{"id":21712,"date":"2017-05-18T00:55:33","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T00:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21712"},"modified":"2017-05-18T00:56:04","modified_gmt":"2017-05-18T00:56:04","slug":"oh-mitt-you-were-so-right-about-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21712","title":{"rendered":"Oh, Mitt &#8230; you were so right about Trump"},"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><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Watch Mitt Romney&#039;s full speech: \u2018Trump is a phony, a fraud\u2019\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2iefXdC794I?start=44&#038;feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I posted this video once already. The events of the past few days and weeks, though, compel me to post it once again.<\/p>\n<p>It is 2012 Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney&#8217;s assessment of Donald John Trump. It&#8217;s about 17 minutes long.<\/p>\n<p>I won&#8217;t offer much analysis of what Mitt said. His words stand for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Suffice to say that Mitt Romney was correct to call Trump a &#8220;phony&#8221; and a &#8220;fraud.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Recent events are proving just how correct he was when he made this speech.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, brother.<\/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>I posted this video once already. The events of the past few days and weeks, though, compel me to post it once again. It is 2012 Republican Party presidential nominee Mitt Romney&#8217;s assessment of Donald John Trump. It&#8217;s about 17 minutes long. I won&#8217;t offer much analysis of what Mitt said. His words stand for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=21712\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Oh, Mitt &#8230; you were so right about Trump<\/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":[1424,1941,3101],"class_list":["post-21712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-gop","tag-mitt-romney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21712","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=21712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21713,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21712\/revisions\/21713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}