{"id":22810,"date":"2017-07-02T16:40:49","date_gmt":"2017-07-02T16:40:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22810"},"modified":"2017-07-02T16:40:49","modified_gmt":"2017-07-02T16:40:49","slug":"violence-against-reporters-hmm-you-be-the-judge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22810","title":{"rendered":"Violence against reporters? Hmm &#8230; you be the judge"},"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>The hits just keep on comin&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States &#8212; the man with the itchy Twitter finger &#8212; has done it again. He has tweeted a video depicting him punching out someone from CNN.<\/p>\n<p>Is Donald John Trump promoting violence against the media?<\/p>\n<p>Take a look\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/07\/02\/trump-tweets-video-wrestling-cnn-240178\">right here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump has failed to keep a number of campaign promises. He said he would act more &#8220;presidential&#8221; were he elected to the office. He promised to unify a nation divided badly by a rancorous political campaign. He vowed to &#8220;make America great again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The first two pledges have been abject failures; the third one, the &#8220;make America great&#8221; pledge was empty, as the nation already is great.<\/p>\n<p>He has vented repeatedly on Twitter. He is using the social medium to &#8212; in effect &#8212; articulate presidential policy. It&#8217;s coming to us in the form we are witnessing now with the then-entertainer tackling an individual who he has portrayed as a member of a cable television news network.<\/p>\n<p>What will happen if someone actually acts on what he or she has just seen on Twitter? Is it right to hold the president responsible for such action?<\/p>\n<p>You be the judge.<\/p>\n<p>This individual is a disgrace.<\/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>The hits just keep on comin&#8217;. The president of the United States &#8212; the man with the itchy Twitter finger &#8212; has done it again. He has tweeted a video depicting him punching out someone from CNN. Is Donald John Trump promoting violence against the media? Take a look\u00a0right here. Trump has failed to keep &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=22810\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Violence against reporters? Hmm &#8230; you be the judge<\/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":[10],"tags":[1043,1424,4932],"class_list":["post-22810","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22810","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=22810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22811,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22810\/revisions\/22811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}