{"id":23024,"date":"2017-07-11T18:30:56","date_gmt":"2017-07-11T18:30:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23024"},"modified":"2017-07-11T18:30:56","modified_gmt":"2017-07-11T18:30:56","slug":"is-that-a-smoking-gun-over-there","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23024","title":{"rendered":"Is that a smoking gun over there?"},"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\/07\/don-jr.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-23025\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/don-jr-300x200.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/don-jr-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/don-jr.png 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hmm. That smoldering around the White House is beginning to reveal its source &#8230; maybe, perhaps, possibly.<\/p>\n<p>Then again, maybe not.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump Jr. has just released a head-scratching set of emails that detail some information he received from the Russian <em>government<\/em> about dirt it had dug up on Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was running against Donald J. Trump <em>Sr.<\/em> for president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Don Jr. told the Russians &#8220;I love it&#8221; that they have dirt on Hillary. You see, Junior was working on Dad&#8217;s campaign. The Russians wanted Donald Sr. to become the next president and apparently were doing things to facilitate that event.<\/p>\n<p>Now we see that Don Jr. has been dragged right into the middle of this growing controversy. He ended up meeting with a Russian lawyer, along with campaign chief Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner, husband of Ivanka Trump (Don&#8217;s sis and the president&#8217;s daughter) and now a key White House policy adviser.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a new Question of the Day: Do you really and truly believe that none of these people &#8212; all of whom were up to their armpits in trying to get Daddy Trump elected president &#8212; would have kept any of this from him while he was campaigning for the high and exalted office?<\/p>\n<p>The head-scratching, by the way, is occurring among legal eagles and pols around Washington who are wondering whether Don Jr.&#8217;s own legal counsel actually advised him to release this information to the public.<\/p>\n<p>The hits just keep on comin&#8217;, man.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the story\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/emails-show-trump-jr-excited-for-russian-offer-%e2%80%98i-love-it%e2%80%99\/ar-BBEeXLy?li=BBnb7Kz\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m betting there&#8217;ll be a good bit more to digest as we move forward.<\/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>Hmm. That smoldering around the White House is beginning to reveal its source &#8230; maybe, perhaps, possibly. Then again, maybe not. Donald J. Trump Jr. has just released a head-scratching set of emails that detail some information he received from the Russian government about dirt it had dug up on Hillary Rodham Clinton, who was &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23024\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is that a smoking gun over there?<\/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":[5,13,14],"tags":[1424,6859,2139,6506,6755],"class_list":["post-23024","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-donald-trump-jr","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-paul-manafort","tag-russian-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024","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=23024"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23026,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23024\/revisions\/23026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}