{"id":22043,"date":"2017-05-31T00:57:17","date_gmt":"2017-05-31T00:57:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22043"},"modified":"2017-05-31T01:00:35","modified_gmt":"2017-05-31T01:00:35","slug":"how-about-those-anonymous-sources-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22043","title":{"rendered":"How about those anonymous sources, Mr. POTUS?"},"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\/05\/donaldtrump3_052617getty.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22049\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/donaldtrump3_052617getty-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/donaldtrump3_052617getty-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/donaldtrump3_052617getty.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This item almost doesn&#8217;t deserve comment. Aww, but what the heck.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump fired of a tweet that cited anonymous sources after, um, blasting anonymous sources.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s become normal, I guess, for the president to do this kind of thing. Do as I say, not as I do.<\/p>\n<p>* He blasts Michelle Obama for not covering her head while touring a Muslim country, only to have his wife do the same thing during his recent journey to Saudi Arabia.<\/p>\n<p>* He rips into Barack Obama for all that golf he played as president, then hits the links with reckless abandon when he takes office.<\/p>\n<p>* Trump leads rally crowd chants of &#8220;lock her up!&#8221; for her use of private e-mail account while serving as secretary of state, then he\u00a0blabs to\u00a0Russians about classified security information.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/335598-trump-retweets-story-based-on-anonymous-source-after-blasting\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/335598-trump-retweets-story-based-on-anonymous-source-after-blasting<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The president retweeted a Fox News report that cites an anonymous source relating to his son-in-law&#8217;s current difficulty with &#8220;the Russia thing.&#8221; He did so just days after tweeting a rant equating anonymous sources to &#8220;fake news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a suggestion for the president: Take a breath and be sure about what you&#8217;ve put into the public domain before firing off another of those nonsensical tweets.<\/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>This item almost doesn&#8217;t deserve comment. Aww, but what the heck. Donald J. Trump fired of a tweet that cited anonymous sources after, um, blasting anonymous sources. It&#8217;s become normal, I guess, for the president to do this kind of thing. Do as I say, not as I do. * He blasts Michelle Obama for &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22043\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How about those anonymous sources, Mr. POTUS?<\/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],"tags":[1424,1788,2349,2978,4128],"class_list":["post-22043","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-news","tag-islam","tag-media","tag-saudi-arabia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22043","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=22043"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22043\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22050,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22043\/revisions\/22050"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22043"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22043"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22043"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}