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

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Op dinsdag 28 augustus 2018 23:59 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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ABC twitterde op dinsdag 28-08-2018 om 23:44:28 FIFA head Gianni Infantino gifts Pres. Trump a red card for "when you want to kick out someone." The president jokingly pretended to give it to members of the media gathered in the Oval Office. https://t.co/NkJuIoyFEp https://t.co/RaMhiTUITc reageer retweet

Trump is weer helemaal de oude

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Op woensdag 29 augustus 2018 00:57 schreef Freak188 het volgende:

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Brrrr... die aalgladde infantillo. Die is ook geen haar beter (pun intended) dan z’n voorganger.

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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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thehill twitterde op woensdag 29-08-2018 om 05:16:06 Indicted GOP lawmaker says to "leave my wife out of it" after blaming her for the charges https://t.co/5QnLrPsoHh https://t.co/eJd1tD956e reageer retweet

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Rep. Duncan Hunter (R-Calif.) on Tuesday told a reporter to "leave my wife out of it" as he discussed their recent indictment on charges of misusing campaign funds, days after he appeared to blame his wife, Margaret, for the charges.

"Leave my wife out of it. Leave my family out of it," he said in an interview with 10News, an ABC affiliate in San Diego. "It's me they're after anyway. They're not after my wife. They want to take me down. That's what they're up to."

Both Duncan and Margaret Hunter were indicted last week, charged with misusing at least $250,000 in campaign funds for personal expenses. Hunter is accused of using the funds to pay for trips to Italy and Hawaii, his family's dental work, his children's tuition and travel for relatives, among other personal expenses.

Hunter said in an interview on Fox News last week that his wife was responsible for the campaign spending.

"She was also the campaign manager, so whatever she did, that'll be looked at too, I'm sure," Hunter said at the time. "But I didn't do it. I didn't spend any money illegally."

Hunter has dismissed the charges against him as politically motivated, calling them a "witch hunt" on the part of the Department of Justice.

Hunter is up for reelection in California's 50th congressional district this November, when he'll face off against Democratic challenger Ammar Campa-Najjar.