Amerika du hast es besser

[Peiresc]

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

Two long running, Obama era, investigations of  two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......

Brian Klaas:
No exaggeration: if any other elected leader in a Western democracy tried to instruct their top law enforcement official to shield their political allies from prosecution for political reasons like this, they would be forced to resign within hours. This is insane.

Richtig.

[Peiresc]

Donald J. Trump
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@realDonaldTrump

Two long running, Obama era, investigations of  two very popular Republican Congressmen were brought to a well publicized charge, just ahead of the Mid-Terms, by the Jeff Sessions Justice Department. Two easy wins now in doubt because there is not enough time. Good job Jeff......

Brian Klaas:
No exaggeration: if any other elected leader in a Western democracy tried to instruct their top law enforcement official to shield their political allies from prosecution for political reasons like this, they would be forced to resign within hours. This is insane.

Richtig.

Eine Meldung aus dem freiesten Land der Welt, nach der man keine weiteren mehr benötigt:

On CNN, @SenJohnKennedy says he has no problem with Trump blasting the DOJ for not covering up crimes committed by Republican members of Congress because "I don't see it either in statute or the Constitution that I have oversight of the president's tweets."

Fallweise werden die Tweets des Präsidenten übrigens gerichtlich bestätigt als offizielle Dokumente anerkannt.

[Peiresc]

Jetzt fällt das unfaire Spiel der Urheber der Russia-Collusion Verschwörungstheorie auf sie selber zurück. Und Mueller kann Trump nicht mehr schaden - im Gegenteil

Bob Woodward hat ein Buch geschrieben. Nächste Woche ist es zu haben.

The Washington Post, which obtained a copy of the book, reported Tuesday that former Trump attorney John Dowd arranged a mock interview for Jan. 27. As Dowd rattled off a series of questions about the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, Trump reportedly stumbled over his answers and contradicted himself.

"This thing's a goddamn hoax," Trump said, sparking a 30-minute rant.

"I don't really want to testify," he concluded, according to the book.

(meine Hervorhebung). Dowd hatte eine perjury trap aufgebaut. EdN, Du fehlst mir! 

[Peiresc]

Die Bob-Woodward-Lawine rollt. Er ist ein anderes Kaliber als Omarosa und der Skandalreporter, dessen Namen ich gerade nicht mehr parat habe.

"The people closest to the president of the United States, in his W.H. and in his administration, are saying that they see their job as protecting the United States FROM the president of the United States. That he is a danger to the republic." https://mailchi.mp/cnn/rs-sept-4-2018 ...

Aber auch diese Lawine wird die Trumponianische Partei Amerikas nicht unter sich begraben. Zumindest nicht sofort.

[Tezcatlipoca]

Die Bob-Woodward-Lawine rollt. Er ist ein anderes Kaliber als Omarosa und der Skandalreporter, dessen Namen ich gerade nicht mehr parat habe.

"The people closest to the president of the United States, in his W.H. and in his administration, are saying that they see their job as protecting the United States FROM the president of the United States. That he is a danger to the republic." https://mailchi.mp/cnn/rs-sept-4-2018 ...

Womit sie alle Hände voll zu tun haben.

[Peiresc]

There. Is. A. Tweet. For. Everything.

Donald J. Trump
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Only the Obama WH can get away with attacking Bob Woodward.

12:04 - 1. März 2013

[Peiresc]

Brent Budowski auf TheHill wird düster feierlich.

The day Woodward's book is released will be a day of reckoning. It will be a reckoning for White House staff and cabinet members who will now be in meetings with the president in which Trump knows what they said about him, and they know what Trump has said about them.

It will be a reckoning for Republicans in the House and Senate who act like automatons marching in lockstep to defend Trump.
http://thehill.com/opinion/white-house/404971-woodward-book-shames-trump-shills-apologists-and-enablers

Die Details klemme ich mir; nicht weil sie uninteressant sind, sondern weil eines so dramatisch und katastrophal ist wie das andere, es würde ein Vollzitat. Zur Gänze lesenswert.

[Peiresc]

Aus den tumultuarischen Kavanaugh-Anhörungen. Sen. Graham beklagt sich darüber, dass es nicht gesittet zugehe:

Lindsey Graham: None of these interruptions occurred during Obama SCOTUS nominee hearings. What has our country become?

He says he'd like a hearing where the nominee's daughters could attend.

Das mag sein. Wieviele "Obama SCOTUS nominee hearings" über Merrick Garland hat es gegeben? Null, zero, nada.

FEINSTEIN: Can a sitting president be subpoenaed?

KAVANAUGH, DODGING: That's a hypothetical question.

FEINSTEIN: You can't tell me if you think the president is subject to the courts?

KAVANAUGH: No.

Das ist keine hypothetische Frage, sondern eine unmittelbar drohende von äußerster Brisanz. Kein Wunder, dass die Republikaner Kavanaugh auf Biegen und Brechen schleunigst durchsetzen wollen, von seiner übrigen durchgehend reaktionären Agenda noch ganz abgesehen.

[Peiresc]

Aaron Rupar ist erste Adresse, wenn es darum geht, sich einen schnellen Überblick über Live-Übertragungen endlos langer Veranstaltungen zu verschaffen.
https://twitter.com/atrupar
Er verfolgt die Kavanaugh-Anhörungen.

LEAHY: Trump claims he has an absolute right to pardon himself. Does he?

KAVANAUGH: I can't begin to answer that Q in this context.

L: Does the president have the ability to pardon somebody in exchange for assurances that they won't testify against him?

K: Can't answer that.

[Peiresc]

Noch mehr von Aaron Rupar:

Graham makes it clear he's fine with Kavanaugh overturning Roe -- as long as he listens to both sides of the issue first!
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.@SenatorDurbin is left in disbelief after Kavanaugh, whose White House background was judicial nominations, denies awareness that anything unusual is going on with documents about his background being withheld from public scrutiny.
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Durbin catches Grassley in a blatant lie about what the National Archives has said about the lack of transparency surrounding documents pertinent to Kavanaugh's nomination
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Durbin, pressing Kavanaugh about possible perjury related to his 2006 testimony, calls out Kavanaugh for answering a question totally different from the one he actually asked him.
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Kavanaugh on his opposition to allowing an undocumented immigrant teenager to receive an abortion while in federal care: Don't blame me, blame the policy-makers!

[celsus]

Dieses widerspenstige Volk muss sich doch irgendwie bändigen lassen.

Trump said. "I think it's embarrassing for the country to allow protesters. You don't even know what side the protesters are on."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-suggests-protesting-should-be-illegal/2018/09/04/11cfd9be-b0a0-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html

[Peiresc]

Dieses widerspenstige Volk muss sich doch irgendwie bändigen lassen.

Trump said. "I think it's embarrassing for the country to allow protesters. You don't even know what side the protesters are on."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-suggests-protesting-should-be-illegal/2018/09/04/11cfd9be-b0a0-11e8-aed9-001309990777_story.html

Wenn es ihm wirklich gelingt, mit Hilfe einer willfährigen und gewissenlosen republikanischen Senatsmehrheit (oder auch nur Sperrminorität) und einem auf absolute Monarchie getrimmten Obersten Gericht noch weitere zwei Jahre im Amt zu bleiben, dann gibt dieser Tweet schon mal die Richtung vor.

[Daggi]

Ich glaube die Amerikaner (egal welcher politischen Orientierung) haben ein stark entwickeltes Gespür und sind sehr sensibel bei Fragen zur freien Meinungsäußerung und Demonstrationsfreiheit.

[Peiresc]

Ich glaube die Amerikaner (egal welcher politischen Orientierung) haben ein stark entwickeltes Gespür und sind sehr sensibel bei Fragen zur freien Meinungsäußerung und Demonstrationsfreiheit.

"The Attorney General has convened a meeting with a number of state attorneys general this month to discuss a growing concern that these companies may be hurting competition and intentionally stifling the free exchange of ideas on their platforms," Justice Department spokesman Devin O'Malley said in a statement provided to POLITICO.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/05/jeff-sessions-tech-conservative-bias-808685

Jack Dorsey ist gerade zu einer Anhörung im Kongress. Vgl. #3374 etc. Trump hat soeben getwittert, dass er Verleumdungsgesetze haben will, mit denen er das Woodward-Buch verbieten kann. Das wird natürlich alles nicht über Nacht wirksam werden, aber es gibt die Richtung vor.

[Daggi]

Trump per twitter:

If I weren't here, I believe The New York Times probably wouldn't even exist. Someday, when I'm not president, which hopefully will be in about six and a half years, The New York Times, CNN and all of these phony media outlets will be out of business, folks, they'll be out of business, because there'll be nothing to write and there'll be nothing of interest