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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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atrupar twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 20:37:54 The commander in chief is watching some troops run around https://t.co/cTdyNcNEcs reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 01:04 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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atrupar twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 20:37:54 The commander in chief is watching some troops run around https://t.co/cTdyNcNEcs reageer retweet

Zijn ze aan het trainen voor een false flag operatie waarbij ze hun eigen helicopter aanvallen of?

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mkraju twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 01:13:46 Trey Gowdy on Fox says Trump asking Comey to show leniency on Flynn does not amount to obstruction, comparing it to how preachers ask prosecutors to show leniency on people accused/convicted. Says U.S. will have to build "a lot more prisons" if what Trump did is called a crime reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 07:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Jammer dat je je mening niet mag uiten. Dat ook.

Pim zou zoiets niet gewild hebben.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 06:46 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:
Heerlijk. eindelijk die engerd weg. Jammer dat de GOP het altijd tot in den treure netjes willen doen en de DNC vooral wetteloosheid predikt, zoals met illegale immigraten

FBI fires Peter Strzok over anti-Trump text messages

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 07:23 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hoho, dat mag wel he. Mits je je lover privé alleen nog maar lieve dingen over Trump text.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 07:34 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dat is waar. En prijs je hem maar genoeg krijg je een baantje voor 180k per jaar.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 07:31 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Yeah... It's literally the other way around.

But good effort

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 08:16 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Nee

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 08:20 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ja

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Blasting his former colleague Omarosa Manigault, Donald J. Trump said on Monday that “the White House is no place for a lying lowlife from a reality show.”

“People were impressed by Omarosa because they saw her on a TV show,” Trump told reporters from his golf course in Bedminster, New Jersey. “Well, I’ve got news for you: being on a reality show does not qualify you to work in the government.”

Explaining why he considered her a “lowlife,” Trump said, “She’s rude, abrasive, and offensive. Having someone like that in the White House is an embarrassment to our country.”

But worst of all, Trump said, was Omarosa’s lying, which he called “constant.”

“She can’t go a day without lying, and what’s more, she’s narcissistic and paranoid,” he said. “A psycho like that shouldn’t be allowed anywhere near the Situation Room.”

Pronouncing himself pleased that Omarosa was no longer in his Administration, Trump concluded his scorching remarks by saying, “The sooner we can rid the White House of reality-show con artists, the better off the country will be.”

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 08:23 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Zit je er naast. Kan gebeuren

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 08:25 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump Says White House Is No Place for Lying Lowlife from Reality Show

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mitchellreports twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 22:29:03 How could @realDonaldTrump sign the John S. McCain Defense Authorization Act and speak for 25 minutes without mentioning @SenJohnMcCain? He even left “McCain” out of the name of the bill he signed into law. Memory loss? Unhinged? Bad staff work? reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 07:31 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Yeah... It's literally the other way around.

But good effort

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:15 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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Learn this lesson and learn it by heart: what the DNC accuses the GOP of doing the DNC do it themselves. Always has been and always will be

Zie je ook in Nederland. Waar links rechts van beschuldigt doet links zelf

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:19 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Je weet zelf ook wel beter, dus waarom dit toneelstuk?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:21 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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God zij dank weet ik beter en trap dus niet in die valse propaganda van links

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:19 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Je weet zelf ook wel beter, dus waarom dit toneelstuk?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:25 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Waarom reageer je steeds op die trolletjes?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:24 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Our Score So Far: Republicans 89, Democrats 1

Net zoals in Nederland de VVD de meeste corrupte leden heeft (en ook daar is prima statistisch bewijs van).

So again; Je weet dat dit niet waar is, dus waarom dit toneelstukje?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:33 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:
Als links het spreken van bijvoorbeeld Coulter of Shapiro onmogelijk maakt dan weet je meteen hoe intolerant links is. Als daarna hoiMaxine Waters daarna oproept om leden van de Trum regering lastig te vallen in restaurants dan behoeft mijn stelling geen verdere onderbouwing. Links is zo intolerant als de neten. Ze kunnen niet tolereren, dat zit niet in hun bloed. Zie je hier ook weer? Ik word inmiddels een kloon genoemd door ene Remco. Zo doet links dat, op de oude vertrouwde nationaal socialistische wijze

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:36 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Nationaal-Socialisme is voornamelijk een rechtse stroming op basis van hoe men 'de Ander' benaderd en leidt vaak tot een fascistische bestuursvorm.

Maar dat zou je weten als je je een beetje in de geschiedenis had verdiept.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:37 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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Fout. Nationaal socialisme is socialisme dus links. Links is altijd al intolerant geweest

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:37 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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Fout. Nationaal socialisme is socialisme dus links. Links is altijd al intolerant geweest

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:38 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ja niet dus. Het hoefijzer buigt.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:40 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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National Socialistische Deutsche Arbeiters Partei. Moet ik de voorkeuren van links en hun hang naar censuur echt nog nader uitleggen?

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"Het is ondoenlijk, zonder meer. Maar ondoenlijk is ook doenlijk, want onweer is ook weer."

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:40 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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National Socialistische Deutsche Arbeiters Partei. Moet ik de voorkeuren van links en hun hang naar censuur echt nog nader uitleggen?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:43 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Ik heb geen idee wat je nu allemaal probeert te zeggen. Ik heb je net uitgelegd dat Nationaal Socialisme niet links is, maar rechts en ook waarom.

Maar alleen maar omdat jij het woord 'socialisme' ziet staan denk jij dat het links is? Begrijp ik dat goed?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:44 schreef Trumpinator het volgende:

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Dan geloof jij in een leugen. NSDAP was links en staat voor al waar jij ook voor staat

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:45 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Kan dat gekleuter in een eigen topic? Kan het hier weer over de Amerikaanse politiek gaan. Bij voorbaat dank.

FiveThirtyEight had nog een aardige analyse van de kandidaten in de Democratische primaries:
https://fivethirtyeight.c(...)idates-demographics/

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:46 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Ik leer hier nu dat de nazi's die onderdeel zijn van de republikeinse partij dus links zijn?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:47 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Wat verlang ik naar de dag dat dit giftige identity politics tot het verleden behoort.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:47 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Wat verlang ik naar de dag dat dit giftige identity politics tot het verleden behoort.

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Several senior aides said Monday that they doubted Manigault Newman was the only person taping her conversations at work. Trump himself used the tactic in his life as a private businessman and the question of whether he's taping his conversations in the Oval Office arose last year when he suggested there might be recordings of an encounter with former FBI Director James Comey (none ever materialized).
One administration official said Monday that there isn't a belief in the White House that Manigault Newman poses a larger national security risk after taping her conversation with Kelly in the Situation Room since she wasn't part of any classified or secret discussions of a national security nature during her time in the West Wing.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:56 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Zeker, willen we niet allemaal terug naar de tijd dat vrouwen minder vaak een gooi doen naar dit soort ambten?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:49 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ik verlang naar de dag dat mensen een artikel ook daadwerkelijk lezen.

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JohnJHarwood twitterde op maandag 13-08-2018 om 19:01:02 new Gallup Poll on how Americans view Trump's performance as president: 39% approve, 56% disapprove reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:59 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Lekkere framing weer.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 03:50:05 .@MarkBurnettTV called to say that there are NO TAPES of the Apprentice where I used such a terrible and disgusting word as attributed by Wacky and Deranged Omarosa. I don’t have that word in my vocabulary, and never have. She made it up. Look at her MANY recent quotes saying.... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 03:57:55 ....such wonderful and powerful things about me - a true Champion of Civil Rights - until she got fired. Omarosa had Zero credibility with the Media (they didn't want interviews) when she worked in the White House. Now that she says bad about me, they will talk to her. Fake News! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 10:02 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Praten over hoeveel van de kandidaten vrouwen zijn, hoe dat in het verleden was, of ras (dat niet bestond toch?) uitmaakt, hoeveel kandidaten behoren tot de LBGTQ paraplu...

Nee, heeft er absoluut niks mee te maken.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 09:24 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:

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Our Score So Far: Republicans 89, Democrats 1

Net zoals in Nederland de VVD de meeste corrupte leden heeft (en ook daar is prima statistisch bewijs van).

So again; Je weet dat dit niet waar is, dus waarom dit toneelstukje?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 10:19 schreef drexciya het volgende:
De draaideur komt weer prominent terug; hoezo is dat géén corruptie?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 10:19 schreef drexciya het volgende:

De draaideur komt weer prominent terug; hoezo is dat géén corruptie?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 10:06 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Dat artikel kijkt naar welke kandidaten het goed doen of minder goed doen in de primaries van de democraten. Daar zijn twee groepen die momenteel goed scoren, namelijk vrouwen en mensen met eerdere politieke ervaring. LGBTQ-kandidaten of minderheden scoren minder of gelijk, en worden ook niet vaker genomineerd, dus qua identity politics gebeurt er op dat vlak niet zoveel.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 10:32 schreef drexciya het volgende:

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Het artikel kijkt alleen naar mogelijke verbanden, waarbij helaas bepaalde identiteit aspecten worden meegenomen. Daarnaast mis ik nog wat andere details, die ook een grote rol kunnen spelen. In het Democratische kamp hebben we met een aantal organisaties te maken, die een kandidaat ondersteunen of niet (DCCC, Obama kamp, Clinton kamp). Dat is een aspect wat ik hier mis. Verder gaat het volgens mij om standpunten; dat komt ook niet in het stuk terug.

In een uitbreid stuk gaat iemand daar wel doorheen, en zet voor Democratische kandidaten uit door wie ze gesteund worden, en wat voor standpunten ze hebben. Wanneer je beide artikelen zou kunnen combineren krijgen we een veel boeiender uitkomst. En dan kunnen we tenminste over iets anders praten dan identity politics. Voorzover ik het kan nagaan, heeft Ocasio-Cortez vooral op standpunten (en daaraan gerelateerd voter turnout) gewonnen. Niet omdat ze toevallig een vrouw is. Opvallend is dat in dit overzicht helemaal géén aandacht wordt besteed aan de afkomst van de kandidaat, hmm wat zegt dat over het door jou gelinkte artikel?

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https://www.nakedcapitali(...)n-obama-endorse.html

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we collected data on every single one of those candidates. We’ve pored over campaign websites, news reports, state election websites, official campaign filings and more to figure out each candidate’s gender, race, sexual orientation, career background, policy positions and endorsements.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 10:22 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Omdat je best van de overheid naar de private sector mag gaan, misschien?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 10:40 schreef drexciya het volgende:
Natuurlijk is dit volgens de wet niet verboden, maar het is moeilijk om dit niet te zien als corruptie. Iemand die enigszins een morele standaard heeft, zou dit soort acties niet uitvoeren

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 10:40 schreef drexciya het volgende:

Natuurlijk is dit volgens de wet niet verboden, maar het is moeilijk om dit niet te zien als corruptie.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 10:06 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Dat artikel kijkt naar welke kandidaten het goed doen of minder goed doen in de primaries van de democraten. Daar zijn twee groepen die momenteel goed scoren, namelijk vrouwen en mensen met eerdere politieke ervaring. LGBTQ-kandidaten of minderheden scoren minder of gelijk, en worden ook niet vaker genomineerd, dus qua identity politics gebeurt er op dat vlak niet zoveel.

Het kan dus niet zo zijn dat jouw opmerking over identity politics gaat over het naar voren komen van minderheden om stemmen te winnen, want dat gebeurt niet en ze winnen niet zoveel. Dan zal je opmerking over de grotere vertegenwoordiging vrouwen gaan ten opzichte van mannen, maar die is er vooral omdat vrouwen zichzelf tegenwoordig veel vaker kandidaat stellen, niet omdat hun vrouw-zijn een beslissend voordeel is in verkiezingen. Als je daar dus tegen bent wil je terug naar de tijd dat vrouwen zichzelf niet kandidaat stelden.

Als je dat niet bedoelt kan ik je voortaan aanraden eens wat moeite in je posts te steken in plaats van als een halve mongool maar wat algemene termen de lucht in te slingeren. Wellicht begrijpen mensen je dan beter.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 10:40 schreef drexciya het volgende:

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Heb je het artikel wel gelezen? Iemand heeft in een functie gezeten waarin hij/zij contact heeft gehad met zijn/haar huidige werkgever, of zelfs beleid heeft gemaakt wat direct gerelateerd was aan desbetreffend bedrijf of organisatie.

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Nog een quote uit het artikel:
Lockheed Martin sells rockets, missiles, bombs, “guided projectiles,” “laser weapon systems,” “integrated surface warfare,” fighter jets, attack helicopters and drones, along with tech support, systems operation and various training programs. All told, the company does $35 billion a year in business with the federal government, much of it contracted with the very department Johnson recently headed. The company’s sales are rising along with Trump’s defense budgets.

Johnson has been publishing opinion pieces in The Washington Post on DHS policy of late, presenting his cachet as Obama’s DHS Secretary as a relevant credential. The pieces have not disclosed the fact that he works for a defense contractor that stands to profit from DHS business.

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Natuurlijk is dit volgens de wet niet verboden, maar het is moeilijk om dit niet te zien als corruptie. Iemand die enigszins een morele standaard heeft, zou dit soort acties niet uitvoeren. Het artikel geeft trouwens ook aan dat er vele mensen zijn die niet dit soort acties overhoop halen, maar dat betekent niet dat je de rotte appels mag negeren.

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Special counsel Robert Mueller’s prosecutors rested their case against Paul Manafort on Monday afternoon after calling more than two dozen witnesses in their tax- and bank-fraud case against the former Trump campaign chairman.

The final round of testimony from Treasury Department senior special agent Paula Liss lasted only five questions. It essentially boiled down to Liss stating that she had not found any evidence that Manafort’s international political consulting firms had filed reports with the U.S. government acknowledging they had foreign bank accounts.

Failing to file those bank account reports are one prong of Mueller’s case against Manafort, which is set to shift to the defense on Tuesday morning when the trial resumes in federal court in Alexandria, Virginia.

Mueller's team brought the charges against Manafort as part of its wideranging investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election.

U.S. District Court Judge T.S. Ellis III also ejected the public from the courtroom late Monday after Mueller’s team signaled they were finished and convened a closed-door hearing on an undisclosed, sealed motion by Manafort’s lawyers. Ellis, who has quarreled with the prosecution throughout the proceedings, said the substance of the request would become public once the trial is over.

Liss, a certified fraud examiner and money laundering specialist with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, had actually testified during the trial’s first week that neither Manafort nor his wife, Kathleen, had filed the foreign bank accounts.

Bringing Liss back for more testimony didn’t happen without some dispute.

Prosecutors wanted to recall Liss to have her answer a short set of questions about what she found when researching the foreign bank account filings from Manafort’s two latest consulting firms: Davis Manafort Partners and Davis Manafort International LLC.

They argued the questions had relevance because they would help show Manafort had knowledge of his requirements to file the reports and willfully ignored it.

“The jury should know the corporations didn’t file,” argued Mueller prosecutor Uzo Asonye.

Defense attorneys countered that Manafort himself never had more than 50 percent ownership in the firms at the time of the alleged crimes and so the burden didn’t fall on him to notify the government. They also said they had no plans to raise the topic as they presented their defense.

Ellis ultimately allowed Liss’ testimony, but he first instructed the jury to keep in mind that only Manafort personally was charged for not filing the foreign bank account report and that they could not convict him for crimes that were not in the government’s indictment.

Trump-aligned bank CEO intervened for Manafort, witness said

A Chicago bank CEO who was seeking a top job in the Trump administration overrode the objections of the bank's president in order to green light a $9.5 million loan for Paul Manafort in the midst of the 2016 presidential campaign, a bank executive testified Monday.

The testimony came shortly before prosecutors rested their case Monday afternoon against Manafort after nearly two weeks of witnesses, often presented at a breakneck speed that Ellis encouraged.

The CEO of the Chicago-based Federal Savings Bank, Stephen Calk, interceded after the president of the bank, Javier Ubarri, decided it was too risky to allow Manafort to draw the $9.5 million in funds out of equity in his Bridgehampton, N.Y. home, bank vice president James Brennan said.

Prosecutor Greg Andres asked Brennan why the bank went through with the loan if its president was opposed to its issuance.

"It closed because Mr. Calk wanted it to close," said Brennan, who testified pursuant to a grant of immunity from prosecution over his involvement.

Jurors heard from another bank employee last week that as Manafort was applying for the loan, Calk considered himself to be in the running for a Cabinet post, like secretary of Treasury or of housing and urban development.

New evidence admitted in the case Monday showed that Manafort's lobbying to get Calk a top administration post extended to a member of the incoming first family. Calk was one of three people Manafort recommended to Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, according to a November 30, 2016 email prosecutors submitted.

Manafort said in the message that Calk was among those who deserved "major appointments."
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arappeport twitterde op zaterdag 11-08-2018 om 18:00:00 STURGIS, S.D. —The founder of Bikers for Trump is mobilizing opposition to Harley-Davidson for making bikes abroad. But he's selling Trump T-shirts made in Haiti, because American shirts are too expensive. https://t.co/hbIMyeSxCS https://t.co/WKbJ9rqdwh reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 12:45 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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arappeport twitterde op zaterdag 11-08-2018 om 18:00:00 STURGIS, S.D. —The founder of Bikers for Trump is mobilizing opposition to Harley-Davidson for making bikes abroad. But he's selling Trump T-shirts made in Haiti, because American shirts are too expensive. https://t.co/hbIMyeSxCS https://t.co/WKbJ9rqdwh reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 12:59:33 Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch: “The Strzok firing is as much about the Mueller operation as anything else. There would be no Mueller Special Councel to investigate so called collusion but for the machinations of Strzok & his colleagues at the top levels of the FBI. We know this... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:07:00 ....guy was corrupt and had anti-Trump animus. Strzok and others at the FBI should be criminally investigated for the way the conducted this investigation. Instead, Mueller is pretending nothing went wrong. He used Strzok, he used the Clinton DNC Dossier...the whole thing.... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:13:26 ....should be shut down. The Strzok firing shows that the fundamental underpinnings of the investigation were corrupt. It should be shut down by the courts or by honest prosecutors.” Thank you Judicial Watch, I couldn’t have said it better myself! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:21:48 Lou Dobbs: “This cannot go forward...this Special Councel with all of his conflicts, with his 17 Angry Democrats, without any evidence of collusion by the Trump Campaign and Russia. The Dems are the ones who should be investigated.” Thank you Lou, so true! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 13:26 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
En zo versterken ze elkaar. Trump admin doet wat, republikeinse propagandisten zien hiervoor aanleiding zich gesterkt te zien in hun waanbeelden, uiten dat en Trump gaat er mee aan de haal, ad infinitum.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 13:30 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Het is inderdaad een bizar samenspel. Elkaar napraten en elkaar vervolgens gelijk geven. Heel apart.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:31:11 When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 13:33 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:31:11 When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog! reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:30:00 Two sources have told BuzzFeed News that Omarosa reveals in her new book that she "received a call" from the FBI and spoke to investigators in early 2018. https://t.co/loTbb3KUHm reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 13:35 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Zeer presidentieel taalgebruik van Trump. Ze racistische inborst begint zich natuurlijk te roeren.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:55:01 Bruce Ohr of the “Justice” Department (can you believe he is still there) is accused of helping disgraced Christopher Steele “find dirt on Trump.” Ohr’s wife, Nelly, was in on the act big time - worked for Fusion GPS on Fake Dossier. @foxandfriends reageer retweet

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brandon_r_horan twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:57:20 @realDonaldTrump @foxandfriends To be fair, even OJ Simpson driving down the freeway in his white Bronco didn't look this guilty. reageer retweet

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abbydphillip twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:11:25 Omarosa gives CBS a tape of @KatrinaPierson and @LynnePatton on a conference call during the campaign about the alleged "n-word" tape: Pierson says on the tape: "He's said it. He's embarrassed." reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 14:06:55 “They were all in on it, clear Hillary Clinton and FRAME Donald Trump for things he didn’t do.” Gregg Jarrett on @foxandfriends If we had a real Attorney General, this Witch Hunt would never have been started! Looking at the wrong people. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 13:30 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Het is inderdaad een bizar samenspel. Elkaar napraten en elkaar vervolgens gelijk geven. Heel apart.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:42:11 Another terrorist attack in London...These animals are crazy and must be dealt with through toughness and strength! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 13:29 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Wie zijn eigenlijk die '17 angry Democrats'?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 14:35 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 13:42:11 Another terrorist attack in London...These animals are crazy and must be dealt with through toughness and strength! reageer retweet

Ik heb deze helemaal gemist. Een man crosst tegen een betonnen versperring op in een ander land en dan is het ineens geen "Thoughts & Prayers".

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 15:01:50 Fired FBI Agent Peter Strzok is a fraud, as is the rigged investigation he started. There was no Collusion or Obstruction with Russia, and everybody, including the Democrats, know it. The only Collusion and Obstruction was by Crooked Hillary, the Democrats and the DNC! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 15:10:30 Strzok started the illegal Rigged Witch Hunt - why isn’t this so-called “probe” ended immediately? Why aren’t these angry and conflicted Democrats instead looking at Crooked Hillary? reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 15:15:58 Lou Dobbs: “This cannot go forward...this Special Counsel with all of his conflicts, with his 17 Angry Democrats, without any evidence of collusion by the Trump Campaign and Russia. The Dems are the ones who should be investigated.” Thank you Lou, so true! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 15:05 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Het waren er 13, wat me ook al niet helemaal duidelijk was. Er wordt gespeculeerd dat hij er 17 van heeft gemaakt om de complotgekkies te pleasen, aangezien de 17e letter van het alfabet de Q is.
Hoezo hij tegelijk Mueller aanvalt enzo wordt ook niet helder, maar inconsistentie lijkt ze niet te deren.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 15:30:17 Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump admin job for Chicago banker Steve Calk.Manafort got a quick response. 'On it!' Kushner replied on Nov. 30, 2016, according to an email submitted by prosecutors into evidence. https://t.co/i0UCDQR2xz reageer retweet

Corroboration Is Extensive in Manafort Trial, Former Prosecutor Says

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Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump administration job for a Chicago banker at the center of Manafort’s fraud trial.

Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, got a quick response.

“On it!’’ Kushner replied on Nov. 30, 2016, according to an email submitted by prosecutors into evidence Monday at Manafort’s trial on bank and tax-fraud charges.

The email shows how, months after Manafort was deposed as campaign manager, he reached into Trump’s inner circle for help, without success. It also provides a window into how a disorganized, inexperienced campaign team was inundated with requests from supporters seeking coveted posts in the new administration.

The banker who sought the job in Trump’s administration was Stephen Calk, chief executive officer of the Federal Savings Bank, which loaned $16 million to Manafort. Prosecutors say those loans, made after the election, were part of a corrupt scheme to help Manafort pull cash out of his properties.

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Calk pitched himself to Manafort as a Trump loyalist who could run the U.S. Army or serve in a senior position in the Treasury or Commerce departments. He turned to Manafort, who then asked for help from Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law. Kushner became a central figure in the transition and later in the White House. Calk didn’t get a government job.

Paul Manafort turned to Jared Kushner for help in an attempt to secure a Trump administration job for a Chicago banker at the center of Manafort’s fraud trial.

Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign manager in 2016, got a quick response.

“On it!’’ Kushner replied on Nov. 30, 2016, according to an email submitted by prosecutors into evidence Monday at Manafort’s trial on bank and tax-fraud charges.

The email shows how, months after Manafort was deposed as campaign manager, he reached into Trump’s inner circle for help, without success. It also provides a window into how a disorganized, inexperienced campaign team was inundated with requests from supporters seeking coveted posts in the new administration.

The banker who sought the job in Trump’s administration was Stephen Calk, chief executive officer of the Federal Savings Bank, which loaned $16 million to Manafort. Prosecutors say those loans, made after the election, were part of a corrupt scheme to help Manafort pull cash out of his properties.

Calk pitched himself to Manafort as a Trump loyalist who could run the U.S. Army or serve in a senior position in the Treasury or Commerce departments. He turned to Manafort, who then asked for help from Kushner, Trump’s son-in-law. Kushner became a central figure in the transition and later in the White House. Calk didn’t get a government job.

A spokesman for Kushner’s lawyer, Abbe Lowell, didn’t immediately comment on the emails.

Manafort Must Decide on Defense as Mueller Wraps: Trial Update

Calk wrote a memo to Manafort the week after the election. It was titled: “Qualification Memorandum on Behalf of Stephen M. Calk Articulating His Qualifications to Serve as the 22nd Secretary of the Army.”

“Mr. Calk willingly risked his national professional and personal reputation as an active, vocal, early supporter of President-Elect Trump,” he wrote in the memo.

Prosecutors at Manafort’s trial say Calk approved loans after the bank received documents that falsely overstated Manafort’s financial strength. At a sidebar conference last week, a prosecutor said he considered Calk an unindicted co-conspirator and said he “has other criminal liability aside from this bank fraud.’’

Defense attorney Richard Westling said at the sidebar discussion that prosecutors have no evidence that Calk knew Manafort submitted false evidence to the bank. Calk hasn’t been charged with any crime. He didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday night.

In an interview Sunday with Bloomberg News, Calk said: “We’re fully cooperating with the Special Counsel’s office, and in fairness to both sides we cannot make any comment at this time.’

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Manafort wrote to Kushner three weeks after the election urging that the incoming administration find a “major appointment’’ for Calk and two other people, according to emails put in evidence by prosecutors.

“Calk was an active supporter of campaign (sic) since April,’’ Manafort wrote. He noted that Calk was an economic adviser to the campaign and had conducted dozens of television interviews on Trump’s behalf. “His background is strong in defense issues, management and finance. His preference is Secretary of the Army.’’

Manafort suggested alternative positions in the Treasury Department as undersecretary for either domestic or international affairs, or in the Commerce Department as a deputy secretary.

Manafort’s lawyers didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment on the email.

Jurors at Manafort’s trial have also heard testimony from witnesses that Calk wanted a job as either the treasury or housing secretary.

Calk’s interest in a Trump administration job drew the attention of Congress in April, when Representatives Elijah Cummings and Stephen Lynch sought records related to the banker’s communications with Manafort and the Trump campaign and about his bank’s loans to Manafort.

Prosecutors for Special Counsel Robert Mueller entered the email chain into evidence on Monday just before finishing their presentation of evidence at Manafort’s trial. The email was among 32 exhibits that U.S. District Judge T.S. Ellis III admitted at the end of the prosecution’s case.

“You are becoming a very good friend and I look forward to building our relationship into both a deeper business and personal one,” Manafort wrote in an email to Calk on Oct. 8, 2016.

Manafort, 69, will tell the judge Tuesday whether he’ll present a defense before closing arguments and jury deliberations. During their deliberations the jurors may consider hundreds of exhibits entered into evidence.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 15:05 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Het waren er 13, wat me ook al niet helemaal duidelijk was. Er wordt gespeculeerd dat hij er 17 van heeft gemaakt om de complotgekkies te pleasen, aangezien de 17e letter van het alfabet de Q is.
Hoezo hij tegelijk Mueller aanvalt enzo wordt ook niet helder, maar inconsistentie lijkt ze niet te deren.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 15:51 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Maar wie zijn dan precies die Democraten?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 15:51 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Maar wie zijn dan precies die Democraten?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 16:04 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Degene die Qanon zou bedoelen?

Wat ik ervan gelezen/gezien heb, worden de volgende bedoeld:

Barack Obama
Hillary Clinton
Huma Abedin
Loretta Lynch
James Comey
James Clapper
Chuck Schummer
Andrew McCabe
John McCain (ik weet het, ik weet het)
Rod Rosenstein
Susan Rice
John Brennan
Valerie Jarret

Geen idee wie de helft is, maar dit zijn de namen die genoemd worden.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 16:16 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Daar staan nogal wat Republikeinen tussen, dus dat lijken me niet de Angry Democrats.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 16:16 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Daar staan nogal wat Republikeinen tussen, dus dat lijken me niet de Angry Democrats.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 16:34 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Goed, Omarosa blijkt dus echt een tape te hebben, die tot voor kort niet zou bestaan volgens team Trump. Treurige wereld als zij de betrouwbare, of in ieder geval minder onbetrouwbare partij blijkt te zijn.

Aan de andere kant maakt het Trump kiezers geen flikker uit of hij bigger heeft gezegd of niet, lijkt me.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 17:00:40 It appears that Roger Stone has deleted this photo of him and Trump as the "Space Force" wearing uniforms clearly emblazoned with swastikas. https://t.co/uracvyLxfB https://t.co/dzWHoWOKro reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 17:29 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 17:00:40 It appears that Roger Stone has deleted this photo of him and Trump as the "Space Force" wearing uniforms clearly emblazoned with swastikas. https://t.co/uracvyLxfB https://t.co/dzWHoWOKro reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 17:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
De mensen die voor The Apprentice werken ontkennen dat dergelijke tapes bestaan.

De bron die Omarosa heeft aangehaald in haar boek (Luntz) ontkent het nu ook.
Het zet haar hele verhaal en boek op losse schroeven.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 17:30 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Treffend gezelschap wel

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OutFrontCNN twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 01:47:29 "There is no circumstance under which I would testify against the President." - Longtime Donald Trump confidant Roger Stone https://t.co/V7PgH2eaSZ https://t.co/M1UYSvVtuA reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 08:32:20 Follow the logic here, folks: the man says he would never testify against Donald Trump......even though he would only have *positive, non-incriminating* things to say about him.Makes sense? Got it? Good. https://t.co/R6t6EPxAGl reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 08:33:57 2/ Honestly, this is one of the reasons people get charged with things: so prosecutors can test out all the stupid statements people make about what what they will or won't do before they get charged. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 18:26 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Zo voor de midterms een pardon lijkt me niet voor de hand liggen, mss erna?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 18:26 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Zo voor de midterms een pardon lijkt me niet voor de hand liggen, mss erna?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 18:47 schreef Szura het volgende:
Seth zegt:

This makes sense: (1) there's no plausible defense; (2) they didn't expect to win; (3) they don't want Manafort to testify both due to his other trial and because they want to hold that chit for Mueller; (4) they don't want to anger the feds so they can still negotiate right now.

2/ Also, (5) the worst thing a defendant can do, if they know they're about to be found guilty, is testify. It angers the sentencing judge, who will add *years* to a sentence if the defendant lies on the witness stand and perhaps even if the defendant "merely" smears anyone else.

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SethAbramson twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 18:24:00 Speaking as someone who was a criminal defense attorney for years, this would be the moment that Manafort's attorneys—if he's authorized them to do so—are in a conference room promising Mueller the most amazing evidence from Manafort if he'll offer a deal. https://t.co/KZ4nAlBZEl reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 18:50 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Makes sense

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 18:55 schreef Klaphark het volgende:

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Ik vind dat niet erg logisch juist. Seth zei eerder al dat een deal maken juist daarvoor moet gebeuren voor een beetje leverage. Niet als je al verloren hebt.

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And, crucially: “He was the person dragging Yanukovych to the west.”

According to Voloshin, Manafort was an advocate of US interests and promoted American oil companies such as Chevron – so much so that the joke inside the Party of Regions was that Manafort was actually from the CIA.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 18:55 schreef Klaphark het volgende:

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Ik vind dat niet erg logisch juist. Seth zei eerder al dat een deal maken juist daarvoor moet gebeuren voor een beetje leverage. Niet als je al verloren hebt.

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 01-08-2018 om 03:31:34 21/ There's one other possibility, and it may be more likely than any other: NBC reports Trump thinks Manafort can sink him. What if NBC is right? What if Manafort's testimony is that valuable? Then maybe he thinks he could cut a deal post-conviction and get a sentence reduction. reageer retweet

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KenDilanianNBC twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 20:04:43 BREAKING: Omarosa tells @KatyTurNBC just now she has talked to Robert Mueller's office, and "there was a lot of corruption," in the campaign and the administration. She says Trump knew about hacked emails before they were released. reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 19:30:11 U.S. agricultural export prices fell by 5.3% in July—the fastest rate since October 2011—as retaliatory tariffs went into effect, according to Labor Department data. https://t.co/BqIISRyaJy reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 17:32 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Kunnen we het ontkennen niet gewoon overslaan en meteen doorgaan naar het goedpraten?

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 20:13 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
- er was geen meeting
- er was een meeting maar er kwam niks uit
- er was een meeting maar geen collusion
- er was een meeting maar collusion is niet strafbaar
- er was een meeting en mss heeft Junior 'per ongeluk' iets strafbaars gedaan maar Senior wist van niks

en nu zeker

- er was een meeting en Hilllary heeft hem opgezet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 17:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
De mensen die voor The Apprentice werken ontkennen dat dergelijke tapes bestaan.

De bron die Omarosa heeft aangehaald in haar boek (Luntz) ontkent het nu ook.
Het zet haar hele verhaal en boek op losse schroeven.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 20:13 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
- er was geen meeting
- er was een meeting maar er kwam niks uit
- er was een meeting maar geen collusion
- er was een meeting maar collusion is niet strafbaar
- er was een meeting en mss heeft Junior 'per ongeluk' iets strafbaars gedaan maar Senior wist van niks

en nu zeker

- er was een meeting en Hilllary heeft hem opgezet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 20:45 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Het is een setup van Clinton! En daarna heeft ze het zelf ook stilgehouden! Ze is een dubbelspion, werkend voor Trump.

Trump doet alsof Clinton de vijand is, maar ze werken achter de schermen samen om met Space Force de nazi-maanbasis te infiltreren om de nog levende Hitler te arresteren. Obama had alleen maar Bin Laden.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 20:45 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Het is een setup van Clinton! En daarna heeft ze het zelf ook stilgehouden! Ze is een dubbelspion, werkend voor Trump.

Trump doet alsof Clinton de vijand is, maar ze werken achter de schermen samen om met Space Force de nazi-maanbasis te infiltreren om de nog levende Hitler te arresteren. Obama had alleen maar Bin Laden.

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howardfineman twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 19:48:38 #Manafort’s hopes/strategies: 1. hung jury due to a holdout juror, since conviction must be unanimous. 2. If guilty, stall with appeals until @realDonaldTrump fires #Mueller, then join Trump on barricades of resulting crisis. 3. Pardon, based on silence and loyalty to #Trump. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 20:53 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Zou de Liar -in- Chief niet “gewoon” gelogen hebben, dat hij gebeld is en gerustgesteld, dat het n- woord, dat hij noooooit gebruikt, op tape staat.
Overigens...Waarom moet iemand dan worden gerustgesteld.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 20:57 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Dat zijn idd van die domme uitspraken waardoor je al meteen weet dat hij zich er wél schuldig aan heeft gemaakt.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 21:08 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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“ multiple times”...https://www.hollywoodrepo(...)mark-burnett-1134585

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RVAwonk twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 21:12:00 woah. Sarah Huckabee Sanders says she "can't guarantee" that the American people will never hear Trump on a tape saying the n-word. ... and her voice is shaking as she's answering. reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 14:06:55 “They were all in on it, clear Hillary Clinton and FRAME Donald Trump for things he didn’t do.” Gregg Jarrett on @foxandfriends If we had a real Attorney General, this Witch Hunt would never have been started! Looking at the wrong people. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 21:33 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 14:06:55 “They were all in on it, clear Hillary Clinton and FRAME Donald Trump for things he didn’t do.” Gregg Jarrett on @foxandfriends If we had a real Attorney General, this Witch Hunt would never have been started! Looking at the wrong people. reageer retweet

Ik vind het altijd zo sneu als Trump iets in zijn ogen belangwekkends aanhaalt om met de wereld te delen en dat-ie dan fox and friends quoot.

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Yamiche twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 21:23:47 An answer deeply in need of a fact check....Q: Why are NDA's necessary for the WH?Sarah Sanders: Other WH's have had people sign NDA's. It's standard. (Fact check coming.....) reageer retweet

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Yamiche twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 21:38:06 Fact Check: I just emailed with high ranking official from Obama Administration who said Obama & Clinton WH's did NOT have ppl sign NDA's. "That is not something we ever did in the Obama Administration and I am with someone who served in the Clinton WH and she confirmed the same." https://t.co/WKgOF26oML reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 22:02 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Zou zo'n Sarah Sanders nou echt geloven wat in de Bijbel geleerd wordt? Kan me er zo slecht een voorstelling van maken...

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 22:02 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Zou zo'n Sarah Sanders nou echt geloven wat in de Bijbel geleerd wordt? Kan me er zo slecht een voorstelling van maken...

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 22:18 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ach, de Bijbel was ook vaak genoeg een rechtvaardiging voor slavernij.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 22:22 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, maar daarvoor is er bij mijn weten niet een quote die het rechtstreeks tegenspreekt buiten de eigen sekte om ... daar kan ik me natuurlijk in vergissen. Voor wat betreft leugens is het boek dacht ik een stuk duidelijker.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 22:24 schreef zalkc het volgende:

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Technisch gezien staat er "Gij zult geen valse getuigenis plegen", misschien denken ze dat het dus alleen opgaat als ze onder ede staan

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 22:36 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Seth wil zijn Twitter draadjes gaan verkopen in boekvorm
https://www.thedailybeast.com/resistance-twitter-star-seth-abramson-wants-to-turn-his-threads-into-a-book

FBI agenten met GoFundMe's, Twitter mennekes die boeken willen verkopen en natuurlijk Avenatti
Zowel het voor als tegen kamp heeft maar 1 doel, geld verdienen.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 22:32 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Weet niet precies in welke vertaling en uitleg zij gelooft, dus laat ik er maar een Nederlandse op na houden... Je hebt bv. per debijbel.nl (Nieuwe Bijbelvertaling):

Leviticus 19-11: Steel niet, lieg niet en bedrieg je naaste niet.
Psalmen 119:163: Ik haat, ik verafschuw de leugen, maar uw wet heb ik lief.
Spreuken 12:22: Bedriegers zijn de HEER een gruwel, wie waarachtig handelen, zijn hem welgevallig.

En dat is een hele kleine greep, maar volgens mij wel consequent in het OT en NT.

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The Pennsylvania Supreme Court on Tuesday released a sweeping grand jury report on sex abuse in the Catholic Church, listing more than 300 accused clergy and detailing a “systematic” coverup effort by church leaders over 70 years.

State Attorney General Josh Shapiro said at a news conference Tuesday that more than 1,000 child victims were identified in the report, but the grand jury believes there are more.

The investigation is the most comprehensive yet on Catholic Church sex abuse in the United States. The 18-month probe covered the state’s eight dioceses — Harrisburg, Pittsburgh, Allentown, Scranton, Erie and Greensburg — and follows other state grand jury reports that revealed abuse and coverups in two other dioceses.

Shapiro said that the report details a “systematic coverup by senior church officials in Pennsylvania and at the Vatican.”

The nearly 1,400-page report’s introduction makes clear that few criminal cases may result from the massive investigation.

“As a consequence of the coverup, almost every instance of abuse we found is too old to be prosecuted,” it reads.

“We subpoenaed, and reviewed, half a million pages of internal diocesan documents. They contained credible allegations against over three hundred predator priests. Over one thousand child victims were identifiable, from the church’s own records. We believe that the real number — of children whose records were lost, or who were afraid ever to come forward — is in the thousands.”

Some details and names that might reveal the clergy listed have been redacted from the report. Legal challenges by clergy delayed the report’s release, after some said it is a violation of their constitutional rights. Shapiro said they will work to remove every redaction.

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The report has helped renew a crisis many in the church thought and hoped had ended nearly 20 years ago after the scandal erupted in Boston. But recent abuse-related scandals, from Chile to Australia, have reopened wounding questions about accountability and whether church officials are still covering up crimes at the highest levels.

The new wave of allegations has called Pope Francis’s handling of abuse into question as many Catholics look to him to help the church regain its credibility. The pope’s track record has been mixed, something some outsiders attribute to his learning curve or shortcomings and others chalk up to resistance from a notoriously change-averse institution.

The Pennsylvania grand jury report follows the resignation last month of Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, a towering figure in the U.S. church and former D.C. archbishop who was accused of sexually abusing minors and adults for decades. Both have further polarized the church on homosexuality, celibacy and whether laypeople should have more power. It has also triggered debate about whether statutes of limitations should be expanded.

“We’re dealing with a long-term struggle not only about the meaning of justice, but about the meaning of memory,” said Jason Berry, a reporter and author who has covered the sexual abuse crisis for decades. “And how honest the church has been about this crisis. Most bishops, besides apologies, have not been on the cutting edge of change.”

Church officials began bracing for the aftermath of the report. On Monday, D.C.’s archbishop, Cardinal Donald Wuerl, former longtime leader of the Pittsburgh diocese, warned his priests in a letter that the probe will be “profoundly disturbing.”

Harrisburg’s bishop, Ronald Gainer, said earlier this month that he would remove the names of all accused bishops from diocesan buildings and rooms. Erie Bishop Lawrence Persico last month told PennLive.com, a digital news site based in central Pennsylvania, that the report will be “sobering” and “is rather graphic.”

“While I expect that this report will be critical of some of my actions, I believe the report also confirms that I acted with diligence,” Wuerl wrote to D.C.’s clergy, referencing his time in Pittsburgh.

The investigation took about two years and covers all dioceses except the two already studied — Philadelphia and Altoona-Johnstown. Pennsylvania is believed to have done more investigations of institutional child sex abuse than any other state.

Berry said the report — coupled with the McCarrick scandal and others — shows the church needs a major overhaul in how it polices itself. He said the church needs a “separation of powers, an independent oversight.”

“Canon law is not equipped for this kind of thing. It’s an enormous criminal sexual underground. It’s been surfacing like jagged parts of an iceberg for 30 years,” Berry said.

Yet others fear the progress made by the church since the early 2000s is being overlooked. The number of new allegations is down, and the vast majority took place decades ago.

“The church has done things right since 2002 — Dallas was a game-changer,” said Nick Cafardi, former dean of Duquesne University School of Law, a Catholic school in Pittsburgh, referring to the city where the church passed its crackdown rules on child sex abusers in 2002. “But what was done before Dallas is indefensible.”

Yet the fact that such a small number of high-level clerics — as opposed to parish-level priests — have been held responsible is glaring to many Catholics.

The question of whether the church’s sins have been confronted remains raw. Wuerl in an interview earlier this month with the Catholic station Salt & Light said he doesn’t think “this is some massive, massive crisis.” He then suggested the creation of an oversight board of bishops. Some critics saw his comments as tone-deaf.

That same week, Albany Bishop Edward B. Scharfenberger said the slew of recent scandals signals a new phase.

“While I am heartened by my brother bishops proposing ways for our Church to take action in light of recent revelations . . . I think we have reached a point where bishops alone investigating bishops is not the answer,” he wrote.

Worldwide, the Vatican is dealing with law enforcement targeting abuse within the church. In Chile, prosecutors and police are staging raids on church offices, confiscating documents and looking for evidence of crimes that went unreported to police. On Tuesday, the Associated Press reported a prosecutor said authorities were raiding the headquarters of Chile’s Catholic Episcopal Conference.

As part of the probe, a prosecutor’s office has summoned the archbishop of Santiago, Cardinal Ricardo Ezzati, to testify amid accusations that he was involved in the coverup of abuse.

“People are basically revolting against what had been these sacred cows,” said Juan Carlos Cruz, a Chilean abuse victim who earlier this year spent several days with the pope. “In the 1970s and 1980s, the church was a lighthouse for the country. And it’s incredible to see this 180-degree turn. People who venerated the church, now they actually despise what they’re doing.”

The crisis in Chile is just one case in a new wave of abuse-related revelations that have raised pressure on Pope Francis to deal more forcefully with abuse. In France, Cardinal Philippe Barbarin is facing a trial on criminal charges for not reporting sexual abuse. In Australia, one archbishop was recently convicted in a criminal court for concealing sexual abuse, and a top Francis lieutenant, Cardinal George Pell, will soon stand trial on charges related to sexual offenses.

“Accountability from inside the church is not happening,” said Anne Barrett Doyle, co-director of BishopAccountability.org, which tracks sexual abuse cases. “But secular society is beginning to affect the most change.”

Doyle said the Pennsylvania grand jury report could also lead the way for the state to change statute of limitations laws related to abuse.

Todd Frey, 50, who says he was abused when he was 13 by a priest in Lancaster County, spoke to the grand jury. He said he told church and law enforcement officials over the years, but nothing was done. The report will be his first opportunity to see if the priest is accused of abusing others, and who in the church knew.

“Who else did he pick?” Frey said Monday, as his lawyer David Inscho listened in. Survivors like Frey, who is unable to work, “know their little part,” Inscho said on the phone call, “what they saw through eyes of a 12- or 13-year-old and now they can see everything. And that is really, really important — the validation of it. The having been heard by law enforcement. Actually caring makes a big difference instead of saying ‘We can’t do anything.’”

Sarah Sanders Grilled On President Trump Allegedly Using N Word 8/14/18

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders falsely claimed that President Donald Trump has created three times as many jobs for black workers as his predecessor Barack Obama did during his entire time in office.

Sanders asserted at a White House press briefing Tuesday that Trump had tripled Obama’s eight-year job creation record in just 18 months, quoting numbers that are not even close to accurate.

“This president since he took office, in the year and a half that he’s been here has created 700,000 new jobs for African-Americans,” Sanders told reporters Tuesday. “That’s 700,000 African-Americans that are working now that weren’t working when this president took place. When President Obama left, after eight years in office, he had only created 195,000 jobs for African-Americans.”

The claim isn’t true, according to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. While the U.S. economy has added about 700,000 jobs held by black workers since Trump took office, it added about 3 million while Obama was in office, according to BLS data.

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Black employment in U.S. has maintained a steady rise since recession ended



There were 15.5 million black workers with jobs when Obama took office in January 2009, as the country struggled to emerge from one of the worst economic recessions in decades. By the time Obama left office, 18.4 million black people had jobs. Trump inherited an economy on the upswing, and the rate of job growth has not changed significantly during his administration.

Two hours after Sanders made the claim, the White House Council of Economic Advisers posted in a tweet its “apologies” for a “miscommunication to” Sanders.

Her statement invoking Obama came in response to a question about whether Trump had ever used a racial slur to describe black Americans.

The Trump administration has been beset by accusations of racism in recent weeks, after former White House aide Omarosa Manigault-Newman said she had heard a tape of Trump using the n-word. Manigault-Newman, who is the highest ranking black person to have served in the Trump West Wing, released a book Tuesday titled “Unhinged: An Insider’s Account of the Trump White House.”

Sanders said Manigault-Newman has no credibility and called her claims outrageous. She went on to disseminate the false statistics about the first black president’s job-creation record.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 01:45:08 Omarosa claims that Trump opposed putting Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill."You want me to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?" Trump reportedly replied when she pushed the issue with him. https://t.co/B4g4WvIVis reageer retweet

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Former White House adviser Omarosa Manigault Newman claims in her new book that President Donald Trump balked at the idea of putting abolitionist Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill.

In “Unhinged,” Manigault Newman describes the deliberation over a new figure on the twenty-dollar bill. She wrote that Secretary of the Treasury Steve Mnuchin told her, “it’s not something I’m focused on at the moment.”

Manigault Newman wrote that she then pushed the decision to Trump, who reportedly replied, “You want me to put that face on the twenty-dollar bill?”

Manigault Newman wrote she was offended by Trump’s reaction to “the woman who personally brought more than three hundred slaves to freedom, risking her own life every time.”

Trump has previously objected to replacing former President Andrew Jackson’s image on the $20 bill. After former President Barack Obama’s treasury secretary announced Tubman as the new image in 2016, Trump said Jackson had “a great history,” and Tubman should be honored on a bill of a different denomination.

“I think Harriet Tubman is fantastic,” Trump told the “Today” show in April 2016. “I would love to leave Andrew Jackson and see if we can come up with another denomination. Maybe we can do the $2 bill? I don’t like seeing it. I think it’s pure political correctness.”

Donald Trump: Putting Harriet Tubman On $20 Bill Is ‘Political Correctness’ | TODAY

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Elliott John Whitaker had put off coming out for months. Though confident he was transgender, Elliott still struggled with his identity. His mind refused to recognize the girl in his reflection, and putting that into words — the confusing mismatch between the brain and body — was as overwhelming as it was scary.

One afternoon, slouched over a desk in a study hall classroom, Elliott, 15, was outed by an unwitting ninth-grade teacher who called him Heidi — his birth name or as the transgender community terms it, his “dead name” — while taking attendance. Ohio is one of several states that requires a court order granting a legal name change before a school can adjust its records.

So on June 18, Elliott and his parents, Kylen and Stephanie Leigh, went to court to make his name change official, appearing in front of Judge Joseph Kirby at the Warren County Probate courthouse in Lebanon, Ohio. They expected the hearing to be a formality, but Kirby’s questions and commentary quickly turned to gendered toilets and Caitlyn Jenner, according to court transcripts.

Four days later, Kirby denied Elliott’s name change. In the three-page decision, he referred to Elliott as “she” and “her” because using his preferred pronouns made it “difficult to read,” Kirby wrote in a footnote.

The judge issued denials for two transgender 14-year-olds the same afternoon.

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Ohio attorneys Joshua Langdon and Joshua Engel filed a class-action lawsuit against Kirby on Aug. 3, alleging the judge engaged in a pattern of intentional discrimination against transgender youth, preventing the plaintiffs from using names that align with their gender identity. The plaintiffs are the parents of three teenagers: Elliott, 15-year-old Jamie Oliver Shaul and an unnamed 17-year-old. The parents of the 17-year-old have delayed filing for a name change because they fear their child will be subjected to what they see as a pattern of discrimination by the judge.

On Monday, Kirby issued a written response to the lawsuit, stating that he “holds no bias against those that are transgender” and that his two decades on the bench have taught him that “children do not always know what is best for them during childhood.”

Kirby also said that “this Court” had granted multiple name changes for adults and children based on their transgender status. However, the Warren County chief bailiff told The Washington Post that the reference was not to Kirby’s individual caseload but to all judges in the courthouse.

Between January and May 2018, the Warren County Common Pleas Court reviewed 36 name change applications, 10 of them submitted by transgender adolescents and adults. Kirby was assigned all but one of the transgender name change cases — and none of the non-transgender applications — according to the court filing. Kirby denied all of the transgender name change requests except one that had been heard by a magistrate judge, according to court documents.

Normally, magistrate judges, who are appointed to assist district court judges, hold hearings for name change applications and write up a report, which the district court judge accepts or rejects, said Engel, a former Warren County prosecutor.

Instead of a magistrate-conducted hearing, Kirby conducted his own hearings for almost all of the name change cases.

“He chose to substitute his own view for the views of the expert about what’s in the child’s best interest. That’s an abdication of his responsibility as a judge, coupled with his seeming to treat transgender kids differently from nontransgender kids,” said Langdon.

Kirby has postponed Jamie’s case until the federal suit concludes, instead of reassigning pending name change hearings.

“This is what it’s like being a trans individual in a purple state,” said Trent Stechschulte, general counsel at Equitas Health, an organization providing legal services for Ohio name and gender change forms. Since opening the statewide clinics two years ago, its volunteer attorneys have assisted in over 400 name and gender changes.

“For these kids, the name change is huge,” said Leigh Whitaker. “It’s a part of their identity at a time when there’s so much they can’t change.”

Warren County — in the outskirts of the Cincinnati metropolitan area, near the Kentucky and Indiana borders — veers toward the conservative right. The Republican candidate has won at least two-thirds of the county’s vote in every presidential election since 2000.

Name change denials for transgender people rarely happen in larger Ohio cities, such as Cincinnati, Cleveland and Columbus, according to Stechschulte. Counties, however, are an entirely different venue. This is particularly true in states, such as Ohio, that have few laws aimed at protecting transgender individuals.

Ohio is one of three states — along with Tennessee and Kansas — with an anti-conversion bill, forbidding changes to gender markers on birth certificates, although the state does allow modifications to other identification documents, such as driver’s licenses. In May, House Bill 658 was introduced, which would require teachers to notify a student’s parents if they observe signs of gender dysphoria — the condition where an individual experiences discomfort because their gender identity doesn’t match the gender assigned at birth. Failure to do so could be prosecuted as a felony.

Elliott and Jamie said that they were not ready to go tell their classmates that they are transgender but that the current state of law forced them to take their stories public.

“The judge thought I was going through a phase that teenagers go through and that I was choosing to be this way,” Elliott said. “Never would I ever choose to have to go through this if it didn’t trouble me. It’s painful in so many ways to be trans.”

Elliott said he chose to go public because he wanted to change the system for others who are going through similar things.

“Once I was out, I was kind of glad because it put me on the path to actually transitioning,” Elliott said. “I like that I’m paving a path for everyone behind me.”

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Six years before he was exposed for allegedly managing a covert agent on U.S. soil, the Russian politician Alexander Torshin hosted young Americans visiting Moscow as part of two cultural exchange programs, including one that has drawn the FBI’s scrutiny.

The gregarious Torshin regularly hosted U.S. visitors in the ornate chambers of Russia’s parliament, where he gushed about his love of guns, bourbon and America.

“He was friendly, traveled to the U.S. often and enjoyed sharing his experiences of visiting small-town America,” recalls one participant who went on two trips sponsored by the Russian government.

A photo posted on Facebook by one of the exchange programs shows several young visitors, including the student body president of Princeton University, meeting with Torshin over tea and cookies. (The FBI is not known to have investigated that program. None of the students, or Torshin, has been accused of wrongdoing.)

It wasn’t until years later that Torshin would emerge as a major figure in the Trump-Russia saga — a man whom federal prosecutors say oversaw the accused Russian operative Mariia Butina’s efforts to infiltrate Republican Party circles, including the National Rifle Association, to push them toward more pro-Russia policies. Torshin himself has attended annual NRA meetings dating back to at least 2011.

Many of the first-class student exchanges were officially organized by the Russian Cultural Center in Washington, D.C., and included top-flight meals, airfare and hotel accommodations. But the center’s exchange programs abruptly stopped in fall 2013, after FBI counterintelligence agents urgently located dozens of trip participants and told them the program was an elaborate cover for a Washington-based Russian spy recruiting effort.

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The agents said the Russians had prepared dossiers on some of the most promising participants, two of the former students told POLITICO. They pressed for every detail of the program, including whom the students met, where they went and what they discussed. They also said that Russian government official who oversaw the program — from a mansion about a mile and a half from the White House — was a suspected spy and would be kicked out of the U.S. soon.

“They said they had a great degree of confidence that the trips were part of an effort to spot and assess future intelligence assets,” the participant, a former student government leader and Russian-language student, said of the three FBI agents who questioned him for more than an hour. “They told us it was standard Russian spycraft.”

The FBI’s interest in that cultural exchange program for young American political and business leaders was reported at the time, including a single, passing reference to Torshin. But the details of his involvement in the exchanges is a new revelation, as is his participation in the second exchange program for student body presidents at American universities dating back to at least 2010.

The new detail fills out the picture of the Russian lawmaker — now deputy governor of his country’s central bank — who is a longtime close ally of Russian President Vladimir Putin. It shows that Torshin’s collaboration with Butina was not his first connection to a Kremlin-linked effort to recruit Americans, and underscores that covert Russian spy operations in the U.S. have been underway for years, well before Trump launched his 2016 presidential bid.

While Torshin is not identified by name in the Butina court filings, several sources close to the investigation told POLITICO he is the Russian official described as directing Butina’s alleged efforts to establish “unofficial lines of communications with U.S. politicians and political organizations" and “to send reports, seek direction, and receive orders in furtherance of the conspiracy” from Moscow.

His name has also shown up in investigations by Congress, the Federal Election Commission and, reportedly, special counsel Robert Mueller, into Russia’s attempts to interfere with the 2016 presidential election. Those include examinations of possible attempts to establish a back channel between Trump and Putin, as well as possible efforts to illegally funnel Russian campaign contributions to Trump.

But his meetings with American students earlier in the decade, coupled with the government’s recent allegations in the Butina case, suggest that Torshin may be a more significant Kremlin operative, and for a longer time, than was previously understood.

“All of that needs to be explored now through the lens that Torshin is a handler for Russian intelligence operatives,” said Max Bergmann, a State Department senior international security adviser in the Obama administration. “The suspicion has to be raised, given what is laid out in [the Butina] indictment, that this wasn’t his first rodeo.”

Torshin did not respond to requests for an interview, but has denied any wrongdoing related to the current investigations. The 29-year-old Butina, indicted by federal prosecutors in July, has pleaded not guilty to charges of acting as an illegal foreign agent — including, according to prosecutors, by using sex as a means of influence.

U.S. government Kremlinologists have tracked Torshin, 64, for years, at least since his first known visit to the U.S. in 2004.

As a rising star in Putin’s United Russia Political party, Torshin became an ally of the Russian leader. Putin tapped him that same year to run a sensitive parliamentary investigation investigating the horrific terrorist siege of a school in the Russian town of Beslan; many observers considered the resulting report a whitewash that absolved Russian security forces.

By 2010, Torshin had become a leading United Russia voice in the Russian Duma, a trusted Putin aide on sensitive security issues and, most likely, a go-to ally for important missions that didn’t fall under his official portfolio, according to Bergmann and other former officials.

Later that year, for instance, Torshin helped orchestrate a secret spy swap between the U.S. and Russia after the FBI arrested 10 Russian operatives who had been living undercover in America for years.

Also in 2010, Torshin met with a delegation of 15 student body presidents from American universities as part of an exchange program paid for, and sponsored by, a Russian government agency focused on “youth affairs.” Because the trip was designed to mirror a popular and high-profile congressional exchange program, the students were given a briefing by top White House and congressional Russia hands, including Michael McFaul, then the National Security Council’s director for Russian affairs and later the U.S. ambassador to Russia.

On the conference call, which has not previously been reported, McFaul and others gave the students background about Russia — but also cautioned them to be on guard about unusual overtures, including from their Russian student counterparts, said one participating student who, like others interviewed for this article, spoke on the condition of anonymity because they fear the trips risk could taint their professional reputations. McFaul told POLITICO he doesn’t recall the discussion, but his role in the pre-trip briefing was referenced in some university news releases at the time.

Thanks to the briefing, “we went in with our eyes open” about how, in Russia, even a friendly interest in sharing information or establishing long-term relationships, might not be what it seemed, the former student said. He added that the trip went smoothly and nothing appeared suspicious about meetings with Torshin and at least two other Putin allies connected to the current Trump-Russia saga.

The next March, Torshin met with another set of students on an exchange program organized through the same youth affairs agency, in the meeting posted on Facebook.

And the year after that, he met with older groups of young leaders sponsored by the Russian Cultural Center, according to the participant on two trips and another person who went on one exchange.

By the fall of 2013, the FBI was well into an investigation into that exchange program, and had come to believe it was a front for developing young Americans as assets, the two participants said. The D.C. chapter is just one of more than 80 Russian cultural and science centers in various countries that U.S. intelligence officials suspect of being a front for all manner of spy operations.

The cultural center trips were popular among well-connected young Washingtonians interested in spending a week in an exotic foreign country with everything, down to the visa application fee, covered by the sponsor.

But the young former student government leader, who went on two trips in 2012 and 2013, said the organizers also “recruited on their own and made the determination who to select.”

“They had a specific type of person they were looking for,” he said. “Future leaders.”

When the FBI began contacting trip participants in late September and October of 2013, many were shocked at what the agents were telling them. The agents began by reading from a printed card with details of about what they were investigating, including how they believed Russian Cultural Center Director Yury Zaitsev was overseeing the alleged spy recruitment operation, according to the two participants, both of whom shared details of their trips and FBI interviews with POLITICO.

The discussions were “very frank,” according to one of the FBI’s top counterintelligence officials at the time. The official said the agents’ interviews were exhaustive, in part because Russian intelligence operatives excel at being unobtrusive and patiently laying the groundwork for relationships they hope to develop over years or even decades.

In hindsight, the second trip participant said there were indications that the group’s extremely generous Russian hosts might have had ulterior motives.

During his interview, that participant told the FBI agents that he thought it was “unusual” that the group had been granted such high-level meetings, including with top-ranking officials from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. The agents were particularly interested in any details about those meetings, he said, “and why are these kids meeting with these super high-level people.”

“It seemed like they were trying to foster the exchange in a professional and productive way,” the second participant said. But, he added: “If one person out of a group of 20 becomes an asset for them, then I suppose it’s worth it for them to pay the whole group for the trip.”

After hearing from the FBI, some students backed out of the next scheduled trip. The former participant on two trips, who remains active in other efforts to promote U.S.-Russian relations, said he believed the FBI investigation — reported at the time by Mother Jones and the Washington Post — effectively ended the Russian Cultural Center exchange programs.

In all, the FBI believes that at least 125 people went on cultural exchange programs involving Zaitsev and the Russian Cultural Center, including grad students, non-governmental organization staffers, political aides to national and state officials and business executives. The former FBI official declined to comment on whether agents have investigated other cultural exchange programs, such as those sponsored by Moscow’s youth affairs agency, that also included Torshin.

As Butina and Torshin allegedly ramped up their U.S.-based influence operation ahead of the 2016 presidential election, Butina attended numerous events at the Russian Cultural Center. She even met with the organization’s director for a dinner that was caught on camera by FBI officials, as POLITICO recently reported.

That director was a suspected Russian intelligence operative just like his predecessor, Zaitsev, and also left the U.S. following FBI investigations, federal authorities allege in Butina’s case. Both men denied wrongdoing.

Robert Driscoll, Butina’s lawyer, scoffed at the notion that Torshin is a master spy, and said his client’s connections to the Russian Cultural Center were merely social. He added that in his frequent talks with Butina, she has described Torshin as someone who genuinely has come to love America — especially Nashville, where the two attended an Alan Jackson country music concert while there for the NRA convention.

“My impression of him from knowing Mariia is that she viewed him as a mentor and as someone who was helpful to her, with her gun rights group and personally,” Driscoll said. “He helped raise her profile, and she got to travel and attend different events with him.”

The participant on two of the cultural trips said Torshin was especially popular with U.S. visitors, in part because he seemed most interested in small talk and sharing his tales of traveling to the far corners of the United States.

“He was always eager and happy to meet with Americans,” he said.

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Op dinsdag 14 augustus 2018 21:33 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 14:06:55 “They were all in on it, clear Hillary Clinton and FRAME Donald Trump for things he didn’t do.” Gregg Jarrett on @foxandfriends If we had a real Attorney General, this Witch Hunt would never have been started! Looking at the wrong people. reageer retweet

Ik vind het altijd zo sneu als Trump iets in zijn ogen belangwekkends aanhaalt om met de wereld te delen en dat-ie dan fox and friends quoot.

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thehill twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 07:11:04 Ex-Reagan official: If Mueller had nothing, Trump "would ignore him" https://t.co/DTvSRff57D https://t.co/3VwXeK8Uhe reageer retweet

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 17:13:19 Many have asked me my position on various issues. Below is a summary of where I stand. This is not an exhaustive list and more positions & details will follow. Most importantly, I didn't have to hire a pollster or political consultant to tell me what to say or what to believe. https://t.co/hbXj1Vv3O9 reageer retweet

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 21:21:56 I have been negotiating with the government since my stmts to the press this morning and my last tweet. It now appears that they will grant me custody and allow me to take Antony home to his mother in Guatemala on a flight tonight,after 81 days of being separated. #FingersCrossed reageer retweet

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 02:04:54 81 days after being forcibly separated from his mother due to the cruel and unusual president, Antony is going home to Guatemala to be reunited with his mother. Finally. #Basta https://t.co/tduRg3jT9T reageer retweet

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MichaelAvenatti twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 06:21:55 It ends today at 81 days for Antony and Elsa. But continues for over 500 others... https://t.co/1alDklaMyA reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 09:26 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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Fox mag dan ook wel eens keihard aangepakt worden.

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NBC’s KRISTEN WELKER: Sarah, have you asked the president if he has ever used the N-word?

SARAH SANDERS: The president addressed that question directly via Twitter. I refer you back to him. I can certainly say I have never heard him use that term or anything similar.

WELKER: Have you asked him directly, Sarah?

SANDERS: I didn’t have to because he addressed it to the American people all at one time.

WELKER: Why haven’t you asked him directly?

SANDERS: Again, the president answered that question directly on Twitter earlier today.

WELKER: Can you stand at the podium and guarantee the American people they will never hear Donald Trump utter the N-word on a recording in any context?

SANDERS: I can’t guarantee anything, but the president addressed this question directly. I have never heard it. I can also tell you that if myself or the people in this building, serving this country every single day, doing our best to help people all across this country and make it better, if at any point we felt that the president was who some of his critics claim him to be, we certainly wouldn’t be here. This is a president fighting for all Americans and putting policies in place that help all Americans, particularly African-Americans. Look at the economy alone, this president since he took office created 700,000 new jobs for African-Americans.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 10:27 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:
Dat Omorosa verhaal is natuurlijk een wel heel doorzichtige truc om de alsmaar stijgende approval rate onder zwarte Amerikanen een halt toe te roepen. Helaas voor hen gaat het niet werken.

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Illinois' attorney general is suing Chicago's Trump International Hotel & Tower for allegedly breaking environmental laws.

Lisa Madigan's suit claims the property draws and releases millions of gallons of water from the Chicago River without necessary permits.

Moreover, the property has not studied the effects of this on the river's fish population as required by law, it says.

A Trump Organisation spokesperson said the suit was political.

In an email reported by Reuters news agency, spokesperson Janet Isabelli said the organisation was "disappointed" Ms Madison filed the suit, "considering such items are generally handled at the administrative level".

"One can only conclude that this decision was motivated by politics."

Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed the lawsuit in Cook County Circuit Court on Tuesday.

She is a member of the Democratic Party and has been the state's attorney general since 2003.

Her suit alleges the hotel draws in nearly 20 million gallons (75m litres) of water a day for its air conditioning and ventilation system.

Such systems can trap animals when pulling in the water, the suit says, and federal law requires impact studies on the Chicago River's fish populations.

Allegedly Trump Tower did not submit results of a study to the authorities as required in 2013.

Moreover, the property's required licence to release heated water back into the river allegedly expired in August 2017.

"Trump Tower continues to take millions of gallons of water from the Chicago River every day without a permit and without any regard to how it may be impacting the river's ecosystem," Ms Madigan said in a statement.

"I filed my lawsuit to make sure Trump Tower cannot continue violating the law."

While Mr Trump's two sons have been running his businesses since he was elected to office, the president still retains all his shares in the Trump Organization

He is currently embroiled in a lawsuit about his businesses, including the Trump International Hotel, which alleges ownership of the Trump business empire while president is a violation of the US constitution.

In June, a group of religious leaders and judges in Washington DC filed a complaint to the city's Alcoholic Beverage Control Board saying it should lose its liquor licence due to Mr Trump's "egregious conduct".

Local laws in the US capital say only people "of good character" can hold a liquor licence.

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

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God, wat moet het lekker makkelijk zijn als alle vervelende dingen die gebeuren gewoon een vooropgezet plan zijn van de deep state / liberals / democraten / Clintons.

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

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God, wat moet het lekker makkelijk zijn als alle vervelende dingen die gebeuren gewoon een vooropgezet plan zijn van de deep state / liberals / democraten / Clintons.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 10:27 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:
Dat Omorosa verhaal is natuurlijk een wel heel doorzichtige truc om de alsmaar stijgende approval rate onder zwarte Amerikanen een halt toe te roepen. Helaas voor hen gaat het niet werken.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 10:56 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Omorosa is dus meer dan tien jaar geleden undercover gegaan bij de Trump-organisatie (in opdracht van de Democraten?), zodat zij in de zomer van 2018, tijdens het presidentschap van haar werkgever, dit verhaal naar buiten kon brengen?

Behoorlijk ingenieus plan.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 10:30 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:
Wat is die Sanders een sterke PressSec.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 10:59 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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In een normaal functionerende organisatie was zo'n Sanders allang op straat geflikkerd. Het aan de lopende band verspreiden van leugens wordt namelijk niet beschouwd als een goede eigenschap voor een woordvoerder. Althans, niet in een functionerende democratie. In een dictatuur of derde wereldland wordt daar anders tegenaan gekeken.

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thehill twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 01:10:08 Trump called Trump Jr. a "f-ck up" for releasing emails about Trump Tower meeting: Omarosa https://t.co/j1rGrCXnNx https://t.co/wGCAoblzWm reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 10:27 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:
Dat Omorosa verhaal is natuurlijk een wel heel doorzichtige truc om de alsmaar stijgende approval rate onder zwarte Amerikanen een halt toe te roepen. Helaas voor hen gaat het niet werken.

Verder begint het arsenaal van Mueller leeg te raken. Peter Strzok oneervol ontslagen, Manafort lijkt er goed vanaf te komen. Sowieso is het hele onderzoek vergiftigd door schandalen en dubbele agenda's. Het zal niet lang meer duren voor hij het bijltje erbij neergooit. Misschien nog voor de midterms.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 09:58 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 07:11:04 Ex-Reagan official: If Mueller had nothing, Trump "would ignore him" https://t.co/DTvSRff57D https://t.co/3VwXeK8Uhe reageer retweet

Joh, zou je denken?

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 10:30 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:
Wat is die Sanders een sterke PressSec.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:22 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Wat een domme redenatie.
Ik zou zeggen, gooi juist alle focus op dat neponderzoek, roep er zoveel mogelijk over.... zodat de aandacht van andere zaken wordt weggeleid.

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Peter Wehner, who worked in President Reagan’s administration and both Bush administrations, said Monday on CNN that the stronger the case is that Mueller has, “the more vitriolic, the more acrimonious, the more libelous” Trump and his supporters will be in their attacks on the special counsel.

“It’s actually a sign of the strength of the case that Mueller is assessing and their fear of what he’s going to reveal,” Wehner said. “If Robert Mueller didn’t have anything, they would ignore him. But they know that he’s got something. And they can’t refute it on the facts, so they have to try and delegitimize him and the investigation.”

Wehner added that he doesn’t think Trump’s attacks on Mueller will prove successful.

“In the end, Robert Mueller is going to come forward with his report,” he said. “My suspicion is that it’s going to be a very powerful indictment that’s going to demonstrate layers and layers of wrongdoing.”

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:22 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Wat een domme redenatie.
Ik zou zeggen, gooi juist alle focus op dat neponderzoek, roep er zoveel mogelijk over.... zodat de aandacht van andere zaken wordt weggeleid.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:40 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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neponderzoek? Daarmee geef je gelijk je bias aan.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:22 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Wat een domme redenatie.
Ik zou zeggen, gooi juist alle focus op dat neponderzoek, roep er zoveel mogelijk over.... zodat de aandacht van andere zaken wordt weggeleid.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:41 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Laten we het in dit topic vooral over bias hebben

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:38 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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En kijk eens wat er in het stukje zelf staat:

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:44 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

Beste manier van Trump om hiermee om te gaan is om zoveel mogelijk te reageren op het neponderzoek, zodat aandacht van eventuele andere (corrupte?) zaken wordt weggeleid.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:46 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Is er nog meer corruptie onder Trump dan? Joh, vertel eens!

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:48 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Jij weet het beter dan ik, je zit tenslotte dagelijks in dit topic op iedere scheet van Trump te reageren, dag in dag uit, iedere moment van de dag.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:49 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Beetje betaald krijgen om te fokken.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:48 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Jij weet het beter dan ik, je zit tenslotte dagelijks in dit topic op iedere scheet van Trump te reageren, dag in dag uit, iedere moment van de dag.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:49 schreef Kaneelstokje het volgende:

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Beetje betaald krijgen om te fokken.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:22 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Wat een domme redenatie.
Ik zou zeggen, gooi juist alle focus op dat neponderzoek, roep er zoveel mogelijk over.... zodat de aandacht van andere zaken wordt weggeleid.

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Senate Republican leaders are focused on passing legislation that appeals to independent and swing voters in the final weeks before the midterm elections — instead of throwing red meat to the base of the Republican Party.

It’s a unique strategy from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.), who has publicly acknowledged that Democrats could win back control of the upper chamber this fall. McConnell’s game plan contrasts with the election-year rhetoric and tweets of President Trump, who has highlighted divisive issues such as immigration. [...]

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:41 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Laten we het in dit topic vooral over bias hebben

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:00 schreef Mike het volgende:
Wat ik sowieso niet snap als iemand het onderzoek nep noemt, is dat het niet alleen een onderzoek is naar de campagne van Trump, maar ook naar de invloed die de Russen op de verkiezingen gehad hebben. Daar zijn natuurlijk al een stapel indictments uitgerold en dat de Russen zich er actief mee bemoeid hebben ontkent niemand, alleen de president af en toe (als hij naast Putin staat).

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 11:44 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Het had totaal niet uitgemaakt wat Trump zou doen.
Zou hij stil zijn, dan roepen zijn tegenstanders "zie je wel, hij durft niks te zeggen, dus zal wel waar zijn!"
Is ie niet stil, dan roepen zijn tegenstanders "zie je wel, waar rook is, is vuur!".

Beste manier van Trump om hiermee om te gaan is om zoveel mogelijk te reageren op het neponderzoek, zodat aandacht van eventuele andere (corrupte?) zaken wordt weggeleid. Dat weet jij net zo goed. Maarja, zoals Vis zou zeggen, je bias is duidelijk te zien.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:10 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het punt is meer dat de VS en Rusland altijd in elkaars verkiezingen aan het rommelen zijn.
Echter zijn er veel mensen die niet geloven dat een paar Facebook berichtes uit Rusland het verschil hebben gemaakt.

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Tot slot stinkt het hele zaakje rondom de FBI van voor tot achter. Die hebben er een gigantisch zooitje van gemaakt, ongeacht wie er uiteindelijk gelijk krijgt.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:

Ten eerste heb je die Strzok die partijdig was, maar wel tijdelijk het onderzoek mocht leiden.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Een nep-onderzoek is een te groot woord, maar er is van alles naar buiten gekomen dat ik niet als de normale gang van zaken zou bestempelen.

Ten eerste heb je die Strzok die partijdig was, maar wel tijdelijk het onderzoek mocht leiden.
Dan had je nog Comey en zijn gestuntel met het e-mail onderzoek, zoekgeraakt bewijsmateriaal, lekken naar de media etc.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Een nep-onderzoek is een te groot woord, maar er is van alles naar buiten gekomen dat ik niet als de normale gang van zaken zou bestempelen.

Ten eerste heb je die Strzok die partijdig was, maar wel tijdelijk het onderzoek mocht leiden.
Dan had je nog Comey en zijn gestuntel met het e-mail onderzoek, zoekgeraakt bewijsmateriaal, lekken naar de media etc.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Een nep-onderzoek is een te groot woord, maar er is van alles naar buiten gekomen dat ik niet als de normale gang van zaken zou bestempelen.

Ten eerste heb je die Strzok die partijdig was, maar wel tijdelijk het onderzoek mocht leiden.
Dan had je nog Comey en zijn gestuntel met het e-mail onderzoek, zoekgeraakt bewijsmateriaal, lekken naar de media etc.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:34 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Het was vooral om de situatie weer te geven waarin Trump zich zou bevinden en hij weet dat hij onschuldig is. Dan is het wat hem betreft inderdaad een neponderzoek en kun je het ook zo noemen... en gebruik je dat neponderzoek ook om aandacht af te leiden van andere zaken.
Blijkbaar te moeilijk.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:31 schreef zalkc het volgende:

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Hoe hard Trump ook heeft geroepen dat Comey het op hem had gemunt, blijf ik erbij dat zijn actie om een paar dagen voor de verkiezing het onderzoek naar HC te heropenen in het voordeel van Trump is geweest.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:41 schreef Nintex het volgende:

Zo zijn er meer kleine details die bij elkaar opgeteld een nogal onfris beeld schetsen van de hele gang van zaken. Ik snap de media in deze ook niet echt. Die laat zich leiden door een soort van anti-Trump kruistocht. Terwijl dit dezelfde intelligence agencies zijn die glashard hebben gelogen over de WMD's in Irak en Afghanistan en de grootste 'verkopers' van het Steele Dossier in Washington (Brennan bijv.) hadden daar een directe rol in.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:41 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Dat deed Comey onder druk van anderen die betrokken waren bij het onderzoek.
Echter is zijn originele statement op het laatste moment aangepast. Een aantal zinnen zijn doorgestreept waar nooit uitleg over is gegeven. En juist die passage maakt het verschil tussen of verdere vervolging van Clinton wel aan de orde was of niet.

Zo zijn er meer kleine details die bij elkaar opgeteld een nogal onfris beeld schetsen van de hele gang van zaken. Ik snap de media in deze ook niet echt. Die laat zich leiden door een soort van anti-Trump kruistocht. Terwijl dit dezelfde intelligence agencies zijn die glashard hebben gelogen over de WMD's in Irak en Afghanistan en de grootste 'verkopers' van het Steele Dossier in Washington (Brennan bijv.) hadden daar een directe rol in.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:49 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Sorry, maar dit is omslachtig gezwets. Een wanhopige poging om de gebeurtenissen zo te draaien dat de FBI toch op de hand was van Clinton. Feit is echter dat Comey, al dan niet onder druk van anderen, het onderzoek naar de e-mails van Clinton kort voor de verkiezingen heeft geopend. Dat heeft Trump in de kaart gespeeld. Of dat wel niet de intentie was, doet daarbij niet ter zake.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:34 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Het was vooral om de situatie weer te geven waarin Trump zich zou bevinden en hij weet dat hij onschuldig is. Dan is het wat hem betreft inderdaad een neponderzoek en kun je het ook zo noemen... en gebruik je dat neponderzoek ook om aandacht af te leiden van andere zaken.
Blijkbaar te moeilijk.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:53 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Maar dat is toch niet de normale gang van zaken?
Dat een FBI director zich laat forceren om een statement te maken waar hij zelf eigenlijk niet achter staat?

Wie had op dat moment dan de leiding over de FBI? Rudy Giuliani of Comey?
En hoe zwak was de regering van Obama dat de Russen vrolijk de boel konden saboteren en Trump met zijn vriendjes de FBI kon beinvloeden.

De FBI hoort juist onafhankelijk te zijn.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:53 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Maar dat is toch niet de normale gang van zaken?
Dat een FBI director zich laat forceren om een statement te maken waar hij zelf eigenlijk niet achter staat?

Wie had op dat moment dan de leiding over de FBI? Rudy Giuliani of Comey?
En hoe zwak was de regering van Obama dat de Russen vrolijk de boel konden saboteren en Trump met zijn vriendjes de FBI kon beinvloeden.

De FBI hoort juist onafhankelijk te zijn.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:55 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Comey heeft zelf verklaard dat hij twee keuzes had (info achterhouden, info delen), die allebei vervelende consequenties zouden hebben. Uiteindelijk koos hij ervoor om de info te delen zodat hij dat nooit in z'n gezicht teruggeworpen zou krijgen als Clinton president zou worden. Die keuze heeft er alleen wel voor gezorgd dat Clinton daalde in de peilingen en heeft haar wellicht het presidentschap gekost.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 14:07 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:
Nintex gaat weer alle kanten op vandaag. Het onderzoek klopt niet en de CIA en Irak en Clinton verloor vanwege de arbeiders.

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DavidChalian twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 03:30:11 The end of the @ChrisCuomo and Rudy Giuliani conversation perfectly captures our modern moment:Giuliani: It’s in the eye of the beholder.Cuomo: No, facts are not in the eye of the beholder.Giuliani: Nowadays they are reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 14:04 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Hillary Clinton was gewoon een naar onbetrouwbaar mens zonder economische boodschap voor de arbeidersklasse. Dat heeft haar de verkiezingen gekost. Niet de Russen of haar emails of wat dan ook. Alle boeken die door haar voormalige campagne mensen geschreven zijn onderschrijven dat beeld.

Ze liet zichzelf niet zien in de staten die Trump wist te flippen van blauw naar rood (de zogenaamde 'blue wall'). Daarnaast riepen haar campagneleiders dat ze de 'boze witte mensen' niet nodig had en gerust verrot kon schelden als ze wilde, omdat ze toch wel genoeg zwarten en andere minderheden voor zich zou kunnen winnen. De deplorable speech was haar 47% momentje.

Inschattingsfout na inschattingsfout en dan verlies je tegen de op 1 na beste verkoper van de VS.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 14:04 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Hillary Clinton was gewoon een naar onbetrouwbaar mens zonder economische boodschap voor de arbeidersklasse. Dat heeft haar de verkiezingen gekost. Niet de Russen of haar emails of wat dan ook. Alle boeken die door haar voormalige campagne mensen geschreven zijn onderschrijven dat beeld.

Ze liet zichzelf niet zien in de staten die Trump wist te flippen van blauw naar rood (de zogenaamde 'blue wall'). Daarnaast riepen haar campagneleiders dat ze de 'boze witte mensen' niet nodig had en gerust verrot kon schelden als ze wilde, omdat ze toch wel genoeg zwarten en andere minderheden voor zich zou kunnen winnen. De deplorable speech was haar 47% momentje.

Inschattingsfout na inschattingsfout en dan verlies je tegen de op 1 na beste verkoper van de VS.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 14:30:38 Great Republican election results last night. So far we have the team we want. 8 for 9 in Special Elections. Red Wave! reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 14:50:00 Omarosa's slow release of taped conversations "is having the same effect on staffers as the daily dumps from WikiLeaks had on Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.""People are terrified," one ex-Trump aide said of the tapes. "Absolutely terrified." https://t.co/3PogGak5JM reageer retweet

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The latest reveal indicates that Manigault Newman isn't just trying to discredit President Donald Trump, who is the subject of her book, "Unhinged." In her crusade for publicity and payback, she's willing to embarrass and expose her former colleagues along the way.

The result is the same type of psychological warfare that gripped the Clinton campaign two years ago with staffers -- and anyone tangentially in their orbit -- waking up every morning bracing themselves for what potentially embarrassing missive might be made public, and waiting for the onslaught to end.

Like the WikiLeaks dump -- which severely damaged the Clinton campaign by taking it off message, but never produced a smoking gun -- Manigault Newman's tapes, according to someone who has listened to them, are juicy to listen to but ultimately don't contain any bombshell about the president or his family.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 14:46 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 14:30:38 Great Republican election results last night. So far we have the team we want. 8 for 9 in Special Elections. Red Wave! reageer retweet

Een Red Wave in de GOP Primaries.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 14:09 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Los van het feit dat ik geen fan ben van Clinton, sla je de plank hier toch wel redelijk mis. Ze heeft de popular vote gewonnen met een verschil van meer dan 3 miljoen stemmen, wat weliswaar niet zegt over haar winkansen, maar alles over haar populariteit.

Waarom ze heeft verloren? Ik denk vooral pech. Het kwartje viel in sommige staten net de verkeerde kant op. Trump heeft daarvan geprofiteerd. Good for him.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 14:51 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 14:50:00 Omarosa's slow release of taped conversations "is having the same effect on staffers as the daily dumps from WikiLeaks had on Hillary Clinton's 2016 campaign.""People are terrified," one ex-Trump aide said of the tapes. "Absolutely terrified." https://t.co/3PogGak5JM reageer retweet

‘People are terrified’: Trump staffers live in fear of Omarosa’s next tape

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:09 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:
Clinton was geen goede kandidaat en was zeer impopulair bij een groot deel van Amerika. Dat moet ook wel, wil je van Trump verliezen.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:20 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Minnesota proved again last night that the old Republican Party is dead
https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2(...)tter_impression=true

GOP all in op Trump. Vraag me ernstig af wat er nog van ze overblijft als hij t.z.t. het toneel verlaat.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:03 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Nintex heeft gewoon gelijk.

"But her popular vote!!!"

Ja, die voor het grootste deel uit 1 staat komt. Vandaar gelukkig de electoral college.

Feit is dat ze haar gezicht niet heeft laten zien in een aantal staten omdat ze dacht die toch wel te winnen. Dat heeft haar de overwinning gekost. Gegokt en verloren!

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:32 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Wat maakt het eigenlijk uit of die stemmen uit 1 staat komen?

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:32 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Wat maakt het eigenlijk uit of die stemmen uit 1 staat komen?

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:35 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Dit inderdaad. Dat is een beetje als stellen dat Wilders niet populair is omdat zijn achterban zich voornamelijk ophoudt in Limburg.

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paulkrugman twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 15:45:35 I've been doing some historical research into why so many Americans now say they support socialism. It really is important to realize that Republicans have systematically identified the social safety net with socialism 1/ reageer retweet

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paulkrugman twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 15:50:59 So if you think Denmark looks pretty good, Republicans say you're a socialist, and people start to think socialism looks pretty good too. If the GOP then pretends that support for "socialism" means wanting government control of the means of production, that's bait-and-switch 4/ reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 15:50:36 Big Democratic turnout in last night's gubernatorial primaries:Minnesota:Dem 580,962GOP 319,276D +261,686Wisconsin:Dem 537,840GOP 456,007D +81,833Connecticut:Dem 211,499GOP 142,890D +68,609Vermont:Dem 57,102GOP 35,840D +21,262https://t.co/ODrwzgiHM6 reageer retweet

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Big Democratic turnout in last night's gubernatorial primaries:

Minnesota:
Dem 580,962
GOP 319,276
D +261,686

Wisconsin:
Dem 537,840
GOP 456,007
D +81,833

Connecticut:
Dem 211,499
GOP 142,890
D +68,609

Vermont:
Dem 57,102
GOP 35,840
D +21,262

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:52 schreef Refragmental het volgende:
Haar rallies bijvoorbeeld trokken nauwelijks volk.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 15:50:36 Big Democratic turnout in last night's gubernatorial primaries:Minnesota:Dem 580,962GOP 319,276D +261,686Wisconsin:Dem 537,840GOP 456,007D +81,833Connecticut:Dem 211,499GOP 142,890D +68,609Vermont:Dem 57,102GOP 35,840D +21,262https://t.co/ODrwzgiHM6 reageer retweet

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Hey, de GOP primaries trekken veel minder volk. Wat grappig.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:52 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Je slaat de plank volledig mis natuurlijk.
Los van het feit dat Clinton eigenlijk helemaal niet zo populair was. Haar rallies bijvoorbeeld trokken nauwelijks volk. Was het vooral een stem TEGEN Trump.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:27 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Een nep-onderzoek is een te groot woord, maar er is van alles naar buiten gekomen dat ik niet als de normale gang van zaken zou bestempelen.

Ten eerste heb je die Strzok die partijdig was, maar wel tijdelijk het onderzoek mocht leiden.
Dan had je nog Comey en zijn gestuntel met het e-mail onderzoek, zoekgeraakt bewijsmateriaal, lekken naar de media etc.

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“The fact is, after months of investigations, there is simply no evidence of bias in my professional actions,” Strzok said. “There is, however, one extraordinarily important piece of evidence supporting my integrity, the integrity of the FBI, and our lack of bias. In the summer of 2016, I was one of a handful of people who knew the details of Russian election interference and its possible connections with members of the Trump campaign. This information had the potential to derail and quite possibly defeat Mr. Trump. But the thought of expressing that or exposing that information never crossed my mind.”

James Comey: Rudy Giuliani Boasts Prompted Investigation Into FBI Leaks | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:01 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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De mensen die op Clinton stemden, stemden vooral tegen Trump?

Dan kan je het net zo goed omdraaien natuurlijk, dat de mensen die op Trump stemden vooral tegen Clinton waren.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:00 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Goede vergelijking weer Uxl Ga zo door

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:02 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Ongetwijfeld dat er mensen waren die Trump stemden als tegenstem

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:03 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Dus wat is dan je punt precies?

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:06 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Dat kun je toch lezen?
Dat Clinton helemaal niet zo populair was.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:08 schreef Mike het volgende:
Wat een gezanik weer.

Het oorspronkelijke punt was dat Comey door zijn actie net voor de verkiezingen best eens net het verschil kon hebben gemaakt voor de overwinning van Trump. Wat maakt het nou uit dat het beiden impopulaire kandidaten waren?

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 13:10 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het punt is meer dat de VS en Rusland altijd in elkaars verkiezingen aan het rommelen zijn.
Echter zijn er veel mensen die niet geloven dat een paar Facebook berichtes uit Rusland het verschil hebben gemaakt. Trump zelf kan het helemaal niet hebben dat hij niet de credits krijgt voor het verslaan van HRC, maar dat het zogenaamd door de Russen gedaan is.

Tot slot stinkt het hele zaakje rondom de FBI van voor tot achter. Die hebben er een gigantisch zooitje van gemaakt, ongeacht wie er uiteindelijk gelijk krijgt.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:52 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Je slaat de plank volledig mis natuurlijk.
Los van het feit dat Clinton eigenlijk helemaal niet zo populair was. Haar rallies bijvoorbeeld trokken nauwelijks volk. Was het vooral een stem TEGEN Trump.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:11 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Prima.

Maar laten we op z'n minst erkennen dat het kwartje net zo makkelijk anders had kunnen vallen. Dat ze 3,5 miljoen stemmen meer had dan Trump is immers behoorlijk veelzeggend.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:10 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Waar het op neer komt is dat Clinton heeft verloren omdat ze bepaalde staten links heeft laten liggen. Ze was sowieso al heel slecht met campagne voeren, liet het vooral door anderen doen en was zelf nauwelijks publiek in beeld. Koos beweert dat dit niet zo is, alleen heeft hij het daar gewoon mis.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 16:08:18 The Rigged Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on as the “originators and founders” of this scam continue to be fired and demoted for their corrupt and illegal activity. All credibility is gone from this terrible Hoax, and much more will be lost as it proceeds. No Collusion! reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:13 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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De popular vote zegt evenveel als het aantal geslagen stukken in een schaakspel.... kortom, helemaal niks.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:13 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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De popular vote zegt evenveel als het aantal geslagen stukken in een schaakspel.... kortom, helemaal niks.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:10 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Waar het op neer komt is dat Clinton heeft verloren omdat ze bepaalde staten links heeft laten liggen. Ze was sowieso al heel slecht met campagne voeren, liet het vooral door anderen doen en was zelf nauwelijks publiek in beeld. Koos beweert dat dit niet zo is, alleen heeft hij het daar gewoon mis.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:14 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Dat is ook weer onzinnig, natuurlijk. Natuurlijk zegt het wel iets, namelijk hoeveel mensen bereid waren op je te stemmen. Dat is toch wel relevant.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:14 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Dat is ook weer onzinnig, natuurlijk. Natuurlijk zegt het wel iets, namelijk hoeveel mensen bereid waren op je te stemmen. Dat is toch wel relevant.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:16 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Hoe is dat relevant?

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:15 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Bovendien is het aantal geslagen stukken tijdens een schaakspel best wel... relevant.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:17 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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In een discussie over de populariteit van een kandidaat, is dat gegeven natuurlijk gewoon relevant.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:10 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Waar het op neer komt is dat Clinton heeft verloren omdat ze bepaalde staten links heeft laten liggen. Ze was sowieso al heel slecht met campagne voeren, liet het vooral door anderen doen en was zelf nauwelijks publiek in beeld.

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Redistrict twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 15:41:20 Of the 25 House Rs in Clinton districts, only 5 currently appear well-positioned to defy a "Blue Wave:" #CA21 David Valadao#FL26 Carlos Curbelo#NY24 John Katko#PA01 Brian Fitzpatrick#TX23 Will HurdWhy? They built pretty strong moderate brands *before* Trump took office. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:19 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Zelfs de populariteit van een kandidaat kun je niet aflezen van het aantal verkregen stemmen.
Genoeg mensen die een stronthekel hadden aan Clinton, maar toch met tegenzin hebben gestemd, want grotere hekel aan Trump.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:16 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Hoe is dat relevant?

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:21 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Wat een belachelijk zinloos geouwehoer. Feit is gewoon dat dankzij de acties van de FBI hoogstwaarschijnlijk Trump won, wat nog niet eens het punt was, omdat het slechts geopperd wordt in repliek op de bullshit van Trumpers dat het Rusland onderzoek onterecht of partijdig zou zijn.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:21 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Feit is echter dat Clinton meer Amerikanen achter zich wist te krijgen dan Trump. Door het systeem in de VS kun je verder weinig met dat gegeven, maar compleet irrelevant is het natuurlijk niet.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:23 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Voor het eindresultaat is het compleet irrelevant.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 16:08:18 The Rigged Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on as the “originators and founders” of this scam continue to be fired and demoted for their corrupt and illegal activity. All credibility is gone from this terrible Hoax, and much more will be lost as it proceeds. No Collusion! reageer retweet

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olgaNYC1211 twitterde op dinsdag 14-08-2018 om 23:44:27 Trump objects to an effort by Congress to prevent his administration from recognizing Crimea as part of Russia. https://t.co/6FQ0XUIg78 reageer retweet

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President Donald Trump objects to an effort by Congress to prevent his administration from recognizing Crimea as part of Russia.

Crimea is a region in Ukraine that has been occupied by Russia for several years, with the Russian Federation having claimed to have annexed the region in March 2014. Russian President Vladimir Putin has claimed the territorial matter is settled, but many in Washington disagree.

Language in the fiscal 2019 defense authorization, which Trump signed into law Monday during a ceremony at Fort Drum in upstate New York, purported to impose a funding blockade on the Pentagon acting on recognition of Crimea as part of Russia.

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The literal text of the new law states: “None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2019 for the Department of Defense may be obligated or expended to implement any activity that recognizes the sovereignty of the Russian Federation over Crimea.”

The defense authorization law does allow for the provision to be waived, provided that the secretaries of Defense and State provide explanations to the relevant House and Senate committees.

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a formal declaration issued last month that the United States continued to recognize Crimea as part of Ukraine.

“As we did in the Welles Declaration in 1940, the United States reaffirms as policy its refusal to recognize the Kremlin’s claims of sovereignty over territory seized by force in contravention of international law,” Pompeo said in his July 25 statement. “In concert with allies, partners, and the international community, the United States rejects Russia’s attempted annexation of Crimea and pledges to maintain this policy until Ukraine’s territorial integrity is restored.”

But, as is often the case with defense authorization bills regardless of who is in the White House, Trump issued a signing statement Monday night saying that his administration wouldn’t be bound by the will on Congress on provisions that he believes interfere with executive branch powers — including decisions about the territorial integrity of Ukraine.

The Crimea language was one of several provisions, including one about Taiwanese force readiness, to be met with constitutional skepticism.

“My Administration will treat these provisions consistent with the President’s exclusive constitutional authorities as Commander in Chief and as the sole representative of the Nation in foreign affairs, including the authorities to determine the terms upon which recognition is given to foreign sovereigns, to receive foreign representatives, and to conduct the Nation’s diplomacy,” Trump said in the signing statement.

The president’s statement also addresses language in the new defense authorization law about missile systems and numerous reporting requirements, as well as an annual favorite.

Trump’s statement again dismisses attempts by Congress to restrict activities related to the detention center at Guantánamo Bay.

“I fully intend to keep open that detention facility and to use it, as necessary or appropriate, for detention operations,” Trump wrote. “Consistent with the statement I issued in signing the National Defense Authorization Act last year, I reiterate the longstanding position of the executive branch that, under certain circumstances, restrictions on the President’s authority to transfer detainees violates constitutional separation-of-powers principles, including the President’s constitutional authority as Commander in Chief.”

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Is Fok stuk? Ik zie allemaal posts van twee jaar geleden.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:31 schreef Mike het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 16:08:18 The Rigged Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on as the “originators and founders” of this scam continue to be fired and demoted for their corrupt and illegal activity. All credibility is gone from this terrible Hoax, and much more will be lost as it proceeds. No Collusion! reageer retweet

Tja, alle 'tegenstanders van Trump' binnen de FBI zijn ondertussen ontslagen of weggemoffeld en toch gaat het onderzoek door...hoe zou dat toch kunnen?

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rgoodlaw twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 15:32:19 CNN: Mueller told Gates “didn't need his cooperation against Manafort…and instead wanted to hear what he knew about contact between the Trump campaign and Russians…As part of Gates' agreement to cooperate with the special counsel…he earned a vastly reduced potential sentence.” reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 16:57:20 Happy Birthday to the leader of the Democrat Party, Maxine Waters! reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 13:05:11 “Even some of the department’s own personnel have questioned whether Treasury is intentionally hamstringing the investigation.” https://t.co/5SYuWYmyjg reageer retweet

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In its investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 election, the Senate Intelligence Committee has spent more than a year trying to follow the money. But its efforts, unparalleled on Capitol Hill, have been hampered by a surprising force: the US Treasury Department, which has delayed turning over crucial financial records and refused to provide an expert to help make sense of the complex money trail. Even some of the department’s own personnel have questioned whether Treasury is intentionally hamstringing the investigation.

Little is known about what, exactly, goes on behind the locked doors that lead into the committee’s offices. But now, interviews and emails obtained by BuzzFeed News lay bare the numerous hurdles the secretive committee has faced in its mission to obtain and decipher troves of banking records that could shed more light on the Russian scheme — and whether the current president had anything to do with it.

Treasury has at times been reluctant to cooperate with the committee’s requests for sensitive financial documents that are significant to the Russia probe, at one point going at least four months without responding to one of the committee’s requests.

Last year, Treasury rejected the committee’s request for help from one of its experts, even as Treasury officials have speculated — behind closed doors — that the Senate committee would not be able to follow the twisting financial trail laid out in the documents they had turned over, a path that often passes through offshore shell companies or untraceable cash transactions.

In emails reviewed by BuzzFeed News, personnel within Treasury’s Financial Crimes Enforcement Network, or FinCEN, discussed in 2017 whether Treasury was trying to thwart the committee’s investigation. Additionally, some FinCEN personnel questioned whether they had the proper legal authority to share confidential information about US persons with committee staffers.

Despite committee chair Richard Burr’s insistence to BuzzFeed News that the panel has received “every financial document” it has requested from Treasury, sources inside FinCEN told BuzzFeed News that they were initially instructed not to hand over financial documents on certain individuals. The directive, these sources said, came from senior Treasury officials in the General Counsel’s Office. To this day, FinCEN sources insist not all of the records requested by the committee have been turned over.

A spokesperson for FinCEN declined to answer specific questions about its cooperation with the committee. “FinCEN is in regular contact with congressional committees to provide documents responsive to their requests,” the spokesperson said. “We don’t discuss the specifics of requests related to committee investigations.”

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Within the windowless walls of the Senate Intelligence Committee’s secure office spaces, a small staff pores over stacks of financial documents, working to analyze the complex banking records of dozens of key figures in the Russia investigation.

For more than a year and a half, the seven core staff members assigned to the committee’s Russia investigation have often worked late into the night and in some cases through the weekend, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Like special counsel Robert Mueller, who is running a criminal investigation into Russian election interference and potential collusion between the Kremlin and Trump campaign, the committee has in its possession thousands of pages of financial documents from the Treasury Department, sources say.

The documents are largely suspicious activity reports, often called SARs, handed over by FinCEN, which receives thousands of records every day from banks and other financial institutions. 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 are not evidence of a crime; many suspicious activity reports are filed on transactions that are perfectly legal.

It is the focus on following the money that sets the Senate investigators apart from their counterparts on the House Intelligence Committee, which was also charged with investigating Russian meddling. While the reports include some of the president’s current and former associates, even the Senate committee did not ask the Treasury for financial records on Trump himself or his family members.

The financial documents “play a part of a very important roadmap just like every other piece of evidence,” Burr, a Republican from North Carolina, told BuzzFeed News. “They tell us whether you turn right or you turn left.”

But unlike Mueller’s team — which is stacked with attorneys from various fields and whose probe has already led to 35 indictments and guilty pleas — the Senate committee is short on financial experts, limiting its ability to follow the money. The seven core staff members are assisted by two staff directors and two lawyers, the source said, and their expertise lies mostly in national security rather than finance.

Seemingly aware of its own limitations, the committee made its doomed request for Treasury to send an expert to help analyze the documents. That request was shot down last year, FinCEN sources told BuzzFeed News, because Treasury did not want to be seen as playing a part in the committee’s investigation.

A couple weeks ago, the committee renewed its request for an expert. This time, FinCEN sources say it will likely be approved by Ken Blanco, FinCEN’s new director.

FinCEN’s slow response to document requests has already prompted backlash from senators. In April 2017, committee staffers formally requested a broad set of records, including “[a]ll documents that Treasury has sent to the FBI related to Russian attempts to influence either the 2016 U.S. election or individuals associated with it,” according to a letter obtained by BuzzFeed News. The committee sent another letter in August 2017 requesting suspicious activity reports on three dozen individuals and businesses that were subjects of the panel’s investigation Then, in December, the committee followed up with still another letter requesting documents on more individuals or entities — and expressing concern that FinCEN hadn’t responded to its earlier requests. The letters’ existence was first reported by BuzzFeed News in January.

“We appreciate Treasury’s ongoing commitment to working with the Committee’s bipartisan inquiry into Russia interference in the 2016 U.S. elections,” the letter read. “We are concerned however, that we have not received a response to our August 11, 2017, request for documents.”

After months of waiting on some documents, one committee staffer, in an email to FinCEN’s congressional liaison, agreed to narrow the committee’s request for SARs in an effort to obtain the records in a more timely fashion. In another email, a FinCEN employee wrote that a committee staffer had said the reports would be used to help draft a narrative in the committee’s final report about how money may have supported Russia’s interference in the election. Treasury officials then agreed to turn over a limited number of suspicious activity reports.

So far, the committee has asked for financial documents on at least 45 people or entities, according to the committee letters obtained by BuzzFeed News. Those people and entities include some of those involved in the Trump–Moscow negotiations, the now-infamous June 2016 Trump Tower meeting between Trump campaign officials and a Russian lawyer, and former Russian ambassador to the US Sergey Kislyak. The committee has also obtained suspicious activity reports on alleged Russian spy Maria Butina; her partner, longtime GOP operative Paul Erickson; and Russian banker Alexander Torshin, BuzzFeed News has reported.

But at least one committee member feels Senate investigators have not done enough.

Oregon Sen. Ron Wyden has expressed frustration with how the committee has pursued — or not pursued — money matters. “I feel the committee has been AWOL on this,” Wyden, a Democrat on the committee, told BuzzFeed News.

“What I have said — and I’ve had this conversation with the chairman — it’s just a complete difference of opinion,” Wyden said. “I feel that counterintelligence 101 is following the money, because if you’re going to compromise somebody, the single best way to do it is money. So I said from day one, the very first hearing, that that was going to be the focus — my focus — and the chairman, he’s been candid; he doesn’t believe that’s our prime responsibility, and I think it’s a very substantial mistake.”

Wyden, who has blocked Treasury nominees to force the department to turn over documents to both the Senate Intelligence and Finance committees, urged Burr and Intelligence Committee vice chair Mark Warner earlier this year to hold a public hearing on “the financial relationships between Donald Trump and his associates and Russia.” He’s also urged committee leadership to bring Trump’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer Michael Cohen — “the president’s go-to money person,” as Wyden puts it — back for a public hearing with senators, which the committee initially said it would do but has since dropped. Committee staff interviewed Cohen behind closed doors in October. The committee has instead recently opted to hold public hearings on election security, social media, and the Obama administration’s response to Russian meddling.

Wyden pointed to “other pieces to the puzzle” that he believes require additional scrutiny, such as Trump’s attempted business dealings in Moscow before the election, his sale of a Palm Beach property to a Russian oligarch in 2008, and the alleged role of the recently indicted Butina in the Russian influence campaign. “You have to pull together the pieces.”

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RVAwonk twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 15:45:02 New CNN/SSRS poll finds 70% of Americans think Trump should testify under oath in special counsel Mueller's investigation. https://t.co/OOswrEifUY reageer retweet

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KamalaHarris twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 05:37:00 Reminder: Republicans are still blocking the release of records from several years that Kavanaugh worked in the White House, a time in his career he described as “among the most instructive.”Kavanaugh’s up for a lifetime appointment. Americans deserve to see those documents. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 16:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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rgoodlaw twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 15:32:19 CNN: Mueller told Gates “didn't need his cooperation against Manafort…and instead wanted to hear what he knew about contact between the Trump campaign and Russians…As part of Gates' agreement to cooperate with the special counsel…he earned a vastly reduced potential sentence.” reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 17:14:21 The tweet below is from 5 months ago. Today CNN confirmed that, as noted here, what Mueller wanted Gates for was primarily the Russian investigation, rather than for the Manafort trial (which as I've said was not in doubt). Any who saw Gates' role in the Trump campaign saw that. https://t.co/E7OL3Ho3Kj reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 23-03-2018 om 17:58:55 1/ When Gates pleaded guilty, the White House insisted his crimes had nothing to do with Trump or Russia. But it's increasingly clear the reason Mueller offered Gates a plea deal did in fact have to do with Russia-related information Gates had about not just Manafort but others. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 17:33 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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RVAwonk twitterde op woensdag 15-08-2018 om 15:45:02 New CNN/SSRS poll finds 70% of Americans think Trump should testify under oath in special counsel Mueller's investigation. https://t.co/OOswrEifUY reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 17:40 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Daar heeft Trump lak aan. Hij kan niet getuigen aangezien Trump bij een directe vraag van Mueller of moet bekennen of moet liegen.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 17:41 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Tuurlijk gaat hij niet getuigen, is hij nooit van plan geweest ook.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 17:43 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het gestoorde is dat de obstruction of justice ook prima zonder Trump te bewijzen is.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 18:10 schreef BlackLining het volgende:

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Als Mueller daarmee genoegen had genomen, was ie wel naar buiten gekomen ermee. Maar dat deed hij niet, dus er zit nog meer in het vat. Het is uiteraard ook belangrijk de aanklacht compleet en secuur te maken. Hoe urgent het verwijderen van Trump ook is.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 18:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik denk dat Trump meer wil weten over de invloed van Rusland. Daar zal hij wel over willen praten.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 17:53 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Seth wil een boekje verkopen mensen.

Lees al die analyses met een korreltje zout.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 18:37 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Het natuurlijk een soort van BNW gebral.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 17:40 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Daar heeft Trump lak aan. Hij kan niet getuigen aangezien Trump bij een directe vraag van Mueller of moet bekennen of moet liegen.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 18:40 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Aldus de expert op dat gebied, we wachten nog steeds op de spectaculaire onthulling van die sealed indictments waar je zo overtuigd van was.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 15:52 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

Los van het feit dat Clinton eigenlijk helemaal niet zo populair was. Haar rallies bijvoorbeeld trokken nauwelijks volk.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 18:43 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Kan op zich ook zwijgen toch? Althans, theoretisch...

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 18:44 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Over spectaculaire onthullingen gesproken, daar had zonnesteekindebol ons toch ook nog de nodige van beloofd?

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 19:08 schreef speknek het volgende:
Ja 11 augustus zou er groot QAnon nieuws zijn.

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Het enige nieuws op die dag was Bill Maher die claimde dat hij het was.

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Op woensdag 15 augustus 2018 17:53 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Seth wil een boekje verkopen mensen.

Lees al die analyses met een korreltje zout.