[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #584: 17 verschillende onderzoeken

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Trump Testimony From Decades Ago Indicates Knowledge of Campaign-Finance Laws (WSJ)
Legal experts say that could be critical if investigators pursue a case over hush-money payments to women in the 2016 campaign

Sworn statements by President Trump dating back several decades indicate he has a deep understanding of campaign-finance laws, legal experts say, which could be critical if investigators ever pursue a case against him over his alleged direction of hush-money payments in the 2016 campaign.

Mr. Trump’s statements were made as part of a 2000 regulatory investigation into his casino company and in 1988 testimony for a government-integrity commission. They contrast with the portrayal by some of the president’s allies that he is a political novice with little understanding of campaign-finance laws and therefore couldn’t be charged with violating them.

In 2000, the Federal Election Commission investigated allegations that Trump Hotels & Casinos violated the law related to a fundraising event for a Senate candidate. Mr. Trump’s sworn affidavit “indicates that Trump had a very thorough understanding of federal campaign finance law, especially regarding what he could and could not legally do when raising money for a federal candidate,” said Brett Kappel, an election-law lawyer at Akerman LLP.

In the four-page affidavit that Mr. Trump signed, he stressed he had a particular familiarity with laws governing corporate contributions to candidates. Mr. Trump said he was acting in his “individual,” not corporate, capacity when he hosted the event, that he had paid for the reception costs “from my personal funds,” that he “took no action, of any nature, kind or description, to compel or pressure” any employee to donate to the campaign ahead of the event and that he wasn’t reimbursed for any of the costs.

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Op woensdag 19 december 2018 20:19 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Rente weer een kwart procent omhoog, zoals verwacht.

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ClaraJeffery twitterde op dinsdag 18-12-2018 om 20:53:28 Survey asked black women to say who's among their top three candidates:Harris: 71.1% Beto: 38.3% Biden: 25%Booker: 24.2%Warren: 22.3%Abrams: 15.2%Bernie: 12.1%Bernie's never going to be the nominee unless he turns these numbers aroundhttps://t.co/7LLdFoGIIt reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 00:04 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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ClaraJeffery twitterde op dinsdag 18-12-2018 om 20:53:28 Survey asked black women to say who's among their top three candidates:Harris: 71.1% Beto: 38.3% Biden: 25%Booker: 24.2%Warren: 22.3%Abrams: 15.2%Bernie: 12.1%Bernie's never going to be the nominee unless he turns these numbers aroundhttps://t.co/7LLdFoGIIt reageer retweet

Trump 2020 gaat zo wel heel gemakkelijk worden als ze nu al met de identity politics beginnen.

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 00:06 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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"Ze"...

Waarom zie je niet in dat je zelf zo enorm geplayed wordt door identity politics? Het is oprecht frustrerend om te zien. De republikeinse partij en hun outlets zorgen hier juist in extremis voor... dat zie je echt niet terug bij een NY Times, WaPo of WSJ hoor.

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 00:10 schreef OMG het volgende:

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is dan ook één van de weinige gepaste reacties wanneer er weer een halve zool met "identity politics" aan komt zetten.

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 00:15 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Lijkt me niet zinvol. Daar leert niemand van. Tenzij je denkt dat iemand die dat denkt per definitie hopeloos is, maar dat is niet mijn mening iig. Iedereen kan leren en iedereen kan van mening veranderen.

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 00:30 schreef OMG het volgende:

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Heb tot nu toe in dit topic niet echt de indruk van gehad dat dit opgaat voor de identity politics roepers.

Als je niet door hebt dat inspelen op de angsten van boze blanke christelijke hetero man net zulke identity politics zijn, dan houd het al snel op.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 20-12-2018 om 00:10:35 After historic victories against ISIS, it's time to bring our great young people home! https://t.co/xoNjFzQFTp reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 19-12-2018 om 23:56:15 Mueller has asked the House Intelligence Committee for an official transcript of Roger Stone's testimony, people familiar with the request tell WaPo, a sign that prosecutors could be moving to charge him with a crime.https://t.co/4TUWdpGtzF reageer retweet

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GarrettHaake twitterde op woensdag 19-12-2018 om 22:29:57 .@SenBobCorker tells reporters his planned meeting with President Trump was cancelled WHILE he was sitting at the White House waiting for Trump. This is a committee chairman of the President's own party, on a day with significant international news. reageer retweet

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EdKrassen twitterde op donderdag 20-12-2018 om 02:43:57 Can Nancy Pelosi just knock on Trump's damned door and tell him not to pull troops from Syria? She completely turned him into a coward on his wall shutdown. Why not let her do it again? reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 20-12-2018 om 00:15:03 BuzzFeed wins: A Florida federal judge has ended Russian tech executive Aleksej Gubarev's defamation suit against BuzzFeed, ruling BuzzFeed's publication of the Steele dossier is protected by the fair reporting privilege. reageer retweet

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BuzzFeedBen twitterde op woensdag 19-12-2018 om 23:42:11 My statement: https://t.co/apt7j3BToX reageer retweet

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BREAKING: With bipartisan support, the Senate approved legislation that would extend funding for several major government departments until Feb. 8, a measure that would avert a partial government shutdown at the end of the week but does not include any new funds President Trump sought for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.

The House will vote next on the stopgap measure, and lawmakers say they expect Trump to sign it. But the White House has not confirmed the president’s stance on the deal, which would punt the next round of wall funding negotiations until after Democrats take control of the House.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 20-12-2018 om 06:05:20 The President of the United States is tweeting quotes from Fox News at 12:04 in the morning. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 00:37 schreef Nintex het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 20-12-2018 om 00:10:35 After historic victories against ISIS, it's time to bring our great young people home! https://t.co/xoNjFzQFTp reageer retweet

Bring 'em back!

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 04:31 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 11:44 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
https://www.nu.nl/buitenl(...)ls-vs-niet-doet.html

Verrassing (not!)

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 11:50 schreef archito het volgende:

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Het lijstje met bereikte dingen wordt steeds korter.
Maar serieus, wat heeft Trump nu werkelijk bereikt? Iemand?

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 11:50 schreef archito het volgende:

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Het lijstje met bereikte dingen wordt steeds korter.
Maar serieus, wat heeft Trump nu werkelijk bereikt? Iemand?

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 11:50 schreef archito het volgende:

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Het lijstje met bereikte dingen wordt steeds korter.
Maar serieus, wat heeft Trump nu werkelijk bereikt? Iemand?

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Op donderdag 20 december 2018 11:44 schreef Whiskers2009 het volgende:
https://www.nu.nl/buitenl(...)ls-vs-niet-doet.html

Verrassing (not!)

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 20-12-2018 om 13:16:38 ....Russia, Iran, Syria & many others are not happy about the U.S. leaving, despite what the Fake News says, because now they will have to fight ISIS and others, who they hate, without us. I am building by far the most powerful military in the world. ISIS hits us they are doomed! reageer retweet

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President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia on Thursday welcomed President Trump’s announcement of a withdrawal of American troops from Syria, calling it “the right decision.”

Mr. Trump said on Wednesday that he was ordering the withdrawal because the United States military had achieved its goal of defeating the Islamic State militant group in Syria. But the move caught many by surprise, including some of his military and diplomatic advisers. It has also drawn criticism, even among Republicans, for abandoning Kurdish allies in the fight against the Islamic State and for aiding the geopolitical ambitions of Iran and Russia in the Middle East.

Speaking at his annual news conference, which typically runs for several hours, Mr. Putin said he broadly agreed that the Islamic State had been defeated in Syria. “Donald’s right, and I agree with him,” Mr. Putin said.

The Russian leader expressed skepticism, however that American forces would actually withdraw, as the United States had announced a pullout from Afghanistan by 2014 but still has forces in that country today.

“We don’t see any signs yet of the withdrawal of U.S. troops,” he said. “How long has the United States been in Afghanistan? Seventeen years? And almost every year they say they’re pulling out their troops.”

Regarding Syria, he said, Mr. Trump made the right decision because the American troops are in the country illegally, never having been invited by the Syrian government, as Russian forces were.

The United States had backed opponents of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, though the approximately 2,000 American troops in the country have mostly avoided direct combat with the Russian-backed Syrian Army and its proxies. In February, American soldiers repelled an attack on their position by forces that included Russian citizens working for a Russian security contracting company.

Russia and the United States have observed a “de-conflicting” agreement to avoid direct engagement between their armed forces.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 20-12-2018 om 15:30:08 Adm. James Stavridis on Trump's Syria withdrawal: "This is a massive geopolitical win for Putin ... It'll be written globally as a walk-away and a betrayal. This is really, geopolitically, the worst move I've seen from this administration. That's a high bar to get over." @MSNBC reageer retweet