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

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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.