, it takes,” he said.

That more patient approach stands in contrast to earlier Trump administration demands for North Korea to dismantle its nuclear program within a year.

“Trump is too vested to walk away right now,” said Victor Cha, a North Korea expert who the Trump administration nearly selected to be the next U.S. ambassador to Seoul. “At least until after the midterms.”

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Bron: WaPo

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Trump’s Putin fallout: Inside the White House’s tumultuous week of walk-backs

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The trouble started Monday in Helsinki, though the magnitude did not set in for Trump for several hours. Delighted with his own performance, he stepped offstage after his freewheeling, 46-minute news conference alongside Putin — in which he seemed to accept Putin’s denial of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election campaign over the conclusions of U.S. intelligence agencies. The president felt he had shown strength, an impression buoyed by two friendly interviews he did with Fox News Channel personalities before boarding Air Force One to return home from the Nordic capital.

But roughly an hour into the flight, Trump’s mood darkened and grim reality set in as he consumed almost universally negative cable news coverage and aides began reviewing pages upon pages of printed-out statements from fellow Republicans lambasting the president. Trump called his former chief of staff, Reince Priebus, to discuss the trip and his news conference, and he also huddled with White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders in his cabin at the front of the plane to strategize.

Much of the initial scrutiny focused on Trump’s taking the side of Putin over his own intelligence community, so Trump and his aides first settled on the president’s sending a tweet that reiterated, “I have GREAT confidence in MY intelligence people.”

But that did not silence the uproar, and aides knew they had a big problem.

Trump himself was flummoxed. He waxed on about his impressions of Putin up close — strong, smart and cunning, in Trump’s assessment — and told associates that he viewed the Russian as a formidable adversary with whom he relishes interactions. He also was furious with the negative media coverage of a summit that he felt had been a clear success. And he complained to some about what he viewed as an undercovered angle of the election controversy: That the Democratic National Committee allowed its server to be hacked.

Trump further grumbled about the tough question he was asked by Jonathan Lemire, an Associated Press correspondent, wondering why that reporter had been called on rather than someone who might have asked an easier question.

Lemire asked whether Trump would denounce Russia’s election interference to Putin’s face, “with the whole world watching,” and the president demurred. Aides tried to explain to Trump that nearly any journalist would have asked a similarly pointed question in that moment.

But, as one White House official said, “If you don’t like the answer, you don’t like the question.”

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Clouding Trump’s judgment all week has been his apparent inability to distinguish between Russian “meddling,” of which there is overwhelming evidence, and Russian “collusion” with the Trump campaign, which special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is still investigating, and which the president insists did not happen.

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But there was another problem for the administration. Sanders was questioned about Putin’s proposal that Mueller visit Moscow to interrogate Russian hacking suspects in exchange for Russians’ interrogating U.S. officials, including former ambassador to Russia Michael McFaul. Trump had called Putin’s proposal an “interesting idea,” and Sanders did not rule it out — even though the State Department had dismissed it as “absurd.”

“The president will work with his team and we’ll let you know if there’s an announcement on that front,” said Sanders, who was careful not to declare policy from the lectern before first discussing the matter with Trump.

The episode revealed a naivete on the part of the president. White House aides fretted that Trump did not recognize the massive diplomatic and security implications of turning Americans over to an autocratic regime that jails and kills dissidents. State Department and National Security Council officials, and others, realized there would need to be another cleanup.

In a meeting Thursday morning, Trump’s national security team saw that the president was mostly focused on the sending-Mueller-to-Moscow part of the proposal — and not on a quid pro quo interrogation of a former U.S. ambassador. They focused him on the full scope of Putin’s suggestion, restating just why it was so problematic.

Later, after discussing the matter with Trump, Sanders issued the president’s final verdict, saying he disagreed with Putin’s proposal, which she said had been “made in sincerity.”

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Bron: WaPo

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 07:30 schreef Montov het volgende:
Nintex had het gisteren al over Page. Toeval? Of is hij QAnon?

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 09:04 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Volgens mij zijn de enige mensen die nu nog fan van Trump zijn, de neo nazi's, de House Republicans, en de mensen die op Reddit de hele gifbeker leeg aan het drinken zijn. Nintex lijkt me niet een van de eerste twee.

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 09:03 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 09:03 schreef Montov het volgende:

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The episode revealed a naivete on the part of the president. White House aides fretted that Trump did not recognize the massive diplomatic and security implications of turning Americans over to an autocratic regime that jails and kills dissidents. State Department and National Security Council officials, and others, realized there would need to be another cleanup.

In a meeting Thursday morning, Trump’s national security team saw that the president was mostly focused on the sending-Mueller-to-Moscow part of the proposal — and not on a quid pro quo interrogation of a former U.S. ambassador. They focused him on the full scope of Putin’s suggestion, restating just why it was so problematic.

Later, after discussing the matter with Trump, Sanders issued the president’s final verdict, saying he disagreed with Putin’s proposal, which she said had been “made in sincerity.”

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 12:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Dat Clinton Derangement Syndrome is wel erg hoor.

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 12:34 schreef Nintex het volgende:

Putin Goes ‘Off-Script’, Slams ‘Forces’ in the USA Undermining Russia Relations

Bizar, Putin die in eigen land de Trump visie volgt.

Nog nooit eerder gezien.

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 12:40 schreef Black_Baron het volgende:

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Hoezo is dat bizar? Putin heeft toch uitgesproken de voorkeur voor Trump te hebben als president. Logisch dat Putin hem steunt.

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pwnallthethings twitterde op zondag 22-07-2018 om 02:16:14 Seriously. DOJ made the claim during the FISA litigation battle over this application that the President's tweets weren't an official disclosure of the existence of a FISA application because litigants couldn't prove the President's tweets were based on any actual knowledge. reageer retweet

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Op zondag 22 juli 2018 12:52 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Openlijk in Rusland een Amerikaanse president steunen doen de talkshows nog niet eens.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 22-07-2018 om 12:28:40 Congratulations to @JudicialWatch and @TomFitton on being successful in getting the Carter Page FISA documents. As usual they are ridiculously heavily redacted but confirm with little doubt that the Department of “Justice” and FBI misled the courts. Witch Hunt Rigged, a Scam! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 22-07-2018 om 15:15:18 I had a GREAT meeting with Putin and the Fake News used every bit of their energy to try and disparage it. So bad for our country! reageer retweet

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In private, Trump vents frustration over lack of progress on North Korea


When he emerged from his summit with Kim Jong Un last month, President Trump triumphantly declared that North Korea no longer posed a nuclear threat and that one of the world’s most intractable geopolitical crises had been "largely solved."

But in the days and weeks since then, U.S. negotiators have faced stiff resistance from a North Korean team practiced in the art of delay and obfuscation.

Diplomats say the North Koreans have canceled follow-up meetings, demanded more money and failed to maintain basic communications, even as the once-isolated regime’s engagements with China and South Korea flourish.

Officials say Trump has been captivated by the nuclear talks, asking staffers for daily updates on the status of the negotiations. His frustration with the lack of progress has been coupled with irritation about the media coverage of the joint statement he signed on June 12 in Singapore, a document that contains no timeline or specifics on denuclearization but has reduced tensions between the two countries.