{"id":23800,"date":"2017-08-12T22:14:58","date_gmt":"2017-08-12T22:14:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23800"},"modified":"2017-08-12T22:14:58","modified_gmt":"2017-08-12T22:14:58","slug":"lets-try-again-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23800","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s try again, Mr. President"},"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>How about this: David Duke has given Donald Trump a chance to rectify a seriously fluffed response to something Duke said.<\/p>\n<p>Duke is the former <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/us\/former-kkk-leader-invokes-trumps-name\/vi-AApVAvZ?ocid=spartanntp\">Ku Klux Klan <\/a>grand dragon who&#8217;s been in Charlottesville, Va., to participate in a white nationalist protest against attempts to remove Confederate statues.<\/p>\n<p>Duke called the protest in Charlottesville a sort of &#8220;victory,&#8221; saying that Trump&#8217;s election has given people such as the Klansman a voice in current policy discussions. &#8220;That&#8217;s why we voted for Donald Trump,&#8221; Duke said.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s flash back for just a moment. Duke aligned himself during the 2016 presidential campaign with Donald Trump&#8217;s &#8220;law and order&#8221; rhetoric. The Republican candidate was asked to respond to comments from Duke. Trump said &#8220;I don&#8217;t know Duke&#8221; and said he didn&#8217;t even know anything about him, his history, let alone his affiliation with the KKK.<\/p>\n<p>Astounding, yes? Sure it is.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s chance for the president of the United States to offer a full-throated condemnation of all that this fire-breathing extremist stands for.<\/p>\n<p>I just wonder, though, if the president has studied up on David Duke and knows any more about him now than what he said he knew during the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>Or was he just lying?<\/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>How about this: David Duke has given Donald Trump a chance to rectify a seriously fluffed response to something Duke said. Duke is the former Ku Klux Klan grand dragon who&#8217;s been in Charlottesville, Va., to participate in a white nationalist protest against attempts to remove Confederate statues. Duke called the protest in Charlottesville a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23800\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Let&#8217;s try again, Mr. President<\/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":[13],"tags":[1276,1424,2692,7239],"class_list":["post-23800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-david-duke","tag-donald-trump","tag-kkk","tag-white-nationalist"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23800","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=23800"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23800\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23801,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23800\/revisions\/23801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}