[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #690 Nuances blijven lastig

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 11:44 schreef ATuin-hek het volgende:

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Ze gaan daartegen in beroep, dacht ik.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 12:03 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Volgens mij heeft de rechter daar nu een stokje voor gestoken.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 12:07 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Nee toch? Is trouwens gisteravond ook al voorbij gekomen.

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Op zondag 24 november 2019 17:00 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Wat een loser die Trump. Hij kan niet eens zijn leger onder controle houden. Zwak.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 06:26 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 05:23:50 "I'm curious why wasn't it done a long time ago? And also, I guess the answer to that is because now I'm president, we get things done."President Trump signs the Woman's Suffrage Centennial Coin Act. https://t.co/jkcOCzQyNa reageer retweet

Kan iemand hem uitleggen dat....och laat ook maar. Te dom om te poepen.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 12:33 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Dit is toch gewoon pure dementie? En de Republikeinen willen een dement persoon op hun ticket voor de komende vier jaar zetten.

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Op maandag 25 november 2019 20:48 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Als het niet was gestegen had ik m'n hoed opgegeten. Je wist gewoon dat de Sondland hearing effect zou hebben op independents.

Blijkt dus, van de 14 YouGov polls sinds begin oktober haalt deze het hoogste percentage "Yes", laagste percentage "No" (voor independents). Een verschil van +6 procentpunten, het gemiddelde van de 13 andere polls was -1.7.

Maar het is slechts een momentopname idd.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 12:33 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Dit is toch gewoon pure dementie? En de Republikeinen willen een dement persoon op hun ticket voor de komende vier jaar zetten.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 06:20 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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NikkiMcR twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 02:20:58 Tucker: "Why do I care what is going on in the conflict between Ukraine and Russia? I'm serious. Why shouldn't I root for Russia? Which by the way I am." https://t.co/OQopoxPYD9 reageer retweet

Natuurlijk is Carlson voor Poetin.

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Defense Secretary Mark Esper declared that President Donald Trump ordered him to stop a disciplinary review of a Navy SEAL accused of battlefield misconduct, an intervention that raised questions about America’s commitment to international standards for battlefield ethics.

Esper’s comments Monday were the latest twist in the case of Chief Petty Officer Edward Gallagher, which led to a conflict between Trump and armed services leaders over military discipline. The dispute peaked over the weekend with the firing of Navy Secretary Richard V. Spencer.

Gallagher was acquitted of murder in the stabbing death of an Islamic State militant captive but convicted by a military jury of posing with the corpse while in Iraq in 2017.

Esper initially favored allowing the Navy to proceed with a peer-review board which could have resulted in Gallagher losing his SEAL status, but he said he was obliged to follow Trump’s order. Still, Esper also directed the Pentagon’s legal office to review how service members are educated in the laws of armed conflict and trained to wartime behavioral standards.

“I can control what I can control,” Esper told reporters when asked whether Trump sent the right message to U.S. troops by intervening to stop the Gallagher review. “The president is the commander in chief. He has every right, authority and privilege to do what he wants to do.”

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NickMiroff twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 05:08:35 NEW Jared Kushner is now in charge of building Trump’s border wall, promising to deliver on his father-in-law’s ambitious construction goals by bringing a “private sector mentality” to a project he thinks lacked focus and urgency. With ⁦@jdawsey1⁩ https://t.co/F7WLq6F5Ga reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 13:33 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Vind dit trouwens erg bijzonder. Inmiddels is onomstotelijk vastgesteld dat de Russen de Amerikaanse verkiezingen hebben proberen te beïnvloeden (en daar ook deels in zijn geslaagd). Daarnaast is Rusland Oekraïne binnengevallen (zonder dat de grote buurman werd geprovoceerd) en hebben de Ruski's een vliegtuig neergeschoten waar ook Amerikanen in zaten.

En Carlson is 'rooting' voor Poetin? Oke.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 13:53 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
Jared 'wonderboy' Kushner heeft er ook weer een baantje bij

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NickMiroff twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 05:08:35 NEW Jared Kushner is now in charge of building Trump’s border wall, promising to deliver on his father-in-law’s ambitious construction goals by bringing a “private sector mentality” to a project he thinks lacked focus and urgency. With ⁦@:jdawsey1⁩ https://t.co/F7WLq6F5Ga reageer retweet

Jared Kushner's new assignment: Overseeing the construction of Trump's border wall

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 14:02 schreef Ludachrist het volgende:

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Nu er vrede in het Midden-Oosten is heeft hij zijn handen vrij.

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PoliticsWolf twitterde op maandag 25-11-2019 om 23:06:32 Just as I expected, Kentucky Republicans are now plotting to strip Democratic Gov.-elect Andy Beshear of certain executive powers after he defeated GOP Gov. Matt Bevin this month. Republicans simply refuse to respect Dems' legitimacy to govern https://t.co/gQlGY8GCmb reageer retweet

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LOUISVILLE, Ky. (WDRB) – State Senate leaders are backing a bill that would limit the governor’s power to name a Kentucky Transportation Cabinet secretary, essentially shifting that role to a citizen board nominated by influential business and government groups.

The newly created board would develop the first draft of the state’s two-year road budget and base it on an “objective scoring system.” The governor’s administration now creates the plan sent to legislators.

Among other duties, the nine-member Kentucky Transportation Board would compile a list of candidates for Transportation Secretary, then send the names to the governor. He or she would choose from that list.

The bill also would make the Transportation Secretary subject to Senate confirmation – the only cabinet leader in a governor’s administration with that requirement.

The measure is sponsored by three Republicans in the GOP-controlled legislature – Sen. Jimmy Higdon; vice chair of the Senate Transportation Committee; committee chair Sen. Ernie Harris; and Senate President Robert Stivers. It was prefiled on Nov. 5, the day Democratic Gov.-elect Andy Beshear defeated incumbent Republican Gov. Matt Bevin.

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RVAwonk twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 11:22:54 Holy hell. Kentucky’s Republican Gov. Matt Bevin just pardoned a man convicted in 2001 of raping his 6 year-old stepdaughter. The man was found guilty of 3 counts of sodomy in the first degree and 2 counts of sexual abuse in the first degree. Bevin commuted his life sentence. https://t.co/2Ylesjq2gO reageer retweet

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RVAwonk twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 11:28:23 A reminder that Bevin was the same guy who condemned schoolteachers in the state for going on strike last year, saying it would lead to unattended students getting sexually assaulted. https://t.co/YtUSaMu8kQ reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 13:53 schreef kladderadatsch het volgende:
Jared 'wonderboy' Kushner heeft er ook weer een baantje bij

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 06:07 schreef livelink het volgende:

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GOP senator backtracks on Ukraine: 'I was wrong'

Hij zegt nu dat hij de vraag niet goed had begrepen.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 16:43:19 The D.C. Wolves and Fake News Media are reading far too much into people being forced by Courts to testify before Congress. I am fighting for future Presidents and the Office of the President. Other than that, I would actually like people to testify. Don McGahn’s respected.... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 16:43:26 ...lawyer has already stated that I did nothing wrong. John Bolton is a patriot and may know that I held back the money from Ukraine because it is considered a corrupt country, & I wanted to know why nearby European countries weren’t putting up money also. Likewise, I would.... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 16:43:27 ...love to have Mike Pompeo, Rick Perry, Mick Mulvaney and many others testify about the phony Impeachment Hoax. It is a Democrat Scam that is going nowhere but, future Presidents should in no way be compromised. What has happened to me should never happen to another President! reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 15:45:07 I just published (with @violagienger) this comprehensive Timeline on #Nunes and his alleged efforts to get dirt on Joe Biden."Timeline: Rep. Devin Nunes and Ukraine Disinformation Efforts"Let me also highlight one important finding....https://t.co/6LmTrXrwnY reageer retweet

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Rep. Devin Nunes (R.-Ca) and his top aide, Derek Harvey, have allegedly been working in part with Rudy Giuliani and his associates, including indicted businessman Lev Parnas, to get dirt from Ukraine on Joe Biden and to pursue other discredited conspiracy theories that would benefit President Donald Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign, according to a series of news reports in recent days (CNN, NBC, Washington Post, CNBC, and Daily Beast). The information largely comes from two of Parnas’s lawyers, Joseph Bondy and Ed MacMahon, who say their client is prepared to provide testimony under penalty of law to Congress. Representative Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee conducting the probe, says he will decide whether to call Parnas based on a review of what Bondy says are thousands of pages of records Parnas has provided to the panel under subpoena.

Because of Parnas’s interest in securing a potential immunity deal with Congress, it is important to consider his lawyers’ statements to the press in that context, as Marcy Wheeler has cautioned.

The following Timeline will be updated as new information becomes available. Please contact us if there are items, favorable or unfavorable to Rep. Nunes, that you believe should be added to the Clearinghouse.

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rgoodlaw twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 15:47:20 @violagienger One potentially BIG finding:On Thursday, March 28, two phone calls are added to Pompeo’s calendar:a 20-minute call with Giuliani on Friday, March 29a 20-minute call with Nunes on Monday, April 1March 28 is same day Giuliani said he handed his Ukraine packet to Pompeo. https://t.co/0FS8WE7eH1 reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 16:13:28 @violagienger Records showing Nunes-Giuliani calls with Pompeo were due to @weareoversight's successful #FOIA litigationThe Timeline relies on great reporting by CNN’s @VickyPJWard Daily Beast’s @woodruffbets Washington Post’s @PostRoz @ColbyItkowitz CNBC’s @christinawilkie NBC’s @kwelkernbc reageer retweet

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John_Hudson twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 17:26:18 Pompeo just backed up Trump's request for Ukraine to investigate the discredited Ukraine DNC server conspiracy: "Anytime there is information that indicates that any country has messed with American elections we not only have a right but a duty to make sure we chase that down" reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 17:44 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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John_Hudson twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 17:26:18 Pompeo just backed up Trump's request for Ukraine to investigate the discredited Ukraine DNC server conspiracy: "Anytime there is information that indicates that any country has messed with American elections we not only have a right but a duty to make sure we chase that down" reageer retweet

Het 'Oekraine anti-Trump inmenging'-narratief wordt nu heel erg gepusht door de Republikeinen. Een duidelijke tactiek om de invloed van de (anti-Clinton) Russische inmenging te bagatelliseren.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:19 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
Wat is het argument om niets te doen tegen vermoedelijke inmenging vanuit Oekraïne?

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:40 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Wacht even, dus Rusland heeft niets gedaan maar Oekraïne wel ?

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:19 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
Muh Russia heeft niet veel opgeleverd. Het was grotendeels een grote samenzweringstheorie.
Wat is het argument om niets te doen tegen vermoedelijke inmenging vanuit Oekraïne?

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:40 schreef Fir3fly het volgende:

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Wacht even, dus Rusland heeft niets gedaan maar Oekraïne wel ?

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 12:33 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Dit is toch gewoon pure dementie? En de Republikeinen willen een dement persoon op hun ticket voor de komende vier jaar zetten.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:19 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
Muh Russia heeft niet veel opgeleverd. Het was grotendeels een grote samenzweringstheorie.
Wat is het argument om niets te doen tegen vermoedelijke inmenging vanuit Oekraïne?

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:42 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Nog altijd meer dan muh emails, mih Benghazi, muh Uranium one en ga zo maar door.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:52 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Gaf Fiona Hill niet het antwoord op die vraag tijdens haar hearing toen ze de republikeinen opriep te stoppen met leugens om politiek gewin die enkel Rusland in de kaart spelen?

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:58 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Ja en?

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:56 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Muh Whataboutism.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 13:33 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Vind dit trouwens erg bijzonder. Inmiddels is onomstotelijk vastgesteld dat de Russen de Amerikaanse verkiezingen hebben proberen te beïnvloeden (en daar ook deels in zijn geslaagd). Daarnaast is Rusland Oekraïne binnengevallen (zonder dat de grote buurman werd geprovoceerd) en hebben de Ruski's een vliegtuig neergeschoten waar ook Amerikanen in zaten.

En Carlson is 'rooting' voor Poetin? Oke.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:52 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Gaf Fiona Hill niet het antwoord op die vraag tijdens haar hearing toen ze de republikeinen opriep te stoppen met leugens om politiek gewin die enkel Rusland in de kaart spelen?

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:52 schreef Kansenjongere het volgende:

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Gaf Fiona Hill niet het antwoord op die vraag tijdens haar hearing toen ze de republikeinen opriep te stoppen met leugens om politiek gewin die enkel Rusland in de kaart spelen?

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 20:41 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:

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Dat had betrekking tot de DNC hack. Niet tot de black ledger

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thehill twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 19:38:43 #BREAKING: New docs show White House ordered hold on Ukraine aid same day Trump talked with Zelensky https://t.co/0y8P59bFxl https://t.co/HLZGc8p3MH reageer retweet

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ABCPolitics twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 20:53:21 House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler on the Dec. 4 impeachment hearing: "The President has a choice to make: he can take this opportunity to be represented in the impeachment hearings, or he can stop complaining about the process." https://t.co/joQqKdu9of https://t.co/itjA0Dl55Y reageer retweet

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Should be impeached and removed via
@CNN
polling:

Clinton, 1998:
29% impeach
67% don't impeach

Bush, 2006:
30% impeach
69% don't impeach

Obama, 2014:
29% impeach
70% don't impeach

Trump, 2019:
50% impeach
43% don't impeach

https://mobile.twitter.com/ryanstruyk/status/1199329061539106816

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 23:02 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Ook echt 29% voor een Obama impeachment in 2014. Wat heeft Obama gedaan waarom zij dat wilden?! Dat moet haast wel de echte harde ondergrens zijn voor Trumps approval.

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rgoodlaw twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 21:20:52 As #ImpeachmentInquiry moves to Judiciary Committee, time to focus on analysis by former White House Counsel, Neil Eggleston:A powerful mechanism in Judiciary Committee rules for suspending protections for President if he withholds docs and witnesses.https://t.co/lgF4O5yf82 reageer retweet

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The House of Representatives adopted a resolution today to guide their continuing impeachment inquiry. That resolution sets out basic procedures governing, for example, how witnesses will be called and questioned as well as how written materials will be obtained. An important part of that resolution deserves special attention. The provision is not just a significant inclusion but a wise one, as well. It may, at some point in the process, become a game changer.

The House Resolution incorporates by reference procedures adopted by the Judiciary Committee that will be entered into the Congressional Record. Those procedures are contained in an accompanying document, which has this key language:

“Should the President unlawfully refuse to make witnesses available for testimony to, or to produce documents requested by, the investigative committees . . . in furtherance of the investigations described in the first section of [this resolution], the chair shall have the discretion to impose appropriate remedies, including by denying specific requests by the President or his counsel under these procedures to call or question witnesses.”

This is, in effect, a discretionary measure that would keep President Donald Trump’s lawyers from participating in the impeachment process if the Trump White House continues to refuse to produce documents and bar witnesses from testifying. The provision is smart, important, and possibly even alters the current balance of power between Congress and the White House. This provision recognizes that the White House should not be permitted to participate in the process only on its own terms. If the White House wants to participate in full, then it has an obligation to respond to legitimate requests for witnesses and documents from the House.

To understand the value of this provision, it is important to recognize the limitations and drawbacks of the other responses that the House has available to it, at least in theory, to address noncompliance by the Trump White House in the face of the impeachment inquiry. What are those other options?

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rgoodlaw twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 23:16:25 Here's a copy of Judiciary Committee letter to the White House. Note it also includes as an an appendix the procedures in my prior tweet.https://t.co/I9NBEhSLj7 reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 19:28 schreef heywoodu het volgende:

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Verder lezen en kijken, het was 'uiteraard een grapje'.

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NikkiMcR twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 03:24:25 After having clearly been tipped off that his comment is recieving backlash, Tucker ends the show with an “of course i’m joking” https://t.co/narVvRsqfq reageer retweet

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AndrewDesiderio twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 22:52:36 JUST IN: The final deposition transcripts are here.Mark Sandy: https://t.co/t424cZpww6Philip Reeker: https://t.co/IXmE0SQHat reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op woensdag 27-11-2019 om 00:25:00 Mark #Sandy deposition reveals attorney at OMB resigned due in part to concern that hold on Ukraine aid violated Impoundment Act.Makes complete sense.The attorney was correct.Read former OMB official @SamBerger_DC’s analysis from this afternoon:https://t.co/9WGWB0VYna reageer retweet

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As the House impeachment inquiry continues to uncover substantial evidence of Trump’s abuses of power, one thing has become clear: President Donald Trump illegally withheld military aid to Ukraine.

No one from the Trump administration has been able to point to any legal authority that allowed Trump to withhold the funding for the length of time and in the manner that he did. Even Trump’s defenders in the House, who have speciously claimed that the president had reasons for holding the aid other than pressuring Ukraine to investigate his political rivals, have not provided justifications that are legal. Instead, they’ve offered justifications that are more politically palatable. Moreover, Trump’s own White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) was told that his actions were illegal, and appears to have tacitly acknowledged that fact, but continued to hold up the funding anyway.

The illegality of the funding hold is important to the impeachment inquiry, as it adds further weight to the case that Trump abused his authority as president to pressure Ukraine to interfere in the 2020 U.S. election.

It shows that the Trump White House created an irregular budgetary process to match its irregular foreign policy process with respect to Ukraine. The illegality of the hold also undermines the claim that Trump was concerned about Ukrainian corruption, since he was willing to break U.S. law to keep the money frozen. Finally, it shows that it was not policy or legal concerns that led to the money being released, but rather the fear of getting caught.

While this violation of budgetary laws is not the most significant attack on the rule of law related to Trump’s Ukrainian extortion campaign, it is an important part of the broader case for impeachment.

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 00:25 schreef AnneX het volgende:
“ There it is ... the “it wasn’t me” defense.

Trump Denies Sending Rudy Giuliani to Ukraine for Biden Probe”

https://mobile.twitter.com/bradmossesq/status/1199466688019881985
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https://www.bloomberg.com(...)tter_impression=true

Welterusten.

Nabrander: “ Bring the "insurance" cause Giuliani just got Michael Cohen'd..”
https://mobile.twitter.com/olganyc1211/status/1199468511602585605

Ow, écht...de een is nog beter dan de vorige...
Allemaal standup comedians, die amerikanen.
“ Let’s all just recognize the reality:
@:realDonaldTrump
barely knows
@:RudyGiuliani
and would not be able to distinguish him from a coffee boy. I mean, there are so many lawyers around, how is the president supposed to recognize each and every one of them, right?”...

https://mobile.twitter.com/bradmossesq/status/1199470762563973120

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 18:19 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
Muh Russia heeft niet veel opgeleverd. Het was grotendeels een grote samenzweringstheorie.
Wat is het argument om niets te doen tegen vermoedelijke inmenging vanuit Oekraïne?

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 01:41 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Russische inmenging in de verkiezingen is bewezen, lieverd.

Oekrainse inmenging is alleen maar propaganda en leugens zonder enig bewijs van Trump aanhangers.

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 02:03 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Ja zoals ik Cuomo hoorde opmerken: een paar anti-Trump artikeltjes van Oekraiense politici staat echt in geen verhouding met de DNC-hack en het grote schaal verspreiden van misinformatie.

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 02:48 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Sws mensen die ineens helemaal gaan voor een Oekraine-onderzoek en het Rusland-onderzoek een hoax/ samenzweringstheorie noemen hebben het toch echt niet begrepen of willen dat niet.

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 20:49 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 19:38:43 #BREAKING: New docs show White House ordered hold on Ukraine aid same day Trump talked with Zelensky https://t.co/0y8P59bFxl https://t.co/HLZGc8p3MH reageer retweet

Whoah

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President Trump had already been briefed on a whistle-blower’s complaint about his dealings with Ukraine when he unfroze military aid for the country in September, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Lawyers from the White House counsel’s office told Mr. Trump in late August about the complaint, explaining that they were trying to determine whether they were legally required to give it to Congress, the people said.

The revelation could shed light on Mr. Trump’s thinking at two critical points under scrutiny by impeachment investigators: his decision in early September to release $391 million in security assistance to Ukraine and his denial to a key ambassador around the same time that there was a “quid pro quo” with Kyiv. Mr. Trump used the phrase before it had entered the public lexicon in the Ukraine affair.

Mr. Trump faced bipartisan pressure from Congress when he released the aid. But the new timing detail shows that he was also aware at the time that the whistle-blower had accused him of wrongdoing in withholding the aid and in his broader campaign to pressure Ukraine’s new president, Volodymyr Zelensky, to conduct investigations that could benefit Mr. Trump’s re-election chances.

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MichaelCBender twitterde op woensdag 27-11-2019 om 05:05:04 Trump knew about the whistleblower complaint before lifting the hold on $391m in aid to Ukraine. Matching the earlier report from the NYT crew: https://t.co/FNzvFXhK3c reageer retweet

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Two officials at the White House Office of Management and Budget recently resigned in part over concerns about the holdup on Ukraine aid, a career employee of the agency told impeachment investigators, according to a transcript of his testimony released Tuesday.

Mark Sandy, the only OMB official to testify in the impeachment inquiry, did not name the employees in question. He said one worked in the OMB legal division and described that person as having a “dissenting opinion” about how the security assistance to Ukraine could be held up in light of the Impoundment Control Act, which limits the ability of the executive branch to change spending decisions made by Congress.

Sandy, the agency’s deputy associate director for national security programs, testified on Nov. 16, and his remarks revealed some of the White House’s internal maneuverings relating to blocking the aid. Other White House officials, including Sandy’s superiors at the budget office who are political appointees, have defied congressional subpoenas to participate in the House Democrats’ impeachment inquiry.

Sandy was asked specifically about whether the official who worked in the OMB’s legal office quit “at least in part because of their concerns or frustrations about the hold on Ukraine security assistance.” Sandy replied, “Yes, in terms of that process, in part.”

He said the other official, who resigned in September, “expressed some frustrations about not understanding the reason for the hold.”

The release of Sandy’s testimony came as House Democrats on Tuesday took steps forward in their impeachment inquiry into President Trump’s actions, with the judiciary panel scheduling its first hearing for Dec. 4 and the budget panel releasing a report alleging that the White House broke the law when it withheld money from Ukraine.

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 04:46 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
NOVEMBER 2019: Asked what Giuliani was doing in Ukraine, Trump said: “You have to ask that to Rudy.”

APRIL 2018: Asked why Michael Cohen paid off Stormy Daniels, Trump said: “You’ll have to ask Michael.”

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Op dinsdag 26 november 2019 06:26 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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thehill twitterde op dinsdag 26-11-2019 om 05:23:50 "I'm curious why wasn't it done a long time ago? And also, I guess the answer to that is because now I'm president, we get things done."President Trump signs the Woman's Suffrage Centennial Coin Act. https://t.co/jkcOCzQyNa reageer retweet

Kan iemand hem uitleggen dat....och laat ook maar. Te dom om te poepen.

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After working his way through the prepared remarks, Trump interjected with his own riff. “They’ve been working on this for years and years,” he said, suddenly wondering, “And I’m curious, why wasn’t it done a long time ago, and also — well, I guess the answer to that is because now I’m president, and we get things done. We get a lot of things done that nobody else got done.”

The task of explaining to Trump that “centennial” means “100th anniversary” fell to Republican Senator Marsha Blackburn. Blackburn gently recounted that the bill worked its way through both chambers of Congress. As is usually the case with symbolic bills observing now-uncontroversial events, this one met with no opposition whatsoever. “We passed it out of the Senate with every single senator voting for it in June,” she noted, at which point Trump — apparently unfamiliar with the common practice of unanimous votes for these kinds of things — interjected, “Wow.” She proceeded to note that “August 18th, 1920 is when the 19th Amendment was ratified.”

Mystery solved! They’re observing the women’s suffrage centennial now because next year is the centennial. That is how time works.

Even after this clear accounting, Trump nonetheless was still confused. “So why wasn’t this done a long time ago — years ago?,” he asked again.

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 09:20 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Foutje van een staffer:
..” The Texas GOP mistakenly sent their 2020 plans to Democrats last night in embarrassing detail, including a target list of districts they're focusing negative ads on and warning of Trump's unpopularity with moderates.”...

https://mobile.twitter.com/politidope/status/1199431957098246144

Quote: “ The Texas Republican Party mistakenly sent a document laying out their upcoming 2020 primary and general election plans to Democrats Monday evening, including a target list of 12 statehouse districts they are focusing negative ads on ahead of next year's elections. In a move The Dallas Morning News described as the party's latest "bizarre political blunder," the internal strategy email offered advice on how to counter the "narrative driven by Democrats" about the GOP's lack of diversity as well as a timeline for a rollout of websites which will bash specific Democratic opponents.”

https://www.newsweek.com/(...)tter_impression=true

Wie zei hier “ té dom om te poepen”.
(alhoewel er vast wel sneaky ways en leakers zijn, nu out in the open)

Inmiddels de comments gelezen: 3 x is scheepsrecht blijkbaar.

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 06:48 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:
Timeline: Rep. Devin Nunes and Ukraine Disinformation Efforts
(contacten tussen oa Giuliani, Nunes, Parnas, Fruman, Solomon, Lutsenko, Shokin, Firtash, Toensing, diGenova...)

_{Just Security is based at the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law. Steve Vladeck, a law professor at American University and a contributing editor to Lawfare; and Ryan Goodman, a law professor and co-chair of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at New York University School of Law, are co-editors-in-chief of the blog.}

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 09:41 schreef icecreamfarmer_NL het volgende:

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Maar hoe doe je zoiets verkeerd? Leken de emailadressen op elkaar?

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 09:50 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Dat hebben ze niet verkeerd gedaan. Dit is een zet in het spel om de democraten op het verkeerde been te zetten.

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 08:44 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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http://nymag.com/intellig(...)erved-years-ago.html

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 10:09 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Ik kan er met mijn verstand niet bij dat complete volksstammen enthousiast worden van zo'n imbeciel als regeringsleider. Er valt voldoende aan te merken op onze eigen Mark Rutte, maar hij is tenminste geen ongelezen, ongeïnformeerde volidioot.

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 09:46 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:

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Dat Solomon daar onderdeel van uit heeft gemaakt had ik nog niet zo scherp op de radar. Blijkt maar weer eens dat Solomon niet bepaald de onafhankelijke onderzoeksjournalist is die sommigen denken dat hij is. Heeft hij geschreven over wat er zoal besproken is?

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The group, according to Bondy,  included Giuliani, Parnas, the journalist Solomon, and the married attorneys Joe diGenova and Victoria Toensing. Parnas said that Harvey would occasionally be present as well, and that it was Parnas' understanding that Harvey was Nunes' proxy, Bondy said. 
Solomon confirmed the meetings to CNN but said that calling the group a team was a bit of a mischaracterization. Solomon said that connectivity happened more organically, and that his role was only as a journalist reporting a story. 
Solomon also said that Di Genova and Toensing, his lawyers, introduced him to Parnas as a facilitator and interpreter in early March. "Parnas was very helpful to me in getting Ukraine officials on the record," Solomon told CNN. "I only gradually realized Lev was working for other people, including Rudy Giuliani."
Solomon insists he was only reporting on a story as it unfolded, "Any suggestion that I was involved in any campaign to pressure Ukraine or the United States government to take any actions is categorically false," Solomon said.

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 10:16 schreef xpompompomx het volgende:

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Het lijkt me ook niet onaannemelijk dat de types die, hier in NL, zo met Trump dwepen helemaal buiten zinnen zouden zijn als een Rutte, of nog beter een Klaver, zich Trumpiaans zou gedragen in Den Haag. Misschien zijn ze wel bang dat als ze Trump afvallen ze dan misschien ook wel Baudet en Wildersje zouden afvallen.

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 10:18 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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De verklaring is nog vele malen eenvoudiger. Nederlandse Trump-fans hebben zichzelf en hun omgeving in 2016 wijsgemaakt dat Trump de beste president ooit wordt in de geschiedenis van de VS. Het is nogal pijnlijk om toe te moeten geven dat je de plank volledig missloeg.

Chuck Norris' dire warning for America - 2012

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“No reasonable person would believe that Devin Nunes’ cow actually has a Twitter account, or that the hyperbole, satire and cow-related jokes it posts are serious facts,” reads the filing in Virginia’s Henrico County Circuit Court. “It is self-evident that cows are domesticated livestock animals and do not have the intelligence, language, or opposable digits needed to operate a Twitter account. Defendant ‘Devin Nunes’ Mom’ likewise posts satirical patronizing, nagging, mothering comments which ostensibly treat Mr. Nunes as a misbehaving child.”
https://www.sacbee.com/ne(...)rticle237802609.html

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Op woensdag 27 november 2019 10:49 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Het zijn gewoon mensen die zich zelf zien in het beeld dat van Trump is geschept. Succesvol, zegt wat hij denkt etc. Dat ga je niet afvallen, want dan val je jezelf af, dan moet je toegeven dat je er naast zat en de problemen die je hebt door jezelf komen. Liever een ander de schuld geven.

Van die mensen die Chuck Norris nog steeds geweldig vinden, omdat hij een stoere meme was.

Chuck Norris' dire warning for America - 2012

Dan krijg je mensen die geloven in 1000 years of darkness als een democraat de macht heeft en homo's mogen trouwen.