{"id":23942,"date":"2017-08-17T00:24:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-17T00:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23942"},"modified":"2017-08-17T00:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-17T00:24:50","slug":"hey-what-about-the-russia-thing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23942","title":{"rendered":"Hey, what about ‘the Russia thing’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Pssst<\/em>. I am about to let the cat out of the bag.<\/p>\n

Much of the nation — maybe most<\/em> of it — has been consumed by the tragic events of Charlottesville and the president’s response to it. I get it. Donald Trump first blamed “many sides” for the riot; then he singled out the white nationalists, neo-Nazis and the Klan; and after that<\/em> he reverted back to his original response.<\/p>\n

All ever-lovin’ hell has broken loose. The fecal matter has hit the fan.<\/p>\n

But, but, but …<\/p>\n

We have this other thing going on. It’s the “Russia thing.” Remember it? Of course you do!<\/p>\n

Special counsel Robert Mueller has assembled a crack team of legal eagles who are examining the many aspects of Russia’s meddling in the 2016 presidential election. There might be an obstruction of justice element; there might be collusion; there might be some financial matters to examine; hey, we might even get to see the president’s tax returns.<\/p>\n

As the national media continue to scurry after this Charlottesville story — as they should — Mueller and his team are being left relatively alone to pore through the mountain of evidence and information that keeps piling up.<\/p>\n

The last thing I heard — and it seems like eons ago now — was that Mueller wants to speak with former White House chief of staff Reince Priebus. There might be subpoenas coming from Mueller’s office.<\/p>\n

I just thought it would be useful to remind everyone that as important as the Charlottesville story is — and the media must cover it — we’ve got this other matter lurking out there.<\/p>\n

The “Russia thing” needs a resolution. Don’t look for it soon. Just be sure to keep one eye on the special counsel’s exhaustive search for the whole truth.<\/p>\n\n

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Pssst. I am about to let the cat out of the bag. Much of the nation — maybe most of it — has been consumed by the tragic events of Charlottesville and the president’s response to it. I get it. Donald Trump first blamed “many sides” for the riot; then he singled out the white … Continue reading Hey, what about ‘the Russia thing’?<\/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":[7240,1424,3878,3983,7093,7100],"class_list":["post-23942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-charlottesville-riot","tag-donald-trump","tag-reince-priebus","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-special-counsel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23942","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=23942"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23943,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23942\/revisions\/23943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}