{"id":17912,"date":"2016-11-11T19:03:45","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17912"},"modified":"2016-11-11T19:03:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T19:03:45","slug":"still-waiting-for-the-mea-culpa-on-rigged-election","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17912","title":{"rendered":"Still waiting for the mea culpa on &#8216;rigged election&#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\/vote1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-15967\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vote1-300x288.jpg\" alt=\"vote1\" width=\"300\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vote1-300x288.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/vote1.jpg 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump leveled some pretty hideous accusations at local election officials throughout the country.<\/p>\n<p>The president-elect said while campaigning for the highest office in the land that the election would be &#8220;rigged&#8221; against him &#8230; if he lost.<\/p>\n<p>He, quite naturally, never uttered a peep about such corruption in the event he would win.<\/p>\n<p>Well, he did. He won it fair and square.<\/p>\n<p>Have we heard a sound from the winner about the &#8220;rigged&#8221; election process? Have we heard him say a word about how at times campaign rhetoric gets a bit overheated and that, well, he was trying to make some kind of political point?<\/p>\n<p>Remember how Trump sought to excuse his anti-woman comments as mere &#8220;entertainment,&#8221; that he really had &#8220;great respect&#8221; for women and that he didn&#8217;t really mean what he said about how he judged women on their appearance?<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s capable of taking back these statements, yes?<\/p>\n<p>Trump ought to do so in this case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.beaumontenterprise.com\/opinions\/editorials\/article\/EDITORIAL-Trump-s-triumph-proves-system-is-not-10605289.php\">http:\/\/www.beaumontenterprise.com\/opinions\/editorials\/article\/EDITORIAL-Trump-s-triumph-proves-system-is-not-10605289.php<\/a><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s likely to finish with more than 300 electoral votes. Hillary Rodham Clinton is likely to finish with more <em>actual<\/em> votes than Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The system isn&#8217;t &#8220;rigged.&#8221; It never has been. The system has been run at the local level by dedicated public servants committed to ensuring the integrity of this cherished right of citizenship.<\/p>\n<p>The man who benefited most from that system, the president-elect, owes them all an apology.<\/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 leveled some pretty hideous accusations at local election officials throughout the country. The president-elect said while campaigning for the highest office in the land that the election would be &#8220;rigged&#8221; against him &#8230; if he lost. He, quite naturally, never uttered a peep about such corruption in the event he would win. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=17912\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Still waiting for the mea culpa on &#8216;rigged election&#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":[1424,1550,1551,2139,6645],"class_list":["post-17912","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-electoral-college","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-rigged-elections"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912","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=17912"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17914,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17912\/revisions\/17914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17912"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17912"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17912"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}