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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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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 19:05 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Nieuwe peiling voor de senaat van Virginia:

Tim Kaine (D) 50%
Corey Stewart (R) 46%

Die Stewart is zo rechts, dat Roy Moore nog gematigd lijkt.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 19:13 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Eehm.. bron? Ofzo?

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 19:13 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Eehm.. bron? Ofzo?

Zo lijkt het alsof je het gewoon zelf verzonnen hebt.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 19:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Cygnal, van 22-24 augustus. Niet echt nieuw dus. Verder nooit eerder van gehoord.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/virginia

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 19:13 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Eehm.. bron? Ofzo?

Zo lijkt het alsof je het gewoon zelf verzonnen hebt.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 19:16 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Cygnal, van 22-24 augustus. Niet echt nieuw dus. Verder nooit eerder van gehoord.

https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/senate/virginia

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 19:25 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Virginia is eigenlijk geen swing state meer.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 19:55 schreef Ambystoma_mexicanum het volgende:

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Als ik kijk naar de vraagstelling of er op een Democraat of Republikein gestemd wordt als er vandaag presidentsverkiezingen zouden zijn, dan is het toch echt een nek-aan-nek peiling.

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USEmbRuPress twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 19:16:18 Amb Huntsman: Come to find, when you’re serving as the U.S. envoy in Moscow, you’re an easy target on all sides. Anything sent out by me would have carried my name. An early political lesson I learned: never send an anonymous op-ed. https://t.co/OXMBIUGVhi reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 19:55 schreef Ambystoma_mexicanum het volgende:

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Als ik kijk naar de vraagstelling of er op een Democraat of Republikein gestemd wordt als er vandaag presidentsverkiezingen zouden zijn, dan is het toch echt een nek-aan-nek peiling.

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Leahy releases newly public emails that were originally committee confidential, says these emails indicate Kavanaugh knew about stolen info from Dems during the Bush admin. https://t.co/odALvsLcto

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BREAKING: Kavanaugh testified he never received any docs that even “appeared to … have been drafted or prepared by Democratic staff.” Well, he got 8 pages of material taken VERBATIM from my files, obviously written by Dem staff, LABELED “not [for] distribution”. https://t.co/eFlIBZ0Z1W

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:14 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Herenmetiet, er is bijna geen ruimte voor een adempauze tussen al het nieuws door. Over twee weken begint Manaforts tweede zaak alweer, en het is nog maar de vraag of de stof van kavenaugh en het boek dan al is gesetteld.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:14 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Herenmetiet, er is bijna geen ruimte voor een adempauze tussen al het nieuws door. Over twee weken begint Manaforts tweede zaak alweer, en het is nog maar de vraag of de stof van kavenaugh en het boek dan al is gesetteld.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 19:16:12 Look forward to seeing everyone in Montana tonight! #MAGA https://t.co/fyHduA2Peo reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:17 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Iedereen heeft inmiddels alle e-mails van de Democrats gelezen. Ze hadden meer aan cybersecurity moeten spenderen en minder aan de gefaalde campagne.

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En vanavond weer een Rally

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 19:16:12 Look forward to seeing everyone in Montana tonight! #MAGA https://t.co/fyHduA2Peo reageer retweet

T R U M P T R A I N
Get on board of get run over

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:10 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dit zou toch echt een bombshell moeten zijn. Als ik het goed begrijp heeft Kavanaugh onder ede zitten jokken.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:22 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Alles zou een bombshell moeten zijn. Republikeinen geven geen neuk. Een Republikeinse justice moet geïnstalleerd zijn voor de midterms. Dat is belangrijker dan de midterms winnen. Of integriteit hebben.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:22 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Alles zou een bombshell moeten zijn. Republikeinen geven geen neuk. Een Republikeinse justice moet geïnstalleerd zijn voor de midterms. Dat is belangrijker dan de midterms winnen. Of integriteit hebben.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:37 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Wel bijzonder dat zo'n belangrijke beslissing kennelijk wel genomen kan worden door een lame duck senate.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:41 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dat hebben we in Nederland toch beter geregeld.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:45 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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In Nederland is de Hoge Raad zelf ook in grote mate verantwoordelijk door de initiële voorselectie van kandidaten en bepaalt de regering na verdere selectie door de kamer wie het wordt.
Ik voorzie een dergelijk stelsel in de VS juist eerder averechts werken gezien het tweepartijenstelsel en de invloed van de "politieke overtuiging" van zittende rechters.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:41 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Dat hebben we in Nederland toch beter geregeld.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:53 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Mwah, ik kan me best voorstellen dat als je bv. elke zittende rechter een nieuwe laat nomineren waarna bv. de president er 1/3 van laat afvallen, waarna het door gaat naar het Huis, waar de top 2 dmv een approval vote door gaan naar de senaat, waarna de senaat er eentje kiest oid met minimaal 60 stemmen, best zou kunnen werken.

Zou trouwens tegelijk ook denken dat je dat hooggerechtshof best zou kunnen uitbreiden naar een rechter of 45 ofzo waar er 2 per jaar genomineerd / afgelost worden, om 1) meer zaken parallel op te kunnen pakken (in dit geval bijvoorbeeld 5), 2) swing minder groot te kunnen laten zijn... wel met dien verstande dat er ook door allen gestemd/gehoord kan worden mocht de zaak van groot belang zijn... beetje zoals dat bij lagere rechtbanken ook gaat.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 21:01 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Forsere meerderheden in de senaat eisen kan natuurlijk helpen om wat extremen te filteren. Maar ja, voor de SC is die meerderheid nu juist gereduceerd door de GOP in de senaat.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:45 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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In Nederland is de Hoge Raad zelf ook in grote mate verantwoordelijk door de initiële voorselectie van kandidaten en bepaalt de regering na verdere selectie door de kamer wie het wordt.
Ik voorzie een dergelijk stelsel in de VS juist eerder averechts werken gezien het tweepartijenstelsel en de invloed van de "politieke overtuiging" van zittende rechters.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 21:56 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ik bedoelde dat ons parlement geen controversiële beslissingen meer neemt op het moment dat de regering demissionair is.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 21:56 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ik bedoelde dat ons parlement geen controversiële beslissingen meer neemt op het moment dat de regering demissionair is.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 21:56 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ik bedoelde dat ons parlement geen controversiële beslissingen meer neemt op het moment dat de regering demissionair is.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 22:42 schreef TruusHenk het volgende:

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Maar er staat nergens beschreven wat 'controversieel' precies inhoudt voor zover ik weet. En dus hangt het volledig af van een mate van redelijkheid in de politiek, die er bij ons nog veel meer is dan in de VS.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 23:06 schreef Ulx het volgende:
De MSM zegt dat Alex Jones en Infowars nu ook van Twitter zijn getrapt.

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NPR twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 23:01:01 Speaker Paul Ryan responded to The New York Times op-ed by saying that Trump administration officials should either work to help President Trump, or else resign. https://t.co/1D1UfRYIeo reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 23:33 schreef trein2000 het volgende:
Zie hier de ellende van een tweepartijenstelsel. Kampen binnen de fractie. Intern gekibbel etc.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 23:20 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Nu Trump nog.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 23:24 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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NPR twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 23:01:01 Speaker Paul Ryan responded to The New York Times op-ed by saying that Trump administration officials should either work to help President Trump, or else resign. https://t.co/1D1UfRYIeo reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 23:34 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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In tegenstelling tot gekibbel tussen partijen in een coalitiestelsel bedoel je?

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 23:36 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Nee, dan is dit topic gelijk dood. Dat moeten we niet willen met zijn allen.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 23:38 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

Kavenaugh snapt het verschil niet tussen anticonceptie en "abortion inducing drugs". Het is niet gek dat men bang is dat hij Roe vs Wade in gevaar zal brengen.

https://www.huffingtonpos(...)7b79e4b0162f472b3cb8

Edit: ja, het is HuffPo, maar het filmpje is gewoon in de link te zien.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 23:41 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik denk dat hij het verschil wel snapt. Maar je krijgt gewoon veel steun als je tegen Roe vs Wade bent uit de conservatieve hoek.

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 23:42 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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Heb je het stuk gelezen?

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SenateMajLdr twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 20:50:24 The Senate confirmed 8 more of @POTUS’s judicial nominees today. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 00:05 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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SenateMajLdr twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 20:50:24 The Senate confirmed 8 more of @POTUS’s judicial nominees today. reageer retweet

Nog even en de Republikeinen hebben het volledige rechtssysteem in handen

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 01:20:39 Harris says she had "reliable information" Kavanaugh was part of a convo about Mueller with someone from the firm of Trump's personal lawyer.Kavanaugh: "The answer is no."Harris: "Thank you. And it would have been great if you could have said that last night." (via CSPAN) https://t.co/J9Dfl7y82a reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 23:06 schreef Ulx het volgende:
De MSM zegt dat Alex Jones en Infowars nu ook van Twitter zijn getrapt.

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A Twitter spokesperson confirmed to The Daily Beast that Jones was suspended for a Periscope video he posted in which he berates CNN reporter Oliver Darcy.

"Those are the eyes of a rat," Jones told Darcy in the video. Jones also called the CNN reporter "the equivalent of like the Hitler Youth" and said that he smiles "like a possum that crawled out of the rear end of a dead cow."

The confrontation happened on Capitol Hill yesterday where Jones made a surprise appearance as Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey was testifying before Congress.

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davidjoachim twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 01:35:59 BREAKING:New York (AP) -- Trump will not answer federal investigators' questions, in writing or in person, about whether he tried to block the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Giuliani tells @AP reageer retweet

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President Donald Trump will not answer federal investigators' questions, in writing or in person, about whether he tried to block the probe into Russian interference in the 2016 election, one of the president's attorneys told The Associated Press on Thursday.

Trump lawyer Rudy Giuliani said questions about obstruction of justice were a "no-go."

Giuliani's statement was the most definitive rejection yet of special counsel Robert Mueller's efforts to interview the president about any efforts to obstruct the investigation into possible coordination between his campaign and Russians. It signals the Trump's lawyers are committed to protecting the president from answering questions about actions the president took in office.

It's unclear if Giuliani's public position has been endorsed by Trump, who has said he wants to answer questions under oath. Negotiations about the scope and format of an interview are still ongoing. If the legal team holds its stance, it could force Mueller to try to subpoena the president, likely triggering a standoff that would lead to the Supreme Court.

Mueller's office has previously sought to interview the president about the obstruction issue, including his firing last year of former FBI Director James Comey and his public attacks on Attorney General Jeff Sessions. Trump's legal team has argued that the president has the power to hire and fire appointees and the special counsel does not have the authority to ask him to explain those decisions. Giuliani said Thursday the team was steadfast in that position.

"That's a no-go. That is not going to happen," Giuliani said. "There will be no questions at all on obstruction."

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In a letter last week, Mueller's team said it would accept written responses from Trump on questions related to Russian election interference. Giuliani suggested Thursday that Trump's lawyers had agreed to those terms but wanted to prohibit investigators from asking follow-up questions.

"It would be in written form and if you want to follow up on our answers, justify it. Show us why you didn't get there the first time," Giuliani said. He said he was not categorically ruling out answering a second round of questions but the entire matter of whether there would be follow-up inquiries should be settled before the president answers anything at all.

"We aren't going to let them spring it on us," said Giuliani, who has served as lawyer-spokesman for the president's personal legal team, using television interviews and public comments as a tactic in the negotiations.

In the latest letter to the legal team, Mueller's office didn't address obstruction questions, indicating investigators would later assess what additional information it needs from the president after receiving a response about the written submissions, according to a person familiar with the document.

The person familiar with the letter spoke on condition of anonymity because the person was not authorized to publicly discuss the negotiations.

Though the president has publicly said he was eager to face questions from Mueller, his lawyers have been far more reluctant to make him available for an interview and have questioned whether Mueller has the right to ask him about actions that he is authorized, under the Constitution, to take as president.

Mueller's team raised the prospect in March that it could subpoena the president, though this would unquestionably prompt a court fight.

The Supreme Court has never definitively ruled on the question of whether a president can be forced to testify, though the justices did rule in 1974 that Richard Nixon had to produce recordings and documents that had been subpoenaed.

In addition to questions about Comey and Sessions, Mueller has expressed interest in Trump's role in drafting a statement to The New York Times about a June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower attended by his son, Donald Trump Jr., and a Russian lawyer.

Trump Jr. took the meeting, emails show, after it was described as part of a Russian government effort to help his father's campaign by providing derogatory information about Democrat Hillary Clinton.

Trump has said he knew nothing about the meeting before it happened.

Trump and Giuliani have led an onslaught of attacks on Mueller's credibility, claiming that the special counsel was biased and that the entire probe was a "witch hunt." Giuliani has also demanded that the probe suspend its activities with the midterm elections approaching, but the former mayor said Thursday he was not certain of Mueller's intentions.

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 01:53:05 AS PREDICTED https://t.co/BMl3PnvFUI reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 01:57:45 2/ The first time I gave a rock-solid guarantee that Trump would land on this position was June 2017: 15 months ago. reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 02:17:37 Trump publicly claims innocence, so he can't take the Fifth; to take the Fifth, he'd have to imply he could have criminal liability.Problem is, how many days after Trump asserts the Fifth do you think he'd be on Twitter protesting his innocence again, thereby screwing himself? reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 02:22:02 2/ And for what it's worth, you can't assert the Fifth on the claim that the government is corrupt and trying to frame you for a crime you didn't commit. reageer retweet

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A government photographer edited official pictures of Donald Trump’s inauguration to make the crowd appear bigger following a personal intervention from the president, according to newly released documents.

The photographer cropped out empty space “where the crowd ended” for a new set of pictures requested by Trump on the first morning of his presidency, after he was angered by images showing his audience was smaller than Barack Obama’s in 2009.

The detail was revealed in investigative reports released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act by the inspector general of the US interior department. They shed new light on the first self-inflicted crisis of Trump’s presidency, when his White House falsely claimed he had attracted the biggest ever inauguration audience.

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The records detail a scramble within the National Park Service (NPS) on 21 January 2017 after an early-morning phone call between Trump and the acting NPS director, Michael Reynolds. They also state that Sean Spicer, then White House press secretary, called NPS officials repeatedly that day in pursuit of the more flattering photographs.

It was not clear from the records which photographs were edited and whether they were released publicly.

The newly disclosed details were not included in the inspector general’s office’s final report on its inquiry into the saga, which was published in June last year and gave a different account of the NPS photographer’s actions.

By the time Trump spoke on the telephone with Reynolds on the morning after the inauguration, then-and-now pictures of the national mall were circulating online showing that Trump’s crowd fell short of Obama’s. A reporter’s tweet containing one such pair of images was retweeted by the official NPS Twitter account.

An NPS communications official, whose name was redacted in the released files, told investigators that Reynolds called her after speaking with the president and said Trump wanted pictures from the inauguration. She said “she got the impression that President Trump wanted to see pictures that appeared to depict more spectators in the crowd”, and that the images released so far showed “a lot of empty areas”.

The communications official said she “assumed” the photographs Trump was requesting “needed to be cropped”, but that Reynolds did not ask for this specifically. She then contacted the NPS photographer who had covered the event the day before.

A second official, from the NPS public affairs department, told investigators that Spicer called her office on the morning of 21 January and asked for pictures that “accurately represented the inauguration crowd size”.

In this official’s view, Spicer’s request amounted to “a request for NPS to provide photographs in which it appeared the inauguration crowd filled the majority of the space in the photograph”. She told investigators that she, too, contacted the NPS photographer to ask for additional shots.

The NPS photographer, whose name was also redacted, told investigators he was contacted by an unidentified official who asked for “any photographs that showed the inauguration crowd sizes”. Having filed 25 photographs on inauguration day, he was asked to go back to his office and “edit a few more” for a second submission.

“He said he edited the inauguration photographs to make them look more symmetrical by cropping out the sky and cropping out the bottom where the crowd ended,” the investigators reported, adding: “He said he did so to show that there had been more of a crowd.”

The investigators said the photographer believed the cropping was what the official “had wanted him to do”, but that the official “had not specifically asked him to crop the photographs to show more of a crowd”.

A summary in the inspector general’s final report said the photographer told investigators “he selected a number of photos, based on his professional judgment, that concentrated on the area of the national mall where most of the crowd was standing”.

Asked to account for the discrepancy, Nancy DiPaolo, a spokeswoman for the inspector general, said the cropping was not mentioned in the final report because the photographer told investigators this was his “standard artistic practice”. But investigators did not note this in the write-up of their interview.

The newly released files said Spicer was closely involved in the effort to obtain more favourable photographs. He called Reynolds immediately after the acting director spoke with Trump and then again at 3pm shortly before the new set of photographs was sent to the White House, investigators heard. Another official reported being called by Spicer.

At about 5.40pm that day, Spicer began a now notorious press briefing at the White House in which he falsely stated: “This was the largest audience to ever witness an inauguration – period.” A spokeswoman for Spicer did not respond to a request for comment.

The inspector general’s inquiry was prompted by a February 2017 complaint through the office’s website, alleging NPS officials tried to undermine Trump and leaked details of Trump’s call with Reynolds to the Washington Post, where it was first reported. The inspector general found no evidence to substantiate the allegations.

The Guardian asked in its June 2017 freedom of information request for the identity of the complainant who sparked the inspector general’s inquiry. But this, and the entire complaint, was redacted in the released documents.

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This week’s revelations of a purported “resistance” force of senior government officials acting as guardrails against President Trump — manipulating him, infantilizing him and ignoring his directives — raised the specter of a shadow administration.

“Who’s in charge at the White House?” a reporter shouted at Trump on Thursday as he departed for a rally in Montana.

The president did not answer.

An anonymous editorial in the New York Times, from someone identified only as a senior official, and a new Bob Woodward book, “Fear,” detail efforts at the highest levels of the government to contain Trump’s impulses and, in the most extreme cases, defy and even undermine his orders.

The successive disclosures crystallized what has long been evident throughout the Trump presidency — a cadre of administration officials alarmed by the whims and wishes of a chief executive they view as mercurial and impetuous working to curb his instincts on a range of issues, including national security, trade and immigration.

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Beginning just after dawn Thursday, more than two dozen top officials and Cabinet members raced to issue forceful statements denying they were the anonymous author of the Times op-ed. They read as public declarations of loyalty to an audience of one — the media-obsessed president, who was gratified to see the statements as aides kept him abreast.

Trump especially liked the statement by Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, according to a senior administration official, who like many other current and former officials interviewed for this report spoke on the condition of anonymity to share candid accounts. While traveling in India, Pompeo criticized the “liberal newspaper” and described the anonymous editorial as “a disgruntled, deceptive, bad actor’s word.”

The administration’s fierce pushback centered on the official’s insistence on anonymity and the Times’ decision to publish the column without the author’s name, but Trump’s aides challenged little of the column’s substance.

Senior officials have long acted to slow-walk or stymie some of the president’s ideas and directives. When he was White House chief of staff, Reince Priebus had a favored strategy, according to his colleagues — tell the president that he would execute an order, or a firing — but not until “next week.” By then, Trump often would have forgotten.

Before some lawmakers, such as Sens. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) or Bob Corker (R-Tenn.), went golfing with Trump, White House legislative aides would prep them on helpful messages they were trying to share or “disasters they were trying to divert,” according to a former senior administration official. A current senior administration official defended the practice as “standard staff work in any White House.”

In his new book, Woodward chronicles multiple episodes in which aides deployed subterfuge against their boss. In one of those instances, Trump had a letter drafted to withdraw the United States from its trade agreement with South Korea. Gary Cohn, then Trump’s chief economic adviser, took it from the president’s Resolute Desk so the he could not sign it.

Trump also wanted to completely cut military aid to Pakistan because he felt it was not doing enough to fight terrorism and extremism, and in August 2017 the administration said it would defer more than $250 million in aid.

For months, U.S. diplomats and military officials managed to delay further action, all the while working to reassure nuclear-armed Pakistan, which for years had been a top recipient of foreign aid. But the strategy only dragged out the inevitable, one former official conceded.

rump blindsided his staff on New Year’s Day when he angrily accused Pakistan of “lies & deceit” in a tweet and called for an end to U.S. aid. The message prompted a mad scramble, even as Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson continued to warn that cutting off aid could be destabilizing, according to former officials and congressional aides.

The State Department announced three days later it was suspending at least $900 million, or nearly all, of the remaining military aid, but managed to preserve hundreds of millions of dollars in economic assistance and military financing.

In the summer of 2017, Trump suggested to then-national security adviser H.R. McMaster that the United States invade Venezuela to remove its autocratic president, Nicolás Maduro. McMaster did his best to dissuade Trump — and thought he had succeeded — until Trump raised the possibility publicly at a media appearance and in a meeting with Latin American leaders at the U.N. General Assembly.

“My people tell me this is not a good idea, but . . .” Trump said in the private meeting before raising the possibility of an invasion or regime change in Venezuela, according to officials.

Said one senior White House official on why Trump kept bringing it up: “Even when the staff says no, I think he holds out hope that he’ll find someone who thinks it’s a good idea.”

Trump’s imagined invasion never occurred.

Aides also routinely slow-walked his trade ideas. The president would demand executive orders from Cohn or former staff secretary Rob Porter imposing tariffs or otherwise punishing China. But officials said the duo often ignored him in an effort to avert what they believed was bad policy, in hopes that if they paused the process the president would move on to another topic.

“He would be like, ‘Do this, do that, slap a tariff on this country or that country, let’s blow everything up, let’s go to war,’ ” a former White House official said. “Then we would come back the next week and Trump would say, ‘What happened with X?’ And he would get mad that no one had done it. And it was a never-ending cycle.”

Ultimately, though, the administration implemented some of the tariffs — a precipitating factor in Cohn’s departure earlier this year.

Trump has proved persistent in other areas as well. He blasted Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen in May during a Cabinet meeting over a surge in illegal border crossings — a meltdown that went on for a half-hour — and demanded she “close” the border, according to a person with knowledge of what transpired.

Nielsen’s department proceeded to implement a harsh crackdown at the border that included separating parents from their children. But amid public outcry, Trump reversed course, frustrating Department of Homeland Security officials who had defended a policy that many of their friends and family members considered monstrous.

Trump’s advisers say he is impatient with bureaucracy and wants to see action or results immediately, which sometimes puts him in conflict with his staff or the processes they manage.

Graham said such staff efforts to manage Trump are routine in politics.

“There are people in my office who bring me back from the brink every day,” Graham said. He added: “Trump can be a handful, right? But, bottom line, the people around him are making him a successful president. . . . Trump sausage-making is difficult to watch, but in my view it makes results that benefit the country.”

Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), another Trump confidant, agreed: “Listen, that happens every day on Capitol Hill. Even some within my own staff think that one idea I have is great and another one is not so great.”

Trump’s mood this week has varied from volcanic anger to disappointment, and he has been “hellbent,” in the characterization of a senior official, to root out the anonymous author of the Times op-ed and hold him or her accountable for betraying the president.

In Oval Office huddles Thursday, White House chief of staff John F. Kelly, national security adviser John Bolton, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders and senior adviser Jared Kushner, among other aides, tried to convince the president that he could trust them and others in his inner circle. They argued that the author was probably a lower-level employee, according to the senior official.

The twin bombshells also underscored a vexing reality for Trump — that some in his employ do treat him as an adolescent in need of chaperoning inside a White House that Corker memorably once described as “adult day care.”

But the conspiratorial and at times paranoid Trump felt a slice of vindication reading the Times column, seeing it as justifying his belief that the “deep state” and other enemies within are seeking to undercut him, according to two former White House officials briefed on the president’s private conversations.

“The functional effect of it all is for him to become more insulated, viewing the presidency more and more as a one-man band,” said one of those officials. This person characterized the president’s view as: “These people are here. Sometimes I need them to do stuff. But the presidency is not an institution. The presidency is me.”

Some of Trump’s allies on Capitol Hill argued that the tactic of sounding an alarm anonymously would backfire politically.

“Up here, anonymity is very common among the cultured, cosmopolitan, D.C. insider crowd who live in the condos with the high ceilings and the important art on the walls,” said Sen. John Neely Kennedy (R-La.). “To the average American, their attitude is, ‘If you’re going to make an allegation like that, have the oranges to put it on the record.’ ”

The Times column describes a “two-track presidency” in which Trump makes public pronouncements while his administration, in open view, works at cross-purposes. “It may be cold comfort in this chaotic era, but Americans should know that there are adults in the room,” the author writes. “We fully recognize what is happening. And we are trying to do what’s right even when Donald Trump won’t.”

The Justice Department historically has had a measure of independence from the White House, and while Attorney General Jeff Sessions has dutifully implemented some of the most controversial parts of Trump’s agenda, he and those working for him have at times resisted direction from the president.

Trump has tweeted mercilessly about the department turning over documents to Congress on the Russia investigation and the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server. While the department has turned over hundreds of thousands of pages of material, officials apparently have not produced all of what Trump’s conservative allies are seeking, prompting the president to continue to vent on Twitter.

Trump recently tweeted his displeasure with Sessions for allowing the department to bring charges against two of his Republican House allies ahead of the midterm elections. So far, at least, that frustration has not changed the way Justice Department prosecutors have handled the cases.

Thursday offered fresh evidence of the divergent courses set by the president and the Justice Department. In the morning, Trump tweeted praise for North Korea’s leader: “Kim Jong Un of North Korea proclaims ‘unwavering faith in President Trump.’ Thank you to Chairman Kim. We will get it done together!”

Hours later, the Justice Department announced criminal charges against Park Jin Hyok for allegedly being part of a North Korean government hacking team that crippled Sony’s computer systems, stole $81 million from a Bangladesh bank and unleashed far-reaching malware.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 04:33 schreef OMG het volgende:
https://mobile.twitter.com/joshtpm/status/1037883056252694528

Ananamish? Amominous?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 01:13 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 16:55 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 16:15:11 Cory Booker says he's going to violate Senate rules and release an email kept confidential on "racial profiling" to "expose" that docs being withheld "have nothing to do with national security.""I understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate." (ABC) https://t.co/fzAEM4J8Ej reageer retweet

Filmpje in tweet

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 16:55 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 16:15:11 Cory Booker says he's going to violate Senate rules and release an email kept confidential on "racial profiling" to "expose" that docs being withheld "have nothing to do with national security.""I understand that the penalty comes with potential ousting from the Senate." (ABC) https://t.co/fzAEM4J8Ej reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 16:25:15 Mazie Hirono announces that she'll also release a Committee confidential document to the press, says that if Cory Booker is going to be punished, "count me in, too." reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 16:35:57 Dick Durbin to Cory Booker: "I concur with what you are doing. Let's jump into this pit together ... If there is going to be some retribution against the senator from New Jersey, count me in. I want to be part of this process." (via CBS) https://t.co/4x9FW84L10 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 16:45:25 Democrats were saying "bring it on" as John Cornyn told them that Cory Booker had clearly broken Senate rules. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 16:57 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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SenSchumer twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 16:28:38 I stand with Judiciary Committee Democrats who are well within their rights to release these very important documents that a former Kavanaugh deputy designed as “committee confidential.”The American ppl deserve to know the truth about Judge Kavanaugh’s record. #WhatAreTheyHiding? reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 20:14 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Herenmetiet, er is bijna geen ruimte voor een adempauze tussen al het nieuws door. Over twee weken begint Manaforts tweede zaak alweer, en het is nog maar de vraag of de stof van kavenaugh en het boek dan al is gesetteld.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 08:48 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Alleen dan weer jammer dat zijn "spartacus" moment bijelkaar lijkt te zijn verzonnen.

http://www.foxnews.com/en(...)o-be-inaccurate.html

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 08:55 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Nou en?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 09:06 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Dat was eigenlijk ook niet de intentie van de DEMS. Die hadden een ander doel. Hirono deed de echte zet, terwijl Booker de aandacht trok..

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 09:10 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Juist. 2d dammen enzo.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 09:11 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Is 2d dammen niet gewoon dammen?

Ik heb verder de stukken niet gelezen en ook niet echt de commentaren, maar als het niks voorstelt, waarom dan de moeite om alles maar geheim te houden? Zou de default niet moeten zijn: het is openbaar tenzij?

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Op donderdag 6 september 2018 19:23 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Hij kwam net voorbij bij mij op twitter, vandaar dat ik hem deel.

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CoryBooker twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 20:04:58 Today members of @JudiciaryDems released committee confidential docs about Judge Kavanaugh that were previously hidden from public view. We will continue to release more committee confidential documents to draw attention to this sham process. https://t.co/Iap1KgJXzK reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 09:21 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Bovendien die documenten zijn er voor alle Amerikanen, ook de democraten. Zou jij een rechter vertrouwen die maar een klein deel van de feiten tot zijn beschikking heeft? Ik niet. Dan kunnen ze net zo goed dit soort rechters op die plek zetten:

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 09:52 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump tells supporters it'll be 'your fault' if he gets impeached

Fans: Meet Bus. Bus: Meet fans.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 10:40 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Vandaag krijgt Papadopoulos trouwens zijn straf. Dat zal ook wel wat tweets opleveren.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 10:44 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 04:25:03 So WaPo reports that Kelly, Bolton, Sanders, and Kushner huddled in the Oval with Trump, trying to convince him that they could trust them and others.But that leaked to the Post! One of those officials leaked it. So can Trump really trust them all?https://t.co/zdFbmz3BTZ reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 10:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 04:25:03 So WaPo reports that Kelly, Bolton, Sanders, and Kushner huddled in the Oval with Trump, trying to convince him that they could trust them and others.But that leaked to the Post! One of those officials leaked it. So can Trump really trust them all?https://t.co/zdFbmz3BTZ reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 10:52 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://nos.nl/artikel/22(...)ik-was-het-niet.html

Plottwist: Het zijn ze allemaal.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 10:52 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://nos.nl/artikel/22(...)ik-was-het-niet.html

Plottwist: Het zijn ze allemaal.

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CREWcrew twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 21:30:17 Rep. Duncan Hunter allegedly spent campaign cash on affairs with five separate individuals, according to prosecutors who reportedly claim to have photographic evidence. https://t.co/GLVAw3jn37 reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 10:52 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
https://nos.nl/artikel/22(...)ik-was-het-niet.html

Plottwist: Het zijn ze allemaal.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 00:05 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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SenateMajLdr twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 20:50:24 The Senate confirmed 8 more of @POTUS’s judicial nominees today. reageer retweet

Nog even en de Republikeinen hebben het volledige rechtssysteem in handen

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 10:57 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Of het is Trump zelf, zodat hij zonder reden mensen kan ontslaan

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 10:57 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ook een beetje overbodig want wie denkt nou serieus dat de daadwerkelijke schrijver gaat zeggen "no comment" o.i.d.? Dikke kans dat de schrijver tussen die lijst mensen zitten. Die ontkenningen zijn vooral Trump.

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Officials from the Trump administration reportedly contacted a Yale University psychiatrist last year because President Trump was "scaring" them.

Dr. Bandy Lee told Salon and The New York Daily News on Thursday that two White House officials flagged Trump's behavior last October.

"[They] said that Trump was 'scaring' them, that he was 'unraveling," Lee, who wrote the book, "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President,” told Salon.

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"Not wishing to confuse the role I chose, as an educator of the public, and a potential treatment role, I referred them to the local emergency room without inquiring much further," Lee added to Salon.

Lee also wrote an op-ed declaring that Trump is a "dangerous leader."

Lee repeated to The Daily News that she did not mention this development before because "I did not want to confuse my role an an educator to the public."

"I thought I would be more effective by retaining my public role then getting involved in either the treatment of those who were feeling scared or in the actual intervention with the President," she added.

The White House did not immediately respond to a request for comment from The Hill. [....]

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 11:13 schreef Sloggi het volgende:

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Het was Agatha Christie!

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 13:08 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Met een kandelaar in de keuken.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 13:32:32 The Woodward book is a scam. I don’t talk the way I am quoted. If I did I would not have been elected President. These quotes were made up. The author uses every trick in the book to demean and belittle. I wish the people could see the real facts - and our country is doing GREAT! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 12:56:38 What was Nike thinking? reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 13:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:
I wish the people could see the real facts

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I wish the people could see the real facts

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maggieNYT twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 03:36:25 John Kelly and aides have a list of just over a dozen people who could have written the op-ed, as people suggest polygraphs or even making officials sign sworn affidavits about their innocence @peterbakernyt and me https://t.co/iitOfPP9TT reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 08:48 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Alleen dan weer jammer dat zijn "spartacus" moment bijelkaar lijkt te zijn verzonnen.

http://www.foxnews.com/en(...)o-be-inaccurate.html

Senator Cory Booker Blasts SCOTUS Hearing | All In | MSNBC

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 15:41 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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maggieNYT twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 03:36:25 John Kelly and aides have a list of just over a dozen people who could have written the op-ed, as people suggest polygraphs or even making officials sign sworn affidavits about their innocence @peterbakernyt and me https://t.co/iitOfPP9TT reageer retweet

De werksfeer in het WH wordt er niet beter op

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RepSwalwell twitterde op donderdag 06-09-2018 om 23:24:47 So the genius who always hires the best people hired someone who is leading a mutiny and is a “national security” risk now thinks it’s the job of the @nytimes to tell him who that threat is? https://t.co/Yn0I4vYdic reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 15:41 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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maggieNYT twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 03:36:25 John Kelly and aides have a list of just over a dozen people who could have written the op-ed, as people suggest polygraphs or even making officials sign sworn affidavits about their innocence @peterbakernyt and me https://t.co/iitOfPP9TT reageer retweet

De werksfeer in het WH wordt er niet beter op

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jdawsey1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 04:22:37 Trump says Abraham Lincoln was skewered by the "fake news" for his Gettysburg Address. But people eventually gave him credit. ?? reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 16:30 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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jdawsey1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 04:22:37 Trump says Abraham Lincoln was skewered by the "fake news" for his Gettysburg Address. But people eventually gave him credit. ?? reageer retweet

For Fuck's Sake. Heeft die Trump nou niet gewoon heel veel minachting voor zijn achterban?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 15:41 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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maggieNYT twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 03:36:25 John Kelly and aides have a list of just over a dozen people who could have written the op-ed, as people suggest polygraphs or even making officials sign sworn affidavits about their innocence @peterbakernyt and me https://t.co/iitOfPP9TT reageer retweet

De werksfeer in het WH wordt er niet beter op

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 16:34 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Lekker werken zo ja. Ooit zoiets klein beetje soortgelijks op mijn werk gehad, je wordt er niet vrolijk van. Maar goed, die sfeer was al aardig verpest lijkt me.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 16:34 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Lekker werken zo ja. Ooit zoiets klein beetje soortgelijks op mijn werk gehad, je wordt er niet vrolijk van. Maar goed, die sfeer was al aardig verpest lijkt me.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 16:45 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:
Zo kinderachtig dat ie steeds van die denigrerende verbasteringen gebruikt: Failing New York Times, Amazon Washington Post, Crooked Hillary etc etc. Echt een zielig mannetje.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 16:30:01 The anonymous New York Times op-ed has already become one of the most-read pages on the Times' website this year, bringing in over 10,000,000 views. https://t.co/HRtnooUaOq reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 15:41 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:

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maggieNYT twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 03:36:25 John Kelly and aides have a list of just over a dozen people who could have written the op-ed, as people suggest polygraphs or even making officials sign sworn affidavits about their innocence @peterbakernyt and me https://t.co/iitOfPP9TT reageer retweet

De werksfeer in het WH wordt er niet beter op

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 16:46 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Je had een volslagen incompetente manager die schuimbekkend door de gang liep omdat jij niet probeerde het bedrijf failliet te laten gaan?

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OT: het kantoor waar ik voor werkte maakte deel uit van een internationaal netwerk. Die organiseren dan eens in de zoveel tijd bijeenkomsten en die bijeenkomsten worden afgesloten met een feest. Waar wordt gedronken. Veel wordt gedronken.

In dezelfde venue als dat feest werd gehouden, werd ook een vrijgezellenfeest georganiseerd. De maten van de aankomende bruidegom hadden hem verrast met een stripper. Een verschrikkelijk dikke, verschrikkelijk lelijke, Engelse stripper.

Het plan werd opgevat om die stripper te vragen om ook een dansje te doen voor de partner van ons kantoor. Die had hem aardig zitten en ging zich helemaal aan de act te buiten. Borsten op z'n gezicht, hij met een zweepje op haar billen slaan, dat soort werk. Maar dat allemaal in het aangezicht van c-level executives van de andere aangesloten kantoren die daar te gast waren.

Enfin, na afloop van het weekend en bij terugkomst in NL moest iedereen, die daar aanwezig was geweest, voor de RvB verschijnen. A: om de foto's zeker te stellen (het was nog voor de smartphonetijd), B: om vast te stellen wie dat plan had postgevat. Maar goed, iedereen hield zijn kaken natuurlijk op elkaar en werd vervolgens één-op-éen verplicht om een soort verklaring af te leggen (juridisch natuurlijk waanzinnig, maar goed).

Lang verhaal kort: één iemand zijn baan kwijt, personeel die niet wist of er (en zo ja wie) een snitch was en een RvB die zichzelf totaal ongeloofwaardig had gemaakt.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 17:00 schreef nostra het volgende:

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Nee, dat niet, maar wel een situatie waarbij niemand elkaar meer vertrouwde.

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OT: het kantoor waar ik voor werkte maakte deel uit van een internationaal netwerk. Die organiseren dan eens in de zoveel tijd bijeenkomsten en die bijeenkomsten worden afgesloten met een feest. Waar wordt gedronken. Veel wordt gedronken.

In dezelfde venue als dat feest werd gehouden, werd ook een vrijgezellenfeest georganiseerd. De maten van de aankomende bruidegom hadden hem verrast met een stripper. Een verschrikkelijk dikke, verschrikkelijk lelijke, Engelse stripper.

Het plan werd opgevat om die stripper te vragen om ook een dansje te doen voor de partner van ons kantoor. Die had hem aardig zitten en ging zich helemaal aan de act te buiten. Borsten op z'n gezicht, hij met een zweepje op haar billen slaan, dat soort werk. Maar dat allemaal in het aangezicht van c-level executives van de andere aangesloten kantoren die daar te gast waren.

Enfin, na afloop van het weekend en bij terugkomst in NL moest iedereen, die daar aanwezig was geweest, voor de RvB verschijnen. A: om de foto's zeker te stellen (het was nog voor de smartphonetijd), B: om vast te stellen wie dat plan had postgevat. Maar goed, iedereen hield zijn kaken natuurlijk op elkaar en werd vervolgens één-op-éen verplicht om een soort verklaring af te leggen (juridisch natuurlijk waanzinnig, maar goed).

Lang verhaal kort: één iemand zijn baan kwijt, personeel die niet wist of er (en zo ja wie) een snitch was en een RvB die zichzelf totaal ongeloofwaardig had gemaakt.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 16:34 schreef FlipjeHolland het volgende:

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Natuurlijk. Hij weet ook dat het een stel idioten zijn die hem volgen tot het einde en daar maakt ie dankbaar misbruik van.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 17:12 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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Daarom tweet hij vaak als verlengstuk van Fox. Hij weet dat zijn achterban kijkt en dat schept een band.

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joshtpm twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 04:31:52 Trump Suggests His Speeches Will One Day Be Seen On Par with the Gettysburg Address, which the Fake News Also Bashed https://t.co/Cg4ywg9Ykp reageer retweet

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KevinMKruse twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 14:44:29 "Four score and seven years ago -- maybe five score, many people are saying five score -- our fathers brought forth on this condiment, and on this continent, too, a new nation. A brand new nation with that great new nation smell."https://t.co/oEVG6mNhxP reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 17:36:04 Trump said of the Woodward book, "I don't talk the way I am quoted."But in a previously unreported incident, a NY Post journalist who used to interact with Trump said this week that he used the phrase "dumb southerner" to describe Marla Maples' parents. https://t.co/lrJUIMuyr7 reageer retweet

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As President Trump tries to refute the portrayal in the latest attention-grabbing book, he has not only denied saying the things attributed to him, he has denied that he has ever said anything like them. The problem for Mr. Trump is that, in some cases at least, the record shows that he has.

“The Woodward book is a scam,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Friday morning about “Fear: Trump in the White House,” the new volume to be published by Bob Woodward next week. “I don’t talk the way I am quoted. If I did I would not have been elected President. These quotes were made up.”

In particular, Mr. Trump has denied that he called Attorney General Jeff Sessions “mentally retarded” or a “dumb Southerner,” as the book reports. “I said NEITHER, never used those terms on anyone, including Jeff, and being a southerner is a GREAT thing,” the president wrote earlier this week.

But, in fact, Mr. Trump has used the phrase “mentally retarded” on recorded radio shows that have been unearthed this week. And in a previously unreported incident, a journalist who used to interact with Mr. Trump during his days as a real estate developer in New York said this week that he even used the phrase “dumb southerner” to describe his own in-laws.

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Jeane MacIntosh, a former deputy editor at Page Six, the New York Post gossip column that Mr. Trump for decades gave stories to, recalled him using the phrase “dumb southerner” with her in a very specific context.

Ms. MacIntosh had called Mr. Trump one day in May 1997 to ask him about a tip she had received that his second wife, Marla Maples, had purchased two gold Lexus cars and that he had made her return them.

“He said, ‘I have something better for you,’ ” Ms. MacIntosh recalled in an interview on Wednesday. If she dropped that story, he said, he would give her bigger news — that he planned to divorce Ms. Maples. When Ms. MacIntosh pressed him on why, he “essentially blamed her family,” she said, referring to Ms. Maples’s Georgia-based relatives.

“Are you old enough to remember the show ‘The Beverly Hillbillies?’ ” he asked Ms. MacIntosh.

She replied yes, and Mr. Trump laughed and said, “That’s exactly her family, except they came to New York City instead of Beverly Hills.” Ms. MacIntosh added, “I said, ‘What do you mean?’ And he said she was constantly surrounded ‘by an entourage of dumb Southerners.’” He even adopted a fake southern accent to mimic Ms. Maples’s mother, Ms. MacIntosh said.

Mr. Trump has been known to use the terms “retarded” or “mentally retarded” as well. In an appearance on Howard Stern’s show on April 16, 2004, Mr. Trump used the phrase to denounce a reporter who criticized his business dealings.

“I know I was criticized in one magazine where the writer was retarded, he said: ‘Donald Trump put up $7 million, they put up $193 million and they are 50/50 partners. Why isn’t Donald Trump putting up more money?’ And you know it is supposed to be because I am smart,” Mr. Trump said.

In another appearance in September of that year, he used it again. “I have a golf pro who’s mentally retard —,” Mr. Trump told Mr. Stern, then stopping short as he seemed to catch himself. “I mean he’s really not a smart guy. And I’m playing golf and I’m thinking about what I’m going to tell NBC and this golf pro comes up to me and tells me, ‘Yeah, but your show is an hour and ‘Friends’ is a half-hour.’”

The Daily Beast reported in 2016 that Mr. Trump also used to refer to Marlee Matlin, the deaf actress, as “retarded” when she appeared on his television show, “Celebrity Apprentice.”

The White House did not respond to a request for comment, but has issued sweeping denials of Mr. Woodward’s book, characterizing it as a work of fiction.

In the book, Mr. Trump is quoted disparaging Mr. Sessions in a conversation with Rob Porter, then the White House staff secretary. “This guy is mentally retarded,” Mr. Trump is quoted saying. “He’s this dumb Southerner.” Mr. Trump imitated Mr. Sessions’s southern accent and mocked his testimony before Congress when he denied he had talked with Russia’s ambassador to the United States, Mr. Woodward reported.

“How in the world was I ever persuaded to pick him for my attorney general?” Mr. Trump was said to have asked Mr. Porter. “He couldn’t even be a one-person country lawyer down in Alabama. What business does he have being attorney general?”

Whatever the words, the sentiment is consistent with what Mr. Trump has said about Mr. Sessions in public for more than a year, angry that the attorney general recused himself from overseeing the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election and therefore was not able to protect the president.

Mr. Trump has publicly called Mr. Sessions “very weak,” and “beleaguered,” termed his handling of the Justice Department “disgraceful” and recently questioned his manhood during an interview on Fox News. “What kind of man is this?” he asked.

But using the phrase “dumb Southerner” would risk offending an important part of Mr. Trump’s base, and several lawmakers from the South expressed indignation over reports that he said that.

“I’m a Southerner, too,” said Senator Jim Inhofe, Republican of Oklahoma. “I think it’s not at all appropriate. It’s totally inappropriate.”

Senator Johnny Isakson, Republican of Georgia, told The Washington Post: “I’m a Southerner, people can judge my intellect, my I.Q., by my product and what I produce rather than what somebody else says.”

“We’re a pretty smart bunch. We lost the Civil War, but I think we’re winning the economic war since then,” he continued, adding: “I’m not going to get into name calling because I don’t think you should be allowed to call names — including the president.”

twitter:

bpolitics twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 17:31:03 Kavanaugh will likely be confirmed for the Supreme Court term starting October 1. It could be the most conservative SCOTUS since the 1930s https://t.co/BccSAbLKdp reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:25 schreef Ringo het volgende:
Trump was woest aan het speechen daar in Montana en vond zichzelf een hele peer, maar het zooitje uitverkoren deplorables op de achtergrond stond toch wat bescheten naar hem te kijken, als naar een oom die op sinterklaasavond een schunnig gedicht aan het voordragen is.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:33 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Niet allemaal trouwens maar die werd al snel vervangen

A guy standing behind Trump at a campaign rally in Montana stole the show for several minutes before he was moved off camera

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:25 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

WATCH LIVE: Former President Barack Obama delivers remarks on the ‘state of our democracy’

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:39 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Obama is de conservatieven hard aan het afzeiken zeg, kick of voor de campagne voor de midterms?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:39 schreef vigen98 het volgende:
Protesteren is verboden bij evenementen waar de Secret Service is.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:39 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Obama is de conservatieven hard aan het afzeiken zeg, kick of voor de campagne voor de midterms?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:41 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dit is in niet verboden. Bij de campagne in 2016 protesteerden mensen zowel bij Trump als bij Obama (en vast ook wel Clinton, maar dat herinner ik me niet). Geen probleem, afgezien van dat Trump het wel ok vond als ze afgerost zouden worden.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:42 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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HR 347 - Federal Restricted Buildings and Grounds Improvement Act

Zoek het op.

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knowingly, and with intent to impede or disrupt the
orderly conduct of Government business or official functions,
engages in disorderly or disruptive conduct in, or within such
proximity to, any restricted building or grounds when, or so
that, such conduct, in fact, impedes or disrupts the orderly
conduct of Government business or official functions;
``(3) knowingly, and with the intent to impede or disrupt
the orderly conduct of Government business or official
functions, obstructs or impedes ingress or egress to or from any
restricted building or grounds; or
``(4) knowingly engages in any act of physical violence
against any person or property in any restricted building or
grounds;

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:48 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat is heel wat anders dan protesteren wat deze jongen gedaan zou hebben volgens jou. Zie hier: https://www.congress.gov/bill/112th-congress/house-bill/347/text

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Bovendien was Trump daar niet bezig met overheidszaken.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:50 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Die gast zat inderdaad niet luid te protesteren je hebt gelijk, maar de Secret Service zou vast wel een reden hebben gehad om hem daar weg te halen. Hij was ook een sketchy gast. Telkens om hem heen kijken, nerveuze gedrag etc.

Trouwens je laat een stukje weg: Or Official functions.

Hij was daar zeker wel als president. Zie je dit? Dit wordt gebruikt wanneer de president praat.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:51 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Heb toegevoegd dat Trump er ook niet in de hoedanigheid van president aan het babbelen was.

Het is trouwens wat ambigu opgeschreven. Is het "government (business or official functions)" of "(government business) or (official functions)"?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:39 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Weggehaald door de SS. Was een berniebro trouwens. Had een social democrat logo op zijn shirt. Protesteren is verboden bij evenementen waar de Secret Service is. Ze hadden misschien een vermoeden dat hij wat zou proberen.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:53 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Ik heb de volle 17 minuten gezien maar behalve een beetje meewarig kijken zag ik geen protest.
Of is rollen met je ogen nu ook al iets wat de rechtse boosmensch triggered?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:51 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Heb toegevoegd dat Trump er ook niet in de hoedanigheid van president aan het babbelen was. Hij was daar campagne aan het voeren en niet vanuit het zijn van president bezig met overheidszaken. Dat zegel mag hij daar natuurlijk wel op plakken, maar zegt me niet zoveel.

Het is trouwens wat ambigu opgeschreven. Is het "government (business or official functions)" of "(government business) or (official functions)"?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:55 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Stil protest is ook protest. Zag je zijn sticker op zijn shirt? Dit was het.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:50 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Die gast zat inderdaad niet luid te protesteren je hebt gelijk, maar de Secret Service zou vast wel een reden hebben gehad om hem daar weg te halen. Hij was ook een sketchy gast. Telkens om hem heen kijken, nerveuze gedrag etc.

Trouwens je laat een stukje weg: Or Official functions.

Hij was daar zeker wel als president. Zie je dit? Dit wordt gebruikt wanneer de president praat.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Niet gezien. Zag een rood vlekje. Bovendien 1A.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Niet gezien. Zag een rood vlekje. Bovendien 1A.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 18:59 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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a1 = (1) knowingly enters or remains in any restricted building or grounds without lawful authority to do so

Hij had natuurlijk wel legal authority, dus weet niet waar je op doelt.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:00 schreef AnneX het volgende:
I.p.v. een moron-in-chief : Wat een verademing om president Obama te horen spreken...over bijv. ” common ground”...

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:00 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Met 1A bedoelt hij first amendment

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:00 schreef AnneX het volgende:
I.p.v. een moron-in-chief : Wat een verademing om president Obama te horen spreken...over bijv. ” common ground”...

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:02 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Duh.

Mag je bij zo'n magameeting wel shirts of schoenen van Nike dragen?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:04 schreef Nintex het volgende:
De deep state is desperate en laat hun sock puppet een speech geven aan millenials

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:04 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Nike zelf is geen teken van een ideologie of iets degelijks. Zijn sticker was een logo voor de Social Democraty.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:03 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Daden spreken luider dan woorden

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 18:44:02 Barack Obama: "Demagogues promise simple fixes to complex problems. No promise to fight for the little guy even as they cater to the wealthiest and most powerful." https://t.co/RiOiaGdOMB reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Trump zegt iets anders. Die beweert nu dat Nike politiek bedrijft. Tegen hem.

Just Do It was aardig in het nieuws.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:08 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Leuk wat Trump zegt Vraag het de Secret Service dan eventjes of ze iemand met Nike schoenen zullen verwijderen van de zaal?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:09 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hij is wel de baas van de SS an sich, dus tsja...

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:08 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Leuk wat Trump zegt Vraag het de Secret Service dan eventjes of ze iemand met Nike schoenen zullen verwijderen van de zaal?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:11 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Nee hoor. Dat is deze man.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randolph_Alles

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:12 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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En wie stuurt hem aan?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:13 schreef vigen98 het volgende:

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Ga je nu ook zeggen dat Trump de baas van de CIA of DOJ is?

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:13 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Obama staat te wauwelen over Democratie terwijl zijn partij gewoon Hillary Clinton aanstelde en hun reet afveegde met de Democratie die eigenlijk een hervormer, zoals Sanders hadden gewild. Het zijn weer allemaal holle frasen.

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 19:04 schreef Nintex het volgende:
De deep state is desperate en laat hun sock puppet een speech geven aan millenials

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 20:29 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:
Ik keek gister even naar die Rally van Trump in Montana, en toen bleef dat liedje in mijn hoofd steken, I'm proud to be an American. Maar niet als "Proud to be...". Ik heb er de hele tijd over zitten broeden, waar komt me dit bekend van voor. Lijken grote delen van de muzieklijnen niet op "Sjakie van de hoek" van Connie van den Bosch of verbeeld ik me dat maar?

Conny vandenbosch sjakie van de hoek

God Bless the U.S.A. by Lee Greenwood

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President Trump escalated his trade fight with China on Friday, saying he was prepared to impose tariffs on essentially all Chinese goods imported into the United States if Beijing did not change its trade practices.

Mr. Trump, speaking aboard Air Force One on his way to Fargo, N.D., said the United States was prepared to punish China with tariffs on $267 billion in goods on top of $50 billion in Chinese imports already subject to tariffs and $200 billion in additional goods his administration was expected impose tariffs on later this month.

The public comment period of the tariffs proposed for those imports ended on Thursday, and officials said they planned to take the comments, plus those made during six days of hearings, into account before deciding which products to target.

Mr. Trump’s threat, which he made amid stalled trade talks with a Beijing, rattled stock markets. The president had made such comments previously, indicating that he’s prepared to tax nearly all Chinese goods that come into America.

“Nobody has ever done what I’ve done,” Mr. Trump said on Friday. “The $200 billion we’re talking about could take place very soon, depending what happens with them. To a certain extent, it’s going to be up to China.”

“Now we’ve added another $200 billion,” he continued. “And I hate to say that, but behind that, there’s another $267 billion ready to go on short notice if I want. That totally changes the equation.”

The president spoke as his administration continued its tense negotiations with Canada over a revised North American Free Trade Agreement and as he prepared to meet with European leaders next week to ease a simmering trade dispute.

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brianschatz twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 02:17:01 There are now multiple problems with the Kavanaugh nomination. First, we have at least two instances of the judge saying something that is plainly false while under oath. reageer retweet

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You can forgive Democratic senators for saying "I told you so."

For over a month, Democrats (and this writer) have complained that the confirmation process of Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh is fatally flawed because the records of Kavanaugh's White House tenure were being redacted by his former deputy, then redacted again by the Trump White House, then redacted a third time by Judiciary Committee chair Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa).

As a result, only 7 percent of Kavanaugh's White House records have been released to the public--compared to 99 percent of Justice Elena Kagan's, a nominee of President Obama.

Well, so what, Republicans said. You've got over 400,000 pages to look at--a few more isn't going to make a difference.

On Thursday, with the release of a half dozen emails by Grassley and several more by Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ), the Democrats have been proven right. Brett Kavanaugh has misled the Senate at least four times, and the censored emails have been withheld not because of national security or executive privilege, but, at least in part, because they make Kavanaugh look bad.

SPOILER

Confirmation of Judge Pryor

The clearest contradiction between Judge Kavanaugh's sworn testimony and the formerly confidential email record concerns the nomination of Judge William Pryor, a conservative firebrand. In 2006, Kavanaugh was asked, by the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, whether Pryor's extreme statements disturbed him. Kavanaugh replied that he was not involved in the selection or vetting of Judge Pryor.

When Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-VT) asked him Thursday, "did you interview William Pryor?" Kavanaugh hedged a bit, saying "I don't believe so. It's possible but I don't believe so."

Leahy responded by entering a formerly-confidential email into the record that states clearly that Kavanaugh actually did interview Pryor. "How did the Pryor interview go?" he was asked in December, 2002. "Call me," he replied.

Even if Kavanaugh's 2018 hedge protects him against perjury, his flat denial in 2006--only three years after the Pryor nomination itself--is clearly a false statement given under oath.

Memogate

As we reported Wednesday, Leahy challenged Judge Kavanaugh over his role in "Memogate," a 2003 scandal in which a low-level Republican aide named Manuel Miranda stole Democratic memos from a shared server. At his 2006 hearing, Kavanaugh denied receiving any stolen documents. Now, Kavanaugh says that while he may have received stolen documents, he didn't know they were stolen.

Thursday, some--but apparently not all--of the Memogate emails were released, and they cast serious doubt on those claims.

For example, on March 28, 2003, Miranda sent Kavanaugh an eight-page email--subject header "For use and not distribution"--that is obviously a cut-and-paste from a Democratic strategy document. (Sample quotes: "Here are just five examples that clearly refute the Republicans' incorrect claims." "That is already far more cooperation than this Senate has received from this Administration.") Even a casual reader would know that this is an internal Democratic party document, let alone the Republican staffer in charge of judicial nominations. Kavanaugh's claim that there was "nothing untoward" in the documents he received strains credulity.

Moreover--and ironically, given the quasi-confidential nature of the emails in question--we now know that Kavanaugh received Democratic documents marked as confidential. A just-released email from Miranda, dated July 28, 2002, says that "Senator Leahy's staff has distributed a confidential letter to Dem[ocratic] Counsel." Miranda does not say how he somehow came into the possession of this confidential letter--though he does impudently "ask that no action be taken by any of your offices... except as I request."

One of Kavanaugh's most ludicrous denials is about a June 5, 2003, email regarding Supreme Court confirmations that has the subject line "spying" and the first line "I have a friend who is a mole for us on the left." "None of this raised a red flag with you?" Leahy asked incredulously. "It did not, Senator," answered Kavanaugh. "Again, people have friends across the aisle who they talk to... and there was a lot of bipartisanship on the committee."

Wait--so being a "mole" and performing "spying" is actually a sign of bipartisan comity? Credit to Judge Kavanaugh for making such statements with a straight face.

Warrantless Wiretaps

A third clearly false statement made by Kavanaugh under oath regards his involvement in President Bush's "Terrorist Surveillance Program," known by most people as the warrantless wiretapping program.

On Wednesday, Judge Kavanaugh said he first learned about it from a December 2005 article in The New York Times.

On Thursday, an email was released showing that Kavanaugh emailed John Yoo, the Department of Justice lawyer responsible for the Bush-era "torture memo," about the program on Sept. 17, 2001. "Any results yet on the 4A implications of random/constant surveillance of phone and e-mail conversations of non-citizens who are in the United States when the purpose of the surveillance is to prevent terrorist/criminal violence?" Kavanaugh asked.

Unless there's some bogus distinction to be drawn between acts of random/constant surveillance and a program of random/constant surveillance, that makes Kavanaugh's statement on Wednesday a lie under oath.

Roe

Grabbing most of the headlines are Kavanaugh's somewhat conflicting statements on Roe v. Wade. In fact, this is the least smoking of the emails' smoking guns, but given that the entire confirmation process has been owned by this one issue, the disproportionate attention is understandable.

At issue is an op-ed which Kavanaugh was drafting which originally said that "it is widely accepted by legal scholars across the board that Roe v. Wade and its progeny are the settled law of the land"--language quite similar to that used by Kavanaugh himself in his confirmation hearings.

In a 2003 email, however, Kavanaugh said "I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so."

Asked about the apparent contradiction Thursday, Kavanaugh noted that it is factually true that "all legal scholars" do not agree that Roe is the settled law of the land. Of course, "all legal scholars" don't agree on anything at all, which is why phrases like that are known as "weasel words," since they allow the writer to weasel out of meaning anything.

Speaking of splitting linguistic hairs, Kavanaugh then reiterated his view that Roe is a precedent. But that is precisely not the same thing as the "settled law of the land." Indeed, Kavanaugh's point in the email is exactly that: While Roe is a precedent, it isn't considered "settled law" because the Supreme Court can overrule its own precedent.

Really, Kavanaugh's careful choice of words--precedent rather than settled law--is yet another bit of clear evidence that he does not believe Roe, which he has called part of a "tide of freewheeling judicial creation of individual rights," is beyond overturning. Obviously.

Did I Say That Out Loud?

Finally, the just-released emails contain a treasure trove of compromising, embarrassing statements by Kavanaugh--and no security concerns. This is exactly what Democrats have been saying for weeks: that President Bush's lawyer (formerly Kavanaugh's deputy), the Trump White House, and Sen. Charles Grassley cannot be trusted to edit this material.

Most damning is Kavanaugh's (rejected) proposal that John Yoo, as noted above the primary author of the infamous Bush administration torture memos, be made an appellate court judge.

As we noted last month, the torture memo is one of the greatest black holes in the withheld emails. Did Kavanaugh know of the torture program? Did he offer a legal opinion about it? Did Kavanaugh agree with Yoo that "severe pain and suffering" only means pain "associated with serious physical injury so severe that death, organ failure, or permanent damage" would result?

At least the last question can be answered. Surely he did--his recommendation was made only days after Yoo's memo was circulated.

The overwhelming majority of the legal academic community regards the torture memo as not only false, not only one of the lowest points in American human rights history, but tantamount to encouraging war crimes. Kavanaugh thought it should be rewarded with life tenure on the federal bench. And once again, none of this would be known had the "committee confidential" emails not been released.

Second are the remarks Kavanaugh made regarding racial profiling in the wake of 9/11. On Jan. 17, 2002, he wrote in an email that he and others "DO need to grapple--and grapple now--with the interim question of what to do before a truly effective and comprehensive race-neutral system is developed and implemented." In other words, although Kavanaugh says he "generally favor[s] effective security measures that are race-neutral," non-race-neutral measures--i.e., racial profiling--will still have to be used in the meantime.

Once again, this is explosive material: a nominee for the Supreme Court has endorsed racial profiling, at least on an "interim" basis. Likewise with comments questioning whether Hawaiians count as Native Americans and accusing backers of affirmative action as acting in bad faith.

Lastly, other emails are just plain embarrassing--discussions of gambling losses, for example--or highly revealing. For example, here's Kavanaugh coaching a judicial nominee: "She should not talk about her views on specific policy or legal issues. She should say that she has a commitment to follow Supreme Court precedent, that she understands and appreciates the role of a circuit judge, that she will adhere to statutory text, that she has no ideological agenda." Sound familiar?

That playbook is no secret, of course, but it certainly gives the lie to any notion that Kavanaugh is really answering the questions put to him. He is lip-synching the same words he instructed other nominees to lip-synch 15 years ago.

Of course, none of this may matter. Republican senators have held their noses and put up with Trump for 20 months just to get to this moment--they're not going to blow it now just because of a little perjury, racism, using stolen documents, and suborning of torture.

Then again, if the Democrats are smart, they'll keep drip-drip-dripping a few emails a day for the next several weeks. After all, there's no real justification for these "committee confidential" emails to be withheld, and no real explanation for the conflicts of interest among those selecting which emails to release. At a certain point, the narrative may shift; a centrist consensus may develop that Kavanaugh is just too much of a political operative who has said too many problematic things. It's not likely, but it is possible.

Undoubtedly, there's still much more that we don't know. At the very least, Leahy said there are emails proving Kavanaugh met with Manuel, the leaker, in a bar to exchange documents--we haven't seen those yet. But more likely, if these couple of dozen emails are reflective of the hundreds of thousands of pages still under wraps, we literally ain't seen nothing yet.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 21:30:13 Ex-Nixon White House Counsel John Dean: "Under Judge Kavanaugh's recommendation, if a president shot somebody in cold blood on Fifth Avenue, that president could not be prosecuted while in office." (via ABC) https://t.co/hDdlgOpciL reageer retweet

John Dean Rips Brett Kavanaugh For Views on Presidential Powers 9/7/18

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LinnaneCiara twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 20:01:13 Boycott? What boycott? Nike’s online sales jumped 31% after company unveiled Kaepernick campaign https://t.co/mZf307T5Py https://t.co/rykDBNmjBP reageer retweet

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yashar twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 22:41:48 George Papadopoulos has been sentenced: 1. 14 days in prison2. 1 year of supervised release reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 22:00:26 NEWS: In sentencing hearing, lawyer for PAPADOPOULOS says @realDonaldTrump "hindered this investigation more than George Papadopoulos ever could" by launching a "fake news campaign" and calling FBI Russia probe a "witch hunt." reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 22:02:48 PAPADOPOULOS' attorney said Trump's efforts dwarfed his client's actions. "The president of the United States, the commander in Chief, told the world that this was fake news."He called Mueller's team "professional" and well-prepared." Said George was "naive" and "a fool." reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 22:16:10 Papadopoulos attorney Thomas Breen said he was struck as they were waiting for an interview at FBI's Chicago office by the photos on the wall of President Trump and Attorney General Sessions: "We were going in there to potentially ... cooperate against those individuals." reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 23:14:21 Papadopoulos' lawyer BREEN eviscerates the conspriacy theory that his wife has been pitching in TV interviews, saying there's been no scintilla of evidence the FBI or western intel agents entrapped George. reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 23:18:19 He also said there's no scrap of evidence that the FBI has a FISA on George. Everything, Breen said, has been "on the square." reageer retweet

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SenateMajLdr twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 22:20:55 Judge Kavanaugh’s judicial temperament and brilliance were on full display during this week’s hearings. It’s easy to see why he is widely viewed as one of the finest legal minds in the nation. He will make an excellent Supreme Court Justice. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 22:46 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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yashar twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 22:41:48 George Papadopoulos has been sentenced: 1. 14 days in prison2. 1 year of supervised release reageer retweet

Papadopoulos Attorney: Trump 'Hindered' Russia Probe More Than My Client Did

twitter:

kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 22:00:26 NEWS: In sentencing hearing, lawyer for PAPADOPOULOS says @realDonaldTrump "hindered this investigation more than George Papadopoulos ever could" by launching a "fake news campaign" and calling FBI Russia probe a "witch hunt." reageer retweet

twitter:

kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 22:02:48 PAPADOPOULOS' attorney said Trump's efforts dwarfed his client's actions. "The president of the United States, the commander in Chief, told the world that this was fake news."He called Mueller's team "professional" and well-prepared." Said George was "naive" and "a fool." reageer retweet

twitter:

kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 22:16:10 Papadopoulos attorney Thomas Breen said he was struck as they were waiting for an interview at FBI's Chicago office by the photos on the wall of President Trump and Attorney General Sessions: "We were going in there to potentially ... cooperate against those individuals." reageer retweet

twitter:

kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 23:14:21 Papadopoulos' lawyer BREEN eviscerates the conspriacy theory that his wife has been pitching in TV interviews, saying there's been no scintilla of evidence the FBI or western intel agents entrapped George. reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 23:18:19 He also said there's no scrap of evidence that the FBI has a FISA on George. Everything, Breen said, has been "on the square." reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 23:55 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Eeuh...wat?

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 00:10 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Wat bedoel je?

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Paul Manafort’s lawyers have talked to U.S. prosecutors about a possible guilty plea to avert a second criminal trial set to begin in Washington this month, according to a person familiar with the matter.

Manafort, President Donald Trump’s former campaign chairman, was convicted of bank and tax fraud last month in a Virginia federal court. He’s accused in Washington of financial crimes including conspiring to launder money, as well as acting as an unregistered foreign agent of Ukraine and obstructing justice.

The negotiations over a potential plea deal have centered on which charges Manafort might admit and the length of the sentence to be recommended by prosecutors working for Special Counsel Robert Mueller, the person familiar with the matter said. Manafort, 69, already faces as long as 10 years in prison under advisory sentencing guidelines in the Virginia case.

By pleading guilty, Manafort could avoid the risk of a longer prison term if he’s convicted at a second trial, as well as the threat of forfeiting several properties and financial accounts. He could also save the cost of paying lawyers to defend him at trial. Such white-collar criminal cases can cost defendants millions of dollars.

The talks may break down without a deal, but if they succeed, they could prompt Mueller to request a reduced sentence in both the Washington and Virginia cases. It’s not clear whether Manafort might cooperate in Mueller’s investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 election, according to the person. Trump, who said he was “very sad” after Manafort’s conviction, could still pardon him.

Spokesmen for Manafort and Mueller declined to comment.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 00:12 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Vind het een behoorlijk zware aanval op Trump eerlijk gezegd. Alsof Papadopoulos alleen maar een loopjongetje was. Maar das slechts mijn mening.

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Papadopoulos' lawyers argued for probation in court Friday, making the case that "the president of the United States hindered this investigation more than George Papadopoulos ever could."

That was because, in January 2017, shortly before Papadopoulos was interviewed by — and lied to — the FBI, Trump proclaimed that the Russia investigation was a "witch hunt" and "fake news," one his lawyers, Thomas Breen, told the court. Breen argued that those comments influenced Papadopoulos's decision to lie to the FBI.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 00:12 schreef Barbusse het volgende:

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Vind het een behoorlijk zware aanval op Trump eerlijk gezegd. Alsof Papadopoulos alleen maar een loopjongetje was. Maar das slechts mijn mening.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 00:29 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Maffiapraktijken bij Mueller en co.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 00:58 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Oh zo, ja, ik heb er niet direct een mening bij anders dan dat ik het wel een opvallende uitspraak vond.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 00:44 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Ondertussen is deVos ook weer even wat corporate interests aan het veiligstellen:
https://www.politico.com/(...)oan-companies-774599

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 01:30 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Gaat ook om een hoop geld, dacht dat de totale uitstaande "student loans" schuld ruim 1200 miljard dollar bedroeg...

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Back in February, DeVos declared that states lack the authority to go after companies that collect federal student loans, infuriating even some Republican attorneys general. But her latest actions go much further, actively cutting off key information and data to state attorneys general suing the industry on behalf of millions of student borrowers.

Navient, one of the largest loan servicers, is defending itself against six separate lawsuits brought by state attorneys general in Illinois, Washington, Pennsylvania, California and Mississippi, as well as the CFPB. The company is accused of overcharging borrowers and steering them into more expensive repayment plans, allegations that it denies.

But the Trump administration has instructed Navient and other companies that collect federal loans to refuse demands for information by state attorneys general and others, a policy described in a memo that POLITICO first reported earlier this year. More recently, the Education Department has also denied direct requests for information from attorneys general and the CFPB.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 01:55 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik snap gewoon niet waarom op een dieper niveau...

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Op vrijdag 7 september 2018 20:45 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump, Escalating Trade Feud, Threatens Tariffs on All Chinese Imports

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 06:43 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Moet het nog zien. Heb hem dit al vaak horen zeggen, maar tot zover gebeurd er niks. Heb zo'n idee dat veel bedrijven hier niet blij mee zullen zijn.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 08-09-2018 om 01:31:01 Interesting. David Brock says that he knew Brett Kavanaugh from his years as a Republican operative, claims that Kavanaugh "took on the role of designated leaker to the press of sensitive information from Starr's operation." https://t.co/wrvUbELM4V reageer retweet

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I used to know Brett Kavanaugh pretty well. And, when I think of Brett now, in the midst of his hearings for a lifetime appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court, all I can think of is the old "Aesop's Fables" adage: "A man is known by the company he keeps."

And that's why I want to tell any senator who cares about our democracy: Vote no.

Twenty years ago, when I was a conservative movement stalwart, I got to know Brett Kavanaugh both professionally and personally.

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Brett actually makes a cameo appearance in my memoir of my time in the GOP, "Blinded By The Right." I describe him at a party full of zealous young conservatives gathered to watch President Bill Clinton's 1998 State of the Union address — just weeks after the story of his affair with a White House intern had broken. When the TV camera panned to Hillary Clinton, I saw Brett — at the time a key lieutenant of Ken Starr, the independent counsel investigating various Clinton scandals — mouth the word "bitch."

But there's a lot more to know about Kavanaugh than just his Pavlovian response to Hillary's image. Brett and I were part of a close circle of cold, cynical and ambitious hard-right operatives being groomed by GOP elders for much bigger roles in politics, government and media. And it’s those controversial associations that should give members of the Senate and the American public serious pause.

Call it Kavanaugh's cabal: There was his colleague on the Starr investigation, Alex Azar, now the Secretary of Health and Human Services. Mark Paoletta is now chief counsel to Vice President Mike Pence; House anti-Clinton gumshoe Barbara Comstock is now a Republican member of Congress. Future Fox News personalities Laura Ingraham and Tucker Carlson were there with Ann Coulter, now a best-selling author, and internet provocateur Matt Drudge.

At one time or another, each of them partied at my Georgetown townhouse amid much booze and a thick air of cigar smoke.

In a rough division of labor, Kavanaugh played the role of lawyer — one of the sharp young minds recruited by the Federalist Society to infiltrate the federal judiciary with true believers. Through that network, Kavanaugh was mentored by D.C. Appeals Court Judge Laurence Silberman, known among his colleagues for planting leaks in the press for partisan advantage.

When, as I came to know, Kavanaugh took on the role of designated leaker to the press of sensitive information from Starr's operation, we all laughed that Larry had taught him well. (Of course, that sort of political opportunism by a prosecutor is at best unethical, if not illegal.)

Another compatriot was George Conway (now Kellyanne's husband), who led a secretive group of right-wing lawyers — we called them "the elves" — who worked behind the scenes directing the litigation team of Paula Jones, who had sued Clinton for sexual harassment. I knew then that information was flowing quietly from the Jones team via Conway to Starr's office — and also that Conway's go-to man was none other than Brett Kavanaugh.

That critical flow of inside information allowed Starr, in effect, to set a perjury trap for Clinton, laying the foundation for a crazed national political crisis and an unjust impeachment over a consensual affair.

But the cabal's godfather was Ted Olson, the then-future solicitor general for George W. Bush and now a sainted figure of the GOP establishment (and of some liberals for his role in legalizing same-sex marriage). Olson had a largely hidden role as a consigliere to the "Arkansas Project" — a multi-million dollar dirt-digging operation on the Clintons, funded by the eccentric right-wing billionaire Richard Mellon Scaife and run through The American Spectator magazine, where I worked at the time.

Both Ted and Brett had what one could only be called an unhealthy obsession with the Clintons — especially Hillary. While Ted was pushing through the Arkansas Project conspiracy theories claiming that Clinton White House lawyer and Hillary friend Vincent Foster was murdered (he committed suicide), Brett was costing taxpayers millions by pedaling the same garbage at Starr's office.

A detailed analysis of Kavanaugh's own notes from the Starr Investigation reveals he was cherry-picking random bits of information from the Starr investigation — as well as the multiple previous investigations — attempting vainly to legitimize wild right-wing conspiracies. For years he chased down each one of them without regard to the emotional cost to Foster’s family and friends, or even common decency.

Kavanaugh was not a dispassionate finder of fact but rather an engineer of a political smear campaign. And after decades of that, he expects people to believe he's changed his stripes.

Like millions of Americans this week, I tuned into Kavanaugh's hearings before the Senate Judiciary Committee with great interest. In his opening statement and subsequent testimony, Kavanaugh presented himself as a "neutral and impartial arbiter" of the law. Judges, he said, were not players but akin to umpires — objectively calling balls and strikes. Again and again, he stressed his "independence" from partisan political influences.

But I don't need to see any documents to tell you who Kavanaugh is — because I've known him for years. And I'll leave it to all the lawyers to parse Kavanaugh's views on everything from privacy rights to gun rights. But I can promise you that any pretense of simply being a fair arbiter of the constitutionality of any policy regardless of politics is simply a pretense. He made up his mind nearly a generation ago — and, if he's confirmed, he'll have nearly two generations to impose it upon the rest of us.

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SenFeinstein twitterde op zaterdag 08-09-2018 om 04:18:33 This New York Times editorial clearly shows that Brett Kavanaugh misled the Senate. Too many missing emails and too many questions about his trustworthiness. https://t.co/e98Z1I5elj reageer retweet

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In a more virtuous world, Judge Brett Kavanaugh would be deeply embarrassed by the manner in which he has arrived at the doorstep of a lifetime appointment to the Supreme Court.

He was nominated by a president who undermines daily the nation’s democratic order and mocks the constitutional values that Judge Kavanaugh purports to hold dear.

Now he’s being rammed through his confirmation process with an unprecedented degree of secrecy and partisan maneuvering by Republican senators who, despite their overflowing praise for his legal acumen and sterling credentials, appear terrified for the American people to find out much of anything about him beyond his penchant for coaching girls’ basketball.

Perhaps most concerning, Judge Kavanaugh seems to have trouble remembering certain important facts about his years of service to Republican administrations. More than once this week, he testified in a way that appeared to directly contradict evidence in the record.

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For example, he testified that Roe v. Wade is “settled as a precedent of the Supreme Court.” But he said essentially the opposite in a 2003 email leaked to The Times. “I am not sure that all legal scholars refer to Roe as the settled law of the land at the Supreme Court level since Court can always overrule its precedent, and three current Justices on the Court would do so,” he wrote then.

Judge Kavanaugh’s backers in the Senate brushed this off by pointing out that his 2003 statement was factually correct. They’re right, which means that his testimony this week was both disingenuous and meaningless.

As we’ve learned with each new trickle of previously withheld documents, Judge Kavanaugh didn’t start misleading senators just this week.

At his 2004 confirmation hearing before the Judiciary Committee, he denied any involvement in the vetting of a controversial judicial nominee while serving as one of President George W. Bush’s White House lawyers. The nominee, William Pryor Jr., had among other things called Roe v. Wade “the worst abomination of constitutional law in our history.” In fact, Mr. Kavanaugh was more than a little involved, as emails from that period — which Senate Republicans had withheld until early Thursday morning — made clear.

In that 2004 hearing and again in 2006, when he was being considered for a seat on the federal appeals court in Washington, D.C., Mr. Kavanaugh told Congress, under oath, that he knew nothing about the extensive theft of secret strategy documents from Democratic senators’ computers by Republican staffers. As it turns out, he did in fact receive those documents or summaries of them. But he now claims that he had no reason to believe that they had been stolen, even though one email he got had the subject line “spying” and began, “I have a friend who is a mole for us on the left.”

Then there are the persistent doubts about his truthfulness in telling senators in 2006 that he had no knowledge of Mr. Bush’s warrantless wiretapping program or his detainee treatment policy — claims that have been called into question by yet more emails, which showed he knew about both of those things years before they became public.

As Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois told Judge Kavanaugh on Thursday, “You say that words matter. You claim to be a textualist when you interpret other people’s words, but you don’t want to be held accountable for the plain meaning of your own words.”

Judge Kavanaugh was quick to provide lawyerly explanations for all of these discrepancies, but they paint a pattern that’s hard to ignore: He misstates facts under oath, and Republicans cover for him by making it hard, if not impossible, to get the documents proving it. With the help of the White House and a personal lawyer for Mr. Bush, Senator Chuck Grassley, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, has subverted a long-established, nonpartisan process and hidden more than 90 percent of the material pertaining to Judge Kavanaugh’s time in government.

It’s only thanks to Senate Democrats and others that we’ve been able to see important pieces of the judge’s lengthy paper trail. There is far more that was never even requested. Far from being embarrassed by all this, Judge Kavanaugh is acting like someone who knows there is virtually nothing he can do to imperil his nomination.

Instead, he’s followed his own cynical advice to a 2002 judicial nominee: “She should not talk about her views on specific policy or legal issues,” he wrote in an email then. “She should say that she has a commitment to follow Supreme Court precedent, that she understands and appreciates the role of a circuit judge, that she will adhere to statutory text, that she has no ideological agenda.”

That is more or less how Judge Kavanaugh got through his hearings. But his ideological agenda is well known, which is precisely why he’s been on Republican Supreme Court shortlists for the last decade. That agenda includes, for starters, a well-established hostility to women’s reproductive rights and a stunningly expansive view of presidential power and impunity.

Republicans defend their steamrollering by saying that most Democrats have already made up their minds to oppose Judge Kavanaugh. That’s rich: In the months before the 2016 election, multiple high-ranking Republican senators openly vowed to block any and all Supreme Court picks by Hillary Clinton, period. It’s also irrelevant. The people deserve to know everything possible about nominees to a lifetime seat on the highest court in the land, and they depend on their senators to seek out that information and share it.

The Constitution calls this process advice and consent. Until the last few years, Republicans claimed to take that responsibility seriously. Now they are making a mockery of what is meant to be a careful and deliberative process by playing three-card monte with the American people. They did the same with last year’s tax bill, rushing it through in the dead of night with virtually no debate or review.

The Republicans engage in this sort of subterfuge for an obvious reason: While they hold unified power in Washington, most of their agenda is hugely unpopular. So they hide as much of it as possible out of a fear that if more of it came to light, they will pay at the polls. Come November, voters can make that fear come true.

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classiclib3ral twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 10:19:07 Alex Jones is dealing well with his Twitter ban https://t.co/jFmN7Zfqsb reageer retweet

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classiclib3ral twitterde op vrijdag 07-09-2018 om 11:59:27 having a normal one https://t.co/TcAB6xRkWa reageer retweet

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14 days for $28 MILLION - $2 MILLION a day, No Collusion. A great day for America!

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 12:42 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Zou Trump echt denken dat Papadopoulos deze straf kreeg omdat Mueller niet meer had? Zou hij echt zo delusional zijn te denken dat dit niet komt omdat Papadopoulos alles heeft opgebiecht en mee heeft gewerkt? Dan is Trump toch een simpleton?

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 12:42 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Zou Trump echt denken dat Papadopoulos deze straf kreeg omdat Mueller niet meer had? Zou hij echt zo delusional zijn te denken dat dit niet komt omdat Papadopoulos alles heeft opgebiecht en mee heeft gewerkt? Dan is Trump toch een simpleton?

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 12:59 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Als je opbiecht dat je voor de Russen hebt gewerkt om je er niet zo gemakkelijk vanaf.

It's treason then.

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Acosta twitterde op zaterdag 08-09-2018 om 00:46:40 WH has narrowed down search for anonymous op-ed writer to a few suspects, I'm told. Trump is "obsessed" with finding the person but Kelly has advised him to let it pass. Trump is also said to be mad at Shine over handling of Woodward book. "We should get Hope back here," he said. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 13:11 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Alex Jones als woordvoerder zou wel lachen zijn.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 14:20 schreef thesiren.nl het volgende:
Geef hem dan een betere titelomschrijving, minister van volksvoorlichting en propaganda?

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On the day Donald Trump’s former foreign-policy adviser George Papadopoulos was sentenced to two weeks in jail for lying to investigators about his contacts with a U.K. professor peddling dirt from Russian officials about Hillary Clinton, lawyers in an unrelated case raised the prospect the professor, Joseph Mifsud, may be dead.

The Democratic National Committee, which is suing Russia, the Trump campaign and WikiLeaks for interfering in the 2016 election, said in a court filing Friday that it believes all the defendants in the case have been served with the complaint, “with the exception of Mifsud (who is missing and may be deceased).” The lawyers didn’t elaborate.

A hearing on the DNC lawsuit is scheduled for Sept. 13 in Manhattan federal court.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 19:15 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:
Heerlijk dit. 2 jaar nutteloos onderzoek, miljoenen dollars verbrand, en Papadopoulos - waar alles mee begon - krijgt 14 daagjes cel voor liegen tegen de FBI.

That's it. De media blijken weer eens glashard gelogen te hebben met het sprookje dat Papa Trump zou verraden in ruil voor strafvermindering.

Rechter ziet alles wat Mueller heeft onderzocht, concludeert geen bewijs voor 'Collusion' tussen Trump campagne en Rusland. Daar sta je dan.

Hoe lang gaat de witch hunt nog duren?

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 19:17 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Deze quote bewaar ik even voor als het onderzoek afgerond is.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 19:21 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Manafort bestaat kennelijk ook niet meer al verbaast het me niets dat dit soort mensen het geheugen van de spreekwoordelijke goudvis hebben.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 19:15 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:
Heerlijk dit. 2 jaar nutteloos onderzoek, miljoenen dollars verbrand, en Papadopoulos - waar alles mee begon - krijgt 14 daagjes cel voor liegen tegen de FBI.

That's it. De media blijken weer eens glashard gelogen te hebben met het sprookje dat Papa Trump zou verraden in ruil voor strafvermindering.

Rechter ziet alles wat Mueller heeft onderzocht, concludeert geen bewijs voor 'Collusion' tussen Trump campagne en Rusland. Daar sta je dan.

Hoe lang gaat de witch hunt nog duren?

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 19:15 schreef Vader_Aardbei het volgende:
Heerlijk dit. 2 jaar nutteloos onderzoek, miljoenen dollars verbrand, en Papadopoulos - waar alles mee begon - krijgt 14 daagjes cel voor liegen tegen de FBI.

That's it. De media blijken weer eens glashard gelogen te hebben met het sprookje dat Papa Trump zou verraden in ruil voor strafvermindering.

Rechter ziet alles wat Mueller heeft onderzocht, concludeert geen bewijs voor 'Collusion' tussen Trump campagne en Rusland. Daar sta je dan.

Hoe lang gaat de witch hunt nog duren?

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 19:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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14 dagen, 10k boete en een jaar voorwaardelijk omdat de aanklager geen hogere straf eiste wegens zijn medewerking.
Ik zou me juist zorgen maken wegens de lage straf.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 20:02 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ja, het is ook wel een gekke redenatie... de aanklager vraagt een lage straf, de rechter komt hieraan tegemoet ... ergo .. Witch hunt!!!

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 14:15 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Wat een onsmakelijk verhaal weer over meneer Kavenaugh.
Die zal welkom zijn bij de collega’s in de Supreme Court ( ervan uitgaand dat de reeds zittenden een beter besef van ethiek hebben).

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 21:15 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Wat heb ik gemist?

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 21:15 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Wat heb ik gemist?

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President Trump’s budget chief, Mick Mulvaney, expressed confidence to Republican donors on Saturday that the party would overcome a Democratic “movement of hate” in November, but he acknowledged Republicans could lose races where they have nominated candidates who are not seen as “likable” enough, like Senator Ted Cruz of Texas.

Speaking at a closed-door meeting in New York City alongside Ronna McDaniel, the Republican National Committee chairwoman, Mr. Mulvaney insisted that Democrats and the media were exaggerating the political threat facing Republicans this fall: “They want you to think there’s a blue wave when there’s not,” he said, according to an audio recording of his remarks that was obtained by The New York Times from a person at the meeting.

But Mr. Mulvaney, who leads both the Office of Management and Budget and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, conceded that Republicans had nominated poor candidates in places and might struggle to defend a huge number of open House seats where Republican incumbents decided not to run for re-election.

He pointed to the Senate races in Texas and Florida as examples where candidate quality could be decisive.

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In Florida, Republicans have nominated Gov. Rick Scott to challenge Senator Bill Nelson, a Democrat, and polls show the race is close. In Texas, Mr. Cruz holds a modest polling lead over Representative Beto O’Rourke, a Democrat who has raised enormous amounts of money online.

“There’s a very real possibility we will win a race for Senate in Florida and lose a race in Texas for Senate, O.K.?” Mr. Mulvaney said. “I don’t think it’s likely, but it’s a possibility. How likable is a candidate? That still counts.”

And Mr. Mulvaney alluded to last year’s special election for Senate in Alabama and suggested that Mr. Trump remained bewildered at his party’s defeat there. The Democratic nominee, Doug Jones, prevailed in a stunning upset over the Republican, Roy Moore, a polarizing former judge who was accused of once preying on teenage girls.

“The president asks me all the time, ‘Why did Roy Moore lose?’” Mr. Mulvaney said. “That’s easy. He was a terrible candidate.”

Spokesmen for both Mr. Mulvaney and Ms. McDaniel did not immediately comment on their remarks.

Ms. McDaniel, too, noted that Republicans were facing political headwinds in some respects, though like Mr. Mulvaney she offered an upbeat prognosis over all. She said Democratic voters appeared to have more energy than Republicans at this point, but said Republicans had a formidable and well-financed voter-turnout machine to compensate.

“It does cost, right now, more money to engage our voters, to get them knowledge of the election,” Ms. McDaniel said. “They have their energy. We have our infrastructure.”

Democrats, Mr. Mulvaney argued, had so far failed to mobilize voters the way Republicans did that year. He said Democrats did not have a unifying issue for their campaigns, the way Republicans harnessed opposition to the Affordable Care Act in 2010.

“It’s hard to draw people into a movement of hate,” Mr. Mulvaney said, adding: “I don’t think I have seen, yet, people who used to be Republican or people who have never voted before or haven’t voted in a long time, showing up at these events.”

But Mr. Mulvaney nodded to the reality that House Republicans are on defense across a large stretch of the political map, because of an exodus of longtime lawmakers from the chamber.

“I don’t know how many seats we’ve got this year, but there’s got to be, how many?” Mr. Mulvaney said. “Twenty? Thirty? Forty?”

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RudyGiuliani twitterde op zaterdag 08-09-2018 om 23:55:25 The elite consider Woodward the best investigative journalist of our times. He exhaustively investigated the President. He has a book of narratives contradicted by many patriots. However, he found no evidence of colluding with Russians. Not even anonymous. reageer retweet

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 00:53 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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RudyGiuliani twitterde op zaterdag 08-09-2018 om 23:55:25 The elite consider Woodward the best investigative journalist of our times. He exhaustively investigated the President. He has a book of narratives contradicted by many patriots. However, he found no evidence of colluding with Russians. Not even anonymous. reageer retweet

Ja, want Woodward is Mueller. En trouwens, zijn Giuliani en Trump niet deel van de elite? Dus zegt hij nu dat zij Woodward de beste onderzoeksjournalist vinden? Verwarrend allemaal.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 01:35 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Trump is nooit echt welkom geweest bij de "elite" van New York, ze vonden hem maar vulgair en patserig. Ivanka schepte ooit op dat zei uitnodigingen kreeg die haar vader nooit zou krijgen. Het hele spiel met de elite komt daar vandaan. Hij wil het zo graag zijn dat hij zich zelf nu de superelite noemt.

Het is een beetje een slechte versie van Gossip Girl.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 01:36 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat hij geweigerd werd tot een groepje van "de" elite maakt een man met een eigen toren en gouden toilet-pot niet niet-elite, toch?

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 08-09-2018 om 23:08:41 So true! “Mr. Trump remains the single most popular figure in the Republican Party, whose fealty has helped buoy candidates in competitive Republican primaries and remains a hot commodity among general election candidates.” Nicholas Fandos, @nytimes reageer retweet

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npfandos twitterde op zaterdag 08-09-2018 om 23:14:49 Worth reading the whole story: Congressional G.O.P. Agenda Quietly Falls Into Place Even as Trump Steals the Spotlight https://t.co/DT2kC49Yo8 https://t.co/yPb7TxbEAb reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zondag 09-09-2018 om 01:53:01 HOLY COW. Just realized that when Trump got his first classified security briefing in August 2016, and he was told Russia was trying to infiltrate his campaign—which it already had—surely the CIA/FBI briefers asked if he had any info to report, and surely he lied. That's a crime. reageer retweet

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Fights over teacher salaries and working conditions are escalating along the West Coast, emboldened in part by the momentum from widespread teacher strikes in more conservative states.

The teachers in these blue states — with robust teachers’ unions, the right to strike and legislatures that are generally more supportive of education funding — are tapping into a shift in public sentiment that supports better wages for teachers that came as a result of the “Red4Ed” protest movement that began earlier this year.

The latest disputes are particularly acute in Washington, a state that has infused at least $1 billion for teacher pay to resolve a long-running court battle. With students returning to school in the last few weeks, teachers in at least 18 public school districts so far have voted to authorize a strike, gone on strike or settled their strikes in order to get pay raises.

“We saw everywhere from Arizona to West Virginia standing up for fair wages. Now that it’s coming to Washington state, we don’t feel isolated. We know we have the support of our local community,” said Connie Vernon, an elementary teacher in the Washougal School District in southwest Washington, where a nine-day walkout ended Thursday.

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Rich Wood, spokesman for the state teachers’ union, said local bargaining units at two-thirds of the state’s 295 school systems have sought to renegotiate salaries.

In California, teachers in the Los Angeles Unified School District also voted last week to authorize a strike, although a walkout isn’t imminent. The union and district in the nation’s second-largest school system have failed to reach an agreement on pay raises, smaller class sizes and other issues. Both sides have filed charges against the other and a state mediation session is scheduled Sept. 27.

The momentum earlier from teacher protests in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Kentucky, Colorado and Arizona has also carried into other kinds of actions, including an organized teacher hunger strike in Georgia and a major rally in North Carolina.

Except for Colorado, all of those states have “right to work” laws, which limits the ability for teachers to strike. Teachers there instead scheduled widespread protest “walkouts.” In West Virginia, teachers won a 5-percent raise even though they lacked collective bargaining rights and had no legal right to strike.

The Washington teachers’ union said it has been fighting for schools funding for more than a decade, and that the timing of their latest contract and strike discussions was coincidental to the national teacher uprising.

Michael Hansen, an education policy expert at the Brookings Institution, said the teachers’ cause is undoubtedly helped by the political dynamics shifting in the national conversation about teacher value.

As the protest movement moves from fiscally-conservative red states without much labor power, Hansen said momentum has shifted to more union-friendly blue states where pay and cost of living are substantially higher. The red-state fights thrived as state-wide actions, while the blue-state disputes are at the district level.

“They sort of feel like a tipping point has been crossed,” Hansen said. “Strategically, if you’re going to advance and advocate for more teacher pay, this is the time.”

More state money toward teacher salaries was funded by the Washington Legislature after a court ruling that stemmed from a 2007 lawsuit. The ruling said the state was violating its own Constitution by inadequately funding K-12 schools.

This year, many of the teachers urged their school districts to reopen bargaining talks in the middle of their contract period in order to settle the pay disparity.

Teachers at Seattle Public Schools, the state’s largest district, had authorized a strike but reached a one-year deal giving them 10.5 percent raises.

In some smaller communities, school district officials have pushed back by suing the unions to get them to work.

The state union is backing all teachers with a new political tactic, ordering for the first time “bargaining season” television, radio and Facebook ads to both put pressure on the districts and urge community members to stand with the teachers. One ad highlights the state’s teacher shortage while saying salaries aren’t competitive in a region flush with tech money.

That’s also a show of force for the unions after a U.S. Supreme Court ruling in late June that declared government workers can’t be required to contribute money to labor groups. As the state teachers union flexed its political muscle by spending in such an unprecedented but high-stakes way, local leaders say their membership numbers have not been affected by the ruling even though it has the potential to significantly weaken the revenue base for all labor unions.

Washougal’s superintendent Mary Templeton said the state union relationship with the locals has been affected by these broader elements and that it’s evident by the rush of political activity being carried out by the larger labor group.

She said the district also wants to support teachers with a new salary pay scale.

“We gave a lot because we know how important they are,” Templeton said.

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Op zaterdag 8 september 2018 21:12 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Biden is running, ieder geval in voorbereiding.

https://www.instagram.com/p/BneQYW7nhkb/?taken-by=barackobama

Hij heeft zijn instagram account weer geactiveerd en Obama is het aan het promoten.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 06:20 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Die man is goddomme van 1942...
Het lijkt verdorie de Sovjetunie in z’n laatste dagen wel... alleen maar wankele ouwe krukken die de partij mogen redden. Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden... daar word je als 40-minner toch ook niet echt vrolijk van?

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 06:20 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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Die man is goddomme van 1942...
Het lijkt verdorie de Sovjetunie in z’n laatste dagen wel... alleen maar wankele ouwe krukken die de partij mogen redden. Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden... daar word je als 40-minner toch ook niet echt vrolijk van?

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 09:52 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:

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Ja, zorgwekkend dit. Geen wonder dat jonge kiezers in de VS doorgaans zo weinig naar de stembus komen. Ze herkennen waarschijnlijk niets van hun eigen wereld en ideeen in de politiek. Het is echt een ouwe lullen club.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 10:24 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Kennelijk krijgen de Jesse Klavers of Thierry Baudets van de VS niet genoeg mensenbanken mee om op het grote toneel wat te betekenen.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 08:56 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Er zijn ook wel jongere kandidaten, Booker gaat bijvoorbeeld ook zijn gezicht laten zien in Iowa:
https://www.politico.com/(...)owa-democrats-812293

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 11:30 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Booker is dan wel jonger maar net zo min een goede kandidaat.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 13:38 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat was natuurlijk de vraag ook niet, maar wat is volgens jou een goede kandidaat?

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 16:59 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Er is een aanklacht gedaan tegen Kavanaugh wegen meineed/liegen tegen de senaat.

De rechter die de aanklacht moet beoordelen is ene Merrick Garland.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 17:41 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:

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Hahaha, geweldig. Poetic justice.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 17:47 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Weet niet of het zo'n goed idee is, hoor. Ook Kavenaugh heeft recht op een rechter die boven iedere schijn van belangenverstrengeling verheven is.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 17:47 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Weet niet of het zo'n goed idee is, hoor. Ook Kavenaugh heeft recht op een rechter die boven iedere schijn van belangenverstrengeling verheven is.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 17:08 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Een ticket Harris/Brown. Dat heeft alles: de nieuwe generatie, een vrouw, person of color, een meer ervaren man uit een swing state in het midwesten en progressief maar niet te ver van het midden. Dan heb je zo ongeveer de Obama Coalition te pakken. Enige nadeel is dan dat Brown zijn senaatszetel moet opgeven en er dan een dikke kans is dat die naar de Republikeinen gaat.

Het is in ieder geval een duo dat ik Michigan, Pennsylvania en Wisconsin wel zie winnen tegen Trump. En dan ben je er ten slotte al.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 18:33 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Is er ook maar enige kans dat er vanuit de Republikeinen een uitdager voor Trump opstaat?

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 18:33 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Is er ook maar enige kans dat er vanuit de Republikeinen een uitdager voor Trump opstaat?

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 18:12 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Dat lijkt me wel een heel simplistische kijk op electorale kansen. Obama werd bovenal verkozen omdat hij een goede spreker met een verhaal was, een goede campagne voerde en ga zo maar door.
Om te denken dat je dat succes kunt imiteren door er een jong iemand met een gemengde afkomst en een wat oudere, behoudendere blanke man neer te zetten lijkt me wat gratuit.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 18:43 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Kasich, Flake en of Haley, maar grotere kans dat Nikki wacht tot 2024.

Het is over het algemeen moeilijk om een zittende president te verslaan. Laat staan als het er eentje is uit je eigen partij.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 18:45 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ik stel ook niet dat dat een 'imitatie' is. Maar jij vroeg wat mij de beste kandidaat leek, en in mijn opzicht heeft dit duo de beste kansen. Weet jij iemand anders?

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 18:54 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Laat ik het anders stellen. Wat maakt Harris wat dat betreft wel een goede keuze en Booker niet? Harris en Booker komen duidelijk uit verschillende vleugels. Booker is meer een centrist, Harris zit op de linkerflank.

Wat mij betreft is het vooral heel erg voorbarig om nu al potentiële kandidaten af te serveren of tot favoriet te bombarderen.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 18:43 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dat die Melania hem niet de deur uitschopt. Trump geeft nu gewoon toe dat hij andere vrouwen neukte terwijl zij lag te baren. En ze vindt het blijkbaar prima.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 19:06 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:

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Fuck Melania. Die doet het toch ook alleen voor het geld en de macht.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 19:26 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://twitter.com/AynRa(...)608906595151872?s=19

Mee eens. De vrouwtjes dienen zich te onderwerpen aan hun man omdat God dat zo wil. Maga.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 19:26 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://twitter.com/AynRa(...)608906595151872?s=19

Mee eens. De vrouwtjes dienen zich te onderwerpen aan hun man omdat God dat zo wil. Maga.

twitter:

axios twitterde op zondag 09-09-2018 om 19:38:01 Omarosa says on MSNBC that staffers would text each other #tfa — meaning 25th Amendment — whenever President Trump did something "crazy" or "unhinged." She says it occurred more than 100 times. https://t.co/1LVPxcMkWA reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zondag 09-09-2018 om 18:46:13 What's this? What I and many others have been saying all along? Be still my heart!Seriously, though: not surprising. Only to the trolls. https://t.co/1a4FSHoJYN reageer retweet

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Former Trump campaign adviser George Papadopoulos suggested Sunday that his testimony could help special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation demonstrate collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia.

"Do you think when the entire Mueller investigation is finished that they will demonstrate that there was collusion between the Trump campaign, Trump advisers and the Russians?" ABC's George Stephanopoulos asked Papadopoulos on "This Week."

"I have no idea," the former Trump campaign adviser responded. "All I can say is my testimony might have helped move something towards that."

George Papadopoulos on if he believes collusion will be demonstrated between the Trump campaign and Russia once the special counsel investigation concludes: "I have no idea. All I can say is that my testimony might have helped move something towards that."

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ThisWeekABC twitterde op zondag 09-09-2018 om 15:40:02 George Papadopoulos on if he believes collusion will be demonstrated between the Trump campaign and Russia once the special counsel investigation concludes: "I have no idea. All I can say is that my testimony might have helped move something towards that." https://t.co/de8rwfjb7S https://t.co/zq5p1aMp0m reageer retweet

Papadopoulos insisted that he could not comment on further details of his conversations with Justice Department officials, given Mueller's special counsel investigation is ongoing.

Papadopoulos was sentenced on Friday to fourteen days in federal prison and one year supervised release for lying to FBI investigators about his Russia contacts during the 2016 election. He pleaded guilty in October to lying to FBI agents and is the first Trump campaign official to be sentenced as part of Mueller's probe.

Papadopoulos told ABC that he did not believe he incriminated President Trump in cooperating with Mueller's probe.

"Of course I'm remorseful, I'm contrite and I did lie [to the FBI] but you know you're just taken off guard, I guess, in such a momentous occasion where you're potentially sitting there incriminating the president. Even though, of course, I don't think I did," he said.

"That was probably in the back of my mind, of what exactly am I doing here talking about Russian hacking or election interference with a candidate that I just worked for," he added.

Papadopoulos: Campaign 'fully aware' of my attempts to set up Trump-Putin meeting

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 18:43 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dat die Melania hem niet de deur uitschopt. Trump geeft nu gewoon toe dat hij andere vrouwen neukte terwijl zij lag te baren. En ze vindt het blijkbaar prima.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 18:43 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Dat die Melania hem niet de deur uitschopt. Trump geeft nu gewoon toe dat hij andere vrouwen neukte terwijl zij lag te baren. En ze vindt het blijkbaar prima.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 20:28 schreef speknek het volgende:
En inmiddels is Alex Jones zijn app ook verwijderd van de app store, womp womp.

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Het lijkt me wel duidelijk dat ze een keiharde prenup hebben. Die blijft alleen een Trump voor het geld en de kinderen.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 20:18 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Draadje:

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SethAbramson twitterde op zondag 09-09-2018 om 18:46:13 What's this? What I and many others have been saying all along? Be still my heart!Seriously, though: not surprising. Only to the trolls. https://t.co/1a4FSHoJYN reageer retweet

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Papadopoulos: Campaign 'fully aware' of my attempts to set up Trump-Putin meeting

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nikkihaley twitterde op zondag 09-09-2018 om 20:48:30 On September 10, as part of the US presidency of the UN Security Council, I will convene the first-ever Security Council meeting that will focus on corruption and its consequences for conflict around the world. https://t.co/WrIBHvhHeb reageer retweet

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 20:50 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het hele interview eens bekeken.

Met andere woorden. Papadopoulos was een beetje aan het netwerken in het buitenland om contact te leggen met verschillende regeringen, zoals eigenlijk alle presidentiele campagnes doen. Ze waren lekker aan het feesten na de overwinning toen hij ondervraagd werd en, omdat hij een baantje wilde en geen beeld had van de ernst van de zaak hield hij zijn mond.

Later werd hij opgepikt door de FBI en toen verklaarde hij dus bovenstaand.

Lulkoek verhaal die hele Russian collusion.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 20:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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nikkihaley twitterde op zondag 09-09-2018 om 20:48:30 On September 10, as part of the US presidency of the UN Security Council, I will convene the first-ever Security Council meeting that will focus on corruption and its consequences for conflict around the world. https://t.co/WrIBHvhHeb reageer retweet

Nikki gaat de wereld schoonvegen.

Pas maar op Pechtold

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 20:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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nikkihaley twitterde op zondag 09-09-2018 om 20:48:30 On September 10, as part of the US presidency of the UN Security Council, I will convene the first-ever Security Council meeting that will focus on corruption and its consequences for conflict around the world. https://t.co/WrIBHvhHeb reageer retweet

Nikki gaat de wereld schoonvegen.

Pas maar op Pechtold

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 20:50 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Het hele interview eens bekeken.

Met andere woorden. Papadopoulos was een beetje aan het netwerken in het buitenland om contact te leggen met verschillende regeringen, zoals eigenlijk alle presidentiele campagnes doen. Ze waren lekker aan het feesten na de overwinning toen hij ondervraagd werd en, omdat hij een baantje wilde en geen beeld had van de ernst van de zaak hield hij zijn mond.

Later werd hij opgepikt door de FBI en toen verklaarde hij dus bovenstaand.

Lulkoek verhaal die hele Russian collusion.

twitter:

SethAbramson twitterde op zondag 09-09-2018 om 01:53:01 HOLY COW. Just realized that when Trump got his first classified security briefing in August 2016, and he was told Russia was trying to infiltrate his campaign--which it already had--surely the CIA/FBI briefers asked if he had any info to report, and surely he lied. That's a crime. reageer retweet

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 22:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Trump wist er niet van. -knip-

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 22:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Trump wist er niet van.

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Er is nog geen greintje bewijs geleverd dat Trump A) samenwerkte met de Russen. B) wist van eventuele contacten tussen zijn campagne en de Russen.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 22:54 schreef Nintex het volgende:

Manafort en Gates hadden geld nodig, omdat hun gravy days in Oekraine over waren. Toen kwam de Trump campagne op stoom en sprongen ze op die boot.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 23:25 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Hoezo niet? Hij is een controlfreak en micromanager. Waarom was hij niet op de hoogte? Wie runt de show?

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Klopt.

Maar ik betwijfel of Mueller alle informatie hij heeft naar buiten brengt zolang het onderzoek loopt. Dat doet de politie namelijk niet.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 23:29 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Manafort wilde geen salaris voor z'n werk voor de Trumpcampagne. Dat is wel apart dan voor iemand die geld nodig had.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 23:01 schreef Bernhard.von.Galen het volgende:
Nintex, wat betaalt zo'n baantje als troll / fake news verspreider eigenlijk. Lijkt me ook wel geinig om te doen.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 23:51 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Die liegende Canadees met die lelijke vrouw beweert nu dat Beto O'Rourke Texal in een soort Californie wil veranderen met tofu en geblondeerd haar en borstimplantaten.

Blijkbaar weet de moordenaarszoon Cruz niet dat Texas een aardige hoeveelheid soja produceert.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 20:38 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het lijkt me dat een lekkere vechtscheiding wel vuurwerk op zal leveren. Wat wil Trump doen? Haar aan de bedelstaf brengen? Melania laten deporteren? Volgens mij mag hij dan op de knieën.

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When it comes to presidential elections, the answer is: not really. The laws and processes around national elections have grown up in a piecemeal fashion over time, with state and local laws governing the administration of presidential elections. And the Constitution itself focuses more on ensuring stability than on administering elections. As a result, there aren't clear procedures for how to handle questions of legitimacy after the fact -- especially when those questions involve the presidency.

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But whether this kind of re-do is allowed for presidential elections is a more complicated matter. Some legal scholars maintain that the language in Article II of the Constitution prevents holding a presidential election again, thus putting it beyond the power of the courts to order a re-vote, as they have occasionally done for other offices. Others suggest that there is legal precedent for a presidential re-vote if there were flaws in the process. One instance in which this question arose was the "butterfly ballot" from the 2000 election, which may have caused some voters to choose Pat Buchanan when they meant to vote for Al Gore in Palm Beach County, Florida.

If the 2000 election had taken some different twists and turns, the re-vote question might have come up in a serious way, and it's not clear what the courts would have decided. At least one federal court has suggested that the courts could order a new election. In 1976, a District Court in New York heard a case alleging voter fraud in several urban locations. The court's opinion maintained that federal courts had a role to play in ensuring free and fair presidential elections, arguing: "It is difficult to imagine a more damaging blow to public confidence in the electoral process than the election of a President whose margin of victory was provided by fraudulent registration or voting, ballot-stuffing or other illegal means." This assertion challenged the idea that presidential elections occupy a special category beyond such court remedies. However, in this case, the court didn't find sufficient evidence that voter fraud had altered the outcome, or even occurred at all. As a result, its claims about presidential elections were not evaluated by higher courts and have never really been tested.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 09-09-2018 om 15:49:20 “Ford has abruptly killed a plan to sell a Chinese-made small vehicle in the U.S. because of the prospect of higher U.S. Tariffs.” CNBC. This is just the beginning. This car can now be BUILT IN THE U.S.A. and Ford will pay no tariffs! reageer retweet

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Ford announced its plan to withhold the Focus Active from the United States market on Aug. 31. After Mr. Trump’s tweet, the company responded with a statement that reiterated its reasoning: The niche model was not suited for domestic production. “It would not be profitable to build the Focus Active in the U.S. given an expected annual sales volume of fewer than 50,000 units and its competitive segment,” the company said.
NYT

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jonathanvswan twitterde op maandag 10-09-2018 om 01:08:48 Trump expected to declassify Carter Page and Bruce Ohr documents as soon as this week... https://t.co/dKjZXcruTD reageer retweet

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President Trump is expected to declassify, as early as this week, documents covering the U.S. government's surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page and the investigative activities of senior Justice Department lawyer Bruce Ohr, according to allies of the president.

The big picture: Republicans on the House Intelligence and Judiciary committees believe the declassification will permanently taint the Trump-Russia investigation by showing the investigation was illegitimate to begin with. Trump has been hammering the same theme for months.

• They allege that Bruce Ohr played an improper intermediary role between the Justice Department, British spy Christopher Steele and Fusion GPS — the opposition research firm that produced the Trump-Russia dossier, funded by Democrats. (Ohr's wife, Nellie, worked for Fusion GPS on Russia-related matters during the presidential election — a fact that Ohr did not disclose on federal forms.)

• And they further allege that the Obama administration improperly spied on Carter Page — all to take down Trump.

House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows, who is close to Trump, told Axios earlier today: "After two years of investigations and accusations from both sides of the aisle about what documents indicate, it is past time for documents to be declassified and let the American people decide for themselves if DoJ and FBI acted properly."

The bottom line: President Trump has been hyping, and congressional Republicans have been calling for, the declassification of these documents. It's now put up or shut up time. We should find out very soon whether these documents are as explosive as advertised.

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Op zondag 9 september 2018 23:58 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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What happened to "when they go low, we go high"?

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Op maandag 10 september 2018 07:55 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
Iemand Bill Maher gezien dit weekend?

Die eerste gast (ben even zijn naam kwijt) die even keurig uitlegt dat Trump al vanaf 1984 tot zijn nek in het Russische zwarte geld zit.

Dit zal Mueller ook allemaal wel weten. Dan wordt het helemaal makkelijk om de hele Trump organisatie op te rollen.

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Op maandag 10 september 2018 09:08 schreef Ulx het volgende:


Pence heeft aangeboden om een leugendetector test te doen om aan te tonen dat hij de Op-ed niet heeft geschreven.



De vice-president aan de leugendetector!

Wat eens shitshow.

https://edition.cnn.com/2(...)ear-op-ed/index.html

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Op maandag 10 september 2018 09:15 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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En als nu blijkt dat bij die test als uitkomst braindead aangeeft?

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Op maandag 10 september 2018 09:17 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dan weet je dat de test werkt.

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Op maandag 10 september 2018 07:55 schreef DustPuppy het volgende:
Iemand Bill Maher gezien dit weekend?

Die eerste gast (ben even zijn naam kwijt) die even keurig uitlegt dat Trump al vanaf 1984 tot zijn nek in het Russische zwarte geld zit.

Dit zal Mueller ook allemaal wel weten. Dan wordt het helemaal makkelijk om de hele Trump organisatie op te rollen.

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Op maandag 10 september 2018 09:17 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dan weet je dat de test werkt.

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Op maandag 10 september 2018 09:31 schreef IkStampOpTacos het volgende:

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Trump is nogal incompetent als ondernemer en kan daarom al jaaaaren geen lening meer krijgen bij Amerikaanse banken en kwam zo bij de Ruskies.

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Op maandag 10 september 2018 09:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Freedom Caucus can't agree on a shutdown

De FC begint ook al scheuren te vertonen

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Op maandag 10 september 2018 09:39 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Een shutdown is hoe dan ook nadelig voor het GOP én voor Trump zo twee maanden voor de midterms

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Op maandag 10 september 2018 09:53 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Maar hoe krijgt hij anders de Muur? Gaat Trump vlak voor de midterms toegeven dat de muur niet gaat komen?