{"id":20365,"date":"2017-03-14T16:35:12","date_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:35:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20365"},"modified":"2017-03-14T16:35:12","modified_gmt":"2017-03-14T16:35:12","slug":"ryan-wont-defend-trump-good-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20365","title":{"rendered":"Ryan won&#8217;t defend Trump? Good deal"},"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>Those darn audio recordings have this way of sticking around.<\/p>\n<p>Breitbart.com has just posted an October 2016 recording of House Speaker Paul Ryan pledging to never defend then-Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. It came after the release of those ghastly statements he made about groping women and related matters.<\/p>\n<p>Ryan hasn&#8217;t been precisely true to his pledge. It&#8217;s good, though, to have it reintroduced just so we can hold the speaker accountable for the words he utters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/breitbart-posts-audio-of-ryan-saying-he-won%E2%80%99t-defend-trump\/ar-AAoke1i?li=BBmkt5R&amp;ocid=spartanntp\">It&#8217;s pretty damn clear that Trump <\/a>never holds himself accountable for the things he says.<\/p>\n<p>My question is whether Breitbart posted the audio of Ryan to do damage to the speaker or to do something to the president.<\/p>\n<p>My hunch is that the speaker is the target.<\/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>Those darn audio recordings have this way of sticking around. Breitbart.com has just posted an October 2016 recording of House Speaker Paul Ryan pledging to never defend then-Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump. It came after the release of those ghastly statements he made about groping women and related matters. Ryan hasn&#8217;t been precisely true &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20365\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Ryan won&#8217;t defend Trump? Good deal<\/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":[6911,1424,3524],"class_list":["post-20365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-breitbart","tag-donald-trump","tag-paul-ryan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365","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=20365"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20367,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20365\/revisions\/20367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20365"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20365"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20365"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}