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Rosenstein did not want to write memo justifying Comey firing –
The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, privately complained that he was ordered by president Donald Trump to write the notorious memo justifying the firing of the FBI director James Comey, according to Comey’s former deputy...
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Rosenstein did not want to write memo justifying Comey firing –
The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, privately complained that he was ordered by president Donald Trump to write the notorious memo justifying the firing of the FBI director James Comey, according to Comey’s former deputy...
Ik heb er ooit eens eentje piswoest gekregen.quote:Op vrijdag 8 februari 2019 12:27 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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Hij doet me ook wel eens aan een gladde makelaar denken, zo een die je glimlachend een lekkend krot met een rotte fundering aan wil smeren.
Made my day.
had hem net gezien... lekker recht door zeequote:
https://m.huffpost.com/us(...)tm_source=reddit.com
Ooh, she DOES mean business!
04-08-11, 02-02-12, 20-06-14, 13-08-15
Ander nieuws:
John Dingell is overleden op 92 jarige leeftijd, hij was het langst zittende kamerlid van de VS. Zat tot zijn dood nog op twitter, zeer grappige en geestige man.
John Dingell is overleden op 92 jarige leeftijd, hij was het langst zittende kamerlid van de VS. Zat tot zijn dood nog op twitter, zeer grappige en geestige man.
Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.
twitter:rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2019 om 16:14:48 #Whitaker's opening statement says he will not discuss matters that "MAY" be subject to executive privilege -- sounds like this maintains Trump officials not actually invoking the privilege, but delaying tactic.(for more on this, read @:AndyMcCanse's analysis) reageer retweet
Het begon al goed: Whitaker die in zijn pogingen om vragen te ontwijken Nadler erop wijst dat zijn vijf minuten om zijn
Whitaker to chairman: I see that your 5 minutes is up
[ Bericht 22% gewijzigd door Kijkertje op 08-02-2019 16:56:12 ]
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Doet me denken aan dit ontluisterend stuk dat ik gisteren las: https://www.theatlantic.c(...)e-to-america/580471/quote:Op vrijdag 8 februari 2019 16:40 schreef Re het volgende:
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had hem net gezien... lekker recht door zee
Aut viam inveniam, aut faciam
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die.
Okay. Je zegt het.quote:Save this for the future: Matthew Whitaker says that he has not talked to Trump or senior White House officials about the Special Counsel's investigation.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Zou best eens kunnen idd. Susan Collins sloeg de plank weer eens helemaal mis iig:quote:Op vrijdag 8 februari 2019 07:35 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
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Ik denk dat Roberts naar links gaat opschuiven in een poging wat legitimiteit voor het SC te bewaren.
twitter:RVAwonk twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2019 om 05:59:51 Here's Susan Collins in September, saying Brett Kavanaugh would respect precedent by upholding Roe v. Wade, despite his entire career indicating he that wouldn't.And in his #SCOTUS dissent today, he showed he would do exactly what we all said he would: Try to undermine Roe. https://t.co/LEiJpQQt5y reageer retweet
Here's Susan Collins in September, saying Brett Kavanaugh would respect precedent by upholding Roe v. Wade, despite his entire career indicating he that wouldn't.And in his
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
twitter:maggieNYT twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2019 om 17:28:36 "In his sharpest criticism, McCabe writes that after firing Comey, Trump and the White House counsel, Don McGahn, acted like mobsters by in effect offering McCabe protection in return for loyalty." https://t.co/pEYBwEqF0V reageer retweet
"In his sharpest criticism, McCabe writes that after firing Comey, Trump and the White House counsel, Don McGahn, acted like mobsters by in effect offering McCabe protection in return for loyalty." Rosenstein did not want to write memo justifying Comey firing – new booktwitter:maggieNYT twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2019 om 17:31:27 "The president and his men were trying to work me the way a criminal brigade would operate," McCabe writes, recalling an Oval Office meeting soon after his elevation to acting FBI director." https://t.co/pEYBwEqF0V reageer retweet
Deputy attorney general privately complained about Trump’s order, according to Comey’s former deputy Andrew McCabe
quote:The deputy attorney general, Rod Rosenstein, privately complained that he was ordered by president Donald Trump to write the notorious memo justifying the firing of the FBI director James Comey, according to Comey’s former deputy.
Andrew McCabe writes in a new book that Rosenstein, who has publicly defended the memo, lamented that the president had directed him to rationalise Comey’s dismissal, which is now the subject of inquiries into whether Trump obstructed justice.
Rosenstein made his remarks in a private meeting at the justice department on 12 May 2017, according to McCabe’s memoir, which also accuses Trump of operating like a criminal mob boss and of unleashing a “strain of insanity” in American public life.
McCabe recalls Rosenstein being “glassy-eyed”, visibly upset and sounding emotional after coming to believe the White House was using him as a scapegoat for Comey’s dismissal.
“He said it wasn’t his idea. The president had ordered him to write the memo justifying the firing,” McCabe writes. Rosenstein said he was having trouble sleeping, McCabe writes. “There’s no one here that I can trust,” he is quoted as saying.
McCabe’s book, The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump, is due on sale later this month. A copy was obtained by the Guardian prior to its release.
The account supports reports last year that Rosenstein was left “shaken” by his role in Comey’s firing. It provides the strongest indication so far that Rosenstein’s private view on the memo clashed with his testimony to Congress saying: “I wrote it. I believe it. I stand by it.”SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
twitter:Fahrenthold twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2019 om 16:34:07 NEW: @:realdonaldtrump’s Bedminster golf course employed so many undocumented immigrants that there’s an entire town in Costa Rica built on Trump paychecks. We found it. “My whole town practically lived there,” one said of the Trump course.https://t.co/IzI1aVEMVr reageer retweet
NEW: @:realdonaldtrump’s Bedminster golf course employed so many undocumented immigrants that there’s an entire town in Costa Rica built on Trump paychecks. We found it. “My whole town practically lived there,” one said of the Trump course.
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
https://twitter.com/KarenAttiah/status/1093845230070218752?s=19quote:Good morning!
Per Congressional request, President Trump’s admin has until *today* to report on Saudi Crown prince Mohammed Bin Salman’s role in Jamal #khashoggi’s killing.
Today, we will see if Trump will let Saudi Arabia get away with murdering a @:washingtonpost writer.
Dat gaat hij niet doen denk ik. MBS schepte op dat hij Kushner in zijn binnenzak heeft, dus die banden mogen ook wel worden onderzocht.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
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Secretary of State Mike Pompeo claims terror threat as cause for U.S. action in Venezuela
Get ready to wag that dog!
Geīnspireerd door de Russische konvooien van witte trucks die in 2014 (of 2015?) hulpgoederen naar Donetsk en Luhansk brachten? Oekraine heeft ze toen (na enige vertraging) doorgelaten, misschien omdat ze vreesden dat Rusland anders een "humanitaire" militaire interventie zou uitvoeren.quote:He added, "Today we tried to deliver humanitarian assistance from… the United States and Colombia into Venezuela and the Venezuelan military under the direction of Mr. Maduro stopped that. This is horrific stuff."
Ich glaube, dass es manchmal nicht genügend Steine gibt und
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Wanneer gaat de shutdown nou in principe weer van start? Dat moet toch alweer ergens volgende week zijn toch?
Opgeblazen gevoel of winderigheid? Zo opgelost met Rennie!
15 februari dacht ikquote:Op vrijdag 8 februari 2019 17:54 schreef Eyjafjallajoekull het volgende:
Wanneer gaat de shutdown nou in principe weer van start? Dat moet toch alweer ergens volgende week zijn toch?
“The fundamental cause of the trouble in the modern world today is that the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.”— Bertrand Russell
Bizar dat intussen de approval ratings van Trump weer hersteld zijn. Hoe kort is het geheugen van die groep Amerikanen?quote:
Wanneer gaat de shutdown nou in principe weer van start? Dat moet toch alweer ergens volgende week zijn toch?
In 32 Staten stond de net approval onder nul.quote:
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Bizar dat intussen de approval ratings van Trump weer hersteld zijn. Hoe kort is het geheugen van die groep Amerikanen?
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
quote:Federal prosecutors in New York are probing whether the National Enquirer's parent company violated a cooperation agreement in its handling of the story regarding Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos.
https://t.co/kGZ2eJ2T49
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Om eerlijk te zijn denk ik toch dat de meeste Trump stemmers altijd op een republikein zullen stemmen. Het land is gewoon redelijk 50/50 verdeeld. Al jaren.quote:
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Bizar dat intussen de approval ratings van Trump weer hersteld zijn. Hoe kort is het geheugen van die groep Amerikanen?
Opgeblazen gevoel of winderigheid? Zo opgelost met Rennie!
Een Mob-servatie?quote:
Zojuist hoorde ik trump bestudeerd ‘bedachtzaam’ spreken en het deed mij sterk denken aan Marlon Brando in the Godfather.
#randomobservatie
Het antwoord op de belangrijkste vraag van alle vragen? 42!
Mag dit? Die donoren geven toch geen geld om Jared uit de nor te houden?
quote:Trump's campaign has spent nearly $100,000 of donor money to pay legal bills to the firm representing Jared Kushner, the latest campaign finance records show, according to ABC News. https://t.co/hFaMMuz61S
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Aan de prijs.quote:ProPublic and WNYC confirm that Trump's Inaugural Committee paid the Trump's D.C. hotel a rate of $175,000 per day for event space — if the committee is found to have paid an above-market rate, that could violate tax laws prohibiting self-dealing. https://t.co/wqG9MBbbhr
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Ondertussen doet Ted Lieu bij het verhoor van Whitaker ook iets leuks....
quote:@:tedlieu just established thru Whitaker testimony that 1) no member of the Trump family (including Trump) is constitutionally protected from criminal prosecution ✅ and 2) there is no emergency at the southern border ✅. Very impressive use of his time. Well done.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Raskin geeft Whitaker ook op zijn kloten.
Filmpje in de tweet.quote:Fire from Jamie Raskin when Whitaker tries to challenge him: "I control this time, Mr. Whitaker ... This is my time. Mr. Whitaker, you don't run this committee! You don't run the Congress of the United States, and you don't run the Judiciary Committee." Via ABC https://t.co/tdf3nAYqX4
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
quote:LIEU: There’s no sentence in the US Constitution that says the sitting President cannot be indicted, correct?
WHITAKER: Congressman, because that is the opinion of the office.
LIEU: I don’t actually care what DOJ policy is, I’m asking you about the Constitution. Via CSPAN https://t.co/X4aXkqE97i
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Wat een grappig toeval inderdaad. Echt heel bijzonder dat juist die DA, drieduizend km van DC en die geen bal met de zaak te maken lijkt te hebben, de enige is met wie hij sprak. Superbijzonder.quote:Whitaker says the only person in the briefings on Special Counsel investigation was:
US Atty for Eastern D. of CA Greg Scott, covering Fresno.
Guess who Fresno's Congressman is?
@:DevinNunes. What a coincidence.
https://twitter.com/jedshug/status/1093946223705444353?s=19
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Ted Lieu is een eindbaas!
quote:WATCH: Acting AG Whitaker answers yes to Rep. Lieu’s questions about potentially indicting various people based on the Constitution, but refers to DOJ policy when asked about potentially indicting a sitting president.
Lieu submitted the Constitution for congressional record. https://t.co/5B9PFOdpba
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Nieuwe beschuldiging tegen Fairfax:
twitter:jmartNYT twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2019 om 22:21:06 NEW: Another woman comes forward to accuse Fairfax of sexual assault, this time in 2000 > https://t.co/NHNiYx8mLV reageer retweet
NEW: Another woman comes forward to accuse Fairfax of sexual assault, this time in 2000 > SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.Ich glaube, dass es manchmal nicht genügend Steine gibt und
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Spijtig als dit persisteert. Ik gaf haar wel een goede kans... in ieder geval tegen Trump, want ik denk dat ze van de Democraten best wel goed in staat zou zijn "middle America" te winnen, wat echt een landslide had opgeleverd.twitter:KFILE twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2019 om 22:29:27 Eight former staffers for Amy Klobuchar told BuzzFeed she ran an office “controlled by fear, anger, and shame” & that she “demeaned and berated her staff almost daily, subjecting them to bouts of explosive rage and regular humiliation within the office.” https://t.co/frLT2uxxYn reageer retweet
Eight former staffers for Amy Klobuchar told BuzzFeed she ran an office “controlled by fear, anger, and shame” & that she “demeaned and berated her staff almost daily, subjecting them to bouts of explosive rage and regular humiliation within the office.” 
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Nieuwe beschuldiging tegen Fairfax:twitter:jmartNYT twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2019 om 22:21:06 NEW: Another woman comes forward to accuse Fairfax of sexual assault, this time in 2000 > https://t.co/NHNiYx8mLV reageer retweetWat een puinhoop.SPOILEROm spoilers te kunnen lezen moet je zijn ingelogd. Je moet je daarvoor eerst gratis Registreren. Ook kun je spoilers niet lezen als je een ban hebt.
Een kans voor Dems in te laten zien dat ze dit soort aanklachten altijd serieus nemen, ongeacht wie er beschuldigd wordt.
Die geruchten gaan al wel heel lang rond. Apart want ik vind het totaal niet bij haar passen.quote:Spijtig als dit persisteert. Ik gaf haar wel een goede kans... in ieder geval tegen Trump, want ik denk dat ze van de Democraten best wel goed in staat zou zijn "middle America" te winnen, wat echt een landslide had opgeleverd.twitter:KFILE twitterde op vrijdag 08-02-2019 om 22:29:27 Eight former staffers for Amy Klobuchar told BuzzFeed she ran an office “controlled by fear, anger, and shame” & that she “demeaned and berated her staff almost daily, subjecting them to bouts of explosive rage and regular humiliation within the office.” https://t.co/frLT2uxxYn reageer retweet
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quote:Bezos himself, laying out his allegations in an extraordinary 2,000-word blogpost, noted that Pecker and AMI have been “investigated for various actions they’ve taken on behalf of the Saudi Government”. He added that “for reasons still to be better understood, the Saudi angle seems to hit a particularly sensitive nerve”.
It was not immediately clear why Bezos made the Saudi connection, but political commentators were quick to recall that Jamal Khashoggi, a Washington Post columnist and critic of the Saudi government, was murdered at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, focusing often critical attention on Trump’s cosy relationship with the kingdom.
PEN America, which promotes freedom of expression, condemned AMI’s actions and Trump’s possible links. Suzanne Nossel, its chief executive, said: “Coming against the backdrop of credible reports of past coordination between President Donald Trump and National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, these revelations assume a truly sinister cast.
“If indeed AMI’s threats and acts of intimidation toward the press were coordinated with the president or done at his request, it would represent a perilous escalation of the president’s war on the first amendment and the role of a free press. Congress should act immediately to investigate these serious allegations.”
The intrigue, which has shaken the worlds of New York media and Washington politics, began on 9 January when Bezos announced on Twitter that he was getting divorced from his wife of 25 years, novelist MacKenzie Bezos.
quote:Bezos, meanwhile, hired a team of private investigators to find out how the tabloid acquired the texts and photos. Bezos writes in his blogpost on Medium that he learned Pecker was “apoplectic” about the investigation. AMI later approached Bezos’s representatives with an offer. “They said they had more of my text messages and photos that they would publish if we didn’t stop our investigation,” he wrote.
Bezos also wrote that this week, the tabloid’s editor, Dylan Howard, emailed a lawyer for Bezos’s longtime security consultant to describe photos including a “below-the-belt selfie” of Bezos and him in tight boxer shorts and wearing only a towel, as well as several revealing photos of Sanchez.
According to the emails released by Bezos, AMI offered a formal deal: the tabloid would agree to not publish the photos if Bezos and his investigators would release a public statement “affirming that they have no knowledge or basis” to suggest the Enquirer’s coverage was “politically motivated or influenced by political forces”.
But in a move that has earned widespread public praise, Bezos said he decided to publish the emails sent to his team “rather than capitulate to extortion and blackmail”, despite the “personal cost and embarrassment they threaten”.
Free Assange! Hack the Planet
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
[b]Op dinsdag 6 januari 2009 19:59 schreef Papierversnipperaar het volgende:[/b]
De gevolgen van de argumenten van de anti-rook maffia
Bezos slammed the door on Pecker.
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
En Trump had zijn medische check.
quote:From the pool report as Trump leaves Walter Reed for his annual physical: "Hogan Gidley came into the hold room briefly. He didn't have a explanation for how President Trump was tweeting during his physical."
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Ah krijgen we nu ook weer zo’n persco waarin we horen dat het de fitste president ooit ever in the universe is?quote:
Lekker zuipen, lekker dansen en daarna lekker neuken.
Waarschijnlijk wel.quote:
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Ah krijgen we nu ook weer zo’n persco waarin we horen dat het de fitste president ooit ever in the universe is?
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
*pets*quote:.@:chucktodd: "What did you learn" from Whitaker's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee?
.@:davidcicilline "I think we learned, first of all, that Mr. Whitaker clearly had no business being appointed as Acting Attorney General of the United States." #MTPDaily
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Bloomberg, via Kyle Griffin.
Dafuq? Wat is dit nou weer?quote:Robert Mueller wants to know more about a secret $1 million loan made to Paul Manafort's family in the days after the FBI raided his home, according to Bloomberg. It's unclear right now who actually funded the loan.
https://t.co/C9dJmZ7OnY
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Ik ben er nog altijd niet uit of (team) Manafort nou gewoon ontzettend schaamteloos is of hemeltergend dom.
Lekker zuipen, lekker dansen en daarna lekker neuken.
Dat moet schaamteloos zijn. Iets anders is niet mogelijk, toch?quote:
Ik ben er nog altijd niet uit of (team) Manafort nou gewoon ontzettend schaamteloos is of hemeltergend dom.
Die lui leven in een parallel universum. Maar hoe kan iets een lening zijn als je niet weet wie je moet terugbetalen?
I hate to advocate drugs, alcohol, violence, or insanity to anyone, but they've always worked for me.
Tja, als je verwacht dat de overheid je assets in beslag gaat nemen, is een lening afsluiten (bvb om advocaten te betalen) op die assets misschien geen slechte zaak.quote:
Bloomberg, via Kyle Griffin.
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Dafuq? Wat is dit nou weer?
Ich glaube, dass es manchmal nicht genügend Steine gibt und
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Ich bin mir sicher, dass auch schöne Augen weinen
Maargoed, als het ergste is wat er over Klobuchar is dat ze een nogal bitse baas is, valt het dus wel mee.
Colbert gebruikte wel een aardige metafoor in zn show toen hij de 'medische geraffineerdheid' onderstreepte waarmee men Trump aan het onderzoeken was zonder hem 't witte huis uit te sleuren. Een beetje als hoffelijke de deur openhouden in een brandend gebouw; "you go first, no you go first, no.. "
quote:North Korea, under the leadership of Kim Jong Un, will become a great Economic Powerhouse. He may surprise some but he won’t surprise me, because I have gotten to know him & fully understand how capable he is. North Korea will become a different kind of Rocket - an Economic one!
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