{"id":17531,"date":"2016-10-12T21:55:30","date_gmt":"2016-10-12T21:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17531"},"modified":"2016-10-12T21:55:30","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T21:55:30","slug":"isis-set-to-take-over-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17531","title":{"rendered":"ISIS set to take over U.S.?"},"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\/10\/AAiS07C.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-17532\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AAiS07C-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"aais07c\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AAiS07C-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/AAiS07C.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump is sounding like a desperate man.<\/p>\n<p>The Republican presidential nominee, apparently recognizing the lengthening odds of him winning the election next month, now says that the Islamic State could &#8220;take over&#8221; the United States if Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected president.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously? Well, that&#8217;s what he said.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-islamic-state-may-take-over-us-if-clinton-wins\/ar-AAiS2AB?li=BBnb7Kz\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-islamic-state-may-take-over-us-if-clinton-wins\/ar-AAiS2AB?li=BBnb7Kz<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to USA Today: &#8220;They\u00a0are hoping and praying that Hillary Clinton becomes president of the United States, because they\u2019ll take over not only that part of the world, they\u2019ll take over this country,&#8221;\u00a0Trump told backers in Ocala, Fla.<\/p>\n<p>So. There you have it.<\/p>\n<p>The candidate on whose watch as secretary of state U.S. commandos killed Osama bin Laden is going to run up the white flag as ISIS steamrolls into this country. That&#8217;s the Trump view.<\/p>\n<p>Allow me to make this brief observation.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump may think he knows &#8220;more about the terrorists than the generals,&#8221; but Hillary Clinton actually <em>does<\/em> know more about every aspect of government &#8212; and that includes national security &#8212; than her political opponent for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s rants are sounding\u00a0more desperate by the day &#8212; if not the hour &#8212; as he looks for ways to torpedo his foe.<\/p>\n<p>As for\u00a0Trump&#8217;s assertion\u00a0that the country has &#8220;never been so low,&#8221; then perhaps he can explain why we remain the preferred destination for immigrants seeking a better\u00a0life for themselves and their families.<\/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 sounding like a desperate man. The Republican presidential nominee, apparently recognizing the lengthening odds of him winning the election next month, now says that the Islamic State could &#8220;take over&#8221; the United States if Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected president. Seriously? Well, that&#8217;s what he said. http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-islamic-state-may-take-over-us-if-clinton-wins\/ar-AAiS2AB?li=BBnb7Kz According to USA Today: &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17531\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">ISIS set to take over U.S.?<\/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":[1424,2139,2348,2362,3458,4398],"class_list":["post-17531","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-isis","tag-islamic-state","tag-osama-bin-laden","tag-state-department"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531","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=17531"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17533,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17531\/revisions\/17533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17531"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17531"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17531"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}