SPOILER

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

SPOILER

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

SPOILER

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).

SPOILER

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

twitter:

adamcbest twitterde op zaterdag 21-07-2018 om 19:51:25 Neo-confederate Republican Corey Stewart gets laughed at by Tim Kaine and the entire audience at the #VASen debate after his embarrassing claim that Donald Trump "is standing up to the Russians." reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 13:09:39 .....”Carter Page wasn’t a spy, wasn’t an agent of the Russians - he would have cooperated with the FBI. It was a fraud and a hoax designed to target Trump.” Tom Fitton @JudicialWatch A disgrace to America. They should drop the discredited Mueller Witch Hunt now! reageer retweet

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 14:00 schreef archito het volgende:
Zou Nixon ook zo getwitterd hebben toen hij in het nauw kwam?

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 14:25:02 When you hear the Fake News talking negatively about my meeting with President Putin, and all that I gave up, remember, I gave up NOTHING, we merely talked about future benefits for both countries. Also, we got along very well, which is a good thing, except for the Corrupt Media! reageer retweet

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 14:00 schreef archito het volgende:
Zou Nixon ook zo getwitterd hebben toen hij in het nauw kwam?

quote:

Wages were supposed to rise. Instead, they’ve fallen.

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 13:21 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 13:09:39 .....”Carter Page wasn’t a spy, wasn’t an agent of the Russians - he would have cooperated with the FBI. It was a fraud and a hoax designed to target Trump.” Tom Fitton @JudicialWatch A disgrace to America. They should drop the discredited Mueller Witch Hunt now! reageer retweet

Die gast is echt zwaar in paniek. Belachelijk figuur.

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 15:01 schreef Black_Baron het volgende:

[..]

Ben bang dat ie een oorlog gaat starten om het te overschreeuwen.

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 14:28 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 14:25:02 When you hear the Fake News talking negatively about my meeting with President Putin, and all that I gave up, remember, I gave up NOTHING, we merely talked about future benefits for both countries. Also, we got along very well, which is a good thing, except for the Corrupt Media! reageer retweet

Oh.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 15:06:18 A Rocket has not been launched by North Korea in 9 months. Likewise, no Nuclear Tests. Japan is happy, all of Asia is happy. But the Fake News is saying, without ever asking me (always anonymous sources), that I am angry because it is not going fast enough. Wrong, very happy! reageer retweet

Happy, happy!

twitter:

BillKristol twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 14:45:23 Trump must expect and fear, and indeed seems to be panicking about, forthcoming bad news in the Russia investigation. Are new indictments imminent—this time of Americans? What’s in the other Cohen tapes? Has Manafort flipped? https://t.co/ftqfi4sZJX reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 15:21:15 The Amazon Washington Post has gone crazy against me ever since they lost the Internet Tax Case in the U.S. Supreme Court two months ago. Next up is the U.S. Post Office which they use, at a fraction of real cost, as their “delivery boy” for a BIG percentage of their packages.... reageer retweet

twitter:

SenSchumer twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 15:23:50 Mr. President, Paul Manafort’s trial starts on Wednesday. Time to side with the American people and their right to an election without interference from a hostile foreign power. https://t.co/sNhY7NFulO reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 15:35:20 ....In my opinion the Washington Post is nothing more than an expensive (the paper loses a fortune) lobbyist for Amazon. Is it used as protection against antitrust claims which many feel should be brought? reageer retweet

Butina Case Raises Questions On Russia's Role In Rex W. Tillerson Pick | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

quote:

Rachel Maddow highlights a portion of the charging document against accused Russian agent Mariia Butina in which there is a suggestion that Russians thought they had a say in Donald Trump's choice for secretary of state.

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 15:51 schreef Black_Baron het volgende:
Zijn er nog podcasts die jullie aanraden?

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 15:53 schreef Mike het volgende:

[..]

Pod Save America (maar die ken je wellicht al): https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-america/

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 17:03 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
De andere kant van het verhaal:

Obama intel chiefs gave Russia a pass
http://thehill.com/opinio(...)w-blame-donald-trump

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 17:03 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
De andere kant van het verhaal:

Obama intel chiefs gave Russia a pass
http://thehill.com/opinio(...)w-blame-donald-trump

quote:

Crowley has been listed by Politico as an individual connected to Donald Trump with Russian connections who potentially committed obstruction of justice.[2]

twitter:

RandPaul twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 13:42:38 Is John Brennan monetizing his security clearance? Is John Brennan making millions of dollars divulging secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on @realDonaldTrump ? reageer retweet

twitter:

RandPaul twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 13:42:38 Today I will meet with the President and I will ask him to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance! reageer retweet

quote:

Paul's request comes after Fox News host Tucker Carlson said last week that Brennan still had a security clearance despite not working for the federal government anymore.

Carlson, who called Brennan an "out-of-the-closet extremist," went on to call for his security clearance removed.

In addition, other lawmakers have started to attack Brennan.

House Judiciary Committee Chairman Bob Goodlatte (R-Va.) Sunday called for Brennan to testify on Capitol Hill for his role in the investigation of Russia in the 2016 election.

Goodlatte said it's "extremely disturbing" to see Brennan and former FBI Director James Comey "express the kind of extreme bias that they've shown now."

Bron

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 18:00 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

twitter:

RandPaul twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 13:42:38 Is John Brennan monetizing his security clearance? Is John Brennan making millions of dollars divulging secrets to the mainstream media with his attacks on @realDonaldTrump ? reageer retweet

twitter:

RandPaul twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 13:42:38 Today I will meet with the President and I will ask him to revoke John Brennan’s security clearance! reageer retweet

[..]

quote:

When Michael D. Cohen needed $17 million to buy a Manhattan apartment building in 2015, he went to Signature Bank.

Signature had existed for less than two decades, and compared with some of its New York rivals, it was a small player occupying unglamorous niches.

Yet it was a natural place to go for Mr. Cohen, who was Donald J. Trump’s personal lawyer. Years earlier, he had helped initiate a relationship between Signature and Mr. Trump, and the bank became an unlikely go-to lender for the future president and his extended family.

The bank lent money to Mr. Trump’s Florida golf course. It lent money to Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, and to Mr. Kushner’s father, Charles. It provided Mr. Trump and his business with checking accounts. And Ivanka Trump sat on Signature’s board of directors while the bank was lending to her father and her husband, Mr. Kushner.

Signature provides a window into the intersecting financial interests of Mr. Cohen and the Trump and Kushner families. With Ms. Trump and Mr. Kushner working in the White House, and Mr. Cohen under criminal investigation, Signature’s interactions with some of its most famous clients are attracting attention from regulators.

New York’s Department of Financial Services this year requested information from Signature about its credit lines to the Kushners, according to people familiar with the requests. They said regulators were reviewing whether Mr. Kushner’s White House role could compromise Signature’s ability to collect on the loans.

That review of Mr. Kushner’s loan documents led the New York regulators to broaden their inquiry, said one person, who was not authorized to speak publicly about the regulator’s activities. The agency is now looking into whether Signature lent money to real estate developers — including the Kushner family’s business, Kushner Companies — knowing they planned to use abusive tactics to push out low-rent tenants and then charge more, according to two people familiar with the review. It is focused on whether Signature’s loans were overly risky and violated laws intended to prevent predatory behavior.

The inquiry is at an early stage and might include banks other than Signature, the person said.

SPOILER

“We recognize we are not perfect,” Signature’s chairman, Scott A. Shay, said in a statement. “However, any allegation that we knowingly or somehow actively abet tenant harassment is frankly a slander against Signature Bank and an unfair impugning of the reputations of many hardworking colleagues who strive to be a positive force for not only our shareholders and depositors but our community as well.”

Signature announced on Friday that it was stepping up efforts to make sure its lending doesn’t lead to the displacement of tenants. The pledge drew praise from the Association for Neighborhood & Housing Development, a New York community group.

Last week, Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo of New York said the state was opening an investigation into allegations, filed in a lawsuit, that Kushner Companies illegally harassed low-rent tenants to get them to leave.

Christine Taylor, a Kushner Companies spokeswoman, said, “All our business with Signature Bank has been entirely appropriate.” She added that before Mr. Kushner joined the White House, “we never had these type of inquiries which appear to be solely for political reasons.”

Amanda Miller, a Trump Organization spokeswoman, played down the company’s relationship with Signature. “While the company has, from time to time, done some business with Signature Bank, those dealings were few and far between and limited in scope,” she said. (Other banks, such as Deutsche Bank, have done more business with the Trump Organization.)

Mr. Shay and Joseph DePaolo founded Signature in 1999 with backing from Israel’s biggest lender, Bank Hapoalim. One of Signature’s specialties was financing the purchase of taxi medallions, which authorize holders to operate cabs. Mr. Cohen had amassed a large portfolio of medallions and had borrowed money from bankers who later joined Signature.

Signature forged deep political connections — its board members have included a former Republican senator, Alfonse D’Amato, and a former New York lieutenant governor, Alfred B. DelBello, a Democrat. A former Democratic congressman, Barney Frank, joined the board in 2015.

The bank also became known for doing more than rivals to accommodate customers.

For example, Signature allowed some business clients to withdraw cash even when their accounts were empty, creating overdrafts of tens of thousands of dollars without formal loan agreements, according to a former employee and a client who said he routinely did this. That attracted clients with irregular cash flow.

In an interview at Signature’s Fifth Avenue headquarters, Mr. DePaolo, the bank’s chief executive, acknowledged that Signature did things that rivals wouldn’t. He said it was part of providing superior services to trustworthy customers. He and Mr. Shay said Signature complied with all banking rules.

Mr. Frank said Signature served a valuable role by financing housing for low- and middle-income tenants. “It’s very well run,” he said.

Before Mr. Trump became a Signature client, he fought the bank. The 2007 skirmish involved a construction company that Mr. Trump had hired to help build a golf course. After Mr. Trump refused to pay the company’s bills and sued it for subpar work, the company went bankrupt. It owed Signature money. Mr. Trump’s and Signature’s lawyers argued in court that their clients were both entitled to the same funds from the bankrupt company.

Mr. Trump and Signature settled in September 2009. Three months later, the Trump Organization started borrowing from Signature — thanks, at least in part, to Mr. Cohen.

Mr. Cohen had joined the Trump Organization in 2007 as an executive and was on the condominium board of Trump World Tower, across from the United Nations. In December 2009, Signature lent $800,000 to the building, managed by the Trump Organization, to refinance the mortgage on the superintendent’s apartment.

A former Signature employee said Mr. Cohen had helped arrange the loan. Signature executives say they have no record of Mr. Cohen’s involvement.

A long-term relationship between Signature and the Trump family ensued.

In 2010, the year after Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner married, Charles Kushner and his wife opened a Signature account, a bank spokeswoman said. That year, the Trump International Golf Club in Florida received two letters of credit from Signature totaling $212,000.

Signature in 2011 gave Charles and Jared Kushner a credit line from which they borrowed nearly $5 million that year, securities filings show.

In September 2011, Signature named Ms. Trump, who was 29, to its board. She was paid $198,875 in 2012 in cash and stock.

Mr. Shay said Ms. Trump had been invited onto the nine-member board as part of an effort to recruit younger directors and to give it a second woman.

“She was an active, engaged board member,” Mr. Shay said. “She read everything and asked questions if she didn’t understand.”

Giving seats on the board of a publicly traded company like Signature to people directly connected to large clients is generally frowned on.

“Directors should not have significant commercial relationships with institutions on whose boards they sit,” said Charles Elson, a professor of corporate governance at the University of Delaware. “You’re there to oversee operations and be objective. Your job is not to guarantee business for the bank or the company but to ensure effective oversight.”

Signature nonetheless designated Ms. Trump as an independent director and assigned her to board committees that set executive compensation and monitored risks.

The bank continued to do business with her family. It renewed credit lines to the Kushners, who by the end of 2012 owed the bank $4 million.

Mr. Shay said that Ms. Trump had recused herself from decisions involving her family and that the transactions hadn’t been large enough to compromise her independence.

With the benefit of hindsight, Mr. DePaolo said, “I almost regret that we had Ivanka on the board.” Mr. Shay added: “Had we known the identity of the 45th president, I think we would have thought twice. But that’s not to say she wasn’t a great board member.”

Ms. Trump stepped down from the board in early 2013 because of “her highly demanding schedule.” A White House spokesman didn’t respond to requests for comment about Ms. Trump’s role.

Five months later, Signature started making mortgage loans to Mr. Kushner’s company. Kushner Companies has received at least 21 mortgages from Signature, totaling more than $210 million. The loans were mostly for buildings in Manhattan and Brooklyn where many tenants live in rent-regulated apartments.

“All the lending we’ve done with them has been very conservative,” Mr. Shay said.

In February 2015, shortly before Mr. Trump’s presidential campaign got underway, Signature made the $17 million loan to Mr. Cohen.

Mr. Cohen said in an email that the loan had been “sourced by a mortgage broker and not based upon any personal relationships.”

Mr. DePaolo said that at the time of the loan, Mr. Cohen wasn’t a public figure. “We did a background check, and nothing out of the ordinary came up — he looked fine,” he said.

Signature has kept lending to the Kushners. Last year, Mr. Kushner and his father took advantage of the latest in a series of credit lines provided by the bank, borrowing more than $5 million, according to Mr. Kushner’s most recent government ethics filing.

Signature executives argue they are being punished unfairly for lending that mostly took place before the election.

“We feel abused,” Mr. Shay said.

quote:

The Endangered Species Act, which for 45 years has safeguarded fragile wildlife while blocking ranching, logging and oil drilling on protected habitats, is coming under attack from lawmakers, the White House and industry on a scale not seen in decades, driven partly by fears that the Republicans will lose ground in November’s midterm elections.

In the past two weeks, more than two dozen pieces of legislation, policy initiatives and amendments designed to weaken the law have been either introduced or voted on in Congress or proposed by the Trump administration.

The actions included a bill to strip protections from the gray wolf in Wyoming and along the western Great Lakes; a plan to keep the sage grouse, a chicken-size bird that inhabits millions of oil-rich acres in the West, from being listed as endangered for the next decade; and a measure to remove from the endangered list the American burying beetle, an orange-flecked insect that has long been the bane of oil companies that would like to drill on the land where it lives.

“It’s probably the best chance that we have had in 25 years to actually make any substantial changes,” said Richard Pombo, a former congressman from California who more than a decade ago led an attempt to rethink the act and is now a lobbyist whose clients include mining and water management companies.

He and others argue that the act has become skewed toward restricting economic development and Americans’ livelihoods rather than protecting threatened animals.

The new push to undo the wildlife protection law comes as Republicans control the White House and both chambers of Congress, and is led by a president who has made deregulation — the loosening of not only environmental protections but banking rules, car fuel efficiency standards and fair housing enforcement — a centerpiece of his administration.

SPOILER

The Trump administration unveiled its main effort to overhaul the Endangered Species Act on Thursday, when the Interior Department and the Commerce Department proposed fundamental changes to the law. Those include a provision that for the first time could allow the economic consequences of protecting plants or animals to be considered when deciding whether or not they face extinction.

If the proposal is finalized, species that remain on the endangered list would still see their habitats protected, but it would become more difficult to list a new species for protection and easier to remove those now on the list.

The myriad proposals reflect a wish list assembled over decades by oil and gas companies, libertarians and ranchers in Western states, who have long sought to overhaul the law, arguing that it represents a costly incursion of federal regulations on their land and livelihoods. Until now, those efforts have largely failed, even during periods when Republicans controlled both the White House and Congress.

Advocates of the environmental law agree that the proposals signal a critical moment. “The last few weeks have seen the most coordinated set of attacks on the Endangered Species Act I’ve faced since I got to Washington,” said Representative Raúl Grijalva of Arizona, the ranking Democrat on the House Natural Resources Committee. “This is a crucial test,” he said.

The Endangered Species Act was passed by Congress in 1973, and signed by President Richard Nixon at a time when using federal authority to protect threatened species was less controversial. The act has been credited with the resurgence of the American alligator, which had been hunted to near extinction for the use of its skin in purses and other goods; the gray whale, depleted by commercial fishing in parts of the Pacific Ocean; and the bald eagle, which is flourishing again after nearly disappearing from much of the United States.

The federal Fish and Wildlife Service annually spends about $1.4 billion to protect threatened plants and animals, according to the agency’s most recent expenditure report in 2016, an amount that environmentalists say has not kept pace with the need. But industry leaders say that money is wasted protecting species that don’t need it and paying green groups’ litigation fees.

Take the case of the northern spotted owl, which has been a rallying cry for both sides of the debate since it was listed as threatened in 1990. The logging industry has long blamed the owl habitats for a crippling decline in timber harvests, sparking a vicious battle over restricting the economies and livelihoods of local communities.

But while opponents of the law cite an economic burden, there has been little comprehensive analysis of the precise economic costs or benefits of either enforcing or revising it.

“Trying to put a number on the cost to industry is incredibly challenging,” said Rebecca Epanchin-Niell, an expert on the economics of the Endangered Species Act at Resources for the Future, a nonpartisan research organization in Washington. Ms. Epanchin-Niell and several other economists noted that given the economic and geographical diversity of the industries affected — oil companies, ranchers, farmers, landowners, real estate developers and others — it is difficult to put a clear price tag on the law’s overall economic effects.

As to the economic benefits of preserving an endangered species, Ms. Epanchin-Niell pointed to what advocates for the law might describe as a “moral obligation” to guard against extinction. “Economists don’t have tools to put a price on these intangible values,” she said.

Efforts in previous presidential administrations to weaken the Endangered Species Act were often met with some bipartisan resistance. But the profile of the Republican Party has changed since then. Over the past decade, opposition to environmental regulations has become a more ingrained part of the G.O.P.’s identity, particularly as exemplified by President Trump.

“This is the first time that we’ve seen an orchestrated effort by the president, the Republican leaders in the House, the industry and the Interior Department all working together in a concentrated effort to eviscerate the act,” said Bruce Babbitt, who served as the interior secretary for eight years in the Clinton administration.

Opponents of the act say the current mood is simply the fruition of decades of ignored attempts to enact reasonable modifications to the law — for instance, government compensation to offset losses when landowners are unable to use portions of their property deemed critical habitat.

“Anyone who tries to do even modest reform is completely demagogued,” said Kathleen Sgamma, president of the Western Energy Alliance, a trade association for the oil and gas industry. Ms. Sgamma said environmental activists and others have also failed to understand how the law has been hurting farmers and ranchers as well as industry.

Brad Goehring, a vineyard owner from California’s Central Valley, said he is a prime example. Mr. Goehring said he can’t farm on about a quarter of his property because it is considered critical habitat for a freshwater crustacean known as the fairy shrimp.

“Think of the ramifications where you owe the bank money, you have loans to pay off and you’re told you can’t use all your property,” he said. Mr. Goehring ran for Congress as a Republican in 2010 in part on a platform of modifying the act.

While farmers like Mr. Goehring have for years urged Congress to enact changes, the recent push has been led by David Bernhardt, the deputy interior secretary, a former oil lobbyist and lawyer whose legal clients included the Independent Petroleum Association of America.

Last December, Mr. Bernhardt convened a meeting at the Interior Department between senior political appointees and career staffers, at which he laid out his plans to streamline the law. Over the course of the spring, that plan was translated into the policy proposal unveiled on Thursday.

At the same time, on Capitol Hill, the Congressional Western Caucus, a group of House lawmakers, began coordinating a strategy. On July 12, the lawmakers unveiled a package of nine bills that, if enacted, would see more permanent changes to the law than those pushed by Mr. Bernhardt’s proposal. Legislation that is passed by Congress and signed into law by the president is less easily undone than regulatory changes.

While it is unclear if the lawmakers’ individual bills could become law this year, they also worked to add amendments to two must-pass spending bills, including the National Defense Authorization Act, which specifies the annual budget for the Pentagon.

The House-passed version of that spending bill includes provisions that would prohibit the Interior Department from putting two species of land birds, the sage grouse and the greater prairie chicken, on the endangered species list for at least 10 years. That would ensure that the habitat of those birds, encompassing millions of acres across 11 states, could remain open for oil and gas development. (The Interior Department is also moving forward with a separate regulatory plan to roll back sage grouse protections.)

In past years, such provisions would likely have died in the Senate, chiefly because they were opposed by Senator John McCain, the Republican of Arizona.

But Mr. McCain today is recuperating from brain cancer and has not been active in Washington for several months. Shepherding the measure in his stead is Senator James Inhofe, the Republican of Oklahoma who has made a signature issue of advocacy on behalf of the oil industry and denying the established science of human-caused global warming.

It is expected that Mr. Inhofe will champion a provision in the House defense bill that would remove endangered species protections for the American burying beetle. The insect has a protected habitat in just four states — but one of them is Mr. Inhofe’s home state of Oklahoma.

“I think the Endangered Species Act is endangered,” said Andrew Rosenberg, director of the Union of Concerned Scientists. “They haven’t been able to do this for 20 years, but this looks like their one chance.”

Republicans also added at least nine endangered species-related amendments to the spending bill that funds the Interior Department. Among other provisions, that bill would remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list. It would also prohibit the Interior Department from reintroducing the endangered grizzly bear into the North Cascades ecosystem of Washington State, something lawmakers from the region say could threaten the area’s recreation livelihood.

Senator John Barrasso, the Republican of Wyoming who chairs the Environment Committee, introduced a draft bill that overlaps with many of the House proposals.

“We’re all aware that the Endangered Species Act hasn’t undergone any significant updates in over 40 years,” said Representative Rob Bishop, Republican of Utah and chairman of the House Natural Resources Committee, in a statement. “Now is the time to modernize this antiquated law to simultaneously benefit both endangered species and the American people.”

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 18:20 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

[..]

En terecht, die man is niet meer in dienst van de VS en zou niet zulk informatie moeten krijgen.

quote:

The Trump administration will seek to revoke California’s authority to regulate automobile emissions -- including its mandate for electric car sales -- in a proposed revision of Obama-era standards, according to three people familiar with the plan.

The proposal, expected to be released this week, amounts to a frontal assault on one of former President Barack Obama’s signature regulatory programs to curb greenhouse gas emissions that contribute to climate change. It also sets up a high-stakes battle over California’s unique ability to combat air pollution and, if finalized, is sure to set off a protracted courtroom battle.

The proposed revamp would also put the brakes on federal rules to boost fuel efficiency into the next decade, said the people, who asked to not be identified discussing the proposals before they are public. Instead it will cap federal fuel economy requirements at the 2020 level, which under federal law must be at least a 35-mile-per-gallon fleet average, rather than letting them rise to roughly 50 mpg by 2025 as envisioned in the plan left behind by Obama, according to the people.

As part of the effort, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency will propose revoking the Clean Air Act waiver granted to California that has allowed the state to regulate carbon emissions from vehicle tailpipes and force carmakers to sell electric vehicles in the state in higher numbers, according to three people familiar with the plan.

The U.S. National Highway Traffic Safety Administration will likewise assert that California is barred from regulating greenhouse gas emissions from autos under the 1975 law that established the first federal fuel-efficiency requirements, the people said.

SPOILER

The proposal is still in the final stages of a broad interagency review led by President Donald Trump’s Office of Management and Budget, but these major elements of the plan were not expected to change, the people said.

Messages seeking comment from OMB, NHTSA and the EPA were not immediately returned. California Air Resources Board head Mary Nichols declined to comment. Once the agencies formally unveil the proposal, the public will have a chance to weigh in, with those comments used to develop a final rule that could be implemented as soon as the end of the year.

Although the proposal will outline other options, the administration will put its weight behind the dramatic overhaul, including the revocation of California’s cherished authority, the people said.

The state’s 2009 waiver under the Clean Air Act has allowed California to set emissions rules for cars and trucks that are more stringent than the federal government’s. But the state has aligned its rules with those set by the EPA and NHTSA in a so-called national program of clean-car rules. Negotiations toward another set of harmonized rules has not yet yielded agreement.

If Trump’s plan sticks, it could be his biggest regulatory rollback yet. Agencies are expected to claim it will reduce traffic fatalities by making it cheaper for drivers to replace older, less-safe cars, while paring sticker prices for new vehicles even if motorists have to spend more for gasoline.

California, for its part, rejects the idea that its 48-year ability to write its own tailpipe emission rules should end. “We have the law on our side, as well as the people of the country and the people of the world,” said Dan Sperling, a member of the state’s Air Resources Board said.

The most-populous U.S. state and 16 others plus the District of Columbia filed a lawsuit on May 2 seeking to block the Trump administration’s effort to unravel the Obama-era emissions targets. Sperling said that number will grow as more and more people come to realize how fundamentally Trump is attacking the idea of states’ rights.

Caught somewhere in the middle are automakers, which in recent months have stressed they would not support freezing the federal targets and want Washington and Sacramento to continue linking their vehicle efficiency goals. While they spent the first year of the Trump administration attacking Obama’s rules as too costly, they fear the regulatory uncertainty that a years-long court battle over a rollback would create. In addition, other major auto markets such as China and Europe are pressing forward with tougher mandates of their own for cleaner cars.

"This is nothing less than an outrageous attack on public health and states’ rights," said Frank O’Donnell, president of Clean Air Watch. "It’s a dumb move for an administration that claims it wants peace, because this will lead to an emissions war: progressive states versus a reactionary federal government. The big question: who will the car companies back?"

Some conservatives have long chafed at the rare authority granted California and welcome the effort to revoke.

"Congress didn’t intend for California to set national fuel economy standards," said Steve Milloy, a policy adviser for the Heartland Institute, a group critical of climate science. "It’s nutty it’s been allowed to develop. National fuel economy standards are set by the federal government so that’s what we are going to do."

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 18:49:32 Judge T.S. Ellis has approved Mueller's request to grant immunity to five witnesses so that they can testify against Paul Manafort; Ellis said that he planned to make public their identities, TPM reports. https://t.co/rzq70cfSPn reageer retweet

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 18:13 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:
Kijk onze Paul eens even een wit voetje proberen te halen.

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 19:09 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Wat is trouwens gewoonte nadat mensen met zulke posities hun post verlaten? Behouden ze hun clearance?

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 19:09 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Wat is trouwens gewoonte nadat mensen met zulke posities hun post verlaten? Behouden ze hun clearance?

quote:

Former CIA directors typically hold on to their clearance for several years after leaving office in part so that they can share insights with current directors.

Bron

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 19:16 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

[..]


[..]

quote:

Rand Paul is one of a handful of senators who'll determine whether Brett Kavanaugh lands on the Supreme Court — and the Kentucky Republican has every intention of maximizing his leverage.

Paul is again inviting fellow senators to play the will-he-or-won’t-he guessing game when it comes to his decision — expressing grave concerns about Kavanaugh’s approach to personal privacy while insisting his vote could go either way, depending on what the judge says in the coming weeks and months.

“I am honestly undecided. I am very concerned about his position on privacy and the Fourth Amendment. This is not a small deal for me. This is a big deal,” Paul said in an interview last week. “Kavanaugh’s position is basically that national security trumps privacy. And he said it very strongly and explicitly. And that worries me.”

The calculation, of course, isn’t that straightforward. GOP senators and strategists are skeptical that Paul would be willing to buck President Donald Trump, with whom he’s close, on such a monumental vote. For senators, it doesn’t get much bigger than a vote to confirm or reject a Supreme Court justice in waiting.

[..]

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 19:25:22 Senior Interior Department officials dismissed evidence (and tried to keep it out of public view) that national monuments boosted tourism and spurred archaeological discoveries, according to docs accidentally released this month and retracted a day later. https://t.co/30h0nPRv3Z reageer retweet

quote:

In a quest to shrink national monuments last year, senior Interior Department officials dismissed evidence these public lands boosted tourism and spurred archaeological discoveries, according to documents the department released this month and retracted a day later.

The thousands of pages of email correspondence chart how Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke and his aides instead tailored their survey of protected sites to emphasize the value of logging, ranching and energy development that would be unlocked if they were not designated as national monuments.

Comments the department’s Freedom of Information Act officers made in the documents show they sought to keep some of the references out of public view because they were “revealing [the] strategy” behind the review.

Presidents can establish national monuments in federal land or waters if they determine cultural, historical or natural resources are imperiled. In April, President Trump signed an executive order instructing Zinke to review 27 national monuments established over a period of 21 years, arguing his predecessors had overstepped their authority in placing these large sites off-limits to development.

Trump has already massively reduced two of Utah’s largest national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante, and has not ruled out altering others.

SPOILER

The new documents show that as Zinke conducted his four-month review, Interior officials rejected material that would justify keeping protections in place and sought out evidence that could buttress the case for unraveling them.

On July 3, 2017, Bureau of Land Management official Nikki Moore wrote colleagues about five draft economic reports on sites under scrutiny, noting there is a paragraph within each on “our ability to estimate the value of energy and/or minerals forgone as a result of the designations.” That reference was redacted on the grounds it could “reveal strategy about the [national monument] review process.”

Officials also singled out BLM acting deputy director John Ruhs’s July 28 response to questions from Katherine MacGregor, acting assistant secretary of lands and minerals management, as eligible to be redacted. MacGregor had asked about the logging potential of Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument if Trump reversed the expansion former president Barack Obama carried out at the end of his second term.

“Previous timber sale planning and development in the [expansion area] can be immediately resumed,” Ruhs wrote.

Zinke proposed removing some of the forested areas within Cascade-Siskiyou, where three mountain ranges and several distinct ecosystems intersect, to “allow sustained-yield timber production.” Trump has yet to alter the site, which was established by former president Bill Clinton as a 65,000-acre monument and then enlarged by nearly 48,000 acres days before Obama left office.

These redactions came to light because Interior’s FOIA office sent out a batch of documents to journalists and advocacy groups on July 16 it later removed online.

“It appears that we inadvertently posted an incorrect version of the files for the most recent National Monuments production,” officials wrote July 17. “We are requesting that if you downloaded the files already to please delete those versions.”

Aaron Weiss, a spokesman for the advocacy group Center for Western Priorities, said in an email the “botched document dump reveals what we’ve suspected all along: Secretary Zinke ignored clear warnings from his own staff that shrinking national monuments would put sacred archaeological and cultural sites at risk.”

“Trying to hide those warnings from the public months later is disgraceful and possibly illegal,” Weiss added.

Asked for comment, Interior Department officials said they were looking into the matter.

The inadvertently released documents show department officials dismissed some evidence that contradicted the administration’s push to revise national monument designations, which are made under the 1906 American Antiquities Act. Estimates of increased tourism revenue, analyses that existing restrictions had not hurt fishing operators and agency reports that less vandalism occurred as a result of monument designations were all set aside.

On Sept. 11, 2017, Randal Bowman, the lead staffer for the review, suggested deleting language that most fishing vessels near the Northeast Canyons and Seamounts Marine National Monument “generated 5% or less of their annual landings from within the monument” because it “undercuts the case for the ban being harmful.”

Robert B. Vanasse, who represents groups that have lobbied to allow commercial fishing in national marine monuments in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean, said Trump administration officials have been more open to outside input than their predecessors.

“They had a lot of meetings with our folks but didn’t listen,” he said of Obama officials, adding even some Massachusetts Democratic lawmakers objected to the New England marine monument.

Department officials also redacted the BLM’s assessment that “it is unlikely” that the Obama administration’s establishment of the 1.3 million-acre Bears Ears National Monument “has impacted timber production” because those activities were permitted to continue.

In response to questions about Grand Staircase-Escalante, BLM wrote that “less inventory” of cultural sites would have occurred without the 1996 monument designation, noting more than twice as many sites are now identified each year than before. “More vandalism would have occurred without Monument designation,” it states, noting four visitors centers were established to help protect the area.

P. David Polly, the president of the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology and a professor of sedimentary geology at Indiana University, said in an interview “there’s specific funding that comes” with a monument designation, which BLM itself identified in its submission as one of the reasons behind the “increase” in archaeological finds.

Polly added the funding also accounts for why the number of paleontological finds in Grand Staircase-Escalante has risen from a few hundred before 1996 to “several thousand.”

“This funding will disappear for the areas that are no longer in the monument,” he said.

Agencies typically incorporate material submitted through public comments into their regulatory proposals, but documents released under the FOIA earlier this year show Bowman told colleagues in a May 2017 webcast “barring a surprise, there is no new information that’s going to be submitted” through the public comment process on the monuments review.

Polly said the new documents show how Interior officials disregarded the material they gathered during the comment period. “They knew all of these things and went ahead and cut them anyway,” he said.

Some supporters of the rollbacks said that while they appreciated having a chance to weigh in on the process, it does not appear to have made an impact. On May 11, 2017, for example, Oregon Farm Bureau officials wrote Zinke to thank him “for taking time out of your evening” to meet with their delegation at the Trump International Hotel and hear ranchers’ objections to the Cascade-Siskiyou expansion.

Sharon Waterman, the bureau’s 1st vice president, said in an interview that while she was glad her group had “a chance encounter” with Zinke at the hotel, she was “very disappointed” the monument’s boundaries remain unchanged.

“It doesn’t seem like what we have done has made an impact, but I don’t know why,” she said. “It’s really sad that they continue this expansion, because it’s really important that [timberlands] stay in production.”

And while critics questioned why Interior officials intended to withhold so much material from public view, legal experts said they can probably justify it under the exemption covering internal executive branch communications.

“It’s almost constitutively vague as to what is deliberative and exempted,” said Columbia Law School professor David Pozen, referring to FOIA Exemption 5. “It was meant to ensure open and frank deliberation before a decision is taken.”

But he added if Interior officials were using the provision to withhold documentation on how it decided to weaken certain protections, that “would be substantially away from the heartland” of the exemption.

“The deliberative privilege wasn’t meant to relieve the executive branch of the burden of explaining and justifying its decisions,” he said.

Pozen and other experts said it was unlikely the redacted portions of the documents could be used as ammunition for lawsuits now challenging Trump’s move to shrink the two Utah monuments.

John Leshy, who served as Interior solicitor during the Clinton administration, said that because the president initiated this review by issuing an executive order last year, administration officials could assert the redacted sections are privileged.

“It’s not at all clear a court would admit this material in evidence in litigation challenging Trump’s actions,” he said, “because the rules about reviewing presidential actions, in general, are fuzzy.”

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 15:51 schreef Black_Baron het volgende:
Zijn er nog podcasts die jullie aanraden?

quote:

Meat is piling up in U.S. cold-storage warehouses, fueled by a surge in supplies and trade disputes that are eroding demand.

Federal data, coming as early as Monday, are expected to show a record level of beef, pork, poultry and turkey being stockpiled in U.S. facilities, rising above 2.5 billion pounds, agricultural analysts said.

U.S. consumers’ appetite for meat is growing, but not fast enough to keep up with record production of hogs and chickens. That leaves the U.S. meat industry increasingly reliant on exports, but Mexico and China—among the largest foreign buyers of U.S. meat—have both set tariffs on U.S. pork products in response to U.S. tariffs on steel, aluminum and other goods. U.S. hams, chops and livers have become sharply more expensive in those markets, which is starting to slow sales, industry officials said.

The meat industry’s growing production already is filling the specialized warehouses built to store meat and other goods. “We are packed full,” said Joe Rumsey, president of Arkansas-based Zero Mountain Inc. The company’s five storage facilities serve as way stations for turkeys and chicken strips between processors and retailers, holding around 250 million pounds of products on any given day.

SPOILER

Growing meat stockpiles may bring down prices for meat-hungry U.S. consumers, along with restaurants and retailers. But slowing overseas sales and rising domestic stockpiles threaten profit for meat processors and prices for livestock and poultry producers. Since the end of May, prices of lean hog futures at the Chicago Mercantile Exchange have dropped 14%.

The combination of trade risk and expanding meat supplies could result in “one of the biggest corrections we’ve seen in the industry in several years,” said Christine McCracken, protein analyst at Rabobank, one of the world’s largest agricultural lenders.

Some hog farmers and pork processors are beginning to scale back. Maschhoffs LLC, a privately held hog-farming company based in Carlyle, Ill., has put on hold $30 million in investments planned to expand its breeding operations and upgrade truck washes and other biosecurity measures.

“We’ve got too much capacity built in this industry if we’re not going to be exporting more product,” said Ken Maschhoff, the company’s chairman. He is instead considering expansion into Eastern Europe or South America—places where the company’s hogs perhaps can’t be raised as cheaply as in the U.S. but where he said trade policy isn’t so “geopolitically charged.”

Meanwhile, some analysts said, pork processors recently have reduced some hours at plants, and some plants even have turned away hogs, Ms. McCracken said. Representatives for Smithfield Foods and JBS SA, the two largest U.S. pork processors, had no comment. A spokesman for Tyson Foods Inc. said the company’s pork production has matched available pig supplies and that Tyson continues to export pork despite the tariffs.

The meat wave had been building before the trade disputes. A string of bumper harvests in the U.S. and elsewhere slashed the price of grain, the largest cost in raising livestock and poultry.

The strengthening U.S. economy has boosted domestic consumers’ appetite for meat, and rising incomes in Asia and Latin America fueled increasing meat demand abroad.

Farmers, ranchers and meatpackers rushed to fill that demand, building new barns for poultry and livestock to supply new chicken and pork plants across the U.S. South and Midwest.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture projects the industry will produce a record 102.7 billion pounds of meat this year.

Cold-storage warehouses are filling up as a result. The USDA in June estimated a total 2.5 billion pounds of red meat and poultry in U.S. cold-storage facilities as of the end of May, running 8% above the prior-year period—and just slightly below the record.

Meat is often kept frozen in cold-storage facilities for months, though if it becomes unprofitable for meat companies to store, products can be sent to rendering plants to produce fats and pet-food ingredients.

Exports, industry officials said, are critical to balancing out the growing supply.

“The more you store, chances are you’re going to have to export more of it,” said Altin Kalo, a commodity analyst with Steiner Consulting Group. “Even with the tariffs, there’s only a certain amount of product you can shift into the domestic channels.”

However, pork exports to China, which first implemented a 25% tariff on U.S. pork in April and this month boosted the duty to 62%, declined by 18% over the first five months of the year. Several times in recent weeks, the USDA has reported zero weekly export sales of pork to the country.

Mexico, the top export market for U.S. pork, in June implemented a 10% tariff that climbed to 20% this month. While overall exports to Mexico have been running slightly ahead of last year’s total, new weekly export sales reported for the week of July 5 came in at their lowest level this year, the USDA said.

The Trump administration recognizes the financial hardship livestock producers could face as a result of retaliatory tariffs, and farm country will be better off under new trade deals the administration is pursuing, USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue has said.

The USDA has examined drawing upon Depression-era programs that permit borrowing of as much as $30 billion from the Treasury as a way to compensate farmers for tariff-driven price declines, and Mr. Perdue has said he aims to have a plan ready by this fall.

For cold-storage warehouse operators, the growing meat stockpile creates opportunities. In Sioux City, Iowa, Cloverleaf Cold Storage Co. has been upgrading its technology to help track the location of individual pallets in its 18 warehouses, which co-owner Adam Feiges said has helped the company run its warehouses at 90% capacity, compared with 85% in the past.

Netherlands-based NewCold, which specializes in automating the handling of frozen and refrigerated foods, opened a facility in Tacoma, Wash., this year.

“There is a general lack of cold-storage capacity,” said Jonas Swarttouw, NewCold’s U.S. manager. The company is building another facility for Idaho and is talking to various meat producers about adding more room.

Zero Mountain Inc.’s Fort Smith, Ark., warehouse is filled to the brink this summer, with pallets of frozen meat rising near the 40-foot-high ceilings on towering metal shelves. It is building a new facility in Waco, Texas, and has raised wages for forklift drivers with a gift for stacking and moving tons of frozen meat.

“This summer’s going to be increased volumes, and if we want to capitalize on those, we have to do everything in our power to maximize our cubic footprint,” Mr. Rumsey said.

twitter:

KlasfeldReports twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 20:42:05 BREAKING: There isn’t just one audio file in the Michael Cohen matter.There are at least 12, and prosecutors got them on Friday - when the Times story ran on one of them. reageer retweet

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 20:50:02 Sarah Sanders says that the White House is looking into revoking the security clearances of John Brennan, James Comey, Jim Clapper, Michael Hayden, Susan Rice and Andrew McCabe. Sanders says it's because these officials have allegedly made "baseless charges" against Trump. reageer retweet

quote:

REVEALED: Identities Of 5 Witnesses Immunized To Testify Against Manafort (TPM)

A federal judge Monday unsealed the names of five witnesses granted immunity by special counsel Robert Mueller to testify at the upcoming trial of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort.

The witnesses, who Mueller's team had sought to keep from public view until they were called to testify, are:

James Brennan
Donna Duggan
Conor O'Brien
Cindy Laporta
Dennis Raico
The unsealed court documents do not provide details about what the witnesses may be expected to testify about. None of the newly revealed witnesses have figured prominently in the case or the coverage of the case to this point.

Two possible prominent witnesses in the case - Washington lobbyists Tony Podesta and Vin Weber, whose firms allegedly participated with Manafort in a PR campaign campaign for Ukraine without registering a foreign agents - did not appear among the list of five immunized witnesses.

Typically under immunity deals such as this one, the witness will provide relevant testimony with the agreement that it will not be used to prosecute them.

Manafort faces charges of tax fraud and bank fraud related to his decade-plus of consulting work for pro-Russian political forces in Ukraine. He has pleaded not guilty. He faces trial on similar charges in DC later this year.

Mueller has secured five guilty pleas and dozen of indictments in his wide-ranging probe of Russian interference in the 2016 election, but Manafort's case is set to be the first to come to trial. The judge in the case has opined that Mueller is only interested in Manafort as a possible witness against President Trump, and has called the prosecution's tactic "distasteful." Manafort has shown no signs so far of being willing to cooperate with Mueller's probe.

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
De 5 namen met immuniteit in de Manafort zaak. Geen Podesta te zien:

James Brennan
Donna Duggan
Conor O’Brien
Cindy Laporta
Dennis Raico

[..]

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
De 5 namen met immuniteit in de Manafort zaak. Geen Podesta te zien:

James Brennan
Donna Duggan
Conor O’Brien
Cindy Laporta
Dennis Raico

[..]

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:17 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

[..]

Tucker Carlson loog? Say it ain't so!

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:18 schreef Montov het volgende:

[..]

Kan de lijst nog groter worden? Ik dacht laatst iets gelezen te hebben over 100 mogelijke getuigen.

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:17 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

[..]

Tucker Carlson loog? Say it ain't so!

twitter:

rachelweinerwp twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 21:11:06 NEWS: Manafort trial delayed until July 31st. reageer retweet

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:19 schreef Montov het volgende:
Geeft niet want mensen die kritisch op de media zijn zullen dit niet klakkeloos hebben geloofd.

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 20:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

twitter:

KlasfeldReports twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 20:42:05 BREAKING: There isn’t just one audio file in the Michael Cohen matter.There are at least 12, and prosecutors got them on Friday - when the Times story ran on one of them. [ afbeelding ] reageer retweet

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:24 schreef Szura het volgende:

[..]

Dus Abramson had weer gelijk

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 21:40:00 James Clapper on CNN: "I don't get the briefings. I don't have access to classified info ... Haven't had a case to use it and has no bearing whatsoever on my regard or lack thereof for President Trump or what he's doing ... I think this is just a very, very petty thing to do." reageer retweet

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:22 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik moet trouwens wel zeggen dat ik de ogenschijnlijke leugen van Carlson wel raar vind ... een bedreven leugenaar met enige intelligentie liegt normaal gesproken niet over iets wat heel makkelijk controleerbaar is in enkele dagen, zou ik denken?!

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 21:26 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

[..]

Yups en hij was al een tijd behoorlijk kritisch op de berichtgeving van Maggie Haberman. Ze heeft nu aangekondigd met haar twitterfeed te minderen.

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 22:29 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

[..]

Kan ook nog steeds gebeuren, dus om 'm nu hard voor leugenaar uit te maken. Straks krijgt Podesta toch immuniteit en komt het andere kamp je weer hard uitlachen...

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 22:33 schreef Klaphark het volgende:

[..]

Maar slechts 1 audiotape met Trump las ik ergens.

twitter:

jimsciutto twitterde op vrijdag 20-07-2018 om 18:51:13 There are more tapes: Michael Cohen had other recordings of the president in his records that were seized by the FBI, according to Rudy Giuliani & source with knowledge of Cohen’s tapes, per @DanaBashCNN ⁦@GloriaBorger⁩ https://t.co/WZCk715rCg reageer retweet

twitter:

LannyDavis twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 22:11:58 Latest news @MichaelCohen212 tapes of conversations are being released by @realDonaldTrump & his legal team who own and waived the privilege. Will @RudyGiuliani call these tapes “exculpatory” again? As I noted before, the tapes will speak for themselves – spin can’t change facts. reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 00:26 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Trump en Rudy hebben die tapes inderdaad zelf naar buiten gebracht.

Allemaal onderdeel van het 4D schaakspel.

twitter:

JZarif twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 21:04:45 COLOR US UNIMPRESSED: The world heard even harsher bluster a few months ago. And Iranians have heard them —albeit more civilized ones—for 40 yrs. We’ve been around for millennia & seen fall of empires, incl our own, which lasted more than the life of some countries. BE CAUTIOUS! reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 01:27 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

twitter:

JZarif twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 21:04:45 COLOR US UNIMPRESSED: The world heard even harsher bluster a few months ago. And Iranians have heard them —albeit more civilized ones—for 40 yrs. We’ve been around for millennia & seen fall of empires, incl our own, which lasted more than the life of some countries. BE CAUTIOUS! reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 01:32 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

[..]

Trump had het over montenegro, maar Iran aanvallen. Dat is echt WW3, ze hebben een bizar leger.

quote:

Pompeo stopped short of calling for regime change, but he announced stepped-up U.S. government broadcasting in Farsi that is likely to foment further unrest against the government.

He said the U.S. Broadcasting Board of Governors is taking steps to circumvent Internet censorship in Iran and creating a round-the-clock Farsi channel across television, radio, digital and social media formats, “so that ordinary Iranians inside Iran and around the globe will know that America stands with them.”

Bron

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 23:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

twitter:

LannyDavis twitterde op maandag 23-07-2018 om 22:11:58 Latest news @MichaelCohen212 tapes of conversations are being released by @realDonaldTrump & his legal team who own and waived the privilege. Will @RudyGiuliani call these tapes “exculpatory” again? As I noted before, the tapes will speak for themselves – spin can’t change facts. reageer retweet

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 02:20:02 Ex-Associate deputy attorney general David Kris: "The Nunes memo accused the FBI of dishonesty in failing to disclose information about Steele, but in fact the Nunes memo itself was dishonest in failing to disclose what the FBI disclosed." https://t.co/XsEfrhBDoh reageer retweet

quote:

The Carter Page FISAs are out via the Freedom of Information Act. Here are a few observations, relatively brief but still just a bit too long for Twitter.

First, a huge amount of information is redacted in these FISA applications, but they still represent a monumental disclosure to the public. The government considers FISA applications to be very sensitive—and their disclosure, even heavily redacted, may have long-term, programmatic consequences long after we’re finished with President Trump. The government seems to have accepted that FOIA applies to FISA. Without taking a position on the issue it made me recall this Lawfare post that argues to the contrary.

Second, for those who don’t remember, the controversy about these FISA applications first arose in February when House intelligence committee Chairman Rep. Devin Nunes released a memo claiming that the FBI misled the FISA Court about Christopher Steele, the former British secret agent who compiled the “dossier” on Trump-Russia ties and who was a source of information in the FISA applications on Page. The main complaint in the Nunes memo was that FBI whitewashed Steele—that the FISA applications did not “disclose or reference the role of the DNC, Clinton campaign, or any party/campaign in funding Steele’s efforts, even though the political origins of the Steele dossier were then known to senior and FBI officials.”

In response to the Nunes memo, the Democrats on the committee released their own memo. That memo quoted from parts of the FISA applications, including a footnote in which the FBI explained that Steele was hired to “conduct research regarding Candidate #1,” Donald Trump, and Trump’s “ties to Russia,” and that the man who hired him was “likely looking for information that could be used to discredit [Trump’s] campaign.”

Based on this back and forth between the HPSCI partisans, I wrote on Lawfare at the time that the FBI’s disclosures on Steele “amply satisfie[d] the requirements” for FISA applications, and that the central irony of the Nunes memo was that it “tried to deceive the American people in precisely the same way that it falsely accused the FBI of deceiving the FISA Court.” The Nunes memo accused the FBI of dishonesty in failing to disclose information about Steele, but in fact the Nunes memo itself was dishonest in failing to disclose what the FBI disclosed. I said then, and I still believe, that the “Nunes memo was dishonest. And if it is allowed to stand, we risk significant collateral damage to essential elements of our democracy.”

Now we have some additional information in the form of the redacted FISA applications themselves, and the Nunes memo looks even worse. In my earlier post, I observed that the FBI’s disclosures about Steele were contained in a footnote, but argued that this did not detract from their sufficiency: “As someone who has read and approved many FISA applications and dealt extensively with the FISA Court, I will anticipate and reject a claim that the disclosure was somehow insufficient because it appeared in a footnote; in my experience, the court reads the footnotes.” Now we can see that the footnote disclosing Steele’s possible bias takes up more than a full page in the applications, so there is literally no way the FISA Court could have missed it. The FBI gave the court enough information to evaluate Steele’s credibility.

There’s also more detail on the previous disclosure from the House intelligence committee Democrats’ memo on how Steele went to the press with the “dossier” when FBI Director James Comey sent his October 2016 letter to Congress disclosing the possible newfound importance of the Weiner laptop in the Clinton investigation. According to the FISA applications, Steele complained that Comey’s action could influence the election. But when Steele went to the press, it caused FBI to close him out as an informant—facts which are disclosed and cross-referenced in the footnote in bold text.

While I am sure people will try, my initial impression is that with all the redactions it is going to be very tough to figure out the full scope of information supporting the Court’s repeated finding of probable cause to believe that Carter Page was an agent of Russia. There is a mention of two Russians, one of whom pleaded guilty to being an unregistered agent of a foreign government and was sentenced to 30 months, but even that is disconnected from the redacted discussion that precedes it. Substantively, the government seems to have hewed as closely to the prior disclosures as it could in applying FOIA.

But it is worth noting that—and as the Democrats previously pointed out—the judges who signed off on these four FISA applications were all appointed by Republican presidents, including one George H.W. Bush appointee (Anne Conway), two George W. Bush appointees (Rosemary Collyer and Michael Mosman) and one Reagan appointee (Raymond Dearie). I know some of those judges, and they certainly are not the types to let partisan politics affect their legal judgments.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 02:49 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

[..]

Is dit de vlucht naar voren?

Ik snap echt bijster weinig van Trump's beslissingen omtrent de tapes.

twitter:

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

quote:

A federal judge in Boston on Monday rejected a bid by the Trump administration to dismiss a lawsuit alleging that its decisions to end temporary protections for immigrants in the United States from Honduras, Haiti and El Salvador were racially motivated.

U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston ruled that a group of immigrants and two organizations could move forward with a lawsuit challenging the administration’s termination of the protective status enjoyed by thousands of people from those three countries.

She said the lawsuit’s allegations about “statements of animus” by officials including President Donald Trump coupled with claims about a shift in policy “allege plausibly that a discriminatory purpose was a motivating factor in a decision.”

The lawsuit cited statements it said showed Trump’s “dislike and disregard for Latino and black immigrants,” including reported remarks in January by Trump saying immigrants from Africa and Haiti come from “shithole countries.”

“Plaintiffs have successfully made out their prima facie case,” Casper wrote.

SPOILER

The U.S. Justice Department, which represented the administration in court, had no immediate comment. It had argued that the courts lack jurisdiction to review the decisions at issue.

Temporary protected status, or TPS, offers protection from deportation to immigrants already in the United States, including those who entered illegally, from countries affected by natural disasters, civil conflicts and other problems.

The Trump administration has shown a deep skepticism toward the temporary protected status program and has moved to revoke the special status afforded to thousands of immigrants from El Salvador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua and Sudan.

About 400,000 immigrants from countries designated for temporary protected status live in the United States, including 262,500 from El Salvador, 58,550 from Haiti and 86,000 from Honduras, according to the lawsuit.

In May, the Department of Homeland Security said it would end temporary protections for Hondurans in January 2020. Haitians and Salvadorans are set to lose their special statuses in July 2019 and September 2019, respectively.

The lawsuit was filed by 14 immigrants from those three countries and two non-profit organizations, Haitian-Americans United and Centro Presente.

The complaint contends the administration’s actions violate the U.S. Constitution’s equal protection and due process provisions.

“The judge in this case made clear that TPS recipients have viable constitutional claims and that they deserve a day in court,” said Iván Espinoza-Madrigal, the executive director of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Economic Justice, which represented the plaintiffs.

Fox & Friends First accidentally books Barbara L'Italien

quote:

A Massachusetts state senator who opposes President Trump’s immigration policies was mistakenly booked on Fox News, and she used the airtime to criticize Trump's “illegal and inhumane” treatment of migrant families crossing the U.S.-Mexico border.

Barbara L’Italien, a Democrat, appeared Monday on “Fox & Friends First” instead of the intended guest, Democratic congressional candidate Ann Kirkpatrick, who has publicly supported U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. A spokesman for L’Italien said in a statement that “due to a Fox News error,” L’Italien was contacted and asked to share her views on ICE and decided to use the opportunity to “make a statement straight to Trump.”

[..]

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 05:34 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Oeps...

Fox & Friends First accidentally books Barbara L'Italien

Fox News booked the wrong Democrat on a show. She used the spotlight to unload on Trump.

[..]

quote:

When asked whether he had sent Kirkpatrick’s background information and campaign logo to the network, Katz said in an email: “I showed the exact same commitment to the truth and accuracy that Fox News always has.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 05:34 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Oeps...

Fox & Friends First accidentally books Barbara L'Italien

Fox News booked the wrong Democrat on a show. She used the spotlight to unload on Trump.

[..]

quote:

Op maandag 23 juli 2018 17:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:

[..]

Samengevat:

"Omdat Obama niet juist reageerde moet men Trump niets kwalijk nemen."

Zwak argument.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 00:49 schreef Boze_Appel het volgende:

[..]

Word je niet moe van jelelf. Er is geen schaak, hij is gewoon stupide.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 13:09:12 Countries that have treated us unfairly on trade for years are all coming to Washington to negotiate. This should have taken place many years ago but,as the saying goes, better late than never! reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 13:29:50 Tariffs are the greatest! Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs. It’s as simple as that - and everybody’s talking! Remember, we are the “piggy bank” that’s being robbed. All will be Great! reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 13:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 13:09:12 Countries that have treated us unfairly on trade for years are all coming to Washington to negotiate. This should have taken place many years ago but,as the saying goes, better late than never! reageer retweet

Waar heeft hij het nou weer over?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 13:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 13:29:50 Tariffs are the greatest! Either a country which has treated the United States unfairly on Trade negotiates a fair deal, or it gets hit with Tariffs. It’s as simple as that - and everybody’s talking! Remember, we are the “piggy bank” that’s being robbed. All will be Great! reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 12:42 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

[..]

Trump is zelf een paard op het bord. Een actor, useful idiot door de krachten achter hem: De Mercers bijv. en Russische interests. De NRA, olielobby's.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 13:42 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Dit komt op mij echt over als iemand die vooral zichzelf probeert te overtuigen.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 13:39 schreef Szura het volgende:

[..]

Juncker is morgen in Washington

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 13:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 13:09:12 Countries that have treated us unfairly on trade for years are all coming to Washington to negotiate. This should have taken place many years ago but,as the saying goes, better late than never! reageer retweet

Waar heeft hij het nou weer over?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 13:33 schreef Chewie het volgende:
[ afbeelding ]

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 14:05 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

[..]

Ik kan hier als conservatief erg om lachen.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 14:07 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

[..]

Iedereen lacht om Trumpsupporters ja.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 14:05 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

[..]

Zou hij beseffen dat er jarenlang is onderhandeld over TTIP, maar dat hij er een streep doorheen heeft gezet?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 13:42 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
Dit komt op mij echt over als iemand die vooral zichzelf probeert te overtuigen.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 14:55 schreef Ringo het volgende:

[..]

De Amerikaanse bevolking is zo ernstig gedesinformeerd dat je daar niet zeker van kunt zijn. Tientallen jaren van disneyficering hebben hun werk gedaan. Het gaat er niet om hoe waarheidsgetrouw een boodschap is, het gaat erom in welke mate de ontvanger bereid is tot suspension of disbelief. Trump brengt geen feiten op tafel, hij creëert mythes.

Mocht hij ooit berecht, schuldig bevonden en afgezet worden, dan wordt het echt enorm lastig om de massa ervan te overtuigen dat daar gegronde redenen voor zijn geweest. Nog veel lastiger dan het proces dat tot zijn afzetting moet leiden.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 14:53 schreef Re het volgende:
Alex Jones ondertussen bedreigt Mueller met de dood... de vriendelijke man

https://www.newsweek.com/(...)s-zuckerberg-1038500

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 15:10:02 Jon Karl: "Mr. Spicer's book is much like his tenure as press secretary: short, littered with inaccuracies and offering up one consistent theme: Mr. Trump can do no wrong. Mr. Spicer has not been well served by the book's fact checkers and copy editors." https://t.co/ZHn1l7ZRpW reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 14:53 schreef Re het volgende:
Alex Jones ondertussen bedreigt Mueller met de dood... de vriendelijke man

https://www.newsweek.com/(...)s-zuckerberg-1038500

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:14 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

[..]

Waar komt het toch vandaan dat 'links' zo vaak wordt beschuldigd van georganiseerd sexueel misbruik van kinderen?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:14 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

[..]

Waar komt het toch vandaan dat 'links' zo vaak wordt beschuldigd van georganiseerd sexueel misbruik van kinderen?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:14 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

[..]

Waar komt het toch vandaan dat 'links' zo vaak wordt beschuldigd van georganiseerd sexueel misbruik van kinderen?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:14 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

[..]

Waar komt het toch vandaan dat 'links' zo vaak wordt beschuldigd van georganiseerd sexueel misbruik van kinderen?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:12 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Spicey heeft een boek uit.

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 15:10:02 Jon Karl: "Mr. Spicer's book is much like his tenure as press secretary: short, littered with inaccuracies and offering up one consistent theme: Mr. Trump can do no wrong. Mr. Spicer has not been well served by the book's fact checkers and copy editors." https://t.co/ZHn1l7ZRpW reageer retweet

quote:

President Trump’s legal team has submitted a proposal to Special Counsel Robert Mueller stating that the president would agree to an interview, but only if Mueller's team limits their questions to potential collusion with Russia, Rudy Giuliani told Bloomberg's Shannon Pettypiece.

The details: Giuliani said Mueller’s team has not responded to the proposal yet, but if they do, any interview would bar questions related to obstruction of justice given they could open the door for Trump to perjure himself.

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 05:56:02 This isn't how any of this works, but if I were Mueller I'd be sorely tempted to accept this offer, as questions on Russia are actually a far bigger Perjury trap for Trump then anything else—and it's these questions on which the future of Trump's presidency will ultimately hinge. https://t.co/oHEsQfHEUi reageer retweet

quote:

Hackers working for Russia claimed “hundreds of victims” last year in a giant and long-running campaign that put them inside the control rooms of U.S. electric utilities where they could have caused blackouts, federal officials said. They said the campaign likely is continuing.

The Russian hackers, who worked for a shadowy state-sponsored group previously identified as Dragonfly or Energetic Bear, broke into supposedly secure, “air-gapped” or isolated networks owned by utilities with relative ease by first penetrating the networks of key vendors who had trusted relationships with the power companies, said officials at the Department of Homeland Security.

“They got to the point where they could have thrown switches” and disrupted power flows, said Jonathan Homer, chief of industrial-control-system analysis for DHS.

DHS has been warning utility executives with security clearances about the Russian group’s threat to critical infrastructure since 2014. But the briefing on Monday was the first time that DHS has given out information in an unclassified setting with as much detail. It continues to withhold the names of victims but now says there were hundreds of victims, not a few dozen as had been said previously.

It also said some companies still may not know they have been compromised, because the attacks used credentials of actual employees to get inside utility networks, potentially making the intrusions more difficult to detect.

SPOILER

Experts have been warning about the Russian threat for some time.

“They’ve been intruding into our networks and are positioning themselves for a limited or widespread attack,” said Michael Carpenter, former deputy assistant secretary of defense, who now is a senior director at the Penn Biden Center at the University of Pennsylvania. “They are waging a covert war on the West.”

Russia has denied targeting critical infrastructure.

Mr. Homer said the cyberattack, which surfaced in the U.S. in the spring of 2016 and continued throughout 2017, exploited relationships that utilities have with vendors who have special access to update software, run diagnostics on equipment and perform other services that are needed to keep millions of pieces of gear in working order.

The attackers began by using conventional tools—spear-phishing emails and watering-hole attacks, which trick victims into entering their passwords on spoofed websites—to compromise the corporate networks of suppliers, many of whom were smaller companies without big budgets for cybersecurity.

Once inside the vendor networks, they pivoted to their real focus: the utilities. It was a relatively easy process, in many cases, for them to steal credentials from vendors and gain direct access to utility networks.

Then they began stealing confidential information. For example, the hackers vacuumed up information showing how utility networks were configured, what equipment was in use and how it was controlled. They also familiarized themselves with how the facilities were supposed to work, because attackers “have to learn how to take the normal and make it abnormal” to cause disruptions, said Mr. Homer.

Their goal, he said: to disguise themselves as “the people who touch these systems on a daily basis.”

DHS is conducting the briefings—four are planned—hoping for more industry cooperation. One thing the agency is trying to learn is whether there are new infections, and whether the Russians have figured out ways to defeat security enhancements like multifactor authentication.

In addition, DHS is looking for evidence that the Russians are automating their attacks, which investigators worry could presage a large increase in hacking efforts. “To scale, they’re eventually going to have to automate,” Mr. Homer said.

“You’re seeing an uptick in the way government is sharing threats and vulnerabilities,” said Scott Aaronson, a cybersecurity expert for Edison Electric Institute, the utility industry trade group. He said information sharing and penetration detection have gotten much better since the Dragonfly attacks began.

It isn’t yet clear whether the hackers used their access to prepare the battlefield for some future, devastating blow, investigators said. For example, many experts fear that a skilled technician could use unfettered access to change some equipment’s settings. That could make them unreliable in unexpected ways, causing utility engineers to do things that would result in extensive damage and potentially lengthy blackouts.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:14 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

[..]

Waar komt het toch vandaan dat 'links' zo vaak wordt beschuldigd van georganiseerd sexueel misbruik van kinderen?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:25 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump’s legal team submits terms for potential interview with Mueller

[..]

Draadje:

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 05:56:02 This isn't how any of this works, but if I were Mueller I'd be sorely tempted to accept this offer, as questions on Russia are actually a far bigger Perjury trap for Trump then anything else—and it's these questions on which the future of Trump's presidency will ultimately hinge. https://t.co/oHEsQfHEUi reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:51 schreef Monolith het volgende:

[..]

Wellicht heeft het iets te maken met liberalen > homorechten > homo's > pedofielen. Linkjes die gekkies nogal snel leggen.
Of het is een vorm van dehumaniseren. Geen groep mensen die minder voor volwaardig wordt aangezien dan pedofielen. Daar zou een significant deel van de bevolking het liefst allerhande sadistische fanatasiën op loslaten.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 15:52:56 Heading to Missouri to be with many of my great friends. VFW here we come! reageer retweet

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 15:46:22 Our Country is doing GREAT. Best financial numbers on the Planet. Great to have USA WINNING AGAIN! reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 16:06 schreef Chewie het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 15:46:22 Our Country is doing GREAT. Best financial numbers on the Planet. Great to have USA WINNING AGAIN! reageer retweet

Welke financiële cijfers zijn nu het beste van de planeet?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 16:26 schreef Ringo het volgende:

[..]

Nou, wat ie zegt, de financiële cijfers. Qua money enzo. Big business. Going up, up, up!

(Alsof de feiten ertoe doen. Things must be said, and be said again.)

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 16:55:12 OMG Sean Spicer calls Trump "a unicorn riding a unicorn over a rainbow" in his new book reageer retweet

SPOILER

quote:

What did I forget?
With the newest news about Trump revoking security clearances of people that criticize him, I almost forgot about the old news. What was that again? Oh yeah, it was the ALL CAPS tweet to Iran that makes us all safer. But wait? That one when it came out made me forget the last thing, too. What was that again? Oh yeah, that was the Helsinki debacle. Twitler took sides with Russia over the FBI. But wait, didn't the Helsinki debacle make me forget something else?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 16:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 16:55:12 OMG Sean Spicer calls Trump "a unicorn riding a unicorn over a rainbow" in his new book reageer retweet

wauw

SPOILER

[ afbeelding ]

twitter:

ScottMStedman twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 02:20:34 NEW: Russian propagandist Konstantin Rykov (whom @McFaul has stated works directly for the Kremlin) posted on Facebook on July 7, 2016: "It is clear that the lecture at the NES was a cover and Carter Page came to Moscow for other reasons." https://t.co/YTM3jUGr9Q reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:14 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

[..]

Waar komt het toch vandaan dat 'links' zo vaak wordt beschuldigd van georganiseerd sexueel misbruik van kinderen?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 16:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het ging toch heel slecht?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 16:54 schreef remlof het volgende:

[..]

Totdat ze de effecten van de door hem gestarte handelsoorlogen echt gaan merken

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 14:58 schreef Ringo het volgende:
Het land is echt rijp voor een burgeroorlog.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 17:31 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

[..]

Is een makkelijk verwijt wat mensen kennelijk snel geloven. Linkse mensen noemen rechtse mensen snel racist, werkt goed voor eigen aanhang. Terwijl rechtse mensen linkse mensen de schuld geven van verkrachtingen of seksueel misbruik, werkt ook goed voor eigen aanhang. Zeker aangezien bijna iedereen in een bubbel leeft, vooral in Amerika, gelooft iedereen alles.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 17:50:37 I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump! reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 19:39 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 17:50:37 I’m very concerned that Russia will be fighting very hard to have an impact on the upcoming Election. Based on the fact that no President has been tougher on Russia than me, they will be pushing very hard for the Democrats. They definitely don’t want Trump! reageer retweet

Vorige week beweerde Trump nog dat de Russen geen bedreiging meer vormen. En hij verklaarde dat de relatie met de Rusland dankzij hem is hersteld. Hoe valt dat te rijmen met de bewering dat het Kremlin hoopt dat de Democraten winnen (wat op zich best kan kloppen, maar dan vooral om de boel in dat land verder op scherp te zetten).

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 20:56 schreef Montov het volgende:
Ivanka sluit haar kledinglijn. Naar eigen zeggen om belangenverstrengeling tegen te gaan

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 22:11 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Omdat de boeren dankzij de bandelsoorlog in de problemen komen heeft Trump een geweldig plan verzonnen.

Ze krijgen gewoon gratis geld!

https://www.politico.com/(...)cans-congress-737517

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 22:12 schreef Mike het volgende:

[..]

Dat klinkt toch wel verdacht socialistisch! Zo vat de Trump-achterban het ook vast op!

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 22:12 schreef Mike het volgende:

[..]

Dat klinkt toch wel verdacht socialistisch! Zo vat de Trump-achterban het ook vast op!

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 22:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

[..]

Eerst maak je de sector kapot, en dan geef je bijstand!

Overigens zijn er weinig kleine boerderijen meer. Het geld gaat dus weer naar de grote bedrijven.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 22:17 schreef Mike het volgende:

[..]

En daarnaast gaat de gezondheidszorg voor een gemiddeld gezin ook nog eens zo'n 3000 dollar duurder worden: https://www.americanprogr(...)ct-due-aca-sabotage/

Nog even en America is great again!

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 20:56 schreef Montov het volgende:
Ivanka sluit haar kledinglijn. Naar eigen zeggen om belangenverstrengeling tegen te gaan, maar waarom niet verkopen aan een nieuwe eigenaar zodat de 18 medewerkers hun JOBS behouden?

Misschien is er toch een andere reden? Anders zou ze haar vader ook moeten overtuigen om hetzelfde te doen.

twitter:

jeremyherb twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 22:13:19 NEW: Breaking with @DevinNunes, Senate Intel Chair Richard Burr says there were "sound reasons" for judges to approve the FISA warrant on Page. "I don’t think I ever expressed that I thought the FISA application came up short,” he said. W/ @mkraju https://t.co/iBqZ3mMvvz reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 22:11 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Omdat de boeren dankzij de bandelsoorlog in de problemen komen heeft Trump een geweldig plan verzonnen.

Ze krijgen gewoon gratis geld!

https://www.politico.com/(...)cans-congress-737517

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 15:37 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
broke into supposedly secure, “air-gapped” or isolated networks owned by utilities with relative ease by first penetrating the networks of key vendors who had trusted relationships with the power companies, said officials at the Department of Homeland Security.

“They got to the point where they could have thrown switches” and disrupted power flows, said Jonathan Homer, chief of industrial-control-system analysis for DHS.

quote:

[..]

It also said some companies still may not know they have been compromised, because the attacks used credentials of actual employees to get inside utility networks, potentially making the intrusions more difficult to detect.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 23:07 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

[..]

Is me niet helemaal duidelijk wat ze bedoelen, bij een "air-gapped" network is er geen remote access, je moet ter plaatse een disk insteken of een commando intypen. Zo'n systemen kan je wel via een virus besmetten, maar vanop afstand "interactief" schakelaars switchen is er niet bij.

[..]

Dat suggereert dat het geen air-gapped networks waren..

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 22:55:55 Sens. Graham and Menendez have announced that they're writing new Russia sanctions legislation that will include "increased sanctions on Russian oligarchs and parastatal entities," and "Senate approval requirement for U.S. withdrawal from NATO." https://t.co/Q29KmuGEvB reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 23:33 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

twitter:

kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 24-07-2018 om 22:55:55 Sens. Graham and Menendez have announced that they're writing new Russia sanctions legislation that will include "increased sanctions on Russian oligarchs and parastatal entities," and "Senate approval requirement for U.S. withdrawal from NATO." https://t.co/Q29KmuGEvB reageer retweet

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 23:34 schreef Szura het volgende:

[..]

Maaaaarrrrr gaat het ook ‘on the floor’?

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 23:15 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

[..]

Ik heb er te weinig verstand van maar als ik google op het hacken van air-gapped networks krijg ik de indruk dat ze er iets op gevonden hebben.

quote:

"This activity took place last summer. While hundreds of energy and non-energy companies were targeted, the incident where they gained access to the industrial control system was a very small generation asset that would not have had any impact on the larger grid if taken offline," a DHS spokeswoman, Lesley Fulop, said in a statement Tuesday.

DHS has been warning the industry for years about efforts to target power plants and other utilities with cyber attacks. One of the ways utilities have responded has been to take their control systems off the internet, so they cannot be easily hacked. The webinar said the latest Russian effort involved the roundabout means of getting access through third-party vendors.

quote:

Op dinsdag 24 juli 2018 23:36 schreef Monolith het volgende:

[..]

Ik schat de kans niet zo hoog in.

quote:

A top Kremlin aide on Tuesday said Russia is not ready to accept President Trump's invitation to a second summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin in the U.S.

Yuri Ushakov said Russia agrees there should be another meeting, but did not formally agree to the White House's fall invitation.

“After the summit, you know what kind of atmosphere there is around its outcome,” Ushakov said, according to a Reuters report. "I think it would be wise to let the dust settle and then we can discuss all these questions in a business-like way. But not now."

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 01:19 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Interessant om te zien dat in de laatste tweet Donnie aangeeft dat de Russen vast de Democraten gaan proberen te helpen. Nu verwacht ik dat Rusland vnl wil doen wat de meeste chaos oplevert, maar Trump doet dit natuurlijk alleen maar zodat hij na de primaries kan roepen dat de Russen de Democraten hebben geholpen.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 01:42 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

[..]

Bij RT beweren ze nu dat als je Trump niet gelooft je dus Putin op zijn woord gelooft dat hij liever Trump wil. Ergo.. dan ben je Putin lover en Trump hater. Je verzint het niet

twitter:

NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 03:01:17 Damn. @ChrisCuomo got the Cohen-Trump tape where they discuss McDougal. @CNN now. reageer retweet

twitter:

NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 03:06:50 .@lannydavis gave it to Cuomo, Cuomo says. reageer retweet

twitter:

NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 03:09:15 Why did Lanny Davis release the tape? Because Giuliani said Cohen said the word "cash," but the tape proves that Trump said it, Davis says. https://t.co/0scT9eocRt https://t.co/XCeoufRk54 reageer retweet

Trump - Michael Cohen SECRET AUDIO RECORDING (tape 2: Karen McDougal CASH )

SPOILER

The Trump-Michael Cohen tape transcript, annotated

[Into phone] What's happening?

COHEN: Great poll, by the way.

TRUMP: Yeah?

COHEN: Seen it. Great poll.

TRUMP: Making progress.

COHEN: Big time.

TRUMP: And, your guy is a good guy. He's a good --

COHEN: Who, Pastor Scott?

TRUMP: Can't believe this. No, Pastor Scott. What's, what's happening --

COHEN: No --

TRUMP: Can we use him anymore?

COHEN: Oh, yeah, a hundred -- no, you're talking about Mark Burns. He's, we've told him to [UNINTELLIGIBLE].

TRUMP: I don't need that -- Mark Burns, are we using him?

COHEN: No, no.

FEMALE: Richard [UNINTELLIGIBLE]. I'm sorry, Richard [UNINTELLIGIBLE] just called. He -- just when you have a chance, he had an idea for you.

TRUMP: Okay, great.

COHEN: Um, so, we got served from the New York Times. I told you this -- we were ...

TRUMP: To what?

COHEN: ... To unseal the divorce papers with Ivana. Um, we're fighting it. Um, [Trump attorney Marc] Kasowitz is going to --

TRUMP: They should never be able to get that.

COHEN: Never. Never. Kasowitz doesn't think they'll ever be able to. They don't have a --

TRUMP: Get me a Coke, please!

COHEN: They don't have a legitimate purpose, so --

TRUMP: And you have a woman that doesn't want this.

COHEN: Correct.

TRUMP: Who you've been handling.

COHEN: Yes. And --

TRUMP: And it's been going on for a while.

COHEN: About two, three weeks now.

TRUMP: All you've got to do is delay for --

COHEN: Even after that, it's not ever going to be opened. There's no, there's no purpose for it. Um, told you about Charleston. Um, I need to open up a company for the transfer of all of that info regarding our friend, David, you know, so that -- I'm going to do that right away. I've actually come up and I've spoken --

TRUMP: Give it to me and get me a [UNINTELLIGIBLE].

COHEN: And, I've spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up with ...

TRUMP: So, what do we got to pay for this? One-fifty?

COHEN: ... Funding . . . Yes. Um, and it's all the stuff.

TRUMP: Yeah, I was thinking about that.

COHEN: All the stuff. Because -- here, you never know where that company -- you never know what he's --

TRUMP: Maybe he gets hit by a truck.

COHEN: Correct. So, I'm all over that. And, I spoke to Allen about it, when it comes time for the financing, which will be --

TRUMP: Wait a sec, what financing?

COHEN: Well, I'll have to pay him something.

TRUMP: [UNINTELLIGIBLE] pay with cash.

COHEN: No, no, no, no, no. I got it.

TRUMP: Check.

[Tape cuts off abruptly. Separate recording begins.]

MALE: Hey Don, how are you?

twitter:

tedlieu twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 03:26:24 This tape is more evidence that @realDonaldTrump himself was directly involved in a campaign finance law violation. And because the amount exceeded $25,000, it would be punishable as a felony. #TrumpTapes also show Rudy Giuliani lied. But that's not news. https://t.co/0vvq2tBQax reageer retweet

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 04:00:04 Message to @ChrisCuomo and his producers: the whole Cohen tape is inculpatory. You needed to not edit it; you kept cutting off Trump's earlier comments about delaying revelation of derogatory relationship information until after the election. That is critical evidence of a crime. reageer retweet

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 04:04:20 FYI: I think it's as likely that the "David" in the full audio CNN isn't playing isn't David Pecker but David Dennison, i.e. Trump's fake name for adulterous sexual liaisons. If that's true, it means Trump *knows* the conversation is about his past affairs and paying women off. reageer retweet

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 04:09:57 LISTEN TO THE FULL TAPE. Cohen saying that he needs to open up a corporation for "information regarding our friend David" is *clearly* a reference to Trump's code name for sexual affairs, David DENNISON, and *not* David PECKER, the head of AMI, who had *no info* "regarding" him. reageer retweet

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 04:19:54 This tape is *so much worse* than people realize.Give it an hour, people, and everyone will have figured out what I'm discussing on the feed right now. I'm sure many people already have and are screaming at their TVs right now. reageer retweet

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 04:22:01 Okay, all, this coverage is killing me. Full thread coming up. reageer retweet

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 04:24:54 (THREAD) TEN REASONS THE FIRST COHEN TAPE IS MUCH WORSE THAN ANYONE YET REALIZES. Early coverage of this bombshell exclusive on CNN has missed almost the entirety of this story, which could shape Trump's presidency. Read on for more. And I hope you'll share this with others, too. https://t.co/pZR0AJZvzT reageer retweet

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 05:51:48 NOTE5: The possibility remains Cohen and Trump were discussing David Pecker--but whether it was Pecker or Dennison doesn't change the fact that the story Pecker killed was about McDougal, and he may've killed other stories, too. IAC, I'm on the fence on the Pecker/Dennison issue. reageer retweet

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 10:19 schreef Euribob het volgende:
Zo, en nu weer over politiek en niet over complotten graag.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 01:19 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Interessant om te zien dat in de laatste tweet Donnie aangeeft dat de Russen vast de Democraten gaan proberen te helpen. Nu verwacht ik dat Rusland vnl wil doen wat de meeste chaos oplevert, maar Trump doet dit natuurlijk alleen maar zodat hij na de primaries kan roepen dat de Russen de Democraten hebben geholpen.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 10:39 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

[..]

Ik denk eerder dat dit weer een van zijn rookgordijnen is.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 10:40 schreef Re het volgende:

[..]

het is natuurlijk vooruit kijken en een verklaring klaar hebben waarom democraten de komende verkiezingen zouden kunnen winnen, hij voorspelt het dus is het zo

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 10:45 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Hij zal geen verlies toegeven. Anderen moeten de schuld krijgen.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 10:40 schreef Re het volgende:

[..]

het is natuurlijk vooruit kijken en een verklaring klaar hebben waarom democraten de komende verkiezingen zouden kunnen winnen, hij voorspelt het dus is het zo

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 10:52 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

[..]

Kan hij ook mooi de verkiezingen ongeldig laten verklaren, mochten de democraten winnen

quote:

It was perhaps the most explosive exchange in an incendiary press conference: Russian President Vladimir Putin appearing to frankly admit to a motive for, and maybe even to the act of, meddling in the 2016 U.S. presidential election, despite repeatedly denying Russian interference in American politics during the rest of his appearance with Donald Trump in Finland on Monday.

But the exchange doesn’t appear in full in the White House’s live-stream or transcript of the press conference, and it’s missing entirely from the Kremlin’s transcript of the event. The White House did not immediately provide an explanation for the discrepancy.

Understanding what Putin said depends on what you watch or where you look. If you watch the video of the news conference provided by the Russian government, or by news outlets such as PBS and the Associated Press, you will hear the Reuters reporter Jeff Mason ask a bombshell of a question: “President Putin, did you want President Trump to win the election and did you direct any of your officials to help him do that?”

Putin then responds with a bombshell of an answer, according to the English translation of his remarks that was broadcast during the press conference: “Yes, I did. Yes, I did. Because he talked about bringing the U.S.-Russia relationship back to normal.”

But recordings of the exchange were muddled for two reasons. First, the English translation of Putin’s previous response was concluding as Mason began to speak. Second, the microphone seemed to pick up Mason’s question halfway through—making the latter half of it easier to hear. (Mason told me that he had held on to the microphone even though an official had tried to pull it away so that he could ask Putin a follow-up question. “I don’t know if they turned the sound off during the time when each of the presidents were speaking, or if it got flipped on and off. I certainly didn’t touch anything.”)

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 11:07 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
De vraag van een reporter aan Putin of hij wilde dat Trump zou winnen is uit de officiële transcripten van het Witte Huis gelaten. Want de geschiedenis herschrijven is een tactiek die werkt.

[..]

https://www.theatlantic.c(...)e-transcript/565385/

Maddow had er gisteren een heel stuk over, maar die vind ik enigszins hysterisch. Neemt niet weg dat het nogal een grove stap naar geschiedvervalsing is.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 11:07 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
De vraag van een reporter aan Putin of hij wilde dat Trump zou winnen is uit de officiële transcripten van het Witte Huis gelaten. Want de geschiedenis herschrijven is een tactiek die werkt.

[..]

https://www.theatlantic.c(...)e-transcript/565385/

Maddow had er gisteren een heel stuk over, maar die vind ik enigszins hysterisch. Neemt niet weg dat het nogal een grove stap naar geschiedvervalsing is.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 11:24 schreef Re het volgende:

[..]

geschiedenis herschrijven en dan deze quote:

'What You're Seeing... Is Not What's Happening.' ~ Donald Trump

vs

“The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.” ~ George Orwell

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 09:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:
An artist painted on the American flag. The governor of Kansas wants her work destroyed.

Mee eens: Al is het om een andere reden.

Een stel rednecks zo triggeren dat ze zelf de amerikaanse vlag verbranden is gewoon een briljante troll-actie.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 11:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het is wel een flinke fuck-you van Cohen door de opname naar het favoriete station van Trump, CNN dus, te sturen.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 12:18 schreef popolon het volgende:

[..]

Volgens de ‘flag code’ is dat de enige manier om van een beschadigde vlag af te komen

Watch Donald Trump Dodge a Bald Eagle | Person Of The Year 2015 | TIME

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 12:15 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
Zou me niks verbazen als Putain nu ineens de democraten zou helpen. Trump zit er nog twee jaar en met een democratische meerderheid krijgt hij al helemaal niks voor elkaar. En laten we eerlijk zijn; verzwakking van de democratie in de VS is wat Putain wilt, ongeacht wie de president is. Om nog maar te zwijgen over de impuls die bnw gaat krijgen daar. Alleen maar winst voor die ouwe kgber.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 12:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

[..]

Kan allemaal, maar laat daar eerst maar eens een aanwijzing voor zijn.

Vooralsnog heeft Trump allemaal in korte tijd gezegd:
- Rusland heeft zich niet ingemengd
- Rusland heeft zich wel ingemengd en had geen voorkeur,
- Rusland heeft zich wel ingemengd, maar tegelijk zouden anderen landen het ook gedaan hebben (dus, ??? )
- En weer terug naar Rusland heeft zich niet ingemend
- Naar nu Rusland gaat zich weer inmengen, maar voor de dems...

Kortom, de man is full of shit en is de bevolking aan het gaslighten.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 13:01:05 Every time I see a weak politician asking to stop Trade talks or the use of Tariffs to counter unfair Tariffs, I wonder, what can they be thinking? Are we just going to continue and let our farmers and country get ripped off? Lost $817 Billion on Trade last year. No weakness! reageer retweet

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 13:02 schreef Mike het volgende:
Hij is weer wakker!

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 13:01:05 Every time I see a weak politician asking to stop Trade talks or the use of Tariffs to counter unfair Tariffs, I wonder, what can they be thinking? Are we just going to continue and let our farmers and country get ripped off? Lost $817 Billion on Trade last year. No weakness! reageer retweet

Hij snapt nog steeds niet hoe handel werkt, het is beschamend.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 13:08:39 When you have people snipping at your heels during a negotiation, it will only take longer to make a deal, and the deal will never be as good as it could have been with unity. Negotiations are going really well, be cool. The end result will be worth it! reageer retweet

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 13:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

[..]

En straks gaat hij met Juncker zitten. Misschien komt hij erachter wat Trump nou eigenlijk wil.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 13:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 13:08:39 When you have people snipping at your heels during a negotiation, it will only take longer to make a deal, and the deal will never be as good as it could have been with unity. Negotiations are going really well, be cool. The end result will be worth it! reageer retweet

Whatever.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 13:20:28 China is targeting our farmers, who they know I love & respect, as a way of getting me to continue allowing them to take advantage of the U.S. They are being vicious in what will be their failed attempt. We were being nice - until now! China made $517 Billion on us last year. reageer retweet

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 13:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 13:08:39 When you have people snipping at your heels during a negotiation, it will only take longer to make a deal, and the deal will never be as good as it could have been with unity. Negotiations are going really well, be cool. The end result will be worth it! reageer retweet

Whatever.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 13:33 schreef Montov het volgende:

[..]

Goed voor de unity om publiekelijk je mede-onderhandelaars onder de bus te gooien.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 13:02 schreef Mike het volgende:
Hij is weer wakker!

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 13:01:05 Every time I see a weak politician asking to stop Trade talks or the use of Tariffs to counter unfair Tariffs, I wonder, what can they be thinking? Are we just going to continue and let our farmers and country get ripped off? Lost $817 Billion on Trade last year. No weakness! reageer retweet

Hij snapt nog steeds niet hoe handel werkt, het is beschamend.

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 14:34:58 What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped - can this be so? Too bad! reageer retweet

twitter:

gabrielsherman twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 14:09:10 Trump’s outrage that Cohen would tape him rings hollow because Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn frequently taped clients and taught Trump to do the same reageer retweet

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 14:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 14:34:58 What kind of a lawyer would tape a client? So sad! Is this a first, never heard of it before? Why was the tape so abruptly terminated (cut) while I was presumably saying positive things? I hear there are other clients and many reporters that are taped - can this be so? Too bad! reageer retweet

twitter:

gabrielsherman twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 14:09:10 Trump’s outrage that Cohen would tape him rings hollow because Trump’s mentor Roy Cohn frequently taped clients and taught Trump to do the same reageer retweet

twitter:

MichaelAvenatti twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 15:17:20 If Mr. Cohen really wants to do the right thing, he must IMMEDIATELY: 1) release ALL OF THE TAPES; 2) release the rest of the evidence (texts and emails); 3) come clean about his conduct & that of Mr. Trump; and 4) state in writing he will not accept a pardon. NO MORE GAMES. reageer retweet

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 15:36 schreef Ulx het volgende:

twitter:

MichaelAvenatti twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 15:17:20 If Mr. Cohen really wants to do the right thing, he must IMMEDIATELY: 1) release ALL OF THE TAPES; 2) release the rest of the evidence (texts and emails); 3) come clean about his conduct & that of Mr. Trump; and 4) state in writing he will not accept a pardon. NO MORE GAMES. reageer retweet

Avenatti heeft een punt. Steeds een beetje lekken schiet niet op.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 16:00 schreef Euribob het volgende:

[..]

Doet ie zelf anders ook constant.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 16:00 schreef Euribob het volgende:

[..]

Doet ie zelf anders ook constant.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 16:08 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

[..]

Ik begrijp ook niet zo goed waarom het voor Cohen "the right thing" zou zijn om zijn hele administratie en alle verzamelde bewijsmiddelen in een keer op straat te gooien.

quote:

"I've spoken to Allen Weisselberg about how to set the whole thing up," Cohen tells Trump. "So, I'm all over that. And, I spoke to Allen about it."

Weisselberg isn't a bit player in Trumplandia and his emergence on the Cohen-Trump recording - as someone possibly facilitating a scheme apparently meant to disguise a payoff - should worry the president. Weisselberg has detailed information about the Trump Organization's operations, business deals and finances. If he winds up in investigators' crosshairs for secreting payoffs, he could potentially provide much more damaging information to prosecutors than Cohen ever could about the president's dealmaking.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 16:10 schreef Ulx het volgende:

[..]

Het lijkt alsof hij vist naar een pardon. Het zou zelfs zo kunnen zijn dat hij onder één hoedje speelt met Trump. Giuliani zei al dat deze opname Trump vrijpleitte.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 16:19 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

[..]

Zelfs al doet hij dat, dan is het zijn goed recht. Ik zou in zijn situatie ook alles aangrijpen om onder de problemen vandaan te kunnen komen.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 16:23 schreef Ulx het volgende:

[..]

Toch denk ik dat het slimmer is om te gokken op een deal met het OM, dan te gokken op een presidentieel pardon omdat dat Trump wellicht in de problemen kan brengen.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 16:11 schreef Ulx het volgende:
New Cohen Tape Surfaces a Bigger Trump Fish



[..]

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 13:20 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
Maar Juncker kan ook een ontzettende lompe boer zijn, dus dat wordt een leuk gesprek.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 16:08 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

[..]

Ik begrijp ook niet zo goed waarom het voor Cohen "the right thing" zou zijn om zijn hele administratie en alle verzamelde bewijsmiddelen in een keer op straat te gooien.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 17:17 schreef Re het volgende:

[..]

door die revelation alleen al zou de gehele Trump (financiële) administratie in beslag moeten worden genomen

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 21:12 schreef remlof het volgende:
[ afbeelding ]

https://abcn.ws/2NF4ycc

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 21:28 schreef AnneX het volgende:

[..]

Hóe puberaal...wie was eerst met uitstellen. ( ik weet).

Overigens vindt niemand het vreemd, dat Avenatti “toevallig” tegen Cohen aanloopt bij een restaurant en met hem spreekt...hóe klein is New York?
En nu zegt Avenatti dat hij wéet, dat er nog 12 interessante tapes zijn...

Of hoort dat in een ander topic.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 21:28 schreef AnneX het volgende:
En nu zegt Avenatti dat hij wéet, dat er nog 12 interessante tapes zijn...

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 21:28 schreef AnneX het volgende:

[..]

Hóe puberaal...wie was eerst met uitstellen. ( ik weet).

Overigens vindt niemand het vreemd, dat Avenatti “toevallig” tegen Cohen aanloopt bij een restaurant en met hem spreekt...hóe klein is New York?
En nu zegt Avenatti dat hij wéet, dat er nog 12 interessante tapes zijn...

Of hoort dat in een ander topic.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 21:40 schreef Monolith het volgende:

[..]

New York is groot, de kringen waar bepaalde mensen zich in begeven aanmerkelijk kleiner natuurlijk.

SPOILER

zeg detective, ik kom van de westcoast, kun je voor mij uitzoeken in welke restaurants Cohen komt, zodat ...

twitter:

WouterZwart twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 22:36:47 Trump wint nog meer: EU belooft veel soja te importeren. Goed voor VS boeren die lijden onder huidige handelsconflicten, oa met China. En EU gaat ook vloeibaar gas importeren, goed nieuws voor VS-schaliegasbedrijven. reageer retweet

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 23:27 schreef Arthur_Spooner het volgende:

twitter:

WouterZwart twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 22:36:47 Trump wint nog meer: EU belooft veel soja te importeren. Goed voor VS boeren die lijden onder huidige handelsconflicten, oa met China. En EU gaat ook vloeibaar gas importeren, goed nieuws voor VS-schaliegasbedrijven. reageer retweet

Handelsoorlog tussen de VS-EU afgewend en Trump sleept er allerlei toezeggingen uit. Art of the deal

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 23:27 schreef Arthur_Spooner het volgende:

twitter:

WouterZwart twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 22:36:47 Trump wint nog meer: EU belooft veel soja te importeren. Goed voor VS boeren die lijden onder huidige handelsconflicten, oa met China. En EU gaat ook vloeibaar gas importeren, goed nieuws voor VS-schaliegasbedrijven. reageer retweet

Handelsoorlog tussen de VS-EU afgewend en Trump sleept er allerlei toezeggingen uit. Art of the deal

quote:

But what, exactly, was agreed? That’s harder to say. The two sides have identified “a number of areas in which to work together,” Juncker said. He said those areas include working toward “zero tariffs on industrial goods,” reforming the World Trade Organization, and more EU imports of US soybeans and liquified natural gas. Trump said the two had agreed to work toward “zero tariffs, zero non-tariff barriers, and zero subsidies on non-automotive goods.”As they work toward these things, the US will suspend the tariffs it imposed on steel and aluminum imports, and the EU will agree not to add new tariffs, they said. They didn’t take questions from reporters.

“The statement that Europe will increase imports of US liquified natural gas and soybeans needs to have the word ‘eventually’ in front of it,” said Edward Goldberg, a professor at New York University’s Center for Global Affairs. In terms of liquified natural gas, the US does not have enough processing plants to increase demand immediately, Goldberg said. And when it comes to soybeans, the EU has long-standing relationships with Brazil and Argentina.

The vague deal leaves the US and EU essentially back to where they were during the Barack Obama-era, trade-wise, when both sides spent years mired in discussions about the “TTIP,” or Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership. The massive deal’s goal was to remove trade barriers between the two parties, but because tariffs are already low between the EU and the US, the negotiations were mostly centered on harmonizing regulations and standards.

Bron

quote:

Mr Juncker claimed a "major concession" from the US president was a promise not to increase tariffs on cars and auto parts during negotiations.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 00:39 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het enige wat Juncker voor elkaar heeft gekregen:

[..]

Trump heeft bijna alles voor elkaar gekregen
- Export van landbouwproducten
- Export van LNG
- Alle importheffingen, subsidies en barriers op tafel
- Concessies van de VS zijn alleen geldig, zolang onderhandelingen doorgaan

twitter:

AP twitterde op donderdag 26-07-2018 om 01:18:38 BREAKING: GOP lawmakers introduce articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. reageer retweet

quote:

A group of conservative House lawmakers on Wednesday introduced articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, the top Department of Justice (DOJ) official overseeing special counsel Robert Mueller's Russia investigation.

The impeachment document makes a series of charges against Rosenstein, the latest sign of escalating efforts among conservatives to oust the DOJ's No. 2 official.

Conservative members led by Reps. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) and Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), along with nine co-sponsors, introduced the articles shortly after a meeting with DOJ officials concerning document production.

"For 9 months we've warned them consequences were coming, and for 9 months we've heard the same excuses backed up by the same unacceptable conduct. Time is up and the consequences are here. It's time to find a new Deputy Attorney General who is serious about accountability and transparency," Meadows said in a statement.

"Multiple times we've caught DOJ officials hiding information from Congress, withholding relevant documents, or even outright ignoring Congressional subpoenas--and now we have evidence that Mr. Rosenstein signed off on a document using unverified political opposition research as a cornerstone of a FISA application to spy on an American citizen working for the Trump campaign," Meadows continued.

DEVELOPING

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 01:21 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

twitter:

AP twitterde op donderdag 26-07-2018 om 01:18:38 BREAKING: GOP lawmakers introduce articles of impeachment against Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. reageer retweet

Lijkt me niet levensvatbaar.

[..]

twitter:

rachaelmbade twitterde op donderdag 26-07-2018 om 01:19:46 IMPORTANT note: Conservatives chose NOT to file this as a privileged resolution. That means that they don't get to force a vote on it on the House floor. This avoids the GOP civil war that would take place if they DID try to force a vote on this. Rs VERY divided on the matter https://t.co/DGGBfP4aRc reageer retweet

twitter:

NatashaBertrand twitterde op donderdag 26-07-2018 om 01:31:52 Impeachment has not been carried out against an executive branch employee in 122 years, and the constitution defines it as punishment for "treason, bribery or other high crimes and misdemeanors." R's are mad because he didn't produce the documents they wanted quickly enough. https://t.co/lUdMLZQWqJ reageer retweet

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 02:13 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Dus men trekt zich terug uit TTIP-onderhandelingen, verspilt een jaar en een hoop geld met domme handelsoorlogen en nu zijn we weer terug bij af? Wat een overwinning .

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 02:13 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Dus men trekt zich terug uit TTIP-onderhandelingen, verspilt een jaar en een hoop geld met domme handelsoorlogen en nu zijn we weer terug bij af? Wat een overwinning .

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 02:13 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Dus men trekt zich terug uit TTIP-onderhandelingen, verspilt een jaar en een hoop geld met domme handelsoorlogen en nu zijn we weer terug bij af? Wat een overwinning .

quote:

China has agreed to buy more US goods and services, reducing the trade imbalance between the two countries and dampening fears of a looming trade war.

Washington says the move will "substantially reduce" its $335bn annual trade deficit with Beijing.

But it stopped short of saying exactly how big the reduction would be.

"Both sides agreed on meaningful increases in US agriculture and energy exports," a US-China statement said following days of talks in Washington.

"This will help support growth and employment in the United States."

The countries also agreed to keep negotiating on trade to resolve their concerns "in a proactive manner".

quote:

President Donald Trump said he’s "ready to go" with tariffs on $500 billion of Chinese imports, saying the U.S. has been taken advantage of for too long.

"I’m not doing this for politics. I’m doing this to do the right thing for our country," Trump said in a CNBC interview aired Friday. "We are being taken advantage of and I don’t like it."

The $500 billion figure is about the value of Chinese goods imported into the U.S. last year. S&P stock-index futures declined along with the Stoxx Europe 600 gauge after Trump’s comments aired.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 07:45 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Ik wil het überhaupt eerst nog wel zien gebeuren. Een tijdje terug hadden we nog een ander land wat ook toezei om een en ander extra te gaan importeren uit bepaalde sectoren.

[..]

En hoe gaat dat momenteel?

[..]

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 07:05 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Alles voor de eigen achterban!

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:33 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Sja je denkt zeker dat als je eenmaal een overeenkomst hebt dat het in 2 maanden al uitgevoerd is en doorberekend in de cijfers of zo, ik weet niet welke wereld je leeft maar dit soort zaken heeft gewoon tijd nodig. en de ene afspraak hoeft ook weer niets te maken te hebben met andere tariffs.

Gewoon effe afwachten eer je iets neersabelt, maar dat is blijkbaar moeilijk voor die antitrumpers.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:33 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Sja je denkt zeker dat als je eenmaal een overeenkomst hebt dat het in 2 maanden al uitgevoerd is en doorberekend in de cijfers of zo, ik weet niet welke wereld je leeft maar dit soort zaken heeft gewoon tijd nodig. en de ene afspraak hoeft ook weer niets te maken te hebben met andere tariffs.

Gewoon effe afwachten eer je iets neersabelt, maar dat is blijkbaar moeilijk voor die antitrumpers.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:36 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Oh ik wist niet dat nu alles al geregeld was , want volgens mij is het een raamovereenkomst en dus ook nog even afwachten over hoe en wat.
En een groot nadeel van de ttip was dat bedrijven recht kon laten gelden buiten de landen en burgers om en waar geen hoger beroep mogelijk was.

Staat er dat nu dan ook in?

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:37 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Dit is heel makkelijk neer te sabelen, aangezien we feitelijk weer terug zijn op het niveau waar de TTIP onderhandelingen zaten. Alleen we zijn wel een jaar en een hoop gezeik verder.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:38 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Dit is hooguit een intentieverklaring, zo wordt het ook door analisten geïnterpreteerd. Onderhandelingen moeten nog komen.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:45 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Hoe kan je dat nou weten als er nog veel onderhandeld moet worden en er een intentie is tot iets.
Je kan alleen over de intentie oordelen, de rest is gewoon afwachten of het nu positief is of negatief.
Verschil is imo wel dat er nu iig niet die voorwaarden in komen waar de bedrijven een betere rechtspositie hebben dan de landen of het volk en al wat daar omheen hing.
En anders moet dat allemaal weer opnieuw geratificeerd worden of mischien wel een een referendum in sommige landen

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:37 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

[..]

Ik dacht dat je gisteren zei dat je twee weken opkraste? Fake news dus.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:48 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

Ik zou voor het oordeel iig wel even iemand de tijd geven om het of te verkloten of om goed te doen.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:48 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Maar we waren al aan het onderhandelen totdat Trump dat allemaal liet vallen en deze zinloos tarieven bullshit begon.

Hij had ook gewoon door kunnen gaan met die onderhandelingen. Had een hoop tijd en bullshit gescheeld.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:33 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Sja je denkt zeker dat als je eenmaal een overeenkomst hebt dat het in 2 maanden al uitgevoerd is en doorberekend in de cijfers of zo, ik weet niet welke wereld je leeft maar dit soort zaken heeft gewoon tijd nodig. en de ene afspraak hoeft ook weer niets te maken te hebben met andere tariffs.

Gewoon effe afwachten eer je iets neersabelt, maar dat is blijkbaar moeilijk voor die antitrumpers.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:48 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Maar we waren al aan het onderhandelen totdat Trump dat allemaal liet vallen en deze zinloos tarieven bullshit begon.

Hij had ook gewoon door kunnen gaan met die onderhandelingen. Had een hoop tijd en bullshit gescheeld.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:53 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

[..]

Ja, maar hij heeft de EU toch maar mooi terug gebracht aan de onderhandeltafel. Winning!

(Klein detail is dat hij die tafel zelf had verlaten, maar who cares about the facts).

[..]

Hm. Wie verklaarden ook al weer een paar maanden geleden dat er een briljante deal was gesloten met Noord-Korea? En wie riepen er toen dat er eerst even afgewacht moest worden?

Wat Trump nu gedaan heeft is gezorgd dat er (vrijwel) exact dezelfde situatie is tussen de EU en de VS als een half jaar geleden. Briljant!

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:53 schreef Chewie het volgende:

[..]

Jij wil dus niet lezen dat er gewoon ruim een jaar verspild is en we nu zoals we eigenlijk ook al zagen met Noord Korea en de NAVO weer op dezelfde situatie zitten als voordat de oranje gek zich er mee ging bemoeien?

Hoeveel tijd wil je hem geven dan om elke keer weer zijn eigen gecreëerde rotzooi op te ruimen?

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 08:45 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Hoe kan je dat nou weten als er nog veel onderhandeld moet worden en er een intentie is tot iets.
Je kan alleen over de intentie oordelen, de rest is gewoon afwachten of het nu positief is of negatief.
Verschil is imo wel dat er nu iig niet die voorwaarden in komen waar de bedrijven een betere rechtspositie hebben dan de landen of het volk en al wat daar omheen hing.
En anders moet dat allemaal weer opnieuw geratificeerd worden of mischien wel een een referendum in sommige landen

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:08 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

[..]

Hoe kan je dat nou weten als er nog veel onderhandeld moet worden en er een intentie is tot iets.

Trollgenot weer hoor...

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:12 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Zoals ik schreef in de volgende zin die er onder stond, want anders moet het weer geratificeerd worden of mischien wel weer een referendum.
Dat zou dus opnieuw onderhandeld moeten worden.
Lijkt me logisch toch

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:08 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

[..]

Hoe kan je dat nou weten als er nog veel onderhandeld moet worden en er een intentie is tot iets.


Trollgenot weer hoor...

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 00:39 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Het enige wat Juncker voor elkaar heeft gekregen:

[..]

Trump heeft bijna alles voor elkaar gekregen
- Export van landbouwproducten
- Export van LNG
- Alle importheffingen, subsidies en barriers op tafel
- Concessies van de VS zijn alleen geldig, zolang onderhandelingen doorgaan

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:16 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Het moet sowieso opnieuw geratificeerd worden.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:16 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

[..]

Juncker is niet eens bij machte een deal te sluiten, zelfs als hij dat zou willen. Hij kan allerlei toezeggingen doen, maar die moet eerst nog langs allerlei schijven. Claimen dat Trump iets heeft gewonnen slaat dus nergens op.

quote:

Op woensdag 25 juli 2018 23:27 schreef Arthur_Spooner het volgende:

twitter:

WouterZwart twitterde op woensdag 25-07-2018 om 22:36:47 Trump wint nog meer: EU belooft veel soja te importeren. Goed voor VS boeren die lijden onder huidige handelsconflicten, oa met China. En EU gaat ook vloeibaar gas importeren, goed nieuws voor VS-schaliegasbedrijven. reageer retweet

Handelsoorlog tussen de VS-EU afgewend en Trump sleept er allerlei toezeggingen uit. Art of the deal

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:21 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Dus je bent het eens
Daarom is dit ook een intentie en ik verwacht ook zeker dat de EU nog van alles zal doen om het een en ander te vertragen in de hoop op impeachment of wat dan ook, maar dat juncker op de knietjes naar trump ging is wel veel zeggend en ook zeker de druk die de autoindustrie uit oefent op merkel wiens positie niet geweldig is evenzo met macron.

Kortom trump heeft de beste hand in de onderhandeling en dat was al lang duidelijk en logisch ook aangezien de US de EU veel minder nodig heeft dan andersom en ook nog eens andere knoppen heeft om kracht bij te zetten zoals de nato etc

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:24 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Nee, jij zegt dat als ze doorgaan met TTIP ze opnieuw ratificeren, maar dat moet ook als ze een nieuwe overeenkomst sluiten.

Dus ze zijn er niks mee opgeschoten.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:23 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Geloof maar dat hij opdracht heeft gekregen van merkel en makron om bepaalde toezeggingen te doen, je denkt toch niet dat die dronkaard uit eigen beweging daar naar toe gaat of wel dan.
Daarom moet je dus ook geduld hebben hoe het allemaal gaat lopen, maar bashen is nogal makkelijk

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:25 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Je hebt dus niet goed gelezen

quote:

Verschil is imo wel dat er nu iig niet die voorwaarden in komen waar de bedrijven een betere rechtspositie hebben dan de landen of het volk en al wat daar omheen hing.
En anders moet dat allemaal weer opnieuw geratificeerd worden of mischien wel een een referendum in sommige landen

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:29 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Ik zie dat zomerindebol al inzicht heeft in de exacte voorwaarden rondom arbitrage van de handelsdeal waarover de gesprekken nog moeten beginnen. Die man is connected, dat wil je niet weten.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:27 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Jouw quote:

[..]

Mijn opmerking: Je moet altijd ratificeren.

Wat klopt hier niet aan?

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:29 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Ik zie dat zomerindebol al inzicht heeft in de exacte voorwaarden rondom arbitrage van de handelsdeal waarover de gesprekken nog moeten beginnen. Die man is connected, dat wil je niet weten.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:27 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

[..]

Maar ook Macron en Merkel hebben niet de bevoegdheid om een deal te sluiten. Een handelsverdrag creëren is een langlopend proces waarbij tal van zaken moeten worden afgewogen. Uiteindelijk moet de inhoud worden goedgekeurd door het EP en alle nationale parlementen.

Je doet overkomen als er daadwerkelijk iets is bereikt, maar dat klopt simpelweg niet.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:34 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Nee dat doe ik niet , maar ik schiet het niet metten af zoals jullie.
Ik zeg niet voor niets dat men gewoon moet afwachten om te oordelen.
Maar juncker kwam wel op de knietjes en is de positie van de US beter dan van te voren , het gaat in totaal om het eerlijker te maken van het US oogpunt.

De US gaat hier gewoon een voordeel uit halen tov de eerdere situatie.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:29 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Ik zie dat zomerindebol al inzicht heeft in de exacte voorwaarden rondom arbitrage van de handelsdeal waarover de gesprekken nog moeten beginnen. Die man is connected, dat wil je niet weten.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:33 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

[..]

Grondlegger van ASML he, never forget.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:34 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Nee dat doe ik niet , maar ik schiet het niet metten af zoals jullie.
Ik zeg niet voor niets dat men gewoon moet afwachten om te oordelen.
Maar juncker kwam wel op de knietjes en is de positie van de US beter dan van te voren , het gaat in totaal om het eerlijker te maken van het US oogpunt.

De US gaat hier gewoon een voordeel uit halen tov de eerdere situatie.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:35 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Dat Juncker 'op de knietjes' kwam is gewoon onjuist.

En Trump moest wel, zijn achterban (vooral de boeren) begonnen de gevolgen te ondervinden van de ingestelde tarieven.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:35 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Dat zeg ik nergens ik heb het juist over dat men dat niet allemaal nog kan weten en dus moet afwachten.
Ik weet alleen wat gisteren tijdens de persco is gemeld.en ga daar van uit

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:38 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

JUncker zn eigen woorden waren dat hij naar de US gekomen was om een deal te maken en niet zonder deal weg te gaan.
En dat kan je toch wel als op de knietjes gaan noemen, geloof maar dat er behoorlijk wat druk van de auto industrie was.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:37 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

[..]

Maar die aanname is dus helemaal nergens op gebaseerd, simpelweg omdat je helemaal geen deal is gesloten. Juncker is naar Washington afgereisd met het doel om TTIP nieuw leven in te blazen. Dat lijkt gelukt, hoewel de kans groot is dat Trump binnenkort weer een draai maakt.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:39 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

[..]

We moeten afwachten, maar je weet al wel dat Trump als winnaar uit de bus is gekomen.

Goed verhaal.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:38 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

JUncker zn eigen woorden waren dat hij naar de US gekomen was om een deal te maken en niet zonder deal weg te gaan.
En dat kan je toch wel als op de knietjes gaan noemen, geloof maar dat er behoorlijk wat druk van de auto industrie was.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:40 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Nou nee, want de tegen-tarieven stonden ook al klaar.

Juncker wist gewoon dat dit een gunstig moment was, ook vanwege Trump's eigen achterban.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:43 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

[..]

Bron?

Ik lees namelijk wat anders:
"Juncker zelf zei niet te gaan om een deal te maken. Hij wilde de temperatuur nemen, kijken of er ruimte zat bij Trump of dat hij alleen op escalatie uit is."

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:43 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Nee dat klopt niet want trump zn rating is omhoog gegaan dus op dat gebied maakt het niet uit en of het goed nieuws is of slecht maakt voor zn rating weinig uit.
Dus het achterban verhaal klopt niet

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:40 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Heb je daar een link van dat hij dat heeft aangegeven dat het om TTIP ging?
Overigens is mijn visie als inwoner van de EU anders want ik vind het gemodificeerde voedsel niets.
In dit geval kijk ik vanuit US standpunt

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:46 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

[..]

Trump en Juncker beschouwen dit als een startpunt van nieuwe onderhandelingen. En laat er nou net een handelsverdrag liggen dat voor 90 procent rond is. Of beginnen ze weer op nul? Want dan zijn we jaren verder voordat er een deal ligt.

Hier nog wat duiding:
'Juncker heeft staand beleid als cadeau voor Trump verpakt'

quote:

Dat zijn achterban blij is met de toezeggingen bleek gisteren al tijdens de persconferentie van de twee leiders. De Congresleden uit industrie- en landbouwstaten die Trump op de eerst rij had gezet, applaudisseerden hartelijk voor het resultaat. "In die gebieden wonen veel Trumpstemmers", zegt Zwart. "Dat was een zorgenpost voor Trump, maar nu kan hij de mensen zeggen: ik heb op jullie gelet, ik zorg voor jullie."

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:48 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Zoals gezegd is het gewoon afwachten hoe het zich ontwikkeld, en dus niet te snel oordelen.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:46 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Nog niet nee, maar als je naar die persco kijkt zie je allemaal vertegenwoordigers van de agrarische sector op de voorste rij zitten. Daar is een reden voor.

Dit had op de lange termijn de boeren en dus zijn approval ratings geschaad.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:50 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
Uit het artikel dat Koos net gepost heeft:

[..]

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:52 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Op lange termijn maar bv china kan het niet zo lang vol houden volgens deskundigen.
En daarom is er ook over de soja in de media gesproken oom nog meer druk te kunnen zetten op china aangezien china ze daar minder pijn kan doen en qua gas rusland.

Het is het bedienen van meerdere knoppen tegelijk , en dat is het mooie van hoe dat gespeeld wordt.

Voor de meeste mensen kijken naar de deal of intentie verklaring , terwijl nog belangrijker is de boodschap naar de russen en china over de soja en het gas.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:53 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

[..]

Begint een handelsmerk van Trump te worden.

Problemen oplossen die je zelf hebt gecreëerd en dan overwinning uitroepen.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:54 schreef Black_Baron het volgende:

[..]

Dat ziet iedereen wel hoor. Of denk je dat we gek zijn?

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:34 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Nee dat doe ik niet , maar ik schiet het niet metten af zoals jullie.
Ik zeg niet voor niets dat men gewoon moet afwachten om te oordelen.
Maar juncker kwam wel op de knietjes en is de positie van de US beter dan van te voren , het gaat in totaal om het eerlijker te maken van het US oogpunt.

De US gaat hier gewoon een voordeel uit halen tov de eerdere situatie.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:54 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

Verder kijken dan je neus lang is .
Waarom denk je dat specifiek soja en gas in de media terecht komen?

quote:

Many of the provisions of the truce fit with EU priorities and require little action by Brussels or capitals across the Continent. Imports of U.S. soybeans were already expected to rise sharply in response to Trump’s larger, more brutal trade war with China. And the EU has long hoped to eliminate nearly all tariffs on manufactured goods and had been working to do so in negotiations with the Obama administration for an earlier trade accord, before talks broke down.

Bron: Politico

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:40 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

[..]

Nou nee, want de tegen-tarieven stonden ook al klaar.

Juncker wist gewoon dat dit een gunstig moment was, ook vanwege Trump's eigen achterban.

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:57 schreef Ulx het volgende:

[..]

En al die soja die ligt te verpieteren omdat de Chinezen het niet willen gaat nu allemaal voor dezelfde of een betere prijs naar de EU? Ik denk het niet. De boeren in de VS gaan er hoe dan ook geld op verliezen.

(Eventuele doorverkoop via de EU naar China zie ik wel gebeuren. Dan komt er gewoon een blauw vlaggetje op de verpakking. Amerikaanse boeren een lagere prijs, Chinezen lappen het verschil aan europese handelaars. Ka-ching!)

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:59 schreef zomerindebol het volgende:

[..]

zullen we dat afwachten?

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:58 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

[..]

[..]

quote:

Op donderdag 26 juli 2018 09:59 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

[..]

Juncker is ook niet achterlijk natuurlijk. Hij weet ook drommels goed dat Trump een onstabiele factor is. De EU zal duidelijke instructies hebben meegegeven aan Juncker om Trump zoveel mogelijk aan het lijntje te houden. Beloftes ja, maar geen toezeggingen. Zo paai je Trump tot er iemand in het witte huis komt die WEL verstand van politiek heeft.