[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #672: Stab ‘m in the back

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 17:31 schreef Hanca het volgende:

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Nou ja, de beide partijen hebben hem om zeep geholpen, de democraten stellen ook democratische rechters aan als ze de kans krijgen. Maar inderdaad, het is een raar politiek systeem daar, de rechtspraak. Een groot nadeel, een land zonder onpartijdige rechtspraak is niet echt een democratie, aangezien dat een essentiële bouwsteen is.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 15:27 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Die dubieuze figuren kunnen namelijk niet zoveel kwaad veroorzaken als die in het hooggerechtshof blijven zitten straks.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 17:58 schreef Jojoke het volgende:

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Inderdaad, het is een raar systeem. Die Kavanaugh stemt gewoon voor wat Trump wil, denk ik. Ik vertrouw de andere Trump rechter Neil Gorsuch meer. Daarvan heb je eerder de kans dat hij de letter van de wet volgt.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 18:15:03 Breaking via WaPo: Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said that her departure came as a direct result of pressure President Trump placed on the State Department to remove her. https://t.co/Awau7gD4WP reageer retweet

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Marie Yovanovitch told lawmakers that she was forced to leave Kiev on "the next plane" this spring and subsequently removed from her post, with the State Department's No. 2 official telling her that, though she had done nothing wrong, the president had lost confidence in her and the State Department had been under significant pressure to remove her since the summer of 2018.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 17:31 schreef Hanca het volgende:

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Nou ja, de beide partijen hebben hem om zeep geholpen, de democraten stellen ook democratische rechters aan als ze de kans krijgen. Maar inderdaad, het is een raar politiek systeem daar, de rechtspraak. Een groot nadeel, een land zonder onpartijdige rechtspraak is niet echt een democratie, aangezien dat een essentiële bouwsteen is.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 18:21 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Ik kan me slecht voorstellen dat als je het hoogst haalbare in je vak behaald hebt je op dit moment partijdig zou zijn. Dat je een standpunt hebt over abortus of wapens is nog tot daar aan toe. Maar dit onderwerp zou toch unaniem besloten moeten worden.

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The Pentagon announced Friday that the U.S. will deploy additional personnel, aircraft and missile defense equipment to Saudi Arabia in response to Iranian aggression.

The U.S. will send two fighter squadrons, one Air Expeditionary Wing (AEW), two Patriot missile system batteries holding missiles and a launcher, and one Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, chief Pentagon spokesperson Jonathan Hoffman said in a statement.

“As we have stated, the United States does not seek conflict with the Iranian regime, but we will retain a robust military capability in the region that is ready to respond to any crisis and will defend U.S. forces and interest in the region,” the spokesman said.

Defense Secretary Mark Esper had authorized the deployment last month at the request of U.S. Central Command and informed Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and the country's defense minister of the action earlier on Friday.

“Taken together with other deployments this constitutes an additional 3,000 forces that have been extended or authorized within the last month,” Hoffman said.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 18:19 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 18:15:03 Breaking via WaPo: Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch said that her departure came as a direct result of pressure President Trump placed on the State Department to remove her. https://t.co/Awau7gD4WP reageer retweet

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Yovanovitch said of Sullivan: “I met with the Deputy Secretary of State, who informed me of the curtailment of my term. He said that the President had lost confidence in me and no longer wished me to serve as his ambassador.

“He added that there had been a concerted campaign against me, and that the Department had been under pressure from the President to remove me since the Summer of 2018.

“He also said that I had done nothing wrong and that this was not like other situations where he had recalled ambassadors for cause. I departed Ukraine for good this past May.”

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kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 18:38:13 Just reemphasizing because the timing is crazy:Literally minutes after Yovanovitch testified that Deputy Secretary of State Sullivan told her she did nothing to warrant her ouster from Ukraine, Trump announced nomination of Sullivan as the next ambassador to Russia. https://t.co/F9asTsvV22 reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 16:26 schreef nostra het volgende:
Goede Onderhandelingstactiek wel, alvast De Deal aankondigen alsof hij al gesloten is.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 19:05 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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kyledcheney twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 18:38:13 Just reemphasizing because the timing is crazy:Literally minutes after Yovanovitch testified that Deputy Secretary of State Sullivan told her she did nothing to warrant her ouster from Ukraine, Trump announced nomination of Sullivan as the next ambassador to Russia. https://t.co/F9asTsvV22 reageer retweet

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RobbieGramer twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 18:43:20 When I asked the State Department in May why Yovanovitch was being removed from her post, a State spokesperson told me on May 7: "Ambassador Yovanovitch is concluding her 3-year diplomatic assignment in Kyiv in 2019 as planned." https://t.co/XvHDXuthO2 reageer retweet

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nahaltoosi twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 18:46:12 I believe this is called "lying." https://t.co/5ojzOXMhMk reageer retweet

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mmurraypolitics twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 19:11:14 Money line from Yovanovitch: “The harm will come when bad actors in countries beyond Ukraine see how easy it is to use fiction and innuendo to manipulate our system. In such circumstances, the only interests that will be served are those of our strategic adversaries, like Russia” reageer retweet

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jdawsey1 twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 18:51:12 Trump sent a WSJ op-ed by Kim Strassel titled "Ukraine Smoke and Mirrors" to all U.S. senators today, per senior Hill aide. Came with a note: "The president has asked for this article to be shared with you." reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 18:48 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Trump bringing the troops back home...
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https://thehill.com/polic(...)tems-to-saudi-arabia

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 18:29 schreef Hanca het volgende:

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Het voordeel is wel: zelfs Trump kan hen niks doen als ze tegen hem stemmen.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 20:20:02 Schiff, Engel, and Cummings: "Last night, the Committees learned that the State Department, at the direction of the White House, directed Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch not to appear for her voluntary interview ... In response, the House Intelligence Committee issued a subpoena." reageer retweet

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Shepard Smith Leaving Fox News

Fox News announced Friday that Shepard Smith would be stepping down from his role as Chief News Anchor and Managing Editor of the network’s breaking news unit and anchor of Shepard Smith Reporting. Smith’s last time anchoring was today.

Smith, in a statement, said he had asked Fox to be released from his contract. “Recently I asked the company to allow me to leave Fox News and begin a new chapter,” Smith said. “After requesting that I stay, they graciously obliged. The opportunities afforded this guy from small town Mississippi have been many. It’s been an honor and a privilege to report the news each day to our loyal audience in context and with perspective, without fear or favor. I’ve worked with the most talented, dedicated and focused professionals I know and I’m proud to have anchored their work each day — I will deeply miss them.”

The network said a series of rotating anchors would host the 3 p.m. ET time slot until a new dayside news program is announced.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 21:27 schreef Ulx het volgende:
https://www.newsweek.com/(...)tter_impression=true

Turkije bombardeert Amerikaanse soldaten. Per ongeluk. Well, they knew what they signed up for.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 22:01 schreef Mike het volgende:
Shephard Smith heeft genoeg van FOX News:
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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 22:16 schreef PippenScottie het volgende:

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Bill Barr was gisteren op de koffie bij Murdoch.
Een logischere verklaring is dat Trump genoeg had van Smith. Hij was een van de twee Fox News anchors met journalistieke integriteit. Alleen Chris Wallace is nog over.

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"We've come to a very substantial phase one deal," Trump told reporters following the meeting.

The principles of the deal, which Trump said would be written over the next three weeks, cover financial services, agriculture and some intellectual property issues. Trump suggested he could sign the deal next month when he and Chinese President Xi Jinping will be in Chile for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meetings. Negotiations on a second phase, he added, would continue after the signing of the first phase.

As part of the deal, Trump would suspend a scheduled 5 percentage point tariff increase on $250 billion of Chinese imports due to go into effect Tuesday. The fate of a new set of 15 percent tariffs scheduled to go into effect on $156 billion of Chinese imports in mid-December remained unclear.

China agreed to buy $40 billion to $50 billion in agricultural products, relieving pressure on farmers, a key constituency that has suffered under the ongoing trade war.

But the deal must still be written and signed by both parties, and it steered clear of broader issues Trump hoped to address when he embarked on the trade war last year, including broader intellectual property issues, forced technology transfer and massive Chinese industrial subsidies.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 22:29 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:

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Lijkt me een gevalletje van een complot zoeken waar er geen is. Het was al langer duidelijk dat Smith het wel gezien had bij Fox. De man heeft gewoon ontslag genomen, meer is er imo niet.

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brianstelter twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 22:17:36 Shep Smith cared deeply about having a newscast on Fox that countered the opinion shows that dominate the network. He felt he was doing something critically important. Now he's suddenly walking away. And we haven't heard the half of it yet. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 22:35 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Hij heeft wel een non-compete clause getekend. En ook:

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brianstelter twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 22:17:36 Shep Smith cared deeply about having a newscast on Fox that countered the opinion shows that dominate the network. He felt he was doing something critically important. Now he's suddenly walking away. And we haven't heard the half of it yet. reageer retweet

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As of Friday, Oct. 11, The Courier-Journal reports that numerous people have already scaled the replica wall, including an 8-year-old girl, even though Weber's competition isn't until this weekend.

According to the Courier-Journal, 30-year-old Peter Favaloro of Boston reached the top of the wall in about a minute. The novice climber told the publication he traveled to climb the wall after seeing news coverage about it.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 17:28 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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cjcmichel twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 03:42:59 Aaaand here's the confirmation that Parnas's trips to Vienna are officially connected to Firtash: https://t.co/O92tRCkSgd https://t.co/RtVHt1YzPd reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 22:57 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:

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Ja, dat was snel he? Maar het blijft toch enigszins raadselachtig waarom ze die vent weer zo dringend moesten spreken, Giuliani had die rapporten immers al gekregen van Firtash, toch?

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 22:57 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:

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Ja, dat was snel he? Maar het blijft toch enigszins raadselachtig waarom ze die vent weer zo dringend moesten spreken, Giuliani had die rapporten immers al gekregen van Firtash, toch?

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 22:57 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:

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Ja, dat was snel he? Maar het blijft toch enigszins raadselachtig waarom ze die vent weer zo dringend moesten spreken, Giuliani had die rapporten immers al gekregen van Firtash, toch?

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 23:17 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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De VS vragen nog steeds de uitlevering van Firtash. Kan me voorstellen dat hij doet alsof ie nuttige info heeft, maar die enkel wil geven als ze het verzoek intrekken. Zou niet de eerste keer zijn, in 2013 vroeg de VS al eens om z'n uitlevering, maar dat werd enkele dagen later weer ingetrokken, na besprekingen tussen FBI, State Department en DOJ.

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Misschien wilde Giuliani zoiets regelen?

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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 23:23:58 Senator Roger Wicker, R-Miss., wrote in an April 2018 letter to then-Attorney General Sessions that Dmytro Firtash had served as a "direct agent of the Kremlin.”https://t.co/NRAQQ2PcfG reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 23:34 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Sources directly familiar tell me many Fox News and Fox Business staffers were "shocked" when Shep Smith announced his departure on @:foxnews, some were visibly upset. He was escorted out by security, per sources.

Fox plans to have a set of rotating anchors host his time slot.

https://mobile.twitter.com/jolingkent/status/1182758486003707905

Lijkt me ook niet heel normaal om na je ontslag door beveiliging naar buiten begeleid te worden.

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 23:40 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Ook niet zo ongewoon bij Amerikaanse bedrijven, ik ken er een aantal die dit gewoon standaard doen om er voor te zorgen dat mensen die weggaan geen onrust kunnen veroorzaken en geen materialen mee kunnen nemen.

Gebeurt in Nederland bij Amerikaanse bedrijven ook, btw

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 23:45:21 A federal judge in New York has blocked the Trump administration's efforts to deny permanent residency to immigrants who use or are likely to use public benefits, such as food stamps, housing vouchers, and Medicaid. https://t.co/i6IWer2weB reageer retweet

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MattGertz twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 13:56:35 By popular demand.Left, Fox's Shepard Smith Reporting, 3 p.m."Time to meet Igor and Lev. They reportedly enjoyed lunch hours ago with one Rudy Giuliani."Right, The AtlanticAt 3 PM, Giuliani reportedly shouts "asshole" at the TV. https://t.co/83IMes8xs5 reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 23:42 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Als ze zelf ontslag nemen ook?!

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 23:26 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Soo...
“Turkish forces have fired on a declared U.S. military outpost in northern Syria. Turkey knows all of our locations down to the precise grid coordinate as confirmed by SECDEF and CJCS only two hours ago. This was not a mistake”

Zegt https://mobile.twitter.co(...)/1182756792675139584.

Ach, trump wist - in ieder geval zei tijdens choppertalk, dat er geen manschappen meer aanwezig waren.

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devindwyer twitterde op zaterdag 12-10-2019 om 00:47:25 JUST IN from @MarthaRaddatz: ISIS has breached several prisons in northern Syria. Official says Turkey is deliberately targeting American bases so we will depart. @ABC reageer retweet

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Santucci twitterde op zaterdag 12-10-2019 om 01:55:47 DHS Secretary out https://t.co/eRzJsuOukY reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 12-10-2019 om 01:46:31 ....Congratulations Kevin, on a job well done! I will be announcing the new Acting Secretary next week. Many wonderful candidates! reageer retweet

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McAleenan had been frustrated with a cadre of Trump's appointments to senior immigration roles and recently told The Washington Post that he was struggling to control his department. More hardline figures have attacked him as insufficiently committed to the president immigration agenda, while critics of those policies argue he has used conciliatory rhetoric to lend cover to harsh measures.

Trump in turn had questioned whether McAleenan was loyal to him.

A person close to McAleenan said he resigned on Friday after weeks of growing disenchantment with his standing in the administration. He was never formally nominated for the job.

"What I don't have control over is the tone, the message, the public face and approach of the department in an increasingly polarized time," McAleenan said in an interview with The Washington Post. "That's uncomfortable, as the accountable, senior figure."

Bron

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The unnamed Ukrainian official referenced in a federal indictment as directing a plot to oust the then-U.S. ambassador is Ukraine's former chief prosecutor Yuriy Lutsenko, according to a U.S. official familiar with the events.

According to the source, Lutsenko is the Ukrainian official who prosecutors say urged two associates of Rudy Giuliani to push for the removal of Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine who was forced out in May.

The associates, Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, were arrested Wednesday night as they prepared to board a one-way flight out of the country at Dulles Airport in Washington, D.C.

"They sought political influence not only to advance their own financial interests, but to advance the political interests of at least one foreign official ⁠— a Ukrainian government official who sought the dismissal of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine," Geoffrey Berman, U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said at a Thursday news conference.

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rgoodlaw twitterde op zaterdag 12-10-2019 om 02:34:29 Wow.At same time Trump has been saying his efforts on Ukraine were to combat corruption...The plot to oust US Ambassador Yovanovitch was led by the highly corrupt prosecutor Lutsenko—because she was stymying his corruption. And the President of the United States obliged him. https://t.co/AXqRE44Mhw reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 12 oktober 2019 02:56 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

rally lijkt grotendeels een herhaling van gisteren...

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Op zaterdag 12 oktober 2019 03:07 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
John Solomon verdient een Pulitzer, volgens Trump..

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Op vrijdag 11 oktober 2019 23:58 schreef Jojoke het volgende:

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MattGertz twitterde op vrijdag 11-10-2019 om 13:56:35 By popular demand.Left, Fox's Shepard Smith Reporting, 3 p.m."Time to meet Igor and Lev. They reportedly enjoyed lunch hours ago with one Rudy Giuliani."Right, The AtlanticAt 3 PM, Giuliani reportedly shouts "asshole" at the TV. https://t.co/83IMes8xs5 reageer retweet

Dit is toch wel opvallend. Als hier een connectie is, dan zullen we het ooit weten.

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The way Smith saw it, he was making sure that accurate information was getting on Fox's air.

"I wonder," he told a Time magazine reporter last year, "if I stopped delivering the facts, what would go in its place in this place that is most watched, most listened, most viewed, most trusted? I don't know."

But he had had enough. In September, according to a well-placed source, he went to Fox News management and asked to be let out of his long-term contract. Tensions with the opinion shows were the breaking point.

Executives at the network leaned on him to stay, but to no avail. On Friday afternoon he announced his departure on the air, then exited the building immediately, clearly emotional about saying goodbye to his television home of twenty years.