[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #691 Guiliani under the Bus?

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As the self-proclaimed embodiment of the American popular will, the demagogue portrays impeachment deliberations as necessarily a threat to democracy, a facade for powerful interests arrayed against the people that only he represents. Critics and congressional opponents are traitors. Norms and standing institutional interests are fraudulent.

President Trump has made full use of the demagogic playbook. He has refused all cooperation with the House. He lies repeatedly about the facts, holds public rallies to spread these falsehoods and attacks the credibility, motives and even patriotism of witnesses. His mode of “argument” is purely assaultive. This is the crux of the Trump defense, and not an argument built on facts in support of a constitutional theory of the case.

Uit: Trump Is the Founders’ Worst Nightmare

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President Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, told federal investigators that a lawyer from Trump’s legal team encouraged him to hold back details from Congress in 2017 about “more communications with Russia” on the Trump Tower Moscow project, including correspondence with a “woman from the Kremlin,” according to newly released documents from the Mueller investigation.

In summaries of interviews conducted during Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation and obtained by BuzzFeed News, Cohen said he spoke to Jay Sekulow on Aug. 27, 2017—one day before he turned over a letter to Congress that said the Trump Tower Moscow deal came to an end shortly before Trump ran in the Republican presidential primaries.

Cohen, who is currently serving a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to lying to Congress, has previously claimed Sekulow urged him to tell lawmakers Trump Tower Moscow negotiations ended months earlier than they actually had, and that Sekulow had edited his written testimony to Congress when he and Trump were under a joint-defense agreement in the Mueller probe. Sekulow has denied the claims.

According to the newly released transcripts, Cohen said Sekulow more or less shut him down when he offered more information on contacts with Russia regarding Trump Tower Moscow.

“Cohen said there were more communications with Russia and more communications with Trump than were reflected” in the written testimony to lawmakers, according to the memo. He said he specifically recalled telling Trump he had spoken to a “woman from the Kremlin who asked specific and great questions about Trump Tower Moscow.” He also said he told Trump that he was “waiting to hear back from them.”

Sekulow responded that it was “not necessary to elaborate or include those details because the transaction did not take place,” the memo reads. Sekulow kept pushing him, according to Cohen, urging him to “stay on message and not over elaborate.” He also told him he would be “protected” if he didn't go “rogue.”

Sekulow is also said to have told Cohen that it was “time to move on” and to avoid contradicting the president.

“Sekulow told Cohen ‘his client,’ referring to Trump, wanted Cohen to cooperate and appreciated him,” the memo states.

Cohen also told investigators he inquired with Sekulow about pardons after the FBI raided his home and office. He said he been “a loyal lawyer and servant” who was “all of the sudden subject to search and seizure,” and wanted to know “what was in it for him.”

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 05:24 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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PostRoz twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 03:06:27 Democrats quietly debate expanding impeachment articles beyond Ukraine Via @:rachaelmbade https://t.co/OjsbZRM1sS reageer retweet

Goed, lijkt me geen overbodige luxe. Mueller/Rusland en de corruptie en zelfverrijking mogen wat mij betreft ook wel worden genoemd.

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 09:59 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Dat zouden ze kunnen doen, maar dan jaag je misschien wel de helft van de republikeinen tegen je in het harnas die niet meer geconfronteerd willen worden met het Mueller onderzoek.

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blakesmustache twitterde op dinsdag 27-08-2019 om 15:15:18 Thread: House Democrats have a strategy for removing Trump from office. Not only is it a good strategy, it’s the very best strategy available in terms of both substance and timing. This thread will explain what the House is doing and why. Please read on and retweet. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 10:34 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:

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Wat hij allemaal boven tafel bracht kan je heel helder uitgelegd beluisteren op https://www.lawfareblog.com/tagged/report-podcast

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 10:46 schreef crystal_meth het volgende:

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Jammer dat ze geen transcripts van de podcasts geven...

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 11:12 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Dat kan allemaal wel zijn, maar hoe gaat dit het stemgedrag bepalen bij de republikeinen als er moet worden beslist over een eventuele afzetting? Misschien gaan ze hun mening laten beïnvloeden omdat het Barr report van afgelopen zomer dat ook deed, en simpelweg de feiten negeren.

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 11:12 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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Dat kan allemaal wel zijn, maar hoe gaat dit het stemgedrag bepalen bij de republikeinen als er moet worden beslist over een eventuele afzetting? Misschien gaan ze hun mening laten beïnvloeden omdat het Barr report van afgelopen zomer dat ook deed, en simpelweg de feiten negeren.

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 11:27 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Blijkbaar ging de leider - op papier - helemaal los in de pressco van 52 minuten, terwijl nato-overleg nog moet beginnen. Londen.
CNN ontploft met verontwaardiging.

En als een Rep.senator al zó nitwit reageert op de opmerkingen van Cuomo in een interview...hoe moet de stemmer dan weten hóe het zit.
Voorgelogen en bedrogen.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 16:35:35 Breaking via CNBC: A federal appeals court has ruled that Deutsche Bank and Capital One can hand over years of Trump's financial records in compliance with House Democrats' subpoenas. https://t.co/teihyFYRJv reageer retweet

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• A federal appeals court ruled Tuesday that Deutsche Bank and Capital One can hand over years of President Donald Trump’s financial records in compliance with House Democrats’ subpoenas.

• The ruling offers another loss in the courts for Trump, who has fought attempts to obtain his financial records through multiple lawsuits.

• The case is likely destined for the Supreme Court, where the president has already appealed two other lower court decisions requiring the disclosure of his financial records.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 16:05:03 A former Ukraine official says the country knew of the U.S. military aid freeze during the Trump admin's pressure campaign."We had this information," Olena Zerkal said in an interview with NYT. "It was definitely mentioned there were some issues."https://t.co/hdJ1OGvBrA reageer retweet

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As deputy foreign minister, it was Olena Zerkal’s job to read incoming diplomatic cables from embassies around the world. One from Washington caught her eye back in July, she recalled: It said the Trump administration had frozen military aid for Ukraine.

“We had this information,” Ms. Zerkal said in an interview. “It was definitely mentioned there were some issues.”

The timing of when Ukraine knew of the hold on the military aid is a critical question in the impeachment hearings in Congress. Democrats are trying to build a case that President Trump pressured President Volodymyr Zelensky by withholding the aid and a White House meeting — at the same time he was pressing for a public announcement that Ukraine would investigate his political rivals.

Mr. Trump and his allies have also made the timing issue part of his defense. How could Ukrainian officials feel the pressure of the aid freeze, they ask, if they did not know about it when the White House was pushing them to investigate Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr., one of Mr. Trump’s biggest challengers in the 2020 American presidential election?

“They didn’t even know the money wasn’t paid,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter last month.

Ms. Zerkal’s account is the first public acknowledgment by a Ukrainian official that senior figures in Kyiv knew about the aid freeze during the Trump administration’s pressure campaign — and that the Zelensky administration sought to keep that fact from surfacing to avoid getting drawn into the American impeachment debate.

She said her own government blocked a trip she had planned to Washington to meet members of Congress in October, worried she would discuss matters related to impeachment and drag its president into an inquiry he has been eager to avoid.

“They worried about this,” she said of Mr. Zelensky’s advisers. “They said, ‘This is not the time for you to travel to D.C.’” The cancellation of her trip was confirmed by Congressional aides.

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MSNBC twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 16:19:31 President Trump and President Macron trade barbs over handling of foreign ISIS fighters:“Would you like some nice ISIS fighters? I can give them to you. You can take every one you want.” https://t.co/n7ICITIozD reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 17:07 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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revrrlewis twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 13:03:46 President Donald Trump: "I had legal scholars looking at the transcripts the other day and they said 'these are absolutely perfect, Trump is right when he uses the word'" https://t.co/hQHJErl3oD reageer retweet

En wie waren dat en mag men ze ondervragen?

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 17:27 schreef heywoodu het volgende:

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Als legal scholars iets zeggen als "these are absolutely perfect" kun je er redelijk vanuit gaan dat ze bedoelen dat schimmige zaken perfect geformuleerd zijn om er mee weg te komen. Als ze dat überhaupt gezegd hebben natuurlijk.

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 17:36 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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"Legal scholars" formuleren sowieso niet op het niveau van een 8-jarige.

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Op maandag 2 december 2019 19:08 schreef Monolith het volgende:

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Zoals ik volgens mij hier al eerder heb uitgelegd moet je aan dat soort subgroepanalyses bij beperkte sample sizes geen waarde hechten. Bij de afgelopen verkiezingen was met uitzondering van de zwarte kiezer de steun onder "niet blanken sowieso al rond de 25-30%:
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2016

Is dat uitzonderlijk voor een republikein? Nee hoor, Romney deed het in 2012 vergelijkbaar en die had een aanzienlijk populairdere tegenkandidaat:
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2012

Sterker nog, de laatste Republikeinse president voor Trump deed het nog aanzienlijk beter onder minderheden:
https://ropercenter.cornell.edu/how-groups-voted-2004