{"id":12766,"date":"2016-02-03T20:40:04","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12766"},"modified":"2016-02-03T20:40:04","modified_gmt":"2016-02-03T20:40:04","slug":"the-real-trump-emerges-quickly-after-defeat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12766","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;real&#8217; Trump emerges quickly after defeat"},"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\/2016\/02\/screen_shot_2016-02-03_at_8.46.34_am.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12768\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12768\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/screen_shot_2016-02-03_at_8.46.34_am-300x224.png\" alt=\"screen_shot_2016-02-03_at_8.46.34_am\" width=\"300\" height=\"224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/screen_shot_2016-02-03_at_8.46.34_am-300x224.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/screen_shot_2016-02-03_at_8.46.34_am.png 303w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>So much for the gracious Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It was a disguise that presented itself when Trump made a brief, but gracious concession speech after losing the Iowa Republican presidential caucus to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Here comes the other Trump. He now accuses Cruz of political theft. Cruz &#8220;stole&#8221; the caucus, Trump said. He&#8217;s demanding a re-vote.<\/p>\n<p>Good luck with that one, Mr. Real Estate Mogul\/Reality TV Personality.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/donald-trump-says-ted-cruz-stole-iowa\/ar-BBp4wVm?li=BBnb7Kz\">As is usually the case, <\/a>Trump offered zero details to accompany his allegation that Cruz pilfered the election.<\/p>\n<p>Ah, but his supporters still love him. They&#8217;re willing to look past the outrageousness of his claim that Cruz didn&#8217;t win the GOP caucus fairly and squarely.<\/p>\n<p>This is the kind of reaction we can expect from Trump whenever he gets thumped by his competitors.<\/p>\n<p>If that is the way it&#8217;s going to be, what on Earth can we expect from this guy when he gets dissed by, say, world leaders. Oh, I forgot. That means he would have to get <em>elected president of the United States.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Displays such as his poor sportsmanship over losing an election tell me he won&#8217;t ever set foot in the Oval Office as commander in chief.<\/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>So much for the gracious Donald J. Trump. It was a disguise that presented itself when Trump made a brief, but gracious concession speech after losing the Iowa Republican presidential caucus to Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas. Here comes the other Trump. He now accuses Cruz of political theft. Cruz &#8220;stole&#8221; the caucus, Trump said. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12766\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The &#8216;real&#8217; Trump emerges quickly after defeat<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[1424,5934,2308,4537],"class_list":["post-12766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-election-theft","tag-iowa-caucus","tag-ted-cruz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766","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=12766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12769,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12766\/revisions\/12769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}