[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #605 Stone Cold Crazy

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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.