[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #606 Middle-Class Joe

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NBCPolitics twitterde op maandag 18-03-2019 om 12:04:19 JUST IN: Beto O'Rourke raised $6.1M in his first 24 hours as a presidential candidate, according to his campaign, surpassing Sen. Sanders and every other 2020 Democrat who has disclosed their figures. https://t.co/6ZRfpNMlZJ reageer retweet

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Op maandag 18 maart 2019 10:11 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Ben wel benieuwd of de republikeinen nog campagne gaan voeren over beleidsvraagstukken die zij belangrijk vinden of dat de campagne niet meer inhoud heeft dan "kijk eens hoe eng en kut de Democraten zijn".

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Op maandag 18 maart 2019 15:57 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Wat mij betreft mag het. Alle politici boven de 70, weg ermee!

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JustinElliott twitterde op maandag 18-03-2019 om 12:24:40 NEW: Feds raided Trump fundraiser Elliott Broidy’s office in money laundering probe https://t.co/hVactFfjVc from @RobertFaturechi and me reageer retweet

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Federal authorities raided the office of Republican fundraiser Elliott Broidy last summer, seeking records related to his dealings with foreign officials and Trump administration associates, according to a sealed search warrant obtained by ProPublica.

Agents were authorized to use the megadonor’s hands and face to unlock any phones that required fingerprint or facial scans.

The Washington Post reported in August that the Justice Department was investigating Broidy. The sealed warrant offers new details of federal authorities’ investigation of allegations that Broidy had attempted to cash in on his Trump White House connections in dealings with foreign officials. It also shows that the government took a more aggressive approach with the Trump ally than was previously known, entering his office and removing records — just as it did with Trump’s personal lawyer Michael Cohen.

Broidy served as a major Trump campaign fundraiser and was the national deputy finance chair of the Republican National Committee until he resigned in April 2018, when it was revealed he had agreed to secretly pay off a former Playboy model in exchange for her silence about their affair.

The search warrant cites three potential crimes that authorities are investigating: conspiracy, money laundering and violations of the law barring covert lobbying on behalf of foreign officials. To obtain a search warrant, authorities have to convince a judge that there’s a probable cause they will find evidence of those specific crimes.

The search warrant also for the first time links Broidy to a globe-trotting Miami Beach party promoter.

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Op maandag 18 maart 2019 22:03 schreef martijnde3de het volgende:
Weer wat peilingen:

2020 National GE

Biden 48% (+5) Trump 43% .
Sanders 46% (+2) Trump 44%
Harris 44% Trump 44%
Warren 44% Trump 44%
Trump 44% (+1) O'Rourke 43% .
Trump 44% (+2) Booker 42%

@:Civiqs/@:dailykos 3/9-12

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White House counselor Kellyanne Conway said Monday that reading the manifesto the alleged New Zealand mosque shooter wrote "in its entirety" would show he wasn't inspired by President Trump.

"Unlike most mass shootings, this man came with pre-receipts," Conway said on "Fox & Friends" while speaking about Friday's shootings at a pair of Christchurch mosques, which resulted in 50 deaths.

"He put out a 70-page manifesto, and I guess everybody scoured it, searched for Donald Trump’s name, and there it is one time," she continued. "But he also said he aligns closely with the ideology of China. He said he’s not a conservative. He’s not a Nazi. I think he referred to himself as an eco-naturalist or an eco-fascist."

Conway added that "people should read" the manifesto "in its entirety."

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 19-03-2019 om 01:10:29 Cambridge Analytica has been accused of trying to liquidate the company before a full investigation into their activities could be held. https://t.co/xxRQyuxSMN reageer retweet

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British political consultants that worked for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign liked to boast that they could deploy dirty tricks and twist democracies all over the world without the risk of detection.

The High Court in London heard on Monday that Cambridge Analytica was up to its old tricks from beyond the grave—by surreptitiously trying to halt investigations that could expose allegedly nefarious tactics before the company was shut down for good.

The company filed for the British equivalent of chapter 11 bankruptcy last year after secret recordings of its boss, Alexander Nix, emerged in which he claimed that Trump’s data gurus had carried out illicit election campaigns all over the world. The company was also accused of using up to 87 million clandestinely harvested Facebook profiles to create a state of the art voter database that helped Trump win election in 2016.

A lawyer representing a New York professor, who believes his private data was misused by the notorious campaign operatives, claims Cambridge Analytica’s data secrets are being shielded from justice and exposure by administrators in the pay of a shadow company set up by a band of executives linked to the Trump campaign veterans.

The High Court heard that administrators had deliberately misled a judge during a previous hearing by obfuscating their financial links to Emerdata, a company which was set up by Nix, Rebekah Mercer, and other senior figures who were previously involved with Cambridge Analytica.

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rebeccaballhaus twitterde op dinsdag 19-03-2019 om 01:09:04 NEW from @mrothfeld @joe_palazzolo: How did the National Enquirer get Bezos’s texts? Michael Sanchez, the brother of Bezos’ lover, sold them for $200,000 to the National Enquirer’s publisher. https://t.co/5s3h5ebGjg reageer retweet

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nytimes twitterde op dinsdag 19-03-2019 om 05:00:08 As a developer, Donald Trump borrowed more than $2 billion from Deutsche Bank. Once he was president, the German bank shifted into damage-control mode. It issued an unusual direction to its Wall Street employees: Do not publicly utter the word “Trump.” https://t.co/A4DJOCYuBU reageer retweet

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davidenrich twitterde op maandag 18-03-2019 om 23:37:16 This is the inside story of how Deutsche Bank officials - including 2 CEOs - were so eager to do business with @realDonaldTrump that they ignored years of internal warnings about the risks. Based on interviews with 20+ bank execs with direct knowledge. https://t.co/5kD4vCXm7y reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 18-03-2019 om 23:29:29 While the press doesn’t like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security. If I didn’t do it there would be hell to pay from the FAKE NEWS MEDIA! https://t.co/xqIGUOwh4x reageer retweet

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Stonekettle twitterde op dinsdag 19-03-2019 om 01:18:35 Wait. Back up. How does this work? You CAN'T donate money directly to a particular government agency. You CAN donate money to the US government via the US Treasury, which goes into the General Fund to be used as Congress may direct via normal budgetary legislation. 1/ https://t.co/AhZALVJJzr reageer retweet

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Stonekettle twitterde op dinsdag 19-03-2019 om 01:18:36 The picture of the check Trump posted is a PERSONAL check, not a government appropriation. It CAN'T be accepted by DHS, not legally, not unless Congress passed legislation to set up a special fund (as they do for certain national projects). And they didn't. 5/ reageer retweet

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KFILE twitterde op maandag 18-03-2019 om 23:46:27 Per Fox News: Rep. Devin Nunes is suing Twitter and some accounts called “Devin Nunes Mom” and “Devin Nunes Cow.”https://t.co/rP8srxu2hI https://t.co/3zywEF8Yqo reageer retweet

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DevinCow twitterde op zondag 04-02-2018 om 23:15:04 @The_Roni Nunes’ farm has over a million dollars in revenue each year, not counting the subsidies. Here’s the data: https://t.co/quwC8LeNPq reageer retweet

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DevinGrapes twitterde op donderdag 26-07-2018 om 18:15:06 I never see my owner anymore. He's so busy on Fox News, palling around with DC lobbyists, and up in Boston watching sports that he never visits me, never checks on how I'm growing, whether I'm well-enough fed, well-enough watered... I wonder if @DevinCow feels the same? reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 19 maart 2019 08:03 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op maandag 18-03-2019 om 23:29:29 While the press doesn’t like writing about it, nor do I need them to, I donate my yearly Presidential salary of $400,000.00 to different agencies throughout the year, this to Homeland Security. If I didn’t do it there would be hell to pay from the FAKE NEWS MEDIA! https://t.co/xqIGUOwh4x reageer retweet

Leuk verhaaltje, maar niet zonder haken en ogen.....

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Stonekettle twitterde op dinsdag 19-03-2019 om 01:18:35 Wait. Back up. How does this work? You CAN'T donate money directly to a particular government agency. You CAN donate money to the US government via the US Treasury, which goes into the General Fund to be used as Congress may direct via normal budgetary legislation. 1/ https://t.co/AhZALVJJzr reageer retweet

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Stonekettle twitterde op dinsdag 19-03-2019 om 01:18:36 The picture of the check Trump posted is a PERSONAL check, not a government appropriation. It CAN'T be accepted by DHS, not legally, not unless Congress passed legislation to set up a special fund (as they do for certain national projects). And they didn't. 5/ reageer retweet

Kortom: Trump kan zijn salaris wel doneren aan de VS, maar dan niet aan een ministerie naar keuze die het dan zou moeten gebruiken voor een van zijn hobbyprojecten. Als het Congres besluit dat geld uit te geven aan een fonds om illegale immigrantenkinderen weer te hetenigen met hun ouders kunnen ze dat gewoon doen. Hoe Trump ook zal tandenknarsen.

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Stonekettle twitterde op dinsdag 19-03-2019 om 03:15:13 Addendum 2:Possible answer is here: https://t.co/ZA8T0Xs9eBIt appears Trump CAN make a GIFT donation to the DHS. 8/ reageer retweet

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Stonekettle twitterde op dinsdag 19-03-2019 om 03:15:13 That said, even if it's legal for the average citizen, I'm not convinced it doesn't run afoul of ethics laws for the PRESIDENT to donate money to agencies under his authority. Further research is required. 9/9 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 19 maart 2019 10:42 schreef Ensiferum het volgende:

De wanhoop is meelijwekkend.