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

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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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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

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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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jimsciutto twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 16:56:57 “I don’t watch the stock market” says Trump as Dow is down >400 points following his comments on possible China trade deal delay. reageer retweet

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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

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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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Grace_Segers twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 17:02:55 !! Mitt Romney breaks with fellow Republican senators:“I saw no evidence from our intelligence community, nor from the representatives today for the Department of State, that there is any evidence of any kind of that suggests that Ukraine interfered in our elections." reageer retweet

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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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Macron Uses Toddler Reverse Psychology Trick to Fool Trump Into Supporting NATO

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Amusingly, what seems to have worked instead is Emmanuel Macron’s completely different ploy. The French president gave an interview last month decrying the “brain death” of NATO, which he said had failed to account for America’s shrinking commitment under Trump.

Trump himself has called NATO “obsolete,” openly questioned whether the U.S. would come to the defense of allies under attack (the very foundation of the alliance), and privately told aides on several occasions last year he wants to withdraw from the alliance. But the notion that somebody else would question NATO, and blame its demise on Trump, has enraged him.

And now Trump is lashing out at Macron. “NATO serves a great purpose,” he declared today. “And I hear that President Macron said NATO is ‘brain dead.’ I think that’s very insulting to a lot of different forces … When you make a statement like that, that is a very, very nasty statement to 28 — including them — 28 countries.”

Manipulating children into doing what you want by pretending to demand they do the opposite thing is a trick most parents learn to use. It usually stops working around the age of 5.

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CNBCnow twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 19:10:08 BREAKING: Kamala Harris drops out of presidential race after plummeting from top tier of Democratic candidateshttps://t.co/NLBrpVq6zY reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 19:11 schreef Houtenbeen het volgende:

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CNBCnow twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 19:10:08 BREAKING: Kamala Harris drops out of presidential race after plummeting from top tier of Democratic candidateshttps://t.co/NLBrpVq6zY reageer retweet

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JakeSherman twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 18:25:50 A federal court just gave MICHAEL FLYNN permission to travel to South Korea from Dec. 21-Jan. 7. He says he has family there. reageer retweet

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Op dinsdag 3 december 2019 19:22 schreef ExtraWaskracht het volgende:
Benieuwd waar haar achterban naartoe gaat.

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pewresearch twitterde op maandag 02-12-2019 om 23:06:02 The share of Republicans who say presidents could operate more effectively if they did not have to worry so much about Congress and the courts increased 16 percentage points over the past year, from 27% in March 2018 to 43% this past July. https://t.co/7UoRgwhJRC https://t.co/9CxD7xczG1 reageer retweet

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Exclusive: White House considered kicking Huawei out of U.S. banking system - sources

The Trump administration considered banning China’s Huawei from the U.S. financial system earlier this year as part of a host of policy options to thwart the blacklisted telecoms equipment giant, according to three people familiar with the matter.

The plan, which was ultimately shelved, called for placing Huawei Technologies Co Ltd [HWT.UL], the world’s second largest smartphone producer, on the Treasury Department’s Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list.

One of the people familiar with the matter, who favors the move, said it could be revived in the coming months depending on how things go with Huawei.

The plan was considered by the White House National Security Council, and seen by officials as a nuclear option atop a ladder of policy tools to sanction the company, two of the people said. Such a designation can make it virtually impossible for a company to complete transactions in U.S. dollars.

Administration officials drafted a memo and held interagency meetings on the issue, according to one of the people, showing the extent to which administration officials mulled deploying the United States’ most aggressive sanctioning tool against the Chinese company.

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Annie Fixler, a cyber expert at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies think tank, said designating the company “would have broad, widespread implications for Huawei across the globe,” noting that its business would be “severely impacted” in Europe and in Asia outside of China.

The U.S. government has brought criminal charges against Huawei, alleging theft of trade secrets, bank fraud, violations of U.S. sanctions against Iran, and has sought to convince allies to ban it from 5G networks over spying fears.

But placing the company on the “SDN list” would mean a host of logistical, diplomatic and economic difficulties for the U.S. government.

The designation prohibits American companies or citizens from trading or conducting financial transactions with those listed and freezes assets held in the United States.

Adding Huawei would therefore hammer U.S. allies that already rely on the company for their 4G networks, since almost all dollar payments clear through U.S. financial institutions.

The Treasury could grant licenses to exempt U.S. banks involved in those transactions. But it has generally shied away from doing so, concerned that too many exemptions would blunt the strength of the tool, experts said.

Huawei’s sprawling size, with dozens of subsidiaries, would significantly complicate enforcement and carve-out efforts, experts said.

“The larger an entity is, the harder it is for a U.S. Administration to foresee and prepare for the major effects, foreign and domestic, that placing it on the SDN list may cause” said Matthew Tuchband, a former Treasury official who added that careful consideration is needed before designating a company the size of Huawei.

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Nevertheless, some lawmakers still see designating Huawei as worth considering.

“Given Huawei’s relentless drive to dominate the 5G landscape, it is one of the most urgent national security threats facing the free world,” Republican Congressman Michael Gallagher said.

“All options should be on the table in order to impose maximum pressure,” he added.

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jaketapper twitterde op dinsdag 03-12-2019 om 19:52:41 House Intel Committee has released its report:https://t.co/UtrIoDW5IX reageer retweet