Trump -psykoosi

Obamacaren tiimoilta tullu jotain oikeudellisia päätöksiä. Kalifornia ainakin meinaa valittaa.

Federal judge in Texas strikes down Affordable Care Act

"federal judge in Texas said on Friday that the Affordable Care Act's individual coverage mandate is unconstitutional and that the rest of the law therefore cannot stand.
Legal experts say the ruling won't immediately affect Americans' health coverage, and a group of states led by California is already vowing to appeal. "

https://edition-m.cnn.com/2018/12/1...lawsuit/index.html?r=https://edition.cnn.com/


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Sisäministeri Ryan Zinke pyysi eroa ja lähtee vuoden lopussa. Syynä lukuisat tutkimukset hänen suhmuroinneistaan ja väärinkäytöksistä.
Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke submitted his resignation to the White House Saturday, facing intense pressure to step down because of multiple probes tied to his real estate dealings in his home state of Montana and his conduct while in office.

President Trump announced Zinke’s exit via Twitter Saturday morning, and offered praise for the departing Interior chief. “Secretary of the Interior @RyanZinke will be leaving the Administration at the end of the year after having served for a period of almost two years,” the president tweeted. “Ryan has accomplished much during his tenure and I want to thank him for his service to our Nation.......”

Behind the scenes, however, the White House had been pushing Zinke to resign for weeks, administration officials said.

Zinke — the first Montanan to serve in a presidential Cabinet — is the fourth Trump Cabinet member to resign under an ethics cloud in less than two years. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price, Veterans Affairs Secretary David Shulkin and Environmental Protection Agency chief Scott Pruitt also relinquished their posts after coming under scrutiny for how they spent taxpayer dollars on their travel, among other allegations.

For Zinke the key moment in his loss of support at the White House came in October when Interior’s inspector general referred one of its inquiries to the Justice Department, according to two senior administration officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss a sensitive matter.

That probe, which is still ongoing, is examining whether a land deal Zinke struck with the chairman of oil services giant Halliburton in his hometown of Whitefish, Mont., constituted as a conflict of interest.

As the leading advocate for Trump’s push to expand domestic energy production, the former Navy SEAL and Montana congressman became a lightning rod for controversy. He was hailed by energy industry officials for relaxing Obama-era environmental rules and opening up wide swaths of federal land and federal waters for drilling. But environmental groups assailed his policies and conducted opposition research into his management practices and financial dealings.

Several advocacy groups welcomed his departure Saturday, even as they pivoted to attack Deputy Secretary David Bernhardt, who will take over in the interim. Bernhardt, a skilled policy expert who has steered most of Interior’s key policy decisions since joining the department in August 2017, is one of several Western Republicans under possible consideration for the job.

“Ryan Zinke will go down as the most anti-conservation Interior secretary in our nation’s history,” said Jennifer Rokala, executive director of the Center for Western Priorities. “Surrounding himself with former lobbyists, it quickly became clear that Ryan Zinke was a pawn for the oil and gas industry. We can expect more of the same from Acting Secretary David Bernhardt, but without the laughable Teddy Roosevelt comparisons.” He styled himself as a Teddy Roosevelt Republican, showcasing his love of hunting, fishing and riding in the Montana wilderness.

Administration officials concluded weeks ago that Zinke was the Cabinet member most vulnerable to congressional investigations once Democrats took control of Congress in January. But a series of crises, including wildfires out West and uncertainty over whether John Kelly would stay on as White House chief of staff, had afforded Zinke a temporary reprieve.

During his time in office Zinke came under at least 15 investigations, including: inquiries into his connection to a real estate deal involving a company that Interior regulates; whether he bent government rules to allow his wife to ride in government vehicles; and allowing a security detail to travel with him on a vacation to Turkey at considerable cost.

Zinke was cleared in several of those investigations, and chose to attack his critics rather than adopt a more chastened tone. Late last month he accused Rep. Raúl M. Grijalva (D-Ariz.) — who had called on Zinke to step down and is poised to take over the committee that oversees Interior in January — of being a drunk.

“It’s hard for him to think straight from the bottom of the bottle,” Zinke wrote from his official Twitter account on Nov. 30. Grijalva, who in the past had acknowledged having a problem with alcohol but said it had been addressed, said the committee would not be distracted from examining Zinke’s actions.

It is unclear whether the federal inquiries will continue, now that Zinke is leaving public office.

While Zinke remained defiant both in public and private this month — a week and-a-half ago, he boasted that he would continue to attack his critics — Trump had little personal affection for him. The president was annoyed by a few of Zinke’s actions, including a decision in January to exempt Florida from offshore drilling in an appearance with Gov. Rick Scott (R), which was not approved in advance by the White House, and a ruling to allow imports of elephant trophies. Zinke later reversed the elephant trophy decision, after Trump publicly intervened.

The secretary’s final public appearance was Thursday night at his Christmas party, which he told White House staffers he wanted to have before his dismissal. He invited lobbyists and conservative activists to his executive suite, where he posed for photos in front of a large stuffed polar bear wearing a Santa cap, according to an attendee.

Mounted animals on the wall were fitted with ornaments.

“He still has big time political ambitions,” said one Republican with close ties to Zinke, who asked for anonymity in order to speak frankly.

The jockeying has already begun to replace Zinke as secretary

In addition to Bernhardt, outgoing Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.) is a possible contender, according to Republicans who have been engaged in discussions with the administration in recent weeks. House Natural Resources Committee Chairman Rob Bishop (R-Utah), who will relinquish his gavel next month, is another candidate.

Zinke’s resignation, which comes after Trump has replaced his attorney general and chief of staff, could be followed soon by other Cabinet departures. The positions of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross remain precarious, according to White House officials.
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Oxfordin yliopiston senaatille tekemän tutkimuksen mukaan venäläisen Internet research agencyn Facebook-viestintä tavoitti 126 miljoonaa ihmistä vuoden 2016 vaaleissa, Instagramin puolella lukema oli 20 miljoonaa. Tutkimuksen mukaan toiminnan tarkoituksena oli selvästi republikaanisen puolueen ja Donald Trumpin tukeminen.
A report prepared for the Senate that provides the most sweeping analysis yet of Russia’s disinformation campaign around the 2016 election found the operation used every major social media platform to deliver words, images and videos tailored to voters’ interests to help elect President Trump — and worked even harder to support him while in office.

The report, a draft of which was obtained by The Washington Post, is the first to study the millions of posts provided by major technology firms to the Senate Intelligence Committee, led by Sen. Richard Burr (R-N.C.), its chairman, and Sen. Mark Warner (Va.), its ranking Democrat. The bipartisan panel hasn’t said whether it endorses the findings. It plans to release it publicly along with another study later this week.

The research — by Oxford University’s Computational Propaganda Project and Graphika, a network analysis firm — offers new details of how Russians working at the Internet Research Agency, which U.S. officials have charged with criminal offenses for interfering in the 2016 campaign, sliced Americans into key interest groups for targeted messaging. These efforts shifted over time, peaking at key political moments, such as presidential debates or party conventions, the report found.

The data sets used by the researchers were provided by Facebook, Twitter and Google and covered several years up to mid-2017, when the social media companies cracked down on the known Russian accounts. The report, which also analyzed data separately provided to House Intelligence Committee members, contains no information on more recent political moments, such as November’s midterm elections.

“What is clear is that all of the messaging clearly sought to benefit the Republican Party — and specifically Donald Trump,” the report says. “Trump is mentioned most in campaigns targeting conservatives and right-wing voters, where the messaging encouraged these groups to support his campaign. The main groups that could challenge Trump were then provided messaging that sought to confuse, distract and ultimately discourage members from voting.”

Representatives for Burr and Warner declined to comment.

The report offers the latest evidence that Russian agents sought to help Trump win the White House. Democrats and Republicans on the panel previously studied the U.S. intelligence community’s 2017 finding that Moscow aimed to assist Trump, and in July, they said investigators had come to the correct conclusion. Despite their work, some Republicans on Capitol Hill continue to doubt the nature of Russia’s interference in the last presidential election.

The Russians aimed particular energy at activating conservatives on issues such as gun rights and immigration, while sapping the political clout of left-leaning African American voters by undermining their faith in elections and spreading misleading information about how to vote. Many other groups — Latinos, Muslims, Christians, gay men and women, liberals, Southerners, veterans — got at least some attention from Russians operating thousands of social media accounts.

The report also offered some of the first detailed analyses of the role played by YouTube, a subsidiary of Google, and Instagram, owned by Facebook, in the Russian campaign, as well as anecdotes about how Russians used other social media platforms — Google+, Tumblr and Pinterest — that have received relatively little scrutiny. The Russian effort also used email accounts from Yahoo, Microsoft’s Hotmail service and Google’s Gmail.

The authors, while reliant on data provided by technology companies, also highlighted the companies' “belated and uncoordinated response” to the disinformation campaign and, once it was discovered, their failure to share more with investigators. The authors urged that in the future they provide data in “meaningful and constructive” ways.

Facebook, for example, provided the Senate with copies of posts from 81 Facebook pages and information on 76 accounts used to purchase ads, but it did not share posts from other user accounts run by the IRA, the report says. Twitter, meanwhile, has made it challenging for outside researchers to collect and analyze data on its platform through its public feed, the researchers said.

Google submitted information in an especially difficult way for the researchers to handle, providing content such as YouTube videos but not the related data that would have allowed a full analysis. The YouTube information was so hard for the researchers to study, they wrote, that they instead tracked the links to its videos from other sites in hopes of better understanding YouTube’s role in the Russian effort.

Facebook and Google did not immediately respond to requests for comment.

In a statement, Twitter stressed it had made “significant strides” since the 2016 election to harden its digital defenses, including the release of a repository of the tweets that Russian agents previously sent so that for researchers can review them. “Our singular focus is to improve the health of the public conversation on our platform, and protecting the integrity of elections is an important aspect of that mission," the company added.

Facebook, Google and Twitter first disclosed last year that they had identified Russian interference on their sites. Critics previously said that it took too long to come to an understanding of the disinformation campaign, and that Russian strategies have likely shifted since then. The companies have awakened to the threat — Facebook, in particular, created a “war room” this fall to combat interference around elections — but none has revealed interference around the midterm elections last month on the scale of what happened in 2016.

The report expressed concern about the overall threat social media poses to political discourse within nations and among them, warning that companies once viewed as tools for liberation in the Arab world and elsewhere are now threats to democracy.

“Social media have gone from being the natural infrastructure for sharing collective grievances and coordinating civic engagement to being a computational tool for social control, manipulated by canny political consultants and available to politicians in democracies and dictatorships alike,” the report said.

Researchers also noted that the data includes evidence of sloppiness by the Russians that could have led to earlier detection, including the use of Russia’s currency, the ruble, to buy ads and Russian phone numbers for contact information. The operatives also left behind technical signatures in computerized logs, such as Internet addresses in St. Petersburg, where the IRA was based.

Many of the findings track, in general terms, work by other researchers and testimony previously provided by the companies to lawmakers investigating the Russian effort. But the fuller data available to the researchers offered new insights on many aspects of the Russian campaign.

The report traces the origins of Russian online influence operations to Russian domestic politics in 2009 and says that ambitions shifted to include U.S. politics as early as 2013 on Twitter. Of the tweets the company provided to the Senate, 57 percent are in Russian, 36 percent in English and smaller amounts in other languages.

The efforts to manipulate Americans grew sharply in 2014 and every year after, as teams of operatives spread their work across more platforms and accounts to target larger swaths of U.S. voters by geography, political interests, race, religion and other factors. The Russians started with accounts on Twitter, then added YouTube and Instagram before bringing Facebook into the mix, the report said.

Facebook was particularly effective at targeting conservatives and African Americans, the report found. More than 99 percent of all engagement — meaning likes, shares and other reactions — came from 20 Facebook pages controlled by the IRA, including “Being Patriotic,” “Heart of Texas,” “Blacktivist” and “Army of Jesus.”

Together, the 20 most popular pages generated 39 million likes, 31 million shares, 5.4 million reactions and 3.4 million comments. Company officials told Congress that the Russian campaign reached 126 million people on Facebook and 20 million more on Instagram.

The Russians operated 133 accounts on Instagram, a photo-sharing subsidiary of Facebook, that focused mainly on race, ethnicity or other forms of personal identity. The most successful Instagram posts targeted African American cultural issues and black pride and were not explicitly political.

While the overall intensity of posting across platforms grew year by year — with a particular spike during the six months after Election Day 2016 — this growth was particularly pronounced on Instagram, which went from roughly 2,600 posts a month in 2016 to nearly 6,000 in 2017, when the accounts were shut down. Across all three years covered by the report, Russian Instagram posts generated 185 million likes and 4 million user comments.

Even though the researchers struggled to interpret the YouTube data submitted by Google, they were able to track the links from other sites to YouTube, offering a “proxy” for understanding the role played by the video platform.

“The proxy is imperfect,” the researchers wrote, “but the IRA’s heavy use of links to YouTube videos leaves little doubt of the IRA’s interest in leveraging Google’s video platform to target and manipulate US audiences.”

The use of YouTube, like the other platforms, appears to have grown after Trump’s election. Twitter links to YouTube videos grew by 84 percent in the six months after the election, the data showed.

The Russians shrewdly worked across platforms as they refined their tactics aimed at particular groups, posting links across accounts and sites to bolster the influence operation’s success on each, the report shows.

“Black Matters US” had accounts on Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Google+, Tumblr and PayPal, according to the researchers. By linking posts across these platforms, the Russian operatives were able to solicit donations, organize real-world protests and rallies, and direct online traffic to a website that the Russians controlled.

The researchers found that when Facebook shut down the page in August 2016, a new one called “BM” soon appeared with more cultural and fewer political posts. It tracked closely to the content on the @blackmatterus Instagram account.

The report found operatives also began buying Google ads to promote the “BlackMatters US” website with provocative messages such as, “Cops kill black kids. Are you sure that your son won’t be the next?” The related Twitter account, meanwhile, complained about the suspension of the Facebook page, accusing the tech company of “supporting white supremacy.”
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WP: Venäjä halusi loata erikoissyyttäjä Muellerin maineen - valetilien hyökkäykset alkoivat pian nimityksen jälkeen

Venäjä kävi sosiaalisessa mediassa hyökkäykseen Yhdysvaltain oikeusministeriön erikoissyyttäjä Robert Muelleria vastaan pian tämän nimittämisen jälkeen vuonna 2017, kertoo Washington Post.

Washington Postin mukaan Venäjä varusti valetilinsä Facebookissa, Twitterissä ja muilla sosiaalisen median alustoilla hyökkäämään Muelleria vastaan.

Lehden tiedot perustuvat Yhdysvaltain senaatin tiedustelukomitealle luovutettuihin raportteihin.

Venäjän valetilien disinformaatiokampanjassa Mueller esitettiin korruptoituneena. Instagramissa Venäjän somearmeija levitti tietoa, että Mueller olisi menneisyydessään työskennellyt radikaalien islamilaisten ryhmien kanssa.

Lisäksi valetilien kautta tiedot Venäjän sekaantumisesta Yhdysvaltain vuoden 2016 presidentinvaaleihin leimattiin kaistapäisiksi salaliittoteorioiksi.

Washington Postin mukaan Venäjä tulkitsi Muellerin suurimmaksi uhaksi Trumpille, jonka he olivat avittaneet Valkoiseen taloon.
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https://www.iltalehti.fi/ulkomaat/a/550363bd-cebc-4935-8f58-8c572f967398
 
Venäjä siis sekaantunut vaaleihin julkistettua enemmän - vai oliko se kuitenkin 200 kiloinen poika jossain kellarissa kuten Trump peitteli tätä vaikka tiesi paremmin - ja nyt osallistuu erikoistutkija Muellerin dissaamiseen (kts yllä). Ei tunnu jenkit saavan tätä kuriin.

Toisaalla, Trump itse (mm mahdollinen oikeuden estäminen), hänen kampanjansa (mahdollinen yhteistyö ulkoisen valtion kanssa), hänen yrityksensä (mahdollinen rahanpesu vaalikampanjan tukemisessa, mahdolliset lahjusten - emoluments - vastaanottamiset ulkoisilta valtioilta), hänen hyväntekeväisyyssäätinsä (mahdollinen luvaton kampanjan tukeminen), hänen poikansa (Don Jr ja Trump Tower tapaamine - I'd love it!), ...

Pyydänkin, että Trump täsmentäisi, mitä prosessia hän erityisesti tarkoittaa, kun seuraavan kerran huutaa Noita Vaino. Tässä menee maallikko jo sekaisin. 17 tutkimusprosessia auki jo ainakin

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Republikaanit onneksi heräännet jo tutkimaan - Hillary sähköposteja

https://twitter.com/x/status/1074766004129914880

Entinen Government Ethics -johtaja Shaub: Historia muistaa kyllä kenen joukoissa seisoit

https://twitter.com/x/status/1074854674887598080

Meno alkaa olla jo aika hurjaa.
 
No äläpä. Facebookin ceo puheli kuulemisessa venäjän käyttäneen 75000 dollaria mainoksiin ja hillaryn kampanjahan maksoi miljardin. Mueller tuhonnu 19000 tekstaria strzokin luurista, mutta onneksi massavalvonta ja silleen, löytys. Fyysisiä uhkia ja suunnitelmia trumpin tuhonnasta jne. On se touhua siellä, eikös senaattikin vaatinut hillaryn pidätystä, kun olikin voittoa tavoittamattomaksi rekisteröity ja touhusi profitilla ulkomaiaten toimijoiden kanssa. Hiton isot verot jäi sitten maksamatta.
 
Voi vain kuvitella mitä saa Facebookista kymmenillä tai sadoillatuhansilla. Itse laitoin muutaman kympin ja tavoitin tuhansia kahdessa päivässä. Mainokset pystyy kohdistamaan erittäin hyvin iän, sukupuolen ja kiinnostuksen kohteiden mukaan joita on valmiiksi listattuna.
 
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No äläpä. Facebookin ceo puheli kuulemisessa venäjän käyttäneen 75000 dollaria mainoksiin ja hillaryn kampanjahan maksoi miljardin. Mueller tuhonnu 19000 tekstaria strzokin luurista, mutta onneksi massavalvonta ja silleen, löytys. Fyysisiä uhkia ja suunnitelmia trumpin tuhonnasta jne. On se touhua siellä, eikös senaattikin vaatinut hillaryn pidätystä, kun olikin voittoa tavoittamattomaksi rekisteröity ja touhusi profitilla ulkomaiaten toimijoiden kanssa. Hiton isot verot jäi sitten maksamatta.
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Kongressin republikaani-instanssit tutkivat Hillaryä ja demarit Trumpia, näin se demokratia toimii ja yrittää pitää osapuolet rehellisinä kurissa ja herran nuhteessa.

Lisäksi toki nämä erikoistutkimukset, ja Muellerin tutkimushan on republikaanien ja Trumpin nimittämien henkilöiden aloittamia ja johtamia.

Oikeuslaitos sitten aikaan sanoo sanansa, ainakin mitä tulee siviilioikeuden piiriin kuuluvissa asioissa. Presidentin kohtalon määräävät poliitikot yhdessä, eli edustajainhuoneen ja senaatin selvä enemmistö, mikäli impeachment -menettely käynnistyy.

Tuleeko sellaista, on täysin auki, ja Pelosi on julkisesti kertonut linjakseen, että ei halua mitään impeachment-menettelyjä ennen kuin Mueller on raportoinut, ja sittenkin vasta jos jotain vakavaa. Esimerkiksi nuo pornotähtien vaientamisrahat eivät demareiden mielestä (mm. tämän Politicon artikkelin mukaan) ole sellaisia.

Lisäksi Pelosin kannan kerrotaan olevan, että jos tällaista vakavaa löytyy, ja impeachment äänet löytyvät, niin silloin käydään pikemminkin hiljaa vinkkaamassa Trumpille, että eroa, muutoin käy kuin Kälviällä. Impeachment ei ole - tai sen ei pitäisi olla - mikään leikin asia.

Uotellaan.

Muoks: Yliviivasin tuon "rehellisinä" sanan tuolla alussa, tässä yhteydessä ei taida maan rehellisiä löytyä noilta turuilta ja toreilta vaikka kuinka tonkisi :camo:
 
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Voi vain kuvitella mitä saa Facebookista kymmenillä tai sadoillatuhansilla. Itse laitoin muutaman kympin ja tavoitin tuhansia kahdessa päivässä. Mainokset pystyy kohdistamaan erittäin hyvin iän, sukupuolen ja kiinnostuksen kohteiden mukaan joita on valmiiksi listattuna.
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Hyvä yhteenveto suomeksi eikä ole maksumuurinkaan takana joten laitetaan tänne. Maunulan johtopäätelmä:

TOISTAISEKSI on vaikea nähdä, että Trumpin suosio kongressin republikaanien parissa laskisi niin paljon, että valtakunnanoikeudesta tulisi varteenotettava vaihtoehto. Republikaaniäänestäjien selkeä enemmistö seisoo edelleen Trumpin takana.

Valtakunnanoikeutta todennäköisempi vaihtoehto on, että syytökset halvaannuttavat Trumpin poliittisesti. Yhä suurempi osa presidentin ajasta näyttää menevän raivoamiseen twitterissä.

Presidentin huomion keskittyminen häneen kohdistettuihin tutkimuksiin, yhdistettynä Trumpin hallinnon jatkuvaan kaaokseen ja miehen matalaan energiatasoon sekä hiipuvaan kiinnostukseen hallitsemista kohtaan, on toistaiseksi merkittävämpi vaara presidentin ja republikaanien agendalle kuin valtakunnanoikeus.
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Koko artikkeli:

Vaikka istuvaa presidenttiä ei voisi syyttää rikoksista, Trump voi halvaantua poliittisesti
BLOGIT AMERICANA 17.12.2018 17:16
MARKO MAUNULA

Kirjoittaja on Yhdysvaltain historian professori Atlantassa.

LIKI jokainen osa-alue presidentti Donald Trumpin julkisesta elämästä on rikostutkimusten kohteena.

Viranomaiset tutkivat parhaillaan presidentin vaalikampanjaa, virkaanastujaisia, taloudellista toimintaa ehdokkaana ja presidenttinä sekä Trumpin säätiötä. Erikoissyyttäjä Robert Mueller ei ole yksin asialla. Myös liittovaltion ja New Yorkin osavaltion tutkijat ovat selvittelemässä Trumpin operaatioiden laillisuutta.

Mahdollisten rikosten lista on pitkä ja monimutkainen, ja jätän niiden yksityiskohtaisen selittämisen uutismedian tehtäväksi. Kun epäiltynä on presidentti, hänen ongelmansa ovat paitsi rikosoikeudellisia myös poliittisia.

TOISTAISEKSI kolme henkilöä Trumpin joukkueesta on tuomittu eri pituisiin vankeusrangaistuksiin, mutta tutkimukset esimerkiksi virkavalatilaisuuden taloudellisista epäselvyyksistä ovat vasta alkusuoralla.

Tärkein kysymys on tietenkin mahdollisten rikosten koko luonteen ja mittakaavan selvittäminen. Siihen liittyen tutkijoiden on selvitettävä, mitä presidentti tiesi vaikkapa vaalikampanjansa laittomuuksista ja osallistuiko hän itse aktiivisesti lain rikkomiseen.

Trumpin entisen asianajajan, vankeuteen juuri tuomitun Michael Coheninmukaan Trump käski hänen maksaa pornotähti Stormy Danielsille pitääkseen tämän hiljaisena. Ottaen huomioon tapahtumien ajankohdan kyseessä on kampanjalainsäädännön vastainen toiminta, eli rikos.

KOSKA syyttäjien lausunnot ja virkavallan toimet eivät näytä suosiollisilta Trumpille, hän on puolustautunut politisoimalla tutkimuksen hänen toimistaan. Hän on syyttänyt FBI:ta, omaa oikeusministeriötään, Muelleria ja muita itseensä liittyviä operaatioita tutkivia tahoja poliittisesta ajojahdista ja jopa laittomuuksista.

Trumpin kannalta hänen lausuntonsa ovat rationaalisia. Tutkimusten syyttäminen poliittiseksi ajojahdiksi on tehokas strategia. Presidentin epäillyt rikokset ovat aina luonteeltaan paitsi rikosoikeuksellisia myös poliittisia.

Luonnollisesti lausunnot nakertavat uskoa oikeusvaltioon ja amerikkalaisiin instituutioihin, mutta Trumpin henkilöhistoria osoittaa, että hänen etunsa menee aina kaiken muun edelle. Se ei silti tarkoita, etteikö joissain Trumpin väitteissä olisi jonkin sortin pointti.

OIKEUSOPPINEET ovat eri mieltä keskenään siitä, josko istuvaa presidenttiä voidaan edes syyttää rikoksista. Yhdysvaltojen perustuslaki ei anna kysymykseen selkeää vastausta, ja yleinen käytäntö on ollut, että presidentin mahdolliset rikkomukset menevät kongressin pyörittämään valtakunnanoikeuteen.

Valtakunnanoikeus on, luonnollisesti, vankan poliittinen. Syytetyn kannatus edustajien vaalipiirissä vaikuttaa merkittävästi edustajien syytön/syyllinen-päätökseen (vrt. tapaus Bill Clinton).

TOISTAISEKSI on vaikea nähdä, että Trumpin suosio kongressin republikaanien parissa laskisi niin paljon, että valtakunnanoikeudesta tulisi varteenotettava vaihtoehto. Republikaaniäänestäjien selkeä enemmistö seisoo edelleen Trumpin takana.

Valtakunnanoikeutta todennäköisempi vaihtoehto on, että syytökset halvaannuttavat Trumpin poliittisesti. Yhä suurempi osa presidentin ajasta näyttää menevän raivoamiseen twitterissä.

Presidentin huomion keskittyminen häneen kohdistettuihin tutkimuksiin, yhdistettynä Trumpin hallinnon jatkuvaan kaaokseen ja miehen matalaan energiatasoon sekä hiipuvaan kiinnostukseen hallitsemista kohtaan, on toistaiseksi merkittävämpi vaara presidentin ja republikaanien agendalle kuin valtakunnanoikeus.
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Halvaantuu niin ei pääse toiselle kaudelle. Sen jälkeen kaikki hyvin. Ehkä saadaan se lievästi ylipainoinen tummahipiäinen naisoletettu presidentiksi. Olisi se onnenpäivä monille suomalaisillekin toimittajille, voitaisiin juhlia kaikki yhdessä käsi kädessä :)
 
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Halvaantuu niin ei pääse toiselle kaudelle. Sen jälkeen kaikki hyvin. Ehkä saadaan se lievästi ylipainoinen tummahipiäinen naisoletettu presidentiksi. Olisi se onnenpäivä monille suomalaisillekin toimittajille, voitaisiin juhlia kaikki yhdessä käsi kädessä :)
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Vastustan periaatteesta tämän kaltaista narratiivia (en sinällään tätä kevennystäsi, huomasin kyllä emoticonin), että Putinin taskussa olevalle Trumpille ei olisi hyviä, isänmaallisia, taloutta ja politiikkaa taitavia vaihtoehtoja. Tasan varmasti on.
 
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Ei niin. Sitten kun tällainen valetili tekee julkaisun, niin sitä julkaisua mainostetaan, että se näkyy. Juuri tänään luin raporttia, että on käytetty nimenomaan Fb tilien yksittäisten julkaisujen mainostamiseen se 100-tuhatta ja tätä pidetään vain pienenä osana kokonaisuutta mitä nettivaikuttamiseen käytettiin. Tällä "pienellä" osalla ja taloudellisella panostuksella saavutettiin monia miljoonia näyttöjä.
 
Donald Trumpin säätiön toiminta lopetetaan oikeuden päätöksellä ja oikeus päättää jäljellä olevien varojen kohtalosta. Säätiön lopettaminen johtuu New Yorkin syyttäjän tutkimuksesta jonka mukaan säätiö rikkoi tietoisesti ja toistuvasti lakia. Säätiö mm. laittomasti koordinoi toimintaansa Trumpin presidentinvaalikampanjan kanssa.
The Donald J. Trump Foundation will close and give away all its remaining funds amid a lawsuit accusing the charity and the Trump family of using it illegally for self-dealing and political gain, the New York attorney general’s office announced Tuesday.

The attorney general, Barbara Underwood, accused the foundation of “a shocking pattern of illegality” that was “willful and repeated” and included unlawfully coordinating with Mr. Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign.

“This amounted to the Trump Foundation functioning as little more than a checkbook to serve Mr. Trump’s business and political interests,” Ms. Underwood said.

The closure of the foundation is a milestone in the investigation. But the broader lawsuit, which also seeks millions in restitution and penalties and a bar on President Trump and his three oldest children from serving on the boards of other New York charities, is proceeding.

Ms. Underwood and a lawyer for the foundation signed the stipulation agreeing to the dissolution. The foundation’s remaining assets are to be redistributed under judicial supervision.

“This is an important victory for the rule of law, making clear that there is one set of rules for everyone,” Ms. Underwood said. “We’ll continue to move our suit forward to ensure that the Trump Foundation and its directors are held to account for their clear and repeated violations of state and federal law.”

The Trump Foundation’s lawyer did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Mr. Trump had said after the 2016 election that he would dissolve the foundation to avoid any appearance of conflict of interest. But the attorney general’s office said that such a move would require its approval, given the continuing investigation.

Ms. Underwood’s office sued the Trump Foundation in June, charging it with “improper and extensive political activity, repeated and willful self-dealing transactions, and failure to follow basic fiduciary obligations or to implement even elementary corporate formalities required by law.”

Nonprofit foundations are supposed to be devoted to charitable activities, but the attorney general’s office, following a two-year investigation, accused the Trump Foundation of being used to win political favor and even purchase a $10,000 portrait of Mr. Trump that was displayed at one of his golf clubs. The existence of the portrait was first reported by The Washington Post.
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The lawsuit accused the foundation of virtually becoming an arm of the Trump campaign, with its campaign manager, Corey Lewandowski, directing the foundation to make disbursements in Iowa only days before the state held its presidential nominating caucuses.

“Is there any way we can make some disbursements [from the proceeds of the fund-raiser] this week while in Iowa? Specifically on Saturday,” Mr. Lewandowski wrote to the foundation’s treasurer in an email disclosed in the lawsuit.

The attorney general’s office is seeking for the Trump Foundation to pay $2.8 million in restitution, which is the amount raised for the foundation at an Iowa fund-raiser in 2016 that Mr. Trump held on the day that he avoided attending a debate with his Republican rivals. The foundation reported $1.7 million in assets in 2017 to the Internal Revenue Service.

“I won’t settle this case!” Mr. Trump posted on Twitter in June, accusing “the sleazy New York Democrats” of targeting him.

The foundation lawsuit follows years of scrutiny of President Trump’s charitable activities and adds to his extensive legal challenges, amid a continuing investigation by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III.
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Voi vain kuvitella mitä saa Facebookista kymmenillä tai sadoillatuhansilla. Itse laitoin muutaman kympin ja tavoitin tuhansia kahdessa päivässä. Mainokset pystyy kohdistamaan erittäin hyvin iän, sukupuolen ja kiinnostuksen kohteiden mukaan joita on valmiiksi listattuna.
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Ja Putin ainoana maailmassa tiesi tämän. Kukaan muu ei tätä ymmärtänyt että muutamalla sadalla tuhannella valitaan USAn pressa. On se nero! Fiksumpaa jätkää saa hakea. Hillarykin pisti miljardin haisemaan, mutta Putin ropoilla valitsi pressan:ROFLMAO::ROFLMAO:

Lupaan että jos voitan erojaakos niin mä valitten seuraavan pressan. Toivotaan vain että muut ei tätä hoksaa.
 
Historian lyhyimmän ajan presidentin turvallisuusneuvonajana olleen Michael Flynnin tuomion julistamista siirrettiin kunnes on selvillä tarvitaanko häntä vielä Muellerin tutkimuksissa. Tuomari kertoi Flynnille pitävänsä hänen toimintaansa kuvottavana ja kertoi Flynnin myyneen maansa. Tuomari jopa kysyi syyttäjältä syyllistyikö Flynn maanpetokseen, syyttäjä vastasi ettei syyllistynyt.
A federal judge on Tuesday postponed the sentencing of Michael T. Flynn, President Trump’s first national security adviser, after warning Mr. Flynn that he could face prison for lying to federal investigators about his conversations with the Russian ambassador during the presidential transition and hiding his role lobbying for Turkey.

At Mr. Flynn’s sentencing hearing in Federal District Court in Washington, Judge Emmet G. Sullivan called Mr. Flynn’s crimes “a very serious offense” and said he was not hiding his “disgust” at what Mr. Flynn had done.

“All along you were an unregistered agent of a foreign country while serving as the national security adviser,” the judge told Mr. Flynn. “Arguably that undermines everything that this flag over here stands for. Arguably you sold your country out.”

But Judge Sullivan gave Mr. Flynn the option of delaying the sentencing until he had completed his cooperation agreement with federal prosecutors. “I cannot assure that if you proceed today you will not receive a sentence of incarceration,” Judge Sullivan told Mr. Flynn.

After a short recess, Mr. Flynn returned to the courtroom to take the judge up on his offer.

Mr. Flynn faces up to six months in prison, but federal prosecutors have recommended a lenient sentence, including the possibility of probation, because Mr. Flynn has provided “substantial help” with multiple criminal inquiries.

During the sentencing hearing, Judge Sullivan questioned Mr. Flynn and his lawyer about their earlier suggestion that F.B.I. agents might have tricked Mr. Flynn by failing to inform him before they interviewed him nearly two years ago that lying to them would constitute a federal crime.

Mr. Flynn told the court that he was not challenging the circumstances of the interview and that he knew lying to the F.B.I. was a crime. In doing so, Mr. Flynn distanced himself from Mr. Trump’s efforts to suggest misconduct by the F.B.I. in the investigation by the special counsel, Robert S. Mueller III.

Mr. Flynn is the highest-ranking aide to Mr. Trump to face sentencing in the special counsel’s investigation of Russia’s interference in the 2016 presidential election and the Trump campaign. His case has marked an extraordinary fall from grace for a retired three-star general who once headed one of the nation’s most important military intelligence operations, the Defense Intelligence Agency.

Prosecutors have refused to disclose publicly the details of how Mr. Flynn, 59, helped them during 19 interviews over the past year, redacting paragraph after paragraph of their sentencing memo to the judge. His lawyer, Robert K. Kelner, said in court on Tuesday that Mr. Flynn’s cooperation was “very largely complete” but that Mr. Flynn wanted to make sure he got full credit for further assistance to prosecutors before being sentenced.

Judge Sullivan made abundantly clear throughout the proceedings that he viewed the crimes admitted to by Mr. Flynn as extraordinarily serious and a betrayal of the trust placed in him as a high-ranking White House official. At one point he even asked prosecutors if Mr. Flynn might have committed treason. (The prosecutor in the case, Brandon L. Van Grack, said no.)

The special counsel’s office is investigating whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice, including by asking James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director at the time, to end the investigation of Mr. Flynn in early 2017. It is unclear whether Mr. Flynn knew about the president’s reported attempt to intervene on his behalf.

On Monday, federal prosecutors in Virginia unsealed an indictment accusing two of Mr. Flynn’s former business associates of violating foreign lobbying rules. Prosecutors said the two men conspired with Turkey in 2016 to pressure the United States to expel a rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Prosecutors said Tuesday that Mr. Flynn aided them in the case.

In arguing for probation, Mr. Flynn’s lawyers had cited his lengthy military service, his cooperation with prosecutors and his contrition.

Judge Sullivan made abundantly clear throughout the proceedings that he viewed the crimes admitted to by Mr. Flynn as extraordinarily serious and a betrayal of the trust placed in him as a high-ranking White House official. At one point he even asked prosecutors if Mr. Flynn might have committed treason. (The prosecutor in the case, Brandon L. Van Grack, said no.)

The special counsel’s office is investigating whether Mr. Trump obstructed justice, including by asking James B. Comey, the F.B.I. director at the time, to end the investigation of Mr. Flynn in early 2017. It is unclear whether Mr. Flynn knew about the president’s reported attempt to intervene on his behalf.

On Monday, federal prosecutors in Virginia unsealed an indictment accusing two of Mr. Flynn’s former business associates of violating foreign lobbying rules. Prosecutors said the two men conspired with Turkey in 2016 to pressure the United States to expel a rival of President Recep Tayyip Erdogan. Prosecutors said Tuesday that Mr. Flynn aided them in the case.

In arguing for probation, Mr. Flynn’s lawyers had cited his lengthy military service, his cooperation with prosecutors and his contrition.
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