[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #586: #winning het jaar uit!

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Op donderdag 27 december 2018 11:38 schreef Oostwoud het volgende:

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CNN twitterde op zondag 23-12-2018 om 23:15:00 Republican Sen. Rand Paul says he's "very proud" of President Trump for his decision last week to withdraw US troops from Syria https://t.co/msNulHPFgS https://t.co/tZbLt3kJke reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 24-12-2018 om 04:32:49 “It should not be the job of America to replace regimes around the world. This is what President Trump recognized in Iraq, that it was the biggest foreign policy disaster of the last several decades, and he’s right...The generals still don’t get the mistake.” @RandPaul reageer retweet

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RandPaul twitterde op zondag 23-12-2018 om 17:21:18 For the first time in forever we have a president that cares about our borders more than the borders of some misbegotten land thousands of miles away from America. reageer retweet

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RandPaul twitterde op zondag 23-12-2018 om 16:58:16 Rand Paul praises Donald Trump for Syria withdrawal: 'This is exactly what he promised' - Washington Times https://t.co/yl7gncpUn5 reageer retweet

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politico twitterde op zondag 23-12-2018 om 16:15:05 Rand Paul hails Trump for Syria withdrawalhttps://t.co/cetoMikCo0 reageer retweet

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RandPaul twitterde op zondag 23-12-2018 om 13:59:40 I’m going to start out with a grievance against the entire foreign policy establishment of Washington DC, who 2 years ago were swearing that Donald Trump was going to start multiple nuclear wars or something. reageer retweet

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RandPaul twitterde op zondag 23-12-2018 om 13:59:40 Now they are mad because he is STOPPING two wars. How about you just admit you hate the President, love war and have been wrong for the last 20 years on every part of foreign policy? Consider that my Christmas present. You don’t have to get me anything else. reageer retweet

Verstandige vent die Rand Paul, nog even wat rijpen en hij klinkt net zoals zijn vader. Toekomstig POTUS als het aan mij ligt.

"Raaaghhh.. Trump is president, hij begint morgen met nucleaire bombardementen!"
"Raaaghhh.. Trump is president, hij stopt de gefaalde regime changes!"

Als men maar wat te zeiken heeft. Interne tegenstrijdigheid van argumenten over een langere periode? Wie maalt daar nou om?

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Op donderdag 27 december 2018 15:50 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Lijkt erop dat de republikeinen in congress harder veroordeeld worden voor de shutdown dan de republikein die om de shutdown vroeg, Trump, en de democraten in congress, hoewel ook die onder water staan.

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Fact check: Trump brags to troops about 10 percent pay raise he didn't actually give them.

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"You just got one of the biggest pay raises you've ever received," Trump said in remarks at al-Asad Airbase during his surprise trip to Iraq on Wednesday, drawing cheers from the troops. "You haven’t gotten one in more than 10 years — more than 10 years. And we got you a big one. I got you a big one."

Troops will receive a 2.6 percent — not 10 percent — pay hike for 2019; they got a 2.4 percent pay hike in 2018.

What's more, American troops have received a pay hike every year for decades. 2019's raise is the largest in nine years.

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Op donderdag 27 december 2018 17:37 schreef Ringo het volgende:

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De troef van Trump is natuurlijk dat hij een plan heeft (the Wall), ofwel een oplossing voor een probleem dat de meeste Amerikanen wel als een serieus probleem beschouwen. Los van de vraag of het een góede oplossing is, blijven alle naysayers naysayers, er staat geen duidelijk alternatief tegenover. Hoe meer ruimte Trump krijgt om zijn plan tegen de klippen op te verkopen, hoe meer het voor het grote publiek lijkt dat zijn tegenstanders met lege handen staan.

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Op donderdag 27 december 2018 17:22 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
McClatchy meldt op basis van anonieme bronnen met kennis van het Mueller onderzoek dat een telefoon van Michael Cohen eind augustus/begin september 2016 een zendmast buiten Praag heeft aangestraald. Volgens het inmiddels beruchte Steele Dossier was Cohen daar om met Russische officials discreet te overleggen over manieren waarop de Russische overheid de presidentscampagne van Trump zou kunnen ondersteunen. Cohen heeft altijd ontkend dat hij in die periode in Praag is geweest, onder andere door een foto van de buitenkant van zijn paspoort te tweeten. Eerder meldde McClatchy al dat Mueller hard bewijs had dat Cohen wel degelijk destijds in Praag en/of Tsjechië is geweest, maar nu is dus ook bekend waar dat bewijs op is gebaseerd. Nog niet door andere media bevestigd maar zou wel een bombshell zijn, en een nieuwe staving van het buitensporige Steele Dossier, waar velen, waaronder ik, in het begin bijzonder skeptisch over waren.

Cell signal puts Cohen outside Prague around time of purported Russian meeting
https://www.mcclatchydc.c(...)rticle219016820.html

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Op donderdag 27 december 2018 22:41 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Tja, we kunnen er kort of lang over zijn, maar alles uit het Steele dossier wat tot nu toe is gefactcheckt met bewijs blijkt waar te zijn. Uiteraard nog een hoop ongeverifieerde dingen, maar als er iets geverifieerd kan worden is het waar. Ze mogen het fake dossier noemen, maar volgens mij staat er nog niet 1 enkel fake dingetje in dat hele dossier.

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Op donderdag 27 december 2018 22:45 schreef Puddington het volgende:

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Als die pee tapes ook nog waar zijn...

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Billbrowder twitterde op woensdag 26-12-2018 om 19:51:57 BREAKING: Russian Interior Ministry is formally applying for an Interpol arrest warrant for me for the 7th time. How many times does Russia have to abuse @INTERPOL_HQ Red Notice system before there are real consequences? https://t.co/kUQg4kKQQ0 reageer retweet

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Billbrowder twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 09:41:18 There's a 100% chance that Putin will remain in power after the end of his current term. The only thing unusual about this story is that it's even being reported as news https://t.co/LMpyxOo8je reageer retweet

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The speaker of Russia’s parliament raised the possibility of changing the constitution as speculation grows that the Kremlin is considering ways to allow President Vladimir Putin to remain in power beyond the end of his current term, when current law requires him to step down.

“This is about the transfer of power,” said Gleb Pavlovsky, a political analyst and former Kremlin aide. “Putin encourages this game, dropping ambiguous hints.”

The comments from Vyacheslav Volodin, speaker of the State Duma and a top member of the ruling party, at a scripted Kremlin meeting with Putin late Tuesday were vague and didn’t mention succession. But analysts said they showed the authorities already are preparing the ground for changes before the end of Putin’s current term in 2024.

“There are questions in society, esteemed Vladimir Vladimirovich,” Volodin said, addressing Putin in the respectful form, according to a Kremlin transcript. “This is the time when we could answer these questions, without in any way threatening the fundamental provisions” of the constitution, he added. “The law, even one like the Basic Law, isn’t dogma.”

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Billbrowder twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 10:10:51 This is unbelievable (if true). Facebook and Russian government controlled Yandex have a joint venture to share information. That means the Russian government could find out nearly anything about a Facebook user. Thank God I never used Facebook https://t.co/LL6dnRMQUX reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 27 december 2018 17:55 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
De catch is wel dat Cohen altijd heeft gezegd "I've never been to Prague". Volgens het artikel bevond zijn telefoon zich even buiten Praag. Dus zijn ontkenning zou dan technisch wel kloppen.

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MichaelCohen212 twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 22:21:28 I hear #Prague #CzechRepublic is beautiful in the summertime. I wouldn’t know as I have never been. #Mueller knows everything! reageer retweet

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bradheath twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 21:56:55 Lawyers for a Russian company charged over election complain that "the Special Counsel has made up a crime that has never been prosecuted before in the history of the United States, and now seeks to make up secret procedures for communicating ex parte to the court." https://t.co/A6W8SeuxBq reageer retweet

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bradheath twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 22:00:38 Lawyers for the Russian company - who are seeking permission to share "sensitive" gov't info with the Russians wonder: "Could the manner in which [Mueller] collected a nude selfie really threaten the national security of the United States?" https://t.co/tATHJEtojw reageer retweet

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bradheath twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 22:01:35 Also, apparently, among the millions of pages of records Mueller's has collected on Russian election interference is a "nude selfie." https://t.co/E8eh3i0jxV reageer retweet

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bradheath twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 22:03:37 Here's the whole filing. Spoiler: It doesn't give away whose nude selfie Mueller now possesses, or how he obtained it. -> https://t.co/F7JkxqE3XT reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 28 december 2018 00:48 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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bradheath twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 21:56:55 Lawyers for a Russian company charged over election complain that "the Special Counsel has made up a crime that has never been prosecuted before in the history of the United States, and now seeks to make up secret procedures for communicating ex parte to the court." https://t.co/A6W8SeuxBq reageer retweet

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bradheath twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 22:00:38 Lawyers for the Russian company - who are seeking permission to share "sensitive" gov't info with the Russians wonder: "Could the manner in which [Mueller] collected a nude selfie really threaten the national security of the United States?" https://t.co/tATHJEtojw reageer retweet

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bradheath twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 22:01:35 Also, apparently, among the millions of pages of records Mueller's has collected on Russian election interference is a "nude selfie." https://t.co/E8eh3i0jxV reageer retweet

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bradheath twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 22:03:37 Here's the whole filing. Spoiler: It doesn't give away whose nude selfie Mueller now possesses, or how he obtained it. -> https://t.co/F7JkxqE3XT reageer retweet

Teksten van de brondocumenten zijn embedded in de tweets als plaatjes, maar zie je hier niet.

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Op vrijdag 28 december 2018 01:04 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Zat al te twijfelen of ik het zou posten. Weer zo'n idioot verhaal waarvan je denkt: dit kan toch niet waar zijn!

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Op donderdag 27 december 2018 22:41 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Tja, we kunnen er kort of lang over zijn, maar alles uit het Steele dossier wat tot nu toe is gefactcheckt met bewijs blijkt waar te zijn. Uiteraard nog een hoop ongeverifieerde dingen, maar als er iets geverifieerd kan worden is het waar. Ze mogen het fake dossier noemen, maar volgens mij staat er nog niet 1 enkel fake dingetje in dat hele dossier.

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Op vrijdag 28 december 2018 09:03 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Mwa, we weten dat Steele voor MI6 werkte, die factchecks bevestigen dat hij nog steeds contacten heeft, en dat hun claims geen simpele verzinsels waren. Het zijn "typische" intelligence reports, maar die kunnen echt of fake zijn, en fact checks volstaan niet om echte "intelligence" van "offensive counterintelligence" te onderscheiden.
De claims in het Steele dossier kunnen enkel door de betrokkenen zelf bevestigd worden. Het gaat immers niet om de verifieerbare feiten (ontmoetingen, reizen, bijeenkomsten, zakendeals, bankverrichtingen, beslissingen etc..), maar om de geclaimde redenen, motieven, afspraken, geheime deals etc... die al die feiten zouden verbinden.

Er zijn meerdere motieven voor een fake dossier te bedenken. Het dossier kan echt zijn, maar tenzij iemand bekent zullen we het niet met zekerheid weten.

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Op vrijdag 28 december 2018 17:27 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Trump wil de grens met Mexico op slot gooien en de mexico handel opschorten als ie zijn muur niet krijgt

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Op vrijdag 28 december 2018 17:30 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Ach, wild om zich heen slaan is een beetje zijn modus operandi. Ik denk niet dat iemand nog onder de indruk is van dit soort geneuzel, hooguit de mensen in zijn regering / omgeving die hem weer moeten uitleggen waarom dit nergens op slaat.
Denk dat ze er in de grensstaten niet zo'n boodschap aan zullen hebben.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 28-12-2018 om 23:45:07 Nancy Pelosi has announced that Douglas Letter, an ex-top lawyer at the Justice Dept., will take over as general counsel of the House.Letter would be the chief point person for any litigation involving enforcement of subpoenas targeting Trump officials.https://t.co/pam5RqZ1dN reageer retweet

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johnson_carrie twitterde op vrijdag 28-12-2018 om 20:41:06 The news that Doug will serve as the top lawyer for the House of Representatives means that Nancy Pelosi & other Dems will have the benefit of sterling legal advice as they advance a legislative agenda, and as they seek to impose accountability on the Trump White House/agencies. reageer retweet

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BetoORourke twitterde op vrijdag 28-12-2018 om 18:58:32 https://t.co/XONeh8HUf1 reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 29 december 2018 05:30 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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BetoORourke twitterde op vrijdag 28-12-2018 om 18:58:32 https://t.co/XONeh8HUf1 reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 28 december 2018 19:06 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Iedereen al het interview met Pete Hoekstra gelezen van de NRC?

Eindejaarsinterviews

Pete Hoekstra: ‘Nederlanders zijn bij lange na niet zo progressief als ze graag denken'.

De Amerikaanse ambassadeur Pete Hoekstra leek te denken dat in Nederland politici worden verbrand. Een jaar in het voetspoor van Trumps man in Nederland.

Lamyae Aharouay Petra de Koning

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https://www.nrc.nl/nieuws(...)et-me-spijt-a3126437

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BEIRUT, Lebanon — Feeling betrayed by the United States, its Kurdish allies in Syria asked the Syrian government on Friday to protect them from possible attack by Turkey.

The request surprised some American officials and could help open the way for the forces of President Bashar al-Assad of Syria, backed by Russia and Iran, to start retaking the Kurdish-held part of the country near Turkey’s border.

That would be a big step toward Mr. Assad’s goal of reclaiming all of Syria, upended by almost eight years of war.

It was also the first sign that President Trump’s abrupt announcement last week that he was withdrawing American troops from Syria was not only shifting alliances in the conflict but directly benefiting Mr. Assad — a brutal autocrat once described by Mr. Trump as an “animal” responsible for chemical attacks and other atrocities.

American-backed Kurdish People’s Protection Units, or Y.P.G., said the Syrian government should send troops to the city of Manbij, near the Turkish border.

The request amounted to a United States ally calling on an enemy of the United States to protect it from another American ally, Turkey.

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Op zaterdag 29 december 2018 11:03 schreef Ringo het volgende:
Die Hoekstra komt op mij over als een oenige bedrijfsleider die het telkens voor elkaar krijgt precies de verkeerde dingen te zeggen tegen de verkeerde mensen en dan glimlachend wacht op applaus dat niet komen gaat.

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Op zaterdag 29 december 2018 10:49 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:

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Hij doet nog steeds erg wazig over zijn uitspraken. Beetje Trumpiaans, te trots om de waarheid toe te geven denk ik. Gewoon toe te geven dat hij beeldvorming gebruikte met hyperbolic truths of in dit geval gewoon fake news.

Maar hij heeft wel gelijk dat NL lang niet zo progressief is als we denken. De top is inderdaad nog steeds wit (en verrassend weinig vrouw), getinte NLers staan nog steeds voor een dichte deur in de horeca ('vol'), op wietgebied lopen we achter op de rest van de wereld daar waar we voorop liepen en ga zo maar door. Links is immers al decennia niet aan de macht geweest, hooguit in een coalitie met rechts. En rechts is ook nog eens conservatiever geworden. Vandaar dat de progressieve vorderingen in NL al lang stil staan terwijl de rest van de wereld ons inhaalt.

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SenSanders twitterde op woensdag 26-12-2018 om 18:15:00 There will no real social progress in this country unless we have the courage to take on Wall Street, the insurance companies, the drug companies, the military-industrial complex, the fossil fuel industry, the prison industry and all the other forces of greed. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 29 december 2018 12:23 schreef Peligrosso het volgende:
Pete is dan ook natuurlijk niet gekozen voor deze functie vanwege zijn diplomatieke vaardigheden, maar slechts vanwege zijn loyaliteit aan de Godfather.

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Op zaterdag 29 december 2018 15:25 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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En het feit dat hij in Holland, Michigan heeft gewoond vermoed ik.

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Trump orders pay freeze for federal workers

President Trump issued an order Friday to freeze in 2019 federal employee salary rates, although a chance remains that workers will receive a raise.

Trump’s order was expected because he has advocated for a freeze all year. Due to Congress not making a decision regarding a raise, the move was made to prevent a pay increase from taking effect by default.

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Trump’s order only applies to civilian workers. Military personnel, who are covered under a separate funding measure, will receive a 2.6 percent raise.

The order is the latest in back-and-forth developments regarding raises. After Trump’s earlier budget proposal for a freeze, the House passed a measure that in effect consented by making no mention of a raise. But the Senate then passed a counterpart that favored an average 1.9 percent increase, with some variation by locality.

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In addition, the office says a freeze that has remained in effect since 2013 on salaries for senior political appointees is due to expire Jan. 5. Unless a law is enacted reinstating that freeze, the appointees would be due for catch-up raises covering the intervening years, the office says. That would result in a raise for Cabinet members, for example, of nearly $11,000 to $210,700.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 29-12-2018 om 19:30:16 Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try! The two..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 29-12-2018 om 19:36:17 ...children in question were very sick before they were given over to Border Patrol. The father of the young girl said it was not their fault, he hadn’t given her water in days. Border Patrol needs the Wall and it will all end. They are working so hard & getting so little credit! reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 29 december 2018 20:32 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 29-12-2018 om 19:30:16 Any deaths of children or others at the Border are strictly the fault of the Democrats and their pathetic immigration policies that allow people to make the long trek thinking they can enter our country illegally. They can’t. If we had a Wall, they wouldn’t even try! The two..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 29-12-2018 om 19:36:17 ...children in question were very sick before they were given over to Border Patrol. The father of the young girl said it was not their fault, he hadn’t given her water in days. Border Patrol needs the Wall and it will all end. They are working so hard & getting so little credit! reageer retweet

Elke dag janken dat alles iedereen z'n schuld is behalve die van Trump.

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tommyxtopher twitterde op donderdag 27-12-2018 om 15:37:36 Trump's SECRETARY OF STATE, America's chief diplomat, said "We will continue to fight these battles, it is a never ending struggle... until the Rapture." Holy shit. https://t.co/M727uMoq4w reageer retweet

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FBI, New Jersey investigators gathered evidence of undocumented immigrants who say they worked at Trump golf course, lawyer says

Federal and state investigators are scrutinizing the employment documents of immigrants without legal status who say they worked at President Trump’s golf club in New Jersey, according to their attorney.

Anibal Romero, a Newark attorney who represents five undocumented immigrants who say they worked at the Trump National Golf Club in Bedminster, said in an interview Saturday that he met with investigators from the New Jersey state attorney general’s office and two FBI agents in November, before the workers began to go public with their stories.

Romero said he turned over fake green cards and Social Security numbers that supervisors at the golf club allegedly gave one of his clients, Victorina Morales, a 44-year-old Guatemalan national. He also gave investigators the pay stubs of Sandra Diaz, a 46-year-old Costa Rican native who now has legal status but said she was undocumented when she worked at the club for three years.

The FBI agents told him they would “coordinate” with the New Jersey state attorney general’s office, Romero said.

The materials collected by law enforcement agencies, first reported by the New York Daily News, indicate that investigators may be launching a probe into the hiring practices of the president’s golf club.

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Morales said she had worked at the Bedminster club for the last five years — even making Trump’s bed and ironing the president’s clothes at times. She told the Times that managers at the club had taken steps to help her evade detection as an undocumented worker.

“The important point that I think has been left out is that Americans think these hard-working women get these jobs on their own — that’s not what happened,” Romero said. “People employed by the golf club recruited her and made her the phony documents.”

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anniekarni twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 14:02:28 To be honest, it’s not a wall,” Kelly said. https://t.co/x16fMD5QhR reageer retweet

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“To be honest, it’s not a wall,” Kelly said.

When Kelly led Homeland Security in early 2017, one of his first steps was to seek advice from those who “actually secure the border,” Customs and Border Protection agents who Kelly calls “salt-of-the-earth, Joe-Six-Pack folks.”

“They said, ‘Well we need a physical barrier in certain places, we need technology across the board, and we need more people,’” he said.

“The president still says ‘wall’ — oftentimes frankly he’ll say ‘barrier’ or ‘fencing,’ now he’s tended toward steel slats. But we left a solid concrete wall early on in the administration, when we asked people what they needed and where they needed it.”

Asked if there is a security crisis at the Southern border, or whether Trump has drummed up fears of a migrant “invasion” for political reasons, Kelly did not answer directly, but said, “We do have an immigration problem.”

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Z_Everson twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 02:39:14 Elizabeth Warren just renamed her Twitter account, dropping the Mass reference. She’s running? https://t.co/mybjjaJ24X reageer retweet

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Op zondag 30 december 2018 15:36 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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Z_Everson twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 02:39:14 Elizabeth Warren just renamed her Twitter account, dropping the Mass reference. She’s running? https://t.co/mybjjaJ24X reageer retweet

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Fears of Republican Power Grab in Michigan Fade as Governor Vetoes Bill (NYTimes)

Just a few weeks ago, protesters marched through the Michigan Capitol claiming that Republicans were trying to subvert the will of voters and seize power from the Democrats who had just been elected governor, attorney general and secretary of state.

The protesters’ worst fears did not come to fruition.

On Friday, Gov. Rick Snyder, a Republican whose eight-year tenure ends next week, vetoed a bill that would have allowed lawmakers to intervene in court cases, a measure seen as an effort to dilute the authority of the new Democrats. Other legislation that would have stripped power from incoming officials never made it to a floor vote.

The results gave Michigan Democrats some measure of relief, though they were not at all thrilled with what had happened in recent weeks. Mr. Snyder also signed or vetoed dozens of other bills this week passed by lawmakers during their busy, contentious lame-duck session.

“Some of the ones that he vetoed, we are a little surprised that he vetoed,” State Representative Adam Zemke, a Democrat, said. “And so that’s a positive thing.”

In recent years, lame-duck bills to strip authority from newly elected Democrats have become part of the partisan playbook in Republican-controlled states. But Mr. Snyder’s approach to those measures contrasted sharply with that of Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who proudly signed farther-reaching legislation this month, and of former Gov. Pat McCrory of North Carolina, who approved similar bills in 2016. In left-leaning states like New Jersey, Democrats have tested their own strategies to consolidate power.

In Michigan, Mr. Snyder loomed as the likeliest barrier to the authority-stripping measures. Never a hard-right Republican, the governor had disagreed over the years with his legislative counterparts on issues like gun rights. And Mr. Snyder had weathered criticism from some within his own party for his handling of the water crisis in Flint.

“He is not necessarily going to be motivated by the same things that Scott Walker or another really partisan Republican governor was,” said Brandon Dillon, the chairman of the Michigan Democratic Party and a longtime critic of Mr. Snyder. “We thought there was a good chance that he would take a different approach to these bills going out the door.”

In vetoing the bill that would have allowed legislators to weigh in on legal cases, Mr. Snyder said he would not have liked such intervention while he was governor. “Accordingly,” Mr. Snyder wrote in a letter to lawmakers, “I do not believe it prudent to sign this legislation as my term as governor comes to an end.”

His decision garnered praise from Dana Nessel, the Democrat who will become attorney general next week. “We are grateful to Gov. Snyder for demonstrating his integrity and commitment to upholding the Michigan Constitution,” she said in a statement.

Some bills opposed by Democrats still became law. Mr. Snyder signed dozens of new measures this week, including one limiting administrative rule-making and another that makes it harder for citizens to gather signatures for ballot initiatives. Previously, he approved measures that gutted citizen efforts to raise the minimum wage and expand paid leave for sick workers.

Efforts on Friday to reach Tom Leonard, the Republican speaker of the Michigan House, and Arlan Meekhof, the Republican majority leader in the Michigan Senate, were not immediately successful. A spokeswoman for the Michigan Republican Party declined to comment.

Mr. Zemke, the Democratic representative, said the tumult of recent weeks had raised questions about whether Michigan should even have a postelection legislative session in the future.

“Even though we may have come out less scarred than we had thought we might,” Mr. Zemke said, “if we didn’t have a lame duck, none of these bills would ever have been introduced.”[/spoiler]

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Op zaterdag 29 december 2018 22:20 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Best eng eigenlijk, als Rutte zoiets over de PVDA zou zeggen bestond de VVD de volgende dag niet meer. Als in alle stemmers zouden weg lopen naar andere partijen.

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Op zaterdag 29 december 2018 22:20 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Best eng eigenlijk, als Rutte zoiets over de PVDA zou zeggen bestond de VVD de volgende dag niet meer. Als in alle stemmers zouden weg lopen naar andere partijen.

De Republikeinen moeten toch gaan inzien dat deze situatie onhoudbaar is.

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Op zondag 30 december 2018 17:52 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Als Rutte het zou zeggen zou het hem misschien stemmen kosten, maar als Wilders of Baudet het zou zeggen zou hun achterban het vermoedelijk alleen maar geweldig vinden.

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feliciasonmez twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 21:23:46 Lindsey Graham outside WH just now after lunch withTrump: "We had a great lunch. We talked about Syria. He told me some things I didn’t know that made me feel a lot better about where we’re headed in Syria." reageer retweet

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feliciasonmez twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 21:26:22 “The wall has become a metaphor for border security,” Graham says reageer retweet

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Op zondag 30 december 2018 21:52 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Ook een manier om je gezicht te redden: 'The Wall' betekent eik 'Border Security'

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feliciasonmez twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 21:23:46 Lindsey Graham outside WH just now after lunch withTrump: "We had a great lunch. We talked about Syria. He told me some things I didn’t know that made me feel a lot better about where we’re headed in Syria." reageer retweet

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feliciasonmez twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 21:26:22 “The wall has become a metaphor for border security,” Graham says reageer retweet

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Op zondag 30 december 2018 22:00 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Graham is weer tot de orde geroepen.

Lindsey Graham: The President is not a man under siege

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Op zondag 30 december 2018 22:20 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ik had meer de indruk dat Trump hem als spreekbuis heeft gebruikt om de boodschap over te brengen.

Lindsey Graham: The President is not a man under siege

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 22:59:44 President and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound. I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security. The U.S. needs the same thing, slightly larger version! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 30 december 2018 23:16 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 22:59:44 President and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound. I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security. The U.S. needs the same thing, slightly larger version! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 30 december 2018 23:16 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 22:59:44 President and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound. I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security. The U.S. needs the same thing, slightly larger version! reageer retweet

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Op zondag 30 december 2018 23:19 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Een muur van drie meter, dat zal ze leren!

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maggieNYT twitterde op maandag 31-12-2018 om 01:29:26 The DACA-for-border-wall $ deal that Graham discussed today is not something Democrats are interested in now, in part because the issue is expected to go to a high court challenge in 2019 https://t.co/9KC5qf73gy reageer retweet

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maggieNYT twitterde op maandag 31-12-2018 om 01:41:28 House Dems are preparing to pass a bill to fund the government on Thursday, taking away a White House talking point that they're unwilling to make a move https://t.co/9KC5qf73gy reageer retweet

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maggieNYT twitterde op maandag 31-12-2018 om 01:50:30 Some Trump advisers see budget fight taking place now as preferable to late next year. But Trump had agreed to the CR that was passed and he was supposed to sign a few weeks ago. Now, Dems have no incentive to make a first offer after he reneged on that https://t.co/9KC5qf73gy reageer retweet

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maggieNYT twitterde op maandag 31-12-2018 om 01:55:17 The toughest part is yet to come for Trump, which is when he gets sent something and is tempted to sign it to end the standoff and is urged by his base to veto it. So far, this is noise...but 800k federal workers are impacted https://t.co/9KC5qf73gy reageer retweet

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LizSly twitterde op maandag 31-12-2018 om 00:30:50 These are the exact same conditions set by the administration before Trump’s withdrawal announcement. In other words, the troops stay indefinitely. Except now everyone else is confused and already making other plans. https://t.co/aGjoLBxIRb reageer retweet

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azcentral twitterde op zaterdag 29-12-2018 om 03:30:24 Migrant children dragged, pushed at Southwest Key shelter. https://t.co/Xgnqnjy4zq https://t.co/W3I7n3paXv reageer retweet

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 00:33 schreef john2406 het volgende:

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Vergeet de diepte niet!

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Op zondag 30 december 2018 23:16 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zondag 30-12-2018 om 22:59:44 President and Mrs. Obama built/has a ten foot Wall around their D.C. mansion/compound. I agree, totally necessary for their safety and security. The U.S. needs the same thing, slightly larger version! reageer retweet

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 09:13 schreef Vis1980 het volgende:

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En zou u ook kunnen uitleggen waarom dat is?

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 03:22 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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LizSly twitterde op maandag 31-12-2018 om 00:30:50 These are the exact same conditions set by the administration before Trump’s withdrawal announcement. In other words, the troops stay indefinitely. Except now everyone else is confused and already making other plans. https://t.co/aGjoLBxIRb reageer retweet

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 09:44 schreef Arcee het volgende:

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Kan niet wachten tot Trump dit in z'n eigen onsamenhangende woorden nader gaat toelichten.

Duitse leraar allemaal onvoldoende of nee toch niet

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 09:56 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Trump heeft dus alleen maar zijn onderhandelaars een trap in de rug gegeven.
Dealmaker my ass.

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 13:06 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:

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De oplossing lijkt mij heel makkelijk: de democraten stemmen voor de begroting(met geld voor de wall) en stemmen voor de strengere imigratiehervorming. Dan krijgen de daca kinderen een greencard doordat republikeinen voor stemmen.

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 13:17 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Obama heeft dan ook goede reden om zich zorgen te maken met de hoeveelheid rechtse terroristen in de VS.

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 14:36 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Elizabeth Warren stelt zich kandidaat:
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)nt-announcement.html

Ga je Trump niet mee verslaan denk ik.

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 14:36 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Elizabeth Warren stelt zich kandidaat:
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)nt-announcement.html

Ga je Trump niet mee verslaan denk ik.

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 14:36 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Elizabeth Warren stelt zich kandidaat:
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)nt-announcement.html

Ga je Trump niet mee verslaan denk ik.

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 14:36 schreef Tweek het volgende:
Elizabeth Warren stelt zich kandidaat:
https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)nt-announcement.html

Ga je Trump niet mee verslaan denk ik.

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 15:15 schreef Q. het volgende:

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Je hebt een mannelijke, blanke, zuidelijke democraat nodig om Trump te kunnen verslaan. Type Beto. GEEN vrouw of kleuring want het grootste deel van dat land leeft nog in de middeleeuwen en zal daar nooit op stemmen. Je moet een kandidaat hebben die voor de gemiddelde middeleeuwse Republikein acceptabel is. En een vrouw is dat niet. Warren niet, Hillary niet.

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Op maandag 31 december 2018 15:19 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:

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Geen 'kleurling' want daar zal het grootste deel nooit op stemmen? Je bent Obama vergeten?