{"id":16432,"date":"2016-08-11T15:24:56","date_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:24:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16432"},"modified":"2016-08-11T15:24:56","modified_gmt":"2016-08-11T15:24:56","slug":"trump-is-every-bit-the-politician","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16432","title":{"rendered":"Trump is every bit the politician"},"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\/08\/donald_trump7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-16434\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/donald_trump7-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Donald Trump speaks during the National Rifle Association's annual meeting in Nashville, Tennessee April 10, 2015.  REUTERS\/Harrison McClary  - RTR4WVBQ\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/donald_trump7-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/donald_trump7.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s surrogates and fans keep repeating the same inaccurate mantra about the Republican presidential nominee.<\/p>\n<p>One of them repeated it this morning to MSNBC anchor Kate Snow.<\/p>\n<p>They say he &#8220;is not a politician.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I beg to differ. Vehemently.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s why.<\/p>\n<p>Trump became a politician the moment a year ago when he announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States. Was he a politician before that moment? Well, no. You know his story: real estate mogul, business owner, reality TV celebrity, beauty pageant operator &#8230; and some other stuff that has nothing to do with running a country.<\/p>\n<p>But the dictionary defines politicians as those individuals who seek or hold political office.<\/p>\n<p>There. That settles it for me.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is a politician.<\/p>\n<p>Now, will the Trumpkins stop repeating an <em>untruth<\/em> about their candidate?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, wait &#8230;<\/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 surrogates and fans keep repeating the same inaccurate mantra about the Republican presidential nominee. One of them repeated it this morning to MSNBC anchor Kate Snow. They say he &#8220;is not a politician.&#8221; I beg to differ. Vehemently. Here&#8217;s why. Trump became a politician the moment a year ago when he announced &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=16432\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump is every bit the politician<\/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":[1424,3155,3652],"class_list":["post-16432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-msnbc","tag-politicians"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432","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=16432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16435,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16432\/revisions\/16435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}