[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #583: Criminal justice reform

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Op woensdag 12 december 2018 23:00 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat die opruier nog een baan heeft... dankzij die man werd het hele Uranium One vorig jaar ineens opgezwengeld. Snap niet dat een bedrijf als The Hill zich daarvoor leent.

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Op woensdag 12 december 2018 22:36 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:
De Clintons zullen mogelijk weer onderzocht worden.

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Op woensdag 12 december 2018 23:19 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ah, dit wist ik nog niet, thanks. Ik wist ook niet dat hij bij zoveel toch betrekkelijk gerenommeerde bedrijven gewerkt heeft (en enkele dubieuze):

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Wat ik zo kwalijk vind is dat hij door zijn positie bij een bedrijf als The Hill serieus genomen zou moeten worden en als zodanig als vooruitgeschoven pion fungeert van het republikeinse media-apparaat om de troepen te leiden naar de volgende heilloze conspiracy-theory.

Aan de andere kant wel prettig om te zien dat anderen er ook als de kippen bij zijn om een artikel van zijn hand per direct niet serieus te nemen. Hoewel het wel jammer blijft dat het wel klaarblijkelijk deels werkt, gezien Oostwouds verwijzing.

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Op woensdag 12 december 2018 22:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

Everyone Who’s Been Charged as a Result of the Mueller Investigation

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The special counsel’s investigation was grinding relentlessly onward, with President Trump’s former national security adviser pleading for leniency in his case and his former fixer about to be sentenced for his crimes. But Mr. Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, was in Manama, Bahrain, on Tuesday, meeting with the king and the interior minister of an important United States ally in the Middle East.

The government-run Bahrain News Agency featured a photo of Mr. Giuliani meeting in a royal palace with King Hamad bin Isa al-Khalifa. The story said the king discussed “Bahraini-U. S. relations” with Mr. Giuliani, who was described as leading a “high-level U.S. delegation.”

But Mr. Giuliani was not in Bahrain, a country with a record of human rights abuses, on official business. He was there to seek a lucrative security consulting contract with the government.

The trip was part of a concerted push Mr. Giuliani has undertaken in the last few weeks to win business from governments around the world — including in Africa and South America — for a firm he owns called Giuliani Security and Safety.

In his role representing Mr. Trump in the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, Mr. Giuliani is not a government employee, and is not subject to government ethics rules, including prohibitions on outside work.

But as his visit to Bahrain showed, Mr. Giuliani’s various interests can lead to confusion over the nature of his role. And foreign officials who have reason to want to get in or stay in the Trump administration’s good graces could view hiring Mr. Giuliani’s firm as a good way of doing so, according to ethics watchdogs.

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NBCPolitics twitterde op woensdag 12-12-2018 om 23:06:54 House Freedom Caucus Chairman Mark Meadows is no longer under consideration for chief of staff:"The president told him we need him in Congress so he can continue the great work he is doing there," White House says. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 12 december 2018 22:36 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:
De Clintons zullen mogelijk weer onderzocht worden. De Republikeinen kiezen de tegenaanval.

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GOP launches new effort to expose Clinton Foundation

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 13-12-2018 om 02:05:03 Dianne Feinstein on the AMI cooperation with SDNY: "Evidence continues to build that President Trump directed a violation of campaign finance law to affect the presidential election. These are serious, criminal allegations and they demand further scrutiny from Congress." reageer retweet

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The tabloid publishing company that killed damaging stories about Donald Trump is telling U.S. prosecutors about the plans hatched with members of Trump’s team in the earliest days of the campaign.

At least one unidentified campaign member joined Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in an August 2015 meeting with David Pecker, the publisher of the National Enquirer, to discuss suppressing negative news stories during the election, the U.S. said.

Prosecutors’ reference to unidentified campaign staff suggests that the number of Trump associates in legal trouble is still expanding.

The deeper involvement of Trump’s campaign staff was revealed on Wednesday by federal prosecutors in New York, who disclosed they had reached a non-prosecution agreement with American Media Inc., the National Enquirer’s publisher.

Under the deal, AMI admitted it worked with the campaign to kill stories “about the presidential candidate’s relationships with women” and agreed to cooperate. As early as August 2015, Pecker agreed to identify any damaging information about Trump that came his way and suppress it by buying the stories and not publishing them -- a practice known as “catch and kill.”

Read the non-prosecution agreement here

The deal with prosecutors was announced shortly after Cohen, Trump’s longtime lawyer and fixer, was sentenced to three years in prison. That was in part for his role in a $150,000 payment by AMI to silence former Playboy model Karen McDougal about her alleged extramarital affair with Trump. According to documents filed in the AMI matter, Cohen promised that AMI would be reimbursed for buying her story.

While Trump has focused his wrath on Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s probe of Russian interference, the New York probe of campaign finance violations is a significant threat to the president since prosecutors have used court filings about Cohen to tie Trump to the scheme.

“You now have AMI admitting that the payments were made for the purpose of influencing the election,” said Robert Mintz, a former federal prosecutor who is now in private practice in New Jersey and isn’t involved in the case. “It’s a critical admission because, if true, it transforms the payment into a criminal violation as opposed to simply a private transaction.”

Under the Sept. 20 agreement, AMI won’t be prosecuted and must cooperate for three years. The deal marks a change of allegiances for one of Trump’s biggest supporters, AMI Chairman and Chief Executive Officer David Pecker. Potentially a key witness for the government, Pecker has been a close friend of Trump and gave positive coverage to his campaign in the National Enquirer.

A spokesman for the company declined to comment.

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MaddowBlog twitterde op donderdag 13-12-2018 om 03:31:46 Is there anyone else potentially in trouble for this felony given what prosecutors have now made public about the nature of this crime and what they know about it?As it turns out, yeah, there is. https://t.co/L0euItEcbC reageer retweet

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MaddowBlog twitterde op donderdag 13-12-2018 om 03:43:03 The overt contention by federal prosecutors now is that whoever had check-writing authority at the Trump Organization, they used the president's business to cover up the financial trail of this felony. Guess who had that authority. https://t.co/PuQxP2MAUX reageer retweet

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AndrewFeinberg twitterde op donderdag 13-12-2018 om 02:43:50 I’ve now heard from two different sources that @newtgingrich (who was at the White House today) is currently topping the list for the next @realDonaldTrump administration White House Chief of Staff. reageer retweet

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AndrewFeinberg twitterde op donderdag 13-12-2018 om 03:04:25 Newt told @FredLucasWH he was at the White House to advise on a new CoS, but that’s either a smokescreen or he’s pulling a staff-level Dick Cheney. reageer retweet

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AndrewFeinberg twitterde op donderdag 13-12-2018 om 03:24:24 At the very least his name is getting pushed by some in Trumpworld as someone who has experience with impeachment, never mind the fact that being a driving force behind the Clinton impeachment fiasco makes him about as appropriate for what Trump may face as blue jeans on a dolphin. reageer retweet

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RepThomasMassie twitterde op woensdag 12-12-2018 om 11:18:36 Does your Congressman know what's hidden in a procedural vote on the Farm Bill today? Does he or she care? To avoid a debate on whether the US should be involved in a war in Yemen, today our leadership will trick members into suspending the provisions of the War Powers Act. SAD! https://t.co/PVziN9d2lP reageer retweet

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Speaker Paul Ryan blocks the House from debating support for Saudi War in Yemen, which has starved tens of thousands and threatens to starve 14 million people.

Paul Ryan's Cowardly Act On Yemen | All In | MSNBC

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John Solomon understands the art of a nice innuendo-laden question-mark headline, as he proved on Tuesday evening: “Did Clinton Foundation mislead IRS? State filings raise the question.” What follows is a discussion of Clinton Foundation run-ins with state regulators. The lead example: Utah “specifically flagged money spent on professional fundraisers and consultants that were excluded from the required section of the filing,” wrote Solomon in the story.

The Clinton Foundation responded that those expenses were listed in another section.

The 13-year-old paperwork spat about a foundation run by a family that’s now struggling for relevance was . . . perfect fodder for the Tuesday night edition of Fox News’s “Hannity.” Here’s how host Sean Hannity introduced the topic, feasting on that suggestive headline: “Meanwhile, more signs of a lot more Clinton corruption. John Solomon out with a new report entitled ‘Did the Clinton Foundation mislead the IRS? State filings raise the question.’ We did reach out to the foundation for a response. They told us in part these charges are minor infractions, similar to a speeding ticket. Only bad if you are a Republican,” said the Fox host.

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Op woensdag 12 december 2018 22:56 schreef trein2000 het volgende:

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Bron?

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Op woensdag 12 december 2018 22:57 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Klopt. Seth Rich is niet voor niets door de Clintons uit de weg geruimd.

Maar vooral blijven hopen op vervolging, je kunt het!

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Op donderdag 13 december 2018 08:55 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump komt steeds verder in de problemen maar veel verder dan het uitgekauwde "Ja maar Hillary!" komen zijn verdedigers niet.

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Op woensdag 12 december 2018 20:33 schreef Szura het volgende:
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Op woensdag 12 december 2018 22:01 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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Ow...ik zag en hoorde heel andere dingen.

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Op donderdag 13 december 2018 10:50 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Waarop hij uiteraard een valse verklaring opschreef.

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Op donderdag 13 december 2018 10:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Hoe kun je verzonden emails laten verdwijnen?

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Op woensdag 12 december 2018 23:29 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Ik begin steeds meer Qanon te geloven, dit was allemaal een vooropgezet plan van Trump om deze gevaarlijke lui te pakken te krijgen en de swamp te drainen!

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Op donderdag 13 december 2018 11:25 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Als Trump & Pence moeten opstappen is Pelosi ook eerder weg als Speaker.