{"id":13826,"date":"2016-03-31T19:12:07","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T19:12:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13826"},"modified":"2016-03-31T19:12:07","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T19:12:07","slug":"trump-does-the-impossible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13826","title":{"rendered":"Trump does the impossible"},"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\/03\/abortion-debate1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13829\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-13829\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/abortion-debate1-300x163.jpg\" alt=\"abortion-debate1\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/abortion-debate1-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/abortion-debate1.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Of all the commentary being tossed around in the aftermath of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s absurd assertion that women should be &#8220;punished&#8221; for obtaining an illegal abortion, the most interesting came from a Republican strategist who doubles as a commentator for CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Anna Navarro said this morning that Trump managed to do the &#8220;impossible,&#8221; which she said was that he managed to anger both the pro-choice and pro-life sides of the abortion divide at the same instant.<\/p>\n<p>Trump told MSNBC interviewer Chris Matthews at a televised town hall meeting in Green Bay, Wis., that women &#8220;probably&#8221; should face some punishment if they got an illegal abortion. Matthews questioned Trump on how the government could make abortion actually &#8220;illegal,&#8221; to which Trump didn&#8217;t have an answer.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican primary campaign presidential frontrunner quickly backed off that statement, declaring that the doctor should be the one facing punishment, not the woman &#8212; who he described as a &#8220;victim&#8221; of the illegal act.<\/p>\n<p>That didn&#8217;t go over well at all with the pro-choice crowd.<\/p>\n<p>The pro-life crowd, meanwhile, was still steaming over the notion that a woman could be punished for obtaining an abortion.<\/p>\n<p>And so the drama continues.<\/p>\n<p>The fun factor of this campaign just keeps getting stronger.<\/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>Of all the commentary being tossed around in the aftermath of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s absurd assertion that women should be &#8220;punished&#8221; for obtaining an illegal abortion, the most interesting came from a Republican strategist who doubles as a commentator for CNN. Anna Navarro said this morning that Trump managed to do the &#8220;impossible,&#8221; which she &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=13826\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump does the impossible<\/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":[11,13,14],"tags":[6104,969,1043,1424,3155,3750,3751],"class_list":["post-13826","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-anna-navarro","tag-chris-matthews","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-msnbc","tag-pro-choice","tag-pro-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826","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=13826"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13830,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13826\/revisions\/13830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13826"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13826"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13826"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}