[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.”

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