[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #678: GOP zweet peentjes

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Op dinsdag 29 oktober 2019 20:49 schreef Mike het volgende:

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Dit is wel prettig. Niet dat gehaast met 5 minuten per persoon, maar gewoon een grondige ondervraging zonder interrupties.

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Op dinsdag 29 oktober 2019 21:12 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Live op TV? Terwijl de Dems de ene na de andere misdaad aantonen? Het lijkt me een debiele strategie.

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Op dinsdag 29 oktober 2019 21:45 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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shannonrwatts twitterde op dinsdag 29-10-2019 om 21:19:46 What Americans don’t know you put Halloween candy in the bag the kid is carrying and not on top of their head? They’re like robots trying to mimic humans. https://t.co/3gv50msCLT reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 29 oktober 2019 21:52 schreef koemleit het volgende:

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hahaha ik heb hier gewoon wel even hardop om gelachen.
schitterend.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 00:00:36 Testimony from Alexander Vindman appeared to contradict Energy Secretary Rick Perry's ardent denials that he ever heard former Biden or his son Hunter discussed in relation to U.S. requests that Ukraine investigate corruption. https://t.co/kkhEMmk7Z4 reageer retweet

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"Not once, as God is my witness, not once was a Biden name — not the former vice president, not his son — ever mentioned," Perry told the CBN News on Oct. 7. He repeated those denials in a Fox News radio interview last week.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 01:19 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Rick Perry heeft ook nog wat uit te leggen

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 00:00:36 Testimony from Alexander Vindman appeared to contradict Energy Secretary Rick Perry's ardent denials that he ever heard former Biden or his son Hunter discussed in relation to U.S. requests that Ukraine investigate corruption. https://t.co/kkhEMmk7Z4 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 02:00:08 Breaking via NYT: Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman told House investigators that the White House transcript of a July call between President Trump and Ukraine's president omitted crucial words and phrases, and that his attempts to restore them failed.https://t.co/4n2hCEO00x reageer retweet

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The omissions, Colonel Vindman said, included Mr. Trump's assertion that there were recordings of former Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. discussing Ukraine corruption, and an explicit mention by Ukraine's president, Volodymyr Zelensky, of Burisma Holdings, the energy company whose board employed Mr. Biden's son Hunter.

Colonel Vindman, who appeared on Capitol Hill wearing his dark blue Army dress uniform and military medals, told House impeachment investigators that he tried to change the reconstructed transcript made by the White House staff to reflect the omissions. But while some of his edits appeared to have been successful, he said, those two corrections were not made.

Colonel Vindman did not testify to a motive behind the editing process. But his testimony is likely to drive investigators to ask further questions about how officials handled the call, including changes to the transcript and the decision to put it into the White House's most classified computer system -- and whether those moves were meant to conceal the call's most controversial aspects.

The phrases do not fundamentally change lawmakers' understanding of the call. There are plenty of other examples of Mr. Trump referring to Ukraine-related conspiracy theories and asking for investigations of the Biden family. But Colonel Vindman's account offered a hint to solving a mystery surrounding the conversation first reported by the intelligence whistle-blower whose complaint launched the impeachment inquiry: what Mr. Trump's aides left out of the transcript in places where ellipses indicate dropped words.

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The note-takers and voice recognition software used during the July 25 call had missed Mr. Zelensky saying the word "Burisma," but the reconstructed transcript does reference "the company," and suggests that the Ukrainian president is aware that it is of great interest to Mr. Trump.

The prosecutor general, Mr. Zelensky said, according to the document, "will look into the situation, specifically to the company that you mentioned in this issue."

The rough transcript also contains ellipses at three points where Mr. Trump is speaking. Colonel Vindman told investigators that at the point of the transcript where the third set of ellipses appears, Mr. Trump said there were tapes of Mr. Biden.

Mr. Trump's mention of tapes is an apparent reference to Mr. Biden's comments at a January 2018 event about his effort to get Ukraine to force out its prosecutor general, Viktor Shokin. Supporters of Mr. Biden have said Mr. Shokin was widely criticized for his lax anti-corruption efforts. Republicans charge, without evidence, that Mr. Biden was trying to stop an investigation into his son.

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ddale8 twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 03:45:39 Trump has called it an "exact" transcript at least 16 times. https://t.co/A624sQDqYp reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 29 oktober 2019 21:16 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Kijk eens, zouden de R’s wijzer (kunnen) worden?

“ To my Republican congressional colleagues and dear friends: President Trump takes your loyalty for granted and mocks your support. Stand up, reclaim your institutional prerogatives, protect your legacy and do what's best for our country.”

https://mobile.twitter.co(...)/1189226514220552193

Meer: https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2(...)tter_impression=true

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 08:15 schreef De_Hertog het volgende:

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Dat is wel weer een voormalig congreslid. Het aantal zittende (of niet binnenkort met pensioen gaande) Republikeinen met kritiek is nog steeds erg klein.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 08:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Ik hoor anders ook geen massale onvoorwaardelijke steunbetuigingen. De meesten houden hun mond.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 09:49 schreef Geytenbeekje het volgende:
Welke mensen erkennen die genocide niet dan ?

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 09:51 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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De turken.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 09:51 schreef Geytenbeekje het volgende:

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Zijn dat er veel ?
Allemaal Democraten denk ik ?

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 09:54 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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1 D, 15 R

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 09:51 schreef Geytenbeekje het volgende:

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Zijn dat er veel ?
Allemaal Democraten denk ik ?

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 09:54 schreef Geytenbeekje het volgende:

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15 Republikeinen ?
15 turken ?

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 05:32 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het is dus geen ‘transcript’. Dat is woord voor woord exact opgeschreven wat er is gezegd.

Trump gaf notities.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 10:26 schreef ATuin-hek het volgende:

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Dat het geen volledige transcript is kom je niet nu pas achter hoop ik?

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Op dinsdag 29 oktober 2019 21:49 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

MASH-UP: Trump’s al-Baghdadi Speech & Obama’s Bin Laden Speech

Korte vergelijking tussen Obamas en Trumps speeches na het neerschieten van Bin Laden en al-Baghdadi.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 15:17 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 14:28:02 JUST IN: Pathologist finds Jeffrey Epstein's body shows signs of homicide https://t.co/VlFgUJ9prp https://t.co/itDkxHKo2S reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 15:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het is natuurlijk wel bij Fox & Comrades verteld. Dat maakt het per definitie wel verdacht.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 14:45:35 Well here's a new character...https://t.co/A7ZP0MXxvC @AndrewDesiderio @kyledcheney https://t.co/5DgLOLudUj reageer retweet

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kyledcheney twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 14:47:03 @NatashaBertrand @AndrewDesiderio More to come on him. He's the former GOP speaker-in-waiting of the House (resigned before taking the post) and is FARA registered on behalf of a Ukrainian steel association. https://t.co/34f3nE6n1r reageer retweet

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Two veteran foreign service officers plan to reveal new details to House impeachment investigators on Wednesday about the unconventional efforts by President Donald Trump’s associates to influence U.S. policy toward Ukraine, according to copies of their opening statements obtained by POLITICO.

Catherine Croft and Christopher Anderson, State Department officials who served as senior advisers on Ukraine, plan to describe to investigators the unusual intrusion into U.S. foreign policy by Trump-aligned consultants, including his personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani and Robert Livingston, a lobbyist and former GOP congressman.

The officials’ opening statements implicitly criticize Trump’s posture toward Ukraine, with Croft singling out Trump’s “long-held view of Ukraine as a corrupt country,” which she and her colleagues hoped to reverse.

Croft and Anderson served separately under Kurt Volker, the former U.S. special representative for Ukraine negotiations, and witnessed an unusual effort by non-government officials to influence U.S. foreign policy toward the besieged country as it was facing intensifying aggression from Russia.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 17:05 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
lobbyist

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 18:12 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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AndrewDesiderio twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 14:31:45 Catherine Croft on the withheld military aid:“The only reason given was that the order came at the direction of the president.”https://t.co/Fu8P9kY8fP reageer retweet

Whoa.....

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 18:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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AndrewDesiderio twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 14:48:56 !!!!! >> Anderson says senior WH officials blocked the issuing of a statement condemning Russia after Moscow seized Ukrainian ships in November 2018. Instead, “Ambassador Volker drafted a tweet condemning Russia’s actions, which I posted to his account.”https://t.co/Fu8P9kY8fP reageer retweet

Whoa whoa

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 19:12 schreef Jojoke het volgende:

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Wie heeft die lobbyist daarvoor betaald? En wiens balang was dat? Dit is een hele vreemde zaak.

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Foreign Agents Registration Act filings show that Mr. Livingston’s firm, the Livingston Group, has represented Ukrainian clients in the past, including in 2018.

NYT

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 19:21 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Livingston Group

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 19:31 schreef Jojoke het volgende:

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Misschien betalen dezelfde personen Giuliani, Parnas en Fruman.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 19:45:59 Deputy Secretary of State John Sullivan implicitly broke with Trump, telling lawmakers that it would not be "in accord with our values" for a president to ask a foreign government to investigate a political rival. https://t.co/g2MWLBz9lI reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 29 oktober 2019 21:49 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

MASH-UP: Trump’s al-Baghdadi Speech & Obama’s Bin Laden Speech

Korte vergelijking tussen Obamas en Trumps speeches na het neerschieten van Bin Laden en al-Baghdadi.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 17:49 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
Vandaag laat een poll uit New Hampshire een aantal opvallende ontwikkelingen zien voor wat betreft de Democratische kandidaten. Weet niet of dit slechts een outlier is of het begin van een trend.

Zo is Biden gezakt naar de 3e plek, komt Buttigieg vanuit het niets op de 4e plaats met 10% en krijgt Gabbard er maar liefst 4% bij waardoor ze plotseling op 5 staat!

Bernie trouwens op 1 en Warren op 2.

Heel apart iig...

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 20:56 schreef Hexagon het volgende:

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Pfff, waarom blijven mensen achter een kandidaat aan lopen die qua gezondheid wellicht 2021 niet haalt

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 21:05 schreef livelink het volgende:

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Warren is wel een krasse tante volgens mij. Die kan nog wel 1 ronde mee. Maar Sanders
Sowieso ben ik niet enthousiast over de democratische kandidaten.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 21:10 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
Bolton heeft een uitnodiging gehad om volgende week donderdag te komen getuigen. Ben benieuwd of hij erop ingaat.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 18:17 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Het lijkt dus dat Trump een dealtje sloot met Poetin:

“Jij valt Oekraïne militair lastig, dan chanteer ik ze zodat ik herkozen word. Doen ze dat niet heb je vrij spel want dan krijgen ze geen steun van de VS, doen ze het wel heb je gegarandeerd vier jaar langer je man in het WH.”

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business twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 21:08:29 BREAKING: Twitter will ban political advertising from its platform, CEO Jack Dorsey says. The new policy, to be enforced globally, will go into effect Nov. 22 https://t.co/Tt2tRVCFnp https://t.co/lekwbFdMpX reageer retweet

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washingtonpost twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 21:16:40 Trump tweeted a photo of a Medal of Honor recipient — who was edited out and replaced by a dog https://t.co/O3VWxMTt9E reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 21:40 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:

Zag net ook nog een grappig onderzoekje op TV, de meeste Republikeinse stemmers wonen blijkbaar in gebieden waar geen internationale luchthavens zijn. Tsja...

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The reason I'm so calm about it is that I see Trump for who he really is. It's very hard to get this across to the public, because every time people talk about him, they start out with the unspoken unconscious assumption that he's basically like the rest of us.

But in order to explain and predict Trump’s behavior, you have to begin with awareness that he is essentially a predator. Once you keep in mind that Trump lacks a conscience and lacks empathy, he becomes very easy to follow. Unlike normal people, who are complex, he's basically running on a very simple and very disordered program.

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robertarampton twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 22:12:52 BREAKING - Tim Morrison - slated to testify in the impeachment inquiry tomorrow - to leave Trump's National Security Council, via @FrancoOrdonez @nprpolitics https://t.co/dcO1YKIG6b reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 22:32:00 Morrison, a Bolton acolyte, had only been there for about 3 months. But testimony and documents released so far suggest he was uncomfortable with the shadow Ukraine foreign policy campaign (which Fiona Hill briefed him on when she left the WH, I'm told) https://t.co/ZCOF6Y5VRN reageer retweet

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Tim Morrison, the top Russia official on President Trump's National Security Council, who is scheduled to testify in the impeachment inquiry on Thursday, is expected to leave his White House post imminently, three sources familiar with the plan told NPR.

Morrison, a conservative hawk who has served as the senior director for European and Russian affairs on the National Security Council, will be replaced by Andrew Peek, the deputy assistant secretary of state for Iraq and Iran in the Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, according to the sources.

Morrison and Peek could not immediately be reached for comment by NPR. The National Security Council declined comment.

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 23:06 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Exit Tim Morrison

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robertarampton twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 22:12:52 BREAKING - Tim Morrison - slated to testify in the impeachment inquiry tomorrow - to leave Trump's National Security Council, via @:FrancoOrdonez @:nprpolitics https://t.co/dcO1YKIG6b reageer retweet

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 22:32:00 Morrison, a Bolton acolyte, had only been there for about 3 months. But testimony and documents released so far suggest he was uncomfortable with the shadow Ukraine foreign policy campaign (which Fiona Hill briefed him on when she left the WH, I'm told) https://t.co/ZCOF6Y5VRN reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 23:15 schreef Jojoke het volgende:

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Er is waarschijnlijk flinke druk op hem uitgeoefend door het Witte Huis. Hij is ontslagen of hij had er genoeg van.

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Morrison had alerted NSC lawyers about alleged demands being placed on the Ukrainian government to investigate a company where the son of former Vice President Joe Biden sat on the board, according to testimony this month from William Taylor, the top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine.

Taylor testified that Morrison told him that Gordon Sondland, Trump's ambassador to the European Union, had informed a top Ukrainian official that U.S. military aid hinged on Zelenskiy's committing to investigating the firm connected with Biden's son.

An attorney for Morrison said Morrison planned to appear before House investigators on Thursday if subpoenaed.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 18:08:03 We previously reported that Hill testified that Trump thought Patel was in charge of Ukraine policy for the NSC, but Vindman’s exclusion from a key Ukraine meeting because of concerns over a potential conflict with Trump has not been disclosed before. https://t.co/eOBF1raK7J reageer retweet

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The decorated Army officer who testified to House investigators on Tuesday told lawmakers that a close associate of Republican Rep. Devin Nunes “misrepresented” himself to President Donald Trump in an effort to involve himself further in Ukraine policy, according to two people familiar with his closed-door deposition.

Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council’s top Ukraine expert, told lawmakers that after attending Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky’s inauguration in May as part of a delegation led by Energy Secretary Rick Perry, Vindman had been looking forward to debriefing Trump and giving a positive account of Zelensky’s vision for Ukraine’s future.

“The U.S. government policy community’s view is that the election of Zelenskyy and the promise of reforms to eliminate corruption will lock in Ukraine’s Western-leaning trajectory, and allow Ukraine to realize its dream of a vibrant democracy and economic prosperity,” Vindman said in his opening statement.

But he was instructed “at the last second” not to attend the debriefing, Vindman told lawmakers, because Trump’s advisers worried it might confuse the president: Trump believed at the time that Kashyap Patel, a longtime Nunes staffer who joined the White House in February and had no discernible Ukraine experience or expertise, was actually the NSC’s top Ukraine expert instead of Vindman.

Vindman testified that he was told this directly by his boss at the time, NSC senior director for European and Russian affairs Fiona Hill.

Hill told Vindman that she and national security adviser John Bolton thought it best to exclude Vindman from the debriefing to avoid “an uncomfortable situation,” he said.

POLITICO previously reported that Hill testified that Trump thought Patel was in charge of Ukraine policy for the NSC, but Vindman’s exclusion from a key Ukraine meeting because of concerns over a potential conflict with Trump has not been disclosed before.

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nytmike twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 23:18:52 Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, has responded to the House request for his testimony, saying "Bolton is not willing to appear voluntarily." Cooper added: "I stand ready at all times to accept service of a subpoena on his behalf." reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 23:40 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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nytmike twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 23:18:52 Bolton's lawyer, Charles Cooper, has responded to the House request for his testimony, saying "Bolton is not willing to appear voluntarily." Cooper added: "I stand ready at all times to accept service of a subpoena on his behalf." reageer retweet

Bolton komt niet vrijwillig maar staat klaar om een dagvaarding te ontvangen

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 23:36 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Nog een artikel over Kash Patel, het hulpje van Nunes, waarvan Trump blijkbaar (onterecht) dacht dat hij de leiding had over het Oekraine beleid en waardoor Vindman buitengesloten werd van een debriefing meeting om verwarring te voorkomen.

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NatashaBertrand twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 18:08:03 We previously reported that Hill testified that Trump thought Patel was in charge of Ukraine policy for the NSC, but Vindman’s exclusion from a key Ukraine meeting because of concerns over a potential conflict with Trump has not been disclosed before. https://t.co/eOBF1raK7J reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 30 oktober 2019 21:28 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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business twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 21:08:29 BREAKING: Twitter will ban political advertising from its platform, CEO Jack Dorsey says. The new policy, to be enforced globally, will go into effect Nov. 22 https://t.co/Tt2tRVCFnp https://t.co/lekwbFdMpX reageer retweet

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jack twitterde op woensdag 30-10-2019 om 21:05:11 For instance, it‘s not credible for us to say: “We’re working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad…well...they can say whatever they want! 😉” reageer retweet

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https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1189634360472829952.html

We've made the decision to stop all political advertising on Twitter globally. We believe political message reach should be earned, not bought. Why? A few reasons...?

A political message earns reach when people decide to follow an account or retweet. Paying for reach removes that decision, forcing highly optimized and targeted political messages on people. We believe this decision should not be compromised by money.

While internet advertising is incredibly powerful and very effective for commercial advertisers, that power brings significant risks to politics, where it can be used to influence votes to affect the lives of millions.

Internet political ads present entirely new challenges to civic discourse: machine learning-based optimization of messaging and micro-targeting, unchecked misleading information, and deep fakes. All at increasing velocity, sophistication, and overwhelming scale.

These challenges will affect ALL internet communication, not just political ads. Best to focus our efforts on the root problems, without the additional burden and complexity taking money brings. Trying to fix both means fixing neither well, and harms our credibility.

For instance, it's not credible for us to say: "We're working hard to stop people from gaming our systems to spread misleading info, buuut if someone pays us to target and force people to see their political ad...well...they can say whatever they want! ?"

We considered stopping only candidate ads, but issue ads present a way to circumvent. Additionally, it isn't fair for everyone but candidates to buy ads for issues they want to push. So we're stopping these too.

We're well aware we're a small part of a much larger political advertising ecosystem. Some might argue our actions today could favor incumbents. But we have witnessed many social movements reach massive scale without any political advertising. I trust this will only grow.

In addition, we need more forward-looking political ad regulation (very difficult to do). Ad transparency requirements are progress, but not enough. The internet provides entirely new capabilities, and regulators need to think past the present day to ensure a level playing field.

We'll share the final policy by 11/15, including a few exceptions (ads in support of voter registration will still be allowed, for instance). We'll start enforcing our new policy on 11/22 to provide current advertisers a notice period before this change goes into effect.

A final note. This isn't about free expression. This is about paying for reach. And paying to increase the reach of political speech has significant ramifications that today's democratic infrastructure may not be prepared to handle. It's worth stepping back in order to address.

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Former US President Barack Obama has challenged "woke" culture telling young people: "The world is messy."

He made the comments at the Obama Foundation's annual summit in Chicago on Tuesday.

Mr Obama said that calling people out on social media did not bring about change, and that change was complex.

"Woke" is described as being alert to racial or social discrimination and injustice, along with being aware of what's going on in the community.

Mr Obama told the audience: "I get a sense among certain young people on social media that the way of making change is to be as judgemental as possible about other people.

"If I tweet or hashtag about how you didn't do something right or used the wrong verb, then I can sit back and feel pretty good about myself because 'Man did you see how woke I was? I called you out!'"

"That's enough," he said. "If all you're doing is casting stones, you are probably not going to get that far."

Mr Obama added that "people who do really good stuff have flaws".

His comments come as Democrats prepare for the 2020 presidential nomination race. So far, there has been a focus on how "woke" candidates are, with a number apologising for past incidents.

Before withdrawing from the race, Senator Kirsten Gillibrand went on television to apologise for using the term "illegal alien" in the past. Elizabeth Warren has apologised for identifying as Native American, while Pete Buttigieg has apologised for his use of the phrase "all lives matter".

Last April, he told a crowd at an Obama Foundation event in Berlin: "One of the things I do worry about among progressives in the United States, maybe it's true here as well, is a certain kind of rigidity where we say 'Uh, I'm sorry, this is how it's going to be' and then we start sometimes creating what's called a 'circular firing squad', where you start shooting at your allies because one of them has strayed from purity on the issues."

Jen Psaki, former Obama White House communications director, told CNN that she believed Mr Obama's most recent comments were a message for the Democratic Party and those running for election.

"If we are launching purity tests, we are going to have such a small party and will not be able to win. Governing is not about saying: 'You don't agree with me, then you can't be part of the conversation.'"

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 31-10-2019 om 03:30:03 Inbox tonight: "In a court filing on Wednesday evening, the State Department agreed to release multiple categories of Ukraine-related records, including any communications with Rudy Giuliani, to American Oversight by November 22, 2019." reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 31-10-2019 om 04:05:17 Breaking via WaPo: Lt. Col. Vindman told John Eisenberg, the NSC's lead counsel, about his concerns over Trump's call with Zelensky. Eisenberg then proposed moving a transcript of the call to a highly classified server and restricting access to it.https://t.co/SUeger1wzY reageer retweet

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Moments after President Trump ended his phone call with Ukraine’s president on July 25, an unsettled national security aide rushed to the office of White House lawyer John Eisenberg.

Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the top Ukraine adviser at the White House, had been listening to the call and was disturbed by the pressure Trump had applied to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to investigate his political rivals, according to people familiar with Vindman’s testimony to lawmakers this week.

Vindman told Eisenberg, the White House’s legal adviser on national security issues, that what the president did was wrong, said the people, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation.

Scribbling notes on a yellow legal pad, Eisenberg proposed a step that other officials have said is at odds with long-standing White House protocol: moving a transcript of the call to a highly classified server and restricting access to it, according to two people familiar with Vindman’s account.

The details of how the White House clamped down on information about the controversial call comes as the House impeachment inquiry turns its focus to the role of Eisenberg, who has served as deputy White House counsel since the start of Trump’s administration. House impeachment investigators on Wednesday evening announced they have asked Eisenberg and a fellow White House lawyer, Mike Ellis, to testify Monday.

On Thursday, the House is scheduled to vote on rules governing the next phase of the inquiry and hear from Tim Morrison, a former deputy to national security adviser John Bolton. Bolton has also been asked to testify next week.

Vindman’s account marks the first known instance in which a witness before the impeachment inquiry has provided a firsthand account linking Eisenberg to the decision to move the problematic transcript to a highly classified server.

Eisenberg did not respond to requests for comment. A White House spokesman declined to discuss Eisenberg’s role in handling the July 25 transcript or how he addressed the concerns he heard from staff.

“Consistent with the practices of past administrations from both parties, we will not discuss the internal deliberations of the White House Counsel’s Office,” said deputy White House press secretary Hogan Gidley.

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Rachel Maddow highlights reporting on a piece of impeachment inquiry testimony from diplomat Christopher Anderson in which he reveals some backstory on the Trump administration's failure to condemn Russian aggression toward Ukrainian ships in 2018.

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Op donderdag 31 oktober 2019 05:37 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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Dan kan hij zeggen dat hij wel moest.

Immigration chief spars with Missouri lawmaker over ‘medical deferred-action’ policy

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The acting director of U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services faced tough questions from several members of the House Oversight and Reform hearing Wednesday on the agency's since-reversed decision to end granting foreign nationals with serious medical conditions the temporary ability to stay in the country.

Rep. William Lacy Clay, D-Mo., used his allotted five minutes to ask Ken Cuccinelli if he had heard about several cases interest groups had brought to the agency's attention. Clay characterized them as "truly heartbreaking."

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Pelosi has never been quick to cry “Impeach!” She pointed out that she dismissed demands from some House Democrats to pursue impeachment against George W. Bush over the Iraq War in the final two years of his presidency. More recently, she rebuffed demands from her party’s liberal wing to impanel a full-scale impeachment effort following Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s report about Trump and Russian interference in 2016. But now that she’s begun an impeachment inquiry, she betrays no doubt about seeing it through. Impeachment promises to be an ordeal, especially against a president so volatile, combative, and willing to twist the truth. Approaching that heaving sea, Pelosi projected resolve. “When we decide if we are going to go forward, we will be ready, and we will be ironclad,” she said, referring to potential votes on articles of impeachment. It sounded less like a boast than a statement of fact.

Without detailing specific plans, Pelosi left the clear impression that the impeachment process will conclude sooner rather than later, and its focus will be more narrow than broad. She refused to answer when asked directly whether any eventual articles of impeachment will cover issues beyond Trump’s interactions with Ukraine and the administration’s defiance of subpoenas from the committees investigating them. Some House Democrats have advocated for articles that address everything from family separations to emoluments. “No one should infer from what we’re doing that there is an imprimatur to do emoluments if it’s not” listed among Democrats’ justifications for impeaching Trump, Pelosi said. (She was careful to say, too, that if Trump’s team has “exculpatory testimony they want to present” on Ukraine, House Democrats are open to it: “We pray that that will be the case—something we don’t understand about how he interprets the Constitution.”)

Though Pelosi is vague on just how much longer the inquiry will go on, she expressed concern about Americans’ appetite for a lengthy process. “How much drama can the American people handle?” she asked. “Where does the law of diminishing returns set in? Where is the value added not worth the time?”

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Op donderdag 31 oktober 2019 06:52 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
Pelosi spreekt: Nancy Pelosi’s Predictions for Impeachment
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Denk niet dat Trump nog veel slaap krijgt de komende weken.

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RepMGriffith twitterde op donderdag 31-10-2019 om 00:35:01 I am in the Rules Committee room where Democrats are marking up their impeachment resolution. @RepDLesko offered an amendment requiring any evidence which is exculpatory regarding the President to be given to the Judiciary Committee.Democrats rejected it. reageer retweet