[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #535 Lizzy was too late!

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My advice to media re: out of control Trump driven crowd hostility at his rallies; boycott them. Send in an AP pool reporter and AP pool photog. Nothing more. Take away his oxygen for a while.

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 13:57 schreef OMG het volgende:
Gisteravond bij The Last Word was Mike Murphy, een GOP strategist, te gast die eerder die dag de volgende tweet plaatste (mobiel gaat dat zo kut, dus maar in een quote);

https://mobile.twitter.com/murphymike/status/1025107377672974336

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Het wordt inderdaad eens tijd. En net zoals bij Maddow zou het mooi zijn als tweets grotendeels niet als nieuwswaardig worden beschouwd.

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 14:29 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Trump daartegen is als de dood voor de strateeg Robert Mueller, die ouderwetsch nog met pan en papier al zijn acties analyseert. Zwijgend, vastberaden en niet te beïnvloeden door moderne media. dan kun je roepen wat je wilt, maar die man gaat vastberaden door.

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 15:36 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
O'Rourke Puts Race into Lean Republican Column:
https://www.cookpolitical(...)an-republican-column

N.a.v. een aantal recente polls in de TX Senate Race, waarbij O'Rourke 2 en 6 punten achterloopt.

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 15:36 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
O'Rourke Puts Race into Lean Republican Column:
https://www.cookpolitical(...)an-republican-column

N.a.v. een aantal recente polls in de TX Senate Race, waarbij O'Rourke 2 en 6 punten achterloopt.

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Trump’s Inaccurate Claims About Highways, Immigration and Beyoncé From a Pennsylvania Rally

President Trump said his campaign rallies drew larger crowds than concerts for Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Bruce Springsteen. That was one of 15 inaccurate claims he made.

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 19:51 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Maar weer even een FACT CHECK:

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 15:59 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Als ik toch één iemand graag zie verdwijne uit de Amerikaanse politiek dan is het die achterbakse gluiperd van een Cruz wel.

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 15:14 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
China stelt verdere importheffingen in tov de VS ter waarde van zo’n 60 miljard USD.

https://www.politico.com/(...)-with-tariffs-760862

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 19:57 schreef DestroyerPiet het volgende:

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je vraagt je af waarom die kranten nog de moeite doen voor een factcheck.

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 21:25 schreef SymbolicFrank het volgende:
Kan de EU een grote reclamecampagne in de US financieren om de republikeinen en Trump zo lang mogelijk aan de macht te houden? In ons eigen belang?

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 22:26 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Ik denk omdat je het liegen van de president nooit als normaal moet gaan zien, hoe vaak hij het ook doet.

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'China doet niet mee aan Trumps olieboycot van Iran'

De Chinese regering weigert om de import van Iraanse olie aan banden te leggen. De Amerikaanse regering had daarop aangedrongen. Dat zeggen twee bronnen bekend met de onderhandelingen tegen persbureau Bloomberg. Het besluit is een fikse tegenslag voor president Donald Trump, die probeert om Iran te isoleren nadat hij het atoomakkoord met het land had opgezegd.

Grootste klant van Iran
Teams van Amerikaanse diplomaten hebben de voorbije tijd hoofdsteden over de hele wereld bezocht om daar steun te krijgen voor een boycot van Iraanse olie, het belangrijkste exportproduct van het land. Trump heeft bondgenoten daarnaast gedreigd met sancties als ze niet meewerken.

China is het belangrijkste land om over te halen voor de Amerikanen. Het is veruit de grootste opkoper van Iraanse olie; vorige maand was het goed voor 35% van de totale Iraanse export.

'China gaat profiteren'
Analisten van onder meer BMI Research en Mizuho voorspellen dat China de boycot zal gebruiken om goedkoop aan olie te komen en dus juist meer uit Iran gaat importeren. Dat zou onder meer ten koste gaan van olie-import uit de Verenigde Staten. Turkije had eerder al gezegd zich niet gehouden te voelen aan de Amerikaanse boycot.

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thehill twitterde op zaterdag 04-08-2018 om 00:43:07 Carl Bernstein: "What we are watching in the Trump presidency is worse than Watergate" https://t.co/4ZYq5QYSfY https://t.co/a5FrbPzNg6 reageer retweet

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Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein says "what we are watching in the Trump presidency is worse than Watergate," a story the former Washington Post reporter broke with Bob Woodward more than 40 years ago.

Bernstein added Thursday that Republicans aren't holding President Trump accountable whom he described as "a demonstrable authoritarian in terms of his rhetoric," which he says differs from that of Republican "heroes" with Nixon who "demanded that he be transparent."

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RVAwonk twitterde op zaterdag 04-08-2018 om 00:44:17 So... Sam Nunberg just told @AriMelber that he expects Roger Stone to be indicted on "broad charges of conspiring against America ... backed up by some financial charges." He also said Mueller is looking into Stone's personal finances. 🎯 reageer retweet

The Moment Sam Nunberg Realized He Must Comply With Bob Mueller | The Beat With Ari Melber | MSNBC

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A former accountant for former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort testified Friday that she helped falsify tax records on his behalf in order to misrepresent $900,000 in personal income as a business loan.

Cindy Laporta testified before a jury that she was asked by Manafort's former business associate, Rick Gates, that Manafort couldn't afford to pay his taxes 2015, telling her that she should instead misrepresent Manafort's income, The Washington Post Reported.

The misrepresentation is estimated to have saved Manafort at least $400,000 in taxes, according to Laporta.

Laporta, who has been granted immunity by federal prosecutors for her testimony, added that she chose to go along with the scheme in order to avoid potential litigation from Manafort's lobbying firm.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 04-08-2018 om 01:05:21 Remember that DVD that Michael Avenatti tweeted about a few months ago? He said today on The View that the DVD was in the hands of law enforcement.https://t.co/1wtWBiNrVJ reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 02:08 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 04-08-2018 om 01:05:21 Remember that DVD that Michael Avenatti tweeted about a few months ago? He said today on The View that the DVD was in the hands of law enforcement.https://t.co/1wtWBiNrVJ reageer retweet

Michael Avenatti on Trump's former attorney Michael Cohen

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JuliaCarmel__ twitterde op zaterdag 04-08-2018 om 00:40:13 I read that Paul Ryan discovered that he's "part Jewish" and it reminded me of the time Paul Ryan claimed Rage Against the Machine was his "favorite band" -- and Rage responded by saying that Ryan "is the embodiment of the machine that our music has raged against for two decades." reageer retweet

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Maria Butina, the Russian gun-rights activist who was charged last month with working as an unregistered agent of the Kremlin, socialized in the weeks before the 2016 election with a former Trump campaign aide who anticipated joining the presidential transition team, emails show, putting her in closer contact with President Trump's orbit than was previously known.

Butina sought out interactions with J.D. Gordon, who served for six months as the Trump campaign's director of national security before leaving in August 2016 and being offered a role in the nascent Trump transition effort, according to documents and testimony provided to the Senate Intelligence Committee and described to The Washington Post.

The two exchanged several emails in September and October 2016, culminating in an invitation from Gordon to attend a concert by the rock band Styx in Washington. Gordon also invited Butina to attend his birthday party in late October of that year.

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 04-08-2018 om 02:51:38 After Election Day, during the transition, one of the first places Gordon went was to Hungary--where Russia's spy agency has its European HQ. He apparently spent the weeks *before* Election Day talking to a Russian spy. (He's also threatened me repeatedly.) https://t.co/UQQiRL0jGC reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 22:26 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Ik denk omdat je het liegen van de president nooit als normaal moet gaan zien, hoe vaak hij het ook doet.

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 09:14 schreef DestroyerPiet het volgende:

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je hebt gelijk, en het is ook goed dat ze het doen,

ik wordt er alleen af en toe zo moe van die Trump, ieder woord wat uit zijn mond komt is een leugen. en hoeveel de media ook doet fact checken, het zal Trump en zijn hardcore aanhangers geen drol uitmaken.

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 09:14 schreef DestroyerPiet het volgende:

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je hebt gelijk, en het is ook goed dat ze het doen,

ik wordt er alleen af en toe zo moe van die Trump, ieder woord wat uit zijn mond komt is een leugen. en hoeveel de media ook doet fact checken, het zal Trump en zijn hardcore aanhangers geen drol uitmaken.

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Pompeo: “The ultimate timeline for denuclearization will be set by Chairman Kim, at least in part. The decision is his.” Wait, what?!

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 23:36 schreef Jellereppe het volgende:

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https://fd.nl/economie-po(...)-olieboycot-van-iran

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 23:36 schreef Jellereppe het volgende:
Trump heeft bondgenoten daarnaast gedreigd met sancties als ze niet meewerken.

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Maine Secretary of State Matthew Dunlap, one of the 11 members of the commission formed by President Trump to investigate supposed voter fraud, issued a scathing rebuke of the disbanded panel on Friday, accusing Vice Chair Kris Kobach and the White House of making false statements and saying that he had concluded that the panel had been set up to try to validate the president’s baseless claims about fraudulent votes in the 2016 election.

Dunlap, one of four Democrats on the panel, made the statements in a report he sent to the commission’s two leaders — Vice President Pence and Kobach, who is Kansas’s secretary of state — after reviewing more than 8,000 documents from the group’s work, which he acquired only after a legal fight despite his participation on the panel.

Before it was disbanded by Trump in January, the panel had never presented any findings or evidence of widespread voter fraud. But the White House claimed at the time that it had shut down the commission despite “substantial evidence of voter fraud,” due to the mounting legal challenges it faced from states. Kobach, too, spoke around that time about how “some people on the left were getting uncomfortable about how much we were finding out.”

Dunlap said that the commission’s documents that were turned over to him underscore the hollowness of those claims: “they do not contain evidence of widespread voter fraud,” he said in his report, adding that some of the documentation seemed to indicate that the commission was predicting it would find evidence of fraud, evincing “a troubling bias.”

In particular, Dunlap pointed to an outline for a report the commission was working on that circulated in November 2017. The outline included sections for “Improper voter registration practices,” and “Instances of fraudulent or improper voting,” though the sections themselves were blank as they awaited evidence, speaking to what Dunlap said indicated a push for preordained conclusions.

“After reading this,” Dunlap said of the more than 8,000 pages of documents in an interview with The Washington Post, “I see that it wasn’t just a matter of investigating President Trump’s claims that three to five million people voted illegally, but the goal of the commission seems to have been to validate those claims.”

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 15:59 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Als ik toch één iemand graag zie verdwijne uit de Amerikaanse politiek dan is het die achterbakse gluiperd van een Cruz wel.

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 16:14 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
North Korea has not stopped nuclear, missile program: confidential U.N. report
https://mobile.reuters.com/article/amp/idUSKBN1KP026

Trump got played big time.

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 16:13 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Mede dankzij dit sentiment heeft O'Rourke een enorme oorlogskas verzameld, maar ik vraag me soms wel af of dat geld niet deels beter besteed zou zijn in bijvoorbeeld North Dakota.

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 18:17 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ik weet niet of dat de reden is. Zo uit mijn hoofd is dit na Arizona en nog een staat de meest "kansrijke" poging om een rode zetel in de senaat te veroveren qua partisan lean, hoewel dat meer zegt over deze midterms. O'Rourke is daarbij ook wel een relatief sterke kandidaat.

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 18:57 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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In Nevada hebben de democrats zeker een hogere kans dan O'Rourke, maar ik denk dat het ook geldt voor Bredesen in Tennessee.

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 19:19 schreef Monolith het volgende:
De kans op een Democratische meerderheid na de midterms is bij Predictwise nu 14% en het zal ook wel een behoorlijke moonshot zijn dit jaar.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 04-08-2018 om 05:37:36 Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 19:29 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, het moet echt allemaal net goed vallen om dat te laten gebeuren... komt bij dat het me niet zou verbazen als een van de senators uit deze staten hun zetel zullen verliezen: Florida, North Dakota, Indiana en Missouri (resp: Brown, Heitkamp, Donnelly en McCaskill).

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Op zaterdag 4 augustus 2018 22:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 04-08-2018 om 05:37:36 Lebron James was just interviewed by the dumbest man on television, Don Lemon. He made Lebron look smart, which isn’t easy to do. I like Mike! reageer retweet

Na eerder Maxine Waters dom genoemd te hebben, nu ook Lebron James en Don Lemon. Heeft hij ook nog anderen dom genoemd?

Niet om meteen conclusies hieraan te verbinden (naja, afgezien van alle andere racistische shit die hij geflikt heeft):

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 00:09 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Er... de middelste foto is Kahwi Leonard, niet Lebron James

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NBCNews twitterde op zondag 05-08-2018 om 01:08:21 LIVE: President Trump speaks at Ohio rally. https://t.co/hy3NhWZZUL reageer retweet

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 01:12 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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NBCNews twitterde op zondag 05-08-2018 om 01:08:21 LIVE: President Trump speaks at Ohio rally. https://t.co/hy3NhWZZUL reageer retweet

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 01:41 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Die Nederlandse vlaggetjes zijn hier wat misplaatst vind je niet? *America first* *America first*

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 01:43 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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Er zijn geen emoticons met Amerikaanse vlaggetjes op Fok!

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Actor Steven Seagal appointed Russian ministry's 'special representative'

Washington (CNN)Russia appointed actor Steven Seagal as a "special representative" on US-Russian humanitarian ties, the country's Ministry of Foreign Affairs said in statement on its official Facebook page Saturday.

According to the statement, the action star's role will be to promote US-Russia relations "in the humanitarian sphere," adding that the role will include collaboration "in the sphere of culture, public and youth exchanges."
The foreign ministry said the unpaid role will be similar to the United Nations' goodwill ambassador positions.
Seagal, who became a Russian citizen in 2016, is a close friend of Russian President Vladimir Putin. He attended Putin's recent swearing-in ceremony in May.

Seagal has been an ardent supporter of Putin, going so far as to defend his government against allegations of election meddling in the United States. He told Piers Morgan on the British ITV network's "Good Morning Britain" last year, "For anyone to think that Vladimir Putin had anything to do with fixing the elections, or even that the Russians have that kind of technology, is stupid."
"And this kind of propaganda is really a diversion ... so that the people in the United States of America won't really see what's happening, " he added.
In the interview, Seagal also praised Putin as "a great world leader" and a "brilliant tactician."
In 2013, BuzzFeed reported that Putin suggested to President Barack Obama that Seagal serve as an honorary envoy of Russia to help improve relations between the two countries. Also that year, California Republican Rep. Dana Rohrabacher credited Seagal with facilitating meetings for a congressional delegation that visited Russia in the wake of the Boston Marathon bombings to investigate the suspects' backgrounds and discuss intelligence sharing issues.

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Op vrijdag 3 augustus 2018 13:11 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
https://www.politico.eu/a(...)waiting-uk-us-media/

Dit kan niet waar zijn! In welk universum leeft die malloot?

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 09:12 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:
Even terug naar de reden voor die fantastische topic-titel (ja alles gaat zo snel dat het al weer maanden geleden lijkt), maar: hoe is hier eigenlijk in Engeland op gereageerd, van officiële zijde?

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valentinelow twitterde op vrijdag 03-08-2018 om 12:35:03 Shocking news: Donald Trump has called reports that he kept the Queen waiting "fake news". The shock is that he is right. He didn't keep the Queen waiting. In fact, he was early, and had to wait before going up to Windsor Castle. reageer retweet

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valentinelow twitterde op vrijdag 03-08-2018 om 17:33:08 @bexhc73 She has due to wait. It was timetabled. It's what happens. She comes out, she waits for 10 minutes, he arrives. It's what always happens. It is what the press was told would happen - I was one of them - and it is precisely how it panned out. reageer retweet

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Keeping the Queen Waiting

Some observers also criticized President Trump for allegedly arriving late to his meeting with the Queen at Windsor Castle, or at the very least keeping her waiting for an unduly long period of time. This claim is also dubious.

President Trump was scheduled to arrive at Windsor Castle at 5:00 PM local time on Friday, 13 July. At 4.48pm, Elizabeth emerged into the quadrangle in anticipation of the U.S. president’s impending arrival by helicopter. In the BBC’s live coverage, it was noted that this move likely came after a signal that the Queen’s guest was approaching.

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In the end, Trump and the First Lady emerged from their car in the quadrangle of Windsor Castle at exactly 5:00 PM, according to CNN’s video footage.

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Fake News reporting, a complete fabrication, that I am concerned about the meeting my wonderful son, Donald, had in Trump Tower. This was a meeting to get information on an opponent, totally legal and done all the time in politics - and it went nowhere. I did not know about it!

https://twitter.com/realD(...)084333315153924?s=19

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 14:45 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
"totally legal and done all the time in politics"

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 15:05 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Dit is dus de stap van "NO COLLUSION!!" naar "Okay, a tiny little bit of collusion, BUT THATS TOTALLY LEGAL!!" die iedereen al mijlenver van tevoren zag aankomen.

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 15:31 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Het laatste zinnetje maakt het eigenlijk nog mooier: "Ik wist er niets vanaf". Daarmee gooit hij toch eigenlijk zijn zoon voor de bus.

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 15:40 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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We eindigen met "I knew everything, and it was Genius. Only idiots do not do collusion. Totally legal, totally smart!".

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The Fake News hates me saying that they are the Enemy of the People only because they know it’s TRUE. I am providing a great service by explaining this to the American People. They purposely cause great division & distrust. They can also cause War! They are very dangerous & sick!

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 16:54 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik ben benieuwd wanneer Acosta wordt neergeschoten.

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 17:36 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Tsja, het wachten is op het moment dat een of andere doorgedraaide malloot met de machinegeweer het redactiekantoor van CNN of NYT binnenwandelt en om zich heen begint te schieten. Mocht het onderzoek van Mueller concrete resultaten opleveren die belastend zijn voor Trump, dan vergroot dat de kans dat zoiets gebeurt.

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Trump makes bizarre claim that tariffs will help pay down the massive U.S. debt

President Trump tweeted Sunday morning that his tariffs are “working big time” and made a bizarre claim that the money raised from these new import taxes will go a long way to helping pay down America’s large debt. (Short answer: That’s not what will happen).

Trump portrays the tariffs as a tax on foreigners, but the reality is that tariffs are taxes on U.S. companies and consumers. When a big U.S. retail chain or an equipment manufacturer has to pay 10 or 25 percent more to get steel from Canada or a certain part from China, that U.S. company has to pay the tax when it imports that item. U.S. businesses either eat that extra cost or pass it along to consumers.

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In terms of Trump’s claim that money raised from the tariffs will help pay down the debt, the United States has a debt of over $21 trillion. The president has imposed tariffs on $85 billion worth of foreign goods so far, meaning that, at most, his tariffs would raise about $21 billion, a minuscule percentage (0.1 percent) of the debt.

Since taking office, Trump has added substantially to the debt, with a large tax cut and additional government spending on the military and various domestic priorities. In total, he has added about $1.6 trillion to the debt since taking office (higher if you take into account additional interest charges), according to the Congressional Budget Office. The money raised from the tariffs does little to counterbalance all the money Trump has added to the debt.

He has also announced $12 billion in aid to farmers hurt by the tariffs. That is additional spending that further reduces the money raised from his tariffs by nearly half.

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The bottom line: The tariffs do raise money for the U.S. government, but it’s a small amount — and it’s mostly being paid for by Americans.

Bron: WaPo

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 17:36 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Tsja, het wachten is op het moment dat een of andere doorgedraaide malloot met de machinegeweer het redactiekantoor van CNN of NYT binnenwandelt en om zich heen begint te schieten. Mocht het onderzoek van Mueller concrete resultaten opleveren die belastend zijn voor Trump, dan vergroot dat de kans dat zoiets gebeurt.

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 20:01 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Het ging net in ‘Reliable Sources’ op CNN over bedreigingen aan het adres van de media. Ze lieten zo’n wappie horen die inbelde naar MSNBC en gewoon zei dat ie bepaalde CNN-journalisten dood zou schieten als ie ze zou zien.

Eén van de bedreigden was de presentator van het programma en die zei dat ie zich niet echt zorgen maakte omdat ie door CNN afdoende wordt beveiligd.
Maar het is wel van de zotte natuurlijk.

En dat allemaal door een president die zo bang is dat de media ‘m van de troon zal stoten met onthullingen over z’n gedrag dat ie z’n aanhangers ophitst tegen die media.

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 19:52 schreef Mike het volgende:
De tweet van Trump over de Trump Tower meeting is groot nieuws vandaag natuurlijk in de VS. Behalve dan bij FOX News en Breitbart, waar er niks over te vinden is (of ze hebben het erg goed weggestopt).

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For instance, 70-year-old Nina Tomasieski spends up to 14 hours per day tweeting the praises of President Trump and his allies while her television is tuned to Fox News Channel.

http://www.foxnews.com/te(...)weet-very-often.html

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 21:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
America first heeft ook afgedaan zo te zien:

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 21:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
America first heeft ook afgedaan zo te zien:

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 21:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
America first heeft ook afgedaan zo te zien:

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 19:52 schreef Mike het volgende:
De tweet van Trump over de Trump Tower meeting is groot nieuws vandaag natuurlijk in de VS. Behalve dan bij FOX News en Breitbart, waar er niks over te vinden is (of ze hebben het erg goed weggestopt).

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 21:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
America first heeft ook afgedaan zo te zien:

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 22:03 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Putin kijkt intussen grijnzend hoe alles volgens plan verloopt.

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Voorafgaand aan de bijeenkomst zegt een supporter van de president: "Het Rusland-onderzoek is er om de aandacht van andere dingen weg te nemen, maar van wat het de aandacht wegneemt weet ik niet."

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"Er is een hele hoop nepnieuws hier en dat moet worden aangetoond." Gevraagd naar voorbeelden zegt hij: "Dat is een lastige, die heb ik eigenlijk niet."

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 22:06 schreef remlof het volgende:

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Die begint nu echt te denken dat een Amerikaans-Russische federatie tot de mogelijkheden behoort

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 22:17 schreef J.B. het volgende:
Trump-aanhangers: 'Sommige media zijn echt vijanden van het volk'
http://nos.nl/l/2244732

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Het probleem met de mensen die de onzinnige beweringen van Trump over de media geloven is in deze twee passages wel mooi samengevat.

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 23:28 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Ook de reactie van die gast met zijn "CNN Sucks" shirt dat hij wel wordt overvallen door die vraag...
Dan is je enige argument vermoedelijk dus echt: "Ja, maar Trump zegt dat het zo is".

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 22:30 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:

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Eerst alaska annexeren met mannen in groene pakken, en een referendum afroepen.

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 22:17 schreef J.B. het volgende:
Trump-aanhangers: 'Sommige media zijn echt vijanden van het volk'
http://nos.nl/l/2244732

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Het probleem met de mensen die de onzinnige beweringen van Trump over de media geloven is in deze twee passages wel mooi samengevat.

Shrinking GOP, Stormy Setup, Trump Challengers | Overtime with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 01:59 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:

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Bij bill maher zat iemand die extensief onderzoek ernaar heeft gedaan, hoewel trump de koch broers aanvalt stelt hij hun kandidaat aan bij de supreme justice court. Alles is chaos om de doelstellingen te verbergen.

Shrinking GOP, Stormy Setup, Trump Challengers | Overtime with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Nancy MacLean: The GOP's Long Game | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Op zondag 5 augustus 2018 21:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
America first heeft ook afgedaan zo te zien:

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W7VOA twitterde op vrijdag 03-08-2018 om 14:32:04 US trade deficit grew to $46.3 billion in June, first increase in four months. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 11:00 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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W7VOA twitterde op vrijdag 03-08-2018 om 14:32:04 US trade deficit grew to $46.3 billion in June, first increase in four months. reageer retweet

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paulkrugman twitterde op maandag 06-08-2018 om 07:37:34 This is the worst thing about Trump trade policy I've read yet. Tariffs are one thing; tariffs that are enforced selectively, at the discretion of political appointees, are much worse -- an open invitation to corruption https://t.co/Uu9V8dyV75 reageer retweet

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WASHINGTON — Two of America’s biggest steel manufacturers — both with deep ties to administration officials — have successfully objected to hundreds of requests by American companies that buy foreign steel to exempt themselves from President Trump’s stiff metal tariffs. They have argued that the imported products are readily available from American steel manufacturers.

Charlotte-based Nucor, which financed a documentary film made by a top trade adviser to Mr. Trump, and Pittsburgh-based United States Steel, which has previously employed several top administration officials, have objected to 1,600 exemption requests filed with the Commerce Department over the past several months.

To date, their efforts have never failed, resulting in denials for companies that are based in the United States but rely on imported pipes, screws, wire and other foreign steel products for their supply chains.

The ability of a single industry to exert so much influence over the exclusions process is striking even in Mr. Trump’s business-friendly White House, given the high stakes for thousands of American companies that depend on foreign metals. But the boundaries of trade policy are being tested by the scope of Mr. Trump’s multifront trade war with allies and adversaries alike, which includes tariffs on up to $200 billion worth of goods from China and possible tariffs on automobiles and auto parts.

Mr. Trump’s decision to impose 25 percent tariffs on steel and 10 percent on aluminum, even from allies like Canada, Mexico, the European Union and Japan, is just one part of that battle. But it has drawn a strong rebuke from foreign governments, Republican lawmakers and many business groups, including automakers, beverage companies, farm equipment manufacturers and food packagers, who say it will inflict financial pain on companies that employ millions of American workers.

To help minimize the impact, the administration established a process for companies to request “exclusions” for any product they could not otherwise buy in the United States, such as tire rods or razor blades. But the Commerce Department, which is overseeing the process, also allowed American companies to argue against an exclusion request. The metal tariffs are the only ones so far to have such a process.

Since May, companies have filed more than 20,000 requests for steel tariff exemptions. As of the end of July, the Commerce Department had denied 639 requests.

Half of those denials came in cases where United States Steel, Nucor or a third large steel maker, AK Steel Holding Corporation, filed an objection, a New York Times analysis shows. Nearly all of the rest were in cases where the company applying for an exclusion erred in its submission, Commerce Department officials say.

Department officials said on Friday that they have not granted a single steel exclusion request that drew an objection. They have granted 20 aluminum exclusions over an objection, because the objecting company did not actually cite the product in question.

Wilbur Ross, the commerce secretary, has defended the exclusion process and said the steel makers’ ability to provide products should be taken into account.

“If a product is available in enough quantity and quality to meet demand, the objection is generally sustained,” Mr. Ross said in an email. “Each situation is treated individually. If no objection has been filed, and there is no specific national security issue regarding the import, we generally grant the exclusion request.”

Mr. Trump has made no secret that he wants to boost American steel makers, and several of his top administration officials have deep ties to the steel industry. As the head of a private equity fund, Mr. Ross bought and operated several steel companies, which he later sold at a profit, and he sat on a steel company’s board of directors until his confirmation.

The United States trade representative, Robert Lighthizer, represented United States Steel and other steel manufacturers in private practice as a lawyer, and so did his deputy, Jeffrey Gerrish. Nucor spent $1 million to fund a documentary, “Death by China,” made by Peter Navarro, a Trump trade adviser, in 2011.

Nucor has played a role in one-quarter of the denials. In most cases, at least one other company also objected to a request that drew an objection from the three large steel makers.

“The tariffs are working,” said John Ferriola, Nucor’s chairman, chief executive and president. “They are protecting our national security and stimulating additional domestic steel production.”

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The American college campus, we are led to believe, is a dangerous place: If you say what you really think, particularly as a conservative, a mob of young social justice warriors will come for your faculty position or invitation to speak on campus. Entire books and online magazines are premised on the idea that political correctness is sweeping the American university, threatening both higher education and the broader right to free speech.

But a brand new data analysis from Georgetown University’s Free Speech Project suggests that this “crisis” is more than a little overblown. There have been relatively few incidents of speech being squelched on college campuses, and there’s in fact limited evidence that conservatives are being unfairly targeted.

The Free Speech Project’s researchers have cataloged more than 90 incidents since 2016 that fit their criteria for a person’s free speech rights being threatened. Of those 90, about two-thirds took place on college campuses. These incidents range from a speaker being disinvited to a faculty member being fired over allegedly offensive comments to a student-run play being canceled over concerns it would offend.

The raw numbers here should already raise questions about the so-called political correctness epidemic. According to the Department of Education, there are 4,583 colleges and universities in the United States (including two- and four-year institutions). The fact that there were roughly only 60 incidents in the past two years suggests that free speech crises are extremely rare events and don’t define university life in the way that critics suggest.

Moreover, there’s a consistent pattern in the data when it comes to conservatives — one that tells a different story than you hear among free speech panickers.

“Most of the incidents where presumptively conservative speech has been interrupted or squelched in the last two or three years seem to involve the same few speakers: Milo Yiannopoulos, Ben Shapiro, Charles Murray, and Ann Coulter ,” Sanford Ungar, the Free Speech Project’s director, writes. “In some instances, they seem to invite, and delight in, disruption.”

What Ungar is suggesting here is that the "campus free speech" crisis is somewhat manufactured. Conservative student groups invite speakers famous for offensive and racially charged speech -- all of the above speakers fit that bill -- in a deliberate attempt to provoke the campus left. In other words, they're trolling. When students react by protesting or disrupting the event, the conservatives use it as proof that there's real intolerance for conservative ideas.

The other key thing that emerges from the Georgetown data, according to Ungar, is that these protests and disruptions don't just target the right. "Our data also include many incidents, generally less well-publicized, where lower-profile scholars, speakers, or students who could be considered to be on the left have been silenced or shut down," he writes.

Examples include Princeton professor Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor's commencement speech being canceled after receiving death threats for criticizing President Donald Trump and the president of Sonoma State University apologizing for allowing a black student to read a poem critical of police violence at commencement.

There's little reason, according to Ungar, to conclude from any of this that conservative views are uniquely unwelcome on campus.

"One among many untested concepts," he writes, "is whether the survey results would be different if conservative student groups, instead of repeatedly inviting campus visitors who have built a brand of disruption, were to sponsor serious intellectual dialogue with thinkers on the right."


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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 08:34 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Van die mensen die altijd zo hard gaan op 'freedom', maar stiekem veel meer fan zijn van autocratic.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 06-08-2018 om 13:30:00 Trump starts his day at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ.This is Trump's 182nd day at a Trump property as president and his 139th day at a Trump golf club as president. reageer retweet

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 13:35 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 06-08-2018 om 13:30:00 Trump starts his day at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ.This is Trump's 182nd day at a Trump property as president and his 139th day at a Trump golf club as president. reageer retweet

Hij had het natuurlijk ook wel zwaar dit weekend. Zo'n oude man met weinig energie heeft veel rust nodig.

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 15:29 schreef gniffie het volgende:

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Eerste golf tripje sinds tijden? Weinig erover gehoord dat al dat 'fake news' de afgelopen maanden

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 15:47 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Nee hoor, elke paar dagen rijdt hij in zijn karretje rond, zelfs op de green. De luie zak doet niets anders dan twitteren en golfen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 06-08-2018 om 16:13:10 “Collusion with Russia was very real. Hillary Clinton and her team 100% colluded with the Russians, and so did Adam Schiff who is on tape trying to collude with what he thought was Russians to obtain compromising material on DJT. We also know that Hillary Clinton paid through.... reageer retweet

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 16:18 schreef Ulx het volgende:
En zijn dag op de golfbaan zit er weer op. Hard aan het werk nu.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 06-08-2018 om 16:13:10 “Collusion with Russia was very real. Hillary Clinton and her team 100% colluded with the Russians, and so did Adam Schiff who is on tape trying to collude with what he thought was Russians to obtain compromising material on DJT. We also know that Hillary Clinton paid through.... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 06-08-2018 om 16:25:56 ....a law firm, eventually Kremlin connected sources, to gather info on Donald Trump. Collusion is very real with Russia, but only with Hillary and the Democrats, and we should demand a full investigation.” Dan Bongino on @foxandfriends Looking forward to the new IG Report! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 16:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 06-08-2018 om 16:25:56 ....a law firm, eventually Kremlin connected sources, to gather info on Donald Trump. Collusion is very real with Russia, but only with Hillary and the Democrats, and we should demand a full investigation.” Dan Bongino on @foxandfriends Looking forward to the new IG Report! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 16:29 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Adam Schiff on tape? Waar heeft die man het over?

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The United States on Monday reimposed the first round of Iranian trade sanctions that had been suspended under the 2015 nuclear agreement, distancing itself from every other country that signed the agreement and putting the accord’s future in jeopardy.

Administration officials said the sanctions that have been waived for the past two and a half years will be snapped back officially on Tuesday morning at one minute past midnight.

From that moment on, Iran will be prohibited from using U.S. dollars, the primary currency used for international financial transactions and oil purchases. Trade in metals and sales of Iranian-made cars will be banned. Permits allowing the import of Iranian carpets and food, such as pistachios, will be revoked. So will licenses that have allowed Tehran to buy U.S. and European aircraft and parts — a restriction that comes just days after Iran completed the acquisition of five new commercial planes from Europe.

In a background call to reporters, senior administration officials said the goal was twofold: to prod Iran to renegotiate the nuclear agreement so it also addresses Iran’s ballistic missile tests and adventuresome activities in the region, and to change the government’s behavior. They presented the United States as standing with Iranian protesters unhappy with the faltering economy and social issues, but insisted the United States is not seeking to get Iranians to rise up and institute regime change.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 06-08-2018 om 16:52:46 Great financial numbers being announced on an almost daily basis. Economy has never been better, jobs at best point in history. Fixing our terrible Trade Deals is a priority-and going very well. Immigration on Merit Based System to take care of the companies coming back to U.S.A. reageer retweet

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U.S. cities struggling with soaring housing costs have found some success in lowering rents this year, but that relief has not reached the renters most at risk of losing their housing.

Nationally, the pace of rent increases is beginning to slow down, with the average rent in at least six cities falling since last summer, according to Zillow data.

But the decline is being driven primarily by decreasing prices for high-end rentals. People in low-end housing, the apartments and other units that house working-class residents, are still paying more than ever.

Since last summer, rents have fallen for the highest earners while increasing for the poorest in San Francisco, Atlanta, Nashville, Chicago, Philadelphia, Denver, Pittsburgh, Portland and Washington, D.C., among other cities. In several other metro areas — including Los Angeles, Las Vegas, Houston and Miami — rents have risen for the poor and the rich alike.

The ongoing increase in prices for low-end renters poses a challenge for city officials who have vowed to lower housing costs for working-class residents already struggling with tepid wage growth in the U.S. economy.

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 17:27 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
Wat velen al vermoedden wordt nu weer iets substantielers

https://www.buzzfeednews.(...)-qanon-is-probably-a

Achteraf wel fijn dus dat QAnon even wat meer mainstream werd zodat media er wat meer onderzoeksjournalisten op gooien om e.e.a. uit te zoeken.

CNN reporter talks to conspiracy theorists at Trump rally

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 16:32 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Aha, er is een tweede IG-rapport in de maak?

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 18:16 schreef mcmlxiv het volgende:

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Waar is zomerindebol wanneer we hem nodig hebben?

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Op maandag 6 augustus 2018 17:27 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
Wat velen al vermoedden wordt nu weer iets substantielers

https://www.buzzfeednews.(...)-qanon-is-probably-a

Achteraf wel fijn dus dat QAnon even wat meer mainstream werd zodat media er wat meer onderzoeksjournalisten op gooien om e.e.a. uit te zoeken.

Jay Sekulow On His False Claims That Trump Didn't Dictate Don Jr Statement: 'I Had Bad Information'

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As president, Donald Trump has uttered more than 4,000 falsehoods or misleading statements. And the spokespeople and advisers tasked with squaring Trump's version of reality with actual reality must often contort themselves accordingly. Early in the administration, this meant Kellyanne Conway talking about how the administration had “alternative facts.” Later, it was Sean Spicer explaining that he didn't “knowingly” lie to the American people.

On Sunday, they tried a couple of new tacks: asserting that “facts develop” and saying that the president “misspoke” — while saying something he has said dozens of times.

The first came on ABC News's “This Week.” In light of Trump's problematic new tweet about the 2016 Trump Tower meeting, George Stephanopoulos challenged the president's personal attorney Jay Sekulow on two past, disproven assurances that Trump hadn't authored the initial, misleading statement about it. (That statement said the meeting was “primarily” about the adoption of Russian children.)

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The 2018 wildfire year has been devastating. As of Monday, the National Interagency Fire Center reports that there are 60 uncontained large fires across the country.

These deadly infernos have killed several firefighters, forced hundreds of people to flee, and destroyed hundreds of homes and thousands of acres of wilderness.

The Carr Fire in Northern California is now the state’s fifth-largest fire on record after igniting more than 160,0000 acres and has already killed seven people. But it’s been bested in size by the Mendocino Complex fire, which, at 273,000 acres, is the second-largest in state history. The largest remains last year’s Thomas Fire.

Late last month, President Trump signed a federal emergency declaration for the state of California, allowing the federal government to assist with firefighting efforts.

So it’s not surprising that Trump would weigh in on the California blazes. But on Sunday night, he used them to bash environmental regulations:

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There are a few things that are bewildering about this statement. First, human activity is definitely making these fires worse: People are building in vulnerable areas, they are igniting most of these fires, and humans are driving climate change, which makes fire conditions more severe.

But environmental laws about water that would be used to put the fires out?

Even wildfire scientists don’t really know what the president was referring to. California has been parched from drought for years, so there isn’t a “massive amount of readily available water,” and what little moisture is available is closely tracked.

“We do manage all of our rivers in California, and all the water is allocated many times over. So I’m not sure what he was recommending,” LeRoy Westerling, a professor at the University of California Merced studying wildfires, told the San Francisco Chronicle. “Even if we eliminated all habitat for riparian species and fish, and allowed saltwater intrusion into the delta and set up a sprinkler system over the state, that wouldn’t compensate for greater moisture loss from climate change.”

That means if California hoarded every raindrop instead of “diverting into the Pacific Ocean,” it still wouldn’t completely offset evaporation from rising average temperatures and years of drought.

This water also wouldn’t be all that useful for firefighters. Wildfires are a natural part of the ecosystem, so the goal is to allow these fires to burn without threatening lives and property, and spraying water isn’t the main method for containing them.

For wildland firefighters, the tools of the trade are Pulaskis, rakes, shovels, and flamethrowers that burn clearings ahead of towering infernos. Instead of fire engines, they use bulldozers. Since these firefighters aren’t usually using pump trucks and fire hoses, they aren’t limited by water. When they need to snuff out an area, they often do it by air.

These methods help firefighters clear a perimeter of potential fuel to control the spread of flames. But as Westerling added on Twitter, the president’s suggestion of “tree clear” only goes so far.

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LeroyWesterling twitterde op maandag 06-08-2018 om 02:20:21 ‘Tree clearing’ isn’t goint to help with the fires burning in grass and shrub fuels. But California is investing millions in fuels treatments funded by our carbon permit auction revenue. It would be wonderful if the Federal gov emulated us, since it owns most of the trees here https://t.co/4NJ1Qh54LE reageer retweet

There were indeed regulations that prevented firefighting equipment from being used, but officials say water rules are not hampering firefighting efforts. In fact, the largest fires in California right now have plenty of water nearby. Scott McLean, a spokesperson for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, pointed out that the Carr Fire burned around Shasta Lake while the Mendocino Complex Fire is near Clear Lake.

For a state like California that’s facing increasing heat and more frequent weather whiplash between extreme rain and drought, the real “bad environmental laws” worsening the situation are actually Trump’s attempts to roll back policies — like California’s Clean Air Act waiver — that would help mitigate climate change.