[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #543 - Is er een laatste druppel voor Trump

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 15:47 schreef gniffie het volgende:
Zijn laatste tweet. Genot

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 15:54 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Ja, ik kijk ook uit naar die dag.

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 15:40 schreef Treinhomo het volgende:

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Ik neem aan dat 'hij' verwijst naar Pence en niet naar Trump ?

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 15:35 schreef SureD1 het volgende:

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Waarbij zijn object permanence probleem ook weer opspeelt; hij realiseert zich niet dat de lezers van zijn tweets niet weten op welk tv programma hij via twitter ‘live’ zijn reactie geeft...

Met dat artikel over Pence’s goddelijke roeping in gedachten kan ik me niet voorstellen dat hij niet al eens heel nauwkeurig artikel 25(4) van de Grondwet gelezen heeft...

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 15:26 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 30-08-2018 om 15:17:48 The Rigged Russia Witch Hunt did not come into play, even a little bit, with respect to my decision on Don McGahn! reageer retweet

Natuurlijk.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 30-08-2018 om 13:44:28 Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner had NOTHING to do with the so called “pushing out” of Don McGahn.The Fake News Media has it, purposely,so wrong! They love to portray chaos in the White House when they know that chaos doesn’t exist-just a “smooth running machine” with changing parts! reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 16:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dus hij is nu wel eruit gewerkt? Door Trump zelf nota bene?

Een paar tweets ervoor was het nog pushed out tussen quotes ...

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 30-08-2018 om 13:44:28 Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner had NOTHING to do with the so called “pushing out” of Don McGahn.The Fake News Media has it, purposely,so wrong! They love to portray chaos in the White House when they know that chaos doesn’t exist-just a “smooth running machine” with changing parts! reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 16:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dus hij is nu wel eruit gewerkt? Door Trump zelf nota bene? Of wat was Trumps beslissing hierin over McGahn?

Een paar tweets ervoor was het nog 'so called "pushing out"' ... alsof dat nep was...

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 30-08-2018 om 13:44:28 Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner had NOTHING to do with the so called “pushing out” of Don McGahn.The Fake News Media has it, purposely,so wrong! They love to portray chaos in the White House when they know that chaos doesn’t exist-just a “smooth running machine” with changing parts! reageer retweet

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Mr. Trump had grown tired of seeing reports that Mr. McGahn might leave, according to people familiar with his thinking, and decided to take away any wiggle room he might have. Allies of Mr. McGahn said on Wednesday that he believed the story was planted by his critics to force the president's hand and hasten the timeline of announcing his departure.

Among those critics have been Mr. Trump's daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law, Jared Kushner. Ms. Trump complained bitterly to her father about The Times report this month, which detailed how some in the White House were unaware of the extent of Mr. McGahn's cooperation with Mr. Mueller, according to a person briefed on the discussion.

NYT

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 16:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dus hij is nu wel eruit gewerkt? Door Trump zelf nota bene? Of wat was Trumps beslissing hierin over McGahn?

Een paar tweets ervoor was het nog 'so called "pushing out"' ... alsof dat nep was...

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 30-08-2018 om 13:44:28 Ivanka Trump & Jared Kushner had NOTHING to do with the so called “pushing out” of Don McGahn.The Fake News Media has it, purposely,so wrong! They love to portray chaos in the White House when they know that chaos doesn’t exist-just a “smooth running machine” with changing parts! reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 28 augustus 2018 19:55 schreef Montov het volgende:

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ddale8 twitterde op dinsdag 28-08-2018 om 12:43:55 Trump’s “96%” complaint about Google is from an article by right-wing PJ Media that has been making the rounds online in the last day. It complains that the News tab for Trump brings up...news sites...rather than right-wing opinion sites...like PJ Media. https://t.co/RfEM6a0PRm https://t.co/HOfN7zyQm0 reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op dinsdag 28-08-2018 om 13:02:13 Here is the “bias” classification system the PJ Media uses. Among the “left-wing” outlets: the Associated Press, USA Today, Politico, The Hill, Bloomberg, Reuters (to which Trump just gave an interview)...In other words, this is all very silly. But you knew that. https://t.co/tfmcDbcMn4 reageer retweet

De echokamer van Trump is tegelijkertijd lachwekkend en beangstigend.

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Take the center line and move 1/4 the way to the right – that would be one way to do it. But specifically… Reuters is in the middle?? (absolutely freaking not) as is UPI??.. Fox is nowhere near that conservative, they should be toward the center. NYP and WSJ are not that conservative…

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 30-08-2018 om 16:00:01 Republicans are disregarding Trump's bilateral trade plans with Mexico, arguing his plan may not even be possible due to procedural constraints."That would be almost impossible as it's been described to me," said Republican Ron Johnson. https://t.co/yWshcWJ7gX reageer retweet

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The president threatened to leave Canada behind in renegotiating NAFTA. But lawmakers doubt he’s allowed to do that.
Congressional Republicans disregarded President Donald Trump's announcement Monday that he would pursue a bilateral trade deal with Mexico unless Canadian negotiators quickly agree to a framework for an updated trilateral North American Free Trade Agreement, arguing that his plan may not even be possible due to procedural constraints.

"That would be almost impossible as it's been described to me,” said Wisconsin Republican Ron Johnson when asked about Trump’s plan. “About all we can really do is fix NAFTA and keep it as a three-party agreement, which I think, first of all, we should want that.”

Trump, announcing the understanding with Mexico, said that he would like to rename NAFTA the “United States-Mexico Trade Agreement.” The “agreement” — used in the loosest sense of the term — is preliminary. Many details haven’t been shared yet, though it represents a key breakthrough for U.S. and Mexican negotiators who have quibbled over auto manufacturing requirements for months. It would include new minimum wage requirements for a percentage of the vehicle manufacturing process ($16 an hour) and increase the amount of U.S. or Mexican content that must be included in each automobile, from 62.5 percent to 75 percent, in order to obtain duty-free status.

"We will see whether or not we decide to put up Canada or just do a separate deal with Canada, if they want to make the deal,” Trump said.

Because the White House has to notify Congress 90 days in advance of signing an agreement, negotiators have only until Friday to strike a deal if they want to finish a new NAFTA before current Mexican president Enrique Pena Nieto is replaced by left-wing president-elect Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador in early December. Canadian Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland is set to appear in Washington to meet with negotiators on Tuesday, but it remains to be seen just how flexible the Canadians are willing to be on a number of politically-sensitive issues, such as dairy tariffs. If Canada does not agree to a renegotiated NAFTA this week, the White House plans to notify Congress of the U.S.-Mexico deal on Friday instead, a senior Trump administration official told reporters on a phone call with reporters Monday afternoon.

“Ideally Canada will be in it and we’ll be able to notify that. If Canada’s not in, we’ll notify that we have an agreement with Mexico and we’re open to Canada joining us,” the official told reporters.

It is unclear why the office of the U.S. Trade Representative thinks this is an option.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 30-08-2018 om 17:10:03 Paul Manafort worked more extensively in the former Soviet Union than was previously reported, a new investigation claims.Manafort and his fixer Konstantin Kilimnik were apparently sent in 2005 to Kyrgyzstan, where the two promoted Russian interests. https://t.co/BLP6chLByR reageer retweet

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Paul Manafort, whose work as a political consultant in Russia and Ukraine led to his conviction in a Virginia courtroom on Wednesday, worked more extensively in the former Soviet Union than was previously reported, a new investigation has claimed.

According to a report published on Wednesday by the new investigative media outlet Project, Manafort and his fixer Konstantin Kilimnik were sent in 2005 to the central Asian republic of Kyrgyzstan, where the two promoted Russian interests, including the closure of the US military base Manas.

According to the article, their travel was funded by a Russian oligarch who was later sanctioned by the US over meddling in the 2016 US presidential elections.

“I heard about Kyrgyzstan – they went there to strengthen Russia’s position,” a former member of Manafort’s team from Ukraine said in the article, which was obtained by the Guardian before its release. A colleague of Kilimnik confirmed to Project that the two men worked there.

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Tom_Winter twitterde op donderdag 30-08-2018 om 16:04:26 BREAKING / NBC News: The FBI has arrested Robert Chain, 68, from Encino, California for threats they say he made to The Boston Globe following their recent editorial about the press. Chain allegedly referred to the Boston Globe as "the enemy of the people" in phone calls. reageer retweet

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California man charged with threatening to kill Boston Globe employees

"You're the enemy of the people, and we're going to kill every f------ one of you," said man accused of making 14 threatening calls to the newspaper.

A California man was charged with threatening to kill employees of The Boston Globe, whom he called "the enemy of the people," federal officials said Thursday.

Robert Chain, 68, from Encino, allegedly made 14 threatening calls to the paper from Aug. 10 through Aug. 22. He is charged with one count of making threatening communications in interstate commerce, according to a statement from Andrew Lelling, the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts.

"In a time of increasing political polarization, and amid the increasing incidence of mass shootings, members of the public must police their own political rhetoric. Or we will," Lelling said in the statement.

Some of the calls were recorded, according to the FBI. On the day The Boston Globe published a coordinated editorial response with other newspapers around the country to attacks on the press and in defense of the First Amendment, Chain is accused of calling them and threatening to kill newspaper employees.

"You're the enemy of the people, and we're going to kill every f------ one of you," the caller said. "Hey, why don't you call the F, why don't you call Mueller, maybe he can help you out, buddy."

In response, local law enforcement maintained a presence outside the Globe's offices, according to the statement.

Chain owns several firearms, including buying a 9 mm carbine rifle in May, according to the criminal complaint.

Law enforcement officials in California said Chain was taken into custody without incident and federal agents were searching his home.

Hank Shaw, in charge of the FBI's Boston office, said in the statement, "All threats are taken seriously, as we never know if the subject behind the threat intends to follow through with their actions."

"Everyone has a right to express their opinion, but threatening to kill people, takes it over the line and will not be tolerated," he said.

The FBI said that even though Chain blocked his caller ID, they were able to trace the calls to his address in California and used public databases to confirm that he lived there. In addition, Chain made two calls from his cellphone that were unblocked.

President Donald Trump has repeatedly lashed out against the press and called the news media an "enemy of the people," using the phrase as recently as Thursday on Twitter.

Chain faces up to five years in prison and a fine of $250,000 if convicted and was scheduled to appear in federal court in Los Angeles on Thursday and be transferred to Boston at a later date.

The Boston Globe thanked law enforcement in a statement.

"While it was unsettling for many of our staffers to be threatened in such a way, nobody - really, nobody - let it get in the way of the important work of this institution," a newspaper spokesperson said.

https://www.nbcnews.com/n(...)be-employees-n905081

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President Donald Trump said Thursday that civilian employees of the federal government won't get pay raises next year. In a letter to congressional leaders, Trump said pay increases "will be set at zero" for 2019. Trump said in his letter that the government "must maintain efforts to put our Nation on a fiscally sustainable course, and Federal agency budgets cannot sustain such increases." A 2.1% across-the-board increase was scheduled to go into effect in January.

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 19:42 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump cancels pay raises for civilian federal workers in 2019

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 19:44 schreef Wombcat het volgende:

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Ze hadden ook al een enorme belastingverlaging gehad natuurlijk, dus dan is een payraise nergens meer voor nodig.

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 20:04 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Als de President iets heeft komen ze niet met een enkele ambulance.
Er zal wel een medewerker van de trap gevallen zijn.

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 20:08 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Voor die papzak zou een hijskraan ook aanwezig moeten zijn.

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 17:06 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Die rangschikking van de media is wel ....

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Times en The Atlantic (in 2016 door de American Society of Magazine Editors tot Best Magazine of the Year verkozen) liggen verder van het centrum dan Breitbart.
Reuters bijna even ver van het centrum als Fox News.
De BBC staat verder van het centrum dan de Daily Mail, de Daily Caller, NY Post (Murdoch), ongeveer gelijk met de Washington Times (van Sun Myung Moon, Unification Church).

Enige site die rechtser staat dan ik zou verwachten is Christian Science Monitor (tussen Daily Mail en Daily Caller). Zullen allicht anti-abortus editorials te vinden zijn, maar hun artikels leken me altijd vrij objectief.

De chart is trouwens het resultaat van (conservatieve) user comments op een eerdere versie.
https://sharylattkisson.com/2018/08/28/media-bias-a-new-chart/
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De 4 commentaren over Christian Science Monitor naar links opschuiven heeft ze blijkbaar genegeerd.

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Op donderdag 30 augustus 2018 20:15 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Deze is een stuk beter.NYT & WaPo zo links plaatsen is dikke onzin. Komt door hun linkse opinionisten. Daar zit slecht een verdwaalde rechts conservatief tussen. Hun nieuws is gewoon feitelijk en mainstream midden.