[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #671: Great and unmatched wisdom

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Op dinsdag 8 oktober 2019 22:13 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik weet niet hoe vaak dat kan. Het staat btw ook in het artikeltje:
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SecPompeo twitterde op dinsdag 08-10-2019 om 21:35:41 Today, I am announcing visa restrictions on Chinese government and Communist Party officials believed to be responsible for, or complicit in, the detention or abuse of Uighurs, Kazakhs, or other Muslim minority groups in Xinjiang. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 8 oktober 2019 22:13 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ik weet niet hoe vaak dat kan. Het staat btw ook in het artikeltje:
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Op dinsdag 8 oktober 2019 22:14 schreef Mensen_doe_rustig het volgende:

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Hoe langer hij dit aanvecht, hoe duidelijker het is dat er iets heel sappigs in te vinden zal zijn.

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 00:15 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Kijkertje ben je ‘ on watch’ vannacht.

Er is een brief van 8 kantjes vanuit het wh., en men maakt er gehakt van.

BREAKING NEWS
The White House declared war on the impeachment investigation, saying in a letter to House leaders that it would not cooperate with the inquiry.
Tuesday, October 8, 2019 5:33 PM EST
The letter came hours after the White House blocked the interview of a key witness, Gordon D. Sondland, the United States ambassador to the European Union, before he was to appear on Capitol Hill.

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maggieNYT twitterde op dinsdag 08-10-2019 om 23:08:41 https://t.co/zU5pFtSsn1 reageer retweet

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maggieNYT twitterde op dinsdag 08-10-2019 om 23:29:48 One person briefed on the Cipollone letter said it was close to a declaration of war on the House over the impeachment inquiry. reageer retweet

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EliStokols twitterde op dinsdag 08-10-2019 om 23:26:54 The WH counsel writes "the best evidence that there was no wrongdoing on the call is the fact that, after the actual record of the call was released, Chairman Schiff chose to concoct a false version of the call." reageer retweet

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peterbakernyt twitterde op dinsdag 08-10-2019 om 23:28:09 White House declares that it will not participate in impeachment inquiry because it is illegitimate and violates precedent and due process. reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op dinsdag 08-10-2019 om 23:41:49 What a professional embarrassment.The White House Counsel's letter to Congress:"The record clearly established that the call was completely appropriate and that there is no basis for your inquiry."Signed,Pat A. Cipollone https://t.co/N0MODYw4Vs reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 00:35 schreef trein2000 het volgende:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Wat een grap zeg. Ik ben nu al benieuwd naar de rechterlijke uitspraak die de vloer aanveegt met deze onzin.

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 00:48 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:
Ik vind het ergste nog wel dat ze de procedure 'unconstitutional' noemen. Zeer gevaarlijke uitspraak.

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Upon hearing that Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Sen. Lindsey O. Graham (R-S.C.) planned to invite Rudolph W. Giuliani to testify (under oath, it would be) about his assisting President Trump's effort to engage foreign powers in Trump's reelection effort, I thought there were three possible explanations:
1) Just joking! That is the excuse Republicans used to rationalize Trump's impeachable conduct on the White House grounds (i.e., inviting China and Ukraine to help him smear former vice president Joe Biden);
2) Graham, like Trump, has had a break with reality and cannot tell what is a good idea from what is a monstrously bad idea; or
3) Graham, the day after Trump abandoned the Kurds, is crazy like a fox and wants to hasten Trump's downfall.

I don't pretend to know which it is, but considering Giuliani has said so many wild, incriminating and demonstrably false things in TV interviews and publicly bragged about finding dirt on Biden, there is little doubt his appearance would go a long way toward promoting impeachment. At the very least, it would of course wreck Trump's bogus attorney-client privilege and absolute immunity claims.

So one could hardly be surprised that although Giuliani was definitely not acting as Trump's lawyer on Ukraine matters, he let on that he would hide behind the attorney-client privilege.

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The sale raises the prospect that President Donald Trump may have been pressuring Ukraine in exchange for political favors far earlier than previously known.

Trump’s July 25 phone call with Zelensky—in which he urged him to investigate his political rival Joe Biden and issues surrounding the 2016 election, all while withholding military assistance aid to Kiev—and the concurrent pressure placed on Zelensky by U.S. diplomats has led some Democrats to view the Javelin sale in a new light.

The U.S. completed its shipment of Javelin anti-tank missiles to Ukraine in May 2018, finalizing a sale that was pushed by lawmakers in both parties and reluctantly approved by Trump in November 2017. In April 2018, then-Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko ordered Ukraine’s top anti-corruption prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko—who’d been tasked with investigating corruption that occurred under former Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych—to stop cooperating with special counsel Robert Mueller.

Mueller, at that point, was investigating former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort’s work for Yanokovych in Ukraine and his ties to Russia.

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 01:01 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Nog even een opiniestuk van Jennifer Rubin over de uitnodiging van Graham om Giuliani de kans te geven zijn 'concerns' in een hearing voor de Senaat duidelijk te maken. Ook zij vindt het een raadsel, het kan immers nooit in het voordeel van Trump zijn?

What in the world is Lindsey Graham thinking?
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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 01:41 schreef trein2000 het volgende:

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Laatste zin is ook interessant. In hoeverre kan er nog sprake zijn van verschoningsrecht als je je niet meer als advocaat maar als maffiamaatje gedraagt.

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IgnatiusPost twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 02:13:00 A bad situation in Northeast Syria is about to get much worse. Sources tell me that US officials have just informed the Syrian Kurds that Turkey is likely to attack on air and ground in next 24 hours. The US will do nothing. Targets are Tal Abyad and Ras al Ayn.... reageer retweet

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IgnatiusPost twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 02:13:00 ...Ironically Tal Abyad was the main supply route for ISIS in 2014-15 through an open border from Turkey. Turkey refused repeated requests from US to shut border. That's a big reason why US decided to partner with SDF, which took the town in the summer of 2015. reageer retweet

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IgnatiusPost twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 02:13:00 ...I'm also told that Turkish attack appears coordinated with the Russians. Russian-backed forces are mobilizing to invade the Kurdish area from the south -- towards Tabqa and other spots. Meanwhile, ISIS is mobilizing sleeper cells in Raqqa and attacks have taken place tonight. reageer retweet

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IgnatiusPost twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 02:13:00 ...And finally there is the scary issue of the thousands of ISIS detainees and families, who may be breaking out of camps and prisons after Turkish attack--with NO American back-up plan. This is a major disaster coming at us because of Trump's decisions. Hours left to stop it... reageer retweet

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senatemajldr twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 00:56:30 Overturning the results of an American election requires the highest level of fairness and due process, as it strikes at the core of our democratic process. reageer retweet

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senatemajldr twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 00:56:31 So far, the House has fallen far short by failing to follow the same basic procedures that it has followed for every other President in our history. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 04:14 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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senatemajldr twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 00:56:30 Overturning the results of an American election requires the highest level of fairness and due process, as it strikes at the core of our democratic process. reageer retweet

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senatemajldr twitterde op woensdag 09-10-2019 om 00:56:31 So far, the House has fallen far short by failing to follow the same basic procedures that it has followed for every other President in our history. reageer retweet

Hoe krijgt-ie 't uit z'n bek!

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 04:27 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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Écht niet van hem! Té complexe zin.
Het is een (valse) redenatie. Potus zou zelfde woord twee x herhalen.
Zelfs in zo’n korte zin.
Er wonen meer verwarde geesten in wh. Soort zoekt soort.

Overigens begrijp ik niet dat advocaten zich lenen voor die brief van 8 kantjes, waar van alles aan mankeert.

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 04:30 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Dit zijn tweets van McConnell

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oufenix twitterde op dinsdag 08-10-2019 om 23:29:15 @gtconway3d "The day Richard Nixon failed to answer that subpoena is the day he was subject to impeachment because he took the power from Congress over the impeachment process away from Congress, and he became the judge and jury."-Lindsey Graham, 1998 https://t.co/eJV3ghKbHR reageer retweet

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A team of investigators from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance Jr.’s office visited former Trump lawyer Michael Cohen in prison about a month ago and asked a broad set of questions about the president’s business that went beyond the payments made to silence Stormy Daniels, according to two people familiar with the matter.(..)

The district attorney is trying to determine whether the Trump Organization violated the New York state law against manipulating a company’s books and records to hide illicit activity. The extent of the inquiry is unclear.

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Op woensdag 9 oktober 2019 00:35 schreef trein2000 het volgende:
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Wat een grap zeg. Ik ben nu al benieuwd naar de rechterlijke uitspraak die de vloer aanveegt met deze onzin.