[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #703 All is well

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 09-01-2020 om 18:30:18 The New York City Bar Association has asked Congress to investigate A.G. Barr, saying his actions and statements have positioned DOJ and its prosecutors as "political partisans willing to use the levers of government to empower certain groups over others." https://t.co/CGyyUniQMZ reageer retweet

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mattzap twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 00:57:13 Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump. It found nothing of consequence. https://t.co/ziP81FyH6d with @DevlinBarrett reageer retweet

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A Justice Department inquiry launched more than two years ago to mollify conservatives clamoring for more investigations of Hillary Clinton has effectively ended with no tangible results, and current and former law enforcement officials said they never expected the effort to produce much of anything.

John Huber, the U.S. attorney in Utah, was tapped in November 2017 by then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions to look into concerns raised by President Trump and his allies in Congress that the FBI had not fully pursued cases of possible corruption at the Clinton Foundation and during her time as secretary of state, when the U.S. government decided not to block the sale of a company called Uranium One.

As a part of his review, Huber examined documents and conferred with federal law enforcement officials in Little Rock, Ark., who were handling a meandering probe into the Clinton Foundation, people familiar with the matter said. Current and former officials said that Huber has largely finishedand found nothing worth pursuing — though the assignment has not formally ended and no official notice has been sent to the Justice Department or to lawmakers, these people said.

The effective conclusion of his investigation with no criminal charges or other known impacts is likely to roil some in the GOP who had hoped the prosecutor would vindicate their long-held suspicions about a political rival. Trump, though, has largely shifted his focus to a different federal prosecutor tapped to do a separate, special investigation: U.S. Attorney in Connecticut John Durham, who Attorney General William P. Barr assigned last year to explore the origins of the FBI’s 2016 probe into possible coordination between the Trump campaign and Russia.

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Op donderdag 9 januari 2020 21:03 schreef Hanca het volgende:
https://nos.nl/artikel/23(...)aket-neerhaalde.html

Als Trudeau hier gelijk heeft, is het dus wel flink geëscaleerd na het doodschieten van die generaal...

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Op woensdag 8 januari 2020 14:17 schreef cynicus het volgende:
Ik ben nog lang niet overtuigd dat het een aanslag was. Waarom een Oekraiens vliegtuig? Omdat het Amerikaanse Boeing was?

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 08:49 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
Dat truukje kennen we nu wel.

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 09:06 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:
https://www.politico.com/(...)-powers-trump-096848

en ze hebben nog 8 republikeinen mee gekregen.

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 01:27 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
LOCK HER UP! Oh wacht....

POTUS gaat nu vast zijn excuses aanbieden

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mattzap twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 00:57:13 Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump. It found nothing of consequence. https://t.co/ziP81FyH6d with @:DevlinBarrett reageer retweet

Justice Dept. winds down Clinton-related inquiry once championed by Trump. It found nothing of consequence.
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RepMattGaetz twitterde op donderdag 09-01-2020 om 23:21:57 I represent more troops than any other member of this body. I buried one of them earlier today at Arlington. If our servicemembers have the courage to fight and die in these wars, Congress ought to have the courage to vote for or against them. I’m voting for this resolution. https://t.co/cSCBG7CmIm reageer retweet

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AP twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 11:31:33 BREAKING: Iraqi prime minister asks U.S. secretary of state to decide the mechanism for American troop withdrawal from Iraq. https://t.co/p2nvu1cu4x reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 15:24 schreef archito het volgende:
Fivethirtyeight heeft een model online gezet met voorspellingen:

https://projects.fivethir(...)cast/?ex_cid=rrpromo

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 09:49 schreef klappernootopreis het volgende:

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het feit blijft dan ze Trump hebben beperkt in zijn handelingen.

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atrupar twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 16:56:19 Pompeo insists the ideas that Soleimani presented an "imminent" threat but the administration doesn't know when or where he planned to strike are "completely consistent thoughts." https://t.co/7LDFR7zcVU reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 17:03:05 REPORTER: Secretary Pompeo, what is your definition of "imminent"?POMPEO: "This was gonna happen. And American lives were at risk, and we would be culpably negligent if we did not recommend to the president he take this action against Soleimani." https://t.co/QdHzg9cVim reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 17:07:54 REPORTER: Why are you saying that Soleimani presented an imminent threat against embassies here but not to senators during this week's briefing?POMPEO: We did.REPORTER: So senators are lying?POMPEO: I won't talk about the details. https://t.co/91NoZLoJ1G reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 03-01-2020 om 06:14:01 As a former DOD Special Counsel, my sense of this carefully worded statement on #Soleimani“actively developing plans to attack”Sounds like activity that’s been going on for years not a reason to have to strike quickly without going to Congress first. https://t.co/5rHtQ854lF reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 03-01-2020 om 06:20:07 You can fully agree with the policy option of taking out #Soleimani but that type of action—essentially an act of war—is Congress’ call to make.Want that outcome? Then convince a majority of the peoples’ representatives in both chambers to approve it. reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 17:40 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:
De laatste keer dat Congress oorlog verklaarde is trouwens al bijna 80 jaar geleden. In die tijd heeft Amerika zat oorlogen en missies gevoerd waar Congress nooit goedkeuring voor heeft hoeven geven.

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 17:29 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:

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Nee, het is een symbolisch niet bindende resolutie. Dit is gewoon weer een puur politieke move, rechtmatig heeft het geen enkele betekenis en zal het de President niet beperken.

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 17:47 schreef Janneke141 het volgende:

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Het is de praktijk dat het op die manier gaat, maar dat impliceert niet dat het Congress daar geen toestemming voor heeft -hoeven- geven, eerder dat ze de kans niet gehad hebben net als nu. Zeker in een situatie waar de acuutheid van de dreiging nogal discutabel is vind ik het niet vreemd dat het congres zich gepasseerd voelt.

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IN GENERAL.-The Secretary of Defense shall promptly submit to the congressional defense committees notice in writing of any sensitive military operation conducted under this title no later than 48 hours following such operation.

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For purposes of this section, the term "sensitive military operation" does not include any operation conducted within Afghanistan, Syria, or Iraq.

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 18:20 schreef Chivaz het volgende:
https://twitter.com/bennyjohnson/status/1215388614525362176?s=21

Pelosi vind ook dat er geen toestemming van het Congress hoeft te zijn rond militaire operaties.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said Friday she's preparing to send the impeachment articles to the Senate next week to start the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump.
Pelosi's letter signals the end of the weeks-long standoff between the House and Senate over the impeachment articles, after Pelosi delayed sending the two articles of impeachment the House passed last month to the Senate while Democrats pressed Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell to agree to have witnesses in the trial.

"I have asked Judiciary Committee Chairman Jerry Nadler to be prepared to bring to the Floor next week a resolution to appoint managers and transmit articles of impeachment to the Senate," Pelosi wrote in a letter to her caucus. "I will be consulting with you at our Tuesday House Democratic Caucus meeting on how we proceed further."
Pelosi's letter means the Senate impeachment trial could begin as soon as next week. The House needs to pass a resolution naming impeachment managers before the articles are formally sent to the Senate, and the Senate will also have to take procedural steps before the trial gets underway.

It's not clear whether Pelosi's gambit to withhold the articles will change the trajectory of the Senate trial. Democrats have pushed for the Senate to agree to hear from witnesses as part of the trial, accusing McConnell of a cover-up for coordinating with the White House.

But McConnell refused to change course on the trial as the impasse dragged on, saying he would pass a resolution to establish the rules of the trial with only Republican votes and then make a decision on witnesses later.

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At a campaign rally in Toledo, the president ran through a litany of hyperbolic attacks on Democrats: They want open borders, they are more extreme than ever, they are “stone-cold crazy.” It wasn’t a great departure from his usual fare, but he then for some reason stepped back for a moment.

“You know it’s interesting, as I’m saying this stuff — you know, ‘They want crime, they want chaos’ — I’m saying all this stuff, and then I say, ‘Gee, now I sort of understand why they hate me for it,’ ” Trump said.

Perhaps recognizing he had just essentially admitted to his own over-the-top rhetoric, Trump then added an addendum: “But it’s true.”

https://www.washingtonpos(...)ment-self-awareness/

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tribelaw twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 19:44:58 The fight over what kind of trial this will be has barely begun. Handing the articles of impeachment to the Senate is just the first step. Count on @RepAdamSchiff and the other Impeachment Managers named by the House to demand a real TRIAL, not just a phony masquerade. https://t.co/o4i0q93Lk5 reageer retweet

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 14:07:35 Wow. This says Trump simply "came across" disinformation about Clinton and Biden as part of a "mistake," then belatedly chose to amplify it.No.The facts are coming out and will continue to come out. Trump and his team *hunted* for—in some cases *created*—the disinformation. https://t.co/avPVZ2h6fF reageer retweet

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mkraju twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 21:21:22 Trump tells Fox that he would consider invoking executive privilege to block John Bolton’s testimony before the Senate “for the sake of the office.” reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 21:46 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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mkraju twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 21:21:22 Trump tells Fox that he would consider invoking executive privilege to block John Bolton’s testimony before the Senate “for the sake of the office.” reageer retweet

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sahilkapur twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 21:21:13 New development in the Obamacare lawsuit: Trump's DOJ asks the Supreme Court NOT to hear the case yet, saying that'd be "premature" as it bounces between lower courts.If the Court agrees, the issue won't be settled by the justices before the election.https://t.co/1JmLteRK2P reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 21:43 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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SethAbramson twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 14:07:35 Wow. This says Trump simply "came across" disinformation about Clinton and Biden as part of a "mistake," then belatedly chose to amplify it.No.The facts are coming out and will continue to come out. Trump and his team *hunted* for—in some cases *created*—the disinformation. https://t.co/avPVZ2h6fF reageer retweet

Vernietigend. En Seth noemt alle namen...

..” PS2/ There was a *team* of seedy lobbyists, criminals, and attorneys scouring Ukraine for fake news—sometimes creating it—and pumping it into America. Names everyone should know: diGenova. Toensing. Cummins. Sessions. Parnas. Fruman. Giuliani. Sargeant. Harvey. Patel. Others....”

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But it is hard to see that happening now. It’s virtually assured that Trump’s impeachment will end not with his ouster but with an acquittal by the Republican-controlled Senate. This purported ordeal could even be a boost. In fundraising, and in some polling, it already has been. And come November, he absolutely could win again. And if that happens, Trump in some sense would possess more power than any president ever—subjected to the gravest constitutional check, then given by voters another four years.

If Trump began his political ascent as a follower, cannily co-opting ideas that resonated with a certain segment of the electorate, in doing so he clearly has proceeded to forge a following of his own. He has become a leader of those who are willing to be led in this way—solidifying lockstep support from the agenda-setting base of his party as well as its kingpins and figureheads, who parrot him the way he once did Levin. The result: a crescendoing feedback loop, in which followers are leaders and leaders are followers, perpetuating ideas based on what works rather than what’s real.

“One of the sacred principles in U.S. history has been that presidents are supposed to tell the public the truth,” Brinkley said. “So this is a new kind of Republican that refuses to ever admit culpability or a mistake and is willing to destroy not just institutions but fact-based thinking, empirical thinking.” Trump? “He doesn’t care whether it’s true or not true, whether it destroys somebody or not—there’s no morality into it. It’s just a strange, weird bit of information—‘and it helps me, and I’m going to propagate it.’”

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John_Hudson twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 18:21:18 SCOOP: On the same day U.S. forces killed Solemiani, they launched another secret kill operation to take out a senior Iranian official in Yemen, but did not succeed. 1/ My latest with @missy_ryan and @jdawsey1 https://t.co/RbwmQuJd9Z reageer retweet

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On the day the U.S. military killed a top Iranian commander in Baghdad, U.S. forces carried out another top secret mission against a senior Iranian military official in Yemen, according to U.S. officials.

The strike targeting Abdul Reza Shahlai, a financier and key commander of Iran’s elite Quds Force who has been active in Yemen, did not result in his death, according to four U.S. officials familiar with the matter.

The unsuccessful operation may indicate that the Trump administration’s killing of Maj. Gen. Qasem Soleimani last week was part of a broader operation than previously explained, raising questions about whether the mission was designed to cripple the leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps or solely to prevent an imminent attack on Americans as originally stated.

U.S. military operations in Yemen, where a civil war has created the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, are shrouded in secrecy. U.S. officials said the operation against Shahlai remains highly classified, and many declined to offer details other than to say it was not successful.

Officials at the Pentagon and at military commands in Florida were monitoring both strikes and had discussed announcing them together, had they gone well, officials said.

“If we had killed him, we’d be bragging about it that same night,” a senior U.S. official said, who like others spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a classified military operation.

Another senior official said the two strikes were authorized around the same time and that the United States did not disclose the Shahlai mission because it did not go according to plan. The official said Shahlai may be targeted in the future, though both countries have signaled an interest in de-escalating the crisis.

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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 18:35:16 What an important scoop (by @John_Hudson @missy_ryan @jdawsey1)1. Raises question if "the mission was designed to cripple the leadership of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Crops or solely to prevent an imminent attack"2. More huge concern did this without Congress's approval https://t.co/1hWAdX4U3r reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 18:56:34 Gigantic implication of reported #Shahlai operation:Says this was connected to Saudi war in #Yemen.What on earth is the legal authority for that?Not the #2002AUMF for Iraq.Not the 2001AUMF for September 11.No authority to use force against Houthis let alone Iran there. https://t.co/8tMl2K2K5s reageer retweet

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kathrynw5 twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 16:21:43 We're expecting Pompeo and Mnuchin in the White House briefing room shortly. What would you ask them? reageer retweet

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kathrynw5 twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 16:21:43 We're expecting Pompeo and Mnuchin in the White House briefing room shortly. What would you ask them? reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 10 januari 2020 21:48 schreef AnneX het volgende:

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En dan vragen hullie niet wat de reden is?

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KevinMKruse twitterde op donderdag 09-01-2020 om 17:54:02 Trump just said that Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats are “defending Soilemani” and then a reporter somehow asked a question that was *not* a demand that he provide an example of how they’re “defending Soilemani.” Jesus Christ, this isn’t hard. reageer retweet

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RobertMaguire_ twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 21:28:48 The fact of the matter is that the sitting president of the United States appears to have committed multiple crimes, just in this instance, to cover up extramarital affairs, but we don't even have the time to focus on it because of all the other scandals https://t.co/d22CoGYWjt reageer retweet

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ABCPolitics twitterde op zaterdag 11-01-2020 om 00:27:04 The U.S. will not negotiate a withdrawal of troops from Iraq even after the country's parliament voted to expel foreign forces, Sec. Mike Pompeo says, even challenging an Iraqi readout of his call with the prime minister on the subject. https://t.co/DR51MzsoaL reageer retweet

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travisakers twitterde op vrijdag 10-01-2020 om 12:25:15 His reaction when asked to name something President Trump has done well...https://t.co/tPPp0WO9Dj reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 11 januari 2020 09:19 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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ABCPolitics twitterde op zaterdag 11-01-2020 om 00:27:04 The U.S. will not negotiate a withdrawal of troops from Iraq even after the country's parliament voted to expel foreign forces, Sec. Mike Pompeo says, even challenging an Iraqi readout of his call with the prime minister on the subject. https://t.co/DR51MzsoaL reageer retweet

Ondertussen lijkt de VS ook gewoon schijt te hebben aan de soevereiniteit van Irak.

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Under Iraq's system, the withdrawal resolution is not binding unless the prime minister enforces it. There are legal questions about Mahdi's ability to do so as an acting prime minister, and even then, a withdrawal of U.S. troops would have to be negotiated by both governments, according to their joint defense agreement.