{"id":18914,"date":"2016-12-30T21:45:07","date_gmt":"2016-12-30T21:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18914"},"modified":"2016-12-30T21:45:07","modified_gmt":"2016-12-30T21:45:07","slug":"trump-sides-with-the-bad-guy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18914","title":{"rendered":"Trump sides with the bad guy?"},"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>How is this supposed to go?<\/p>\n<p>President Barack Obama retaliated against Russian over reports that Russian spooks hacked into the U.S. electoral system.<\/p>\n<p>He kicked out about 30 Russian intelligence operatives and set in motion some economic sanctions to punish the Russians.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/putin.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18915\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/putin-300x159.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"159\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/putin-300x159.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/putin.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>What is Donald J. Trump&#8217;s response as he prepares to become the next president of the United States? He lavishes praise on Russian strongman Vladimir Putin for his decision to withhold any reaction to the president&#8217;s punishment.<\/p>\n<p>Trump called Putin a &#8220;smart&#8221; man.<\/p>\n<p>No expression of support for our own president&#8217;s decision to punish the Russians for something a number of key intelligence agencies have concluded: that their hackers sought to meddle in the U.S. presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Where in the world are the new president&#8217;s loyalties?<\/p>\n<p>Hmmmm?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>How is this supposed to go? President Barack Obama retaliated against Russian over reports that Russian spooks hacked into the U.S. electoral system. He kicked out about 30 Russian intelligence operatives and set in motion some economic sanctions to punish the Russians. What is Donald J. Trump&#8217;s response as he prepares to become the next &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=18914\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump sides with the bad guy?<\/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":[5,13,14],"tags":[74,540,1424,6736,5125],"class_list":["post-18914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-2016-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-russian-hackers","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914","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=18914"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18916,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18914\/revisions\/18916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}