{"id":15320,"date":"2016-06-17T02:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T02:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15320"},"modified":"2016-06-17T02:49:44","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T02:49:44","slug":"trump-to-allies-stand-with-me-or-be-quiet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15320","title":{"rendered":"Trump to &#8216;allies&#8217;: Stand with me or &#8216;be quiet&#8217;"},"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\/donald-trump-angry-caricature-flickr-cc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15214\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/donald-trump-angry-caricature-flickr-cc-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"donald-trump-angry-caricature-flickr-cc\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/donald-trump-angry-caricature-flickr-cc-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/donald-trump-angry-caricature-flickr-cc-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/donald-trump-angry-caricature-flickr-cc-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/donald-trump-angry-caricature-flickr-cc.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump is asking his fellow Republican politicians to do the utterly impossible.<\/p>\n<p>The presumptive GOP presidential nominee wants Republican leaders in Congress to stand with him or &#8220;be quiet.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Think about that for a moment.<\/p>\n<p>Politicians who see their calling as requiring them to speak out are being asked to zip their lips. Trump said that he&#8217;ll do well &#8220;on my own&#8221; campaigning against Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>This is yet another example of Trump showing an utter lack of understanding of the political process in which he is an active participant.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Paul Ryan says he is distressed at what he calls Trump&#8217;s &#8220;racist&#8221; comments about a federal judge, Gonzalo Curiel. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell has been vocal as well in criticizing Trump&#8217;s string of harsh pronouncements.<\/p>\n<p>Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus has criticized Trump&#8217;s proposal to an Muslims from entering the country.<\/p>\n<p>Earth to Trump: You need these people in your corner if you are going to have even a prayer of defeating Clinton this fall.<\/p>\n<p>And you&#8217;re telling &#8217;em to &#8220;be quiet&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>No &#8230; can &#8230; do.<\/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 is asking his fellow Republican politicians to do the utterly impossible. The presumptive GOP presidential nominee wants Republican leaders in Congress to stand with him or &#8220;be quiet.&#8221; Think about that for a moment. Politicians who see their calling as requiring them to speak out are being asked to zip their lips. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=15320\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump to &#8216;allies&#8217;: Stand with me or &#8216;be quiet&#8217;<\/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":[1424,2139,3099,3524,3878,3967],"class_list":["post-15320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-mitch-mcconnell","tag-paul-ryan","tag-reince-priebus","tag-rnc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320","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=15320"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15323,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15320\/revisions\/15323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}