{"id":22576,"date":"2017-06-23T20:28:41","date_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22576"},"modified":"2017-06-23T20:28:41","modified_gmt":"2017-06-23T20:28:41","slug":"mueller-hires-pro-democrats-whats-the-big-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22576","title":{"rendered":"Mueller hires pro-Democrats? What’s the big deal?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald J. Trump is busy trying to impugn the integrity of special counsel Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n

The president told “Fox and Friends” that Mueller has hired lawyers who are friendly to Democrats, who have given money to Democratic candidates. Why, they’ve even supported Hillary Rodham Clinton, he said. He calls Mueller “an honorable man,” and then wonders if he can conduct a truly independent investigation into the Russian government’s involvement in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n

Wait! Hold on!<\/p>\n

So has Donald Trump! The president himself has acknowledged giving money to Democrats. He used to be friends with Bill and Hillary Clinton. Aren’t there pictures out there showing Trump and the Clintons chumming around at parties? I believe I’ve seen ’em.<\/p>\n

So, what is the point about Mueller’s legal team? The president has forgotten — willfully or otherwise — about his own past.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald J. Trump is busy trying to impugn the integrity of special counsel Robert Mueller. The president told “Fox and Friends” that Mueller has hired lawyers who are friendly to Democrats, who have given money to Democratic candidates. Why, they’ve even supported Hillary Rodham Clinton, he said. He calls Mueller “an honorable man,” and then … Continue reading Mueller hires pro-Democrats? What’s the big deal?<\/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":[631,1424,1787,2139,3983,7100],"class_list":["post-22576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bill-clinton","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-and-friends","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-robert-mueller","tag-special-counsel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576","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=22576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22578,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22576\/revisions\/22578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}