[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #724 Stone got a friendships pardon?

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 14:37 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:
Allemaal bots !!1!1! Niet naar luisteren wij bij de MSDNC weten wat goed voor je is !1!1!


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https://www.politico.com/(...)class-tax-cut-115262

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 15:21 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:

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Minder belasting betalen is inderdaad lachwekkend. Hoe verzinnen ze het, al die Amerikanen die straks meer geld overhouden zullen wel pissed off zijn.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 15:52 schreef viagraap het volgende:
Aan de inkomstenkant zijn de bezuinigingen op sociale programma's, netto levert de burger in. Maar hamer vooral vrolijk mee op het orgel.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 16:10 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:

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Aha, zei jij zojuist niet dat de vorige tax cuts niet goed waren omdat deze niet bij de middenklasse terecht kwam ?

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 16:10 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:

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Aha, zei jij zojuist niet dat de vorige tax cuts niet goed waren omdat deze niet bij de middenklasse terecht kwam ?

Je pretendeert er verstand van te hebben. Kan je je verhaal ook onderbouwen of praat je gewoon Bernie's talking points na ?

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 16:21 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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Juich jij toe dat het mes wordt gezet in het sociale vangnet, zoals deze regering beoogt?

Het zal mij verder een rotzorg zijn - ik ben immers geen Amerikaan - maar het is wel een direct gevolg van de koers die wordt gevolgd.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 17:44 schreef Montov het volgende:
Ah, een belastingplan net voor de verkiezingen. Gaat Mexico ook voor die belastingverlagingen betalen?

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 18:22 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Wat een verwennerij, bij iedere verkiezing de belofte van tax cuts voor de middenklasse!

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 19:34 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Er is niks mis met het laten oplopen van het begrotingstekort. Maar je moet dal wel wat mee doen met dat geleende geld.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 14:04:20 “Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to foresee the lesson of the Senate Impeachment Trial of President Trump. ‘When you strike at the King, Emerson famously said, “you must kill him.’ Mr. Trump’s foes struck at him but did not take him down. A triumphant Mr.Trump emerges from the..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 14:04:23 .....biggest test of his presidency emboldened, ready to claim exoneration, and take his case of grievance, persecution and resentment to the campaign trail.” Peter Baker @nytimes The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History! reageer retweet

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SarahLongwell25 twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 19:33:07 “No change of circumstances can repair a defect of character.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson https://t.co/YpqPJqHJc2 reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 19:54 schreef Monolith het volgende:
Nou willen de Republikeinen ook best het mes zetten in uitgaven aan de sociale zekerheid en dergelijke, maar ze hebben de steun van de Democraten nodig en dan is het vaak weer handjeklap, meer uitgaven aan defensie voor de GOP, meer uitgaven aan zaken als sociale zekerheid en onderwijs voor de Democraten.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 22:00:21 At least 19 policies and actions taken by the Trump administration may benefit the Trump family and Trump Organization, according to a new report released this week by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. https://t.co/nQXhnZMGzi reageer retweet

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KSD371 twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 15:42:21 @funder @realDonaldTrump WAIT UNTIL THE TEA PARTY HEARS ABOUT THIS:US debt exceeds $23 trillion, having increased by $3 trillion (more than 16%) during Trump's 3 yrs of presidential incompetence & fiscal irresponsibilityTrump’s lifelong record of bankrupting continues https://t.co/Uui45R04gd 02#FBR reageer retweet

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 20:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 14:04:20 “Ralph Waldo Emerson seemed to foresee the lesson of the Senate Impeachment Trial of President Trump. ‘When you strike at the King, Emerson famously said, “you must kill him.’ Mr. Trump’s foes struck at him but did not take him down. A triumphant Mr.Trump emerges from the..... reageer retweet

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 14:04:23 .....biggest test of his presidency emboldened, ready to claim exoneration, and take his case of grievance, persecution and resentment to the campaign trail.” Peter Baker @:nytimes The Greatest Witch Hunt In American History! reageer retweet

Hall to the King, baby!

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 19:34 schreef Ulx het volgende:
Er is niks mis met het laten oplopen van het begrotingstekort.

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Op zondag 16 februari 2020 07:49 schreef Hanca het volgende:
Bloomberg zou Clinton als running mate overwegen...
https://www.cnbc.com/2020(...)ays-matt-drudge.html

Dat zou pas echt dom zijn, Clinton heeft al bewezen zo impopulair te zijn dat ze van Trump verliest in de cruciale staten.

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Op zondag 16 februari 2020 07:57 schreef vipergts het volgende:

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Het zou wel prachtig zijn als Trump verslagen wordt door iemand die rijker is dan hem en Hillary

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 22:04 schreef la_perle_rouge het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 22:00:21 At least 19 policies and actions taken by the Trump administration may benefit the Trump family and Trump Organization, according to a new report released this week by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. https://t.co/nQXhnZMGzi reageer retweet

De man maakt Amerika kapot. Het rechtssysteem, de democratie, de boedel failliet. Wanneer worden de Republikeinen wakker? Of maakt het hun echt niet uit dat hun land naar de knoppen wordt geholpen?

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KSD371 twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 15:42:21 @:funder @:realDonaldTrump WAIT UNTIL THE TEA PARTY HEARS ABOUT THIS:US debt exceeds $23 trillion, having increased by $3 trillion (more than 16%) during Trump's 3 yrs of presidential incompetence & fiscal irresponsibilityTrump’s lifelong record of bankrupting continues https://t.co/Uui45R04gd 02#FBR reageer retweet

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Trump pushed CIA to find, kill Osama bin Laden's son over higher priority targets


When the CIA gave Trump a list of major terror leaders to kill, he said he'd never heard of them. Instead he focused on a target with a famous name.

Bron NBC

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Op zondag 16 februari 2020 16:15 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Je zou toch plaatsvervangende schaamte krijgen als legerleiding van zo'n man.

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Barr, these people said, has attempted to micromanage certain cases, asking more questions and for more frequent updates than his predecessors on matters from Berman. 

Berman has bristled at those demands, according to these people, and has repeatedly pushed for actions on certain politically sensitive cases in opposition to Justice Department leadership, most notably the indictment in October of the state-owned Turkish bank, Halkbank.

According to a person familiar with the discussions, Barr personally spearheaded an effort last year to negotiate a settlement with the bank that would have allowed it to sidestep an indictment after Turkey's President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, pressed Trump in a bid to avoid charges.

Berman, however, insisted on criminal prosecution, according to the people familiar with the matter.

A spokesman for the Manhattan US attorney's office declined to comment for this story.

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rgoodlaw twitterde op zondag 16-02-2020 om 00:58:30 🧨 Barr personally tried to push SDNY away from indicting Turkish bank Halkbank but US Attorney Berman resisted, per CNN.Same bank case NYT cited—via John Bolton book—as Trump wanting to do favor for Turkey’s Erdogan cabal for Trump’s personal interest.https://t.co/yC4I4wu14j reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op zondag 16-02-2020 om 01:40:41 9. In sum, Barr apparently intervened in a criminal case in Southern District of New York in alignment with Trump's personal interests.Turkey's Erdogan boasted Trump instructed his "ministers" (the Attorney General?) to work on it.Barr was rebuffed by insistent US Attorney. reageer retweet

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rgoodlaw twitterde op zondag 16-02-2020 om 15:56:41 Overwhelming majority of these 1,100+ former Justice Department lawyers—calling on Barr to resign and for DOJ lawyers to report abuses—served in Republican administrations.About 85% in Republican admin.Over 100 in Trump admin.#CountryOverPartyhttps://t.co/thrPUnR8ED reageer retweet

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We, the undersigned, are alumni of the United States Department of Justice (DOJ) who have collectively served both Republican and Democratic administrations. Each of us strongly condemns President Trump’s and Attorney General Barr’s interference in the fair administration of justice.

As former DOJ officials, we each proudly took an oath to support and defend our Constitution and faithfully execute the duties of our offices. The very first of these duties is to apply the law equally to all Americans. This obligation flows directly from the Constitution, and it is embedded in countless rules and laws governing the conduct of DOJ lawyers. The Justice Manual — the DOJ’s rulebook for its lawyers — states that “the rule of law depends on the evenhanded administration of justice”; that the Department’s legal decisions “must be impartial and insulated from political influence”; and that the Department’s prosecutorial powers, in particular, must be “exercised free from partisan consideration.”

All DOJ lawyers are well-versed in these rules, regulations, and constitutional commands. They stand for the proposition that political interference in the conduct of a criminal prosecution is anathema to the Department’s core mission and to its sacred obligation to ensure equal justice under the law.

And yet, President Trump and Attorney General Barr have openly and repeatedly flouted this fundamental principle, most recently in connection with the sentencing of President Trump’s close associate, Roger Stone, who was convicted of serious crimes. The Department has a long-standing practice in which political appointees set broad policies that line prosecutors apply to individual cases. That practice exists to animate the constitutional principles regarding the even-handed application of the law. Although there are times when political leadership appropriately weighs in on individual prosecutions, it is unheard of for the Department’s top leaders to overrule line prosecutors, who are following established policies, in order to give preferential treatment to a close associate of the President, as Attorney General Barr did in the Stone case. It is even more outrageous for the Attorney General to intervene as he did here — after the President publicly condemned the sentencing recommendation that line prosecutors had already filed in court.

Such behavior is a grave threat to the fair administration of justice. In this nation, we are all equal before the law. A person should not be given special treatment in a criminal prosecution because they are a close political ally of the President. Governments that use the enormous power of law enforcement to punish their enemies and reward their allies are not constitutional republics; they are autocracies.

We welcome Attorney General Barr’s belated acknowledgment that the DOJ’s law enforcement decisions must be independent of politics; that it is wrong for the President to interfere in specific enforcement matters, either to punish his opponents or to help his friends; and that the President’s public comments on DOJ matters have gravely damaged the Department’s credibility. But Mr. Barr’s actions in doing the President’s personal bidding unfortunately speak louder than his words. Those actions, and the damage they have done to the Department of Justice’s reputation for integrity and the rule of law, require Mr. Barr to resign. But because we have little expectation he will do so, it falls to the Department’s career officials to take appropriate action to uphold their oaths of office and defend nonpartisan, apolitical justice.

For these reasons, we support and commend the four career prosecutors who upheld their oaths and stood up for the Department’s independence by withdrawing from the Stone case and/or resigning from the Department. Our simple message to them is that we — and millions of other Americans — stand with them. And we call on every DOJ employee to follow their heroic example and be prepared to report future abuses to the Inspector General, the Office of Professional Responsibility, and Congress; to refuse to carry out directives that are inconsistent with their oaths of office; to withdraw from cases that involve such directives or other misconduct; and, if necessary, to resign and report publicly — in a manner consistent with professional ethics — to the American people the reasons for their resignation. We likewise call on the other branches of government to protect from retaliation those employees who uphold their oaths in the face of unlawful directives. The rule of law and the survival of our Republic demand nothing less.

If you are a former DOJ employee and would like to add your name below, click here. Protect Democracy will update this list daily with new signatories.

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Graham has said he plans to call former FBI Director James Comey, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, former Deputy Attorney General Sally Yates and former FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe to testify as part of his investigation.

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Op zondag 16 februari 2020 18:04 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Het andere holmaatje van POTUS Lindsey Graham wil ook best nog wat onderzoeken dunnetjes overdoen

Graham requests interviews with DOJ, FBI officials as part of probe into Russia investigation
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Op zondag 16 februari 2020 07:40 schreef Hanca het volgende:

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Absoluut wel, je leeft dan op geld dat van je kinderen en kleinkinderen is. En dat in economisch goede tijden.

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Op zondag 16 februari 2020 18:04 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Het andere holmaatje van POTUS Lindsey Graham wil ook best nog wat onderzoeken dunnetjes overdoen

Graham requests interviews with DOJ, FBI officials as part of probe into Russia investigation
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LindseyGrahamSC twitterde op donderdag 13-02-2020 om 22:45:35 President Trump, in selecting Bill Barr to be Attorney General, has done a great service to the people serving in @TheJusticeDept and our nation as a whole. reageer retweet

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thehill twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 15:01:00 President Trump: "[The Mexican border is] not known for cold weather. It's known for quite hot weather. You don't have too much snow in this area, right?... If you had any, that would be called climate change, I think, right? When they do that, I'm there, I'm a believer." https://t.co/5o6MNzVGIb reageer retweet

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lisamurkowski twitterde op woensdag 12-02-2020 om 19:10:52 Thank you to @USDOT & @SecElaineChao for allocating a $20M Port Infrastructure Development Program grant to the Port of Alaska to help offset the 1st phase costs of the Port’s desperately-needed modernization program, enabling safe, cost-effective, & reliable Port operations. reageer retweet

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KellyO twitterde op zondag 16-02-2020 om 19:34:47 The presidential limo known as “The Beast” making its debut at Daytona 500 today. The president looking for NASCAR fans support in his re-election bid. https://t.co/A17i8wF03C reageer retweet

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Op zondag 16 februari 2020 21:34 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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KellyO twitterde op zondag 16-02-2020 om 19:34:47 The presidential limo known as “The Beast” making its debut at Daytona 500 today. The president looking for NASCAR fans support in his re-election bid. https://t.co/A17i8wF03C reageer retweet

Het is duidelijk te zien aan welke kant Trump zit.

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Op zondag 16 februari 2020 21:40 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Hij kiest duidelijk voor links.

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The judge handling the criminal case that set off a white-hot, national political controversy last week — the prosecution of President Donald Trump's longtime adviser Roger Stone — has ordered both sides to take part in a telephone hearing Tuesday to discuss the status of the case.

U.S. District Court Judge Amy Berman Jackson issued the unusual Sunday order after the entire four-person prosecution team withdrew from the case following Attorney General Bill Barr's intervention to rescind their recommendation of a seven-to-nine year sentence for Stone.

The move set off a furor inside and outside the Justice Department, with Barr facing accusations he was politicizing the department by seeking to favor Trump's friends. Barr later publicly rebuked Trump for tweeting about ongoing criminal cases.

Defense attorneys for Stone also filed a second motion for a new trial last week, after Jackson rejected one such motion filed last year.

Stone is currently set to be sentenced Thursday morning in Washington on the seven felony counts that a jury convicted him on last November, relating to efforts to impede congressional and FBI investigations into connections between the Trump campaign and Russia.

It's unclear whether the judge will decide to proceed with the sentencing as scheduled, given the latest motion for a new trial and questions about how easily prosecutors will be able to respond to it with those most familiar with the case having formally stepped back from it and, in one instance, quit his job altogether.

Some former Justice Department prosecutors are urging Jackson to inquire into the abrupt withdrawal of the trial team last week and the reversal in the government's position, but she has not yet signaled any plans to do that.

As recently as Friday, the judge seemed intent on moving toward sentencing, issuing an order requiring the government to respond to the latest new trial motion — which remains under seal — by midnight Tuesday.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zondag 16-02-2020 om 23:00:11 'Glitch' in GOP tax law comes back to bite Trump megadonors.Some Las Vegas casino magnates are asking Congress to fix an apparent flub in the tax law. Lawmakers are telling them to bargain with their workers first. https://t.co/LEMH2SkKoY reageer retweet

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gtconway3d twitterde op zondag 16-02-2020 om 17:11:01 And the one known case in which the AG intervenes to seek a lower-than-guidelines sentence just happens to be one against someone who not only is a longtime confidant of the president, but also is someone who could give testimony against the president. reageer retweet

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evanasmith twitterde op vrijdag 14-02-2020 om 07:02:22 NEW University of Texas/@texastribune poll: 52% of Texans would definitely not or probably not vote to re-elect @POTUS @realdonaldtrumphttps://t.co/jnAVnHHIX1#tx2020 https://t.co/BnyxpcGi2T reageer retweet

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Op zondag 16 februari 2020 21:40 schreef Chivaz het volgende:

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Hij kiest duidelijk voor links.

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Op maandag 17 februari 2020 00:25 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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evanasmith twitterde op vrijdag 14-02-2020 om 07:02:22 NEW University of Texas/@:texastribune poll: 52% of Texans would definitely not or probably not vote to re-elect @:POTUS @:realdonaldtrumphttps://t.co/jnAVnHHIX1#tx2020 https://t.co/BnyxpcGi2T reageer retweet

Whoa

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Op maandag 17 februari 2020 01:43 schreef Nober het volgende:

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Trump kan zijn spullen in gaan pakken.

Meer bewijs:
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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 17-02-2020 om 00:50:24 An Alabama lawmaker has authored a bill that would require each man to undergo a vasectomy at age 50 or "after the birth of his third biological child, whichever comes first."Under Rep. Rolanda Hollis' proposal, men would have to pay for the procedure. https://t.co/4m3g36isUv reageer retweet

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Op maandag 17 februari 2020 06:14 schreef Ulx het volgende:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op maandag 17-02-2020 om 00:50:24 An Alabama lawmaker has authored a bill that would require each man to undergo a vasectomy at age 50 or "after the birth of his third biological child, whichever comes first."Under Rep. Rolanda Hollis' proposal, men would have to pay for the procedure. https://t.co/4m3g36isUv reageer retweet

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