Täällä seurataan Trumpin presidenttikautta

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Voiko toi pitää paikkansa?

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Tossaha non ihan realistinen vaara, että yksi virkaheitto pressa sitoo maan johonkin paskasopimukseen. Tai no, Trump on luonut uuden normin: sopimukset on tehty rikottaviksi.

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Voiko toi pitää paikkansa?

ei. pressa voi tehdä sopimuksia mihin kongressi ei voi puuttua muokkaamalla mutta ne äänestää meneekö läpi vai ei. toi on fast track niminen juttu

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noniin!

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Yhdysvaltojen entinen Ukrainan lähettiläs, jonka Trump & Giulianin tiimi juonitteli ulos todistaa paraikaa

Ex-Ukraine ambassador testifies Trump pressured State Department to oust her
It had been unclear whether she would appear to answer questions from House Democrats because she still works for the State Department.
Former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine set to testify in impeachment inquiry
Oct. 10, 201904:28
Oct. 11, 2019, 5:19 PM GMT+3
By Leigh Ann Caldwell, Geoff Bennett, Adam Edelman and Rebecca Shabad

Spoiler:

WASHINGTON — Marie Yovanovitch, the ousted U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, told House impeachment investigators Friday that President Donald Trump personally pressured the State Department to remove her from her position, even though a top department official assured her that she had "done nothing wrong."

Yovanovitch said that after she was abruptly recalled from her post in the spring, the deputy secretary of state told her "the president had lost confidence in me," according to her prepared remarks obtained by NBC News.

"He added that there had been a concerted campaign against me, and that the department had been under pressure from the president to remove me since the summer of 2018," Yovanovitch told lawmakers, according to her opening statement.

The career diplomat, who said she was informed of her ouster in April, said in her statement that she was "incredulous that the U.S. government chose to remove an ambassador based, as best as I can tell, on unfounded and false claims by people with clearly questionable motives."

Yovanovitch appeared for her expected closed-door deposition before the House Intelligence, Oversight and Foreign Affairs Committees as part of those bodies’ ongoing investigations into Trump’s efforts to persuade Ukraine's new government to commit publicly to investigate corruption and the president's political opponents.

It had been unclear right up until Yovanovitch arrived whether she would appear because she still works for the State Department. The White House had vowed administration officials would not cooperate in the impeachment probe.

Rep. Eleanor Holmes Norton, Washington D.C.'s nonvoting House delegate and a member of the Oversight Committee, said around noon that Yovanovitch had been testifying for about an hour. The interview is expected to last several hours more.

“She's acting like a true ambassador. She herself has been deeply involved and has been the object of false statements and she's clearing that up," Holmes Norton said after emerging from the room.

Holmes Norton added that "both sides are finding her very credible" and Yovanovitch had not given any indication that anyone attempted to prevent her from answering questions from lawmakers as expected Friday.

Asked about whether the former ambassador to Ukraine had spoken about Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, Holmes Norton said, "They’re just getting — that is becoming very, very deep."

Yovanovitch had previously been scheduled to be deposed by the committees on Oct. 2, but the appearance was postponed.

In a letter to House Democrats last week, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo pushed back against Democrats' request to interview five current and former State Department employees, including Yovanovitch.

Yovanovitch has emerged as a potentially key figure in the investigation by House Democrats.

In Trump's July 25 phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy, Trump referred to Yovanovitch as "bad news."

She departed Ukraine in May, months ahead of her scheduled departure, after coming under attack from right-wing media, who alleged she was hostile to the president. Her departure set off alarm bells among Democrats in Congress but the State Department said at the time her exit was planned.

According to the intelligence community whistleblower complaint at the heart of Democrats' impeachment inquiry, Yovanovitch's tenure was cut short because she had run afoul of the then-prosecutor general in Ukraine, Yuri Lutsenko, and Giuliani. Lutsenko at one point alleged she had given him a "do not prosecute" list. The State Department has said the assertion was an outright fabrication and Lutsenko himself later walked back his comments.

Yovanovitch, according to her prepared remarks, addressed Lutsenko's since-recanted allegation, telling lawmakers that she wanted to "categorically state that I have never myself or through others, directly or indirectly, ever directed, suggested, or in any other way asked for any government or government official in Ukraine (or elsewhere) to refrain from investigating or prosecuting actual corruption."

She added, "As Mr. Lutsenko, the former Ukrainian Prosecutor General has recently acknowledged, the notion that I created or disseminated a 'do not prosecute' list is completely false—a story that Mr. Lutsenko, himself, has since retracted."

She also called the notion that she was "disloyal" to Trump "fictitious," and said she did not know Giuliani's motives for attacking her.

"But individuals who have been named in the press as contacts of Mr. Giuliani may well have believed that their personal financial ambitions were stymied by our anti-corruption policy in Ukraine," she told House investigators, according to her statement.

Yovanovitch's former colleagues have described her as one of the State Department's most talented and conscientious diplomats, and that it would be totally out of character for her to engage in partisan politics.

During her tenure, Yovanovitch was outspoken in her calls for Ukraine to tackle corruption, a stance in keeping with U.S. policy over successive administrations.

After Yovanovitch gave a tough speech in March urging the government to sack a senior anti-corruption official, she came under fire from Lutsenko, conservative voices in the U.S. and the president's eldest son, Donald Trump Jr.

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/trump- ... y-n1064996

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^hyvä!

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eikö ketään ees kiinnostanu ku kiina anto trumpin avustajalle top sikrit tietoja hunter bidenistä?
niinku tarkemmin varjeltuja ku ydinkärjet tai jotai

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eikö ketään ees kiinnostanu ku kiina anto trumpin avustajalle top sikrit tietoja hunter bidenistä?
niinku tarkemmin varjeltuja ku ydinkärjet tai jotai

niin siis toi "tietoja" saanut jorma on jim hoft joka on viimeiset 15 vuotta tullut tunnetuksi siitä että se puhuu paskaa ihan kaikesta

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noniin!

The New York Times uutisoi ton saman hetki sitten.

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Sikäläinen kotomaanturvallisuuden ministeri on lähteny/lähetetty kälppimään:

Trump says he is replacing McAleenan as acting DHS secretary

Spoiler:

President Trump said late Friday that he is replacing Kevin McAleenan, the acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, after a tenure in which McAleenan reduced border crossings and shepherded major Trump administration immigration policies but clashed with other senior officials and struggled to earn the president’s trust.

...McAleenan had become increasingly frustrated with a cadre of Trump’s appointments to senior immigration roles, and he recently told The Washington Post that he was struggling to control the messaging coming out of his department. More hard-line figures have attacked him as insufficiently committed to the president’s immigration agenda, while critics of the administration’s policies argue McAleenan has used conciliatory rhetoric to lend cover to harsh measures.

Trump in turn had questioned whether McAleenan was loyal to him.

A person close to McAleenan said he resigned Friday after weeks of growing disenchantment with his standing in the administration. He was never formally nominated for the job and there was no indication he would be.

...In an interview with The Post last week, McAleenan said that while he had maintained operational control of his department and its agencies, he felt he had lost the ability to shape how the Trump administration characterized immigration enforcement. A career law enforcement official, McAleenan had tried to present a relatively neutral approach to the border and felt that political partisanship was taking over.

...Trump installed McAleenan, 48, at the head of DHS after removing then-secretary Kirstjen Nielsen, saying he wanted someone “tougher” in the role. Trump told aides that McAleenan had the look he was going for, with the trim, stern demeanor of a federal agent.

Trump was willing to look past the warnings of border hawks who told him McAleenan was an “Obama guy” raised in California who had a record of donating to Democrats.