{"id":14952,"date":"2016-06-01T02:49:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-01T02:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14952"},"modified":"2016-06-01T02:49:07","modified_gmt":"2016-06-01T02:49:07","slug":"this-man-must-think-the-media-will-go-soft-on-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14952","title":{"rendered":"This man must think the media will go soft on him"},"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\/06\/trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-14953\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/trump-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump reads from a list of donations to veteran's groups, during a news conference in New York, Tuesday, May 31, 2016. (AP Photo\/Richard Drew) ORG XMIT: NYRD102\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/trump-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/trump-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/trump-1024x683.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s exhibition of petulance was a sight to behold.<\/p>\n<p>Standing before reporters who had gathered to question him about whether he&#8217;d actually raised the money he said he had raised for veterans, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee sought to turn the tables on the questioners.<\/p>\n<p>He called one of them a &#8220;sleaze.&#8221; He called another one a &#8220;loser.&#8221; He called the media &#8220;dishonest,&#8221; and the political media even more dishonest than that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/05\/trump-veterans-donations-223730\">http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/05\/trump-veterans-donations-223730<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He proclaimed that he didn&#8217;t want to make the veterans contributions a big public deal. Oh, but when he backed out of a Fox News debate, he said out loud and in public that he&#8217;d raised $6 million and given a million bucks himself.<\/p>\n<p>Media representatives have questioned whether Trump actually raised the money for the veterans. They want Trump to account for the money.<\/p>\n<p>And for that they get called &#8220;sleazy&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Does this individual &#8212; the GOP nominee in waiting &#8212; expect the media to back off in the highly unlikely event he&#8217;s ever elected president?<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the press conference in its entirety. It&#8217;s gone viral out there in Social Media Land.<\/p>\n<p>Then get back to me and tell me this guy really is suited for the job he is seeking.<\/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>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s exhibition of petulance was a sight to behold. Standing before reporters who had gathered to question him about whether he&#8217;d actually raised the money he said he had raised for veterans, the presumptive Republican presidential nominee sought to turn the tables on the questioners. He called one of them a &#8220;sleaze.&#8221; He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14952\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">This man must think the media will go soft on him<\/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":[1424,1788,6162,5093],"class_list":["post-14952","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-political-media","tag-veterans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14952","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=14952"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14952\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14954,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14952\/revisions\/14954"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14952"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14952"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14952"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}