{"id":23591,"date":"2017-08-05T20:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23591"},"modified":"2017-08-05T20:00:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-05T20:00:40","slug":"you-go-professor-painter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23591","title":{"rendered":"You go, Professor Painter!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Richard Painter is emerging as one of my favorite pundits seen regularly when questions arise about the Trump administration.<\/p>\n

Painter served as ethics lawyer\/watchdog for President George W. Bush. Thus, he — more than likely — is a loyal Republican. He also is no fan of Donald John Trump Sr., which likely is why I appreciate his commentary so much.<\/p>\n

Painter now teaches law at the University of Minnesota.<\/p>\n

He recently commented on a statement from Trump senior adviser Kellyanne Conway, who suggested that the administration might administer lie-detector tests to aides in the hunt to determine who’s leaking information to the media.<\/p>\n

Painter’s response via Twitter? “Kellyanne wants lie detectors in the White House? Try one on the press secretary podium. The place will light up like a disco!”<\/em><\/p>\n

Press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders has pledged never to lie from the White House press podium. I would like very much to give her the benefit of the doubt.<\/p>\n

However, maybe Sanders ought to follow Professor Painter’s suggestion: hook up to the polygraph machine — just to be sure.<\/p>\n\n

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Richard Painter is emerging as one of my favorite pundits seen regularly when questions arise about the Trump administration. Painter served as ethics lawyer\/watchdog for President George W. Bush. Thus, he — more than likely — is a loyal Republican. He also is no fan of Donald John Trump Sr., which likely is why I … Continue reading You go, Professor Painter!<\/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":[7216,7207,6853,5249],"class_list":["post-23591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-richard-painter","tag-sarah-huckabee-sanders","tag-trump-administration","tag-white-house-press-office"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591","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=23591"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23593,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions\/23593"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}