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

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 17:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Bombshell leak to Toronto Star upends NAFTA talks: In secret ‘so insulting’ remarks, Trump says he isn’t compromising at all with Canada

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kpolantz twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 13:32:26 SCOOP out this am: Two prosecutors leave Mueller's office—and not for political reasons/wrongdoing. Mueller now using 15 attorneys for Russia probe https://t.co/SIGnD630ib reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 17:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Bombshell leak to Toronto Star upends NAFTA talks: In secret ‘so insulting’ remarks, Trump says he isn’t compromising at all with Canada

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 20:00:10 Update: Ex-Manafort associate Sam Patten admitted that he helped foreign donors give money to Trump's Inaugural Committee. https://t.co/xfnTtRejUz reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 20:05:04 Patten enlisted a U.S. citizen to serve as a "straw" buyer to purchase 4 tickets for $50,000, after receiving a check for $50,000 from the firm run by Patten and Konstantin Kilimnik.That firm was reimbursed by a $50,000 wire from the Ukrainian oligarch's Cypriot bank account. https://t.co/IWZKyDBdDr reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 20:15:07 Ex-Manafort associate Sam Patten also agreed that he misled the Senate Intelligence Committee when he testified before the panel in January 2018. https://t.co/0clYel657l reageer retweet

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JoyceWhiteVance twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 17:31:36 Interestingly, the same judge presiding over the Manafort case is taking Patten's plea, which is taking place on a timeline that would make him available to testify against Manafort during his September trial in DC. https://t.co/z66GApQFyM reageer retweet

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Trump disapproval hits 60 percent in new poll

Disapproval of President Trump reached 60 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll, the highest those outlets have recorded throughout his tenure.

The results, released Friday, come at a challenging time for the Trump presidency, after his former longtime lawyer Michael Cohen pleaded guilty in federal court, and his former campaign chairman Paul Manafort was found guilty on eight counts and faces yet another trial next month. Meanwhile, White House counsel Don McGahn is on his way out this fall, as Democrats aim to take control of the House come November. Mr. Trump's approval rating is still high among conservatives, but it has dropped from a high of 74 percent to 67 percent. And his approvals among white men without college education has also dropped 15 points -- from a high of 70 percent to 55 percent.

Mr. Trump, who often calls polls fake, has more to worry about, if this poll is accurate. A majority of those polled, 53 percent, believe he has tried to interfere with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation in a way that amounts to obstruction of justice, compared to 35 percent who believe has has not. Speaking of Mueller, Americans are broadly supportive of him and his investigation, according to the ABC-Washington Post poll. The survey found 63 percent support Mueller's investigation into Trump associates, while 29 percent oppose it.

While the president has complained that Manafort's prosecution was unfair, the poll finds a majority of Americans think it was justified, 67 to 17 percent, and nearly half of Republicans agree with this. Sixty-six percent of Americans oppose a Trump pardon for Manafort, and 45 percent of Republicans also oppose a pardon.

Those polled did express concern over Mr. Trump's associates, and the president's interactions with them. A majority of those polled, 61 percent, agreed that if Mr. Trump directed Cohen to pay off women, he committed a crime. And only 18 percent of those polled believed the president should pardon Manafort, while 66 percent say he should not.

Americans are split on whether impeachment proceedings should begin against Mr. Trump, something that would likely only happen if Democrats take control of Congress. Of those polled, 49 percent said impeachment proceedings should begin, while 46 percent said they should not.

There's also a split among Americans on Mr. Trump's handing of the economy, with 45 percent who approve and 47 percent who disapprove.

The poll was conducted by landline and cell phone from Aug. 26 through Aug. 29, in both English and Spanish, among 1,003 adults.

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CNBCnow twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 21:25:14 BREAKING: US, Canada trade talks end with no agreement; Trump set to notify Congress of plans to process with Mexico-only deal, but suggest Canada can still join revised NAFTA - Dow Jones https://t.co/jyTGLL3WeV reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 21:43 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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CNBCnow twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 21:25:14 BREAKING: US, Canada trade talks end with no agreement; Trump set to notify Congress of plans to process with Mexico-only deal, but suggest Canada can still join revised NAFTA - Dow Jones https://t.co/jyTGLL3WeV reageer retweet

Het lijkt me stug dat een bilaterale deal met Mexico realiteit wordt, maar we zullen zien. Wel ferm van Canada, 75% van hun export gaat naar de VS.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 21:51 schreef Szura het volgende:

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Er zou nog onderhandeld worden volgens NBC

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Trump Inaugural Committee Got Foreign Money, Plea Deal Shows

A former Paul Manafort associate who pleaded guilty to a lobbying crime admitted that he helped foreign donors give money to President Donald Trump’s Inaugural Committee.

In a plea agreement made public Friday, prosecutors outlined other crimes that the lobbyist, Sam Patten, admitted to but wouldn’t be charged with. Among them was “causing foreign money” to be paid to the Trump inaugural committee. Patten signed off on the allegation.

Patten pleaded guilty earlier Friday to failing to disclose his lobbying on behalf of Ukraine, and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors.

According to a court filing, Patten’s Ukrainian client wanted to attend the Trump inauguration in January 2017, but the Inauguration Committee couldn’t accept money from foreign nationals because of Federal Election Commission rules.

To get around that restriction, Patten enlisted a U.S. citizen to serve as a “straw” buyer, according to the filing. That individual, who wasn’t named, bought four tickets for $50,000, after receiving a check for $50,000 from the consulting firm run by Patten and Konstantin Kilimnik, Manafort’s longtime fixer in Ukraine suspected of having ties to Russian intelligence. That firm, in turn, was reimbursed by a $50,000 wire from the Ukrainian oligarch’s Cypriot bank account, the filing says.

It’s unclear whether anyone on the Inaugural Committee was aware that the money came from a Ukrainian, or whether Patten has more to tell investigators about the matter.

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Trump’s Inaugural Committee raised a record $107 million, roughly double the amount collected for the 2008 swearing-in of Barack Obama. The 2016 committee spent about $90 million, including $26 million to an event-planning company headed by a friend of First Lady Melania Trump. Under federal law, the committee was required to disclose to the Federal Election Commission the names of donors who gave more than $200.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 21:31 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Weet je wie ook off-the-record dingen vertellen aan de pers?

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maggieNYT twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 21:48:28 This literally never happens, that the OTR portions of these interviews leaks. Most people close to White House have raised possibility that Trump ordered it put out. https://t.co/tDHFpsT6KK reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 21:31 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Weet je wie ook off-the-record dingen vertellen aan de pers?

SPOILER

Om spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 22:45:07 Yikes. @spettypi just said on @DeadlineWH that she was on the phone with Rudy Giuliani this morning when the headline came out that ex-Manafort associate Sam Patten had plead guilty and Giuliani replied, 'Oh, who's that? I've never heard of him.' reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 22:25 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Dit is de notificatie aan Congress:

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Kan dat zo, dat de president zegt: "Ja, misschien ook met Canada, maar wie weet ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ "

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President Trump is telling Canadian officials they have until Friday to sign on to his major new North American trade deal, threatening to leave them behind, rip up the continent’s existing trade pact and even, possibly, hit Canada with draconian auto tariffs.

But according to Congress, foreign officials and even members of Trump’s own administration, Friday isn’t the drop-dead deadline for Canada that the president is suggesting.

On Friday, Trump plans to send a letter to Congress notifying it of an impending trade deal, which he’s terming a replacement for the North American Free Trade Agreement (new name to be determined). He wants to send a letter because it starts the clock on the 90-day notice that U.S. trade law requires Trump to give Congress before he can sign any agreement.

Getting that window started by Friday matters to Trump, because he wants to get a deal done by Dec. 1. That’s when Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto will step down to make way for President-elect Andrés Manuel López Obrador. López Obrador has had representatives at the U.S.-Mexico trade talks, but Trump doesn’t want to risk the new Mexican administration balking at a deal his team brokered with the old one.

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eyokley twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 21:09:35 Jerry Lundergan, @AlisonForKY's dad and a major fixture in Kentucky Democratic politics, has been indicted over donations to her 2014 #KYSen campaign against @SenateMajLdr. https://t.co/f3qM4h3ZaU reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 31-08-2018 om 23:20:06 Dear Robert Mueller: Is anything else happening today? Anything at all? Asking for a friend. reageer retweet

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Amerika ontdekt nu dat het een bestel heeft waarin de bewoner van het Witte Huis vrijwel onaantastbaar is. Dit is ook de reden waarom de parallel tussen het Nixon-tijdperk en dat van Trump niet heel ver gaat. ʼI am not a crookʼ, zei Nixon toen hij vrijwillig opstapte. Trump blijft zitten omdat ook hij weet in hoeverre hij een crook is, en of dat verder gaat dan de guilt by assocation die tot nu toe aan het licht is gekomen.

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Op vrijdag 31 augustus 2018 23:44 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Sinds 22 augustus begon Trumps approval rating te dalen bij fivethirtyeight. Nu vraag ik me af of dat daadwerkelijk zo is ... want het kan net zo goed een tijdelijk polling afwijkinkje zijn zo bezien, en zo ja, hoe dat dan zou komen. Eerder is het er kort over gegaan dat de disrespect voor McCain hem approval zou kunnen kosten, maar aangezien de neerwaardse trend is ingezet op de 22e lijkt eerder dat de veroordeling van Manafort meer uitgemaakt heeft... hoewel het een het ander niet uitsluit natuurlijk?

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