Nasleep Presidentsverkiezingen VS #98

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Op woensdag 2 maart 2022 16:04 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Door al het onnodige oponthoud inmiddels wel. En zelfs met toezegging van Biden had het project in enkele jaren kunnen worden afgerond. Dan was je op lange termijn dus minder afhankelijk van Rusland (maar ook andere grondstofrijke schurkenstaatjes)

Al begrijp ik dat je direct in de bres moet springen voor de Democraten/Biden.

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Op woensdag 2 maart 2022 16:19 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Volgens mij waren de originele schattingen dat de Keystone pijpleiding rond 2021 zou moeten zijn afgerond. Helaas door is dat er door allerlei onnodig oponthoud niet van gekomen.

En de VS had met deze pijpleiding ook kunnen leveren aan Europese landen. Dus het had zeker een invloed kunnen hebben op de afhankelijkheid van Rusland.

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The Jan. 6 select committee says its evidence has shown that then-President Donald Trump and his campaign tried to illegally obstruct Congress’ counting of electoral votes and “engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States.”

In a major release of its findings, filed in federal court late Wednesday, the committee suggested that its evidence supported findings that Trump himself violated multiple laws by attempting to prevent Congress from certifying his defeat.

“The Select Committee also has a good-faith basis for concluding that the President and members of his Campaign engaged in a criminal conspiracy to defraud the United States,” the committee wrote in a filing submitted in U.S. District Court in the Central District of California.

In a major release of the panel’s findings, including excerpts of nearly a dozen depositions from top aides to Trump and former Vice President Mike Pence, the committee described a president who had been informed repeatedly that he lost the election and that his claims of fraud were unfounded — only to reject them and continue to mislead the American public.

He then pushed top advisers to continue strategizing ways to overturn the election results.

The panel released its findings as part of a legal push to force John Eastman, an attorney who was a key driver of Trump’s strategy to subvert the 2020 election, to produce crucial emails tying together elements of the scheme they described. The panel revealed testimony that offered a detailed account of Eastman’s efforts to provide a legal strategy that would justify ordering Pence to overturn the election single-handedly when he presided over Congress’ electoral-vote-counting session on Jan. 6, 2021.

Eastman, however, didn’t relent even after a violent mob — egged on by Trump — stormed the Capitol and sent Pence and Congress fleeing for safety. Eastman continued to press Pence to overturn the election.

“Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege,” Pence counsel Greg Jacob emailed Eastman, along with a lengthy refutation of his argument.

“The ‘siege’ is because YOU and your boss did not do what was necessary to allow this to be aired in a public way so the American people can see for themselves what happened,” Eastman replied, according to emails obtained by the panel.

Even after this exchange, Eastman made one final plea to convince Pence to stop the counting of electoral votes, acknowledging it would amount to a “relatively minor” violation of the federal law known as the Electoral Count Act.

“Plaintiff knew what he was proposing would violate the law, but he nonetheless urged the Vice President to take those actions,” the committee wrote in its filings.

Chair Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.) and Vice Chair Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) said in a statement later Wednesday that their fact-finding strongly suggested that “Dr. Eastman’s emails may show that he helped Donald Trump advance a corrupt scheme to obstruct the counting of electoral college ballots and a conspiracy to impede the transfer of power.”

The select committee revealed its evidence as part of a bid to convince a federal judge to require Eastman to provide more of his own emails — held by his former employer Chapman University — to congressional investigators. Eastman sued to block the panel from accessing his Chapman emails, claiming they would reveal records protected by attorney-client privilege.

But the panel’s emphasis on potential crimes may convince U.S. District Court Judge David Carter — who has repeatedly ruled against Eastman — that none of Eastman’s records are protected by privilege.

Carter, who is based in California, has rejected Eastman’s attempts to shield his records, citing the urgency and significance of the select committee’s work. Instead, Carter has ordered Eastman to quickly review 90,000 pages of emails and attachments and to itemize any he thinks should be withheld because of attorney-client privilege. He has repeatedly sided with the committee’s demands, such as requiring Eastman to prioritize emails sent between Jan. 4 and Jan. 7, 2021, and to force him to disclose his legal relationship with Trump, which had never been publicly revealed.

But the committee indicated that Eastman’s purported relationship with Trump fails to prove he had a legitimate claim of attorney client privilege.

Eastman, according to the panel, produced a letter identifying his client as Trump’s campaign, but the letter was left unsigned. “This unsigned and unauthenticated engagement letter is insufficient to establish an attorney-client relationship during the period at issue,” the House’s lawyers wrote.

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A data expert for former president Donald Trump's campaign told him bluntly not long after polls closed in November 2020 that he was definitely going to lose his campaign for reelection.

In the weeks that followed, multiple top officials at the Justice Department informed Trump that they had closely examined allegations of fraud that were being circulated by Trump's close allies -- and had found them simply untrue.

And in the days leading up to the joint session of Congress on Jan. 6, 2021, even Trump's loyal vice president, Mike Pence, repeatedly conveyed to Trump that he did not believe the Constitution gave him the power to overturn the election as he presided over the counting of electoral college votes giving the presidency to Joe Biden.

These and other new details were included in a legal brief filed late Wednesday by lawyers for the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol as they began to build a case that Trump was knowingly misleading his followers about the election and pressuring Pence to break the law in the weeks and hours before the assault.

According to the panel and others, at least 11 aides and close confidants told Trump directly in the weeks after the election that there was no fraud and no legal way to overturn the result.

The committee's goal was to convince a federal judge there is a "good-faith basis" for concluding Trump and others engaged in a "criminal conspiracy" to defraud the United States and obstruct Congress before the attack on the Capitol -- and to prove that Trump was acting corruptly by continuing to spread false claims about the election long after he had reason to know he had legitimately lost.

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Op vrijdag 4 maart 2022 10:40 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Blijkbaar is het benoemen van deze bizarre verschijningen voor jou toch een trigger, een reactie kon je niet achterwege laten.

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Op vrijdag 4 maart 2022 10:47 schreef KoosVogels het volgende:

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En blijkbaar is de kledingkeuze van figuren aan de andere kant van de oceaan voor jou een trigger. Het is maar waar je je druk om maakt.

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Op vrijdag 4 maart 2022 11:12 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:

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Ik maak mij nergens druk om, ik benoem slechts iets dat opvallend is. Jij maakt je er blijkbaar wel druk om dat ik dit benoem.

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Op vrijdag 4 maart 2022 10:00 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:
Gisteren was in Florida een protest tegen de zogenaamde 'Don't say gay' bill. Dit trok weer veel Blauwe stemmers, kijk ook even wat een paradijsvogeltjes (lees: vogelverschrikkers) hier toch weer tussen zitten. Ik vraag mij af waarom (radicaal) links en progressieve mensen toch vaak de neiging hebben zich zo vreemd uit te dossen.

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Vooral deze spant toch wel de kroon:

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De sfeer zat er goed in schijnbaar, leuk dansje ook:

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Op vrijdag 4 maart 2022 11:12 schreef HowardRoark het volgende:

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Ik maak mij nergens druk om, ik benoem slechts iets dat opvallend is. Jij maakt je er blijkbaar wel druk om dat ik dit benoem.
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Van conservatief rechts naar communisme, hihi. Dit klinkt allemaal een beetje tegenstrijdig. Probeer het nog eens zou ik zeggen.