[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #590: Emergency cancelled

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heatherscope twitterde op maandag 14-01-2019 om 23:56:03 Some NEWS with @JakeSherman: White House inviting group of House Democrats to meet this week to talk border security reageer retweet

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heatherscope twitterde op maandag 14-01-2019 om 23:58:32 @lbarronlopez @JakeSherman WH hoping to circumvent Pelosi et. al and cut a deal with moderate House Dems HIGHLY unlikely this works but official invites going out soon. reageer retweet

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robertarampton twitterde op maandag 14-01-2019 om 23:54:59 POTUS with “great American food” for Clemson Tigers visiting WH. https://t.co/VgmQeXNhk6 reageer retweet

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CNNPolitics twitterde op maandag 14-01-2019 om 23:57:11 President Trump is personally paying for Clemson's fast-food White House meals https://t.co/7ijfu9AvQ2 https://t.co/yM2MTnLIY3 reageer retweet

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Newsweek twitterde op dinsdag 15-01-2019 om 00:00:15 'The View' hosts agree Trump probably isn't capable enough to be a Russian spy: "He can barely run our country" https://t.co/x7AqvzZ6cB https://t.co/p8v2dcKGSf reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2019 00:08 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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heatherscope twitterde op maandag 14-01-2019 om 23:56:03 Some NEWS with @JakeSherman: White House inviting group of House Democrats to meet this week to talk border security reageer retweet

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heatherscope twitterde op maandag 14-01-2019 om 23:58:32 @lbarronlopez @JakeSherman WH hoping to circumvent Pelosi et. al and cut a deal with moderate House Dems HIGHLY unlikely this works but official invites going out soon. reageer retweet

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taylomason twitterde op maandag 14-01-2019 om 23:58:38 He was serious. https://t.co/fD3oPmZ0kg reageer retweet

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DanLamothe twitterde op maandag 14-01-2019 om 23:47:10 Important detail in the guts of this story: Over the weekend, the Coast Guard told retirees in an email that it may not be able to cover pensions if the #Shutdown continues late into this month.#ShutdownStories #CoastGuardhttps://t.co/ITnzWWwzzy reageer retweet

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DanLamothe twitterde op maandag 14-01-2019 om 23:45:07 Migrant intercepts off the coast of California, according to the U.S. Coast Guard:FY 2016: 142FY 2017: 213FY 2018: 1,022https://t.co/ITnzWWwzzy reageer retweet

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The U.S. Coast Guard saw a nearly fivefold increase in the number of migrants it intercepted off the coast of southern California in 2018, underscoring the challenge that will remain in stopping illegal migration even if President Trump secures funding for his southern border wall.

The numbers, released to The Washington Post in recent days, show the service intercepted 1,022 migrants at sea there in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30. That was up from 213 in 2017 and 142 in 2016.

Nationwide, the number of migrant intercepts at sea dropped from 2,512 in 2017 to 1,668 in 2018, indicating a shift in which more migrants are now intercepted off the West Coast. The majority of migrants taken into custody there come from Central and South America, while migrants caught along the East Coast are more likely to come from Haiti or other islands in the Caribbean Sea.

A Coast Guard spokesman, Chief Warrant Officer 4 Barry Lane, said that the migrants intercepted at sea in 2018 come from numerous countries in the Western Hemisphere, including Mexico, Ecuador, Bolivia, Colombia and Guatemala. Others came from farther away nations that include China, Sri Lanka, India and Jordan, he said.

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hunterw twitterde op dinsdag 15-01-2019 om 00:26:10 Here's a video I shot of President Trump showing off his 300 hamburgers. https://t.co/P06S6I5w07 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 15-01-2019 om 00:30:08 Chuck Schumer has officially announced he'll force a vote in the Senate on a resolution to disapprove of the Treasury's decision to relax sanctions for companies connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. https://t.co/iVoyj6SLz7 reageer retweet

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EliStokols twitterde op dinsdag 15-01-2019 om 00:19:00 Some farmers, hurt by Trump's tariffs, now can't get essential loans or govt. assistance due to the shutdown. But many who voted for him "have a hard time admitting they could have been wrong.” https://t.co/2Ecl3QWP3W reageer retweet

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A year ago, President Trump received a hero's welcome at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s 99th annual convention in Nashville, cheered for rolling back regulations, revamping an Obama administration water rule and for being the first president to address the group in 25 years.

In New Orleans on Monday, he made good on last year's promise to return for the group's centennial meeting.

“What can I do? I like farmers,” Trump told the appreciative crowd after traveling from a snow-covered Washington that remained frozen in a partial government shutdown for a 24th day, in a funding impasse over his proposed southern border wall.

But the cheers he received, from those who waited in hourlong security lines to hear him speak inside the city's riverfront convention center, belied a more complicated relationship with America's farmers, who have largely supported him.

Most still do, though they have been hurt in recent months by the tariffs that top trading partners have slapped on U.S. farm products, in retaliation for the tariffs Trump first imposed on their country’s goods. And now, a shuttered government isn’t processing the subsidy checks that many farmers rely on.

“If there's one thing farmers need and want, it's reliability and predictability,” said Jamie Johansson, president of the California Farm Bureau Federation.

“The angst you will find is, he has not provided that in the tariff situation around trade,” Johansson said. “But when he ran, we knew exactly what we were getting.”

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markknoller twitterde op dinsdag 15-01-2019 om 00:53:11 "You guys aren't into salads," said Pres Trump of one idea to have @FLOTUS & @SecondLady prepare salads for the Clemson Tigers. Instead the WH sent out for a thousand burgers from @McDonalds, @BurgerKing and @Wendys. "We have everything that I like and you like," said the pres. https://t.co/uYL26Qvr2F reageer retweet

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CBSNews twitterde op dinsdag 15-01-2019 om 00:56:51 President Trump says he could have had no food for the Clemson Tigers because of the government shutdown, but decided to get them 1,000 fast food burgers: "Everything that I like" https://t.co/EMzk7uNk1P reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2019 01:11 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Trump heeft vandaag weer veel stemmen gewonnen met deze stunt.
Voor veel Amerikanen is fast food vaste prik.

De spelers (praktisch allemaal college kids) vonden het ook fijn dat ze geen Foie Gras of salades hoefde te eten.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 15-01-2019 om 02:05:09 Update: House Republican leaders have removed Steve King from the Judiciary and Agriculture Committees over King's white supremacy remark, NYT reports. https://t.co/wktYrFr20C reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op dinsdag 15-01-2019 om 02:03:19 Well, this ticks in favor of Barr needing to recuse from overseeing Mueller:“Barr discussed the memo [that he wrote criticizing Mueller’s probe of obstruction] with Trump prior to his nomination, according to a source familiar with the discussions...”https://t.co/s9KukVozoW reageer retweet

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Attorney General nominee William Barr shared a controversial memo last year with nearly all of President Donald Trump's lawyers concluding that an aspect of special counsel Robert Mueller's case could be "fatally misconceived," Barr acknowledged Monday.

Barr's 19-page memo -- which concluded that Trump's publicly reported interactions with ex-FBI Director James Comey could not constitute obstruction of justice -- was addressed to Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and Assistant Attorney General Steve Engel and released as a part of Barr's Senate questionnaire last month. But it was previously unclear who else had seen it.

In a letter to Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsay Graham Monday night, Barr said that he had sent it to White House special counsel Emmet Flood, Solicitor General Noel Francisco, and his former Justice Department colleague Pat Cipollone who is now White House counsel. He also discussed the issues raised in the memo with Trump lawyers Marty and Jane Raskin and Jay Sekulow. In addition he sent a copy, or had a conversation about the contents of the memo with Abbe Lowell, an attorney for Jared Kushner.

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2019 00:32 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 15-01-2019 om 00:30:08 Chuck Schumer has officially announced he'll force a vote in the Senate on a resolution to disapprove of the Treasury's decision to relax sanctions for companies connected to Russian oligarch Oleg Deripaska. https://t.co/iVoyj6SLz7 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2019 01:11 schreef Nintex het volgende:
Trump heeft vandaag weer veel stemmen gewonnen met deze stunt.
Voor veel Amerikanen is fast food vaste prik.

De spelers (praktisch allemaal college kids) vonden het ook fijn dat ze geen Foie Gras of salades hoefde te eten.

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Op dinsdag 15 januari 2019 02:32 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Geen woord over de 8 EU landen, of het feit dat hij hiermee eigenlijk zegt dat de VS haar eigen sanctie regels kan negeren.

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yashar twitterde op dinsdag 15-01-2019 om 02:23:20 NEW: The Special Counsel’s Office and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are scrutinizing a meeting involving Devin Nunes, one-time National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and dozens of foreign officials. https://t.co/kZGbQCCkV1 reageer retweet

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The Special Counsel’s Office and federal prosecutors in Manhattan are scrutinizing a meeting involving former House Intelligence Committee Chairman Devin Nunes, one-time National Security Adviser Michael Flynn, and dozens of foreign officials, according to three sources familiar with the investigations.

The breakfast event, which was first reported by The Daily Sabah, a pro-government Turkish paper, took place at 8:30 a.m. at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 18, 2017—days before President Donald Trump’s inauguration. About 60 people were invited, including diplomats from governments around the world, according to those same sources.

The breakfast has come under scrutiny by federal prosecutors in Manhattan as part of their probe into whether the Trump inaugural committee misspent funds and if donors tried to buy influence in the White House. The existence of that probe was first reported by the Wall Street Journal. The Special Counsel’s Office is also looking at the breakfast as part of its investigation into whether foreigners contributed money to the Trump inaugural fund and PAC by possibly using American intermediaries, as first reported by The New York Times. Robert Mueller’s team has asked Flynn about the event, according to two sources familiar with the Special Counsel’s Office questioning.

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The breakfast gathering took place the night after the Global Chairman’s Dinner—one of the inauguration’s most exclusive events, set up so the incoming president can meet the foreign diplomatic corps. Some of those who attended the dinner also attended the Trump Hotel breakfast, two individuals with direct knowledge of the events told The Daily Beast. Country officials invited to the breakfast included Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirates, Israel, Lithuania, Estonia, Denmark, Japan, Angola and others. Former Kazakh Ambassador Kairat Umarov attended the breakfast, as did two senior Qatari officials.

Pluvious Group, a consultancy that raised money for the Republican National Committee and the Trump campaign, helped with the event’s organization, according to two sources with knowledge of the breakfast. The group did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

“If you’re a prosecutor all of the right players are there,” said former federal prosecutor Paul Pelletier, referring to the breakfast. “In a lot of ways breakfasts like this are totally normal. It happens all the time in Washington. So, they wouldn’t be investigating it if they weren’t following the money. The big question would be who is paying for it? It’s got to be part of the broader scheme of who is trying to use money to influence the White House.”

Nunes’ office did not respond to repeated requests for comment. A lawyer for Flynn declined to comment, as did the Southern District of New York and the Special Counsel’s Office.

Flynn, who was ousted from his post in February 2017, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI about his contact with Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak. He was a cooperating witness in the Mueller investigation, but it is still unclear how much jail time, if any, he will receive. As part of their questioning of Flynn, Mueller’s team asked the retired general about his interaction with foreign officials, particularly in the days leading up to the inauguration and including at the breakfast, two people with knowledge of the special counsel’s questioning told The Daily Beast.

“The fact that the prosecutors are looking at this is part of the whole question of the Trump way of doing business—how it may have given all kinds of foreign powers inroads into the White House,” said Hussein Ibish, a senior resident scholar at the Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington. “These cases are important because they involve possible elements of corruption and could tell us more about the special physics of Trumpworld influence which looks more like what you get in a banana republic.”

And within Trumpworld, there are few players better known for their willingness to “throw themselves on grenade, after grenade, after grenade” in the defense of Trump than Nunes, according to a former senior White House official.

The bromance goes both ways. Late last year, President Trump even went as far as to bizarrely state that Nunes deserves the Medal of Honor for “bravery” in his blocking-and-tackling against the Trump-Russia investigations, only to subsequently correct himself to say Nunes should get the Medal of Freedom instead. (The Medal of Honor is a military decoration.)

"You would be shocked at the number of Americans who have drank the Russia Kool-Aid, and they actually believe that Donald Trump is under control of Vladimir Putin," Nunes said in an interview with Fox News in September. "You're really dealing with many Americans who are living in an alternative universe."

Soon after the inauguration breakfast, Nunes began a House intelligence committee investigation, ostensibly aimed at the connections between Trump and Russia, that devolved into a mechanism to defend Trump against those investigating the president. Revelations about Nunes’ cooperation with the White House prompted him to leave the investigation in the hands of his GOP colleagues, but Nunes retained subpoena power. The investigation ended last year after Republicans on the committee said they “found no evidence of collusion between President Donald Trump’s associates and the Kremlin.”

This summer, The Rachel Maddow Show aired audio from a closed-door fundraiser in which Nunes said Republicans had to keep their majority in the House to protect Trump from Mueller.

“If [then Attorney General Jeff] Sessions won’t unrecuse and Mueller won’t clear the president, we’re the only ones, which is really the danger,” Nunes said. ““I mean, we have to keep all these seats. We have to keep the majority. If we do not keep the majority, all of this goes away.”

Nunes’ counterpart on the intelligence committee, Adam Schiff, a Democrat from California, now holds the chairman seat.

It’s not surprising that Nunes and Flynn found themselves together in the days before the inauguration. Nunes’ links to Flynn are substantial. During the 24-day period when Flynn served as Trump’s national security adviser, Flynn brought one of Nunes’ senior aides, the former Defense Intelligence Agency analyst Derek Harvey, onto the staff of the National Security Council. Another former aide to Nunes’ committee, Michael Ellis, went to the White House counsel’s office. Ellis and a third Flynn aide, the NSC intelligence director Ezra Cohen-Watnick, reportedly fed Nunes information that Nunes presented as deriving from intelligence whistleblowers worried about inappropriate “unmasking” of Americans’ names from surveillance intercepts, such as Flynn’s. (Cohen-Watnick denies involvement.)

In February of 2017, as the possibility arose of Trump firing Flynn for misleading Vice President Mike Pence, Nunes told a reporter that he expected Flynn to keep his job. “It just seems like there's a lot of nothing there,” Nunes told Bloomberg News.

Trump fired Flynn the next day. And Nunes became a rare voice defending the retired Army lieutenant general. “Washington, D.C. can be a rough town for honorable people, and Flynn—who has always been a soldier, not a politician—deserves America's gratitude and respect for dedicating so much of his life to strengthening our national security,” Nunes said on Feb. 14, 2017. Flynn would plead guilty to lying to the FBI that December.

Flynn’s ascension to the highest ranks of the Trump administration—quickly followed by his dramatic fall—was, however, met with some prescient reservations, including from President-elect Trump himself.

During the presidential transition, Trump quizzed close advisers on if they thought installing Flynn would be “too risky,” given that Trump had heard that the retired Army lieutenant general had a reputation for being a “cowboy” and a “wild man,” according to two people with direct knowledge of these conversations.

“Will he be a problem, do you think?” one of these sources recalled Trump asking during the transition.