[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #624 where's Junior?

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elianayjohnson twitterde op vrijdag 10-05-2019 om 15:44:54 On China, per sources, POTUS was given overly optimistic reports about progress of trade talks in an effort to keep him patient as talks dragged on -- so he thought U.S. was closer to a deal than it was. Helps to explain the sudden backlash. reageer retweet

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mattzap twitterde op vrijdag 10-05-2019 om 16:15:33 Former FBI General Counsel Jim Baker is appearing at @BrookingsInst for a taping of the Lawfare Podcast. He says emphatically that the tip on George Papadopoulos is what sparked the Russia investigation, and he was aware of no other probes of Trump campaign affiliates before that https://t.co/gSXVF0FWy1 reageer retweet

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charlie_savage twitterde op vrijdag 10-05-2019 om 16:58:57 Baker says opening of investigation into Trump after Comey firing was undertaken with supervision of acting attorney general and swiftly briefed to congressional leaders, rejects any analogy to Hoover era FBI as inaccurate in light of that. reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 10-05-2019 om 17:31:47 Former FBI General Counsel--Jim Baker--confirms Andy McCabe's account of opening counterintelligence investigation on Pres. Trump and briefing it to Gang of Eight.McCabe also said "No one objected. Not on legal grounds, not on constitutional grounds and not based on the facts." https://t.co/hunrT0iwhk reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 10-05-2019 om 17:36:46 And it's important to note that no member of the Gang of Eight-- including McConnell, Ryan, Burr, Nunes--have refuted this statement by Andy McCabe: that none of them objected when FBI/DOJ told them FBI opened a counterintelligence investigation on POTUS.https://t.co/mOzVEGDh4e reageer retweet

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The Pentagon has approved a plan to spend an additional $1.5 billion to build 80 more miles of wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, a U.S. defense official confirmed to Fox News Friday.

Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan approved the re-allocation of funds, which were originally earmarked for support of Afghan security forces and other projects, to help pay for the wall along the southern border.

"Today, I authorized the transfer of $1.5 billion toward the construction of more than 80 miles of border barrier," he said. "The funds were drawn from a variety of sources, including cost savings, programmatic changes, and revised requirements, and therefore will have minimal impact on force readiness."

In March, Shanahan approved the first transfer of Defense Department dollars and redirected $1 billion to help build nearly 60 miles of wall in Yuma, Ariz. and El Paso, Texas.

The combined total of $2.5 billion is in response to President Trump’s declaration of a national emergency at the border.

But the plan to divert Pentagon funding has sparked criticism from congressional Democrats, who accused Shanahan of not seeking approval to “reprogram” the funds without congressional authority. Shanahan and other senior defense officials claimed in response they did not have to get permission from Congress despite the objections from Democratic lawmakers.

Shanahan, who has said he plans to visit the border on Saturday, said that the Pentagon is “fully engaged” in fixing the border crisis. He said that more than 4,000 troops and 19 aircraft are supporting Customs and Border Protection personnel.

The funds are being reprogrammed from the Afghan Security Forces Fund, a project focused on chemical weapons, Air Force programs, savings related to a military retirement system, and coalition support funds. The Pentagon is also expected, at some point, to transfer up to $3.6 billion from military construction budgets to pay for wall construction, but details of those plans have yet to be announced.

The move comes after White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said Thursday that the president would officially nominate Shanahan to be the next U.S. secretary of defense. The decision to have Shanahan permanently lead the department “is based upon his outstanding service to the country and his demonstrated ability to lead.”

"Acting Secretary Shanahan has proven over the last several months that he is beyond qualified to lead the Department of Defense, and he will continue to do so," Sanders said in a statement Thursday.

Shanahan said he was “honored” by Trump’s decision.

“If confirmed by the Senate, I will continue the aggressive implementation of our National Defense Strategy," he said. "I remain committed to modernizing the force so our remarkable Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen, and Marines have everything they need to keep our military lethal and our country safe.”

https://www.foxnews.com/p(...)ong-us-mexico-border

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Op vrijdag 10 mei 2019 21:15 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Business Insider heeft weer een typerende TrumpGolf anecdote.

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TheDemCoalition twitterde op vrijdag 10-05-2019 om 20:34:14 The members say Trump hit a shot in the water but then claimed the child's ball on the green was his and the child's ball was in the water. ⛳️#DonTheCon https://t.co/CbNozyqZuB reageer retweet

For fuck's sake. Tjongejonge.

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Op vrijdag 10 mei 2019 22:41 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Mick Mulvahey blunderde ook even goed.

http://www.msnbc.com/rach(...)-his-tax-returns/amp
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Je kunt wel roepen dat het opvragen van de belastingaangifte alleen maar gedaan wordt om Trump voor lul te zetten, maar als je dan de vervolgvraag niet aan ziet komen doe je het vrij slecht.

Ben Shapiro gets DESTROYED by conservative BBC journalist Andrew Neil

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Right-wing commentator and “cool kid’s philosopher” Ben Shapiro stormed out of a contentious BBC interview on Thursday after accusing the conservative host of being a “leftist” and bragging about how popular he is.

During the pre-taped interview with BBC interviewer Andrew Neil promoting his new book, The Right Side of History: How Reason and Moral Purpose Made the West Great, Shapiro quickly became perturbed when Neil—who is known for playing devil’s advocate in interviews—pressed him on recent attempts to roll back abortion rights, asking the editor-in-chief of clickbait rage factory The Daily Wire if those policies would take America back to the “Dark Ages.”

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The House overwhelmingly passed a $19.1 billion bill Friday to provide federal aid to communities and military installations hit hard by natural disasters, ignoring President Trump's opposition to the package over its assistance for Puerto Rico.

Hours after Trump told Republicans to reject the disaster relief bill, the House backed millions of dollars for Midwest farms ravaged by flooding, Southern states still struggling after tornadoes, Western locales devastated by wildfires and other regions affected since 2017.

In late-night tweets Thursday, Trump derided the "BAD DEMOCRAT Disaster Supplemental Bill" and told House Republicans they "must stick together."

The GOP did not.

Thirty-four Republicans joined all of the chamber's Democrats to pass the sweeping relief package, 257 to 150. Some of Trump's most loyal conservative supporters broke with the president, favoring their districts' needs over the president's demands. Among them were Rep. Steve King (R-Iowa) and lawmakers from Nebraska, Georgia and Texas.

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Within a day of the release of the Mueller report last month, President Trump sought to have former White House counsel Don McGahn declare he didn’t consider the president’s 2017 directive that he seek Robert Mueller’s dismissal to be obstruction of justice, but Mr. McGahn rebuffed the request, according to people familiar with the matter.

Mr. Trump has publicly denied asking Mr. McGahn to fire the Russia probe special counsel since the release of the report, in which Mr. Mueller detailed that directive and a subsequent request by Mr. Trump that Mr. McGahn deny that conversation ever happened. “If I wanted to fire Mueller, I didn’t need McGahn to do it, I could have done it myself,” Mr. Trump tweeted last month.

Privately, Mr. Trump asked White House special counsel Emmet Flood to inquire whether Mr. McGahn would release a statement asserting that he didn’t believe the president’s request—and Mr. Trump’s subsequent efforts to have Mr. McGahn deny news reports about that request—amounted to obstruction, the people familiar with the matter said. Mr. Flood didn’t respond to a request for comment.

William Burck, a lawyer for Mr. McGahn, said in a statement of the request: “We did not perceive it as any kind of threat or something sinister. It was a request, professionally and cordially made.”

Mr. McGahn declined because he didn’t want to weigh in on the totality of evidence in the report beyond his own testimony, and didn’t want to comment on his own testimony in isolation, the people said. Mr. McGahn also didn’t view his personal opinion as relevant, because Attorney General William Barr had already said he didn’t believe the evidence in Mr. Mueller’s report amounted to obstruction of justice, the people said.

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Op vrijdag 10 mei 2019 23:55 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
House passes Trump-opposed disaster-relief bill with more funding for Puerto Rico
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Op zaterdag 11 mei 2019 00:49 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Wat waren eigenlijk de redenen dat Trump er tegen was?

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Op zaterdag 11 mei 2019 01:05 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Puerto Rico natuurlijk. Hij vindt dat daar te veel geld naartoe gaat.

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Op zaterdag 11 mei 2019 01:30 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Nee dat is het niet hij was tegen 19 miljard aan hulp goederen in meerdere staten.

Dat is niet alleen om Puerto Rico.

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The major sticking point for the president is the additional funding Democrats included to help Puerto Rico rebuild after Hurricane Maria severely damaged the island and left an eventual death toll that Puerto Rico puts at around 3,000. The additional funding amounts to more than $3 billion, including $600 million for nutritional assistance.

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Trump repeatedly has pushed back against giving more money to Puerto Rico, incorrectly stating that the federal government has already allocated $91 billion to help the U.S. territory. It has actually promised about half of that amount and spent only $11 billion.

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Op zaterdag 11 mei 2019 02:16 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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De intentie is om te weten te komen of Trump zichzelf verrijkt door zijn positie als President en of zijn "rijkdom" wettig verkregen is. Of hij dat nu leuk vind of niet is niet zo relevant, hij weigert om de Emoluments Clause na te leven en dan krijg je dit.

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dsamuelsohn twitterde op zaterdag 11-05-2019 om 02:04:34 “Certainly it would be an appropriate thing to speak to him about, but I have not done that as of yet. … It could be a very big situation,” Trump told @POLITICO on Friday. W/ ⁦@elianayjohnson⁩ ⁦@AndrewRestuccia⁩ & ⁦@dlippman⁩ https://t.co/iuqtobsftn reageer retweet

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President Donald Trump told POLITICO on Friday that it would be “appropriate” for him to speak to Attorney General Bill Barr about launching an investigation into his potential 2020 rival, Joe Biden, or his son, Hunter.

The question of whether Trump could pressure Barr to probe Biden is coming under scrutiny after Rudy Giuliani, the president’s personal attorney, said he would be traveling to Ukraine to urge the incoming government there to look at Hunter Biden’s involvement with a Ukrainian energy company that has reportedly been in prosecutors’ crosshairs. The efforts appear to be part of a broader campaign by Trump’s allies to damage the former Democratic vice president’s White House campaign and have raised questions about whether Trump’s team is trying to enlist a foreign government to aid the president’s re-election bid.

“Certainly it would be an appropriate thing to speak to him about, but I have not done that as of yet. … It could be a very big situation,” Trump said in a 15-minute telephone interview on Friday afternoon, which stemmed from POLITICO’s inquiries for a separate story.

Barr also drew attention during his recent congressional testimony when he demurred on a question about whether anybody in the White House had ever suggested that he launch an investigation.

The two Bidens’ connections to Ukraine have become a subject of deep interest among the president’s political allies, who charge that Biden as vice president pressured the Ukrainian government to oust a prosecutor in order to benefit his son. The Ukrainian prosecutor had reportedly faced allegations of ignoring corruption among Ukraine’s business and political elite. No evidence has emerged that Joe Biden was acting to assist his son, and it is not clear that the official was probing the company at the time.

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Susan_Hennessey twitterde op zaterdag 11-05-2019 om 02:21:39 This is a disturbing development people should pay attention to: The president of the United States suggesting that he might speak directly to the Attorney General about finding a way to investigate the current Democratic frontrunner. https://t.co/fpazIIlc01 reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op zaterdag 11-05-2019 om 01:54:38 Roger STONE submitted filings in court tonight from out-of-the-mainstream experts claiming it wasn't the Russians who delivered hacked materials to Wikileaks but someone local (AKA the Seth Rich theory). https://t.co/J9Bxu1rjzO reageer retweet

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cmarinucci twitterde op zaterdag 11-05-2019 om 03:57:45 Ouch! Mayor @Pete Buttigieg responds to ⁦@realDonaldTrump⁩ slam that he is “Alfred E Neuman” —“I had to Google that..I guess it’s a generational thing.” https://t.co/ZL11noISYL reageer retweet

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MADmagazine twitterde op zaterdag 11-05-2019 om 07:04:14 Who’s Pete Buttigieg? Must be a generational thing. reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 11 mei 2019 13:44 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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nicholas_bagley twitterde op vrijdag 10-05-2019 om 20:43:00 This is a real argument appearing in a real amicus brief filed in Texas v. United States about why the individual mandate is unconstitutional. https://t.co/jFvdtU6eWM reageer retweet

Niet te geloven.

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nicholas_bagley twitterde op vrijdag 10-05-2019 om 20:46:31 Who wrote the brief? Our friends Citizens United and a bunch of pro-gun organizations.Yes, you read that right. Guns and money wrote this brief with paeans to St. Paul. https://t.co/MYqujrNg8F reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 11 mei 2019 14:29 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het is trouwens ook een prima argument helemaal geen belasting te betalen.