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Vice President - Mike Pence

Het kabinet
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

Cabinet-level officials:
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

Andere kopstukken:
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).

Verdwenen of voormalige kopstukken:
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

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Op donderdag 9 augustus 2018 23:02 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Trump is bang voor een "perjury trap". Makkelijk te vermijden, overigens, als je niet liegt onder ede kan je ook geen meineed plegen.

Every Donald Trump Sniff At The 2nd Debate (original)

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Senior American national security officials, seeking to prevent President Trump from upending a formal policy agreement at last month’s NATO meeting, pushed the military alliance’s ambassadors to complete it before the forum even began.

The work to preserve the North Atlantic Treaty Organization agreement, which is usually subject to intense 11th-hour negotiations, came just weeks after Mr. Trump refused to sign off on a communiqué from the June meeting of the Group of 7 in Canada.

The rushed machinations to get the policy done, as demanded by John R. Bolton, the national security adviser, have not been previously reported. Described by European diplomats and American officials, the efforts are a sign of the lengths to which the president’s top advisers will go to protect a key and longstanding international alliance from Mr. Trump’s unpredictable antipathy.

Allied ambassadors said the American officials’ plan worked — to a degree.

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Mr. Trump did almost blow up the two-day meeting in Brussels that began on July 11. He issued a vague threat that the United States could go its own way if allies resisted his demands for additional military spending. After the gathering, he also questioned a pillar of the alliance: that an attack on one NATO country is an attack on all.

But the approval of the communiqué — renamed for the meeting as a declaration — was critical for the alliance. It ensured that, despite Mr. Trump’s rhetorical fireworks, NATO diplomats could push through initiatives, including critical Pentagon priorities to improve allied defenses against Russia.

“The president’s national security team did a good job of salvaging a minimally successful outcome to the NATO summit,” said James G. Stavridis, a retired four-star admiral who also once served as the supreme allied commander for Europe.

But, he added, “it is unfortunate that the president’s apparent personal animus continues to create friction in an alliance that has stood the test of time.”

In June, weeks before the meeting, Mr. Bolton sent his demand to Brussels through Kay Bailey Hutchison, the American ambassador to NATO. He wanted the NATO communiqué to be completed early, before the president left for Europe, according to five senior American and European officials familiar with the discussions but described them on the condition of anonymity to avoid angering the White House.

NATO’s secretary general, Jens Stoltenberg, reinforced Mr. Bolton’s directive during a gathering of the ambassadors on July 4. The usual infighting over the summit agreement, he said, had to be dropped.

He asked the delegations to finish their work by July 6 at 10 p.m. Brussels time.

Fearful of a repeat of the G-7 disaster — in which Mr. Trump refused to sign off on the joint communiqué, escalated a trade war and publicly derided Prime Minister Justin Trudeau of Canada — the emissaries from the NATO countries all agreed.

Two senior European officials said Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Defense Secretary Jim Mattis were also keen to avoid another confrontation similar to the G-7, and the NATO declaration was completed days before leaders set foot in Brussels.

It achieved several goals critical to NATO officials.

Against Russian objections, the military alliance would formally invite Macedonia to join. It would establish an Atlantic Command post, hosted by the United States in Norfolk, Va., to coordinate a swift alliance response in the event of, for instance, a war in Europe between Russia and NATO allies.

And, most important, allies pledged to build up their militaries and provide 30 mechanized battalions, 30 air squadrons and 30 combat vessels, all ready to use in 30 days or less, by 2020 — a force to quickly respond to any attack on an alliance member.

Jamie Shea, a NATO deputy assistant secretary general, called the declaration “the most substantive” agreement that the alliance had put out in years. But its success, according to the American and European officials, lies in the feverish work before the summit meeting to keep it away from Mr. Trump.

“When you read the communiqué, and take into account the work that took place, this is one of the meatiest NATO summits that I can recall,” said Deborah Lee James, a former secretary of the Air Force in the Obama administration.

Eric Pahon, a Pentagon spokesman, said in an email on Thursday that the summit meeting was “extraordinarily successful, and the outcomes are now strengthening the alliance and trans-Atlantic security.”

Garrett Marquis, a spokesman with the White House National Security Council, said that the NATO declaration “displayed the unity of 29 sovereign nations across an array of tough international security challenges.”

Generally, deputy NATO ambassadors and lower-level bureaucrats work on communiqués for months before an alliance summit meeting. It always includes last-minute wrangling over language, particularly as smaller nations use the leverage of an impending deadline to tweak issues sensitive to them.

At a 2016 meeting in Warsaw, last-minute changes in the communiqué were shown to President Barack Obama. By contrast, American officials said, this year Mr. Trump was presented with only the broad outlines of what the meeting would deliver — not details of the document of 79 paragraphs, running 23 pages.

Approving the communiqué, even rebranded as a declaration, was critical to moving the alliance forward over the coming years.

The new agreement has given American national security officials the ability to assure the public, and skittish allies, that the country’s commitment to the alliance remains intact — no matter any anti-NATO tweets or interviews or statements from Mr. Trump.

The week after the summit meeting, during an interview with Tucker Carlson of Fox News, Mr. Trump questioned whether the United States would defend Montenegro, which is the newest NATO member state and has a fraught relationship with Russia. His national security team deflected questions and criticism by pointing to the NATO declaration as the true sign of American resolve.

The “Four 30s” initiative — the plan for 30 battalions, air squadrons and combat warships ready to respond within 30 days — was pushed hard by Mr. Mattis. It is viewed by the Pentagon as critical to getting America’s NATO allies more fit and able to react quickly to threats as they develop.

If successful, the readiness initiative will funnel new European military spending into building up allied units. That will help forces more quickly deploy to a conflict — a current shortfall the Pentagon and American military leaders have highlighted. Many European members of NATO thought Mr. Mattis was being too ambitious in pushing it.

But in the rush to get the agreement done before the meeting, the Four 30s initiative was approved.

The NATO countries also worked out a mobility agreement devised to let member states’ forces move quickly through sovereign alliance territory across Europe. It is another piece meant to help NATO countries respond quickly to Russian aggression.

The NATO ambassadors also said the American demand to get the agreement done before Mr. Trump arrived served to silence, for the moment, some of the squabbles within the alliance, including whether it is doing enough for southern allies or enough on counterterrorism.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 00:25:51 TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas governor Colyer calls on GOP primary foe Secretary of State Kobach to stop advising county election officials. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 01:00 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Het is toch wel genant ook. Alles wordt nu van te voren onderhandeld en beklonken voor er een belangrijke Top plaatsvindt om te voorkomen dat Trump de boel laat escaleren. Er wordt gewoon om hem heen gewerkt

U.S. Officials Scrambled Behind the Scenes to Shield NATO Deal From Trump

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Op donderdag 9 augustus 2018 23:02 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:
Trump is bang voor een "perjury trap". Makkelijk te vermijden, overigens, als je niet liegt onder ede kan je ook geen meineed plegen.

Don't Talk to the Police

Don't Talk to Cops, Part 2

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 12:18 schreef drexciya het volgende:

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Nee, dat ligt veel subtieler. Kijk maar eens op YouTube naar de video; "Don't talk to the police". De enige manier om niet genaaid te worden, als de politie je wil naaien, is door niets te zeggen. Deel 1 is van een advocaat, en deel 2 van een politieagent:

Don't Talk to the Police

Don't Talk to Cops, Part 2

Hoe wil je trouwens voorkomen dat je een inconsistente verklaring aflegt, als je wordt gevraagd naar zaken van meer dan een maand geleden (in het geval van Trump waarschijnlijk meer dan een minuut)? Vrijwel niemand kan dat precies reproduceren, en dat wordt een "perjury trap" als de andere partij dat allemaal heeft gearchiveerd of anderszins heeft vastgelegd.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 12:18 schreef drexciya het volgende:
Hoe wil je trouwens voorkomen dat je een inconsistente verklaring aflegt, als je wordt gevraagd naar zaken van meer dan een maand geleden (in het geval van Trump waarschijnlijk meer dan een minuut)? Vrijwel niemand kan dat precies reproduceren, en dat wordt een "perjury trap" als de andere partij dat allemaal heeft gearchiveerd of anderszins heeft vastgelegd.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 12:18 schreef drexciya het volgende:

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Nee, dat ligt veel subtieler. Kijk maar eens op YouTube naar de video; "Don't talk to the police". De enige manier om niet genaaid te worden, als de politie je wil naaien, is door niets te zeggen. Deel 1 is van een advocaat, en deel 2 van een politieagent:

Don't Talk to the Police

Don't Talk to Cops, Part 2

Hoe wil je trouwens voorkomen dat je een inconsistente verklaring aflegt, als je wordt gevraagd naar zaken van meer dan een maand geleden (in het geval van Trump waarschijnlijk meer dan een minuut)? Vrijwel niemand kan dat precies reproduceren, en dat wordt een "perjury trap" als de andere partij dat allemaal heeft gearchiveerd of anderszins heeft vastgelegd.

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[...]
Giuliani knows that, if he demands unreasonable conditions, and Mueller declines, then Mueller likely will issue a subpoena. The court battle over the subpoena, in turn, will take several months, running up to and through the midterms. If that happens, Giuliani and Trump can claim: “Hey, we offered to come in for an interview, Mueller rejected us, now we are in court thanks to Mueller, so blame him for ‘politicizing’ this investigation.” This strategy dovetails with Trump’s “Rigged Witch Hunt” refrain and the notion that Mueller’s investigation is politically motivated. At a minimum, this approach will mobilize hardcore Trump supporters. It may even lead to long-term public fatigue as the case winds its way through the courts over many months. Mueller, of course, has run the tightest of ships and will say nothing publicly to rebut these accusations, no matter how much Giuliani taunts him.

Assuming Mueller prevails on the legal game and the courts uphold a subpoena, and that Trump and Giuliani succeed at their political game, the Trump team still will have to deal with one lingering problem: the subpoena itself. Whatever happens at the polls, if the court agrees that Trump must answer the subpoena, then Mueller has the right to put Trump in front of the grand jury. That is a terrifying scenario for the Trump team. Not only would Trump have to answer questions directly, in person, from Mueller (or one of Mueller’s elite prosecutors), but—and this is the big difference between an agreed-upon interview and a subpoena—Trump’s attorneys cannot be in the grand jury room with him during questioning. Giuliani must shudder to think of how poorly that would go, as the president, unplugged, surely would lurk between lying his face off and openly boasting about crimes he has committed.

So what would Giuliani do in this scenario? Probably make like Clinton and cut his losses. Faced with a bad court ruling requiring Trump to testify in a grand jury, Giuliani likely would significantly revise his recent offer to do a “voluntary” interview under certain conditions, with those conditions loosening to the point of Mueller’s satisfaction. Trump, unaccompanied, in the grand jury has to be a third rail in the minds of his attorneys, so they likely will accede to almost anything Mueller demands in order to avoid that scenario.[...]

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 14:18:55 The NFL players are at it again - taking a knee when they should be standing proudly for the National Anthem. Numerous players, from different teams, wanted to show their “outrage” at something that most of them are unable to define. They make a fortune doing what they love...... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 14:32:40 .....Be happy, be cool! A football game, that fans are paying soooo much money to watch and enjoy, is no place to protest. Most of that money goes to the players anyway. Find another way to protest. Stand proudly for your National Anthem or be Suspended Without Pay! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 14:47:42 I have just authorized a doubling of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum with respect to Turkey as their currency, the Turkish Lira, slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar! Aluminum will now be 20% and Steel 50%. Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 14:50 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 14:47:42 I have just authorized a doubling of Tariffs on Steel and Aluminum with respect to Turkey as their currency, the Turkish Lira, slides rapidly downward against our very strong Dollar! Aluminum will now be 20% and Steel 50%. Our relations with Turkey are not good at this time! reageer retweet

En een tariefje erbij.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 14:56 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik dacht dat hij en Erdogan buddies waren. Is dit vanwege die Amerikaanse pastoor die vast zit?

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 14:56 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik dacht dat hij en Erdogan buddies waren. Is dit vanwege die Amerikaanse pastoor die vast zit?

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:00 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Nee joh, is schaken. Hij heeft Erdogan precies waar hij hem hebben wil.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:04 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Is het ooit eerder gebeurd dat er zo, naar het zich doet aanzien, lichtzinnig met dit soort maatregelen omgesprongen wordt?

Bijna de helft van de in Turkije geproduceerde staal is bestemd voor de VS. Potentieel een dure grap dit voor de Turken?
https://www.trade.gov/ste(...)3/exports-turkey.pdf

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:04 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Is het ooit eerder gebeurd dat er zo, naar het zich doet aanzien, lichtzinnig met dit soort maatregelen omgesprongen wordt?

Bijna de helft van de in Turkije geproduceerde staal is bestemd voor de VS. Potentieel een dure grap dit voor de Turken?
https://www.trade.gov/ste(...)3/exports-turkey.pdf

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:09 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Ik kan het me niet herinneren, maar ik ben dan ook geen encyclopedie zoals sommigen hier. Had er laatst nog een artikel over gepost, waarin ook werd gesteld dat er wel heel snel tarieven werden ingesteld als strafmaatregel onder Trump waardoor ze aan kracht verliezen.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:00 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Nee joh, is schaken. Hij heeft Erdogan precies waar hij hem hebben wil.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:24 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Ik weet dat je het sarcastisch zegt, maar hij heeft Erdogan ook echt precies waar hij wilt hebben. Kijk eens in NWS in de Turkije economie topic. Het gaat enorm slecht in Turkije, mede door Trump en zijn sancties.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Vooral een dure grap voor de kopers.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:25 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Het verbaast me ook helemaal niks dat er mensen zijn die dat echt geloven.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:26 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Leef je onder een steen ofzo? Kijk je niet mee wat er gebeurd in Turkije?

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:28 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Jawel hoor, ik weet alleen niet wat dat te maken heeft met Trump die Turkije nu precies heeft waar hij ze hebben wil.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:30 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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... Sinds Trump sancties heeft ingesteld is de lira vs dollar enorm in waarde verloren, hetzelfde met de lira/euro. Je kan doen alsof het niks met Trump heeft te maken maar als Amerikanen nu niet meer zaken mag doen met de 2 belangrijkste ministeries in Turkije dan heeft het een groot probleem en dat zien we ook met het valuta crisis dat Turkije zich nu in bevindt.

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https://www.trade.gov/steel/countries/pdfs/imports-us.pdf

De VS importeert maar 4% van haar totale staal van Turkije, genoeg alternatieven te vinden dus voor Turkije. Dit zal Turkije dus veel harder raken.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:25 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Dat zou alleen zo zijn als het Turkse staal een enorme deel is van het totale staal import van de VS. Dat is het niet, dus zal het Turkije veel en veel harder hitten dan de VS.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:32 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Ik kan van die tweede zin geen chocola maken.

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En dat is allemaal reuze aardig, maar waarom heeft Trump Erdogan nu precies waar hij wil?

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:32 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Maken ze dat type staal dan wel in de VS? Het staal dat ze in IJmuiden maken maakt men niet in de VS. Dus dat moet men daar toch wel kopen, bijvoorbeeld. Het zou me weinig verbazen als er bij Turkije hetzelfde aan de hand is.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:34 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Zal vast zo zijn hoor, maar tegenwoordig zijn er zoveel alternatieven.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:36 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Natuurlijk. Importeren uit China bijvoorbeeld. Of Mexico. Of Can....Oh, verrek zeg....

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:37 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Tja, nood breekt wet he, dan zal Trump vast wel bij Canada zaken doen.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Wat een loser. Met hangende pootjes bij Trudeau aankloppen.....

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:37 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Tja, nood breekt wet he, dan zal Trump vast wel bij Canada zaken doen. Sowieso niet bij China. Maar ik vraag me af he waarom de VS zoiets niet kan produceren?

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat kunnen ze wel. Maar hebben ze de capaciteit? Een nieuwe staalfabriek staat er niet binnen een week.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:40 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Nee dat klopt het zal tijd kosten maar uiteindelijk door het zelf te produceren maak je jezelf niet afhankelijk van andere landen wat voordelig is.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:33 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Omdat Trump met mede door zijn sancties de lira heel hard in waarde heeft laten dalen. Als je dat wilt stoppen moet je een goede relatie krijgen met de VS en vertrouwen winnen in de VS, dat doe je door Brunson eerst vrij te laten en misschien gaan de sancties dan weg.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:39 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat kunnen ze wel. Maar hebben ze de capaciteit? Een nieuwe staalfabriek staat er niet binnen een week.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:42 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Tenzij andere landen het goedkoper produceren.

Staal is een grondstof. Dus prijsverhogingen daar merk je in alles wat ervan gemaakt wordt. Ook de spullen die je wilt exporteren worden duurder.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:31 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Erdogan hebben waar Trump het wil impliceert dat er een bepaald doel is wat Trump wil bereiken. Dat kan met de pastoor die vast zit bv. het geval zijn (die er nota bene al twee decennia woonde), maar wat is er verder dan?

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Turkey raised concerns about a state-run lender, Halkbank, that’s under investigation for its role in a scheme to evade U.S. sanctions on Iran and faces the prospect of a large fine by the U.S. Treasury, according to the official, who spoke Wednesday on condition of anonymity. The lira sank about 3 percent on Thursday to a new record.

The meetings came as Turkey seeks to stanch an economic meltdown amid fallout from U.S. sanctions imposed on its NATO ally over the continued detention of the pastor, Andrew Brunson, who was jailed on espionage and terrorism suspicions more than two years ago and recently released to house arrest. U.S. officials said they wouldn’t discuss relief for Halkbank, or one of its bankers currently in jail, until Brunson was freed, the official said.

Bloomberg

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:40 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Nee dat klopt het zal tijd kosten maar uiteindelijk door het zelf te produceren maak je jezelf niet afhankelijk van andere landen wat voordelig is.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:45 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Klopt, autarkische landen doen het daarom economisch ook stukken beter dan landen die gewoon handel drijven met de rest van de wereld.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:48 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Dat zeg ik niet. Je kan autarkisch zijn in bepaalde sectoren die in belang zijn voor de '' national security '' Staal is er een van, olie ook enzo. Maar iPhones, fietsen, sofa's etc niet

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Maar aangezien niemand nieuwe staalfabrieken gaat bouwen alleen maar omdat Trump met iedereen ruzie schopt heb je daar geen moer aan. Wat wil je gaan doen? De overheid moet de staalfabrieken nationaliseren en uitbreiden van belastinggeld? Dat zie ik zelfs onder de Republikeinen niet gebeuren. En de Dems zijn helemaal van het kapitalisme.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:53 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Wat er uiteindelijk gaat gebeuren is dat Turkije zal zwichten voor Trump en dan zullen de sancties opgeheven worden. Zoals ik al zei, maar 4% van de totale import van staal komt uit Turkije, maar voor Turkije is dat de helft van hun staal export. Turkije zal en moet zwichten. En dan gezellig thee drinken.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:55 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Waar haal je dat cijfer vandaan? Turkije exporteert maar 13% van alle staal naar Amerika.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:57 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

Maar ja, nog steeds zal het Turkije harder raken

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 15:55 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Waar haal je dat cijfer vandaan? Turkije exporteert maar 13% van alle staal naar Amerika.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 16:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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De ene vechter is dood en zijn tegenstander is kasplantje.

Kasplantje heeft gewonnen jongens! MAGA!

Ja tof. Goed plan.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 15-09-2017 om 15:00:48 CHAIN MIGRATION cannot be allowed to be part of any legislation on Immigration! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 05-01-2018 om 00:53:05 Thank you to the great Republican Senators who showed up to our mtg on immigration reform. We must BUILD THE WALL, stop illegal immigration, end chain migration & cancel the visa lottery. The current system is unsafe & unfair to the great people of our country - time for change! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 02-11-2017 om 19:43:47 Congress must end chain migration so that we can have a system that is SECURITY BASED! We need to make AMERICA SAFE! #USA🇺🇸 https://t.co/d7L1YW5iVY reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 02-11-2017 om 00:03:26 CHAIN MIGRATION must end now! Some people come in, and they bring their whole family with them, who can be truly evil. NOT ACCEPTABLE! https://t.co/PQGeTTdRtX reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 16:15 schreef Barbusse het volgende:
De VS heeft militaire bases in Turkije. Als men het hard wilt spelen heeft Erdogan wel wat meer dan alleen een pastoortje als bargaining chip...

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 16:19 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Je bedoelt de NAVO heeft militaire bases? Daar durft Turkije geen vinger op te leggen

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 16:21 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Als ik jou was zou ik deze, en eerdere stellingen van je, niet als een soort vaststaand feit poneren.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 16:25 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Incirilik is toch een NAVO vliegveld?

Of nahja NAVO staat er permanent op gestationeerd.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 16:26 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Turkije kan buitenlandse mogendheden gewoon de toegang ontzeggen hoor. NAVO lid of niet.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 16:27 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Dat is geen ramp voor de VS, wel voor Turkije.

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Perhaps emboldened by their small victory Thursday, when Judge T.S. Ellis III conceded he was “probably wrong” to lambaste the special counsel for doing something he allowed them to do, prosecutors in the Paul Manafort trial have now asked him to tell the jury to ignore another of his intemperate comments.

On Thursday, after Assistant U.S. Attorney Uzo Asonye walked a banker through a $5.5 million loan negotiation with Paul Manafort that ended in rejection, the judge cut in with skepticism.

“You might want to spend time on a loan that was granted,” he said.

When Asonye protested that the attempt to get that loan constituted one of the bank fraud conspiracy charges against Manafort, Ellis responded harshly, “I know that.”

“The Court’s statement that the government ‘might want to spend time on a loan that was granted’ misrepresents the law regarding bank fraud conspiracy, improperly conveys the Court’s opinion of the facts, and is likely to confuse and mislead the jury,” prosecutors wrote in their filing Friday morning. “The Court should provide a curative instruction in order to avoid any potential prejudice to the government.”

Defense attorneys in other cases have pointed to similar comments from Ellis when challenging guilty verdicts in the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. But prosecutors cannot appeal a not-guilty verdict, and so the special counsel has begun challenging Ellis mid-trial.

Prosecutors filed a similar motion Thursday morning, after Ellis yelled at prosecutors for allowing their expert witness to sit through the trial in the gallery, when witnesses are typically excluded from the courtroom so as not to be influenced by other witnesses’ testimony. The transcript of the first day of trial showed Ellis had explicitly allowed the expert, an IRS agent, to stay in the courtroom.

Ellis responded in court by saying that while he had not checked the transcript, he “may well have” allowed the expert in and that the jury should disregard his comments.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 16:54 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Erdogan heeft wel precies wat hij wil, een buitenlandse vijand om de aandacht van zijn falende beleid af te leiden. Dat lijk je voor het gemak te vergeten.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 16:54 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Erdogan heeft wel precies wat hij wil, een buitenlandse vijand om de aandacht van zijn falende beleid af te leiden. Dat lijk je voor het gemak te vergeten.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:06 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Je kan niet ontsnappen aan de realiteit Op een gegeven moment zal het Turkse volk het heel erg in de portemonnee voelen, dan kan Erdogan zoveel smoesjes maken maar dat zal niks veranderen.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:06 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Je kan niet ontsnappen aan de realiteit Op een gegeven moment zal het Turkse volk het heel erg in de portemonnee voelen, dan kan Erdogan zoveel smoesjes maken maar dat zal niks veranderen.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:10 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Die Turken zijn ook niet dom en zien heus wel dat Trump met dergelijke sancties begon.

Vraag jezelf even af of een pastoor het waard is dat een waardevolle ally economisch kapot gaat en dat een vriendschap die essentieel is voor de invloed van de VS in het midden oosten permanente schade op kan lopen.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:12 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Die pastoor is super belangrijk voor Trump. Essentieel voor zijn herverkiezingen. Hij moet zijn evangelische aanhang natuurlijk wel te vriend houden en dat doe je door die pastoor terug te krijgen.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:12 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Die pastoor is super belangrijk voor Trump. Essentieel voor zijn herverkiezingen. Hij moet zijn evangelische aanhang natuurlijk wel te vriend houden en dat doe je door die pastoor terug te krijgen.

Trouwens, keur je het goed dat het regime in Ankara, Amerikaanse burgers zomaar gaat arresteren? Het duurde 1 jaar voordat er überhaupt een aanklacht was tegen Brunson, het is een farce. Erdogan is dit begonnen, niet Trump.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:12 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Die pastoor is super belangrijk voor Trump. Essentieel voor zijn herverkiezingen. Hij moet zijn evangelische aanhang natuurlijk wel te vriend houden en dat doe je door die pastoor terug te krijgen.

Trouwens, keur je het goed dat het regime in Ankara, Amerikaanse burgers zomaar gaat arresteren? Het duurde 1 jaar voordat er überhaupt een aanklacht was tegen Brunson, het is een farce. Erdogan is dit begonnen, niet Trump.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:16 schreef Szura het volgende:

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In de ogen van Erdo en z’n blinde aanhangers begon het met Gulen en die wordt ‘beschermd’ door de VS.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:18 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Trump deelt links en rechts economische sancties uit, vergezeld van drogredenen. Of het nu om de EU gaat, Canada of Turkije.

Ik ben absoluut geen Erdogan fan hoor. Maar Trump moet niet zo miepen. Het lijkt er eerder op dat hij jaloers is op Erdogan. En dan wordt 'ie boos.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Als de aanhang in de rustbelt daardoor ontslagen wordt is dat zinloos.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:19 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Oke

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:05 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
10:45 a.m.: Special counsel again asks judge to tell jury he was wrong

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business twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 16:27:48 Why Donald Trump's steel tariffs are such a big deal for Turkey https://t.co/QVgykbszjE https://t.co/WTFjq3hrtx reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:24 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Die siegheilende slorie van een Ingraham heeft nu voor de derde keer in zes maanden een boycot.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:25 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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business twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 16:27:48 Why Donald Trump's steel tariffs are such a big deal for Turkey https://t.co/QVgykbszjE https://t.co/WTFjq3hrtx reageer retweet

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Mr. Trump’s hostility toward a NATO ally that borders Iran and Syria increased the risk that Turkey’s problems could destabilize economies well beyond the region.

The plunge in the lira raised doubts about Asian and European banks that have invested in the country, and it contributed to declines in stock markets around the world. As with the financial crisis set off by Greece in 2010, Friday’s events were the latest example of how troubles in a nation with a midsize economy but world-class problems could threaten financial stability further afield.

“In financial markets everything is interlinked,” said Bart Hordijk, a market analyst in Amsterdam at Monex Europe, a foreign exchange firm. “You don’t know if one bank has huge exposure to the Turkish lira.”

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Feit is dat Trump bereid is om het risico te nemen dat niet alleen Turkije de dupe wordt van dit conflict, ook andere economieen kunnen de effecten ervan ondervinden en dat allemaal vanwege één pastoor

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:29 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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'First 5 months of the year'. Dat is dus nog ruim voor Trumps' sancties. Lijkt er dus meer op dat de Turkse staalindustrie intern wat problemen heeft.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Feit is dat Trump bereid is om het risico te nemen dat niet alleen Turkije de dupe wordt van dit conflict, ook andere economieen kunnen de effecten ervan ondervinden en dat allemaal vanwege één pastoor

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:48 schreef archito het volgende:

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'het risico nemen' is nog zwak uitgedrukt volgens mij. Het kan hem werkelijk aan zijn reet roesten wat er met andere landen gebeurt.

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A federal judge has found a witness in contempt for refusing to testify before the grand jury hearing evidence in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election.

U.S. District Chief Judge Beryl Howell made the ruling Friday after a sealed hearing to discuss Andrew Miller’s refusal to appear before the grand jury. Miller is a former aide to longtime Trump confidant Roger Stone.

After the hearing, Miller’s lawyer Paul Kamenar said Miller was “held in contempt, which we asked him to be in order for us to appeal the judge’s decision to the court of appeals.”

Howell stayed her order while Miller’s legal team appeals the judge’s decision.

Miller had fought and lost a court battle earlier this month to quash a subpoena, after a judge issued a 93-page opinion saying Miller must testify before the grand jury.

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Peter Flaherty, chairman of the National Legal and Policy Center, a conservative nonprofit that is funding Miller’s legal fight, said Miller had refused to appear before the grand jury in response to a subpoena. Miller is in Missouri, Flaherty said.

Earlier in the day, Kamenar and Flaherty were seen entering Howell’s courtroom before she sealed it, and declined to comment on the proceeding. Kamenar spoke afterward, confirming it was a hearing held after prosecutors filed a motion to find the witness in contempt.

When a subpoenaed witness refuses to testify before a grand jury, that person can be held in contempt. In some cases, such a contempt finding can lead to a witness being sent to jail until the person agrees to testify.

Mueller is investigating Russian interference in the 2016 election and whether any Trump associates conspired with those efforts.

Stone has been under scrutiny by Mueller in part because of a series of public statements and tweets he made during the 2016 campaign appearing to suggest he had advance knowledge of hacked Democratic emails released by the group WikiLeaks. The publication of the emails embarrassed Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton and helped disrupt the presidential race.

U.S. intelligence agencies have concluded the Russian government was behind the hacking of the material from the Democratic Party and the personal email account of Clinton’s campaign chairman, John Podesta.

A grand jury indicted 12 Russian military officers in July for orchestrating the hacks.

Miller worked for Stone during the 2016 presidential campaign, handling duties such as setting up media interviews. He is one of at least a half-dozen of Stone’s associates to be called to testify. Others include his driver, John Kakanis, and a social media consultant, Jason Sullivan. Kristin Davis, who gained notoriety in the 2000s as the “Manhattan Madam” when she ran a high-end prostitution ring, is also expected to testify to the grand jury.

Stone has accused Mueller’s team of harassing his associates.

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renato_mariotti twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 17:49:33 What does he have to hide? If he was hiding his own criminal wrongdoing, he could just take the Fifth. It appears that he is hiding something he knows about what Roger Stone did. https://t.co/ykFMHC2rCn reageer retweet

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U.S. workers' paychecks are worth less than they were a year ago, the labor department reported Friday, as modest wage gains have failed to keep pace with inflation.

Inflation rose 2.9 percent from July 2017 to July 2018, the Labor Department said, while average hourly pay increased 2.7 percent over the same period.

The lack of real wage gains comes despite a strong economy, with sustained growth and an unemployment rate of 3.9 percent -- one of the lowest levels in decades.

The Labor Department tracks average hourly pay adjusted for inflation, which is known as the “real wage.” According to the federal government, the real average hourly wage was $10.78 in July 2017 and $10.76 in July 2018. Real wages have been on a sharp decline since the start of the year.

“Despite the strong labor market, wage growth has lagged economists' expectations,” wrote Pew Research in a report this week. “In fact, despite some ups and downs over the past several decades, today’s real average wage has about the same purchasing power it did 40 years ago.”

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Since 2000, only the top quarter of wage earners have seen any true increase in their pay once you account for inflation, Pew reports. For the middle class, it’s been years of stagnation, and the latest trends aren’t encouraging.

Gas prices, housing and transportation costs have all jumped in the past year, taking a bigger bite out of people’s paychecks. The price of gas has risen 50 cents per gallon in the past year, according to the AAA tracker of the average national price of gas. Used car prices and rent are also up substantially from a year ago, a potential hardship for working-class Americans in need of a new vehicle.

When inflation rises faster than wages, workers fall behind. They have to cut costs from their budgets, use credit cards or put in more hours to try to live the same lifestyle they had enjoyed a year ago. The Labor Department reported that Americans are putting in more time on the job this summer versus last summer, which is helping to keep family earnings about the same for now.

“We are nearly a decade into the recovery and we’re still arguing about whether or not we’re seeing meaningful gains in wages. That should be a given at this point in the cycle,” said Lindsey Piegza, chief economist at Stifel.

President Trump campaigned on getting Americans back to work and getting them a raise as he recognized the frustration of many working people, but it’s proving a challenging task for Trump, much as it was for former presidents Barack Obama and George W. Bush. Trump passed a large tax cut for businesses and consumers that is giving many families more money in their pockets this year and doesn’t show up in the wage data, but families are having to use a good chunk of the tax cut to cover rising energy and housing costs. The president has tweeted several times to try to get Saudi Arabia to produce more oil and lower gas prices.



The last time wages were growing substantially above inflation was in 2016. Since then, inflation has picked up while wages have remained the same. Inflation hit a six-year high this summer and most economists think it will stay around where it currently is or even grow a bit faster, especially if Trump’s tariffs on Chinese products and steel and aluminum drive up costs for consumers.

Most economists have been predicting that pay will take off, with a record-high number of job openings and many business leaders saying their biggest problem is finding enough workers. But so far there’s little sign that businesses are hiking up pay in an effort to attract employees.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:45 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Nee, Trump's sancties gelden vanaf maart. De EU en Canada hadden een periode van vrijstelling, die per 1 juni is opgeheven, maar Turkije had die niet.

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The original graphic shows Trump with a 40 percent approval rating, compared to former President Obama’s 45 percent approval rating from the same point of his presidency. However, the one shared by Trump, Jr., is doctored to show a 50 percent approval rating.

“Amazing. I guess there is a magic wand to make things happen and @realdonaldtrump seems to have it,” Trump Jr. wrote in the Instagram post.

Trump has never received a 50 percent job approval rating in the Gallup weekly tracker of the measurement.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller has subpoenaed Randy Credico to testify before a grand jury next month, according to Credico's attorney.

Martin Stolar told CNN he received a subpoena Thursday and Credico intends to comply and testify on September 7.

Credico, a comedian and radio show host, will likely meet with Mueller's team for a voluntary interview first. Credico previously declined a request from Mueller's team for a voluntary interview.

Roger Stone claimed Credico was his back-channel to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange during the 2016 campaign.
Stolar said it's unclear exactly what Mueller's team wants to question Credico about.

"My speculation is that they probably want to talk to him about Roger Stone and Julian Assange," Stolar said.

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 19:16:22 Roger Stone, "his time 'in the barrel,'" et cetera. https://t.co/zxtEV09UBe reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 19:24:36 Andy Miller--aide to Trump adviser Roger Stone--was required to appear before a grand jury in mid-May. He didn't show up. Then he didn't show up again. Then he didn't show up again. Now it's mid-August. How much do you think he wants to avoid revealing what he knows/what Stone did? reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 17:06 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Je kan niet ontsnappen aan de realiteit Op een gegeven moment zal het Turkse volk het heel erg in de portemonnee voelen, dan kan Erdogan zoveel smoesjes maken maar dat zal niks veranderen.

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The scene inside Ellis’s courtroom Friday morning was unusual in comparison to any other morning in the Manafort trial, now into its ninth day. Before the jury was summoned into the room, Ellis immediately called a bench conference with prosecutors and Manafort’s attorneys.

After that brief meeting with the judge broke up, Manafort got up from his seat and huddled with his entire team of lawyers as the entire courtroom quieted down. From the front row, a friend of Manafort’s wife, Kathleen Manafort, remarked aloud that she thought everyone was trying to listen in to the conversation. She also asked the reporters sitting in the row behind them what they thought was happening.

Paul Manafort, dressed in a blue suit, smiled and had an animated look on his face as his conference with his lawyers transitioned to individual conversations.

Ellis then called lawyers back for a second conference. This time, everyone from Manafort’s team joined the huddle, leaving the defendant by himself at his table to scribble notes as a deputy U.S. marshal sitting behind him kept watch. The judge then took the unusual step of calling the courtroom security officer over to participate — that move fueled speculation about a jury-related issue since that official is in charge of logistics issues involving the jurors.

The conference broke after a short discussion and Ellis announced he needed to recess for about 15 minutes “to consider an issue.” Oddly, he exited the courtroom through a door opposite his own chambers and in the direction of the jury room. The court’s stenographer followed.

This wait lasted longer than Ellis predicted — about 45 minutes — and when the judge returned, he summoned in the jury, took attendance and told them the court would be going back out for the early lunch break. As he has repeatedly throughout the trial, Ellis then delivered multiple warnings about not discussing the case with anyone, even among themselves and added: “Keep an open mind until all the evidence is in.”

As the courtroom emptied and prosecutors carrying all of their materials waited for the elevators, reporters asked Mueller lawyer Uzo Asonye for an update and also whether he could say what was in his cardboard box.

“I could,” Asonye said as an FBI agent loomed to his side, “but I’d have to kill you.”

Whatever is transpiring, the delay seems likely to threaten prosecutors' prediction that they would wrap up their case against Manafort Friday. They had planned to call four additional witnesses before turning the reins over to the defense to present its case next week.

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seungminkim twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 19:06:16 Oh boy -- Omarosa was offered $15K per month to stay silent after her firing from the Trump campaign, via @jdawsey1 https://t.co/O9XRdzpuzn reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 19:32:20 Huh. 15k per month is what Trump’s former bodyguard Keith Schiller has been getting from the RNC. https://t.co/4Efv0ZHpzu https://t.co/Bx8BmzRWxG reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 19:50:03 Ex-Bush aide Michael Gerson: "The only way to save the GOP is to defeat it in the House. In this case, a Republican vote for a Democratic representative will be an act of conscience." https://t.co/Rx2hc9vVSW reageer retweet

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In November, many Republican leaners and independents will face a difficult decision. The national Democratic Party under Nancy Pelosi and Charles E. Schumer doesn’t share their views or values. But President Trump is a rolling disaster of mendacity, corruption and prejudice. What should they do?

They should vote Democratic in their House race, no matter who the Democrats put forward. And they should vote Republican in Senate races with mainstream candidates (unlike, say, Corey Stewart in Virginia).

Why vote strategically in this case? Because American politics is in the midst of an emergency.

If Democrats gain control of the House but not the Senate, they will be a check on the president without becoming a threat to his best policies (from a Republican perspective) or able to enact their worst policies. The tax cut will stand. The Senate will still approve conservative judges. But the House will conduct real oversight hearings and expose both Russian influence and administration corruption. Under Republican control, important committees — such as Chairman Devin Nunes’s House Intelligence Committee — have become scraping, sniveling, panting and pathetic tools of the executive branch. Only Democratic control can drain this particular swamp.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 16:27 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Alles is een ramp voor Turkije, niks is een ramp voor de VS.

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NBCNews twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 21:45:26 US Senate confirmation hearings to consider Brett Kavanaugh's nomination by President Trump as the next US Supreme Court justice are scheduled to begin Sept. 4, Senate Judiciary Cmte. Chairman Grassley announces. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 21:02 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Trump moet met zijn endorsement de establishment kandidaat komen redden in Arizona. Enige probleem: hij wil helemaal geen establishment kandidaat en neigt meer naar de gestoorde sheriff Joe Arpaio (hier al regelmatig langsgekomen) of Kelly "Chemtrails are real" Ward. Ben benieuwd of en zo ja wie hij endorsed voor de primary 28 augustus.

GOP asks for Trump’s help in contentious Arizona Senate primary
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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 22:32 schreef SymbolicFrank het volgende:


Er zijn ook slechte kanten aan de internationale invloed van Trump. Want terwijl de slimmere mensen begrijpen wat een blaaskaak het is: die hadden toch al niet op Wilders en zo gestemd. Zij begrijpen dat zulk beleid op termijn alleen destructief is.

Maar de minder slimme en minder goed opgeleide mensen zien de verkiezing van Trump als een bevestiging: zie je wel dat ze gelijk hebben: zelfs de machtigste persoon ter wereld, de Persident van de VS, is het met hun eens!

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 23:34 schreef VanderWoodsen het volgende:

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Gelukkig zien die na zijn tweede termijn ook wel in dat zijn beleid niet voordelig is voor de lange termijn en mag zijn opvolger zijn kutzooitje weer opruimen

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 23:38 schreef Xa1pt het volgende:

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Ik zie het nog wel gebeuren dat 'ie weer wordt verkozen.

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Op vrijdag 10 augustus 2018 23:39 schreef VanderWoodsen het volgende:

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Daarom zei ik ook na zijn tweede termijn

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Politics are important. They can also be silly. Case in point: The Fort Worth Star-Telegram ran a story on August 9 about how the Beto O’Rourke campaign logo resembles the packaging for Whataburger Spicy Ketchup. As is journalistic practice, the paper approached the Ted Cruz campaign for a comment, and spokesperson Emily Miller offered up the following:

“Unlike the spicy ketchup, when Texans unwrap the O’Rourke packaging, they are definitely not going to like what they see underneath. He’s like a Triple Meat Whataburger liberal who is out of touch with Texas values.”

The response seems like a good-natured jab—until you try to parse what it actually means. Then the message turns cryptic. (That’s true even beyond the first sentence’s misleading structure, which suggests that the spicy ketchup has unwrapped the O’Rourke packaging and liked what it saw underneath. We’re liberal with our spicy ketchup, but we didn’t realize the condiment voted blue. Or could unwrap a person’s packaging.) Was the Cruz campaign saying that O’Rourke—his opponent—is like Whataburger, and that therefore Cruz is anti-Whataburger? Did the spokesperson intend to say that O’Rourke is like Whataburger, and Whataburger is good, therefore O’Rourke is good? Miller did not respond to a request for comment from Texas Monthly, which left us with only one way to understand the potential implications of the Whataburger-themed slam: digging in.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 00:42 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Vrij hilarisch artikel over de Cruz vs O'Rourke campagne in Texas: What Could Ted Cruz’s Campaign Have Meant When It Called Beto O’Rourke a ‘Triple Meat Whataburger Liberal’?

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 00:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Wel een erg donkere tijdslijn heb jij voor ogen.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 00:56 schreef SymbolicFrank het volgende:

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Gezien de herverkiezing van Bush Jr, ben ik het met VDW eens.

De intelligentie van de gemiddelde republikeinse president is vanaf Reagan alleen maar omlaag gegaan. En dat was al geen licht.

Amerikanen hebben geen metrisch stelsel en steeds slechtere opleidingen (behalve de hele dure). Logisch denken is dus steeds moeilijker voor de gemiddelde Amerikaan.

Dat is precies wat bedrijven willen van de consumenten. En die zijn in de VS de baas.

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Op donderdag 9 augustus 2018 11:55 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Bij Seth denk ik altijd, eerst maar eens wachten totdat een krant of iets dergelijks het daadwerkelijk brengt.

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 11-08-2018 om 00:37:14 BREAKING NEWS: Peter Smith Made Suspicious Withdrawals After Making Plan to Find Clinton Emails(see my thread on this topic from just a few days ago for more) https://t.co/KCaNdW5kgk reageer retweet

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In one of the most intriguing episodes of the 2016 presidential campaign, Republican activist Peter W. Smith launched an independent effort to obtain Hillary Clinton’s emails to help defeat her and elect Donald Trump. His quest, which reportedly brought him into contact with at least two sets of hackers that he himself believed were Russian, remains a key focus of investigations into whether the Trump campaign colluded with the Kremlin.

Now, BuzzFeed News has reviewed documents showing that FBI agents and congressional investigators have zeroed in on transactions Smith made right as his effort to procure Clinton’s emails heated up. Just a day after he finished a report suggesting he was working with Trump campaign officials, for example, he transferred $9,500 from an account he had set up to fund the email project to his personal account, later taking out more than $4,900 in cash. According to a person with direct knowledge of Smith’s project, the Republican operative stated that he was prepared to pay hackers “many thousands of dollars” for Clinton’s emails — and ultimately did so.

Smith is dead, and his lawyer, former business partner, and wife did not respond to numerous requests for an interview. The White House did not immediately return a message seeking comment, but the president has frequently denied colluding with Russia and denounced special counsel Robert Mueller’s probe as a partisan witch hunt. Smith said in a press interview that he was not part of the Trump campaign and was working independently.

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The money trail, made public here for the first time, sheds new light on Smith’s effort, in which he told people he was in touch with both Russians on the dark web and Trump campaign officials — particularly Michael Flynn, who was then a top adviser to the Trump campaign and later served as national security adviser before having to resign after misleading White House officials about his meetings with the Russian ambassador to the United States.

Intelligence agencies have given the FBI information that Russian hackers talked about passing Clinton’s emails to Flynn through a cutout, according to two law enforcement officials with direct knowledge of the matter. It is not known if that cutout was in any way connected to Smith.

The Wall Street Journal, which spoke with Smith about 10 days before he killed himself last year, broke the story about his operation to obtain Clinton’s emails and his alleged connections to Flynn. Smith’s obsession with the Clintons dates back at least to the 1990s, when he spent tens of thousands of dollars trying to expose Bill Clinton’s extramarital affairs. His attempt to procure Hillary Clinton’s emails apparently began in the summer of 2016, around the time Trump secured the Republican nomination.

Smith reached out to various people he thought could help track down or authenticate the emails Clinton had routed through a private server in her home. One of those people was Matt Tait, a former information security specialist in Britain’s spy agency GCHQ, who was writing publicly about a different email hack, that of the Democratic National Committee.

In a phone call in August, Smith told Tait that he believed Clinton’s private server had been hacked by the Russian government and others, and that a person from the dark web had contacted him, claiming to have some of Clinton’s emails. Smith wanted Tait to help verify the emails, something Tait said he refused to do.

As Labor Day approached, Smith assembled a group of people including experts in technology, lawyers, and even a Russian-speaking investigator to figure out how to obtain Clinton’s emails, according to the Journal. On the Friday before the Labor Day weekend, Smith incorporated a company called KLS Research. In a proposal Smith put together describing the effort to obtain the emails, he named the company as the “preferred vehicle” for the research into Clinton’s email, and Smith would tell Tait that KLS Research would also help “avoid campaign reporting.”

Smith and his longtime business partner, John Szobocsan, were the two signers for a bank account linked to KLS Research. The men were partners in other private equity ventures, and had known one another for decades. Tait wrote that Szobocsan joined at least one of the calls with Smith. Neither Szobocsan nor his lawyer returned detailed messages seeking comment.

Soon after Labor Day, Smith appears to have finished an operational plan, which included the names of top Trump campaign officials, some of whom have denied speaking with Smith anytime during the campaign. Smith’s report is dated Sept. 7.

The next day, Smith withdrew $9,500 from the KLS Research account and deposited it into his personal bank account, both held at Northern Trust. From there, Smith took out a little more than $4,900 in cash and sent checks to an accountant and an LLC controlled by a private real estate company. Later in September, Smith made withdrawals of $500 and $700 from KLS Research.

These transactions came to light after Northern Trust received a subpoena from the FBI for Smith’s records last December. The subpoena specifically sought information about the $9,500 withdrawal from KLS Research’s account.

After scouring nine accounts that Smith controlled, Northern Trust turned over documents showing 88 suspicious cash withdrawals totaling about $140,000 between January 2016 and April 2017, including a $3,000 withdrawal six days after the election. Northern Trust found these transactions suspicious because officials could not determine the purpose of the withdrawals and because some of them took place over the time Smith was engaged in his project to obtain Clinton’s emails. Many of the cash transactions, the bank noted, were less than $10,000, small enough not to trigger an automatic alert to the government. After receiving the subpoena, the bank sent a report to Treasury’s financial crimes unit, which shared its findings with the FBI, special counsel Robert Mueller, and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators.

By law, bankers must alert Treasury to transactions that bear hallmarks of money laundering or other financial misconduct. Such suspicious activity reports can support investigations and intelligence gathering — but by themselves they are not evidence of a crime, and many suspicious activity reports are filed on transactions that are perfectly legal.

A spokesperson for Northern Trust declined to comment.

Now, according to the three US law enforcement officials, Smith remains an important figure in the government's investigation. FBI and Senate Intelligence Committee investigators are trying to follow the money to learn whether Smith paid anyone connected with the Russian government. The FBI suspects Smith used some of the cash to fund his operation and paid hackers who provided him emails, according to two bureau sources who told BuzzFeed News that view is based on a close review of his banking activity and interviews with other people.

Separately, investigators working for special counsel Mueller have also interviewed people who Smith tried to recruit and others who worked on his operation to obtain Clinton’s emails, according to the three law enforcement sources and a fourth person with direct knowledge of the interviews. Mueller’s team has also tried to determine if Flynn assisted Smith in his operation, according to two FBI agents. They added that Smith’s suspicious financial transactions are key to that effort.

Flynn and his attorney did not return phone calls or emails seeking comment. Kelsey Pietranton, an FBI spokesperson, declined to comment, noting that it’s the bureau’s policy to neither confirm nor deny the existence of an investigation. A spokesperson for Mueller’s office did not respond to a request for comment.

In a first-person account published on the website Lawfare last year, Tait, the former GCHQ information security officer, said he warned Smith about the Clinton email operation.

“If this dark web contact is a front for the Russian government, you really don’t want to play this game. But [Smith and Szobocsan] were not discouraged. They appeared to be convinced of the need to obtain Clinton’s private emails and make them public, and they had a reckless lack of interest in whether the emails came from a Russian cut-out,” he wrote. “I never found out who Smith’s contact on the ‘Dark Web’ was. It was never clear to me whether this person was merely someone trying to dupe Smith out of his money, or a Russian front, and it was never clear to me how they represented their own credentials to Smith.”

Smith, in his only press interview before he died, told the Journal that he and his team found five groups of hackers who claimed to have Clinton’s emails, including two groups he said were Russians.

Smith also told the newspaper that he never intended to pay for emails obtained by hackers — a contention the person with direct knowledge of Smith’s plan disputed, saying Smith did pay for what he was told were Clinton’s emails. This source also said that Smith purposely omitted any mention of paying hackers from his written plan for the operation.

Smith’s quest to find Clinton’s emails appears to have fizzled. He never released any of the email samples he reportedly received, because he could not verify them. About 10 days after being interviewed by the Journal, Smith went to a Minnesota hotel room and killed himself.

Investigators do not believe there was any foul play. They discovered that Smith had been in failing health and was concerned about an expiring life insurance policy. Inside his room, the Chicago Tribune reported, authorities discovered that Smith left behind carefully curated files and a receipt for an item used in the suicide.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 01:00 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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H. W. Bush vond ik een goede president juist en tegelijk een stuk intelligenter dan Reagan. Maar goed, dat is slechts een mening.

Gemiddeld genomen is het aandeel van de college-graduate+ bevolking ten opzichte van het hele stemvolk juist al decennialang stijgende. Als je wilt zoek ik hier een bron bij, uiteraard.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 01:07 schreef SymbolicFrank het volgende:

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Maar volgens mij is H. W. Bush ook de enige die niet herkozen is. Ze vonden hem dus maar niets.

Het aantal diploma's is inderdaad toegenomen, zeker omdat ze daar al langer HR managers hebben dan hier, maar de kwaliteit van de bijbehorende opleidingen is om allerlei redenen flink afgenomen. Daar is in de VS al decennia lang heel veel discussie over.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 01:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik ben niet bereid dit te accepteren zonder onderzoek wat hierop wijst.

Ik heb overigens een ranking toegevoegd aan mijn oorspronkelijke bericht. Dit was hem: 1. Obama, 2. H. W. Bush, 3. Clinton, 4. Reagan, 5. W. Bush en 6. Trump, hoewel Trump nog geen duidelijke oorlogsmisdaden heeft gepleegd, heeft hij naar mijn mening wel zijn eed verloochend door de ziektekostenwet te saboteren bv. en heeft hij geen weet waar de neuk hij het over heeft.

Het feit dat H.W. Bush niet herkozen is zegt me niet veel. Hij had een sterke opponent en er Ross Perot was ook behoorlijk belangrijk, die bijna 20% van de stemmen pakte.

Hoe denk je hierover?

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 01:16 schreef SymbolicFrank het volgende:

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Daar ben ik het wel mee eens.

Ik wil best een samenvatting maken over de opleidingen, maar dat is een hele discussie, dus daar moet ik goed over nadenken.

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Madeleine Albright over Trump: https://www.volkskrant.nl(...)-niet-bij-~b8273a0e/

'Trump denkt dat hij alleen alle beslissingen neemt en dat die allemaal de juiste zijn.’

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Actiegroep verzoekt Trump om 41 Twitter-gebruikers niet langer te blokkeren

Een actiegroep die opkomt voor de vrijheid van meningsuiting heeft de Amerikaanse president Donald Trump verzocht om 41 Twitter-gebruikers niet langer te blokkeren op het sociale medium.

De aan de Columbia University verbonden organisatie heeft daarvoor een brief naar het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie gestuurd.

In mei oordeelde een rechter in de Verenigde Staten dat Trump de grondwet overtreedt door gebruikers op Twitter te blokkeren. Accounts die door @realDonaldTrump geblokkeerd zijn, kunnen zijn tweets niet meer zien en er ook niet op reageren. "Meer is er niet nodig om de grondwet te schenden", oordeelde de rechter.

De geblokkeerde Twitter-gebruikers zijn volgens de actiegroep die het verzoek heeft ingediend in vrijwel alle gevallen geblokkeerd omdat zij Trump of zijn beleid hebben bekritiseerd. De president gebruikt zijn persoonlijke Twitter-account onder meer om regeringsbeleid aan te kondigen en te verdedigen.

Het Amerikaanse ministerie van Justitie is van mening dat het Twitter-account @realDonaldTrump eigendom is van Trump, en niet van de overheid. Het Witte Huis gebruikt en beheert een apart Twitter-account voor de zittende Amerikaanse president: @POTUS .

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Inside his room, the Chicago Tribune reported, authorities discovered that Smith left behind carefully curated files and a receipt for an item used in the suicide.

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On May 4 Peter W Smith called The Wall Street Journal to explain how he quietly worked to contact Russian hackers to obtain Hillary Clinton's emails.

On May 14, Peter W Smith killed himself, leaving a suicide note that read in part:
"NO FOUL PLAY WHATSOEVER - ALL SELF INFLICTED."
"NO PARTY ASSISTED OR HAD KNOWLEDGE AS AN ACCOMPLICE BEFORE THE FACT."

twitter:

APjdhanna twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 20:40:22 Update: @GovJeffColyer says on Fox News appearance that he believes @KrisKobach1787 has told counties not to count ballots that legally should be counted. https://t.co/1WEN4Kzs0W #ksleg reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 08:50 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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Zo is het precies inderdaad.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 14:23 schreef Szura het volgende:

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De vrouw die honderdduizenden Iraankse dode kinderen het 'worth it' noemde met een boek over fascisme, blijft een giller.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 16:29 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Chris Collins (R, NY-27) die door de FBI is gearresteerd op verdenking van insider trading (zat in het board van een medisch bedrijf, en vertelde het prompt aan al zijn vrienden en familie toen een cruciale medicijntest gefaald bleek te zijn), heeft besloten niet langer mee te dingen naar herverkiezing:

[ afbeelding ]

Probleem is nu alleen dat de primaries Al geweest zijn en de wet in NY gigantisch ingewikkeld is op dit punt. De vraag is dus maar of Collins überhaupt nog wel van de ballot af kan. Wanneer dat niet lukt is het in feite een gelopen race voor de Democraten, aangezien Collins nu duidelijk heeft gemaakt dat hij toch geen zitting meer neemt in het Huis, zullen weinigen meer op hem stemmen.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 16:58 schreef Ulx het volgende:
QAnon blijkt dus inderdaad een grap te zijn van Bill Maher. Dat beweert hij. De ludieke manier waarop is uiteraard met opzet om de deep state op een afstand te houden.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/401375-maher-mocks-qanon-i-am-q

Ik zie nergens bewezen worden dat het niet zo is.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 17:02 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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'het is satire!'

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 16:58 schreef Ulx het volgende:
QAnon blijkt dus inderdaad een grap te zijn van Bill Maher. Dat beweert hij. De ludieke manier waarop is uiteraard met opzet om de deep state op een afstand te houden.

http://thehill.com/homenews/media/401375-maher-mocks-qanon-i-am-q

Ik zie nergens bewezen worden dat het niet zo is.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 17:02 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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'het is satire!'

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The far right is struggling to contain Qanon after giving it life

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Qanon has become too much for some of the web’s most die-hard Trump supporters — the moderators of Reddit’s r/The_Donald, a message board of Trump supporters that boasts almost 640,000 members and is one of the most active communities on the entire website.

Two moderators of the community, who oversee the subreddit and its hundreds of posts per day, told NBC News that they have banned Qanon posts and automatically delete any new posts about the theory that they now view as an embarrassment to their community. The moderators declined to disclose their real names to NBC News out of concerns for their privacy.

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Those moderators are not alone. Far right figures have almost uniformly begun to disparage the theory. Rick Wiles, host of the Christian survivalist radio show "Trunews," recently called Qanon "a big lie," according to Right Wing Watch, which tracks far-right media. Wiles propagates other theories such as a coming civil war started by liberals.

Evangelical preacher Lance Wallanau, who recently called Rush Limbaugh a "secular prophet," said people need to be "a special kind of dumb" to believe the theory.

Other more mainstream Republican pundits have also spoken out publicly against Qanon, highlighting just how widespread the theory has become — and that they aren't happy with how it reflects on Trump supporters.

Infowars founder Alex Jones once promoted the theory, but then told his followers that it had been compromised.

"Stick a fork in the avatar of Qanon,” Jones declared in May, claiming to have spoken to the person behind the leaks that make up the theory. “It is now an overrun disinformation fount.”

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U.S. budget deficit this year already 21% higher than last year

The federal government racked up a $76.9 billion deficit in July, with increased government spending and tax cuts keeping the country on track to record its biggest annual deficit in six years.

The Treasury Department reported Friday that in the first 10 months of this budget year:

The deficit totaled $684 billion, up 20.8 percent from the same period last year.
Revenues are up only 1 percent this year, the increase held back by a big drop in corporate tax payments.
Spending is up 4.4 percent, reflecting a big boost Congress approved earlier this year for domestic and military programs and the rising costs of financing the debt.
The Trump administration last month sharply revised upward its deficit estimates, projecting annual deficits will once again top $1 trillion in the 2019 budget year, climbing to $1.1 trillion, and remaining above $1 trillion for three years.

For the current budget year, which ends Sept. 30, the administration is now projecting a deficit of $890 billion. That would be up 33.7 percent from last year's deficit of $665.8 billion.

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Bron: CBS

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 20:04 schreef Montov het volgende:

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De GOP laat weer zien hoe slecht ze zijn in het beheren van de staatskas. En dat in een goede economie. Dat gaat dubbel zo hard aankomen wanneer de economie weer wat gaat tegenvallen.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 20:04 schreef Montov het volgende:

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De GOP laat weer zien hoe slecht ze zijn in het beheren van de staatskas. En dat in een goede economie. Dat gaat dubbel zo hard aankomen wanneer de economie weer wat gaat tegenvallen.

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Op zaterdag 11 augustus 2018 21:12 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Kortom zo ongeveer wanneer er een Democratische president komt, die de puinhoop weer mag opruimen en dan uiteraard overal de schuld van zal krijgen.

Ik kan niet wachten op het moment dat Republikeinen zich over een jaar of 10 in allerlei bochten gaan moeten wringen om zich te distantiëren van de legacy van Trump.

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“The way we picked candidates is, are they conservative? Can we make the case they’re conservative?” said Heritage Action Executive Director Tim Chapman. “Two, are they actually in trouble? Do they need our help? Three, how can they be a strategic ally for us in the future, when it comes to passing conservative legislation in the House?”

He added that they also are eying ways to defeat Democratic candidates who have particularly promising political futures. That is especially the case with McGrath, in Kentucky, and Conor Lamb, the Democrat who became something of a political celebrity after winning a strongly Republican Pennsylvania district in a special election earlier this year, but must run again in November in a new district, against GOP Rep. Keith Rothfus.

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Een van de meest curieuze passages uit het boek is dat Trump volgens haar bij zijn inhuldiging als president niet de eed op de Bijbel wilde afleggen, maar op zijn eigen boek The Art of the Deal. ‘Het is het beste business-boek van alle tijden. Het laat zien hoe ik geweldige deals ga afsluiten voor het land. Denk eens even hoeveel exemplaren ik zou kunnen verkopen’, zou Trump hebben gezegd.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 00:03 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:
Ik ben toch wel benieuwd of dit waar is:

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Uit het boek Unhinged van Omarosa Manigault Newman, een zwarte medewerkster van president Donald Trump die eind vorig jaar de laan uit werd gestuurd.
(bron)

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 00:10 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dat hele 'boek' hangt volgens mij aan elkaar van de sappige anekdotes waarvan niemand ooit zal kunnen vaststellen of ze waar zijn of niet.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 00:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Er staat in dat hij nigger gezegd heeft wat op tape staat. Dat zou op zich verifieerbaar moeten zijn.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 00:27 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Die roddel gaat al maanden rond. Komt vast ooit in de openbaarheid.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 00:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Er staat in dat hij nigger gezegd heeft wat op tape staat. Dat zou op zich verifieerbaar moeten zijn.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 00:03 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:
Ik ben toch wel benieuwd of dit waar is:

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Uit het boek Unhinged van Omarosa Manigault Newman, een zwarte medewerkster van president Donald Trump die eind vorig jaar de laan uit werd gestuurd.
(bron)

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 10:12 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Ik nam haar al nooit serieus, daar ga ik nu ook niet opeens mee beginnen.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 13:44 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Als Trump laag gaat moet je hem in zijn gezicht schoppen.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 13:44 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2(...)tter_impression=true

Waarom Avenatti gelijk heeft in het afwijzen van Michelle Obama's "If they go low, we go high" uitspraak.

Met aardig zijn win je niet van een klootzak als Trump. Als Trump laag gaat moet je hem in zijn gezicht schoppen. Dat is de enige manier waarmee je kunt winnen.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 15:51 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Wat een onzin. Trump zal altijd lager kunnen zakken en lelijker kunnen zijn dan wie dan ook.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 15:51 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Wat een onzin. Trump zal altijd lager kunnen zakken en lelijker kunnen zijn dan wie dan ook. Je wint het niet van hem als je zijn spel gaat spelen.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 15:51 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Wat een onzin. Trump zal altijd lager kunnen zakken en lelijker kunnen zijn dan wie dan ook. Je wint het niet van hem als je zijn spel gaat spelen.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 16:52 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Op een gegeven moment heeft dat ook z'n bodem.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 17:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://www.nbcnews.com/m(...)threat-1297408067994


Omarosa maakte opnames in de Situation Room.

Denk daar een over. Trump heeft dus een cultuur geschapen waarin dat kan. Wie luisterde allemaal mee?

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 17:21 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Het aloude adagium: "Don't argue with idiots. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience".

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 17:29 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ha! Daar hoopt iedereen al 3 jaar op. Bodem is nog niet in zicht hoor!

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 17:21 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Het aloude adagium: "Don't argue with idiots. They will bring you down to their level and beat you with experience".

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 17:34 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Ik denk dat Trump zo incompetent is dat hij zelfs in zijn eigen arena niet kan winnen.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 17:34 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Ik denk dat Trump zo incompetent is dat hij zelfs in zijn eigen arena niet kan winnen.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 17:39 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Idd. HIj zal ook nooit de presidentsverkiezingen winnen.

Oh, wacht

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 17:33 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Dat zal. En die zal ook niet in zicht hoeven te komen als de Democrats slap doen.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 17:44 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Mwoah, er is een significante minderheid in de VS die daar anders over denkt en die is vrij bepalend in electorale zin.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 18:00 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Dat klopt, maar die alleen is niet groot genoeg om te winnen.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 18:01 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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In 2016 wel.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 18:05 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Dat denk ik niet, dat had een flinke push nodig van zwevende kiezers. Mede dankzij de hulp van Poetin

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 18:05 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Dat denk ik niet, dat had een flinke push nodig van zwevende kiezers. Mede dankzij de zwakte van Clinton.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 18:05 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Dat denk ik niet, dat had een flinke push nodig van zwevende kiezers. Mede dankzij de zwakte van Clinton.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 18:24 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ach, Clinton was gewoon een degelijke kandidaat. Die haalde grofweg evenveel stemmen als Obama in 2012, al moet je dat natuurlijk wel compenseren voor een ietwat groter electoraat.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 19:37 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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De grootste reden dat Trump won is het electoral college lijkt me. De DNC heeft in een paar belangrijke staten flink steken laten vallen.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 20:36 schreef Ulx het volgende:
NDA's in het Witte Huis? Het lijkt me dat je vertrouwelijke of geheime stukken niet openbaar mag maken, maar dit lijkt me niet in het belang van de democratie.

https://www.politico.com/(...)re-agreements-774148

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 20:14 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat zei ik initieel toch ook? De demografie waar Trump en eigenlijk gewoon de Republikeinen zich in brede zin op richten zijn electoraal gunstig gedistribueerd.

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

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 20:52 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Lijkt mij illegaal zelfs

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 21:01 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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In ieder geval tegen whistleblower wetten.

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 21:07 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Nee, FOIA.

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Trump admin is trying to deport a toddler from Peru who was adopted by Americans as an infant. Yes, you read that correctly. https://t.co/QPTl62MtWw

twitter:

timkmak twitterde op zondag 12-08-2018 om 23:08:10 Antifa and Secret Service clash in front of the White HouseEggs flying https://t.co/Mia6ktnyrB reageer retweet

twitter:

RealJamesWoods twitterde op zondag 12-08-2018 om 23:22:27 Facts are tough on Democrats... https://t.co/dd6AD2nziU reageer retweet

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A small group of white nationalists has arrived in Lafayette Square park across the street from the White House, where they're holding a rally on the anniversary of clashes in Charlottesville that left one person dead and elevated racial tension in America.

But the group was vastly outnumbered by throngs of counterprotesters who had been gathering in the nation's capital throughout the day.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 00:35 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Leuk dat ze komen, liever registreren ze zich om te stemmen.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 06:37 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
Wel 20 rechtsnationalisten: https://www.nu.nl/buitenl(...)htprotest-in-vs.html

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 07:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Volgens QAnon is de lage opkomst door Trump en Mueller samen in scene gezet. Op deze manier kunnen ze meer mensen inzetten om de lokale pizzeria's te doorzoeken.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 07:47 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Of heeft het er vooral mee te maken dat de nazi's en rechtsextremisten die jullie overal zien eigenlijk denkbeeldig zijn?

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 07:47 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Of heeft het er vooral mee te maken dat de nazi's en rechtsextremisten die jullie overal zien eigenlijk denkbeeldig zijn?

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 08:03 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Uiteraard, er zijn nauwelijks nazi's en rechtsextremisten in Amerika. Dit waren ze allemaal.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 08:05 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Je hebt gelijk. Het stikt er van in de VS, ze zijn alleen niet komen opdagen. Sneaky Bastards!

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 09:01 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Nu we het toch over nazi's hebben: Missouri Republican Who Said 'Hitler Was Right' Wins State House Primary.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 08:05 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Je hebt gelijk. Het stikt er van in de VS, ze zijn alleen niet komen opdagen. Sneaky Bastards!

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 09:02 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Is dit deel van de blue wave?

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 09:02 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Is dit deel van de blue wave?

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 09:12 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Wel goed dat dit kan. Maar in de VS zijn ze dan ook niet bang voor het vrije woord.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 09:53 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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Waarom is het goed dat dit kan?

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 09:58 schreef zalkc het volgende:

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Als het openlijk gebeurd en mensen stemmen er bewust op lijkt me dat geen enkel probleem. Als hier iemand een partij begint en openlijk toegeeft dat het op het fascisme is gebaseerd lijkt me dat ook geen probleem.

Dat is democratie, je hoeft het er niet mee eens te zijn.
Hall - "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 10:05 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Ja en nee, mongolen moeten vooral lekker debiele standpunten innemen, maar democratisch besluiten de democratie af te schaffen of basisrechten voor andere burgers intrekken zou wat mij betreft niet moeten kunnen. De democratie hoeft geen mensen te faciliteren die hun democratisch recht willen misbruiken om anderen die rechten te ontnemen.

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AbdulElSayed twitterde op vrijdag 10-08-2018 om 00:15:08 Shawarma trucks on every corner.and Medicare for All. cc: @CoreyStewartVA https://t.co/eMPqPPYtVC reageer retweet

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Stewart denied that he posted the tweet himself and said he removed it when he saw it.

"One of my vendors put out a tweet last night that attempted to link a Michigan gubernatorial candidate to ISIS, because he apparently received support from purported extremists," Stewart said in a statement. "I don't believe in guilt by association - I have been the target of very similar smears, and I don't believe in using such tactics against others."

Stewart's Virginia campaign has been dogged by controversy. He is a neo-Confederate who says the Confederacy was on the correct side of history, defends Confederate monuments and has alleged ties to white nationalists.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 10:05 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Ja en nee, mongolen moeten vooral lekker debiele standpunten innemen, maar democratisch besluiten de democratie af te schaffen of basisrechten voor andere burgers intrekken zou wat mij betreft niet moeten kunnen. De democratie hoeft geen mensen te faciliteren die hun democratisch recht willen misbruiken om anderen die rechten te ontnemen.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 10:05 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Ja en nee, mongolen moeten vooral lekker debiele standpunten innemen, maar democratisch besluiten de democratie af te schaffen of basisrechten voor andere burgers intrekken zou wat mij betreft niet moeten kunnen. De democratie hoeft geen mensen te faciliteren die hun democratisch recht willen misbruiken om anderen die rechten te ontnemen.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 09:58 schreef zalkc het volgende:

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Als het openlijk gebeurd en mensen stemmen er bewust op lijkt me dat geen enkel probleem. Als hier iemand een partij begint en openlijk toegeeft dat het op het fascisme is gebaseerd lijkt me dat ook geen probleem.

Dat is democratie, je hoeft het er niet mee eens te zijn.
Hall - "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 10:37 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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Nee. Nazi-sympathisanten moeten uit de politiek worden geweerd. Geen Jodenhaat of welke haat dan ook moet worden getolereerd.

Er is een verschil tussen vrijheid van meningsuiting en een Nazi.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 10:46 schreef zalkc het volgende:

Er zijn, gelukkig, veel waarborgen in ons stelsel om de afschaffing van de democratie te voorkomen.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 10:25 schreef zalkc het volgende:

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Je moet wel iets specifieker zijn, anders zou de Brexit ook niet mogen.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 10:52 schreef Mystikvm het volgende:

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Bij de Brexit is de democratie niet afgeschaft. Het is een onzalig besluit, maar in theorie kan men er gewoon op terugkomen. Er worden geen democratische grondrechten met voeten getreden.

Je democratisch recht misbruiken is de straat op gaan om te propageren dat ras- en gendergelijkheid aan banden gelegd moet worden, bijvoorbeeld. Je bedient je van een democratisch grondrecht om je mening te uiten, maar als je je zin krijgt kan een minderheidsgroep zich niet meer van dat recht bedienen. Op die manier het systeem misbruiken is niet OK. Vandaar dat ik ook geen politieke partijen zou willen zien die willen rommelen aan het gelijkheidsbeginsel.

De democratie zelf is heilig. En de rechten binnen die democratie zijn voor iedereen, behalve voor hen die de democratie willen beperken voor anderen.

Ik ben mij er van bewust dat het buitensluiten van nazi's en fascisten in het democratisch proces als "hypocriet" ervaren kan worden. Maar dat is het dus niet, omdat wat mij betreft het democratisch proces niet bedoeld is als breekijzer voor mensen die dat proces vervolgens willen beperken.

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zackbeauchamp twitterde op zondag 12-08-2018 om 22:34:22 This is Dan from Long Island. Dan believes in “peaceful cleansing” of Latinos and blacks from the United States. He turned 19 today. https://t.co/wBplDshIxn reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 10:51 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Oh ja?

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 10:58 schreef zalkc het volgende:

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Het ging mij meer om het "intrekken van basisrechten van andere burgers", in mijn optiek doet de brexit dit deels voor eu-burgers op het gebied van vrij verkeer.
Je leest er nu iets teveel in wat er niet staat.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 11:00 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Unite the Right 2018 was a pathetic failure

Deze jongen deed mee.

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zackbeauchamp twitterde op zondag 12-08-2018 om 22:34:22 This is Dan from Long Island. Dan believes in “peaceful cleansing” of Latinos and blacks from the United States. He turned 19 today. https://t.co/wBplDshIxn reageer retweet

Wat er zou moeten gebeuren als die latino's en zwarten niet vrijwillig en vreedzaam vertrekken staat er niet bij.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 11:16 schreef Puddington het volgende:
Wat neonazis erger maakt dan normale nazi's is dat de normale nazi's wellicht nog geen idee hadden van de vernietigingskampen

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The first was a series of interviews by Omarosa Manigault Newman, a former aide to the President, in which she alleged -- among other things -- that she had been offered money to stay silent after leaving the White House. Manigault Newman also claimed that she secretly taped White House chief of staff John Kelly firing her in the Situation Room. (Omarosa's tell-all memoir of her time in the White House comes out this week.)
The second came when Trump -- amid a now-regular Twitter tirade regarding the special counsel probe -- derided Attorney General Jeff Sessions as "scared stiff and Missing in Action." (And, yes, that capitalization is in the original tweet.)
The twin episodes highlight the "why" behind the massive staff volatility in Trump's White House: He relies almost totally on his gut in the hiring process, he plays aides against each other for sport, he runs incredibly hot and cold on staff, and he is more than willing to publicly embarrass or shame those who work for him.
The Trump of "The Apprentice" -- which, by the way, is where the billionaire's path first crossed with Omarosa -- is the Trump that now sits behind the Resolute Desk in the Oval Office.
The difference is that Trump was solely playing for ratings on "The Apprentice," whereas now he is trying desperately to effectively run a government. Turnover -- or the threat of firings -- was the name of the game in Trump's reality TV world. In the White House, all of the turmoil adds to the already palpable sense of chaos that surrounds 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue.
Already, 57% of Trump's "A Team" staffers have left the White House in just its first year and a half, according to statistics maintained by Brookings Institute's Kathryn Dunn Tenpas. That nearly equals the turnover among top staffers for the entire first terms of Barack Obama (71% turnover), George W. Bush (63%), Bill Clinton (74%) and George H.W. Bush (66%).
(Tenpas' data may actually undersell the changes in Trump's administration, given that she only counts one departure for each office. So, while Trump has had five communications directors since being elected President, they only count as one departure in Tenpas' calculations.)

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 13:30:00 Trump starts his day at Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, NJ.This is Trump's 189th day at a Trump property as president and his 146th day at a Trump golf club as president. reageer retweet

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TODAYshow twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 13:07:11 #Breaking: @OMAROSA provides @NBCNews with this exclusive excerpt of a recording of a phone call that she says she received from President Trump the day after White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired her. https://t.co/OJe47RdcDC reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 13:40 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Die Omarosa toch

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TODAYshow twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 13:07:11 #Breaking: @OMAROSA provides @NBCNews with this exclusive excerpt of a recording of a phone call that she says she received from President Trump the day after White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired her. https://t.co/OJe47RdcDC reageer retweet

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TODAYshow twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 13:37:48 “Is he [President Trump] lying?” @savannahguthrie asks @OMAROSA about latest tape of conversation she says she had with President Trump the day after White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired her https://t.co/pfgiR2oej3 reageer retweet

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TODAYshow twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 13:42:17 .@OMAROSA says she is not concerned about legal consequences for taping in the Situation Room because she says she has "protections." https://t.co/olyW6qiQsv reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 13:40 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Tja, de best people, he?

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 13:40 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Die Omarosa toch

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TODAYshow twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 13:07:11 #Breaking: @OMAROSA provides @NBCNews with this exclusive excerpt of a recording of a phone call that she says she received from President Trump the day after White House Chief of Staff John Kelly fired her. https://t.co/OJe47RdcDC reageer retweet

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“Omarosa? Omarosa what’s going on? I just saw on the news that you’re thinking about leaving? What happened?” Trump is heard saying on the tape, which Newman said was made one day after her termination in December 2017 when Trump called her.

Newman responds, “General Kelly—General Kelly came to me and said that you guys wanted me to leave.”

“No…I, I, Nobody even told me about it,” Trump replies.

Newman then says, “Wow,” before Trump reiterates his shock.

“You know they run a big operation, but I didn’t know it,” Trump is heard saying on the tape. "I didn’t know that. Goddamn it. I don’t love you leaving at all.”

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Op zondag 12 augustus 2018 23:58 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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RealJamesWoods twitterde op zondag 12-08-2018 om 23:22:27 Facts are tough on Democrats... https://t.co/dd6AD2nziU reageer retweet

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President Donald Trump is distorting the truth on U.S. economic growth and jobs, pointing to record-breaking figures that don’t exist and not telling the full story on black unemployment.

He cites the highest-ever gross domestic product for the U.S. that’s not there and predicts a spectacular 5 percent annual growth rate in the current quarter that hardly any economist sees. On black joblessness, he boasts of a “new” record low, but the numbers in fact have recently ticked upward, with greater declines seen during the Obama administration.

The statements marked a week of fiction in which Trump also made erroneous claims about the California wildfires and the Russia investigation and falsely declared that his tariffs on foreign goods will help erase $21 trillion in national debt.

Meanwhile, Sen. Bernie Sanders skimmed over the facts in asserting that his “Medicare for all” plan would reduce U.S. health spending by $2 trillion.

A look at the claims:

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ECONOMY AND JOBS

TRUMP: “One new and great FACT — African American unemployment is the lowest ever recorded in the history of our Country. So honored by this.” — tweet Friday.

TRUMP: “I am proud to have fought for and secured the LOWEST African American and Hispanic unemployment rates in history.” — tweet Saturday.[/i]

THE FACTS: Not exactly. He omits important caveats.

Black unemployment did reach a record low, 5.9 percent, in May. That rate has since risen to 6.6 percent in July.

Despite some recent progress, the black unemployment rate is now nearly double that of whites, which is 3.4 percent. The most dramatic drop in black unemployment came under President Barack Obama, when it fell from a recession high of 16.8 percent in March 2010 to 7.8 percent in January 2017.

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TRUMP: “Economic growth, last quarter, hit the 4.1. We anticipate this next quarter to be — this is just an estimate, but already they’re saying it could be in the fives ... I think we’re going to be very shortly in the fives.” — remarks Tuesday before a group of business executives.

TRUMP: “As you know, we’re doing record and close-to-record GDP.” — remarks Tuesday.

THE FACTS: No. These are the latest in a string of exaggerated claims that Trump has made about the U.S. economy.

While economists are generally optimistic about growth, very few anticipate the economy will expand at a 5 percent annual rate in the July-September quarter the president referred to. Macroeconomic Advisers, a consulting firm in St. Louis, forecasts 3.2 percent growth in the third quarter. JPMorgan Chase economists have penciled in 3.5 percent. The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta pegs it at 4.3 percent.

Whatever the final number turns out to be, none of these figures represents record or close-to-record growth for gross domestic product, the broadest measure of the nation’s output. The 4.1 percent growth in the second quarter was simply the most since 2014.

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TRUMP: “We’ve created 3.9 million more jobs since Election Day — so almost 4 million jobs — which is unthinkable.” — remarks Thursday at prison reform event in Bedminster, N.J.

THE FACTS: It’s not that unthinkable, since more jobs were created in the same period before the November 2016 election than afterward.

It’s true that in the 20 months since Trump’s election, the economy has generated 3.9 million jobs. In the 20 months before his election, however, employers added 4.3 million jobs.

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TRUMP: “Great financial numbers being announced on an almost daily basis. Economy has never been better, jobs at best point in history.” — tweet Aug. 6.

THE FACTS: He’s exaggerating. The economy is healthy now, but it has been in better shape at many times in the past.

Growth reached 4.1 percent at an annual rate in the second quarter, which Trump highlighted late last month with remarks at the White House. But it’s only the best in the past four years. So far, the economy is expanding at a modest rate compared with previous economic expansions. In the late 1990s, growth topped 4 percent for four straight years, from 1997 through 2000. And in the 1980s expansion, growth even reached 7.2 percent in 1984.

It’s not clear what Trump specifically means when he declares that jobs are at the “best point in history,” but based on several indicators, he’s off the mark.

The unemployment rate of 3.9 percent is not at the best point ever — it is actually near the lowest in 18 years. The all-time low came in 1953, when unemployment fell to 2.5 percent during the Korean War. And while economists have been surprised to see employers add 215,000 jobs a month this year, a healthy increase, employers in fact added jobs at a faster pace in 2014 and 2015. A greater percentage of Americans held jobs in 2000 than now.

Trump didn’t mention probably the most important measure of economic health for Americans — wages. While paychecks are slowly grinding higher, inflation is now canceling out the gains. Lifted by higher gasoline prices, consumer prices increased 2.9 percent in June from a year earlier, the most in six years.

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RUSSIA INVESTIGATION

TRUMP: “‘Bob Mueller, isn’t your whole investigation premised on a Fake Dossier, paid for by Hillary, created by a man who hates Donald Trump, & used to con a FISA Court Judge. Bob, I really think it’s time for you to give up your phony investigation.’ No Collusion!” — tweet Sunday, citing Fox News Channel host Jeanine Pirro.

THE FACTS: Trump quotes in part Pirro to falsely claim that special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia probe is based on a “fake dossier.” In fact, the FBI’s investigation began months before it received a dossier of anti-Trump research financed by the Democratic Party and Hillary Clinton’s campaign. The FBI probe’s origins were based on other evidence — not the existence of the dossier.

The Republican-controlled House Intelligence Committee found the Russia probe was initiated after the FBI received information related to Trump campaign foreign policy adviser George Papadopoulos, not the dossier. The committee’s final report was praised by Trump.

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TARIFFS AND THE DEFICIT

TRUMP: “Because of Tariffs we will be able to start paying down large amounts of the $21 Trillion in debt that has been accumulated, much by the Obama Administration, while at the same time reducing taxes for our people.” — tweet Aug. 5.

THE FACTS: This isn’t going to happen.

The Treasury Department estimates that all tariffs currently in place will raise about $40 billion in revenue in the 2018 budget year, which ends Sept. 30. Even with the recent tariff increases Trump has implemented or threatened to put in place, it clearly wouldn’t be enough to reduce the $21 trillion national debt. It’s just 5 percent of what the president would need to eliminate the annual budget deficit of $804 billion that the Congressional Budget Office predicts for this year. The national debt represents the accumulation of all the annual deficits.

The president seems to believe that foreigners pay tariffs, but they are import taxes paid for by American businesses and consumers. They may make it harder for other countries to sell things in the United States, but they are just another form of tax and do not result in lower taxes for the American people overall.

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FOOD STAMPS

TRUMP: “Almost 3.9 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps — that’s since the election. ... That’s some number. That’s a big number.” — Ohio rally on Aug. 4.

TRUMP: “More than 3.5 million Americans have been lifted off food stamps — something that you haven’t seen in decades.” — remarks at White House on July 27.

WHITE HOUSE: “More than 2.8 million have stopped participating in the Supplemental Nutritional Assistance Program (SNAP) — commonly known as food stamps — since Trump’s first full month in office.” — information sheet released Tuesday, citing Fox Business report.

THE FACTS: Trump and the White House omit important context and overstate his role in reducing the number of people on food stamps. Nor is it accurate that recent declines are the biggest in decades. It’s true, as the White House conveys, that more than 2.8 million people stopped participating in the program during the 15-month period from February 2017, Trump’s first full month in office, to May 2018, the latest Agriculture Department data available. But this decline is consistent with a longer-term downward trend in food stamp usage because of an improving economy. Currently there are 39.3 million people in the program; food stamp usage peaked in 2013 at around 47.6 million, following the recession.

For instance, in the 15-month period before Trump’s first full month in office, food stamps declined by 3.3 million — larger than the 2.8 million that dropped off under Trump’s watch.

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MEDICARE

SEN. BERNIE SANDERS: “Medicare for All will lead to a $2 TRILLION REDUCTION in national health expenditures over 10 years.” — tweet July 30.

THE FACTS: Sanders’ tweet and YouTube video are being widely echoed by supporters of a government-run national health system. But the Vermont independent mischaracterizes a study from a libertarian policy institute that found his legislation would lead to a massive boost in federal spending and taxation.

The study from the Mercatus Center at George Mason University in Virginia also concluded that Medicare for all is unlikely to produce a dividend for U.S. society in the form of lower total health care spending. To get that result would require paying hospitals and doctors much less than they get now and risk putting some out of business.

The study found that if hospitals and doctors were willing to accept Medicare-based payments of 40 percent less for patients who currently have private insurance, then projected U.S. health care spending would decline by about 3 percent from 2022 to 2031, or $2.05 trillion. It’s a big asterisk, and one that Sanders fails to disclose.

That’s the number Sanders is celebrating.

But the study also said if medical providers continue to be paid about the same as now, U.S. health care spending would increase by $3.25 trillion over 10 years under Medicare for all. It works out to about 5 percent more.

That’s far different from Sanders’ assurance that his plan “will lead” to huge spending reductions.

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WILDFIRES AND WATER

TRUMP: “California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse by the bad environmental laws which aren’t allowing massive amounts of readily available water to be properly utilized. It is being diverted into the Pacific Ocean.” — tweet Aug. 6.

THE FACTS: That’s not what state experts say.

“We have plenty of water” for battling the massive blazes burning in hills north of San Francisco, said Scott McLean, a spokesman for the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection. The current spate of wildfires happens to be within range of large Northern California lakes and the state’s biggest river, McLean said.

Nor is having enough water a problem in battling California wildfires in general. Firefighting aircraft can dip in and out of cattle ponds or other small bodies of water to scoop up water for dropping and spraying on flames. When fires burn in an area that happens to be without ponds, lakes or rivers, state officials typically call in more planes to ferry in water, McLean said.

California’s battles over divvying up water in the arid state are unending, but a battle between firefighters and the Pacific Ocean hasn’t been one of them, according to Jay Lund, a civil and environmental engineering professor at the University of California, Davis, and a longtime analyst of the state’s water wars.

Trump’s claim “is so physically impossible, you don’t even really want to respond,” Lund said.

For one thing, the wildfires are in the hills, far from the Pacific Ocean and from the man-made storage and distribution system that carries water from California’s wetter north to the drier, more populated south.

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TRUMP: “Governor Jerry Brown must allow the Free Flow of the vast amounts of water coming from the North and foolishly being diverted into the Pacific Ocean. Can be used for fires, farming and everything else. Think of California with plenty of Water - Nice! Fast Federal govt. approvals.” — tweet Aug. 6.

THE FACTS: Trump is raising an old dispute in California, the country’s top farm state: the competition for water between agricultural and environmental groups, fishermen and others who want more water for wildlife and habitat. But the dispute has little to do with firefighting.

Republican lawmakers in California’s agriculture-rich Central Valley complain the state and federal governments allow too much of the state’s rainfall and snow melt to flow naturally through rivers and into the Pacific Ocean, instead of being diverted for irrigation.

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VETERANS

TRUMP: “The Democrats are obstructionists. The only thing they do well, they’re lousy politicians, they have horrible, stupid policies. You know, let’s get rid of law enforcement, let’s get rid of our military, let’s not take care of our vets — all of these things. ... They’ll do anything they can really to obstruct or resist.” — remarks Aug. 4 at Ohio rally.

THE FACTS: On the contrary, in regards to veterans’ issues, every major bill signed into law by Trump has passed with strong support from both Republicans and Democrats. In one case, House Democrats did block an emergency funding bill for the Veterans Choice private-sector program after veterans groups complained that it focused on too much private care instead of core VA programs. The Democrats’ dissent resulted in additional funding for both private care and VA programs in the revised bill.

More recently, Robert Wilkie was confirmed by the Senate to serve as VA secretary on an 86-9 vote. It was a moment of strong bipartisan display compared to the partisan discord over other Trump nominees.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 15:27:08 Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see her but heard.... reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 15:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 15:27:08 Wacky Omarosa, who got fired 3 times on the Apprentice, now got fired for the last time. She never made it, never will. She begged me for a job, tears in her eyes, I said Ok. People in the White House hated her. She was vicious, but not smart. I would rarely see her but heard.... reageer retweet

Oh, dan hoorde ik wat anders op de opname.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 15:37 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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What you are hearing and reading is not what's happening!

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jimsciutto twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 15:44:37 Breaking: Trump-appointed federal district judge has upheld Robert Mueller’s appointment and Constitutional authority in the Special Counsel’s case against Russian social media propagandists Concord Management and Consulting. reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 15:50:27 ...really bad things. Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work. When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me - until she got fired! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 15:51 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 15:50:27 ...really bad things. Nasty to people & would constantly miss meetings & work. When Gen. Kelly came on board he told me she was a loser & nothing but problems. I told him to try working it out, if possible, because she only said GREAT things about me - until she got fired! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 15:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
The Apprentice is gewoon door gegaan in het Witte Huis.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 11-03-2013 om 02:05:20 Omarosa always promises and delivers high drama... reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 15:53 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Met andere woorden: Je zegt aardige dingen over Trump en je mag je baantje houden, al kun je er geen moer van.

Trump on Omarosa: ‘She’s a lowlife’

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 16:01 schreef Hyperdude het volgende:

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Trump on Omarosa: ‘She’s a lowlife’

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paulkrugman twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 16:16:58 A funny thing happens when you demonize universal health care, nutritional aid, and unemployment benefits as "socialism": lots of people decide socialism is OK https://t.co/5Pjjd5ymxO reageer retweet

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paulkrugman twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 16:20:16 I was going to write something about how Erdogan's behavior mirrors Trump's, and how the Turkish crisis is the kind of thing that happens when an ignorant autocrat runs things. But I realized I already did https://t.co/g7jQToii9z reageer retweet

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An anti-establishment leader takes power after a contentious election. His administration quickly proves itself remarkably corrupt; but he subverts the legal system and is able not only to suppress investigations into his corruption — his supporters denounce it all as a “witch hunt” — but also to consolidate his rule and undermine institutions (the “deep state”) that might have limited his power.

Am I talking about Donald Trump? I could be. But the figure I actually have in mind is Recep Tayyip Erdogan, president of Turkey, whose success in getting away with obvious corruption by politicizing law offers a disturbing preview of how Trump may become the authoritarian ruler he clearly wants to be. Not surprisingly, Trump, who basically seems to like dictators in general, has expressed admiration for Erdogan and his regime.

Authoritarian instincts and contempt for rule of law aren’t the only things Erdogan and Trump have in common. Both also have contempt for expertise. In particular, both have surrounded themselves with people notable both for their ignorance and for their bizarre views. Erdogan has advisers who believe that he is under psychic assault; Trump has advisers who yell profanities at each other while on trade missions.

But does it matter? In America, stocks are up and the economy keeps chugging along. Erdogan has presided over an actual economic boom. Investors and markets don’t seem to mind the craziness at the top. The fact that economic policymakers have no idea what they’re talking about doesn’t seem to make any difference.

Until it does.

The truth is that most of the time the quality of economic leadership matters much less than most people — economic leaders included — believe. Really destructive policies, like those driving Venezuela into the ditch, are one thing. But run-of-the-mill policies like changes in tax law, even if they’re pretty big and clearly irresponsible, rarely have dramatic effects.

Last year, for example, Trump and his allies in Congress rammed through a nearly $2 trillion tax cut. That’s a pretty big number, even for an economy as large as ours. But aside from fueling an unprecedented wave of stock buybacks, the tax cut is having little discernible effect, good or bad. There’s no sign of the investment boom advocates promised, but there’s also no sign that investors are losing faith in U.S. solvency.

Basically, as long as the economy isn’t being hit by major shocks, political posturing hardly matters. Someone looking at U.S. growth in G.D.P. or employment over the past few years who didn’t know we’d had an election in 2016 would have no reason to suspect that anything important had changed.

But when big shocks do hit, the quality of leadership suddenly matters a lot. Which is what we’re seeing in Turkey now.

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An aside: Even if the quality of economic leadership matters a lot only during crises, you might expect markets to think ahead and incorporate the risk of badly handled future crises into stock and bond prices. Somehow, though, that almost never happens.

What we get instead are long stretches of complacency followed by sudden panic. Students of international macroeconomics are fond of quoting “Dornbusch’s law” (named after my late teacher Rudiger Dornbusch): “Crises take longer to arrive than you can possibly imagine, but when they do come, they happen faster than you can possibly imagine.”

What’s happening in Turkey is a classic currency-and-debt crisis, of a kind we’ve seen many times in Asia and Latin America. First, a nation becomes popular with international investors and runs up substantial foreign debt — in Turkey’s case, largely debt owed by domestic corporations.

Then it starts, for whatever reason, to lose its luster: Right now, emerging markets in general are being weighed down by a rising dollar and rising U.S. interest rates. And at that point a self-reinforcing crisis becomes possible: External factors cause a loss in confidence, which causes a country’s currency to drop, but the falling currency causes the domestic value of those foreign debts to explode, worsening the economy, leading to further declines in confidence, and so on.

At such a time, the quality of leadership suddenly matters a great deal. You need officials who understand what’s happening, can devise a response and have enough credibility that markets give them the benefit of the doubt. Some emerging markets have those things, and they are riding out the turmoil fairly well. The Erdogan regime has none of that.

So is the turmoil in Turkey a preview of what will happen under Trump? Not in detail: Although America borrows a lot abroad, it borrows in its own currency, which means that it isn’t vulnerable to a classic emerging-markets crisis.

But there are lots of ways things can go wrong, ranging from foreign policy crises — that Nobel Peace Prize doesn’t look too plausible now, does it? — to trade wars, and it seems safe to say that the Trump team isn’t ready for any of these possibilities. Maybe it won’t have to deal with any really serious challenges. But what if it does?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 16:21:46 While I know it’s “not presidential” to take on a lowlife like Omarosa, and while I would rather not be doing so, this is a modern day form of communication and I know the Fake News Media will be working overtime to make even Wacky Omarosa look legitimate as possible. Sorry! reageer retweet

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maggieNYT twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 12:58:37 When ⁦@katierogers⁩ and I wrote that someone was secretly taping Trump, it was not Omarosa. Raises possibility that still others are doing same within the White House. https://t.co/nPN8DIl6m3 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 16:30:00 Trump kept calling world leaders while they were asleep because he apparently has difficulty understanding time zones, Politico reports.Trump aides have had to explain the issue, which one diplomatic source said came up on "a constant basis." https://t.co/linJH97uUP reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 16:30:00 Trump kept calling world leaders while they were asleep because he apparently has difficulty understanding time zones, Politico reports.Trump aides have had to explain the issue, which one diplomatic source said came up on "a constant basis." https://t.co/linJH97uUP reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 16:30:00 Trump kept calling world leaders while they were asleep because he apparently has difficulty understanding time zones, Politico reports.Trump aides have had to explain the issue, which one diplomatic source said came up on "a constant basis." https://t.co/linJH97uUP reageer retweet

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In one case, Trump, while studying a briefer’s map of South Asia ahead of a 2017 meeting with India’s prime minister, mispronounced Nepal as “nipple” and laughingly referred to Bhutan as “button,” according to two sources with knowledge of the meeting.

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“He didn’t know what those were. He thought it was all part of India,” said one person familiar with the meeting. “He was like, ‘What is this stuff in between and these other countries?’”

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 16:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 16:30:00 Trump kept calling world leaders while they were asleep because he apparently has difficulty understanding time zones, Politico reports.Trump aides have had to explain the issue, which one diplomatic source said came up on "a constant basis." https://t.co/linJH97uUP reageer retweet

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Nobody knew time zones would be so difficult

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washingtonpost twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 17:02:27 Breaking: FBI's Peter Strzok, fired over anti-Trump texts, is 3rd prominent FBI official ousted in political fight over Clinton, Russia probes https://t.co/8T4P2nddd8 reageer retweet

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washingtonpost twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 17:05:47 Strzok's lawyer said FBI Deputy Director David L. Bowdich ordered the firing on Friday -- even though the director of the FBI office that normally handles employee discipline had decided Strzok should face only a demotion and 60-day suspension https://t.co/GYsd1LjZSb reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 17:12:31 The very unpopular Governor of Ohio (and failed presidential candidate) @JohnKasich hurt Troy Balderson’s recent win by tamping down enthusiasm for an otherwise great candidate. Even Kasich’s Lt. Governor lost Gov. race because of his unpopularity. Credit to Troy on the BIG WIN! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 16:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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De man komt niet al te snugger op me over, maar dit vind ik wel zo raar dat ik denk dat het niet waar kan zijn...

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 17:23 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Die gedachte heb ik het afgelopen jaar zo vaak gehad, waarbij het steeds toch waar bleek te zijn. Ik kijk nergens meer van op.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 17:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Maar hij is gewend aan de wereld over vliegen ... tijdszones is iets wat hij in zijn dagelijkse leven geregeld mee te maken heeft gehad.

Het komt op me over alsof object permanentie minder ontwikkeld zou zijn bij hem ofzo, waarbij hij dan in dit geval nog wel doorheeft dat mensen bestaan die je niet ziet, maar dat die locatie onbepaald is oid.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 17:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Nog wat geraaskal.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 17:12:31 The very unpopular Governor of Ohio (and failed presidential candidate) @JohnKasich hurt Troy Balderson’s recent win by tamping down enthusiasm for an otherwise great candidate. Even Kasich’s Lt. Governor lost Gov. race because of his unpopularity. Credit to Troy on the BIG WIN! reageer retweet

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Maar hij is gewend aan de wereld over vliegen ... tijdszones is iets wat hij in zijn dagelijkse leven geregeld mee te maken heeft gehad.

Het komt op me over alsof object permanentie minder ontwikkeld zou zijn bij hem ofzo, waarbij hij dan in dit geval nog wel doorheeft dat mensen bestaan die je niet ziet, maar dat die locatie onbepaald is oid.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 17:42 schreef Tocadisco het volgende:

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Er zit een groter artikel achter die tweet: https://www.politico.com/(...)ge-diplomatic-774801

Als ik dat zo even lees (maar het kan natuurlijk ook zijn dat ik iets te veel mijn eigen interpretatie eraan geef) is het niet zo zeer dat Trump het bestaan van tijdzones niet snapt maar eerder niet echt kan omgaan met het feit dat niet elke wereldleider die hij, vanuit een impulsbeslissing, belt ook direct klaar staat om op te nemen in het midden van de nacht.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 17:30:24 Full statement from Peter Strzok’s lawyer, who says the director of the FBI office that normally handles employee discipline had decided Strzok should face only a demotion and 60-day suspension—but was overruled by the FBI’s deputy director. https://t.co/djAHeboYpC reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 17:18:36 So Trump's FBI ignored a disciplinary recommendation and fired an employee it knows is a witness against Trump. Lawyers know this is an attempt to craft an employment record that acts as impeachment evidence against Strzok if he tries to give evidence against Trump in the future. https://t.co/dgfgTY3mXV reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 18:00:01 Trump has released a *new* statement about the Trump Tower meeting, claiming "to the best of my knowledge, nothing happened after the meeting concluded.""This statement was clearly lawyered," Bob Bauer, ex-White House counsel under Obama says. https://t.co/Zwd1ewtwvx reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 18:09:41 Just fired Agent Strzok, formerly of the FBI, was in charge of the Crooked Hillary Clinton sham investigation. It was a total fraud on the American public and should be properly redone! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 18:23 schreef Nintex het volgende:
https://youtu.be/N-2ZFjjvmKs?t=497

Hahaha die Rudy


Mag de President eigenlijk FBI agenten op straat zetten?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 18:09:41 Just fired Agent Strzok, formerly of the FBI, was in charge of the Crooked Hillary Clinton sham investigation. It was a total fraud on the American public and should be properly redone! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 18:23 schreef Nintex het volgende:
https://youtu.be/N-2ZFjjvmKs?t=497

Hahaha die Rudy

Mag de President eigenlijk FBI agenten op straat zetten?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 18:09:41 Just fired Agent Strzok, formerly of the FBI, was in charge of the Crooked Hillary Clinton sham investigation. It was a total fraud on the American public and should be properly redone! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 18:37 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Er staat niet "[I] Just fired Agent Strzok" maar "[The] Just fired Agent Strzok"

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 18:43 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Klopt, maar de reden van zijn ontslag is wel duidelijk als je kijkt naar zijn vorige tweet "I only fight back". Trump heeft duidelijk wat invloed uitgeoefend. op de FBI.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 18:30:00 An 11-year-old was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes. https://t.co/wblnnE0F2W reageer retweet

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An 11-year-old boy on Friday was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes during the world’s largest yearly hacking convention, DEFCON 26, organizers of the event said.

Thousands of adult hackers attend the convention annually, while this year a group of children attempted to hack 13 imitation websites linked to voting in presidential battleground states.

The boy, who was identified by DEFCON officials as Emmett Brewer, accessed a replica of the Florida secretary of state’s website. He was one of about 50 children between the ages of 8 and 16 who were taking part in the so-called “DEFCON Voting Machine Hacking Village,” a portion of which allowed kids the chance to manipulate party names, candidate names and vote count totals.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 18:30:00 An 11-year-old was able to hack into a replica of the Florida state election website and change voting results found there in under 10 minutes. https://t.co/wblnnE0F2W reageer retweet

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It is not clear why Mr. Bowdich overruled the Office of Professional Responsibility. A spokeswoman for the F.B.I. did not respond to a message seeking comment.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 18:35 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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De motivatie achter dat ontslag lijkt me toch vrij duidelijk toch?

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Met andere woorden: Je zegt aardige dingen over Trump en je mag je baantje houden, al kun je er geen moer van.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 19:06 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Laat dat een les zijn voor iedereen die voor stemcomputers is.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 20:43 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat heeft toch geen hol met stemmachines te maken? Het gaat om het hacken van een website. Dat kan ten eerste al net zo goed bij handmatige tellingen die daarna gedigitaliseerd worden. Daarnaast zal een stemcomputer doorgaans niet eens verbonden zijn met internet.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 20:45 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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In de VS wel, Mono, en de problemen met onveilige stemcomputers zijn niet nieuw daar

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Duh.

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Ik geniet hier wel van. Dit gedoe is te bezopen voor woorden. Wat een stel krankzinnige idioten.

Giuliani calls for investigation into Comey, Mueller

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I’m deeply embarrassed that Peter Strzok’s career was ruined by my father’s political grandstanding. That committee hearing was a low point for Congress.

Thank you for your service sir. You are a patriot

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khamenei_ir twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 12:31:30 Recently, U.S. officials have been talking blatantly about us. Beside sanctions, they are talking about war and negotiations. In this regard, let me say a few words to the people: THERE WILL BE NO WAR, NOR WILL WE NEGOTIATE WITH THE U.S.. reageer retweet

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Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei ruled out direct talks with the U.S. on Monday, rejecting an offer from Donald Trump in the president's own style--a strongly worded, all-caps tweet.

"THERE WILL BE NO WAR, NOR WILL WE NEGOTIATE WITH THE U.S.," Mr. Khamenei, who has final say in state matters and must approve any political talks, said on his official Twitter account.

"Even if we ever--impossible as it is--negotiated with the U.S., it would never ever be with the current U.S. administration," he added in a separate tweet.

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The pronouncement, which repeated comments from a speech Mr. Khamenei delivered earlier Monday, appeared to erase any uncertainty over Iran's response to Mr. Trump's offer late in July for unconditional talks.

That offer, made at a White House news conference, evoked a vacillation between threats and diplomacy that characterized the U.S. administration's recent engagement with North Korea.

It followed Mr. Trump's withdrawal in May from the Iran nuclear deal, an Obama-era pact that gave Iran relief from international sanctions in exchange for curbs on its nuclear program.

The withdrawal left Iranian leaders furious and set the stage for an escalation of piercing rhetoric on both sides. After Iranian President Hassan Rouhani warned in July of "the mother of all wars" should the U.S. provoke Iran, Mr. Trump tweeted his own uppercase caution.

"NEVER, EVER THREATEN THE UNITED STATES AGAIN OR YOU WILL SUFFER CONSEQUENCES THE LIKES OF WHICH FEW THROUGHOUT HISTORY HAVE EVER SUFFERED BEFORE," he said.

The near-demise of the nuclear deal--Iran is still in talks with European parties in an effort to salvage it--has helped push its economy to the brink. The Iranian rial has fallen to record lows in recent months against the dollar, as U.S. sanctions lifted under the nuclear deal began going back into place early in August.

Unemployment and inflation are both going to be in the double-digits for 2018, the International Monetary Fund estimates and analysts say economic growth will slow drastically as the U.S. puts pressure on its allies to cut back purchases of Iranian oil. Another round of sanctions targeting Iran's crude exports become effective in November.

Despite Iran's need for a respite, Iranian officials have indicated that new talks with the U.S. aren't likely to happen. Iranian Foreign Minister Javad Zarif said Saturday there was no meeting planned on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly gathering in September.

"The Americans are not honest," Mr. Zarif said, according to the semiofficial Tasnim News Agency. "Moreover, they are entangled in their addiction; the addiction of sanctions will not allow any dialogue to take place."

Analysts had expected Iran to refuse talks with the U.S., in part because of a lack of certainty about the Trump administration's intentions. While Mr. Trump said he'd be willing to hold unconditional talks, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo laid out a long list of preconditions.

Iranian officials have negotiated with American counterparts using back-channels over the years, despite the countries' antipathy. It wasn't clear if such talks continue.

Mr. Khamenei has long blamed Iran's problems--from economic difficulties to popular unrest that swept Iran in late December and January--on external forces.

On Monday, though, Mr. Khamenei made an unusual concession, saying internal mismanagement was a leading cause.

"Today's livelihood problems do not emerge from outside; they are internal," he said Monday. "If actions are taken more efficiently, more prudently, more swiftly and more firmly, sanctions cannot have much effect and they can be resisted."

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Six Questions About Trump's White House NDAs
JONATHAN V. LAST
@JVLAST
Donald Trump Omarosa
Donald and Omarosa in simpler times.
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August 13, 2018 at 2:07 PM
Who signed them, who are they with, and what about Jared and Ivanka?
For the first time we have confirmation from the administration of a fact Ruth Marcus reported earlier this year: That at least some of Donald Trump's White House staffers have signed nondisclosure agreements (NDAs). This leads to a number of questions that are likely to be reported out over the next few days:

(1) Who is the other party to the NDAs? If a staffer signs a nondisclosure agreement, who is that agreement with? Is it Donald Trump, private citizen? Donald Trump, president of the United States? The Trump Organization? The U.S. government?

This is important for two reasons. First, it determines who would be taking action in case of a breach. If the government or an agent of the government is the other party, then who would determine whether or not to move forward if the contract is breached? But second, if it's a private individual or organization, then how can they bind the actions of public employees?


(2) Who signed the NDAs? Was it only senior White House staff? Was it Cabinet-level appointees elsewhere in the executive branch?

(3) Was the signing of an NDA a condition of receiving a government appointment? Unless the president's lawyers were very stupid—which is unlikely, since Trump, by his own declaration, only hires the best people (except for when he hires lowlifes)—this was probably never stated explicitly. So instead we might ask if there were any staffers asked to sign NDAs, who then refused to sign?

(4) Were Jared and Ivanka Kushner asked to sign NDAs? It introduces an entirely new complication if all of the senior White House staff was asked to sign an NDA except for Trump's family.

(4)(a) Were Jared and Ivanka Kushner covered by the NDA?

(5) How far into the future do the Trump NDAs reach? For instance, if you were a former spokesman for Trump's White House who signed an NDA, are you contractually prohibited from saying anything that could be judged as critical or deragatory about Trump or members of the Trump family in perpetuity? Because if so, that would mean that you probably shouldn't be given a platform—on, say, a cable news channel—to opine about Trump, because you're not allowed to say what you really think.

(5)(a) Did Sean Spicer sign an NDA and if so, does it mean that he was contractually prohibited from saying anything critical or deragatory about Trump or the Trump family in his new book, The Briefing?

(5)(b) If Spicer did sign an NDA and it did extend past his term of employment in the White House, did his publisher, Regnery, know about it?

(6) Serious legal people have tended to dismiss Trump's NDAs as being nonenforceable. That may be true, but the purpose of an NDA isn't to be enforced—it's to obstruct the revelation of information by making such revelations costly. Could requesting the execution of NDAs by public employees be a form of obstruction of justice?

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 22:10 schreef speknek het volgende:
Omarosa is net zo betrouwbaar als Tom Arnold.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 22:12 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Als een realityster zonder enig probleem allerlei gesprekken tussen de hoogste ambtenaren in de regering Trump kan opnemen, kun je er wel vanuit gaan dat Putin, Xi en Rohani weten wat Trump denkt voordat Trump het zelf weet.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 22:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dit is toch gewoon episch falen. De Dems gaan echt lol hebben als ze spotjes voor de verkiezingen moeten maken.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 22:24 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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De Dems moeten het over gezondheidszorg hebben, niet over gekibbel tussen Jared en Ivanka.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 22:34 schreef zalkc het volgende:
Het zou verfrissend zijn als de dems met eigen plannen kwamen, voor de meesten hoeven ze niet te bewijzen dat Trump incapabel is, ze moeten eerst bewijzen dat ze het zelf niet gaan zijn.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 22:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Die hebben ze hoor. Wees maar niet bang. Ze zijn constructiever dan de GOP. Die komen niet verder dan: Stoo de Handel, Taxcuts voor de rijken en schaf alles af dat een miljonair niet nodig heeft.

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Op maandag 13 augustus 2018 22:38 schreef zalkc het volgende:

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Je doet hetzelfde nu