{"id":22228,"date":"2017-06-07T00:03:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T00:03:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22228"},"modified":"2017-06-07T00:04:05","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T00:04:05","slug":"good-news-bad-news-for-comey-hearing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22228","title":{"rendered":"Good news, bad news for Comey hearing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump delivered a one-two punch of good news and, well, not so good news regarding the upcoming testimony of former FBI director James Comey.<\/p>\n

The good news: The president said he wouldn’t invoke any executive privilege to silence Comey, who will testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee about conversations he had with Trump regarding the FBI investigation into “the Russia thing.”<\/p>\n

The president decided against acting on his stranger impulses by deciding to let Comey have his say. Comey did talk to special counsel Robert Mueller — a longtime friend and colleague — who reportedly “cleared Comey for takeoff,” according to Comey associates.<\/p>\n

The, um, bad news: Trump will be tweeting while Comey is testifying.<\/p>\n

Allow me an “ugh,”<\/em> and a “sheesh”<\/em> on that one.<\/p>\n

This president is just about the most insufferable human being ever to occupy this once-exalted office.<\/p>\n

Does this clown really have to do this?<\/p>\n

Consider as well — for just a moment — that Trump reportedly referred to Comey<\/em> in conversations with Russian dignitaries at the White House as a “showboat.”<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump delivered a one-two punch of good news and, well, not so good news regarding the upcoming testimony of former FBI director James Comey. The good news: The president said he wouldn’t invoke any executive privilege to silence Comey, who will testify to the Senate Intelligence Committee about conversations he had with Trump … Continue reading Good news, bad news for Comey hearing<\/span> →<\/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":[1424,6386,6242,3983,7100],"class_list":["post-22228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi-probe","tag-james-comey","tag-robert-mueller","tag-special-counsel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228","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=22228"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22230,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22228\/revisions\/22230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}