[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #605 Stone Cold Crazy

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 12:27 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Oeps, vergeten TT aan te passen. Oh wel.....[..]

Ik denk dan ook dat jij een verkeerd beeld hebt van de persoon Trump. In jouw beleving is de huidige POTUS een intelligente, sympathieke kerel. Dat baseer jij op het feit dat hij de Amerikaanse ambassade naar Jeruzalem heeft verplaatst. Iemand die zoiets doet, moet immers wel een geschikte peer zijn, nietwaar?

Trump is een grote, egocentrische lul. Snap werkelijk niet dat je dat niet in kunt zien.

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 12:30 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
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Dat hij een poging waagt, daar is in principe niets mis mee. Het gaat echter fout als hij een zieke dictator veren in de reet gaat steken.[..]

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 12:30 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
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Dat hij een poging waagt, daar is in principe niets mis mee. Het gaat echter fout als hij een zieke dictator veren in de reet gaat steken.[..]

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How the White House Is Spinning the North Korea Summit Collapse
The administration no longer thinks Trump alone can reach a deal with Kim Jong Un.

It’s now known rather famously, in Donald Trump’s Twitter feed at least, as the “walk”—the president cutting short his summit in Vietnam with Kim Jong Un because, per a wisdom that fast took root back in Washington, no nuclear deal was better than a bad one.

Since the standoff in late February, however, the reasons Trump walked and where he’s headed on North Korea have remained obscure. In a classified briefing last week to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, the president’s special representative for North Korea, Stephen Biegun, dropped a number of hints—including, according to one senator who was in the room, that the administration is now placing hope for a breakthrough in the lower-level negotiations it once ridiculed. Biegun himself has since argued publicly that even though the summit didn’t yield a deal, Trump’s personal diplomacy with Kim may yet compel the North Korean leader to direct those negotiating on his behalf to reach one.

A year ago, when Trump became the first U.S. president to agree to a meeting with his North Korean counterpart, a senior administration official declared that the history of unsuccessful working-level talks to denuclearize North Korea during the Clinton, Bush, and Obama administrations “speaks for itself.” Under Trump, who cites his “great relationship” with Kim as the primary reason he will succeed where his predecessors failed, the approach has been to set a date and location for the leaders to get together and then have their deputies scramble to deliver results, rather than the other way around.

Critics have argued that in placing such emphasis on his personal dealings with Kim, Trump has undercut his advisers. After the second summit ended without a deal, however, the Trump administration is pointing to a silver lining: The summit’s collapse could paradoxically empower the leaders’ diplomats and technocrats.

Ahead of their meeting in Hanoi, “it just seemed pretty clear to [Biegun] that Kim was playing the waiting game for the one-on-one” with Trump, the Connecticut Democrat Chris Murphy told me. Biegun’s argument is that walking away “sets the conditions for serious negotiations [by lower-level officials] that couldn’t happen until Kim realized he couldn’t pull one over on Trump.”

Asked for comment on these and other characterizations of Biegun’s briefing provided to The Atlantic by senators who met with him, a State Department spokesperson declined to “comment on remarks made in a classified setting.”

At a conference in Washington, D.C., on Monday, Biegun defended Trump’s approach of engaging directly with Kim. “We have tried for 25 years to percolate positions up from the working level to the leadership level, with no success,” he said. Kim is the only “one who can truly create the space for my counterparts sitting across the table from me to be flexible, to be agile, to be creative, to find solutions to these issues.”

Nevertheless, a senior State Department official conceded that Kim has yet to grant his subordinates space to negotiate. “We need the North Korean negotiators to have much more latitude than they did in the run-up to the summit on denuclearization,” the official said in a briefing with reporters last week, while stressing that Trump’s meetings with Kim were an indispensable feature rather than a bug in that effort.

Ron Johnson, a Republican from Wisconsin who also attended Biegun’s briefing, told me he still understands the leader-to-leader talks to be a critical component of the administration’s approach.

As Johnson sees it, Kim wrongly assumed that he could wring economic concessions from Trump for little in return, as North Korea’s leaders have done with previous American presidents. “Obviously, he came [to Vietnam] thinking he could talk Trump into a bad deal, and good thing he wasn’t able to,” the senator said.

But Murphy left Biegun’s briefing with the sense that both leaders—in spending the months following their first summit in Singapore pinning progress exclusively on their personal abilities to make a deal with each other—had made strategic mistakes ahead of Hanoi.

Kim’s was his “refusal to engage in any serious pre-negotiations” through his subordinates, Murphy told me. “Biegun was knocking at the door, day after day, and for the most part, nobody was answering. Kim seemed to make the calculation that he had buttered Trump up so sufficiently to be more likely to get what he wanted from Trump directly than through intermediaries.”

Biegun, who was appointed last August, managed to get meetings with his North Korean counterpart only in January, just as the second Trump-Kim meeting was announced. The State Department has acknowledged that Biegun’s talks with North Korean officials in the weeks before the summit didn’t make much headway on the core issue of denuclearization. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was reportedly snubbed by his North Korean counterpart even as Trump made his way to Vietnam on Air Force One.

Trump’s blunder, in Murphy’s telling, was that he “thought that by sheer force of personality in Hanoi, he could get Kim to agree to a comprehensive deal, which was never going to be possible, and so instead of immediately setting the table with some confidence-building measures, he went for the whole enchilada and lost badly.”

“I think Kim walked in thinking that his love letters [to Trump] were going to get sanctions released for something much less than full denuclearization,” Murphy said. “Trump thought that these love letters meant he was going to get full denuclearization for sanctions relief. I think it was pretty clear pretty quickly that neither of those things was going to happen.”

In his remarks on Monday, Biegun credited the leaders’ exchange of letters with breaking an impasse in working-level negotiations in late December. But he also confirmed Murphy’s distillation of the basic dispute in Hanoi. Kim, Biegun explained, offered to dismantle only a portion of his nuclear program at the country’s main Yongbyon facility in exchange for the United States lifting the bulk of international sanctions. (U.S. negotiators had dismissed this idea as unworkable in meetings with their North Korean counterparts in the weeks before the summit.) Trump’s counteroffer was for Kim to “go big” and commit to eliminating his entire weapons-of-mass-destruction program, including nuclear, chemical, and biological arms. In exchange, the United States would help transform North Korea’s economy and relationship with the United States. Each side balked at the other’s proposal.

Many experts had interpreted a speech Biegun had delivered at Stanford ahead of the Vietnam summit as a sign that the administration had recognized the folly of pressuring North Korea into swiftly giving up all its nuclear weapons—and was instead pivoting to a more protracted process of phased peace building, political normalization, sanctions relief, and rollback of the North Korean nuclear program. But on Monday, Biegun stated that the United States would not lift sanctions “until North Korea completes the process of denuclearization,” echoing an overlooked line from his Stanford speech. “We are not going to do denuclearization incrementally.”

What the United States and North Korea are engaged in, Biegun argued, “is much bigger than denuclearization” and of a different nature than what he characterized as Barack Obama’s narrow nuclear deal with Iran. That’s why at Stanford he sketched a vision of North Korea shipping out its last nuclear weapons, the United States removing sanctions and opening an embassy in Pyongyang, and the two sides signing a peace treaty at the same time.

The much-reported details of which nuclear facilities North Korea was willing to trade for which sanctions in Vietnam, in other words, are something of a red herring. What mattered is that the North Koreans viewed a partial nuclear agreement as the only way to move forward, and the Americans considered such a deal the surest way to move backward.

“What North Korea has done consistently in the past is promised to denuclearize and then, by the way, not do it, to get economic benefits, which provide their economy a lifeline … and then allow them to go back to the nuclear program,” National Security Adviser John Bolton said after Hanoi.

Biegun came across in his briefing as “pretty confident that [the administration’s] basic strategy here is the only one that’ll actually work,” said Johnson. “Nobody can predict what Kim Jong Un will do, but I didn’t sense any concern or panic … He fully realizes how difficult this is.”

Jeff Merkley, a Democrat from Oregon, said his sense from the briefing was that the administration’s strategy is “we’re going to keep pressing economic sanctions, we think it’s having a toll on them, and they’ll eventually come around” to “make this grand deal,” despite signs that North Korea is finding ways to bypass sanctions, and China, the North’s principal trading partner, isn’t enforcing them as strictly as it once was.

The administration is characterizing Trump’s walk in Hanoi as a message to North Korea “that partial [nuclear] dismantlement is just not an acceptable place to end up,” he told me, and North Korea, with its renewed work at nuclear-weapons-related sites in recent weeks, is sending its own message that “we’re going to keep going forward unless you adopt the partial vision that we have of getting rid of these sanctions in exchange for [a] first step” on denuclearization. Each side, he noted, is trying to convey to the other “that we’re really serious: Your position is not acceptable.”

As Victor Cha, who negotiated with the North Koreans during the George W. Bush administration, recently noted, each side appears to have learned the same lesson in Hanoi: “Pressure works.” (“The pressure’s not on us,” Biegun declared this week, even as he admitted that “we don’t know” what North Korea’s revived activity at nuclear sites signifies.)

The infinite-loop debate about whether to go big or go small in their talks, Cha added, harks “back to the sort of negotiations that we have been in for the past 25 years.”

The “two leaders have learned that love does not conquer all,” Alexander Vershbow, the former U.S. ambassador to South Korea, said in his conversation with Cha.

In holding out for a Big Deal with North Korea, Trump is banking on the country’s leaders deciding to do what his own intelligence officials (and top advisers, such as Bolton) say is highly unlikely: fully give up a nuclear program they have invested heavily in for decades and come to consider essential for the survival of their regime. What the United States is now angling for, a year into its diplomacy with North Korea, is to have it all: breakthroughs in negotiations at both the leader and lower levels, an indefinite and unrelenting pressure campaign that produces a swift grand bargain on peace and denuclearization.

Such a deal would be an utterly unprecedented accomplishment if Trump pulls it off. But if the dim history of nuclear negotiations with North Korea isn’t exactly repeating itself in the wake of the Vietnam summit, it’s starting to rhyme.

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 12:50 schreef Monolith het volgende:
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In mijn ogen zie je gewoon weer het aloude recept van chronische zelfoverschatting in combinatie met geopolitieke onervarenheid / incompetentie.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 15:46:50 Manafort is now addressing the court. "In my previous allocation I told Judge Ellis I was ashamed for my conduct...I want to say to you now that I am sorry for what I have done and for all the activities that have gotten me here today." reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 15:49:34 Manafort: "As I've sat in solitary confinement, I've reflected on my life and can see I've behaved in ways that did not always comport with my personal values. ...my behavior in the future will be very different." Says he's "a different person" than he was in October 2017. reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 15:51:49 Manafort makes a last-ditch appeal: "Your honor, I will be 70 years old in a few weeks. My wife is 66. I am her primary caregiver...this case has taken everything from me already. Please let my wife and I be together." reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:24:54 Judge ABJ, pointedly: The question of collusion or conspiracy with Russia was not presented in this case, therefore it was not resolved in this case.(Manafort lawyer Kevin Downing had said last week that the Virginia trial proved there was no evidence of collusion.) reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:28:51 Judge Amy Berman Jackson on Manafort: "It's hard to overstate the number of lies, the amount of fraud and the extraordinary amount of money involved." --@NBCNews reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:37:12 Judge ABJ: "The criminal conduct in this case was not an isolated, single incident...a significant portion of [Manafort's] career has been spent gaming the system." https://t.co/KXybUtDpqm reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:40:43 Judge Amy Berman Jackson: "All of this appeared to reflect his ongoing contempt for and the belief that he had the right to manipulate these proceedings, and the court order did not apply to him." —@NBCNews reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:43:37 Oof. Judge ABJ has called out Manafort over his comments today-- says they seem to have been prompted by the comments he made at the last hearing. Says "elements of remorse and acceptance of responsibility" in submissions so far have been "completely absent." reageer retweet

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etuckerAP twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:35:36 Judge Amy Berman Jackson: "Court is one of those places where facts still matter." reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:46:42 Judge ABJ has gone back to this now: "The 'no collusion' refrain that runs through the entire defense memorandum is unrelated to matters at hand." https://t.co/W7ta3hLi9d reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:48:39 "It's hard to understand why an attorney would write that...The 'no collusion' mantra is simply a non sequitur." It's also not accurate, since the investigation is ongoing, she says. reageer retweet

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ryanjreilly twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:48:16 Jackson says the "the no collusion refrain" that runs through defense documents has no relevance here. "The 'no collusion' mantra is simply a non-sequitur." Not particularly persuasive to say an investigation hasn't found anything when you've lied to investigators, she says. reageer retweet

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ZoeTillman twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:59:00 Jackson says 30 months of her sentence must be concurrent with the EDVA sentence, because the tax and reporting crimes were covered in both cases (and in EDVA he got 24 months for the tax crimes and 30 months for the reporting crime, to run concurrent) reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 17:01:31 BREAKING: Judge Amy Berman Jackson sentences Manafort to 60 months on count 1, which will run concurrent to 30 months of EDVA, and 13 months on count 2 to be served CONSECUTIVELY to sentence on count 1 and sentence imposed by EDVA. reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 17:02:42 This is 43 extra months, so almost 4 years in addition to the ~4 he received in EDVA. https://t.co/F1Tlf3WMXT reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 17:04:11 If my math is correct, subtracting the 9 months Manafort has already served that Ellis gave him credit for, Manafort is set to serve just under 7 years in prison. https://t.co/qv1GkoQBeh reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 17:05 schreef Tweek het volgende:
6 jaar dus, niet veel voor zijn misdaden.

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anniekarni twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:52:45 Ivanka didn't get a document request from House Democrats. But 52 individuals and organizations out of the 81 were asked to turn over documents related to Ivanka or her business interests. https://t.co/ErQGDUs6FN reageer retweet

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Rhona Graff, President Trump’s longtime executive assistant, was asked for documents related to foreign governments providing gifts or money to Ivanka Trump or her businesses.

Anatoli Samochornov, the Russian translator who sat in on a meeting between Trump campaign officials and Russian lobbyists, was asked to hand over handwritten notes showing any capital investment from Russian entities to Ms. Trump or her businesses.

And Jeff Sessions, the former attorney general, was asked for any documents related to loans or capital investments from Russians directed to Ms. Trump.

The president’s eldest daughter and top White House adviser was notably absent from a blitz of document requests that the House Judiciary Committee sent earlier this month to 81 individuals and organizations linked to the president. House Democrats have been cautious about targeting Ms. Trump and the other Trump children as they investigate the president, worried about triggering a backlash.

But a close read of the document requests suggests they aren’t exactly tiptoeing around the first daughter, either.

Of the 81 document requests sent, 52 individuals and organizations were asked to turn over documents related to Ms. Trump or her business interests.

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 17:44 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Dacht Manafort even goed weg te komen.

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En dit zijn state charges, hier kan Trump niet aan tornen.

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mj_lee twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 17:45:58 Literally within minutes of Paul Manafort sentencing, Manhattan DA announces Manafort indictment for "a yearlong residential mortgage fraud scheme" > https://t.co/KiWqqixx3G reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 17:49 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
En Manafort's advocaat staat nu weer te roepen dat er geen sprake collusion is. Hij komt alleen nauwelijks boven het geroep van een omstander uit: LIAR!

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ABC twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 19:34:22 BREAKING: Pres. Trump: "We're going to be issuing an emergency order of prohibition to ground all flights of the 737 MAX 8 and the 737 MAX 9, and planes associated with that line." https://t.co/8wZB1z9CPS https://t.co/ffAY0kn94p reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 19:49 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Er werd overigens nogal geklaagd over vermeende discriminatie in de toelating in het onderwijs in de VS en daar blijkt toch wel degelijk sprake van:
https://www.politico.com/(...)sion-scandal-1265869

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 20:40 schreef speknek het volgende:
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Many colleges enroll more students from the top 1 percent of earners than the bottom 60 percent combined.

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RVAwonk twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 21:54:12 #BREAKING: Rep. Jerry Nadler says during today's closed-door meeting, former acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker "did not deny that the president called him to discuss the Michael Cohen case and personnel decisions in the Southern District" -- something he denied last month. reageer retweet

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Before he pleaded guilty and began assisting federal prosecutors last summer, Michael D. Cohen, President Trump’s former fixer, spoke with a lawyer who agreed to reach out to the president’s legal team on his behalf.

The lawyer, Robert J. Costello, had about a dozen conversations with Mr. Trump’s lead lawyer, Rudolph W. Giuliani, according to emails and documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with people involved in the matter. In one email, the discussions were characterized as a “back channel of communication.”

During one of the conversations last April, Mr. Costello said in an interview, he asked whether Mr. Trump might put a pardon “on the table” for Mr. Cohen, who was under federal investigation for a variety of possible crimes, including arranging hush-money payments to two women who had said they had affairs with Mr. Trump. Mr. Giuliani told Mr. Costello that the president was unwilling to discuss pardons at that time, Mr. Costello said in the interview, and they did not discuss it again.

Now federal prosecutors have requested the emails and documents from Mr. Costello, according to a copy of the request, which cited an investigation into “possible violations of federal criminal law” but offered no further detail. The request, sent last week, was for any documents related to Mr. Cohen as well as any bills Mr. Costello had sent him.

In one of the emails, sent by Mr. Costello in April 2018 after a conversation with Mr. Giuliani, he assured Mr. Cohen, “Sleep well tonight, you have friends in high places.” He added, in a postscript: “Some very positive comments about you from the White House. Rudy noted how that followed my chat with him last night.”

A spokesman for the federal prosecutors, from the United States Attorney’s office in Manhattan, declined to comment.

There was no indication that prosecutors suspected Mr. Costello of wrongdoing, and the focus of their inquiry is not clear.

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Federal prosecutors are conducting a criminal investigation into data deals Facebook struck with some of the world’s largest technology companies, intensifying scrutiny of the social media giant’s business practices as it seeks to rebound from a year of scandal and setbacks.

A grand jury in New York has subpoenaed records from at least two prominent makers of smartphones and other devices, according to two people who were familiar with the requests and who insisted on anonymity to discuss confidential legal matters. Both companies had entered into partnerships with Facebook, gaining broad access to the personal information of hundreds of millions of its users.

The companies were among more than 150 firms, including Amazon, Apple, Microsoft and Sony, that had cut sharing deals with the world’s dominant social media platform. The agreements, previously reported in The New York Times, let the companies see users’ friends, contact information and other data, sometimes without consent. Facebook has phased out most of the partnerships over the past two years.

“We are cooperating with investigators and take those probes seriously,” a Facebook spokesman said in a statement. “We’ve provided public testimony, answered questions and pledged that we will continue to do so.”

It is not clear when the grand jury inquiry, overseen by prosecutors with the United States attorney’s office for the Eastern District of New York, began or exactly what it is focusing on. Facebook was already facing scrutiny by the Federal Trade Commission and the Securities and Exchange Commission. And the Justice Department’s securities fraud unit began investigating it after reports that Cambridge Analytica, a political consulting firm, had improperly obtained the Facebook data of 87 million people and used it to build tools that helped President Trump’s election campaign.

The Justice Department and the Eastern District declined to comment for this article.

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thehill twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 01:01:13 #BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke to announce White House run Thursday morninghttps://t.co/BzZbO040Qd https://t.co/Eby0pj2LOi reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 01:09 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 01:01:13 #BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke to announce White House run Thursday morninghttps://t.co/BzZbO040Qd https://t.co/Eby0pj2LOi reageer retweet

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GarrettHaake twitterde op maandag 05-11-2018 om 15:19:58 “I will not be a candidate for president in 2020,” @BetoORourke tells me. “That’s as definitive as it gets.” reageer retweet

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The Senate on Wednesday again rebuked President Trump for his continued defense of Saudi Arabia after the killing of the dissident journalist Jamal Khashoggi, voting for a second time to end American military assistance for the kingdom’s war in Yemen and to curtail presidential war powers.

The 54-to-46 vote, condemning a nearly four-year conflict in Yemen that has killed thousands of civilians and inflicted a devastating famine, sets the foundation for what could become Mr. Trump’s first presidential veto, with the House expected to overwhelmingly pass the measure, possibly this month. The vote also might be the opening salvo in a week where Senate Republicans have the opportunity to hit back at the president’s aggressive use of executive power. On Thursday, the chamber will vote on a resolution that would overturn Mr. Trump’s declaration of a national emergency to secure funding for his border wall.

“The United States Congress is going to reassert its constitutional responsibility over issues of war that have been abdicated for presidents, Democrats and Republicans, for too many years,” said Senator Bernie Sanders, independent of Vermont.

Senator Mitch McConnell, Republican of Kentucky and the majority leader, encouraged lawmakers on Wednesday to oppose the Yemen resolution, calling it “inappropriate and counterproductive” and warning them not to conflate their displeasure with the administration’s response to Mr. Khashoggi’s death with the broader issue of the conflict in Yemen. But in a show of defiance, seven Republican senators broke ranks to join the resolution: Mike Lee, of Utah; Susan Collins of Maine; Steve Daines of Montana; Jerry Moran of Kansas; Lisa Murkowski of Alaska; Rand Paul of Kentucky; and Todd Young of Indiana.

Still, Senator Christopher S. Murphy, Democrat of Connecticut and one of the lead backers of the Yemen resolution, warned that “we shouldn’t overstate the Republican anti-Trump renaissance,” noting that both resolutions under consideration this week had 50-vote thresholds and that Republican defections were relatively limited.

Supporters of the Yemen resolution have faced a long and grueling road to get the legislation onto the president’s desk. The Senate — led by the resolution’s authors, Mr. Sanders, Mr. Murphy and Mr. Lee — first passed the measure 56 to 41 in December, but Paul D. Ryan, the House speaker at the time, refused to take up the resolution.

His successor, Speaker Nancy Pelosi, did take it up, and the House easily passed it last month. But House Democrats inadvertently derailed the process by supporting a surprise procedural motion offered by Republicans to declare the chamber’s opposition to anti-Semitism. By attaching an unrelated amendment to the Yemen resolution, the House ended its “privileged” status, which would have forced the Senate to quickly take it up and send it to Mr. Trump.

The vote on Wednesday was essentially a do-over, and House leadership and the Congressional Progressive Caucus, wary of a repeat derailment, are already urging Democrats to oppose any unrelated amendments that Republicans might add.

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 17:49 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
En Manafort's advocaat staat nu weer te roepen dat er geen sprake collusion is. Hij komt alleen nauwelijks boven het geroep van een omstander uit: LIAR!

Manafort lawyer: judge rules 'no evidence' of Russian collusion

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 01:36 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Manafort lawyer: judge rules 'no evidence' of Russian collusion

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 01:52 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Wel echt pijnlijk zeg, om over iets te beginnen als advocaat waarvoor hij niet veroordeeld is... helemaal in het licht van de aanklacht op staatsniveau.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 13-03-2019 om 16:48:39 "It's hard to understand why an attorney would write that...The 'no collusion' mantra is simply a non sequitur." It's also not accurate, since the investigation is ongoing, she says. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 01:36 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
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Manafort lawyer: judge rules 'no evidence' of Russian collusion

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 02:09 schreef Szura het volgende:
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Als zelfs klootjesvolk met van die bordjes al door heeft dat je loopt te liegen en de woorden van de rechter totaal verdraait....

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 01:09 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 01:01:13 #BREAKING: Beto O'Rourke to announce White House run Thursday morninghttps://t.co/BzZbO040Qd https://t.co/Eby0pj2LOi reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 02:17 schreef L3gend het volgende:
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Nu nog Biden en het feestje is compleet

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staceyabrams twitterde op maandag 11-03-2019 om 20:43:33 In #LeadFromTheOutside, I explore how to be intentional about plans, but flexible enough to adapt. 20 years ago, I never thought I'd be ready to run for POTUS before 2028. But life comes at you fast - as I shared in Q&A w @Yamiche at @sxsw. Now 2020 is definitely on the table... reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 01:52 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
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Wel echt pijnlijk zeg, om over iets te beginnen als advocaat waarvoor hij niet veroordeeld is... helemaal in het licht van de aanklacht op staatsniveau.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 07:53 schreef westwoodblvd het volgende:
Ik vind Beto een puike gozer, met charisma, authenticiteit en politieke moed. Het ontbeert hem m.i. wel aan de juiste ervaring. Hij zou dan ook een goede running mate zijn. Op zijn leeftijd kan je nog wel 8 jaar wachten.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 09:48 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Tenzij hij/zij ooit president is geweest is iedere nieuwe bewoner van het Witte Huis onervaren.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 10:35 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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Je mag na onervaren zijn als president, maar als je geen politieke knowhow hebt heb je eigenlijk weinig in het witte huis te zoeken. Van Beto weet je dat hij op gegeven moment wel ervaring opdoet, maar de chaos is zo groot dat je er beter een ervaren persoon neer zet.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 10:53 schreef Hexagon het volgende:
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Je kan ook een ervaren running mate nemen zoals Obama met Biden deed.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 11:20 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Beto is in, ik heb zijn site gevonden

https://betoorourke.com/

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 11:49 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
en nu deze gevonden:

Beto O'Rourke announces he's running for president

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 09:47 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
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Tegelijkertijd ben ik wel groot voorstander van een wat jongere president. Van zo'n opa Biden word je toch ook niet vrolijk?

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 11:42 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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Dat er ruim voldoende potentïele gegadigden zijn voor de Democraten is allemaal erg leuk, maar het zou ook wel nuttig zijn als er een aantal frisse Republikeinse kandidaten in de race zouden springen.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 11:42 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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Dat er ruim voldoende potentïele gegadigden zijn voor de Democraten is allemaal erg leuk, maar het zou ook wel nuttig zijn als er een aantal frisse Republikeinse kandidaten in de race zouden springen.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 12:10 schreef Hexagon het volgende:
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Moeten ze wel bereid zijn zich door Trump te laten beledigen

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 12:23 schreef Re het volgende:
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Als de GOP de primaries niet gewoon canceled zoals ze van plan zijn

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 12:23 schreef Re het volgende:
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Als de GOP de primaries niet gewoon canceled zoals ze van plan zijn

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 10:35 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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Je mag dan onervaren zijn als president, maar als je geen politieke knowhow hebt heb je eigenlijk weinig in het witte huis te zoeken. Van Beto weet je dat hij op gegeven moment wel ervaring opdoet, maar de chaos is zo groot dat je er beter een ervaren persoon neer zet.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 10:51 schreef Hexagon het volgende:
Ik was al #Teambeto dus deze aankondiging maakt me erg blij.

Dus Democraten, stem die Biden en Sanders snel naar het bejaardentehuis en ga voor Beto!

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 14:13 schreef Elzies het volgende:
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Trump is heel blij met Bernie Sanders.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 14:19 schreef Hexagon het volgende:
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Uiteraard, maar hij heeft er enkel wat aan als die de nominatie binnen sleept

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 14:19 schreef Hexagon het volgende:
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Uiteraard, maar hij heeft er enkel wat aan als die de nominatie binnen sleept

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 14:23 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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Ik zie Bernie Sanders niet in de rol van een president. Dan gaan ze van de regen in de drup, ben ik bang.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 14:27 schreef Elzies het volgende:
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Willen de Democraten echt slagen? Stop met al die onderzoeken jegens Trump en aanverwante media vervuiling en kom met een goede geloofwaardige presidentskandidaat. De volgende presidentsverkiezingen zijn al over een jaar. Dan is het toch niet verstandig om over impeachment procedures te beginnen?

Heb Beto ook even opgezocht. Zou prima kans kunnen maken. Focus daarop. Weer leuk en nieuw materiaal om over te discussiëren.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 14:27 schreef Elzies het volgende:
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Willen de Democraten echt slagen? Stop met al die onderzoeken jegens Trump en aanverwante media vervuiling en kom met een goede geloofwaardige presidentskandidaat. De volgende presidentsverkiezingen zijn al over een jaar. Dan is het toch niet verstandig om over impeachment procedures te beginnen?

Heb Beto ook even opgezocht. Zou prima kans kunnen maken. Focus daarop Weer leuk en nieuw materiaal om over te discussiëren.

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 12:27 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:
Oeps, vergeten TT aan te passen. Oh wel.....[..]

Ik denk dan ook dat jij een verkeerd beeld hebt van de persoon Trump. In jouw beleving is de huidige POTUS een intelligente, sympathieke kerel. Dat baseer jij op het feit dat hij de Amerikaanse ambassade naar Jeruzalem heeft verplaatst. Iemand die zoiets doet, moet immers wel een geschikte peer zijn, nietwaar?

Trump is een grote, egocentrische lul. Snap werkelijk niet dat je dat niet in kunt zien.

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Op woensdag 13 maart 2019 12:33 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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Hij ziet dit wel in, maar als een anti EU adept zet hij dit maar al te makkelijk van zich af. Hij is niet voor niets bewonderaar van een Sovjet generaal. Maar het gaat hier ook niet om over het stokpaardje van DeParo (oorlog en militairisme) maar over politiek. Dus dwaal dus niet met hem af richting BNW niveau.

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Trump personally negotiated with Muilenburg to try to lower the cost of a future version of Air Force One after complaining the price tag was too high.

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Trump has used Boeing products and sites as a backdrop for major announcements over the course of his presidency. In March 2018 he touted the impact of his tax overhaul bill as he visited a plant in St. Louis.

Before joining the Pentagon, acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan, who is expected to be named to the post, worked for 31 years at Boeing, where he was general manager for the 787 Dreamliner passenger jet.

Boeing has nominated Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations who continues to be a close ally, to join its board of directors at the company’s annual shareholders meeting on April 29.

Trump has also put pressure on U.S. allies to buy products from Boeing, the country’s second largest defense contractor which received $104 billion in unclassified defense contracts between 2014 and 2018.

U.S. officials and defense industry sources said that weeks after Trump pressed the Emir of Kuwait in 2018 over a long-delayed deal for Boeing’s F/A-18 Super Hornet fighter jets, Kuwait said it would proceed with the order.

Boeing is also one of the largest U.S. exporters to China, and Muilenburg told an aviation summit in Washington that purchases of its U.S.-made aircraft by China could be part of a sweeping trade deal currently being negotiated.

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 15:06 schreef Szura het volgende:
Overigens weer enigszins swampy, dat late besluit van de anders altijd toonaangevende FAA om de Boeings aan de grond te zetten:

https://www.reuters.com/a(...)-deep-idUSKBN1QT2MQ[..]

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 15:00 schreef DeParo het volgende:
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Een anti-EU adept, ik ben een groot voorstander van een EU, alleen niet zoals hij vandaag de dag is gevormd.

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rebeccaballhaus twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 15:59:47 The House just passed a resolution 420-0 calling for the public release of the Mueller report. https://t.co/XoC5CNBFb1 reageer retweet

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JakeSherman twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 15:33:09 PRESIDENT TRUMP is coming to the capitol today for lunch as the House voted overwhelmingly to release the mueller report and as the senate readies to strike down his emergency declaration. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 15:28 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
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Een euroscepticus dus. dat mag.

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thehill twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 15:48:52 #BREAKING: Romney will side with Dems to vote against Trump's emergency declaration https://t.co/zs3gQ2bEeZ https://t.co/tUAvdSAsrW reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 16:07 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 15:48:52 #BREAKING: Romney will side with Dems to vote against Trump's emergency declaration https://t.co/zs3gQ2bEeZ https://t.co/tUAvdSAsrW reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 16:40 schreef Re het volgende:
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dan hebben ze er nog 11 nodig om veto te overrulen?... wordt een leuke test voor eventuele impeachment procedure...

dit is de daadwerkelijke impact van de blue wave... mooi

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jeffmason1 twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 15:59:56 Trump says Beto had a lot of hand movement, wonders if he is crazy https://t.co/i3Q2SloJD8 reageer retweet

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ddale8 twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 15:10:08 Trump to Breitbart on how the left plays tough: "I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers for Trump — I have the tough people, but they don’t play it tough — until they go to a certain point and then it would be very bad, very bad." reageer retweet

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mkraju twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 19:53:22 59-41, Senate votes to block emergency declaration over border wall, setting up Trump’s first veto reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 20:16:31 VETO! reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 20:18 schreef pullup het volgende:
Niet heel lang

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 20:16:31 VETO! reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 19:56 schreef pullup het volgende:
Eens kijken hoe snel hij er bij is met zijn veto

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mkraju twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 19:53:22 59-41, Senate votes to block emergency declaration over border wall, setting up Trump’s first veto reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 20:18 schreef pullup het volgende:
Niet heel lang

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 20:16:31 VETO! reageer retweet

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elizabeth_joh twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 20:31:26 no Mr. President this can’t be done by tweet https://t.co/XoQYlgZDBM reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 20:50 schreef Ulx het volgende:
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elizabeth_joh twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 20:31:26 no Mr. President this can’t be done by tweet https://t.co/XoQYlgZDBM reageer retweet

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Trump issues warning to opponents: ‘It would be very bad’ if his military, police and biker supporters got ‘tough’[

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 15:00 schreef DeParo het volgende:
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Een anti-EU adept, ik ben een groot voorstander van een EU, alleen niet zoals hij vandaag de dag is gevormd.

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LauraLitvan twitterde op donderdag 14-03-2019 om 20:26:31 NEW: Lindsey Graham just blocked Senate consideration of a House-passed resolution calling for Bob Mueller's report to be made public. reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 14 maart 2019 20:57 schreef Tweek het volgende:
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https://www.thestar.com/n(...)rters-got-tough.html

Klinkt als een bedreiging richting de democraten en hun stemmers.