[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #560: Less Than Zero

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 19:12 schreef Ryan3 het volgende:

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 15:39 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Wat er met Ford gebeurt boeit me niet. Maar al heeft Kavanaugh één leugentje gedeponeerd, dan is het over en uit voor zijn ambitie. Dat Kavanaugh niet DIRECT om een onderzoek heeft gevraagd spreekt voor zich.

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 19:51 schreef Chewie het volgende:

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Hoe kan iemand de waarheid spreken als zijn eigen kalender hem tegenspreekt?

En dat hoeft nog niet eens te betekenen dat hij schuldig is maar dat hij gelogen heeft is wel duidelijk en dit plus zijn bizarre gedrag tijdens de zitting maakt hem nu niet echt geschikt lijkt me.

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 20:05 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Als Trump mij zou nomineren zou ik ook ineens de held van Efciaz zijn. Hell, ik denk dat die zelf zou juichen als KoosVogels genomineerd zou worden.

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Fuctupmind twitterde op maandag 01-10-2018 om 18:41:03 HOLY SHIT!TRUMP IS THE FUNNIEST SON OF A BITCH ON THIS PLANET. https://t.co/YbbeGSluTd reageer retweet

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 20:09 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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Koos al een tijd niet meer gezien in deze contrijen?

Hoe zou het met onze 3CPO zijn?

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 20:46 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:

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Contreien...

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 21:39 schreef Montov het volgende:
De Democraten zeggen dat het FBI onderzoek een beperkte scope heeft. Trump zegt dat er geen beperkingen zijn. Wie zal er gelijk hebben?

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BOSTON -- Sen. Jeff Flake said Monday he was working with the White House counsel's office to ensure that the FBI is able to do a "real investigation" into allegations of sexual misconduct against Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh.

"We certainly want the FBI to do a real investigation and we are working to make sure that happens. I've had discussions, many yesterday, with my colleagues, with the White House counsel's office, my staff is following up as well. I had one of those conversations just five minutes ago to make sure that the -- that any current credible allegation that has been made has been fully investigated," he said at the Forbes' Under 30 Summit.

"It does no good to have an investigation that just gives us more cover for example. We actually need to find out what we can find out," he continued, adding that "we have to realize that we may not be able to find out everything."

Flake's comments came as a senior U.S. official and a separate source confirmed to NBC News on Monday that the White House has authorized the FBI to expand its initially limited investigation into sexual misconduct allegations against Kavanaugh by interviewing anyone it deems necessary as long as the review is finished by the end of the week. The New York Times first reported the change in the scope.

President Donald Trump also said Monday that he thinks "the FBI should interview anybody that they want within reason, but you have to stay within reason."

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abbydphillip twitterde op maandag 01-10-2018 om 18:21:32 (!!) Trump implying he's caught a Dem senator in compromising conditions: "I happen to know some US senators. One who is one the other side, who's pretty aggressive. I've seen that person in very very bad situations. Somewhat compromising." reageer retweet

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 23:11 schreef Nintex het volgende:
October surprise!

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abbydphillip twitterde op maandag 01-10-2018 om 18:21:32 (!!) Trump implying he's caught a Dem senator in compromising conditions: "I happen to know some US senators. One who is one the other side, who's pretty aggressive. I've seen that person in very very bad situations. Somewhat compromising." reageer retweet

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 23:19 schreef speknek het volgende:
Trump zal wel weer aan het projecteren zijn, dus we kunnen waarschijnlijk een wedje leggen op de peepeetape.

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KFILE twitterde op maandag 01-10-2018 om 19:02:35 A frequent trope. In his 1999 book, The America We Deserve, Trump claimed he knew of a GOP Senator “leading the pack” on the Clinton impeachment who would bring his “twenty-something” girlfriend to a hotel he owned. He was defending Clinton at the time. https://t.co/2Tr0c477Q4 reageer retweet

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Op maandag 1 oktober 2018 19:47 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

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kavanaugh spreekt (mijns inziens) de waarheid, dus dan heeft hij het veel makkelijker. Hij hoeft niet alle leugens en leugentjes te onthouden zoals Ford dat moet doen....

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Text messages suggest Kavanaugh wanted to refute accuser's claim before it became public

A former classmate of the Supreme Court nominee has reached out to the FBI but hasn't received a response.

In the days leading up to a public allegation that Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh exposed himself to a college classmate, the judge and his team were communicating behind the scenes with friends to refute the claim, according to text messages obtained by NBC News.

Kerry Berchem, who was at Yale with both Kavanaugh and his accuser, Deborah Ramirez, has tried to get those messages to the FBI for its newly reopened investigation into the matter but says she has yet to be contacted by the bureau.

The texts between Berchem and Karen Yarasavage, both friends of Kavanaugh, suggest that the nominee was personally talking with former classmates about Ramirez’s story in advance of the New Yorker article that made her allegation public. In one message, Yarasavage said Kavanaugh asked her to go on the record in his defense. Two other messages show communication between Kavanaugh's team and former classmates in advance of the story.

The texts also demonstrate that Kavanaugh and Ramirez were more socially connected than previously understood and that Ramirez was uncomfortable around Kavanaugh when they saw each other at a wedding 10 years after they graduated. Berchem's efforts also show that some potential witnesses have been unable to get important information to the FBI.

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Berchem, 51, a graduate of Yale and a Connecticut resident, reached out to Sen. Richard Blumenthal's office last week. Blumenthal, a Democrat, sits on the Judiciary Committee.

“We heard from Kerry late on Thursday and submitted her summary to the Judiciary Committee early Friday,” a spokeswoman for Blumenthal said in a statement to NBC News. “After we were made to jump through several hoops that delayed our moving forward, it became clear that the majority Committee staff had not turned this summary over to the FBI and, in fact, had no intention of turning it over to the FBI. With our assistance, Kerry submitted her summary to the FBI herself.”

George Hartmann, a spokesman for Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, said that “the texts from Ms. Berchem do not appear relevant or contradictory to Judge Kavanaugh’s testimony."

"This appears to be another last-ditch effort to derail the nomination with baseless innuendo by Democrats who have already decided to vote no," Hartmann said.

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Kavanaugh told the Senate Judiciary Committee under oath that the first time he heard of Ramirez’s allegation was in the Sept. 23 article in The New Yorker.

Kavanaugh was asked by Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, when he first heard of Ramirez’s allegations. Kavanaugh answered: “In the New Yorker story.”

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Ethics complaints have been filed against Kavanaugh in the DC Circuit, including at least one claiming he lied about the sexual assault allegations against him. Ethics experts say there's no precedent for what happens to those complaints if he's elevated to the Supreme Court. For now, they're under the purview of the DC Circuit chief judge — former Supreme Court nominee Merrick Garland.

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Op dinsdag 2 oktober 2018 00:13 schreef Eficaz het volgende:

"Three People Under Felony Penalty Denied Your Story" Christine Blasey Ford Tries To Respond

"Three People Under Felony Penalty Denied Your Story" Christine Blasey Ford Tries To Respond...

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MITCHELL: OK. Have you been in - are you aware that the three people at the party besides yourself and -- and Brett Kavanaugh have given statements under penalty of felony to the committee?

FORD: Yes.

MITCHELL: And are you aware of what those statements say?

FORD: Yes.

MITCHELL: Are you aware that they say that they have no memory or knowledge of such a party?

FORD: Yes.

MITCHELL: OK. Do you have any particular motives to ascribe to Leland?

FORD: I guess we could take those one at a time. Leland has significant health challenges, and I'm happy that she's focusing on herself and getting the health treatment that she needs, and she let me know that she needed her lawyer to take care of this for her, and she texted me right afterward with an apology and good wishes, and et cetera, So I'm glad that she's taking care of herself.

I don't expect that P.J. and Leland would remember this evening. It was a very unremarkable party. It was not one of their more notorious parties, because nothing remarkable happened to them that evening. They were downstairs.

And Mr. Judge is a different story. I would expect that he would remember that this happened.

MITCHELL: Understood.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 02-10-2018 om 00:55:51 Feinstein: "I find it interesting that the same critics who last week condemned me for not releasing Dr. BlaseyFord’s letter against her wishes are now suggesting I did leak the letter."Throughout this process I acted in strict accordance to the wishes of the survivor." reageer retweet