{"id":17110,"date":"2016-09-19T21:36:44","date_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17110"},"modified":"2016-09-19T21:36:44","modified_gmt":"2016-09-19T21:36:44","slug":"how-many-more-instances-of-trump-ignorance-are-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17110","title":{"rendered":"How many more instances of Trump ignorance are there?"},"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\/09\/2d-amendment.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17111\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2d-amendment-300x240.jpg\" alt=\"2d-amendment\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2d-amendment-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2d-amendment-768x614.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/2d-amendment.jpg 960w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This graphic showed up on my Facebook news feed, so I thought I&#8217;d share it here &#8230; and offer a quick comment.<\/p>\n<p>The item here illustrates a fundamental failure of the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States, Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>He has said at various times that Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton wants to abolish the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. What that blanket comment made on the campaign stump reveals is the candidate&#8217;s utter ignorance of the power invested in the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The president cannot abolish a constitutional amendment.<\/p>\n<p>Congress has to have a say. So do the states. As the graphic illustrates, it takes a super-majority in both cases for an amendment to be added &#8212; or rescinded.<\/p>\n<p>None of that stops Trump from fomenting fear.<\/p>\n<p>The man has no clue about the limits of presidential power.<\/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>This graphic showed up on my Facebook news feed, so I thought I&#8217;d share it here &#8230; and offer a quick comment. The item here illustrates a fundamental failure of the Republican Party nominee for president of the United States, Donald J. Trump. He has said at various times that Democratic nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17110\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How many more instances of Trump ignorance are there?<\/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":[8,13,14],"tags":[85,1424,2038,2139,5043],"class_list":["post-17110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2nd-amendment","tag-donald-trump","tag-guns","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-us-constitution"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110","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=17110"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17113,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17110\/revisions\/17113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}