{"id":21652,"date":"2017-05-15T12:58:55","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T12:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21652"},"modified":"2017-05-15T12:58:55","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T12:58:55","slug":"trump-seeks-to-plug-leaks-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21652","title":{"rendered":"Trump seeks to plug leaks &#8230; how?"},"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\/04\/BBzJ9Ks.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-20954\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BBzJ9Ks-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BBzJ9Ks-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/04\/BBzJ9Ks.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Someone might have to explain this to me.<\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump reportedly is mad as hell. The White House leaks like a sieve. Someone or some people inside the place might be blabbing to the media about the inner workings of the Trump administration.<\/p>\n<p>So what might the president do to curb the leaks? Why, shoot, he might just fire the press secretary, the White House chief of staff, the president&#8217;s legal counsel\u00a0and his chief political strategist.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s the report being discussed by the chattering class in Washington, D.C. Press flack Sean Spicer, chief of staff Reince Priebus, legal eagle\u00a0Don McGahn\u00a0and strategist Stephen Bannon could be out.<\/p>\n<p>What, then, might happen to the leak issue? It could turn into a deluge if the president decides to cut these\u00a0four guys loose. They would be untethered from the White House and could tattle to their hearts&#8217; content about all they know, what they have seen and heard and who has done what to whom inside the Trump White House.<\/p>\n<p>Look, we&#8217;re only 100-and-some days into an administration that hopes to last another three-plus <em>years<\/em>. The president already is talking about running for re-election and, in fact, has released what looks and sounds like a 2020 campaign commercial.<\/p>\n<p>Each day brings new surprises. Each dawn produces news of a not-so-flattering kind. The president cannot contain his Twitter fetish.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s worried about leaks. So his remedy might be to unleash four of his top guns into the public to, um, possibly spill their guts?<\/p>\n<p>This is not how you govern, Mr. President. Really and truly.<\/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>Someone might have to explain this to me. Donald John Trump reportedly is mad as hell. The White House leaks like a sieve. Someone or some people inside the place might be blabbing to the media about the inner workings of the Trump administration. So what might the president do to curb the leaks? Why, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump seeks to plug leaks &#8230; how?<\/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":[1424,3878,6796,7097,5246],"class_list":["post-21652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-reince-priebus","tag-sean-spicer","tag-stephen-bannon","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652","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=21652"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21653,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21652\/revisions\/21653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}