[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #603

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Op dinsdag 5 maart 2019 12:34 schreef Brood-op-de-plank het volgende:
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In de Amerikaanse politiek speuren ze jou dan bij wijze van spreken met bloedhonden op om vervolgens je alsnog met modder vol te smijten. Ben de term kwijt maar er is onlangs een soort van nieuwe beoepsfunctie ontstaan waarbij degene zich als enige ten doel stelt de tegenkandidaat zoveel mogelijk te onderzoeken, en ieder geheim, of fout, of onduidelijkheid uit zijn of haar verleden op straat te leggen. Geen enkele terughoudendheid of respect wordt toegeppast. Het is de tegenkandidaat zoveel mogelijk verzwakken. Las het in de volkskrant paar weken geleden.

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Op dinsdag 5 maart 2019 16:05 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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tedlieu twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 15:28:57 .@:RepDonBeyer & I have made a criminal referral of Jared Kushner to @:TheJusticeDept. Making false statements or omitting material info on SF-86 security form is punishable by up to 5 years in prison. More info at @:politico huddle. Here's the letter: https://t.co/yq4H1zbhux. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 5 maart 2019 16:13 schreef Brood-op-de-plank het volgende:
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Er wordt in dat briefje geen enkele daadwerkelijke actie verzocht of aanbevolen. Het is daardoor vrijwel nietszeggend. Gewoon aandachtzoekerij. En wat is een criminele verwijzing?:? Je zou denken dat ze iets meer van de wet zouden weten, daar het parlementariërs zijn.

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Op dinsdag 5 maart 2019 16:18 schreef archito het volgende:
Daarnaast weet de heer Ted Lieu aardig wat van wetgeving af:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ted_Lieu

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Op dinsdag 5 maart 2019 16:13 schreef Brood-op-de-plank het volgende:
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Er wordt in dat briefje geen enkele daadwerkelijke actie verzocht of aanbevolen. Het is daardoor vrijwel nietszeggend. Gewoon aandachtzoekerij. En wat is een criminele verwijzing?:? Je zou denken dat ze iets meer van de wet zouden weten, daar het parlementariërs zijn.

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He graduated magna cum laude with a J.D. from Georgetown University Law Center in 1994

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Op dinsdag 5 maart 2019 16:21 schreef Brood-op-de-plank het volgende:
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In dat geval zal het erop neerkomen dat hij helemaal niets tegen Trump kan ondernemen omdat hij niet blank is. Zo werkt de Amerikaanse justitie, zo krankzinnig als het is.

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JaxAlemany twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 15:56:03 For those already claiming "Witch hunt"/ Dem overreach, some necessary perspective: Republicans issued 1,285 subpoenas throughout the Senate's Whitewater and campaign finance investigations into the Clinton White House. See here for the reference doc: https://t.co/gFGmhW14Xi reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 16:53:20 So this is why there's been radio silence from @danielsgoldman recently...https://t.co/5jge8OMrjf reageer retweet

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Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, has hired a veteran prosecutor with experience fighting Russian organized crime to lead his investigation of the Trump Administration. Last month, according to a committee source, Daniel Goldman, who served as an Assistant United States Attorney in the Southern District of New York from 2007 to 2017, joined the committee’s staff as a senior adviser and the director of investigations.

The hiring of Goldman, who will be joined by two other former federal prosecutors on Schiff’s staff, underlines Schiff’s decision to conduct an aggressive investigation of the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia during the 2016 Presidential campaign. In the rough division of labor among the various committees in the House of Representatives, Schiff’s panel is tackling the most provocative and, so far, most elusive subject related to the President: whether so-called collusion occurred between the Trump campaign and Moscow. In public comments, Schiff has suggested that Trump’s interest as a private citizen in building a tower in Moscow led him to curry favor with Vladimir Putin, the Russian President. American intelligence agencies long ago concluded that the Russian government made significant efforts, through the hacking of e-mails and use of social media, to help elect Trump over Hillary Clinton. The question of whether the Trump campaign facilitated, assisted, or knew about these efforts has been at the heart of the investigation by the special counsel, Robert Mueller—and will also be central to Schiff’s inquiry.

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rgoodlaw twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 16:57:47 Important thread on Trump's stonewalling on #Khashoggi👇1. An issue of bipartisanship in Senate2. White House views on constitutionality of #MagnistkyAct trigger is not outlandish. See experts: https://t.co/we5Tuq2yET3. But Senate should now subpoena for info, sanction Saudis https://t.co/poCRX0csu5 reageer retweet

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ChrisMurphyCT twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 16:10:36 1/ THREAD: Here’s what happened yesterday in our “classified” Khashoggi briefing that included no information not already on the record. reageer retweet

🇹🇷 Khashoggi's body likely burned in oven at Saudi consul's home | Al Jazeera English

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Jim_Jordan twitterde op zondag 03-03-2019 om 19:03:49 C’mon @RepJerryNadler—at least pretend to be serious about fact finding.Nadler feeling the heat big time. Jumps to Tom $teyer’s conclusion—impeaching our President—before first document request.What a Kangaroo court. https://t.co/BpNIzdON1e reageer retweet

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RepJerryNadler twitterde op maandag 04-03-2019 om 14:56:08 To be clear, this tweet counts both as inane AND anti-Semitic. https://t.co/zUPL0hIcDf reageer retweet

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Fahrenthold twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 15:54:38 Earlier this yr, we reported that -- the day after @TMobile announced a huge merger that requires Trump admin approval -- 9 top T-Mobile execs had reservations at @realDonaldTrump's D.C. Hotel. Today, we learned a little more about that...https://t.co/SOvG0tLBL8 reageer retweet

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T-Mobile’s patronage of President Trump’s Washington hotel increased sharply after the announcement of its merger with its Sprint last April, with executives spending about $195,000 at the property since then, the company told congressional Democrats in a letter last month.

Before news of the megadeal between rival companies broke on April 29, 2018, the company said, only two top officials from T-Mobile had ever stayed at Trump’s hotel, with one overnight stay each in August 2017.

But the day after the merger’s announcement, nine of T-Mobile’s top executives were schedule to check in, The Washington Post reported in January. The Post, relying on internal Trump hotel documents, found that T-Mobile executives had reserved at least 52 nights at the hotel since the announcement.

In a Feb. 21 letter responding to questions from Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.) and Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), the company for the first time disclosed its total spending at the Trump hotel during that period.

The roughly $195,000 paid for “meeting space, catering, business center services, audio/visual equipment rental [and] lodging” at Trump’s hotel near the White House, according to the letter from Anthony Russo, T-Mobile USA’s vice president of federal legislative affairs.

Russo said the Trump hotel received about 14 percent of T-Mobile’s $1.4 million in total corporate spending on D.C.-area hotels during the 10-month period. About half of that was spent at Hilton hotels, he noted.

The company’s boost in spending at the president’s hotel as its megamerger is being considered by the Justice Department and the Federal Communications Commission has drawn criticism from Democratic lawmakers, who say it shows that Trump is profiting from his office.

“The American people deserve better than an administration that appears to be for sale to businesses eager to line the President’s pockets,” Warren and Jayapal said in a joint statement. The two Democrats had sent written questions to T-Mobile after The Post revealed the extent of the company’s patronage of the Trump hotel.

A T-Mobile spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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dsamuelsohn twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 20:09:31 NEW: Judge Jackson scolds Roger Stone in a new order over his latest book intro ripping Mueller and demands a March 11 status report "detailing his efforts to come into compliance with the court's rulings" on the gag order. Link here: https://t.co/BfvJNrsxeJ reageer retweet

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mkraju twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 20:14:55 WH rejects Elijah Cummings’ request for information about specific details about the security clearance process and Kushner’s clearance - and Cummings says he will now decide next steps. Here’s the WH letter: https://t.co/B3ebF3CPSi reageer retweet

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JonathanTamari twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 23:08:44 Days after Donald Trump challenged Barack Obama to show his academic records "the headmaster at New York Military Academy got an order from his boss: Find Trump’s academic records and help bury them"https://t.co/WQkwmgGSAi reageer retweet

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In 2011, days after Donald Trump challenged President Barack Obama to “show his records” to prove that he hadn’t been a “terrible student,” the headmaster at New York Military Academy got an order from his boss: Find Trump’s academic records and help bury them.

The superintendent of the private school “came to me in a panic because he had been accosted by prominent, wealthy alumni of the school who were Mr. Trump’s friends” and who wanted to keep his records secret, recalled Evan Jones, the headmaster at the time. “He said, ‘You need to go grab that record and deliver it to me because I need to deliver it to them.’ ”

The superintendent, Jeffrey Coverdale, confirmed Monday that members of the school’s board of trustees initially wanted him to hand over Trump’s records to them, but Coverdale said he refused.

“I was given directives, part of which I could follow but part of which I could not, and that was handing them over to the trustees,” he said. “I moved them elsewhere on campus where they could not be released. It’s the only time I ever moved an alumnus’s records.”

The former NYMA officials’ recollections add new details to one of the allegations that Michael Cohen, the president’s longtime personal lawyer and fixer, made before Congress last week. Cohen, who told the House Oversight and Reform Committee that part of his job was to attack Trump’s critics and defend his reputation, said that Trump ordered him “to threaten his high school, his colleges and the College Board to never release his grades or SAT scores.”

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jeneps twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 21:02:05 Pres. Trump suggested today WH won't cooperate w Dems: "President Obama, from what they tell me, was under a similar kind of a thing, didn't give one letter. They didn't do anything. They didn't give one letter of the requests. Many requests were made. They didn't give a letter." reageer retweet

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EricSchultz twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 23:26:22 From 2011 - 2016 the Obama White House produced hundreds of thousands of documents to Congress on Solyndra, Benghazi, Fast and Furious, CAFE standards rule, Deep Water Horizon spill, ACA, ACA website, Clean Water Rule, and Ft Hood shooting. https://t.co/V3qA99TBxm reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 6 maart 2019 00:02 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Vermoeiend en irritant is zo’n liar-in-chief.
En het ergste: hij weet niet dat hij bluft en liegt en draait, toch?

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In the days, weeks and months to follow, I was highly critical of the idea of a Trump presidency. The man who once told me — ironically, in another off-camera conversation — after I called him out for inflating his ratings: “People will just believe you. You just tell them and they believe you,” was, I thought, not a good choice to lead our country.
Bron

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ddale8 twitterde op woensdag 06-03-2019 om 01:21:59 Trump's previous record for false claims in a single speech was 36. How many do you think he made in his CPAC speech on Saturday? (Answer coming tomorrow if I am alive then) reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 05-03-2019 om 23:35:46 Prosecutors for Mueller's office say that none of the reasons and cases Paul Manafort's attorneys have used to argue for a lighter sentencing actually apply to Manafort himself in the case due for sentencing on Thursday in Virginia. @NBCNewshttps://t.co/0wzhdOoJEf reageer retweet

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North Korea is pursuing the "rapid rebuilding" of the long-range rocket site at Sohae Launch Facility, according to new commercial imagery and an analysis from the researchers at Beyond Parallel.

Sohae Satellite Launching Station, North Korea's only operational space launch facility, has been used in the part for satellite launches. These launches use similar technology to what is used for intercontinental ballistic missiles.

"This renewed activity, taken just two days after the inconclusive Hanoi Summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, may indicate North Korean plans to demonstrate resolve in the face of U.S. rejection of North Korea's demands at the summit to lift five UN Security Council sanctions enacted in 2016-2017," the analysts said. As NBC News reported, Beyond Parallel, a project sponsored by the defense think tank Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), recently identified 20 undisclosed missile sites in North Korea.

Beyond Parallel reports the activity at Sohae, photographed on March 2, is "evident at the vertical engine test stand and the launch pad's rail-mounted rocket transfer structure."

"The activity they are undertaking now is consistent with preparations for a test, though the imagery thus far does not show a missile being moved to the launch pad," said Victor Cha, one of the authors of the report.

"The activity on the ground," said Cha, "shows us that they do have a (nuclear intercontinental ballistic missile) capability that is not just developmental, but in the prototype phase. They've already tested a few of these and it looks like they're preparing the launch pad for another act."

Asked for comment, White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said, "We don't comment on intelligence."

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 06-03-2019 om 02:05:38 Trump reportedly pressured his then-chief of staff John Kelly and White House counsel Don McGahn to grant Ivanka Trump a security clearance against their recommendations. https://t.co/YeusEa3TLh reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 06-03-2019 om 02:15:11 Here's Ivanka Trump last month telling ABC that the president "had no involvement pertaining to my clearance or my husband's clearance." That now seems to be contradicted by new reporting from CNN. https://t.co/ssXGBuyEXS reageer retweet