[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #600: Free press is the enemy of the people

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New: Michael Cohen met last month with federal prosecutors in Manhattan, offering information about possible irregularities within Trump's family business regarding insurance claims and about a donor to the inaugural committee, NYT reports.
https://t.co/8NYBGoryp4

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jaketapper twitterde op vrijdag 22-02-2019 om 15:25:24 One of the ugly facts laid bare in the Epstein plea deal is that many powerful people feel zero shame helping a billionaire who has molested girls as young as 14. Zero consequences. Crimes against kids happen not only because of the criminals but their support networks. reageer retweet

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rulajebreal twitterde op vrijdag 22-02-2019 om 19:14:34 Convicted pedophile Epstein was asked if he socialized w Trump.He responded: "YES"Then he was asked if he had ever socialized with Trump in presence of girls under age of 18?He plead the fifth.Trump's Labor Secretary Acosta granted immunity to "any potential co-conspirators." https://t.co/GnWwsrDEUt reageer retweet

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jaketapper twitterde op vrijdag 22-02-2019 om 21:37:14 Asked about criticism of Labor Sec’y Acosta for his handling as US Attorney of Jeffrey Epstein’s sex abuse of underage girls, POTUS said “I really don’t know too much about it. I know he’s done a great job as labor secretary and that seems like a long time ago,” reageer retweet

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President Trump said on Friday that he was nominating Kelly Knight Craft, the United States’ ambassador to Canada, to serve as ambassador to the United Nations, days after his first choice for the position withdrew from consideration.

Mr. Trump announced the nomination on Twitter, writing that Ms. Craft “has done an outstanding job representing our Nation and I have no doubt that, under her leadership, our Country will be represented at the highest level.”

Ms. Craft and her husband, Joe Craft, a Kentucky coal magnate, were major contributors to Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and donated to his inaugural committee.

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EricLiptonNYT twitterde op zaterdag 23-02-2019 om 00:18:21 Kelly Kraft is the wife of the CEO of Alliance Resource Partners, one the largest coal mining companies in the United States. The billionaire couple have donated more than $2 million to Trump through various means. https://t.co/qAPFir1XMp https://t.co/j4zZOlx2YG reageer retweet

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Fahrenthold twitterde op zaterdag 23-02-2019 om 00:34:50 Trump's nominee is also his customer. Trump hotel docs show she was "high rate" guest with 20+ visits, hit Gold status in "Trump Card" rewards https://t.co/1a1azwDg0L reageer retweet

New U.S. ambassador to Canada Kelly Craft says she believes 'both sides' of climate science

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 23-02-2019 om 02:15:20 Reminder: Trump's new UN ambassador nominee said in 2017 that, when it comes to climate change, she believes in "both sides of the science." Via CBC https://t.co/ZQkrZR847K reageer retweet

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kaitlancollins twitterde op vrijdag 22-02-2019 om 22:15:33 After a DOJ official said Mueller isn't expected to deliver his report next week, President Trump said he looks forward to reading it. "There was no collusion. There was no obstruction...No phone calls...If it's an honest report, it will say that. If it's not, it won't." reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op zaterdag 23-02-2019 om 01:20:14 In my best Jim Carrey (DUMB AND DUMBER) voice: "So you're *telling me* there's phone calls..." https://t.co/3OszOgz0S3 https://t.co/lbATaW9ikN reageer retweet

Dumb & Dumber - "So you're telling me there's a chance"

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Trump, on why he hasn't condemned GOP fraud in NC: "I condemn any election fraud & when I look at what's happened in CA with the votes...There was just a case where they found a million fraudulent votes."

Reporter: "There haven't been those cases. This is an actual case, sir."

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Trump’s pick to be Ambassador to the United Nations has said she believes “both sides” of the science on climate change. https://t.co/l4R3qF35KI

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Dear @USAmbCanada Kelly Craft: Here are both sides:

Side 1: We have 12 years to significantly reduce greenhouse gases or our children face catastrophic consequences.

Side 2: We have 20 years to significantly reduce greenhouse gases or our children face catastrophic consequences https://t.co/gHgVc5OGvE

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MAGA lover Robert Kraft indicted for soliciting prostitution.

Predator R. Kelly indicted on 10 counts of aggravated sexual abuse.

Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein hopefully facing criminal charges.

Predator Trump accused by over 19 women of sex crimes.

My friends, here’s PizzaGate.

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Op zaterdag 23 februari 2019 09:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Het is gewoon jammer dat Ted Lieu niet in de VS is geboren. Ik zou hem graag in hetcWitte Huis zien.

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A North Carolina judge has tossed out the state's constitutional amendment requiring a voter ID, saying the state's General Assembly is so gerrymandered that its members do not truly represent residents & thus should never have proposed such an amendment. https://t.co/ZfPFhus9NZ

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Op zondag 24 februari 2019 12:19 schreef Knipoogje het volgende:
Mooie samenvatting weer van de Don the Con:

https://www.washingtonpos(...)m_term=.2f7197f43251

Allemaal gewoon feitelijk. De realiteit zeg maar.

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Op zaterdag 23 februari 2019 00:08 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Sonny Perdue:

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China kocht 36 miljoen ton een paar jaar terug. Toen kwam Trump met zijn tradewar en ging dat naar nul. Nu kopen ze misschien 10 miljoen ton en Trump is de redder van de Amerikaanse boer.

Dat mensen deze bullshit geloven.

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The Manafort sentencing memo has been filed by federal prosecutors. It is more than 800 pages, including attachments. — @NBCNews

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The only Collusion with the Russians was with Crooked Hillary Clinton and the Democratic National Committee...And, where’s the Server that the DNC refused to give to the FBI? Where are the new Texts between Agent Lisa Page and her Agent lover, Peter S? We want them now!

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Op vrijdag 22 februari 2019 15:57 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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McCarthy had aan Trumps kant gestaan, dat was bepaald geen fris figuur.

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Op zondag 24 februari 2019 21:33 schreef AnneX het volgende:
https://www.philly.com/op(...)?clearUserState=true
De status van de staat: witte mannen met geld...
waarin een tweet:

@:jeffpearlman
The NFL will absolve Robert Kraft of any/all sins. Because you can solicit prostitutes, you can punch women, you can kill dogs, you can do drugs atop drugs. You just can't kneel to protest police brutality against African-Americans.

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7:10 PM - Feb 22, 2019

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Op maandag 25 februari 2019 10:04 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Eerlijk is eerlijk dat dat hele hoerenlopen illegaal is is wel behoorlijk hypocriet.

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Op maandag 25 februari 2019 11:03 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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Met minderjarigen is nono en onder valse voorwendselen-geïmmigreerd-zonder papieren-vrouwen / als seksslaven is ziek. Punt.

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Op maandag 25 februari 2019 10:04 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Eerlijk is eerlijk dat dat hele hoerenlopen illegaal is is wel behoorlijk hypocriet.

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Op maandag 25 februari 2019 11:25 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Eerlijk is eerlijk: Hoeren betalen om op de knieen te gaan en het spelers te verbieden op straf van inhouding van salaris is dat ook.

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Op maandag 25 februari 2019 11:25 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Eerlijk is eerlijk: Hoeren betalen om op de knieen te gaan en het spelers te verbieden op straf van inhouding van salaris is dat ook.

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This Admin is committed to ensuring more Americans have the skills needed to secure better jobs in our strong economy. I look forward to participating on a panel to discuss our work and hear what is happening on a State level. #NGA

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In his campaign launch video last week, Bernie Sanders singled out the fossil fuel industry for criticism, listing it among the special interests he planned to take on. But in the final months of the 2016 campaign, Sanders repeatedly requested and received the use of a carbon-spewing private jet for himself and his traveling staff when he served as a surrogate campaigner for Hillary Clinton.

In the two years following the presidential election, Sanders continued his frequent private jet travel, spending at least $342,000 on the flights.

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I’m not shocked that while thousands of volunteers braved the heat and cold to knock on doors until their fingers bled in a desperate effort to stop Donald Trump, his Royal Majesty King Bernie Sanders would only deign to leave his plush D.C. office or his brand new second home on the lake if he was flown around on a cushy private jet like a billionaire master of the universe,” said Zac Petkanas, who was the director of rapid response for the Clinton campaign.

In 2016, after Sanders endorsed Clinton and agreed to campaign on her behalf, the Sanders campaign’s preferred mode of travel quickly emerged as a point of tension, according to six former Clinton campaign staffers and another source familiar with the travel.

Those who had worked on his primary campaign made it known that the only logistical way Sanders could adhere to the event schedules requested by the Clinton campaign was by flying private. The Clinton campaign, however, viewed the private jet flights as a needless extravagance and wanted the senator to mostly fly commercial.

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Op maandag 25 februari 2019 14:08 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Het is precies dat soort puriteinse geneuzel waard de Democraten aan tenonder gaan.

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Be nice if Spike Lee could read his notes, or better yet not have to use notes at all, when doing his racist hit on your President, who has done more for African Americans (Criminal Justice Reform, Lowest Unemployment numbers in History, Tax Cuts,etc.) than almost any other Pres!

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President Trump slams Spike Lee, calling the director's speech at the #Oscars a "racist hit on your President."

"The 2020 presidential election is around the corner," Lee said last night. "Let's all mobilize...Let's do the right thing!" https://t.co/SYlkvcGyvy https://t.co/5oVUVoTySc

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Trump Jr.: You would be shot in 'two seconds' for wearing Trump hat in Chicago
https://t.co/o4wJtOLgtO

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Op maandag 25 februari 2019 18:40 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Chicago is een coole stad.

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Kushner Cos. reportedly sought a $1.15 billion loan from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.

Trump appointed Joseph Otting to oversee the agency which regulates Fannie and Freddie. Otting reportedly served as the CEO of OneWest Bank, founded by Steve Mnuchin. https://t.co/WI7U5m3qfs

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House Democrats are planning to investigate Trump's personal finances.

Democrats are launching an investigation to discover why Deutsche Bank was willing to lend the Trump Organization money when other banks wouldn't and whether Russia was involved. https://t.co/a1VGVjY3Ii

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Op maandag 25 februari 2019 19:38 schreef Treinhomo het volgende:

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New Rule: You Can't Always Get What You Want | Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO)

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Op maandag 25 februari 2019 14:08 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Het is precies dat soort puriteinse geneuzel waard de Democraten aan tenonder gaan.

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Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says the United States has asked Moscow’s advice in dealing with North Korea before a summit between President Donald Trump and the North Korean leader.

Trump and Kim Jong Un are expected to meet on Wednesday and Thursday in Vietnam’s capital. Their first meeting last summer ended without substantive agreements on North Korea’s nuclear disarmament.

Lavrov, who is also visiting Vietnam this week, said in comments carried by Russian news agencies on Monday that Russia believes that the U.S. ought to offer Pyongyang “security guarantees” for the disarmament deal to succeed. He also mentioned that “the U.S. is even asking our advice, our views on this or that scenario of” how the summit in Hanoi could pan out.

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Attorneys for Paul Manafort said Monday that he should be sentenced to significantly less than the 10-year maximum prison term he faces in his case in Washington, D.C.

Their filing to a federal judge came after a weekend sentencing memo by Robert S. Mueller III’s team that recommended no specific sentence for Manafort, but called President Trump’s former campaign chairman a bold, “hardened” criminal who “repeatedly and brazenly violated the law.”

“As the government itself notes, Mr. Manafort committed ‘garden-variety crimes’” and violated ‘more esoteric’ lobbying registration requirements, Manafort’s defense countered in their filing. “Nevertheless, these “garden-variety” and “esoteric” offenses have led to Mr. Manafort being widely vilified in a manner that this country has not experienced in decades.”

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awprokop twitterde op dinsdag 26-02-2019 om 02:47:27 Manafort's own sentencing memo reads as if it's written for Fox News and Trump. Cannot imagine Judge Jackson will have much sympathy for arguments like this.https://t.co/H4d8Dfx5nV https://t.co/lSUVbeT8IL reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 25-02-2019 om 17:00:07 Opposition to Trump's emergency declaration grows. 23 former Republican members of Congress are urging legislators to "pass a joint resolution terminating the emergency declared by the President." Via Politico https://t.co/dI76H3y90J reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 26-02-2019 om 04:15:03 Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has recalled the state's National Guard troops from the southern border, making him the third state leader to challenge the Trump admin's claims of a national emergency along the border. https://t.co/eR52TPMhWU reageer retweet

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mkraju twitterde op dinsdag 26-02-2019 om 01:16:04 Tillis announces he'll vote to block Trump emergency declaration, meaning the resolution is moving closer to getting the 51 votes needed to pass Senate. But still short of veto-proof majority reageer retweet

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The House Judiciary Committee believes it has evidence that President Trump asked Matthew Whitaker, at the time the acting attorney general, whether Manhattan U.S. attorney Geoffrey Berman could regain control of his office’s investigation into Mr. Trump’s former lawyer and his real-estate business, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Berman, a former law partner of Trump attorney Rudy Giuliani who in 2016 donated to the Trump campaign and whom the president personally interviewed for the U.S. attorney job, last year had recused himself from involvement in the matter. He didn’t give a reason, but legal experts said his interim status at the time the probe began would have made his involvement appear improper. The investigation began as a probe of the business dealings of Michael Cohen, Mr. Trump’s former lawyer, and has broadened to examine the Trump Organization.

Mr. Cohen on Wednesday is set to deliver public testimony for the first time before the House Oversight Committee, in which he is expected to talk about his decade of working for Mr. Trump and about the hush-money payments he arranged during the 2016 campaign to women who alleged sexual encounters with Mr. Trump. Mr. Cohen has pleaded guilty to charges including campaign-finance violations and lying to Congress, and last year he was sentenced to three years in prison.

Federal prosecutors have directly implicated the president in the payoff scheme, referring to him in court papers as “Individual-1,” alleging publicly what The Wall Street Journal previously had detailed in its reporting on those payments.

Mr. Trump has denied wrongdoing.

There is no sign Mr. Whitaker acted on any request from Mr. Trump, which the New York Times reported last week. But the House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether Mr. Whitaker may have perjured himself in his appearance before the panel earlier this month, according to one of the people familiar with the matter. Mr. Whitaker told the panel: “At no time has the White House asked for nor have I provided any promises or commitments concerning the special counsel’s investigation or any other investigation.”

Any evidence that Mr. Trump sought to intervene in the federal prosecutors’ probe could propel further lines of inquiry by lawmakers into whether he has tried to obstruct the investigation into his business dealings.

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Op dinsdag 26 februari 2019 04:16 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 25-02-2019 om 17:00:07 Opposition to Trump's emergency declaration grows. 23 former Republican members of Congress are urging legislators to "pass a joint resolution terminating the emergency declared by the President." Via Politico https://t.co/dI76H3y90J reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 26-02-2019 om 04:15:03 Wisconsin Gov. Tony Evers has recalled the state's National Guard troops from the southern border, making him the third state leader to challenge the Trump admin's claims of a national emergency along the border. https://t.co/eR52TPMhWU reageer retweet

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mkraju twitterde op dinsdag 26-02-2019 om 01:16:04 Tillis announces he'll vote to block Trump emergency declaration, meaning the resolution is moving closer to getting the 51 votes needed to pass Senate. But still short of veto-proof majority reageer retweet

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"Lavrov, who is also visiting Vietnam this week..."
https://t.co/1jnIzbh1Ny

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Op dinsdag 26 februari 2019 13:03 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dit zit er de komende 3 dagen aan te komen... ben benieuwd wat hij te melden heeft (en of hij dit keer wel de hele waarheid spreekt)