[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #579: Koreaanse raketten

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 15:54 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Rare redenatie. Geschiedenis wordt gevormd en is nooit af. Of doet WO2 er niet toe omdat die oorlog ook voorbij is?

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 15:55 schreef zarGon het volgende:

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Obama was aan de leiding in 2006? .

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 15:59 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Die test in 2006 was een mislukking volgens de meeste experts. De succesvolle testen begonnen onder Obama, met de test van een vermeende langeafstandsraket als voorlopig hoogte/dieptepunt. Uit WaPo: September 2016: North Korea conducts a fifth nuclear test. The seismic activity generated registered 5.3 in magnitude, accompanying an explosion of about 10 kilotons. That's equivalent to the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and 10 times stronger than what the country was able to do a decade before.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 16:02 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Dus toch een bom in 2016-10=2006

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 13:28 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Waar de fuck gaat dit nou weer over? Macron wil geld investeren in defensie en dat is ook verkeerd of zo?

Of moeten andere landen meebetalen aan het amerikaanse defensiebudget?

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 16:07 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Mwah.. ik zie anders aardig wat kritiekloze Obama-vereerders die hun foreign policy failure verdedigen alsof hun leven er vanaf hangt.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 16:07 schreef zarGon het volgende:

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Hm:

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Dus:
- Noord-Korea begint serieus te testen vanaf 2006. Bush is president.
- Januari 2009: Obama is president.
- April 2009: Noord-Korea geeft aan een kernmacht te zijn; hoofd van het Internationaal Atoomenergie Agentschap deelt die mening.
- Mei 2009: Noord-Korea voert een tweede test uit.

Dus:
- Onder Bush maakt Noord-Korea grote vorderingen
- 3 jaar lang kan Noord-Korea zijn gang gaan. Blijkbaar grijpt Bush niet in.
- Obama is 4 maanden president, blijkt dat Noord-Korea zich een kernmacht mag noemen.

Conclusie:
Thanks, Faalbama.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 15:39 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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Negeer de rest van de zelfs meer betrouwbare bronnen maar.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 14:17 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 14:07:08 On Trade, France makes excellent wine, but so does the U.S. The problem is that France makes it very hard for the U.S. to sell its wines into France, and charges big Tariffs, whereas the U.S. makes it easy for French wines, and charges very small Tariffs. Not fair, must change! reageer retweet

Oh

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the EU import tariff per 750 bottle can range from $0.11 to 0.29, depending on the alcoholic content of the wine. By comparison, the U.S. import tariff on a 750 ml bottle is $0.05 for still wine and $0.14 for sparkling wine.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 15:26 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Macron ''missprak' zich dat Europa zich tegen de VS moest verdedigen. Dat was nogal pijnlijk voor de Amerikanen die 2 keer hebben meegevochten voor de Europese vrijheid.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 15:31 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Of Amerika Europa gaat aanvallen...................
Beetje meer respect voor Amerika mag wel. Zonder Amerika hadden we nu Duits of Russisch
gepraat.

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Bolton says Saudi crown prince not implicated in recording of Khashoggi killing

National security adviser John Bolton on Tuesday said that an audio recording of journalist Jamal Khashoggi’s killing does not appear to implicate the Saudi crown prince.

Speaking to reporters in Singapore, Bolton said that while he hasn’t heard the recording, “that’s not the conclusion that I think the people who heard it have come to,” according to the Wall Street Journal.

Bolton’s comments come after the New York Times reported Monday night that audio shared with the United States by Turkey includes a member of the kill team telling someone on the phone to “tell your boss,” adding words to the effect of “the deed was done.”

Citing three unnamed people familiar with the recording, the Times reported that American intelligence officials believe the “boss” in question is Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman.

The person who made the phone call was Maher Abdulaziz Mutreb, a former bodyguard for Prince Mohammed, according to the Times.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 16:35 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Ook Trump zal daar niets aan veranderen, ze zullen hun wapens niet opgeven. Ik verkies Trump's aanpak dan die van de havikken in Washington, maar het is vrij logisch dat ie kritiek krijgt als ie de overwinning uitroept nog voor de echte onderhandelingen beginnen.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 14:17 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 14:07:08 On Trade, France makes excellent wine, but so does the U.S. The problem is that France makes it very hard for the U.S. to sell its wines into France, and charges big Tariffs, whereas the U.S. makes it easy for French wines, and charges very small Tariffs. Not fair, must change! reageer retweet

Oh

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 17:13 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Je bedoelt zonder Japan. Als Japan Pearl Harbor niet had gebombardeerd, hadden we nu nog steeds Duits of Russisch gepraat. De VS vond het prima zo. Lekker cashen met wapenverkoop.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 17:13 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Je bedoelt zonder Japan. Als Japan Pearl Harbor niet had gebombardeerd, hadden we nu nog steeds Duits of Russisch gepraat. De VS vond het prima zo. Lekker cashen met wapenverkoop.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 17:21 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Trump heeft anders wel de allergrootste Havik, Bolton aangenomen.

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guyverhofstadt twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 13:37:11 What Trump doesn’t seem to realize is that without French money, the USA would not even exist as France financed the American revolution. They even gave you the Statue of Liberty to celebrate this! 😉 https://t.co/v9rS4GuTYH reageer retweet

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Hate crimes in America rose 17 percent last year, the third consecutive year that such crimes increased, according to newly released FBI data that showed an even larger increase in anti-Semitic attacks.

Law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes occurred in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. That increase was fueled in part by more police departments reporting hate crimes data to the FBI, but overall there is still a large number of departments that report no hate crimes to the federal database.

The sharp increase in hate crimes in 2017 came even as overall violent crime in America fell slightly, by 0.2 percent, after increases in 2015 and 2016.

More than half of hate crimes, about three out of every five, targeted a person’s race or ethnicity, while about one out of five targeted their religion.

Of the more than 7,000 incidents reported last year, 2,013 targeted black Americans, while 938 targeted Jewish Americans. Incidents targeting people for their sexual orientation accounted for 1,130 hate crimes, according to the FBI.

The FBI has urged local police departments to provide more complete information about hate crimes in their jurisdictions.

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The $1.5 trillion tax overhaul that President Trump signed into law late last year has already given the American economy a jolt, at least temporarily. It has fattened the paychecks of most American workers, padded the profits of large corporations and sped economic growth.

Those results weren’t a surprise. Economists across the ideological spectrum predicted the new law would fuel consumer spending, in classic fashion: When the government borrows money and dumps it into the economy, growth tends to accelerate. But Republicans did not sell the law as a sugar-high stimulus. They sold it as a refashioning of the incentives in the American economy — one that would unleash more investment, better efficiency and higher wages, along with enough growth to offset any revenue lost to the government from lower tax rates.

Ten months after the law took effect, that promised “supply-side” bump is harder to find than the sugar-high stimulus. It’s still early, but here’s what the numbers tell us so far:

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 17:57 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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guyverhofstadt twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 13:37:11 What Trump doesn’t seem to realize is that without French money, the USA would not even exist as France financed the American revolution. They even gave you the Statue of Liberty to celebrate this! 😉 https://t.co/v9rS4GuTYH reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 18:18 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Trump’s Tax Cut Was Supposed to Change Corporate Behavior. Here’s What Happened.

Nearly a year after the tax cut, economic growth has accelerated. Wage growth has not. Companies are buying back stock and business investment is a mixed bag.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 19:32 schreef zarGon het volgende:
Analysis: Midterm voting highest in 104 years

Het Trump-effect.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 19:57 schreef OMG het volgende:
Die gozer die voor Kavanaugh was? Neu.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 20:27 schreef Lord-Ronddraai het volgende:

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Waarom was hij voor dan?

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U.S. first lady Melania Trump has asked that the White House sever ties with deputy national security adviser Mira Ricardel, a spokeswoman for the first lady’s office said on Tuesday.

“It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she [Ricardel] no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House,” said Stephanie Grisham, the spokeswoman.

Grisham was responding to reports that President Donald Trump is moving to replace Ricardel, a top aide to John Bolton, after she feuded with Melania Trump.

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First lady's office says Bolton aide 'no longer deserves the honor' of serving White House

First lady Melania Trump’s office has released a blistering statement about the top deputy to national security adviser John Bolton, saying Mira Ricardel “no longer deserves the honor” of serving the White House.

The eruption comes after a report by The Wall Street Journal that Trump has chosen to oust Ricardel from her position at the first lady’s request.

“It is the position of the Office of the First Lady that she no longer deserves the honor of serving in this White House,” Melania Trump’s communication director Stephanie Grisham told ABC News in remarks directed toward Ricardel.

The first lady’s staff clashed with Ricardel during a trip to Africa last month over plane seating.

Ricardel also denied requests from Melania Trump’s staff to use National Security Council (NSC) resources, people familiar with the matter told the Journal. The staff also reportedly told the president that they suspect Ricardel is the starter of unflattering stories about Melania and her team.

The NSC has declined to comment.

Ricardel — one of Bolton’s first senior-level hires after he became head of the NSC in April — has also tussled with Defense Secretary James Mattis and his staff over Pentagon appointments and policy coordination, according to those familiar with the clashes.

Those tensions, which began early in the Trump administration, gained wider attention earlier this fall.

Prior to the 2016 election, Ricardel was named head of Pentagon appointments on Trump’s transition team. At the time, she reportedly stopped Mattis from hiring certain officials over concerns about their party affiliation or their earlier support for Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton.

It was “not a secret that when [Ricardel] was the head of personnel there was some disagreement about who should come in,” an administration official told The Hill last month.

Questions have also been raised over the level of coordination across government agencies to implement Trump’s agenda.

Ricardel’s primary duties at the NSC is interagency policy coordination between the council and the State Department and Pentagon, among other agencies, on major policy issues including the administration’s cyber strategy, the military’s role in Syria and responding to Iranian aggression.

“There are people across the interagency with varying degrees of frustration about the current coordination process . . . . given some of the issues that have lingered — cyber, Syria, Iran — big issues out there that require NSC leadership to coordinate,” the administration official said.

Should Ricardel be asked to leave the White House, Bolton will have lost another ally. Bolton’s longtime friend Fred Fleitz last month left his role as chief of staff and executive secretary for the NSC after serving only six months.

So far, Bolton has resisted White House chief of staff John Kelly, who has pushed for Bolton to replace Ricardel and has been looking for ways to force her out for weeks, officials told the Journal. Kelly reportedly cited the first lady’s concerns to Bolton two weeks ago.

Melania Trump and her staff also discussed the issue with the commander-in-chief during the administration’s trip to Paris earlier this week. Trump told his wife that he would remove Ricardel, White House officials said.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 20:54 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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https://www.reuters.com/a(...)office-idUSKCN1NI2L9

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https://thehill.com/polic(...)the-honor-of-serving

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John Kelly may leave after clashing with the first lady Melania Trump: NBC News

Nick Ayers, Vice President Mike Pence's chief of staff, is being considered for the job among other candidates, three of the sources told NBC.

Bron: CNBC

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 21:04 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Is Kelly onderdeel van dezelfde feud?

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John Bolton's new deputy is a hawk with sharp elbows, just like him

Bolton's choice of Mira Ricardel as his deputy last week shows he is moving fast to consolidate control over the national-security policymaking process, and is preparing for internal battles that may emerge.

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That position put Ricardel in direct conflict with Defense Secretary Jim Mattis, who tried to recruit some former Obama administration officials and foreign-service officers, including former Pentagon official Michele Flournoy and Anne W. Patterson, the former U.S. ambassador to Egypt.

"Mira clashed with Mattis and his team. Mattis wanted to bring in Democrats and she didn't want to do that," one senior Republican foreign-policy hand said. "Bolton is bringing in hard-charging individuals, like him, to try to run the show. This is Bolton reasserting his dominance and what he wants the NSC to be."

Ricardel angled for a top Pentagon job in early 2017, several transition and White House officials told me, but Mattis blocked her. She had served as the deputy assistant secretary of defense for Europe during the George W. Bush administration under Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld. She developed a reputation as a Russia hawk and was seen as a tough bureaucratic player with a strong personality.

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Evan_Rosenfeld twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 21:34:27 BREAKING: Dep. NSA Mira Ricardel has been fired and escorted from the WH, WSJ reports, citing WH official. Ricardel was fired after clash with First Lady, per official. Firing comes after First Lady’s Office said Ricardel ‘no longer deserves’ to work in WH https://t.co/Gf06XgA9QB reageer retweet

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Trump could answer written Russia probe questions this week: source (Reuters)

President Donald Trump is expected to provide written answers to questions from the special counsel probing Russian interference in the 2016 U.S. presidential election as soon as this week, a person familiar with the matter said on Tuesday.

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EamonJavers twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 21:44:54 A White House official just told reporters the WSJ story is not accurate. Says Mira Ricardel has not been fired or escorted off the grounds and is at her desk and still works at the WH now. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 21:54 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
WTF???

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EamonJavers twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 21:44:54 A White House official just told reporters the WSJ story is not accurate. Says Mira Ricardel has not been fired or escorted off the grounds and is at her desk and still works at the WH now. reageer retweet

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EamonJavers twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 21:51:23 Asked if the White House has a response to the statement from the First Lady’s spokesperson that Ricardel “no longer deserved the honor of serving in the White House” the official said: “the East Wing speaks for the East Wing.” reageer retweet

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EamonJavers twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 21:52:20 I asked the official if Ricardel will still be sitting at her desk tomorrow. The official said: “I don’t know, will you guys be sitting in your booths tomorrow? We’ll see.” reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 22:49 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Nog een aardig stuk over gerrymandering en het enigszins dempende effect van Trump:
https://www.politico.com/(...)ng-house-2018-984947

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 22:56 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Ik weet niet zozeer of dit perse een Trump effect is. De districten zijn nu bijna 10 jaar geleden getekend. Dan loop je tegen het eind van de periode aan tegen het feit dat in de tussentijd de electorale geografie van het land veranderd is en sommige districten ineens niet meer zo "handig" zijn. Dat Dems minder populair worden in het platteland en populairder in de voorsteden was zonder Trump ook wel gebeurd.

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Op dinsdag 13 november 2018 18:22 schreef EttovanBelgie het volgende:

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GUNS AND SHIPS [ANIMATIC]

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The U.S. recorded a $100.5 billion budget deficit in October, an increase of about 60 percent from a year earlier, as spending grew twice as fast as revenue.

The deficit widened from $63.2 billion in the same month last year, the department said in an emailed statement on Tuesday. October marks the start of the U.S. fiscal year.

Receipts totaled $252.7 billion last month, up 7 percent from a year earlier, while outlays climbed 18 percent to $353.2 billion, according to the department.

A ballooning U.S. budget shortfall -- fueled by tax cuts, spending hikes and an aging population -- is driving the Treasury Department to raise its long-term debt issuance. Waning support for U.S. government debt from the Fed, combined with President Donald Trump’s deficit-boosting tax cuts, are weighing on the debt load that he inherited from Barack Obama.

In Trump’s first full fiscal year that ended in September, the budget gap grew to $779 billion, the highest level since 2012.

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hellofasandwich twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 02:00:31 #CA45: Boom goes the dynamite! Dem Katie Porter has now pulled AHEAD of GOP Rep. Mimi Walters after a fresh update from the Orange County Clerk's office: https://t.co/fzDEUDznEO https://t.co/sMX43mPXLn reageer retweet

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girlsreallyrule twitterde op dinsdag 13-11-2018 om 22:32:22 You have got to see this. In order to defend Cindy Hyde-Smith from accusations of racism, MI Gov. Phil Bryant doubles down by singling out black people to ask what about the "20 million abortions black people have had" and that we should be talking about that. 😳 https://t.co/smG0GPUtXt reageer retweet

Senator Cindy Hyde-Smith on "public hanging' comments

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Maryland’s top lawyer asked a federal judge Tuesday to block Matthew G. Whitaker from serving as acting U.S. attorney general, contending that the appointment is illegal.

Maryland Attorney General Brian E. Frosh (D) said that President Trump’s appointment of Whitaker to the nation’s highest law enforcement post is unconstitutional and that he should be replaced by Deputy Attorney General Rod J. Rosenstein, who was confirmed by the Senate.

“Few positions are more critical than that of U.S. Attorney General, an office that wields enormous enforcement power and authority over the lives of all Americans,” Frosh said in a statement.

Trump tapped Whitaker to serve as acting attorney general last week after Jeff Sessions resigned at the president’s request. Whitaker’s elevation has raised concerns about his qualifications, his past statements as a U.S. Senate candidate and his business practices.

The legal challenge to Whitaker’s appointment comes as part of Maryland’s ongoing federal lawsuit that is trying to force the Trump administration to uphold a key provision of the Affordable Care Act.

“Who the attorney general is is at the core of this lawsuit,” Frosh said in an interview Tuesday.

“Aside from the constitutional issue, this guy, Mr. Whitaker, has extreme views and that’s dangerous in itself,” said Frosh, adding that he also expects any ruling in the state challenge to Whitaker’s role to be appealed.

Frosh was not required to notify Gov. Larry Hogan (R) about a motion in an existing case. Hogan spokeswoman Amelia Chasse said the governor’s office received no prior communication about the filing and declined to comment on it.

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thehill twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 03:46:04 Graham supports bill protecting Mueller https://t.co/C2er2RA8gZ https://t.co/beggRLqVhd reageer retweet

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Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) on Tuesday said that he would support a bill to protect special counsel Robert Mueller.

“I would certainly vote for it,” he told reporters, according to Reuters.

“I don’t see any movement to get rid of Mueller. But it probably would be good to have this legislation in place just for the future.”

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AP twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 03:32:08 BREAKING: Democrat Josh Harder wins U.S. House seat in California farm belt, defeats 4-term Republican Rep. Jeff Denham. https://t.co/YfFnH2YEJH reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 04:16 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 03:46:04 Graham supports bill protecting Mueller https://t.co/C2er2RA8gZ https://t.co/beggRLqVhd reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 05:03 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
48 doden in Butte County, CA nu. En de commentaren van Trump trolls op sites als The Hill...

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 11:33 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Samenstelling van het nieuwe Congres:
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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 12:38 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Voor de mensen die het niet willen zien, kijk ff weg.

Peilingen 2020:

Biden 44% (+1) Trump 43% Bloomberg 10%
Trump 45% (+11) Warren 34% Bloomberg 17%
Trump 45% (+12) Bloomberg 33% Avenatti 14%

@SurveyMonkey/@axios, RV, 10/24-30

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 12:38 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Voor de mensen die het niet willen zien, kijk ff weg.

Peilingen 2020:

Biden 44% (+1) Trump 43% Bloomberg 10%
Trump 45% (+11) Warren 34% Bloomberg 17%
Trump 45% (+12) Bloomberg 33% Avenatti 14%

@SurveyMonkey/@axios, RV, 10/24-30

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 12:52 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Vroeger ging een Independent vooral af van de Republikeinse score maar nu lijkt Trump er weinig onder te lijden.

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 12:58 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Bloomberg is ook Democraat geweest naast Independent. Maar die ziet ook wel in dat runnen als independent vrij kansloos is waarschijnlijk.

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 13:03 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Op Bernie Sanders na dan

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maggieNYT twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 12:52:31 “Analysts, historians and veterans of previous administrations said there were few comparable instances of a commander in chief warning about what he called a looming threat, only to drop it as soon as people voted.” https://t.co/g6SH1ProwP reageer retweet

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For weeks before the midterm elections, President Trump warned ominously about the threat from a caravan of migrants streaming from Central America toward Mexico’s border with the United States. It was a fearsome mix of criminals and “unknown Middle Easterners,” Mr. Trump claimed darkly, one that constituted a genuine national emergency.

But since the election last week, Mr. Trump has tweeted about the caravan exactly once — to issue a proclamation preventing those who cross the border illegally from applying for asylum in the United States. Fox News, which faithfully amplified Mr. Trump’s warnings about the migrants, has gone similarly quiet on the subject.

There was little dispute, even before Election Day, that Mr. Trump was exploiting the caravan for political purposes. But analysts, historians and veterans of previous administrations said there were few comparable instances of a commander in chief warning about what he called a looming threat, only to drop it as soon as people voted.

While the caravan has faded from television screens, the costs of Mr. Trump’s response to it have not. Nearly 6,000 active-duty troops remain deployed from the Gulf Coast to Southern California, where they are putting up tents and stringing concertina wire to face a ragtag band that is still not near the border.

“Now that the political utility of troops on the southern border to face a fictitious caravan invasion threat is over,” said Adm. James G. Stavridis, a former commander of the military’s Southern Command, “let’s hope the president will stand down the troops so they can be with their families — especially over the holidays.”

But some officials in the Defense Department worry that Mr. Trump could do the opposite — seek an exception to the Posse Comitatus Act, the 1878 law that prohibits the government from using active-duty troops to enforce laws inside the country’s borders.

As pure political calculation, analysts from both parties said that seizing on the caravan mobilized Republican voters, dramatizing immigration in a way that resonated with Mr. Trump’s political base. But it is far less clear that the dire warnings helped Republican candidates with independents or other late-deciding voters.

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 12:58 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Bloomberg is ook Democraat geweest naast Independent. Maar die ziet ook wel in dat runnen als independent vrij kansloos is waarschijnlijk.

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 13:03 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Op Bernie Sanders na dan

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Op woensdag 14 november 2018 14:31 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Sanders heeft zijn moment gehad. Je kunt hem credits geven voor het mainstream maken van veel linkse standpunten binnen de Democratische partij (m.n. Medicare 4 all) maar als persoon is hij echt uitgerangeerd.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 14-11-2018 om 13:30:13 Just as the annual Federalist Society convention is about to begin, George Conway (Kellyanne's husband) has formed a new group of more than a dozen conservative lawyers who believe the Trump admin is betraying the bedrock legal norms. https://t.co/FJXHWBn6JU reageer retweet

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The annual convention of the Federalist Society, the conservative legal group, has long been a glittering and bustling affair. In the Trump era, though, the group has become more powerful than ever, supplying intellectual energy and judicial candidates to an assertive administration eager to reshape the legal landscape.

But as the group prepares to gather on Thursday for the start of this year’s convention, more than a dozen prominent conservative lawyers have joined together to sound a note of caution. They are urging their fellow conservatives to speak up about what they say are the Trump administration’s betrayals of bedrock legal norms.

“Conservative lawyers are not doing enough to protect constitutional principles that are being undermined by the statements and actions of this president,” said John B. Bellinger III, a top State Department and White House lawyer under President George W. Bush.

The group, called Checks and Balances, was organized by George T. Conway III, a conservative lawyer and the husband of President Trump’s counselor, Kellyanne Conway. In recent opinion articles, Mr. Conway has criticized Mr. Trump’s statements on birthright citizenship and argued that his appointment of Matthew G. Whitaker to serve as acting attorney general violated the Constitution.

The new group also includes Tom Ridge, a former governor of Pennsylvania and secretary of homeland security in the Bush administration; Peter D. Keisler, a former acting attorney general in the Bush administration; two prominent conservative law professors, Jonathan H. Adler and Orin S. Kerr; and Lori S. Meyer, a lawyer who is married to Eugene B. Meyer, the president of the Federalist Society.

“We believe in the rule of law, the power of truth, the independence of the criminal justice system, the imperative of individual rights and the necessity of civil discourse,” the group said in a statement. “We believe these principles apply regardless of the party or persons in power.”

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U.S. President Donald Trump should have shown some “common decency” and respect France’s day of mourning on the third anniversary of the Nov 13 attacks in Paris, the French government’s spokesman said on Wednesday.

Asked about Trump’s tweets, in which the U.S. leader criticized France’s record in World War One and Two, French government spokesman Benjamin Griveaux said:

“Yesterday was Nov 13, we were commemorating the murder of 130 of our people,” he said. “So I’ll reply in English: ‘common decency’ would have been appropriate.”

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Democrats contend that he needed to be in a Senate-confirmed position to take over as acting attorney general.

The Justice Department’s powerful Office of Legal Counsel went to bat for acting Attorney General Matt Whitaker on Wednesday morning, issuing an memo that declares his appointment didn’t break the law.

The memo says that before Jeff Sessions left the Justice Department, White House lawyers asked DOJ lawyers about their legal options if the attorney general’s position became vacant.

“This Office had previously advised that the President could designate a senior Department of Justice official, such as Mr. Whitaker, as Acting Attorney General,” the memo reads.

A senior Justice Department official who briefed reporters on the memo said DOJ lawyers told the White House a sufficiently senior Department official who received high enough pay would be eligible to take over as attorney general. The official declined to share more detail about the nature of the White House’s communications with the Department.

The Office of Legal Counsel (OLC) is simultaneously one of the most secretive and most powerful arms of the Justice Department. Its battalion of attorneys assess thorny legal issues and issues memos that govern government agencies. And most of the time, those decisions are secret.

In this case, though, OLC is going public with its memo determining that the Trump administration had the power to install Whitaker—the former chief of staff for Sessions—as acting AG. Whitaker’s appointment instantly drew criticism because of a host of comments he made as a TV pundit lambasting Special Counsel Robert Mueller.

Before being made the head of the Justice Department, Whitaker did not occupy a Senate-confirmed position. As a result, a host of legal experts, including former Solicitor General Neal Katyal, argued his appointment violated the Senate’s Constitutional right to provide advice and consent to the executive branch. Over the weekend, Democratic Senators huddled and discussed whether to sue over the appointment.

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