[AMV] Amerikaanse politiek #785 Lies

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Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book

President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral prospects, according to a damning new account of life inside the Trump administration by former national security adviser John Bolton.

During a one-on-one meeting at the June 2019 Group of 20 summit in Japan, Xi complained to Trump about China critics in the United States. But Bolton writes in a book scheduled to be released next week that “Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats.

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Trump asked China’s Xi to help him win reelection, according to Bolton book
President Trump asked Chinese President Xi Jinping to help him win the 2020 U.S. election, telling Xi during a summit dinner last year that increased agricultural purchases by Beijing from American farmers would aid his electoral prospects, according to a damning new account of life inside the Trump administration by former national security adviser John Bolton.

During a one-on-one meeting at the June 2019 Group of 20 summit in Japan, Xi complained to Trump about China critics in the United States. But Bolton writes in a book scheduled to be released next week that “Trump immediately assumed Xi meant the Democrats. Trump said approvingly that there was great hostility among the Democrats.

“He then, stunningly, turned the conversation to the coming U.S. presidential election, alluding to China’s economic capability to affect the ongoing campaigns, pleading with Xi to ensure he’d win,” Bolton writes. “He stressed the importance of farmers, and increased Chinese purchases of soybeans and wheat in the electoral outcome. I would print Trump’s exact words but the government’s prepublication review process has decided otherwise.”

The episode described by Bolton in his book, “The Room Where It Happened: A White House Memoir,” bears striking similarities to the actions that resulted in Trump’s impeachment after he sought to pressure the Ukrainian president to help dig up dirt on Democratic rival Joe Biden in exchange for military assistance. The China allegation also comes amid ongoing warnings from U.S. intelligence agencies about foreign election interference in November, as Russia did to favor Trump in 2016.

Bolton’s 592-page memoir, obtained by The Washington Post, is the most substantive, critical dissection of the president from an administration insider so far, coming from a conservative who has worked in Republican administrations for decades and is a longtime contributor to Fox News. It portrays Trump as an “erratic” and “stunningly uninformed” commander in chief, and lays out a long series of jarring and troubling encounters between the president, his top advisers and foreign leaders.

The book is the subject of an escalating legal battle between the longtime conservative foreign policy hand and the Justice Department, which filed a lawsuit Tuesday seeking to block its publication by alleging that it contains classified material. Bolton’s attorney has said the book does not contain classified material and that it underwent an arduous review process.

Bolton describes the book as being based on both contemporaneous accounts and his own notes, and it includes numerous details of internal meetings and direct quotations attributed to Trump and others. Trump allies have already begun launching attacks on Bolton and his motives, including describing him as “Book Deal Bolton.”

The request for electoral assistance from Xi is just one of many instances described by Bolton in which Trump seeks favors or approval from authoritarian leaders. Many of those same leaders were also happy to take advantage of the U.S. president and attempt to manipulate him, Bolton writes, often through simplistic appeals to his various obsessions.

In one May 2019 phone call, for example, Russian President Vladimir Putin compared Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó to 2016 Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton, part of what Bolton terms a “brilliant display of Soviet style proganda” to shore up support for Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro. Putin’s claims, Bolton writes, “largely persuaded Trump.”

In May 2018, Bolton says, Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan handed Trump a memo claiming innocence for a Turkish firm under investigation by the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York for violating Iranian sanctions.

“Trump then told Erdogan he would take care of things, explaining that the Southern District prosecutors were not his people, but were Obama people, a problem that would be fixed when they were replaced by his people,” Bolton writes.

Bolton says he was so alarmed by Trump’s determination to do favors for autocrats such as Erdogan and Xi that he scheduled a meeting with Attorney General William P. Barr in 2019 to discuss his behavior. Bolton writes that Barr agreed he also was worried about the appearances created by the president’s behavior.

In his account, Bolton broadly confirms the outline of the impeachment case laid out by Democratic lawmakers and witnesses in House proceedings earlier this year, writing that Trump was fixated on a bogus claim that Ukraine tried to hurt him and was in thrall to unfounded conspiracy theories pushed by presidential lawyer Rudolph W. Giuliani and others.

Trump was impeached in January by the Democratic-controlled House of abuse of power and obstruction of Congress, before being acquitted by the GOP-controlled Senate the next month. Bolton resisted Democratic calls to testify without a subpoena.

Bolton is silent on the question of whether he believes that Trump’s actions Ukraine were impeachable and is deeply critical of how House Democrats managed the process. But he writes that he found Trump’s decision to hold up military assistance to pressure newly elected Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky “deeply disturbing,” and that he tried to work internally to counter it, reporting concerns to Barr and the White House Counsel’s Office.

“I thought the whole affair was bad policy, questionable legally and unacceptable as presidential behavior,” he writes.

In the memoir, Bolton describes the president's advisers as frequently flummoxed by Trump and said a range of officials — including Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and Bolton himself — all considered resigning in disgust or frustration. Even some of the president’s most loyal advisers hold a grim view of him in private, he writes.

“What if we have a real crisis like 9/11 with the way he makes decisions?” Kelly is quoted as asking at one point as he considers resigning.

“He second-guessed people’s motives, saw conspiracies behind rocks, and remained stunningly uninformed on how to run the White House, let alone the huge federal government,” Bolton writes, always looking to “personal instinct” and opportunities for “reality TV showmanship.”

Given Bolton’s expertise and his White House role from 2018 to 2019, the book is heavily focused on a range of foreign policy episodes and decisions, from Ukraine and Venezuela to North Korea and Iran.

Bolton recounts numerous private conversations Trump had with other leaders that revealed the limits of his knowledge. He recalls Trump asking Kelly if the nation of Finland is part of Russia. In a meeting with then-British Prime Minister Theresa May in 2018, a British official referred to the UK as a “nuclear power,” and Trump interjects: “Oh, are you a nuclear power?” Bolton adds that he could tell the question about Britain, which has long maintained a nuclear arsenal, “was not intended as a joke.”

Bolton’s commentary ranges from expressions of disgust with the president’s actions to relief that his advisers were able to prevent catastrophe. During a NATO summit in the summer of 2018, Bolton recounts a moment when Trump had decided to inform U.S. allies that the United States was going to withdraw from NATO if allies didn’t substantially increase defense spending by January.

“We will walk out, and not defend those who have not [paid],” read a message Trump dictated to Bolton.

Bolton tried to stop Trump from delivering the threat, and became even more alarmed when Trump told him, “Do you want to do something historic?”

During one trade meeting, Trump grew irate when advisers begun discussing Japan and the alliance, and began railing about Pearl Harbor, Bolton writes.

Bolton’s book is also filled with examples of Trump’s closest advisers sharply criticizing the president behind his back, including Pompeo.

After Trump completed a phone call with South Korea’s president ahead of the 2018 Singapore summit with North Korea, Pompeo and Bolton shared their disdain for the president’s handling of the conversation, he writes. Pompeo, having listened in on the call from the Middle East, told Bolton he was “having a cardiac arrest in Saudi Arabia.” Bolton shared his similar disappointment with the call, describing it as a “near death experience.”

Bolton attributes a litany of shocking statements to the president. Trump said invading Venezuela would be “cool” and that the South American nation was “really part of the United States.” Bolton says Trump kept confusing the current and former presidents of Afghanistan, while asking Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to help him strike a deal with Iran. And Trump told Xi that Americans were clamoring for him to change the constitutional rules to serve more than two terms, according to the book.

He also describes a summer 2019 meeting in New Jersey where Trump says journalists should be jailed so they have to divulge their sources: “These people should be executed. They are scumbags,” Trump said, according to Bolton's account.

Bolton describes in depth the feuding and backbiting among Trump’s cadre of advisers, as well as referring dismissively to Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner’s efforts to get involved in domestic and foreign policy issues. Almost every adviser — including Pompeo, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, former defense secretary Jim Mattis, Former Secretary Mike Pompeo and former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley — comes under the scalpel. By contrast, Bolton seems to hold himself in high regard and admits few mistakes of his own.

For Trump, Bolton writes, one singular goal loomed above all: securing a second term.

“I am hard pressed to identify any significant Trump decision during my tenure that wasn’t driven by reelection calculations,” Bolton writes.

Bolton says Trump said he wanted out of Afghanistan during his second year instead of his third year so he could blame President Obama for the war. Screaming about the border wall in a meeting with top advisers in 2018, Trump described why illegal immigration had to go down and the wall had to go up, according to Bolton’s book.

“I got elected on this issue and now I’m going to get unelected,” Trump said, startling those around him.

For all his public bluster, Bolton describes Trump as frequently uncertain, fretful and wobbly during difficult policy choices.

For instance, driven by a desire to please Florida Republicans, Trump talked tough about his desire to oust Maduro throughout much of 2018. But Bolton portrays Trump as inconsistent and worry-worn when presented with the opportunity to support Guaidó, who declared himself the nation’s president in January 2019. Though Trump approved of a proposal from Bolton to publicly declare the United States recognized Guaidó rather than Maduro, within 30 hours Trump was already worrying that Guaidó appeared weak — a “kid” compared to “tough” Maduro — and considering changing course. “You couldn’t make this up,” Bolton writes.

In describing his White House experience on Russia-related issues, Bolton presents a picture of a president who is impulsive, churlish and consistently opposed to U.S. policy designed to discourage Russian aggression and to sanction Putin’s malign behavior.

Bolton spends little effort trying to explain Trump’s sympathetic approach to Putin. But the book makes the case that there is a disturbing and undeniable pattern of presidential reluctance to embrace policies designed to inhibit Russian aggression. He describes in detail the events leading up to the widely panned Helsinki summit in July 2018, when Trump sided with Putin against U.S. intelligence agencies over Moscow’s interference in the 2016 election.

“This was hardly the way to do relations with Russia, and Putin had to be laughing uproariously at what he had gotten away with in Helsinki,” Bolton writes.

Soon after he arrived at the White House, Bolton said Kelly gave him a warning. “You can’t imagine how desperate I am to get out of here,” Kelly said, according to Bolton’s book. “This is a bad place to work, as you will find out.”

Throughout the book, he describes Trump and top advisers repeatedly slashing each other, lying to each other and outmaneuvering each other to gain advantage.

At one point, Bolton says, Trump turns to him with a familiar question: Should he replace Vice President Pence with Haley on the 2020 ticket? According to his book, the idea was floated by Kushner and his wife, Trump’s daughter Ivanka. Bolton said it would be a mistake, and Trump seemed to agree.

At another point, Bolton says he learned Kushner was going to be calling the finance minister of Turkey because he was also Erdogan’s son-in-law.

“I briefed Pompeo and Mnuchin on this new ‘son-in-law channel’ and they both exploded. Pompeo was furious, Bolton writes, “because this was one more example of Kushner’s doing international negotiations he shouldn’t have been doing (along with the never quite ready Middle East peace plan.)”

For extensive periods of time, Trump kept telling different advisers they were in charge of border policy, according to Bolton’s book. One day in 2018 in the Oval Office, Kelly purportedly learned that Kushner was calling Mexican authorities when he barged in the Oval Office and said so.

“Why is Jared calling Mexicans?” Kelly asked loudly, according to the book. “Because I asked him to. How else are we going to stop the caravans?” Trump responded.

In November 2018, Trump came under fire for writing an unfettered defense of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, littered with exclamation points, over the killing of Washington Post columnist Jamaal Khashoggi. But according to Bolton’s book, the main goal of the missive was to take away attention from a story about Ivanka Trump using her personal email for government business.

“This will divert from Ivanka,” Trump said, according to Bolton’s book. “If I read the statement in person, that will take over the Ivanka thing.”

He repeatedly describes Trump lashing out at military leaders, demanding to withdraw troops from the Middle East and all around the world — from Africa to Europe to the Middle East. “I want to get out of everything,” Trump said during a meeting at his Bedminster, N.J., golf club, according to Bolton, as military leaders pressed him to take more nuanced positions.

At another point, arguing in 2018 with Mattis, Trump told him that Russia should take care of the Islamic State terrorist group.

“We’re seven thousand miles away but we’re still the target,” Trump said, according to the account. “ They’ll come to our shores. That’s what they all say. It’s a horror show. At some point we’ve got to get out.”

Describing the conflict in Afghanistan, Trump said: “This was done by a stupid person named George Bush.”

Trump repeatedly told Mattis that he had been given a chance but had failed.

“I gave you what you asked for: Unlimited authority, no holds barred. You’re losing. You’re getting your ass kicked. You failed,” Trump says.

Determined to make friends with North Korea’s Kim Jong Un, Trump decided he wanted to give him a range of American gifts — gifts that broke the U.S. sanctions that eventually had to be waived, per Bolton’s book.

When Bolton recounts the Trump and Kim summit in Singapore, the first summit of U.S. and North Korean leaders in history, Bolton castigates Trump’s diplomatic efforts, saying the president cared little for the details of the denuclearization effort and saw it merely as a “an exercise in publicity.”

He describes it extensively — including what Kim and his advisers say, and what Trump and his advisers say in return, giving a fly-on-the-wall account of a historic event.

“Trump told … me he was prepared to sign a substance-free communique, have his press conference to declare victory and then get out of town,” Bolton wrote.

In the months following the summit, Bolton described Trump’s inordinate interest in Pompeo delivering an autographed copy of Elton John’s “Rocket Man” CD to Kim during Pompeo’s follow on visit to North Korea. Trump originally used the term “Rocket Man” to criticize the North Korean leader but subsequently tried to convince Kim that it was a term of affection.

“Trump didn’t seem to realize Pompeo hadn’t actually seen Kim Jong Un [during the trip], asking if Pompeo had handed” the CD, wrote Bolton. “Pompeo had not. Getting this CD to Kim remained a high priority for several months.”

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Bolton attributes a litany of shocking statements to the president. Trump said invading Venezuela would be “cool” and that the South American nation was “really part of the United States.” Bolton says Trump kept confusing the current and former presidents of Afghanistan, while asking Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to help him strike a deal with Iran. And Trump told Xi that Americans were clamoring for him to change the constitutional rules to serve more than two terms, according to the book.

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Op woensdag 17 juni 2020 21:13 schreef Tweek het volgende:

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Alleen dit stuk je al, man man.

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Op woensdag 17 juni 2020 21:16 schreef Montov het volgende:

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Het gedeelte over Erdogan is ook weer typerend en zorgwekkend. Hij wil graag vrienden worden met dictators omdat hij hij die macht ook wil.

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At one point, Bolton says, Trump turns to him with a familiar question: Should he replace Vice President Pence with Haley on the 2020 ticket? According to his book, the idea was floated by Kushner and his wife, Trump’s daughter Ivanka. Bolton said it would be a mistake, and Trump seemed to agree.

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Op woensdag 17 juni 2020 21:44 schreef ITs_relative het volgende:
Eigenlijk precies wat de niet-blinden al jaren zien. Nu in een mooi verslag van binnenuit door een ware republikein.
Ben benieuwd naar de verhalen over coffeeboy rino Bolton die eigenlijk een democraat is en boos over zijn ontslag.

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In November 2018, Trump came under fire for writing an unfettered defense of Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, littered with exclamation points, over the killing of Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. But according to Bolton’s book, the main goal of the missive was to take away attention from a story about Ivanka Trump using her personal email for government business.

“This will divert from Ivanka,” Trump said, according to Bolton’s book. “If I read the statement in person, that will take over the Ivanka thing.”

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Op woensdag 17 juni 2020 21:44 schreef ITs_relative het volgende:
Eigenlijk precies wat de niet-blinden al jaren zien. Nu in een mooi verslag van binnenuit door een ware republikein.
Ben benieuwd naar de verhalen over coffeeboy rino Bolton die eigenlijk een democraat is en boos over zijn ontslag.

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In the months following the summit, Bolton described Trump’s inordinate interest in Pompeo delivering an autographed copy of Elton John’s “Rocket Man” CD to Kim during Pompeo’s follow on visit to North Korea. Trump originally used the term “Rocket Man” to criticize the North Korean leader but subsequently tried to convince Kim that it was a term of affection.

“Trump didn’t seem to realize Pompeo hadn’t actually seen Kim Jong Un [during the trip], asking if Pompeo had handed” the CD, wrote Bolton. “Pompeo had not. Getting this CD to Kim remained a high priority for several months.”

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 00:00:11 "[I]n June 2019 ... Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do." https://t.co/5u3n5stqBY reageer retweet

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PhilipRucker twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 20:55:50 Bolton describes Trump saying that journalists should be jailed so they have to divulge their sources: "These people should be executed. They are scumbags," Trump said. https://t.co/xsVx99Qant reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 01:06 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Deze ook:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 00:00:11 "[I]n June 2019 ... Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do." https://t.co/5u3n5stqBY reageer retweet

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PhilipRucker twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 20:55:50 Bolton describes Trump saying that journalists should be jailed so they have to divulge their sources: "These people should be executed. They are scumbags," Trump said. https://t.co/xsVx99Qant reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 01:20 schreef Stefanovich het volgende:

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Het wordt gewoon eng 😐
Wat een seniele gek.
En die kan bij nucleaire wapens?

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 01:06 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Deze ook:

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kylegriffin1 twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 00:00:11 "[I]n June 2019 ... Xi had explained to Trump why he was basically building concentration camps in Xinjiang. According to our interpreter, Trump said that Xi should go ahead with building the camps, which Trump thought was exactly the right thing to do." https://t.co/5u3n5stqBY reageer retweet

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PhilipRucker twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 20:55:50 Bolton describes Trump saying that journalists should be jailed so they have to divulge their sources: "These people should be executed. They are scumbags," Trump said. https://t.co/xsVx99Qant reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 01:39 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Daar zullen ze geen enkele moeite mee hebben, die kampen zijn namelijk voor "tuig" en "Antifa" dus goed.

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 01:44 schreef Tijger_m het volgende:

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Nee hoor, dat is hier al vaker voorbij gekomen en dat vonden de Trump aanhangers allemaal prima.

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ddale8 twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 20:51:17 Trump at this event on suicide among veterans: "So Karen Pence has stated beautifully just a little while ago that the two words: anxiety and stress. And all I can say Mike is thank goodness we don't have any anxiety or stress in this job, with these people (media) back there." reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 21:01:43 Fox News cut away from Trump’s speech and then broadcast Biden eviscerating his coronavirus response, which can’t make Trump happy https://t.co/ex8LNdx5Ou reageer retweet

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hsu_spencer twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 01:48:33 BREAKING U.S. files motion for emergency restraining order against John Bolton. His book, per @jdawsey1 https://t.co/BLLirmBdtb https://t.co/n4zbkTUEpV reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 02:17 schreef bedachtzaam het volgende:

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hsu_spencer twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 01:48:33 BREAKING U.S. files motion for emergency restraining order against John Bolton. His book, per @:jdawsey1 https://t.co/BLLirmBdtb https://t.co/n4zbkTUEpV reageer retweet

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Susan_Hennessey twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 01:10:59 One interesting wrinkle for the government is that in order to claim elements of Bolton's book are classified, the government must admit the information in question is true. There's no such thing as a classified lie. reageer retweet

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ZekeJMiller twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 02:45:49 Simon & Schuster’s stmt: Tonight’s filing by the government is a frivolous, politically motivated exercise in futility. Hundreds of thousands of copies of John Bolton’s [book] have already been distributed...The injunction as requested by the government would accomplish nothing. reageer retweet

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gtconway3d twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 02:10:10 One thing you need to show to get temporary injunctive relief is that the relief would accomplish something. It’s hard to see the point of an injunction here, where the publisher (not even a party) has already shipped the books out and the press already has copies. https://t.co/JeIkxXi9Pa reageer retweet

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emptywheel twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 02:02:49 DOJ finally filed for a TRO against Bolton.

This DOJ is not just abusive. But also incompetent at being abuse. reageer retweet

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Acosta twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 23:23:24 First on CNN: Prominent anti-Trump group Lincoln Project out with a scathing new ad hitting Trump for being "rolled" on China (even alludes to Bolton book that accuses Trump of seeking China's help in 2020) https://t.co/QOto3rSuU6 reageer retweet

Chyna

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 02:39 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
En dat briefje heeft Bolton vast nog wel?

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Is wel 'classified' natuurlijk

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JakeSherman twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 02:48:52 A person close to @SecPompeo — who insisted on anonymity — denied the note-passing incident: "The only person full of shit is John Bolton. The secretary is not a note passer. And if he has such a note, he should put up or shut up." reageer retweet

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Op woensdag 17 juni 2020 20:09 schreef Belabor het volgende:

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Eerst zou er niemand getroffen worden door het virus in de VS, zei Trump.

Daarna zouden het misschien enkele doden zijn, maar in april vanzelf overwaaien door warmer weer zei Trump.

Daarna was het een Democratische hoax omdat er toch wel veel doden vielen, maar het zou onder de 60.000 blijven, zei Trump.

De echte bovengrens was echter 80.000 doden, en de liegende media had de cijfers verkeerd voorgesteld, want de VS was meer aan het testen dan de hele rest van de wereld bij elkaar, zei Trump.

Inmiddels dus richting de 120.000 doden.

Ik had in april voorspeld dat er door het federale wanbeleid in 2021 wel 250.000 doden gevallen zullen zijn. Ik krijg denk ik geen gelijk.

In dit tempo halen ze die 250.000 doden al voor het einde van dit jaar...

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atrupar twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 04:09:14 Trump's latest sore rubbing session with Hannity begins to wind down with Trump trying to take credit for keeping the coronavirus death toll below 3.5 million Americans https://t.co/IMWc56s3GB reageer retweet

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atrupar twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 03:38:22 Hannity's first question to Trump asked him to explain why he's done such a great job on race relations. His second question was about "dirty cops" and gave Trump a chance to rant about Comey. It's an alternative universe. https://t.co/oXLgyGrpsa reageer retweet

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anniekarni twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 23:15:11 Mark Meadows, the fourth White House chief of staff, has complained that he had no idea how fractious and unwieldy the climate was until he got there. https://t.co/T4FOzz5Upu reageer retweet

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gtconway3d twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 03:23:06 this is what happens when you watch only Fox News https://t.co/QkScRMR69E reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 02:23 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:

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Dan geven ze iig toe dat het niet allemaal leugens zijn wat erin staat

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Susan_Hennessey twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 01:10:59 One interesting wrinkle for the government is that in order to claim elements of Bolton's book are classified, the government must admit the information in question is true. There's no such thing as a classified lie. reageer retweet

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sbg1 twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 03:53:02 Hannity asks Trump about Bolton book. Suggests it is false re China but also that NSC has determined it releases classified info.

How can it be false and a classified leak at the same time? reageer retweet

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kpolantz twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 02:45:21 New from @evanperez: The White House official who concluded in April that, following edits, John Bolton’s manuscript didn’t contain classified information is lawyering up. reageer retweet

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kpolantz twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 02:47:18 That's Ellen Knight. Her lawyer still unnamed.
Knight, the National Security Council official in charge of pre-publication reviews, is cited in DOJ's lawsuit seeking to stop publication of Bolton’s book, and she could have a key role in the escalating court fight. reageer retweet

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gregpmiller twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 03:36:07 NEW: Alexander Vindman’s promotion to colonel has been held up for months amid worries that White House will block promotion in retaliation for his impeachment testimony. https://t.co/vqvgf2U0SF reageer retweet

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dnvolz twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 03:38:15 Interesting. In government’s filing re: Bolton book, NSA Director Nakasone is cited saying classified info in the manuscript “could result in the
permanent loss of a valuable [signals intelligence] source and cause irreparable damage to the U.S.
[signals intelligence] system.” reageer retweet

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dnvolz twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 03:52:57 Nakasone: “Exposure of this information could also cause considerable difficulties in U.S. and allied relations with specific nations.” He adds disclosure “reasonably could be expected to result in exceptionally grave damage to the national security of the United States." reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 04:46 schreef Kijkertje het volgende:
Mark Meadows komt er eindelijk achter wat een zooitje het is in het Witte Huis:

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anniekarni twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 23:15:11 Mark Meadows, the fourth White House chief of staff, has complained that he had no idea how fractious and unwieldy the climate was until he got there. https://t.co/T4FOzz5Upu reageer retweet

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gtconway3d twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 03:23:06 this is what happens when you watch only Fox News https://t.co/QkScRMR69E reageer retweet

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saraecook twitterde op donderdag 18-06-2020 om 05:30:31 When a NK advance team didn't show before the Trump-Kim summit, Trump told Bolton "'I want to get out [of Singapore] before they do'...He recounted how with the women he had dated, he never like to have them break up with him; he always wanted to be the one doing the breaking up" reageer retweet

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maggieNYT twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 23:15:24 The president has told advisers he wants to find and prosecute whoever let it be known that he was in the bunker, per 3 ppl familiar with what he's said https://t.co/QDjxFUFwF9 reageer retweet

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 07:28 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Werkelijk.

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maggieNYT twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 23:15:24 The president has told advisers he wants to find and prosecute whoever let it be known that he was in the bunker, per 3 ppl familiar with what he's said https://t.co/QDjxFUFwF9 reageer retweet

Honderd Zeventien Duizend mensen Dood. Covid 19.

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Op woensdag 17 juni 2020 21:44 schreef ITs_relative het volgende:
Eigenlijk precies wat de niet-blinden al jaren zien. Nu in een mooi verslag van binnenuit door een ware republikein.
Ben benieuwd naar de verhalen over coffeeboy rino Bolton die eigenlijk een democraat is en boos over zijn ontslag.

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Op donderdag 18 juni 2020 07:28 schreef AnneX het volgende:
Werkelijk.

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maggieNYT twitterde op woensdag 17-06-2020 om 23:15:24 The president has told advisers he wants to find and prosecute whoever let it be known that he was in the bunker, per 3 ppl familiar with what he's said https://t.co/QDjxFUFwF9 reageer retweet

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