Zitat von Maga-neu im Beitrag #4375

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4374

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Wie hießen die alle noch?
Skripal,
Nemzow,
Arkadi Babtschenko
Litwinenko
Politkowskaja

Unmöglich, diese saudi-arabischen Mörder!

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So unprofessionell wie im Fall der Saudis war das aber nicht. Hier kann man wirklich die Worte Fouchés an Bonaparte zitieren, als dieser den Herzog von Enghien erschießen ließ: "C'est pire qu'un crime, c'est une faute."

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Trump’s Yearning to Prosecute His Political Enemies
Trump reportedly sought earlier this year to prosecute Hillary Clinton and James Comey, which one former Justice Department official called “un-American.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...d-comey/576460/

Trumps Bestreben, seine politischen Feinde rechtlich zu verfolgen
Trump soll Anfang dieses Jahres versucht haben, Hillary Clinton und James Comey zu verfolgen, was ein ehemaliger Justizbeamter als "unamerikanisch" bezeichnete.

Die Enthüllung der "New York Times" vom Dienstag, dass Präsident Donald Trump dem Rechtsanwalt des Weißen Hauses gesagt hatte, er wolle, dass das Justizministerium Hillary Clinton und den ehemaligen FBI-Direktor James Comey strafrechtlich verfolgt, oeffnet ein neues Fenster in das Ausmaß in dem Trump meint dass die Strafverfolgungsbehoerden verfolgung sein "persönliches Gefolge" seien, sagte Elliot Williams, ein ehemaliger hochrangiger Justizbeamter.

"Alle Menschen, die Vertrauen in den Rechtsstaat in den Vereinigten Staaten haben, sollten von dieser Geschichte unglaublich alarmiert sein", sagte Williams, der bis 2017 als stellvertretender stellvertretender Generalstaatsanwalt des DOJ für legislative Angelegenheiten tätig war. "Es gibt eine lange Geschichte, in der sich das Weiße Haus von einzelnen Ermittlungen und Strafverfolgungen fernhält — und das aus einem ganz bestimmten Grund".

Matt Miller, der unter Präsident Barack Obama als Sprecher des Justizministeriums fungierte, stellte fest, dass es nicht einmal einen "legalen Weg" fuer die Behoerden gegeben hätte, eine solche Anordnung auszuführen. "Man kann nicht einmal eine Untersuchung ohne eine Ursache eröffnen, geschweige denn jemanden strafrechtlich verfolgen, und es gibt keine Ursache, um neue Ermittlungen gegen Clinton oder Comey zu eröffnen", sagte Miller mir. ...

Trumps Versuche, an der Unabhängigkeit des Justizministeriums weg zu meiseln, waren damit noch nicht zu Ende. Er soll im vergangenen Sommer kurz davor gestanden haben , Sonderermittler Robert Mueller zu feuern, und beschimpfte gleichzeitig Sessions, weil der sich von der Russland-Untersuchung zurückgezogen hatte. Trump hat wiederholt auf die Justizministerium und FBI-Mitarbeiter, darunter Mueller, ehemaligen Associate Deputy General Bruce Ohr, den ehemaligen stellvertretenden FBI-Direktor Andrew McCabe, den ehemaligen FBI-Agenten Peter Strzok, und der ehemalige FBI-General Berater Jim Baker, eingedroschen. Und er hat Sessions vor kurzem aus dem Amt gedrängt und Whitaker, einen Verbündeten im Weißen Haus, zum stellvertretenden Generalstaatsanwalt ernannt — und in Wirklichkeit zum neuen Chef von Mueller ernannt.

Whitaker hatte die Mueller-Ermittlungen immer wieder kritisiert, an einer Stelle sogar darüber nachgedacht, wie ein Nachfolger von Sessions die Untersuchung lähmen könnte, z.B. indem er deren Finanzierung bis zum Funktionsstillstand kürzte.

Ein Op-ed, das er im Juli 2016 schrieb und in dem er seine Überzeugung schilderte, Clinton hätte angeklagt werden sollen, hat die Bedenken der Rechtsexperten über Trumps Impulse zur Verfolgung seiner Rivalen nur noch verstärkt. "Ich glaube nicht, dass sich irgendjemand Illusionen hingibt, warum Trump Whitaker für diese Position ausgewählt hat", sagte Gupta. "Wenn die Leute nicht glauben, dass wir an dieser Stelle an einer verfassungsmäßigen roten Linie stehen, dann ist das an und für sich beunruhigend. Die Aushöhlung unserer demokratischen Normen ist zutiefst beunruhigend. "

Democrats won House popular vote by largest midterm margin since Watergate
Nationally, Democrats have 53.1 percent of all votes counted while Republicans took 45.2 percent.

Not since the Watergate scandal have Democrats run up such a large margin of victory in midterm House races, NBC News data showed.
With votes continuing to be tallied more than two weeks after Election Day, Democrats hold a lead over Republicans in the House popular vote by more than 8.6 million votes.
That's the largest total victory in a midterm House election since Democrats defeated Republicans by more than 8.7 million votes in 1974, just months after President Richard Nixon resigned from office in disgrace.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/electio...tergate-n938996

Und das bei dieser Wirtschaftslage und trotz extensiver Voter suppression Massnahmen von seitens der GOP.

Economists see the Trump economy slowing drastically next year before a possible recession in 2020
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/11/21/trump-ec...on-in-2020.html

Morgen ist hier der Thanksgiving Holiday.

Trump: Don’t think about troops who can’t spend Thanksgiving at home
As a result of Trump's racist pre-election border stunt, thousands of troops must spend Thanksgiving away from their families.

Many Americans feel sympathy for the thousands of troops who are missing Thanksgiving with their families because Trump demanded their deployment to the border as a racist pre-election stunt.

Trump is not one of them.
https://shareblue.com/thanksgiving-trump...s-border-stunt/

Crops are rotting in fields as Trump's trade war bites US farmers
The problem is most acute for soybean farmers. China is the largest importer of soybeans in the world, but since the start of the trade war it has slapped US soybeans with a 25% tariff and turned to Brazil in an attempt to meet domestic demand.

https://www.businessinsider.com/us-china...5h9KBE5wLd3qua4

House Intelligence Panel Hiring Money-Laundering Sleuths
One of President’s biggest foes is taking steps to chase the Trump-Russia money trail.

The House intelligence committee's incoming Democratic majority is taking its first steps to follow Donald Trump's money, The Daily Beast has learned.
The committee is looking to hire money-laundering and forensic accounting experts, three sources familiar with the plans confirm to The Daily Beast. One Democratic committee office said the purpose of the potential new hires is to examine unanswered financial questions about Trump and Russia, but their work could apply broadly across the panel’s intelligence oversight.

This indicates that likely chairman Adam Schiff’s stated interest in the intersection of financial crimes and intelligence threats isn’t just talk.
https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-inte...ndering-sleuths

MI6 battling to stop Donald Trump releasing classified Russia probe documents
MI6 chiefs are secretly battling Donald Trump to stop him publishing classified information linked to the Russian election meddling investigation.

The UK is warning that the US president would undermine intelligence gathering if he releases pages of an FBI application to wiretap one of his former campaign advisers.
However Trump allies are fighting back, demanding transparency and asking why Britain would oppose the move unless it had something to hide.
It forces the spotlight on whether the UK played a role in the FBI's investigation launched before the 2016 presidential election into Trump campaign ties to the Kremlin.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/11...d-russia-probe/

US agency opens case file on potential Whitaker Hatch Act violations
An independent federal investigative agency is looking into whether acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker violated prohibitions on political activities by federal employees by accepting contributions to his 2014 Senate campaign earlier this year.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/21/politics/...aign-donations/

Filings Show Trump’s DOJ Chief Still Working for 14 Companies
President Trump’s controversial new appointee for Acting Attorney General, Matthew Whitaker, is still listed as a registered agent representing 14 different private companies, Iowa state records show.
https://tyt.com/stories/4vZLCHuQrYE4uKag...ZFewYYgUS0EIk8A

GOP exploring reasons for gender disparity in new Congress
For congressional Republicans, this month’s elections ushered in the year of the woman — literally.

West Virginia’s Carol Miller will be the only Republican woman entering the 435-member House as a newcomer in January. She’ll join what may be the chamber’s smallest group of female GOP lawmakers since the early 1990s — as few as 13 of at least 199 Republicans. Democrats will have at least 89.

Numbers like those have Republicans searching for answers to the glaring gender disparity in their ranks — and fast. The concern is that Democrats’ lopsided edge among female voters could carry over to 2020, when President Donald Trump will be seeking a second term and House and Senate control will be in play. If the current trend continues, Republicans risk being branded the party of men.
https://apnews.com/83e9f923e6bd40a4a85949763720f9e2


GOP erkundet Gründe für Geschlechter Ungleichheit in neuem Kongress
Für die Republikaner im Kongress läuteten die Wahlen in diesem Monat das Jahr der Frau ein -buchstäblich.

Carol Miller von West Virginia wird im Januar als einzige Republikanerin unter den Neuankömmlingen in das 435-köpfige Haus einziehen. Sie wird sich der vielleicht kleinsten Gruppe weiblicher GOP-Abgeordneten seit den frühen 1990er Jahren anschließen — nur 13 von mindestens 199 Republikanern. Bei den Demokraten wird es mindestens 89 Frauen geben.

Zahlen wie diese zwingen die Republikaner auf die Suche nach Antworten auf die eklatanten Geschlechter Disparitaeten in ihren Reihen -und das schnell. Die Sorge ist, dass sich die einseitige Ueberragung der Demokraten bei den weiblichen Wähler bis 2020 durchsetzen könnte, wenn Präsident Donald Trump eine zweite Amtszeit anstrebt und die Kontrolle des Repräsentantenhauses und des Senats im Spiel sein werden. Wenn sich der aktuelle Trend fortsetzt, riskieren die Republikaner, als Partei der Männer gebrandmarkt zu werden.

Der Richter Tigar, der jetzt Trump gestoppt hat, ist ein Vorbild:

On Thursday January 5 in San Francisco, convicted killer Shiloh Heavenly Quine, 57, became the first inmate in the United States to receive “sex-reassignment surgery” fully funded by taxpayers.

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/265401/...oyd-billingsley

"According to a LifeSiteNews report, federal judge Tigar “assigned himself to Quine’s case and appointed a team of San Francisco lawyers and the Transgender Law Center to represent him.”

“So, let us not be blind to our differences--but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved. And if we cannot end now our differences, at least we can help make the world safe for diversity. For, in the final analysis, our most basic common link is that we all inhabit this small planet. We all breathe the same air. We all cherish our children's future. And we are all mortal.”

--John F. Kennedy, 1963

Army Vet: Why Trump Disrespects the Military
For all his wealth and power, there is one thing Trump lacks, and money can’t buy it: respect

...For all his wealth and power, even after rising to the most powerful office in the world, there is one thing he lacks, and money can’t buy it: respect. Whether he is negotiating with fellow heads of state, global business leaders or the Manhattan elite who shunned the trust-fund rube from Queens, Trump yearns for the kind of esteem enjoyed by the most respected institution of a country that increasingly lacks respect for institutions. The ridicule he chafes at from Twitter, cable news and even his own party gnaws at him. But, in his mind, if he surrounds himself with military men (and they are all men in Trump’s orbit), their honor will become a part of him – like how a tech giant buys a startup just to integrate a single valued feature into its product.

Unfortunately for Trump, however, honor is not transferable. And what he views as “respect” or “loyalty” is what the rest of us know to be the demands for submission of a petty and insecure approximation of a man.
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/po...ilitary-203151/

Meghan McCain: If Obama had disrespected the military like Trump, 'my head would have exploded'
“The View” co-host Meghan McCain on Monday tore into President Trump’s criticism of a retired Navy admiral, urging her fellow conservatives to take it more seriously.

McCain listed a number of Trump’s recent actions that have drawn accusations of disrespect toward the military, saying that if former President Obama had done the same, Republicans would have been outraged.
“We should be intellectually honest here at this table that if President Obama had missed Veterans Day or missed the Armistice ceremony in France for the 100th anniversary of World War I, my head would have exploded right here on this table in front of all of you,” she said.
https://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-...tary-like-trump

Trump Says He is Too Busy to Visit Troops
Health Editor’s Note: Trump cannot find the time to visit the troops that he has deployed to combat zones while he was on the golf course. He sends soldiers into combat and then forgets them. Currently ISIS is holding two U.S. special forces along with five French and 200 SDF/YPG fighters who surrendered to ISIS days ago.

But you know how much Trump hates people who surrender. They were ordered into battle from the golf course, captured while Trump was on the gold course, and if executed, that will also happen when Trump is on the golf course. He spends a lot of “me time” doing what he pleases.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/10/17...o-visit-troops/

So, der Truthahn ist im Ofen, das Rotkraut ist gekocht, creamed corn ist fast fertig, stuffing und mashed potatoes stehen bereit zum gekocht werden und in einer Stunde kommt noch der Rosenkohl in die Pfanne. Und um fuenf wird dann gegessen.
Happy Thanksgiving!


Anbei: Die Bears haben gegen Detroit gewonnen und einige Bier sind schon abgeloescht. Alles gut im Trend fuer einen angenehmen Tag.

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4390

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Trump Says He is Too Busy to Visit Troops
Health Editor’s Note: Trump cannot find the time to visit the troops that he has deployed to combat zones while he was on the golf course. He sends soldiers into combat and then forgets them. Currently ISIS is holding two U.S. special forces along with five French and 200 SDF/YPG fighters who surrendered to ISIS days ago.

But you know how much Trump hates people who surrender. They were ordered into battle from the golf course, captured while Trump was on the gold course, and if executed, that will also happen when Trump is on the golf course. He spends a lot of “me time” doing what he pleases.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/10/17...o-visit-troops/

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Zitat von nahal im Beitrag #4392

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4390

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Trump Says He is Too Busy to Visit Troops
Health Editor’s Note: Trump cannot find the time to visit the troops that he has deployed to combat zones while he was on the golf course. He sends soldiers into combat and then forgets them. Currently ISIS is holding two U.S. special forces along with five French and 200 SDF/YPG fighters who surrendered to ISIS days ago.

But you know how much Trump hates people who surrender. They were ordered into battle from the golf course, captured while Trump was on the gold course, and if executed, that will also happen when Trump is on the golf course. He spends a lot of “me time” doing what he pleases.
https://www.veteranstoday.com/2018/10/17...o-visit-troops/

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Denmark suspending weapons exports to Saudi Arabia over Khashoggi killing
Denmark announced on Thursday that it is suspending future approvals of weapons and military equipment exports to Saudi Arabia, a response to the killing of a U.S.-based journalist and the government's role in the conflict in Yemen.

“With the continued deterioration of the already terrible situation in Yemen and the killing of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi, we are now in a new situation,” Foreign Minister Anders Samuelsen said in a statement, according to Reuters.
https://thehill.com/policy/international...-over-khashoggi

Comey shares news of House GOP subpoena: 'Happy Thanksgiving'

“Happy Thanksgiving. Got a subpoena from House Republicans. I’m still happy to sit in the light and answer all questions. But I will resist a 'closed door' thing because I’ve seen enough of their selective leaking and distortion," Comey tweeted.

"Let’s have a hearing and invite everyone to see,” he added.
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/41797...py-thanksgiving

James Comey@Comey
House Republicans can ask me anything they want but I want the American people to watch, so let’s have a public hearing. Truth is best served by transparency. Let me know when is convenient.
3:43 PM - 16 Nov 2018

Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4391

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So, der Truthahn ist im Ofen, das Rotkraut ist gekocht, creamed corn ist fast fertig, stuffing und mashed potatoes stehen bereit zum gekocht werden und in einer Stunde kommt noch der Rosenkohl in die Pfanne. Und um fuenf wird dann gegessen.
Happy Thanksgiving!


Anbei: Die Bears haben gegen Detroit gewonnen und einige Bier sind schon abgeloescht. Alles gut im Trend fuer einen angenehmen Tag.

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Zitat von Willie im Beitrag #4391

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So, der Truthahn ist im Ofen, das Rotkraut ist gekocht, creamed corn ist fast fertig, stuffing und mashed potatoes stehen bereit zum gekocht werden und in einer Stunde kommt noch der Rosenkohl in die Pfanne. Und um fuenf wird dann gegessen.
Happy Thanksgiving!


Anbei: Die Bears haben gegen Detroit gewonnen und einige Bier sind schon abgeloescht. Alles gut im Trend fuer einen angenehmen Tag.

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After his politicized Thanksgiving call, maybe Trump should not visit the troops
President Donald Trump says he will soon be visiting troops in a war zone. It's a pity he's had to be goaded into that.

But if his Thanksgiving Day phone call to men and women stationed abroad is any indication of what we can expect, I would just as soon have him stay home.
He needlessly politicized that conversation, railing against the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, which has ruled against him on immigration, complaining about unfair trade deals, and wrongly accusing his predecessor, Barack Obama, of underfunding the military. ...

... neither Bush nor Obama ever mentioned the partisan debate back home over those missions. They didn't grouse about immigration or trade deals. They didn't whine about the pressure they were under from Congress or the courts. They didn't make it about themselves.
They went to say thank you.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/22/opinions/...e-troops-kirby/

Warning signs mount for Trump reelection bid
‘They haven’t gotten his job approval over 50 percent, like Reagan,’ says one GOP pollster.

Donald Trump insists the GOP’s midterm election shellacking had nothing to do with him. Things will be different, he says, when his name is actually on the ballot in 2020.
While it’s true that most presidents who see their party suffer major losses in their first midterm election get reelected anyway, Trump isn’t most presidents — and there are lots of blaring-red warning lights in this month’s election results for his bid for a second term.

Unlike most of his predecessors, he’s been persistently unpopular, with approval ratings mired in the 40-percent range — so far, he’s the only president in the modern era whose job approval ratings have never been over 50 percent, according to Gallup.

Some of Democrats’ biggest gains came in the states that powered Trump’s Electoral College victory in 2016: Michigan, Pennsylvania and Wisconsin. And while a president’s base has stayed home in previous midterm elections, leading to losses, the record turnout in this year’s races suggests 2018 was more like a 2016 re-run than Trump voters standing on the sidelines.
Thus far, even Trump loyalists in the party haven’t seen the president expand his electoral base beyond core Republicans.
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/11/2...ion-bid-1012184