[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #760 Amash: Let's do this

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tribelaw twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 17:44:40 How Barr might do Trump’s personal bidding by turning the awesome power of DOJ against candidate Biden. That it’d be a gross abuse of power wouldn’t deter him a bit.
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Op dinsdag 28 april 2020 00:02 schreef Sjemmert het volgende:

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Flynn krijgt een complete and total exoneration binnenkort. Weer een deel van de Russia hoax ontkracht.

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jgeltzer twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 17:29:56 THREAD

Reports like this 👇 suggesting a Flynn pardon may be imminent should set off alarms.

The notion that there’s “stunning” new evidence of a “set up” is getting peddled as the basis for a pardon.

But it’s not credible. Here’s why. /1 https://t.co/dRAxae14nj reageer retweet

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Lawyers for retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn said they were given “stunning” evidence from a Justice Department review of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s handling of the onetime Trump adviser’s case, but it may not be the total exoneration some anticipate, according to sources familiar with the case.

Some commentators in recent days have been buzzing about documents under protective order in the review of Flynn’s prosecution which they maintain may, if unsealed, be a big step toward clearing the former national security adviser to President Donald Trump, whose criminal case stemming from the Russia probe remains in limbo more than three years after he resigned from the White House.

But while his defense lawyers said in a court filing Friday that the not yet publicly released evidence will help show that their client was “set up and framed” by the FBI, they have not shared any specifics.

"We look forward to the current production being unsealed and more documents produced -- hopefully today,” Flynn attorney Sidney Powell told ABC News Monday. “Our supplement filed Friday reiterates the relief we seek in the interest of justice and as a matter of law.”

Other sources close to Flynn and familiar with the government's production told ABC News the significance of the mystery files is being over-hyped.

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 22:00:01 Defense Secretary Mark Esper is directing Pentagon budget planners to defer $545 million worth of construction projects — many in Europe meant to counter Russian aggression— to pay for Trump's border wall. https://t.co/YauBNR9sz0 reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 22:30:06 Trump appointees manipulated the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's payday lending research, an ex-staffer claims.

A former CFPB economist accused Trump appointees of steering the bureau's reversal on payday lending rules to gut a key provision. https://t.co/7qU1W3LpC7 reageer retweet

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Last summer, on his final day of work at the nation’s consumer finance watchdog agency, a career economist sent colleagues a blunt memo.

He claimed that President Trump’s appointees at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau had manipulated the agency’s research process to justify altering a 2017 rule that would have sharply curtailed high-interest payday loans.

The departing staff member, Jonathan Lanning, detailed several maneuvers by his agency’s political overseers that he considered legally risky and scientifically indefensible, including pressuring staff economists to water down their findings on payday loans and use statistical gimmicks to downplay the harm consumers would suffer if the payday restrictions were repealed. A copy of the memo was obtained by The New York Times from a current bureau employee.

Political appointees at the bureau, led by its director, Kathleen Kraninger, have pressed forward with the Trump administration’s deregulatory drive despite the logistical hurdles posed by the coronavirus pandemic. This week, the agency is expected to release the revised payday rule, which will no longer require lenders to assess whether customers can afford their fees before offering a loan.

Payday lending has been a signal battle of the Trump administration’s efforts to dismantle regulations. The consumer bureau’s original rule, an Obama-era initiative finalized in late 2017, was poised to be the first national regulation of payday loans. Democrats in Congress have pressed Ms. Kraninger for details about its proposed revision, with mixed success.

“They’re moving quickly to establish this rule because they think they can take advantage of the time we don’t have to focus on them right now,” said Representative Maxine Waters, a California Democrat who heads the House Financial Services Committee.

The Trump administration “has demonstrated that they are not committed to the mission of the C.F.P.B.,” said Ms. Waters, who urged the bureau to delay issuing the new rule until the pandemic abated. The agency has been working on the revision for more than a year.

Mr. Lanning’s 14-page memo provides an unusually detailed glimpse into the Trump administration’s campaign against the so-called administrative state, where obscure officials labor over small tweaks to fine print that can reshape industries.

Mr. Lanning, who worked at the consumer bureau for seven years, left in August for a position at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago.

He said in an email that the memo’s intent was to inform new members of the payday research team about the “history and process” behind the rule revision. He declined to discuss its contents.

Jonathan Lanning’s C.F.P.B. Memo About ‘Process Concerns’

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SethAbramson twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 07:42:21 *MAJOR BREAKING NEWS*: Bombshell Roger Stone Document Release Confirms the Israeli Government Collusion With the 2016 Trump Campaign Described in Detail in Proof of Conspiracy; Netanyahu Intermediary Sought to Use Intelligence to Deliver Election for Trump https://t.co/QndW6mnmrL reageer retweet

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 23:25:38 NBC News: More than 60,000 people in the United States have now died from the coronavirus. reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 29 april 2020 17:41 schreef Monolith het volgende:
De oversterfte in de zwaarst getroffen staten lijkt overigens nog een stuk hoger dan het aantal gerapporteerde gevallen:
https://www.nytimes.com/i(...)eath-toll-total.html

Aardig leesvoer voor de mensen die meegingen in de Republikeinse frame dat het sterftecijfer maar werd overdreven.

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Op woensdag 29 april 2020 23:46 schreef Ruse het volgende:

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het gaat echt snel richting de 200.000 zo, zou me niet verbazen als het al met al zelfs meer worden

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Op woensdag 29 april 2020 23:54 schreef SnertMetChoco het volgende:

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Sinds begin april is het officiële dodental steeds tussen de 1000 en 3000 doden per dag, waar er een kleine daling lijkt te zijn. 200000 kun je lang op wachten. Misschien wel als je kijkt naar de oversterfte?!

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JoeNBC twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 21:49:14 Another Day, Another Trump Lie About Testing:

TRUMP: We will get to 5 million tests per day soon.

TRUMP’S HEAD OF TESTING: “There is absolutely no way on Earth, on this planet or any other planet, that we can do five million tests a day.” https://t.co/EfVPf1Cxfv reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 30 april 2020 00:09 schreef DonDruiper het volgende:
Kushner: "Trump's handling of the Corona crisis is a great succes story"

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atrupar twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 17:32:22 Jared Kushner, as the US coronavirus death toll surpasses the Vietnam War and approaches 60,000: "This is a great success story, and I think that's really what needs to be told." https://t.co/ax6ok3cYCV reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 18:59:39 Asked what he can do to help states with liability concerns as businesses reopen, Trump quickly changes the topic to talking about how he's working with meat processing plants. As always he's completely unable to discuss policy in any detail. https://t.co/X8aXjqnqLS reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 22:23:48 "We had old-fashioned tests that didn't work ... they were broken" -- this is complete nonsense from Trump. The novel coronavirus didn't exist until late 2019, so there were no tests for him to inherit. https://t.co/Mai4MaCYej reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 22:48:09 "You shouldn't be hearing about testing, but that's the last thing [the media] can complain about I guess ... I don't know that all that [testing] is even necessary" -- Trump downplays importance of testing, which he suggests is a luxury (experts say more testing is necessary) https://t.co/2eMSedp4aR reageer retweet

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thefix twitterde op woensdag 29-04-2020 om 22:41:34 Over the past two months, President Trump has shifted his public assurances about coronavirus testing no fewer than six times.

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Florida officials have reportedly withheld medical examiners’ data on coronavirus deaths in the state for over a week, with the policy changing shortly after the Tampa Bay Times reported that the medical examiners were counting 10 percent more deaths than the state.

Stephen Nelson, the chairman of the state Medical Examiners Commission, told the Tampa Bay Times that the state health department intervened and told him it planned to remove causes of death and case descriptions from mortality data.

Nelson told the newspaper the data is meaningless without that information, and the entirety of the list should be considered public information.

“This is no different than any other public record we deal with,” he said. “It’s paid for by taxpayer dollars and the taxpayers have a right to know.”

Alberto Moscoso, a spokesman for the state health department, told the Times that the department “participated in conference calls” with the state Department of Law Enforcement, which provides administrative support to the Medical Examiners Commission, saying the discussions pertained to “privacy concerns for the individuals that passed away related to COVID-19.”

He said the state did not provide a formal legal opinion during the calls.

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Op donderdag 30 april 2020 06:37 schreef DonDruiper het volgende:

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realDonaldTrump twitterde op donderdag 30-04-2020 om 06:23:59 I must admit that Lyin’ Brian Williams is, while dumber than hell, quite a bit smarter than Fake News @:CNN “anchorman” Don Lemon, the “dumbest man on television”. Then you have Psycho Joe “What Ever Happened To Your Girlfriend?” Scarborough, another of the low I.Q. individuals! reageer retweet

Dames en heren.

Het is 00:30 in het Witte Huis, een voetbalstadion vol met mensen overleden. Ruim een miljoen geïnfecteerden. 27 miljoen werklozen, rijen voor de voedselbank, te weinig testen, economie ingestort etc, en dit is waar The President of the United States, leider van de vrije wereld zich druk om maakt.

Bij het typen van het bericht heeft Donald nog even de tijd gehad om te twijfelen of dit wel zo'n goed idee is, maar toch drukte hij op het verzendknopje om deze scheet de wereld in te sturen.

En zijn achterban vindt het fantastisch

Amerika is het lachertje van de wereld geworden. Een land waar eigenlijk de hele wereld medelijden mee heeft.

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Irish Times columnist Fintan O’Toole tells Lawrence O’Donnell that people in Ireland are “genuinely feeling pity for the U.S.” because Trump’s mixed messaging and lack of leadership has made the U.S. the epicenter of the pandemic: “I don’t think we’ve ever seen… a leader who has been active spreading a deadly virus, which is really what Trump has been doing.”