{"id":20331,"date":"2017-03-12T19:15:07","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T19:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20331"},"modified":"2017-03-12T19:15:07","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T19:15:07","slug":"mccain-prove-it-or-drop-it-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20331","title":{"rendered":"McCain: Prove it or drop it, Mr. President"},"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\/03\/mccain.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20334\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mccain-300x207.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"207\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mccain-300x207.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/mccain.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>John McCain\u00a0is demonstrating yet again that he still might be angry at Donald J. Trump&#8217;s insulting assertion during the 2016 campaign that the former Navy pilot is a &#8220;war hero only because he was captured&#8221; by the enemy during the Vietnam War.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever the motive, the Arizona Republican U.S. senator is on point with this declaration: Either provide proof that former President Obama wiretapped your offices during the 2016 campaign or retract it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/mccain-to-trump-retract-wiretapping-claim-or-prove-it\/ar-AAob5nR?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartanntp\">The president has done nothing\u00a0<\/a>to suggest he has a shred of evidence to back up his scurrilous contention that Obama ordered a wiretap. He has essentially defamed his predecessor by accusing him of committing a felony.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has all the intelligence capabilities available to him to deliver the goods. He hasn&#8217;t. Absent any &#8220;goods,&#8221; he needs to take it all back, admit what many of us know already &#8212; that he sought to divert attention from the Russia election-meddling matter.<\/p>\n<p>But, wait! The two things &#8212; allegations of Russian meddling and the wiretap allegation &#8212; are related!<\/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>John McCain\u00a0is demonstrating yet again that he still might be angry at Donald J. Trump&#8217;s insulting assertion during the 2016 campaign that the former Navy pilot is a &#8220;war hero only because he was captured&#8221; by the enemy during the Vietnam War. Whatever the motive, the Arizona Republican U.S. senator is on point with this &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20331\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCain: Prove it or drop it, Mr. President<\/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":[12,13,14],"tags":[540,1424,2546,5116,6974],"class_list":["post-20331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-mccain","tag-vietnam-war","tag-wiretap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331","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=20331"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20335,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20331\/revisions\/20335"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}