{"id":12189,"date":"2016-01-02T14:39:57","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T14:39:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12189"},"modified":"2016-01-02T14:40:39","modified_gmt":"2016-01-02T14:40:39","slug":"trump-shows-up-on-terror-video-who-knew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12189","title":{"rendered":"Trump shows up on terror video . . .  who knew?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/terrorism1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-11884\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11884\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/terrorism1-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"terrorism1\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/terrorism1-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/terrorism1-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/terrorism1.jpg 950w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here we go. Donald Trump has shown up on a terrorist recruitment video produced by Al-Shabaab.<\/p>\n<p>Remember when Hillary Rodham Clinton lambasted Trump&#8217;s anti-Muslim rants as providing fodder for terrorist groups? Trump called her a liar. So did his supporters.<\/p>\n<p>To be clear, Clinton&#8217;s contention did not include visual evidence of such a video at the time she made it during the latest Democratic presidential candidate debate.<\/p>\n<p>But now there appears to be actual video out there purporting to show clips of Trump&#8217;s anti-Muslim rhetoric.<\/p>\n<p>It makes me wonder, though: Did the publicity surrounding Clinton&#8217;s accusation give the terrorists the idea to include Trump in the recruitment video? Or was the video in production all along?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2016\/01\/02\/middleeast\/al-shabaab-video-trump\/\">It&#8217;ll be tough to pin down <\/a>cause-and-effect here. Suffice to say, though, that Trump&#8217;s fiery rhetoric &#8212; the words that spit in the face of what\u00a0the Republican presidential frontrunner calls &#8220;political correctness&#8221; &#8212; may have produced a consequence we all are likely to regret.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here we go. Donald Trump has shown up on a terrorist recruitment video produced by Al-Shabaab. Remember when Hillary Rodham Clinton lambasted Trump&#8217;s anti-Muslim rants as providing fodder for terrorist groups? Trump called her a liar. So did his supporters. To be clear, Clinton&#8217;s contention did not include visual evidence of such a video at &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12189\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump shows up on terror video . . .  who knew?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,13,14],"tags":[224,1424,1944,2139,3640,5830],"class_list":["post-12189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-al-shabaab","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop-campaign","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-political-correctness","tag-terror-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12189"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12189\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12191,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12189\/revisions\/12191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}