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

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2020 22:13 schreef theunderdog het volgende:

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Ik lees er nu ook over. Het is mij alleen niet erg duidelijk wat dat met de crisis te maken heeft. En dat verband legt Warren hier wel.

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2020 22:19 schreef kipknots het volgende:

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Nee, Bloomberg legde dat verband in het verleden, Warren gaat er tegenin.

https://www.nytimes.com/2(...)mberg-redlining.html

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2020 22:15 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Wanneer knapt er een bloedvaatje?
https://twitter.com/theplumlinegs/status/1228289494467665920

Intro: “ You have to read this startling account of Trump raging uncontrollably over the failure of the Justice Department to prosecute numerous of his political enemies.

This is the raging of an utterly unhinged, would-be despot.”

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rgoodlaw twitterde op vrijdag 14-02-2020 om 13:33:27 "The president has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case."- Bill Barr in ABC interview. Washington Post report details criminal cases Trump's been raging about internally, including "Trump has become more insistent Durham finish his work soon." Insistent with whom? https://t.co/cazYUVam16 reageer retweet

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JoyceWhiteVance twitterde op vrijdag 14-02-2020 om 20:11:47 So, did Bill Barr just wake up one morning & decide to open an investigation into the statement agents took from General Flynn, or did someone *suggest* that he do so? reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2020 20:54 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:

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Mwah dit heeft te maken met McCabe zijn autorisatie aan 2 FBI officials om informatie te lekken aan de media omtrent de zaak van Clinton. Waar hij onder ede over heeft gelogen maar nu dus om onduidelijke redenen toch mee weg komt.

Het Durham onderzoek staat hier geheel los van.

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2020 23:19 schreef speknek het volgende:
Trump is een narcist en zoals de waard is vertrouwt hij zijn gasten. Alles wat hij zegt over zichzelf is hoe hij echt over zichzelf denkt, en alles wat hij zegt over anderen is hoe hij zichzelf projecteert op anderen. Dat is de limiet van zijn cognitieve vermogens.

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2020 23:23 schreef theunderdog het volgende:

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Jij gaat de komende aantal jaren niet meer naar de VS, he?

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Poll: Majority says Biden son’s Ukraine job was inappropriate

A majority of voters believe it was inappropriate for Joe Biden’s son to work for a Ukrainian gas company while his father led U.S. foreign policy initiatives in the country, according to a POLITICO/Morning Consult poll.

The Biden-Ukraine affair ultimately led to President Donald Trump’s impeachment for pressuring Ukraine to investigate the Bidens. Voters were split 47-47 percent on whether it was appropriate for the Senate last week to acquit Trump, the poll shows.

In contrast, 52 percent of voters believe it was inappropriate for Biden’s son, Hunter Biden, to take the job with the firm Burisma, while 18 percent said it was appropriate. Fifty-seven percent said it was a scandal while 19 percent said it wasn’t.

Still, a plurality of 40 percent said the Biden-Ukraine affair wouldn’t make any difference in their vote, while 31 percent said it made them less likely to support him and 8 percent said more likely.

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The poll shows 54 percent of voters see some type of conflict of interest, and only 16 percent said there wasn’t one. But voters were divided about how serious it was, with 35 percent saying it’s a conflict of interest that should have been investigated and 19 percent saying it’s a conflict of interest that’s not serious enough to warrant an investigation.

Much of the support for an investigation comes from Republicans, 63 percent of whom say a probe is warranted, compared with 11 percent of Democrats and 32 percent of independents. Thirty-one percent of Democrats say there was no conflict of interest compared with 11 percent of independents and 4 percent of Republicans.

Independent voters, whose support can be crucial in a general election, were far more likely than Democrats to view Hunter Biden’s business dealings as inappropriate, 54 percent to12 percent. And by 57 percent to 15 percent, independents said it was a scandal, with 28 percent calling it a “major” scandal and 27 percent a “minor” scandal.

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“Where’s Hunter?” is a favorite refrain of the president, whose campaign sells T-shirts printed with the slogan.

Biden suggested Thursday that he wanted to beat up Trump.

“I would like to be able to be back in high school and just have he and I in a room,” Biden said.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 00:12 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:
Impeachment backfired voor Biden
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https://www.politico.com/(...)-poll-ukraine-115096

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2020 23:22 schreef Refragmental het volgende:

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Liegen onder ede is blijkbaar toch niet strafbaar. Andere reden kan ik niet bedenken.

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Mr. McCabe’s lawyers have vigorously denied that he intentionally lied to Mr. Horowitz’s investigators. In a bid to convince law enforcement officials that they had no case, Mr. McCabe’s lawyers met in August with the deputy attorney general, Jeffrey A. Rosen, and the former United States attorney for the District of Columbia, Jessie K. Liu, whose prosecutors handled the case.

In September, the grand jury was recalled after going months without meeting but left the courthouse without revealing any signs of an impending indictment. The next day, Justice Department officials told Mr. McCabe’s lawyers that they had rejected the last-ditch appeal to not charge him.

Hints of the case’s weakness had emerged. One prosecutor assigned to the case recently left, an unusual step so close to a potential indictment. Another departed for a private law firm and has expressed reservations about how the case was handled.

A key witness testified that Mr. McCabe had no motive to lie because he was authorized as the F.B.I.’s deputy director to speak to the news media, so he would not have had to hide any discussions with reporters. Another important witness testified he could not immediately remember how the leak unfolded. Both would have been crucial to any prosecution.

Additionally, people who are charged with lying to the F.B.I. are typically accused of committing the offense in the course of a criminal investigation, not an administrative inquiry. For example, Mr. Horowitz determined last year that a senior Justice Department official committed wrongdoing by viewing pornography on his work computers and then providing false statements to investigators, but prosecutors declined to bring charges.

Mr. McCabe’s lawyers made the case to Mr. Rosen that other former officials were not prosecuted after they were caught lying to the inspector general’s investigators.

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The Justice Department's decision came the same day it was required by a judge to make details about the McCabe investigation public in a case stemming from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit brought by Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington.

The court transcripts, released after the Justice Department's letter to McCabe's lawyers, show prosecutors struggling with how to proceed in his case, and the judge in the matter expressing concerns about political pressure.

In one of the newly released transcripts, from a hearing in July, Cooney, who heads the Washington U.S. Attorney's Office fraud unit, told the judge they expected to make a decision on whether to charge McCabe within 60 days.

When they returned to court in early September, Cooney told Judge Reggie Walton, a George W. Bush appointee, that no decision had been made, but they expected to have one within days.

At the next hearing, on Sept. 30, Cooney said "That prediction was obviously incorrect."

The judge asked why it was taking so long.

"I don't know why it's so difficult for a decision to be made," Walton said. "Either you have a case or you don't."

Cooney told the judge "this is an exceedingly difficult matter and situation" and that he needed another three months.

"I don't get it," the judge said, telling Cooney he needed to make a decision in the CREW lawsuit and that "it seems to me from the standpoint of Mr. McCabe, he has a right to have the government make a decision and not hold his life in limbo pending a decision as to what's going to happen."

'It's a banana republic'

Walton added, "I understand there are political implications and other implications involved in reference to whether you go forward. And I fully appreciate the complexity of the assessment, especially -- unfortunately, to be candid -- in light of the way by the White House, which I don't think top executive officers should be doing. Because it does, I think, really complicate your ability to get a fair adjudication from the government's prospective.

"Because the public is listening to what's going on, and I don't think people like the fact that you got somebody at the top basically trying to dictate whether somebody should be prosecuted," Walton said. "I just think it's a banana republic when we go down that road, and we have those type of statements being made that are conceivably, even if not, influencing the ultimate decision. I think there are a lot of people on the outside who perceive that there is undue inappropriate pressure being brought to bear."

"It's very disturbing that we're in the mess that we're in in that regard," Walton added later. "Because I think having been a part of the prosecution for a long time and respecting the role that prosecutors play in the system. I just think the integrity of the process is being unduly undermined by inappropriate comments and actions on the part of people at the top of our government. I think it's very unfortunate. And I think as a government and as a society, we're going to pay a price at some point for this."

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Bron

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 00:12 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:
Impeachment backfired voor Biden
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https://www.politico.com/(...)-poll-ukraine-115096

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 00:35:01 Breaking via WaPo: As the impeachment trial drew to a close, federal prosecutors in New York contacted witnesses and sought to collect additional documents in an investigation related to Rudy Giuliani, according to people familiar with their activities. https://t.co/oWS63tFLLk reageer retweet

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As the Senate impeachment trial of President Trump drew to a close in Washington earlier this month, federal prosecutors in New York contacted witnesses and sought to collect additional documents in an investigation related to Trump’s personal attorney Rudolph W. Giuliani, according to people familiar with their activities.

The recent steps — including an interview with a witness last week — indicate that the probe involving Giuliani and two of his former associates is moving forward, even as the Justice Department has set up a process to evaluate claims Giuliani is making about alleged wrongdoing in Ukraine related to former vice president Joe Biden.

Attorney General William P. Barr said this week that the department had established an “intake process” to accept information about Biden gathered by the president’s personal attorney. Officials confirmed Giuliani’s tips are being routed to the U.S. attorney’s office in Pittsburgh.

At the same time, the U.S. attorney’s office in the Southern District of New York — which Giuliani led in the 1980s — appears to be continuing its wide-ranging investigation of his activities and those of his former associates Lev Parnas and Igor Fruman, including their efforts in Ukraine.

Prosecutors from that office recently sought information related to the former U.S. ambassador in Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, who the three men pushed Trump to oust, according to a person familiar with the request who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the ongoing investigation. They have also inquired about two companies with ties to Parnas, who along with Fruman was charged in October with campaign finance violations, according to people with knowledge of the queries.

The parallel developments mean that one part of the Justice Department is scrutinizing Giuliani while another is accepting information from him allegedly concerning a political rival of the president.

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2020 23:49 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Geen idee. Mijn paper voor de conferentie in Hawaii van April was helaas gereject, en er komt weer een baby aan, dus waarschijnlijk niet. Maar als het voor werk zo uitkomt komt het zo uit.

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2020 22:13 schreef theunderdog het volgende:

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Ik lees er nu ook over. Het is mij alleen niet erg duidelijk wat dat met de crisis te maken heeft. En dat verband legt Warren hier wel.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op zaterdag 15-02-2020 om 03:15:56 Mike Pompeo met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference. The US side apparently wanted to keep it under wraps.The State Dept. made no announcement of the meeting. Pompeo's aides did not provide a readout. https://t.co/OvdbOvw6Iy reageer retweet

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U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov on the sidelines of the Munich Security Conference on Friday in an encounter the American side apparently wanted to keep under wraps.

The State Department made no announcement of the meeting, which took place in Lavrov's own dedicated meeting room at the Hotel Bayerischer Hof, where the major annual conference of politicians, policymakers and security experts is held. Pompeo's aides also did not provide any readout after the meeting ended.

Russian journalists traveling with Lavrov were aware of the meeting in advance, and wrote about it afterward.

Lavrov's spokeswoman, Maria Zakharova, confirmed the meeting in a Facebook post, which included a photo of Pompeo in a hallway of the hotel, and Lavrov standing in a doorway a few steps behind him.

In the post, Zakharova wrote that Pompeo had said "good luck" to those gathered in the hallway, and cheekily added that those who heard it "gasped."

"There are few to whom Americans now wish something good," she wrote.

Asked about the meeting by POLITICO, a State Department official confirmed that there had been a "pull aside" with Lavrov but gave no further details. The official denied that the State Department asked Russia not to publicize the meeting and said it did not normally issue readouts of "pull asides."

There was no mention of the meeting in a briefing by a senior administration official about U.S. efforts at the security conference. The official said Pompeo met with Masrour Barzani, prime minister of the Kurdistan region of Iraq, and that U.S. officials met with Israeli counterparts as well as with a senior EU foreign affairs official, Helga Schmid.

It was not immediately clear why the State Department did not disclose the meeting between Pompeo and his Russian counterpart in advance.

The secretary of state has had some tense interactions with journalists recently, including an outburst at a National Public Radio reporter, Mary Louise Kelly, after Pompeo became angry at being asked questions about Ukraine in an interview. After that outburst, the State Department barred another NPR reporter from traveling on Pompeo's plane.

A Russian journalist traveling with Lavrov said the U.S. side had requested that there be no press conference or joint statements and that photographers not even be invited to take a picture of the two top diplomats shaking hands.

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op vrijdag 14-02-2020 om 14:33:56 “The President has never asked me to do anything in a criminal case.” A.G. Barr This doesn’t mean that I do not have, as President, the legal right to do so, I do, but I have so far chosen not to! reageer retweet

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Op vrijdag 14 februari 2020 23:49 schreef speknek het volgende:

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Geen idee. Mijn paper voor de conferentie in Hawaii van April was helaas gereject, en er komt weer een baby aan, dus waarschijnlijk niet. Maar als het voor werk zo uitkomt komt het zo uit.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 01:56 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Het verband zijn de uitspraken van Bloomberg dat de zwarten amerikanen schuldig waren aand ie crisis, omdat zij eindelijk huizen konden kopen die ze eigenlijk niet konden betalen, doordat banken meer geld leenden dan ze redelijk terug konden verwachten.

Warren gaat daar tegen in, omdat het argument dat het door de afro amerikanen komt een non argument is. Het is de schuld van de banken die ongereguleerd geld konden lenen.

Terwijl de Afro Amerikaanse bevolking minder kansen had om een huis te kopen door de eeuwen heen, waardoor er meerdere wetten zijn gemaakt omdat tegen te gaan. Zoals de Fair Housing act in 1968, die er doelbewust kwam omdat racisme op de woningmarkt een ding was.

De makelijkste manier om rijkdom te vergaren is vastgoed, want op een gegeven moment geef je dat door aan je kinderen. De afro amerikaanse bevolking is die zelfde kans voor honderede jaren onthouden, het moment dat de banken dus besloten om hen geld te lenen tegen slechte regelingen, is niet de afro amerikanen aan te rekenen maar de banken.

Bloomberg heeft die banking crisis neer gegooid op de afro amerikanen en niet de banken, daar gaat warren tegen in.

Dat is allemaal algemene kennis. Of je bent een dome lul die zich niet verdiept in het onderwerp en hebt er een mening over. Het is allemaal niet zo lang geleden. De VS was diep racistisch tot kort geleden, en is het nog steeds. Minder dan 1 a 2 generaties geleden, wat ook maar 30 jaar ofzo is.

Dit alles met 5 minuten google en algemene kennis.

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 08:37 schreef theunderdog het volgende:

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Over een paar jaar weten ze exact wat je op het internet allemaal zegt

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Op zaterdag 15 februari 2020 08:42 schreef mcmlxiv het volgende:

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En dat vindt jij en je mede trumpanzees een uitstekend idee toch?