{"id":16157,"date":"2016-07-27T18:04:54","date_gmt":"2016-07-27T18:04:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16157"},"modified":"2016-07-27T18:04:54","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T18:04:54","slug":"trump-keeps-straying-over-the-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16157","title":{"rendered":"Trump keeps straying over &#8216;the line&#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\/07\/BBuXnWg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-16158\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/BBuXnWg-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"BBuXnWg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/BBuXnWg-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/BBuXnWg.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m trying to process this latest bit of news regarding the Republican Party&#8217;s nominee for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump &#8212; if I understand this correctly &#8212; has called on Russia to locate some missing e-mails belonging to his Democratic Party opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton. He has suggested the Russians should\u00a0hack into her e-mails, those that were deleted from her personal account while she was serving as secretary of state.<\/p>\n<p>If they do, Trump said, they would be rewarded by the American media.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m left to wonder: Has a major-party presidential nominee just asked a major geopolitical foe of this country &#8212; of <em>his<\/em> country &#8212; to put our national security into potential jeopardy?<\/p>\n<p>Aren&#8217;t there charges that could be filed in relation to such utterly reckless and dangerous rhetoric coming from someone who&#8217;s about to start receiving classified briefings from the president&#8217;s National Security Council?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/donald-trump-calls-on-russia-to-find-hillary-clinton%E2%80%99s-missing-emails\/ar-BBuXlAC?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/donald-trump-calls-on-russia-to-find-hillary-clinton%E2%80%99s-missing-emails\/ar-BBuXlAC?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>If the Russians were to hack into some cyber storage area where those e-mails might be kept, what on Earth else would they be able to find?<\/p>\n<p>Clinton and the Democrats are calling Trump a &#8220;dangerous&#8221; individual. They are echoing the language uttered during the primary season by his Republican foes.<\/p>\n<p>This irresponsible suggestion by the GOP presidential nominee only demonstrates the grave danger he would pose as our head of government.<\/p>\n<p><em>Unbelievable!<\/em><\/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>I&#8217;m trying to process this latest bit of news regarding the Republican Party&#8217;s nominee for president of the United States. Donald J. Trump &#8212; if I understand this correctly &#8212; has called on Russia to locate some missing e-mails belonging to his Democratic Party opponent, Hillary Rodham Clinton. He has suggested the Russians should\u00a0hack into &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16157\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump keeps straying over &#8216;the line&#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":[5355,1406,1424,1941,2139,3967,4050],"class_list":["post-16157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-clinton-e-mails","tag-dnc","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-rnc","tag-russia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16157","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=16157"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16159,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16157\/revisions\/16159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}