{"id":18041,"date":"2016-11-19T04:30:39","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T04:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18041"},"modified":"2016-11-19T04:30:39","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T04:30:39","slug":"trump-picks-demonstrate-anti-unity-theme","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18041","title":{"rendered":"Trump picks demonstrate anti-unity theme"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump has vowed to “unify” the nation after a bitter campaign that elected him the next president of the United States.<\/p>\n

Who, then, does he pick for his national security team?<\/p>\n

Let’s see: retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who\u00a0will lead the National Security Agency, says that fear of Muslims is “rational”; Kansas U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo, who will lead the CIA, believes Muslims contribute to the terror threat by refusing to repudiate terrorism; U.S. Sen. Jeff Sessions, whom Trump has nominated to be attorney general, was denied a federal judgeship in the 1980s because of allegedly racist comments he made as a U.S. attorney in Alabama.<\/p>\n

Trump is making no apologies for targeting people of certain faiths and he is making no amends toward the African-American community by nominating someone with, um, a checkered civil-rights past to lead the Justice Department.<\/p>\n

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None of this should surprise anyone, I suppose. The president-elect is precisely who he says he is: a tough guy who vows to roll back many of the policies of the administration he will succeed.<\/p>\n

According to the New York Times: “The reaction from Democrats was immediate and angry. ‘The president-elect has created a White House leadership that embodies the most divisive rhetoric of his campaign,’ Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon said on Friday. ‘To the extent that these become policies or legislative proposals, I commit to stopping them.’\u201d<\/p>\n

Perhaps the most amazing\u00a0view from this national security team came from Gen. Flynn, who supports a national registry of Muslims and compares such registration\u00a0to the internment of Japanese-Americans after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. President Roosevelt overreacted grossly to a perceived threat from loyal Americans as the nation entered World War II and that overreaction has been universally condemned in the years since as a tragic mistake.<\/p>\n

Oh yes. A new day is about to dawn in Washington, D.C. Let’s all get ready for some storm clouds that are beginning to boil up on the political horizon.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump has vowed to “unify” the nation after a bitter campaign that elected him the next president of the United States. Who, then, does he pick for his national security team? Let’s see: retired Army Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn, who\u00a0will lead the National Security Agency, says that fear of Muslims is “rational”; Kansas U.S. … Continue reading Trump picks demonstrate anti-unity theme<\/span> →<\/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":[989,1424,2434,2617,3168,3212,3344],"class_list":["post-18041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-cia","tag-donald-trump","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-justice-department","tag-muslims","tag-national-security","tag-nsa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18041","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=18041"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18041\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18043,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18041\/revisions\/18043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}