[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #542 - in memoriam: John McCain

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 00:03 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Inderdaad.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 28-08-2018 om 22:20:06 Trump told Christian leaders that if the GOP loses, "they will overturn everything that we've done and they'll do it quickly and violently, and violently. There's violence. When you look at Antifa and you look ... these groups — these are violent people." https://t.co/JAvYYlkMk8 reageer retweet

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"The level of hatred, the level of anger is unbelievable," he said. "Part of it is because of some of the things I've done for you and for me and for my family, but I've done them. … This Nov. 6 election is very much a referendum on not only me, it's a referendum on your religion, it's a referendum on free speech and the First Amendment.

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"Now one of the things I'm most proud of is getting rid of the Johnson Amendment," the president said. "That was a disaster for you."

The president doesn't have the power to repeal a law -- only Congress can do that. The Supreme Court can also rule a law unconstitutional, but that has not happened in this case

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 29-08-2018 om 00:55:09 Reuters confirms @NatashaBertrand scoop: Devin Nunes sought unsuccessfully to meet with the chiefs of MI5, MI6 and GCHQ on a recent visit to London.https://t.co/QxnYpVOqam reageer retweet

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Earlier this month, as all eyes were on the courtroom dramas unfolding in Virginia—where President Donald Trump’s campaign chairman was just convicted on bank- and tax-fraud charges—and in New York—where the president’s longtime personal lawyer pleaded guilty to campaign-finance violations and implicated Trump in a crime—the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee was in London, seeking out new information about the former British intelligence officer and Trump-Russia dossier author Christopher Steele.

According to two people familiar with his trip across the pond who requested anonymity to discuss the chairman’s travels, Devin Nunes, a California Republican, was investigating, among other things, Steele’s own service record and whether British authorities had known about his repeated contact with a U.S. Justice Department official named Bruce Ohr. To that end, Nunes requested meetings with the heads of three different British agencies—MI5, MI6, and the Government Communications Headquarters, or GCHQ. (Steele was an MI6 agent until a decade ago, and GCHQ, the United Kingdom’s equivalent of the National Security Agency, was the first foreign-intelligence agency to pick up contacts between Trump associates and Russian agents in 2015, according to The Guardian.)

A U.K. security official, speaking on background, said “it is normal for U.K. intelligence agencies to have meetings with the chairman and members of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.” But those meetings did not pan out—Nunes came away meeting only with the U.K.’s deputy national-security adviser, Madeleine Alessandri. The people familiar with his trip told me that officials at MI6, MI5, and GCHQ were wary of entertaining Nunes out of fear that he was “trying to stir up a controversy.” Spokespeople for Alessandri and Nunes did not return requests for comment, and neither did the press offices for MI5 and MI6. GCHQ declined to comment.

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A preliminary report on international trade for the month of July showed the U.S. trade deficit in goods widened last month to $72.2 billion from $67.9 billion in June.

The trade deficit in goods had narrowed slightly from February to May, and now appears to have widened two months in a row, although the data is preliminary and only covers trade in goods and not trade in services.

Exports of goods dipped to $140 billion last month from $142.5 billion in June, while imports of goods rose to $212.2 billion, up from $210.4 billion in June on a seasonally adjusted basis, according to the Commerce Department’s latest “Advance Economic Indicators” report, which provides an early and partial snapshot of trade and inventories data.

Exports face a number of headwinds that could contribute to a wider trade deficit for the rest of the third quarter, which may ultimately weigh on third-quarter readings of gross domestic product.

“Export growth is expected to cool over the coming months, weighed down by more modest global momentum, a firmer U.S. dollar, trade tariffs and trade policy uncertainty,” said Oren Klachkin, lead economist for Oxford Economics, in a note.

The preliminary data report is not a major economic indicator, but has been watched by some economists in recent months for two reasons: First, because a narrowing of the trade deficit in the second quarter provided a lift to U.S. GDP, which clocked in at 4.1% growth at a seasonally adjusted annualized rate. If the preliminary data are confirmed in final reports, then part of the boost in second quarter GDP could be reversed in the third-quarter GDP report. That report, however, will not be released until October.

Macroeconomic Advisers lowered its tracking estimate of GDP growth for the third quarter by 0.1 percentage point to 3.1% based on the report.

The report has also been watched for any insight into whether President Trump’s trade actions are succeeding in reducing the U.S. deficit. Because the data are so volatile, however, it is too soon to provide meaningful answers.

The data may also be distorted by factors like soybean exporters rushing to ship their crop to China and other locations before agricultural tariffs take effect. That movement could now be going into reverse.

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Trump’s preferred candidate, Rep. Ron DeSantis, decisively won the GOP nomination. Tallahassee Mayor Andrew Gillum, a liberal backed by Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and billionaire environmentalist Tom Steyer, claimed the Democratic nod in an upset.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 29-08-2018 om 03:16:58 Report just out: “China hacked Hillary Clinton’s private Email Server.” Are they sure it wasn’t Russia (just kidding!)? What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classified information! reageer retweet

Bombshell Report On Chinese Hacking of Hillary Clinton's Server, DCNF Reporter Dishes The Details

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 29-08-2018 om 06:11:45 Hillary Clinton’s Emails, many of which are Classified Information, got hacked by China. Next move better be by the FBI & DOJ or, after all of their other missteps (Comey, McCabe, Strzok, Page, Ohr, FISA, Dirty Dossier etc.), their credibility will be forever gone! reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 29-08-2018 om 06:20:12 The president is tweeting after midnight again. reageer retweet

The Rachel Maddow Show [FULL] 8/28/18 | The Rachel MSNBC Today Aug 28, 2018

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House Republicans say the closed-door testimony of Justice Department official Bruce Ohr on Tuesday has heightened their concerns that federal authorities abused surveillance powers during the 2016 presidential election.

GOP lawmakers, trickling in and out of the roughly eight-hour interview, claimed Ohr indicated in his testimony that FBI officials knew more information than they led on in their application to obtain a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) warrant on former Trump campaign aide Carter Page.

Ohr, whom Republicans described as cooperative in his testimony on Tuesday, has come under increasing GOP scrutiny for his contacts with intelligence firm Fusion GPS and former British spy Christopher Steele, who were behind an opposition research dossier on Trump.
“Thus far, [Ohr] has done nothing but exacerbate my concerns that the FISA process has been abused,” Rep. John Ratcliffe (R-Texas), a House Judiciary Committee member, told The Hill.

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 04:32 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump-aligned Republican and African American Democrat who ran to the left win primaries

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 07:50 schreef Szura het volgende:
Ah nu heeft China de mails van Clinton gehackt

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 08:06 schreef Falco het volgende:

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Dit soort openbare beschuldigingen zullen niet goed vallen bij de Chinezen

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Christian Supremacist Mike Pence: God Is Calling Me To Be President

Mike Pence believes that God has called him to be president of the U.S., according to a new biography, “The Shadow President: The Truth About Mike Pence.”

While Trump may be a crass and ignorant buffoon, Vice President Pence is much worse – a cold, cruel, religious extremist with dreams of a Christian theocracy.

Pence, who is fond of saying he is “a Christian, a conservative, and a Republican, in that order,” is Sarah Palin without the charisma, a conservative Christian nightmare who rejects the separation of church and state, and places his Christian faith above the U.S. Constitution.

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 07:50 schreef Szura het volgende:
Ah nu heeft China de mails van Clinton gehackt

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 08:54 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 08:54 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 12:45 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Renaming Senate office building after McCain sparks GOP backlash

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De GOP wil dus een Democraat blijven eren in plaats van een Republikein.

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 13:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:
a lawyer recently brought on for President Trump who also advised Bill Clinton during his impeachment hearings.

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 13:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Russell was van mening dat het aantal dooie japanse burgers onbelangrijk was. Maar dat was niet echt heel bijzonder.

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 15:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 29-08-2018 om 14:41:38 When you see “anonymous source,” stop reading the story, it is fiction! reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 14:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump is wel erg grappig:

Twitter Users Torch Trump Over Bizarre ‘I Remember Pearl Harbor’ Comments

Ik herinner me als de dag van gisteren de moord op Willem de Zwijger. Sterker nog: Ik denk dat het gisteren was.

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 00:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Hearing tonight from a surprising number of veterans and vets’ relatives who all say Trump’s handling of McCain’s death, esp the flag fiasco, did irreparable damage to their opinion of him, which had been positive until now.

WH & GOP, take note: It’s more serious than you think.

https://mobile.twitter.co(...)/1034259820386365441

Caveat: The plural of “anecdote” is not “data,” and these are still just anecdotes I’m hearing. Only when the next round of polling comes out will we learn if the data backs up the individual stories.

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Ik ben hier sceptisch over. Vooralsnog deed niks specifieks de naald bewegen van deze cultists en was het slechts het enthusiasme waar wel wat gemeten zou kunnen zijn. Nintex lijkt ook nog steeds achter hem aan te huppelen als een cultist. Komt bij dat er vooralsnog 2 polls zijn van trumps approval na de 25e, waar er volstrekt geen negatief effect is.

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 12:45 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Renaming Senate office building after McCain sparks GOP backlash

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De GOP wil dus een Democraat blijven eren in plaats van een Republikein.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 29-08-2018 om 18:00:23 Trump's announcement of Don McGahn's departure came as a surprise, including to McGahn.He was not aware that Trump planned to send the tweet before it posted, a source tells WaPo.McGahn's reaction was, "Of course it happened this way."https://t.co/ltWJ4S6dlS reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 18:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://gritpost.com/joe-arpaio-dead-last/


Aardig stuk over de afgang van Joe Arpaio in Arizona.

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 17:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 29-08-2018 om 17:05:24 Ron DeSantis says on Fox that Florida shouldn't "monkey this up" by electing his opponent, the first African American to win a major-party nomination for governor in Florida. https://t.co/g9JvXhEesY https://t.co/jzb4Ud39ag reageer retweet

Die maakt ook alles nog even duidelijk.

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 15:55 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Waren die polls van na het vlag gedoe? Er zijn 21.8 miljoen veterans in de VS (cijfer van 2014), kan me voorstellen dat het voor sommigen wel een stap te ver was.

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In an ironic twist, the committee complained in one memo that the narrative around marijuana is unfairly biased in favor of the drug. But rather than seek objective information, the committee’s records show it is asking officials only to portray marijuana in a negative light, regardless of what the data show.

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Departments were told to “identify marijuana threats; issues created by state marijuana initiatives; and consequences of use, production, and trafficking on national health, safety, and security.”

The agencies should also provide an example of a “story, relating an incident or picture, that illustrates one or more the key areas of concern related to use, production, and trafficking of marijuana,” the White House guidance says. The agencies were asked to describe how the drug poses threats to their department and the consequences of marijuana “on national health and security.”

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 04:46 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op woensdag 29-08-2018 om 03:16:58 Report just out: “China hacked Hillary Clinton’s private Email Server.” Are they sure it wasn’t Russia (just kidding!)? What are the odds that the FBI and DOJ are right on top of this? Actually, a very big story. Much classified information! reageer retweet

Edit: Ow gevonden... bij de Daily Caller

Bombshell Report On Chinese Hacking of Hillary Clinton's Server, DCNF Reporter Dishes The Details

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 29-08-2018 om 20:01:00 An FBI official is refuting this report that Trump tweeted about."The FBI has not found any evidence the (Clinton) servers were compromised," the official told NBC News. https://t.co/Ut2I9EBwJE https://t.co/4m7I1Qlasf reageer retweet

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Sixteen hours after President Trump tweeted about a right-wing media story alleging that China hacked Hillary Clinton’s private email server, an FBI official is refuting the report in a comment to NBC News.

"The FBI has not found any evidence the (Clinton) servers were compromised," the official said.

It’s the latest example of the widening breach between a president who traffics in unverified news accounts and the law enforcement agencies he frequently maligns.

The FBI official, speaking for the bureau, also pointed to a report issued in June by the Justice Department inspector general that examined the FBI’s investigation of Clinton’s use of a private email server.

In the report, the IG noted that while the FBI assessed that it was "possible" that hostile actors gained access to Clinton’s private email server, the bureau "acknowledged that the FBI investigation and its forensic analysis did not find evidence that Clinton’s email server systems were compromised."

According to the IG report, an FBI forensics agent assigned to the case told investigators that, although he did not believe there was "any way of determining...100%" whether Clinton’s servers had been compromised, he felt "fairly confident that there wasn’t an intrusion." When asked whether a sophisticated foreign adversary was likely to be able to cover its tracks, he stated, "They could. Yeah. But I, I felt as if we coordinated with the right units at headquarters...for those specific adversaries.... And the information that was returned back to me was that there was no indication of a compromise."

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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence declined to comment about Gohmert's allegation or the Daily Caller story.

The Justice Department IG's report noted that the FBI conducted "'intrusion analyses' on each of Clinton’s devices and other evidence to determine whether any classified information had been compromised," and said the agent assigned to conduct forensic analysis "described the team's efforts in this regard as exhaustive."

"He stated that these efforts included (1) examining the servers and others devices to identify suspicious logins or other activity, and (2) searching numerous datasets to determine whether foreign adversaries or known hostile domestic actors had accessed emails that the [team] had confirmed to contain classified information."

Former FBI Director James Comey, in his July 5, 2016, press conference regarding possible cyber intrusion of Clinton’s email servers, said the FBI had not found direct evidence of any intrusion into her personal email domain, but didn't rule out the possibility.

"Given the nature of the system and of the actors potentially involved, we assess that we would be unlikely to see such direct evidence. We do assess that hostile actors gained access to the private commercial email accounts of people with whom Secretary Clinton was in regular contact from her personal account ... She also used her personal email extensively while outside the United States, including sending and receiving work-related emails in the territory of sophisticated adversaries. Given that combination of factors, we assess it is possible that hostile actors gained access to Secretary Clinton's personal email account."