[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #627 Rosegarden tantrum

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Op vrijdag 24 mei 2019 13:25 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Allicht WIST Trump dat het rapport voor hem vernietigend zou zijn. Vandaar dat hij Barr een pretpakket in elkaar liet flansen. Barr zal vast en zeker in de problemen komen, maar Trump heeft dan al zijn zin, de bedoeling was om het langverwachte rapport te ontzenuwen alvorens die publiek wordt. En dit is tot nog toe gelukt. Dat mag Barr de kop kosten, zo belangrijk is die niet. Trump heeft er in de tussentijd al weer een aantal schandalen bij gekregen, waarop het rapport is vervaagd in de waan van de dag, en dat was de bedoeling. Maar de Dem laten gelukkig niet los. En blijven de zaak opkloppen.

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Op vrijdag 24 mei 2019 13:25 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Inderdaad, wat je schrijft. Je hebt gelijk.

Zeker wat Barr schreef zat ernaast.

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Op vrijdag 24 mei 2019 11:54 schreef Ensiferum het volgende:

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Wat acht je waarschijnlijker? Dat Barr de waarheid heeft gesproken of dat hij heeft gelogen? En ik vraag naar wat je waarschijnlijker vindt, niet waar je per se op hoopt.

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bethreinhard twitterde op vrijdag 24-05-2019 om 15:28:02 Top election official in Tennessee, former GOP lawmaker, said large-scale effort to register black voters had created a “dangerous” situation for others who were “properly” trying to register. ⁦@AmyEGardner⁩ https://t.co/oUp14g4apz reageer retweet

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Last year, an army of paid workers with stacks of voter registration forms fanned out in Memphis, Nashville and other parts of Tennessee to persuade African Americans to vote. They walked the parking lots of grocery stores and laundromats, stood outside church services, and cajoled revelers on party buses and at nightclubs.

By October, the Tennessee Black Voter Project took credit for turning in more than 90,000 voter registration applications — what organizers hoped would be a first step in a broader effort to get more African Americans to be a regular force in elections.

But the surge of forms that landed in the months before Election Day was chaotic and consuming, according to officials in the state’s two largest counties, which include Memphis and Nashville. Thousands of applications had errors or omissions, they said, and their workers were overwhelmed by the task of verifying all the forms.

The state’s top elections official, a former Republican lawmaker named Mark Goins, called the crush of applications and the errors they contained a “dangerous” situation for others who were “properly” trying to register.

He proposed a solution that went further than any other state in the nation: imposing civil penalties on groups that employ paid canvassers if they submit incomplete or inaccurate voter registration forms.

“We want to provide for fair, for genuine — for elections with integrity,” Republican Gov. Bill Lee said when he signed the bill on May 2.

The new law, which will take effect Oct. 1 unless the courts intervene, imposes penalties of up to $2,000 for each county where an organization with paid workers submits more than 100 deficient forms. The fine gets much steeper — up to $10,000 per county — where the number of deficient forms exceeds 500.

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A House Republican lawmaker blocked a $19.1 billion disaster aid package on Friday, delaying passage of relief for disaster affected areas across the country.

Rep. Chip Roy (R-Tex.) voted to block the legislation, which has the support of President Trump and passed the Senate on Thursday.

Only one vote was needed to defeat the motion because House lawmakers left town Thursday morning, before Senate negotiators reached a compromise on the bill. With members absent, leaders had hoped to pass the measure by “unanimous consent.”

Roy told reporters he was frustrated the bill would increase the budget deficit and because it had left out additional money for border security. The White House had initially pushed for billions in money for the border as part of the disaster bill, but that was left out of the Senate compromise.

“The people are tired of the swamp and this is a very swampy thing to do,” Roy told reporters before taking the House floor to lodge his objection.

Following the objection, the House ended its session.

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Op vrijdag 24 mei 2019 17:13 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 24-05-2019 om 03:09:33 “PELOSI STAMMERS THROUGH NEWS CONFERENCE” https://t.co/1OyCyqRTuk reageer retweet

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VicBergerIV twitterde op vrijdag 24-05-2019 om 03:58:34 @:realDonaldTrump “TRUMP PERFECTLY SAYS WORDS VERY GOODLY” #MAGA https://t.co/OyubyUA7KN reageer retweet

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Trump to sidestep Congress to clear arms deals benefiting Saudi Arabia, UAE

Secretary of State Mike Pompeo notified lawmakers Friday that President Trump is invoking his emergency authority to sidestep Congress and complete 22 arms deals worth approximately $8 billion that would benefit Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and other countries, despite lawmakers’ objections to the transactions.

Both Republicans and Democrats urged the Trump administration this week not to take the rare step of declaring an emergency to push through arms deals that lawmakers have blocked, including a controversial sale of precision-guided munitions to Saudi Arabia that some lawmakers fear may be used against civilians in the war-torn country of Yemen.

Bron: WaPo

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Op vrijdag 24 mei 2019 21:02 schreef speknek het volgende:
Het lijkt er een beetje op dat Trump zijn einde voelt naderen en snel een reeks zelfverrijkende dingen doordrukt nu het nog kan.

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Op donderdag 23 mei 2019 18:14 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Sinds Trump president is en tijdens zijn campagne heb ik niets anders gehoord dan geschreeuw.

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Op donderdag 23 mei 2019 18:31 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Lock Her Up! Lock Her Up!

Die bedoel je?

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Op vrijdag 24 mei 2019 20:57 schreef Montov het volgende:
En het is officieel:
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Gelukkig is Trump geen warhawk, ofzo. Slechte zaak, maar Trump vindt Saoudi-Arabie geweldig omdat ze voor miljoenen dollars appartementen van hem hebben gekocht en nu dus miljarden voor wapentuig.