[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #569: Lyin' Ted - BBQ-stealin' O'Rourke

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 01:46 schreef Szura het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 02:30:51 "The world should take note that it is the free press, not the Saudi government or the White House, that has doggedly searched for the truth about what happened to Mr. Khashoggi," Patrick Leahy said. "A free press is an essential check against tyranny." https://t.co/u9hM94YznX reageer retweet

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The Trump administration’s struggles to curtail illegal immigration have exposed a deep rift among the president and his top advisers, one that could lead to changes in the Cabinet and undermine the government’s response to a record surge of migrant families at the southern border.

Even as President Trump continues to consider immigration to be a political winner next month in helping turn out his conservative base for the midterm elections, tensions in the West Wing have reached a boiling point. A profane shouting match over immigration this week among top aides prompted Chief of Staff John F. Kelly to storm out of the White House and marked the culmination of weeks of mounting anxiety, several senior administration officials said.

Trump’s own escalating frustration has led him to excoriate aides for not taking more aggressive actions and to offer his own ideas, officials said. He has ruminated this week over the possibility of sending more soldiers to the border, even though thousands of National Guard troops have been deployed there since April with no evidence of a deterrent effect.

In the summer, the president was so upset by the border numbers that he proposed sealing the entire 1,954-mile U.S.-Mexico border, including shuttering legal ports of entry, blocking trade flows and halting tourism and travel, according to the senior administration officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive internal deliberations.

“Close the whole thing!” Trump demanded at one point during an Oval Office meeting, the officials said. He was talked out of it by advisers who highlighted the effect such a measure would have on more than $600 billion in U.S.-Mexico annual trade, as well as the potential damage to bilateral relations, according to the officials.

The worsening immigration numbers are particularly fraught for Trump, who centered much of his 2016 campaign around incendiary vows to build a border wall — which has not been built — and has begun focusing on immigrants as a dire threat in the final weeks before the Nov. 6 midterms.

Experts said the White House is straining under the same political dilemma that past administrations encountered in trying to manage the massive U.S. immigration system despite Congress’s inability to strike a comprehensive legislative reform package. Trump is hitting the limits of what he is legally able to do through executive authority, they said, and the United States has relatively few tools to deal with the gang violence, poverty and hunger propelling a mass exodus of Central American migrant families over the past five years.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 04:05:21 Reporter: "What evidence do you have that these are hardened criminals that are coming to the United States?"Trump: "Oh, please. Please. Don't be a baby. OK?" https://t.co/CpEewUIJwh reageer retweet

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The Trump administration is preparing to tell Russian leaders next week that it is planning to exit the landmark Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, in part to enable the United States to counter a Chinese arms buildup in the Pacific, according to American officials and foreign diplomats.

President Trump has been moving toward scrapping the three-decade-old treaty, which grew out of President Ronald Reagan’s historic meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev in 1986. While the treaty was seen as effective for years, Russia has been violating it at least since 2014 in an effort to menace other nations.

But the pact has also constrained the United States from deploying new weapons to respond to China’s efforts to cement a dominant position in the Western Pacific and to keep American naval forces at bay. Because China was not a signatory to the treaty, it has faced no limits on developing intermediate-range nuclear missiles, which can travel thousands of miles.

The White House said that no official decision had been made to leave the treaty, known as I.N.F., which at the time of its signing was considered a critical step in defusing Cold War tensions. But in the coming weeks, Mr. Trump is expected to sign off on the decision, which would mark the first time he has scrapped an arms control treaty, the American officials said.

Now that the treaty is largely in tatters, the question is whether the decision to leave it will accelerate the increasingly Cold War-like behavior among the three superpowers: the United States, Russia and China.

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rgoodlaw twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 05:17:08 CIA has the audio tapes“CIA officials have listened to an audio recording ... If verified, the recording would make it difficult for the White House to accept the Saudi version that #Khashoggi’s death was effectively an accident.” https://t.co/bdYhTfuL4n reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 01:42 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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'Tragic accident'

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Latest: President Trump said "I do" believe Saudi explanation is credible

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Ted Cruz just tried to do a Facebook Live but his staff seems to have no idea how an iPhone camera works — here’s two minutes of bizarreness https://t.co/vyol4pQqXx

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 07:15 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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rgoodlaw twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 05:17:08 CIA has the audio tapes“CIA officials have listened to an audio recording ... If verified, the recording would make it difficult for the White House to accept the Saudi version that #Khashoggi’s death was effectively an accident.” https://t.co/bdYhTfuL4n reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 10:09 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Welke van de verschillende verklaringen?

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 10:22 schreef clumsy_clown het volgende:
Ach, het kan iedereen overkomen dat je in een vuistgevecht belandt en er toevallig een forensisch team met een zaag klaar staat, toch?

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 13:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:
De rechtse snowflakes huilen nu tranen met tuiten omdat Jim Acosta "Fuck off!" twitterde naar een of andere trumpfan. Beledigen mag je als Potus of Milo of whoever, maar voor hem gelden de hoge standaarden.
Wat een slappe bitches zijn dat toch ook. Laat ze lekker in hun safespace gaan grienen.

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Acosta twitterde op vrijdag 19-10-2018 om 18:28:03 Is this that “owning the libs” thing? https://t.co/VIX4Gwk3OM reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 15:00:01 Putin gave his annual foreign policy speech on Thursday — and he used it to hail the end of a US-dominated world: 'Luckily this monopoly is disappearing. It’s almost done.' https://t.co/u9WwcwEqWe reageer retweet

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Russian president Vladimir Putin shrugged off worsening relations with the west and talked up Moscow’s burgeoning diplomatic friendships in Asia and the Middle East, as he hailed the end of a US-dominated unipolar world.

Giving his annual foreign policy address on Thursday, Mr Putin stressed Russia’s military clout and offered a range of handouts to Moscow’s allies. He said his country was always ready to talk despite a mounting list of accusations of impropriety against his regime from western countries.

“Building up tension and hysteria is not our way . . . We are not creating problems for anyone,” Mr Putin said. “I hope we can build dialogue.”

Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014 was the start of western sanctions against Moscow that have been broadened since in response to its military actions in Syria, its alleged meddling in the US presidential election, and its alleged use of a chemical weapon to attack a former spy in the UK.

In a wide-ranging exposition at the annual Valdai forum, Mr Putin continually returned to the idea that US hegemony was the cause of many global ills — but that its twilight offered opportunities for Russia and its friends.

“Empires often think they can make some little mistakes . . . because they’re so powerful,” he said. “But when the number of these mistakes keeps growing, it reaches a level they cannot sustain.”

“A country can get the sense from impunity that you can do anything,” he told an audience at a ski resort close to the southern city of Sochi. “This is the result of the monopoly from a unipolar world . . . Luckily this monopoly is disappearing. It’s almost done.”

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jonathanchait twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 15:34:00 New reports show more and more evidence Michael Flynn ran a collusion channel to Russia for Trump's campaign https://t.co/upgnbTAkAh https://t.co/6LNtrXaSf7 reageer retweet

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The alliance between the Trump campaign and Russia had many nodes of contact. One of the least known, but potentially most significant, is the work that ran through Republican operative Peter W. Smith. Much of the reporting on Smith has been broken by The Wall Street Journal, and its accumulated reports are building an incriminating story.

Smith is a Chicago-based operative with a taste for the political dark arts, who set out in 2016 to obtain Hillary Clinton’s State Department emails, which he believed had been stolen by Russian hackers. Smith died under somewhat odd circumstances last year — he committed an apparent suicide days after being contacted by a reporter, citing an expiring life-insurance policy, but seemed to be in good spirits just hours before his death.

But the most important mystery involving Smith is how important his work was to the campaign, and where it led. When he met with a cybersecurity expert in 2016, Smith represented himself as working on behalf of Michael Flynn, Trump’s chief national security adviser during the campaign. Flynn, of course, had ties to Russia and was forced to resign very shortly after starting as national security adviser for lying about his contacts with Russia.

But Smith, unlike Flynn, was not a famous figure, and initially some people assumed that he might have been working on his own. The Journal has fleshed out Smith’s role, and every new report has suggested that his work was significant. An October 7 report found that Smith raised at least $100,000, from at least four donors, for his work on the emails. An October 10 follow-up confirmed that Smith and Flynn were in regular, close contact.

Today’s report is more explosive still. Investigators have evidence that Smith “may have had advance knowledge of details about the release of emails from a top Hillary Clinton campaign official by WikiLeaks,” according to the Journal.

If true, this would mean that Smith wasn’t merely attempting to get ahold of stolen Clinton emails. He got through to WikiLeaks and was, in some form, a channel of collusion between the hackers and the Trump campaign.

Flynn long ago started cooperating with Robert Mueller. So if Flynn discussed any of this information with Trump during the campaign, the special counsel probably knows about it.

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 15:40 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 15:00:01 Putin gave his annual foreign policy speech on Thursday — and he used it to hail the end of a US-dominated world: 'Luckily this monopoly is disappearing. It’s almost done.' https://t.co/u9WwcwEqWe reageer retweet

Vladimir Putin uses speech to herald end of US hegemony

Russian leader shrugs off poor western relations and stresses growing eastern ties

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 16:35:39 If the Democrats would stop being obstructionists and come together, we could write up and agree to new immigration laws in less than one hour. Look at the needless pain and suffering that they are causing. Look at the horrors taking place on the Border. Chuck & Nancy, call me! reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 22-06-2018 om 13:06:30 Republicans should stop wasting their time on Immigration until after we elect more Senators and Congressmen/women in November. Dems are just playing games, have no intention of doing anything to solves this decades old problem. We can pass great legislation after the Red Wave! reageer retweet

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Miami GOP Chairman leads Proud Boys in attack on Democrat

The Miami-Dade Republican Party’s County Chairman led an angry mob of partisans, alongside the local leader of national hate group the Proud Boys, in an attack on a Democratic campaign office this week.

Miami GOP Chairman Nelson Diaz planned the event (image below) and local Congressman Carlos Curbelo publicized the protest heavily, before and after.

“This is beyond reprehensible and it must be condemned in the strongest of ways,” said Pelosi campaign spokesman Jorge Aguilar who attended the event.

“Anything short of it is simply an endorsement of their violent tactics,” he said.
A chaotic mob scene ensued as the Republican party leader and his spewed expletives at House Minority leader Nancy Pelosi while she entered a Democratic Congressional campaign office.

Ironically, Diaz and his followers demonstrated an utter lack of respect for private property to shout “communista” while trespassing in a narrow alleyway, before demanding entry to the Democratic event.

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 05:39 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
U.S. to Tell Russia It Is Leaving Landmark I.N.F. Treaty

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We call on the Russian Federation to address serious concerns regarding its compliance with the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty in a substantial and transparent way. We ask the United States and the Russian Federation to remain engaged in active dialogue to preserve the INF Treaty and ensure its full and verifiable implementation which is crucial for Europe’s and other regions’ security.

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US expects Russia to observe its INF Treaty commitments — Department of State

US Permanent Representative to NATO earlier said her country was ready to "take out" Russian missiles, perceived to be in violation of the INF Treaty

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"Recently, we hear more and again statements from the US military command that the country requires intermediate- and short-range missiles to deter China," Antonov said. "Could it be that the United States is looking for a pretext to abandon the INF Treaty, while, obviously, blaming Russia for it?"

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A meeting of Nato defence ministers earlier this month in Brussels issued a joint statement saying the INF “has been crucial to Euro-Atlantic security and we remain fully committed to the preservation of this landmark arms control treaty”.

However, the US defence secretary, James Mattis, made it clear that all options were on the table in Washington’s response to Russian violations.

“Our discussions here were to ensure that we answered all questions that any of the nations had, and that we look at what options do we have, and to make certain that all the nations had input to me as I go into the discussions in Washington,” Mattis said. “This will be a decision obviously made in concert with our allies by the president, and we’ll take it from there.”

Arms control advocates argue that walking out on the INF is premature before any detailed negotiations between US and Russian specialists on resolving the row over compliance. They said it would also hand a propaganda victory to Moscow.
Trump denounced nuclear arms treaty in phone call with Putin – sources
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Alexandra Bell, a former senior arms control official at the state department, now at the Centre for Arms Control and Non-Proliferation, said that in informal, “track two” discussions, Russian arms control experts suggested Moscow might be ready for a compromise to salvage the INF.

“You should be able to get somewhere with the Russians, but Bolton doesn’t seem interested,” Bell said.

“The decision has been taken in the NSC [National Security Council] that the US should withdraw, and they are trying to persuade other parts of the administration. There has been no formal Trump decision yet,” said Hans Kristensen, the director of the nuclear information project at the Federation of the American Scientists. “Very little good will come of this, other than another round of nuclear escalation with Russia.”

Daryl Kimball, the head of the Washington-DC based Arms Control Association, said: “For the US it would be a disastrous own goal to pull out when it has been Russia that has been in non-compliance for some time. It will open the door for Russia to expand its small and relatively insubstantial ground-launched missile arsenal.”

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 18:19 schreef Ulx het volgende:
De VS wil weer oorlogsschepen door de Straat van Taiwan sturen. Wat een lekkere warmonger is Trump toch.

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 23:58 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:
Je weet nu al wat er gaat gebeuren. Cruz gaat winnen en de gebruikelijke trolletjes komen langs met de boodschap: "Haha Ted Cruz heeft gewoon gewonnen, jullie zaten er allemaal naast '

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Op zaterdag 20 oktober 2018 23:58 schreef Zwoerd het volgende:
Je weet nu al wat er gaat gebeuren. Cruz gaat winnen en de gebruikelijke trolletjes komen langs met de boodschap: "Haha Ted Cruz heeft gewoon gewonnen, jullie zaten er allemaal naast '

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Op zondag 21 oktober 2018 00:41 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Maar vrijwel iedereen hier roept toch ook gewoon dat Cruz hoogstwaarschijnlijk aan het langste eind trekt?

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KevinCate twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 03:24:10 Floridians are voting.DEM: 303,645GOP: 346,356NPA: 144,659Through 10/18 via https://t.co/RhUBGRcNXf https://t.co/9k5ZCNuLlx reageer retweet

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maggieNYT twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 18:19:59 A companion piece to ⁦@rachaelmbade⁩ reporting that while unlikely, GOP could not only marginally grow a senate majority but hold the House. Kavanaugh impact was real. https://t.co/S9UWQKl7Dk reageer retweet

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Op zondag 21 oktober 2018 02:11 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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KevinCate twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 03:24:10 Floridians are voting.DEM: 303,645GOP: 346,356NPA: 144,659Through 10/18 via https://t.co/RhUBGRcNXf https://t.co/9k5ZCNuLlx reageer retweet

Team rood al op voorsprong in Florida. Tot zover de blue wave.

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NYT tikte vandaag ook een stukje over hoe de Republikeinen weer alles kunnen winnen

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maggieNYT twitterde op zaterdag 20-10-2018 om 18:19:59 A companion piece to ⁦@rachaelmbade⁩ reporting that while unlikely, GOP could not only marginally grow a senate majority but hold the House. Kavanaugh impact was real. https://t.co/S9UWQKl7Dk reageer retweet

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Trump doubts Saudi account of journalist’s death: ‘There’s been deception, and there’s been lies’

President Trump strongly criticized Saudi Arabia’s explanation for the death of journalist Jamal Khashoggi late Saturday, saying that “obviously there’s been deception, and there’s been lies.”

At the same time, Trump defended the oil-rich monarchy as an “incredible ally” and kept open the possibility that Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman did not order Saudi agents to kill Khashoggi.

“Nobody has told me he’s responsible. Nobody has told me he’s not responsible. We haven’t reached that point . . . I would love if he wasn’t responsible,” Trump said in a phone interview with The Washington Post.

The kingdom’s claim that Khashoggi was killed after a fistfight escalated inside the Saudi Consulate in Istanbul was met with a torrent of international skepticism Saturday over how a team of Saudi agents could fly to Istanbul to meet Khashoggi and eventually kill him without the knowledge or consent of the crown prince, the de facto leader.

Trump had told reporters Friday that the Saudi explanation was credible, but U.S. officials said he has privately grimaced that his son-in-law Jared Kushner’s close relationship with the crown prince has become a liability and left the White House with no good options.

In the interview, Trump defended Kushner as doing a “very good job” but acknowledged that he and the crown prince, both in their 30s, are relatively young for the amount of power they wield.

“They’re two young guys. Jared doesn’t know him well or anything. They are just two young people. They are the same age. They like each other I believe,” Trump said.
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A key piece of evidence is the audio recording that led Turkish investigators to conclude days ago that Khashoggi was killed and dismembered by a Saudi team dispatched to Istanbul. Trump on Saturday denied that any U.S. officials have heard audio, seen video or read any transcripts from the Turks.

But CIA officials have listened to an audio recording that Turkish officials say proves the journalist was killed and dismembered by the Saudi team, according to people familiar with the matter. If verified, the recording would make it difficult for the United States to accept the Saudi version that Khashoggi’s death was effectively an accident. Officials agreed to speak for this article on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive topic.

If Secretary Pompeo was offered to listen to the audio recording, he was smart to say no,” said Soner Cagaptay, a Turkey scholar at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. “You can’t unlisten to it, and once you listen to it, you can’t say certain things.”

One diplomat who deals with the issue said that if Pompeo had heard the audio, it would be a “total game changer” and require a much more forceful U.S. response.

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Op zondag 21 oktober 2018 02:11 schreef Nintex het volgende:
NYT tikte vandaag ook een stukje over hoe de Republikeinen weer alles kunnen winnen