[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #598: Bipartisan border deal.

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Op woensdag 13 februari 2019 19:19 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Het zou wat zijn als dat genegeerd werd.

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Wisconsin Republicans stripped Colin Kaepernick's name from a resolution recognizing Black History Month, saying the former NFL quarterback was too controversial to be included. https://t.co/qpBvZviWE4

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Op woensdag 13 februari 2019 18:58 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Personen zoals jij zijn niet serieus te nemen. Twee jaar lang zit je jezelf af te trekken over elk negatief bericht omtremt Trump.
En wanneer ik mezelf afvraag waar de balans is dan maak je een verwijzing naar Calimero.

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Op woensdag 13 februari 2019 21:24 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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De balans is dat Trump in 3 jaar bijna 10,000 verifieerbare leugens vertelt.

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Liam_O_Hare twitterde op woensdag 13-02-2019 om 20:11:20 Now deleted tweet from Benjamin Netanyahu’s account boasting about a meeting “to advance the common interest of war with Iran.” https://t.co/6NcsehKfsU reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 februari 2019 22:01 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Over die door de VS georganiseerde Midden-Oosten conferentie in Polen...

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Liam_O_Hare twitterde op woensdag 13-02-2019 om 20:11:20 Now deleted tweet from Benjamin Netanyahu’s account boasting about a meeting “to advance the common interest of war with Iran.” https://t.co/6NcsehKfsU reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 februari 2019 18:31 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Zo werkt het blijkbaar, als democraat heb je het voorrecht om geen kritische vragen op je bord te krijgen.

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Op woensdag 13 februari 2019 22:14 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat moet wel een mislukte grap zijn, toch?

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-02-2019 om 00:42:06 Judge Amy Berman Jackson says Mueller prosecutors have proved 3 of the 5 examples they cite as occurrences when Manafort lied to them in the course of his cooperation and she agrees that prosecutors are no longer bound to recommend a lighter sentence. https://t.co/wX4A39anrY reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-02-2019 om 00:45:41 Judge: Mueller prosecutors have established that Manafort intentionally made multiple false statements to the FBI, the OSC, and the grand jury concerning matters that were material to the investigation: his interactions and communications with Konstantin Kilimnik. https://t.co/hFAHcDDHid reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-02-2019 om 00:50:07 Judge: Mueller prosecutors have established that Manafort intentionally made false statements to the FBI, the OSC, and the grand jury concerning payments by an unidentified Firm A to a law firm, a matter that was material to their investigation. https://t.co/hFAHcDDHid reageer retweet

Paul Manafort may have Lied To Stay In Trump's Good Graces: Adam Schiff | Rachel Maddow | MSNBC

Inside Paul Manafort's 2016 meeting with a Russian operative

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The 2016 nominating conventions had recently concluded and the presidential race was hitting a new level of intensity when Paul Manafort, Donald Trump’s campaign chairman, ducked into an unusual dinner meeting at a private cigar room a few blocks away from the campaign’s Trump Tower headquarters in Manhattan.

Court records show that Manafort was joined at some point by his campaign deputy, Rick Gates, at the session at the Grand Havana Room, a mahogany-paneled space with floor-to-ceiling windows offering panoramic views of the city.

The two Americans met with an overseas guest, a longtime employee of their international consulting business who had flown to the United States for the gathering: a Russian political operative named Konstantin Kilimnik.

The Aug. 2, 2016, encounter between the senior Trump campaign officials and Kilimnik, who prosecutors allege has ties to Russian intelligence, has emerged in recent days as a potential fulcrum in special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation.

It was at that meeting that prosecutors believe Manafort and Kilimnik may have exchanged key information relevant to Russia and Trump’s presidential bid. The encounter goes “very much to the heart of what the special counsel’s office is investigating,” prosecutor Andrew Weissmann told a federal judge in a sealed hearing last week.

One subject the men discussed was a proposed resolution to the conflict over Ukraine, an issue of great interest to the Russian government, according to a partially redacted transcript of the Feb. 4 hearing.

During the hearing, the judge also appeared to allude to another possible interaction at the Havana Room gathering: a handoff by Manafort of internal polling data from Trump’s presidential campaign to his Russian associate.

The new details provide a rare hint at what Mueller is examining in the final stretch of his nearly 21-month-old investigation — and underscore his deep interest in the Grand Havana Room gathering, which ended with the three men leaving through separate doors, as Judge Amy Berman Jackson noted.

Weissmann said in the hearing that one of the special counsel’s main tasks is to examine contacts between Americans and Russia during the 2016 race and determine whether Trump associates conspired with the Russian-backed interference campaign.

“That meeting — and what happened at that meeting — is of significance to the special counsel,” he said pointedly.

The hearing was held in a closed courtroom, and only a partial transcript was released because the special counsel has argued that public disclosure of the issues discussed could harm “ongoing law enforcement investigations.”

A spokesman for Mueller declined to comment.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-02-2019 om 05:15:00 The former campaign chairman of the President of the United States has been found to have lied about his contacts with Russians. reageer retweet

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NicolleDWallace twitterde op donderdag 14-02-2019 om 04:10:01 “Only after he was confronted with evidence did Mr. Manafort acknowledge that he and Mr. Kilimnik continued to discuss the proposal on at least three other occasions after Mr. Trump was elected, he said.” Manafort Found to Have Lied to Prosecutors... https://t.co/TCDV0o4whZ reageer retweet

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A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, had breached his plea agreement by lying multiple times to prosecutors after pledging to cooperate with the special counsel’s investigation into Russia’s interference in the 2016 election.

The decision by Judge Amy Berman Jackson of United States District Court in Washington may affect the severity of punishment that awaits Mr. Manafort. Judge Jackson is scheduled to sentence him next month on two conspiracy counts, and he is also awaiting sentencing for eight other fraud convictions in a related case.

After Mr. Manafort agreed in September to cooperate with the office of the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III, the judge found, he lied about his contacts with a Russian associate during the campaign and after the election. Prosecutors claim that the associate, Konstantin V. Kilimnik, has ties to Russian intelligence, and have been investigating whether he was involved in Russia’s covert campaign to influence the election results.

The judge also found that Mr. Manafort had lied about a payment that was routed through a pro-Trump political action committee to cover his legal bills, and about information relevant to another undisclosed investigation underway at the Justice Department.

But Judge Jackson decided that prosecutors failed to prove that Mr. Manafort, 69, had deceived them about two other matters: Mr. Kilimnik’s role in a conspiracy with Mr. Manafort to obstruct justice, and whether Mr. Manafort had been in contact with Trump administration officials.

Although the defense won on those points, the judge’s split decision bodes poorly for Mr. Manafort. The ruling decreases any chance that Judge Jackson will show Mr. Manafort leniency, although legal experts have said that sentencing guidelines already made that highly unlikely. It could also affect the severity of his punishment in a case tried in Federal District Court in Alexandria, Va., over the summer. He was convicted by a jury there in August for tax evasion, bank fraud and other crimes.

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Phil_Mattingly twitterde op donderdag 14-02-2019 om 04:29:37 And now official what aides have been saying was likely: Senate will vote first tomorrow on the border security/spending package.Then House.Package will be cleared for President Trump to sign by Thursday night. reageer retweet

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nielslesniewski twitterde op donderdag 14-02-2019 om 05:35:51 Several policy riders in the mix earlier Wednesday, including back pay for federal contractors for wages lost during the 35-day partial shutdown and the VAWA extension, didn't make it in the final bargaining over the fiscal 2019 spending conference report https://t.co/RGVhyc3ZXK reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 februari 2019 04:43 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
How Manafort’s 2016 meeting with a Russian employee at New York cigar club goes to ‘the heart’ of Mueller’s probe

Inside Paul Manafort's 2016 meeting with a Russian operative

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Maar geen collusion hoor! En als er sprake van collusion was, had Trump er niks mee te maken!

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 14-02-2019 om 05:15:00 The former campaign chairman of the President of the United States has been found to have lied about his contacts with Russians. reageer retweet

En vergeet niet: Democrats liegen ook!

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Op donderdag 14 februari 2019 04:43 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Maar geen collusion hoor! En als er sprake van collusion was, had Trump er niks mee te maken!

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Op donderdag 14 februari 2019 08:37 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
En als Trump er wél wat mee te maken heeft is het niet strafbaar natuurlijk.

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Op donderdag 14 februari 2019 11:21 schreef chibibo het volgende:

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En als het wel strafbaar is, heeft Hillary het ook gedaan.

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Former Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke has a new job as a lobbyist. https://t.co/xLpor9gJdt https://t.co/ZZ7cO7vgWp

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Op donderdag 14 februari 2019 12:19 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Onder HRC zou iedereen lobbyist zijn.

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I’m not gonna sugar coat it, if @realDonaldTrump takes this sham border deal from the Democrats, he loses in 2020 and we ALL lose for years to come.

I’ll discuss on @foxandfriends in 10 mins!

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Omar is scheduled to speak Feb. 23 in Tampa at what is labeled a Yemen Emergency Dinner sponsored by Islamic Relief USA, or IRUSA. Islamic Relief, which has chapters in 20 nations, has been branded a terror financier by the governments of the United Arab Emirates and Israel. Russian authorities, the Swiss bank UBS, the British bank HSBC, and reports by governmental entities in Germany and Sweden all have determined that Islamic Relief has supported radical Islamist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood.

https://www.washingtonexa(...)tism-on-her-schedule

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EXCLUSIVE: DHS guts task force protecting elections from foreign meddling. https://t.co/3z5OKiMnLK

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Michael Avenatti agreed Wednesday to relinquish financial control of his longtime law firm hours after a former partner filed papers accusing him of hiding millions of dollars from the court that oversaw its bankruptcy.

The celebrity lawyer and his firm, Eagan Avenatti, consented to the appointment of a receiver to take possession of its bank accounts, case files, computers and other assets.

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