{"id":23303,"date":"2017-07-23T04:25:41","date_gmt":"2017-07-23T04:25:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23303"},"modified":"2017-07-23T04:25:41","modified_gmt":"2017-07-23T04:25:41","slug":"potus-doth-protest-too-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23303","title":{"rendered":"POTUS doth protest too much?"},"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\/18thu3web-master768.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-21718\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18thu3web-master768-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18thu3web-master768-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/18thu3web-master768.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump has declared war on Robert Mueller.<\/p>\n<p>Why? To what end? The president is seeking to discredit the special counsel&#8217;s credibility as he continues an investigation into whether Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign had any inappropriate dealings with Russian government officials.<\/p>\n<p>The president himself called it &#8220;the Russia thing.&#8221; He fired FBI Director James Comey because of the FBI&#8217;s probe into Russian hacking of the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Then came the Justice Department&#8217;s hiring of Mueller &#8212; also a former FBI director &#8212; as special counsel.<\/p>\n<p>Trump is having none of it.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my fundamental question: If the president has nothing to hide, then why doesn&#8217;t he just step aside and let the special counsel look far and wide &#8230; only to come up empty?<\/p>\n<p>But, <em>no-o-o-o-o<\/em>. Donald Trump is turning the hounds loose to look for conflicts of interest. He&#8217;s seeking to discredit Mueller &#8212; who&#8217;s reputation as a proverbial Boy Scout is impeccable.<\/p>\n<p>The way I am viewing this, the more Trump objects to Mueller continuing his probe the more he acts like something who wants to keep something out of the special counsel&#8217;s hands.<\/p>\n<p>What do you suppose that might be?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/policy\/national-security\/343164-trump-launches-all-out-assault-on-mueller-probe\">Keep Mueller on the job. <\/a><\/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>Donald J. Trump has declared war on Robert Mueller. Why? To what end? The president is seeking to discredit the special counsel&#8217;s credibility as he continues an investigation into whether Trump&#8217;s presidential campaign had any inappropriate dealings with Russian government officials. The president himself called it &#8220;the Russia thing.&#8221; He fired FBI Director James Comey &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23303\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS doth protest too much?<\/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":[8,13],"tags":[1424,1693,3983,7093,7100],"class_list":["post-23303","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-special-counsel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303","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=23303"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23304,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23303\/revisions\/23304"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23303"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23303"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23303"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}