{"id":19133,"date":"2017-01-11T19:45:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:45:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19133"},"modified":"2017-01-11T19:45:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-11T19:45:58","slug":"a-little-self-awareness-is-in-order-mr-president-elect","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19133","title":{"rendered":"A little self-awareness is in order, Mr. President-elect"},"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\/2017\/01\/th97U7N1O5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-19134\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/th97U7N1O5.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"194\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Self-awareness doesn&#8217;t appear to be part of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s psychological makeup.<\/p>\n<p>Today he blasted what he called &#8220;fake news&#8221; reports linking him to allegedly compromising relationships with Russian officials. He called a press conference a few days ago to clear the air on some other matters &#8230; then the news broke about these alleged relationships.<\/p>\n<p>They&#8217;re false, he said. Phony. Made-up stuff. They&#8217;re the product of &#8220;fake news&#8221; reports.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-acknowledges-russian-involvement-in-meddling-in-us-elections\/ar-BBya5DE?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp\">http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/trump-acknowledges-russian-involvement-in-meddling-in-us-elections\/ar-BBya5DE?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartandhp<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>How does he then describe the falsehood he perpetuated for years about President Obama&#8217;s place of birth, linking those &#8220;fake news&#8221; reports to whether the president was constitutionally eligible to serve in the office he held for eight years?<\/p>\n<p>Trump doesn&#8217;t touch that one.<\/p>\n<p>I have no clue as to whether these allegations are true. For the sake of our national integrity and the attempt to avoid a serious constitutional crisis, I hope they are as false as Trump says they are.<\/p>\n<p>I want them to be as false as Trump&#8217;s own lies about Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>If only Trump could discover a latent self-awareness gene.<\/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>Self-awareness doesn&#8217;t appear to be part of Donald J. Trump&#8217;s psychological makeup. Today he blasted what he called &#8220;fake news&#8221; reports linking him to allegedly compromising relationships with Russian officials. He called a press conference a few days ago to clear the air on some other matters &#8230; then the news broke about these alleged &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=19133\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A little self-awareness is in order, Mr. President-elect<\/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":[540,1424,6736],"class_list":["post-19133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-russian-hackers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19133","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=19133"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19133\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19135,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19133\/revisions\/19135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}