{"id":20370,"date":"2017-03-15T01:33:27","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20370"},"modified":"2017-03-15T01:33:27","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T01:33:27","slug":"trump-now-relying-on-others-to-prove-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20370","title":{"rendered":"Trump now relying on others to prove it?"},"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\/15trump-master768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20371\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/15trump-master768-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/15trump-master768-300x203.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/15trump-master768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>White House press flack Sean Spicer says Donald Trump is &#8220;confident&#8221; that Justice Department officials will prove what the president has asserted.<\/p>\n<p>Which is that former President Barack Obama committed a crime by ordering a wiretap on Trump&#8217;s campaign offices in New York City.<\/p>\n<p>The president made that scurrilous allegation in a tweet several days ago. He hasn&#8217;t produced a scintilla of evidence to back it up. DOJ is now looking for proof. Spicer says Justice will find it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my question: If the president had the proof when he fired off that tweet, why didn&#8217;t he produce it at the time he made the accusation?<\/p>\n<p>Let me think. Oh, I know! That&#8217;s because he didn&#8217;t have it! He doesn&#8217;t have it now! The Justice Department won&#8217;t find it, either.<\/p>\n<p>This is yet another\u00a0game of verbal gymnastics that Trump&#8217;s spokesman is playing with the media that Trump despises.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/03\/14\/us\/politics\/trump-obama-wiretapping-sean-spicer.html?smid=fb-nytimes&amp;smtyp=cur&amp;_r=0\">If the president had the goods <\/a>he should have\u00a0produced them long before now.<\/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>White House press flack Sean Spicer says Donald Trump is &#8220;confident&#8221; that Justice Department officials will prove what the president has asserted. Which is that former President Barack Obama committed a crime by ordering a wiretap on Trump&#8217;s campaign offices in New York City. The president made that scurrilous allegation in a tweet several days &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=20370\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump now relying on others to prove it?<\/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":[8],"tags":[540,1414,1424,6796,7002,5246,6974],"class_list":["post-20370","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","tag-barack-obama","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-sean-spicer","tag-wh-press-corps","tag-white-house","tag-wiretap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370","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=20370"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20372,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20370\/revisions\/20372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20370"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20370"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20370"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}