{"id":23981,"date":"2017-08-18T03:40:24","date_gmt":"2017-08-18T03:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23981"},"modified":"2017-08-18T03:40:54","modified_gmt":"2017-08-18T03:40:54","slug":"before-we-start-throwing-dirt-on-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23981","title":{"rendered":"Before we start throwing dirt on Trump &#8230;"},"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\/trumptweets_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22858\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/trumptweets_0-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/trumptweets_0-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/trumptweets_0.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I am about to depress some readers of this blog; other readers might take heart in what I am about to say.<\/p>\n<p>Before we start writing Donald John Trump Sr.&#8217;s political obituary, I feel compelled to remind us all &#8212; even those of us who oppose this man&#8217;s presidency &#8212; that this guy is the consummate political survivor.<\/p>\n<p>How many &#8220;last straws&#8221; has this clown managed to pick up and toss aside? Sen. John McCain is a &#8220;war hero only because he was captured&#8221;; the mocking of a New York Times reporter&#8217;s physical handicap; the disparaging of a Gold Star family; the &#8220;Access Hollywood&#8221; recording of Trump boasting of grabbing women by their &#8230; whatever; the constant lying.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s now in trouble &#8212; supposedly &#8212; because of remarks he has made about white supremacists and neo-Nazis. He&#8217;s been applauded by ex-KKK grand lizard David Duke. His statements about the Charlottesville riot have been appalling in the extreme. Republicans are turning their back on the president.<\/p>\n<p>Does any of this produce a death knell for this man&#8217;s presidency?<\/p>\n<p>Any one or all of the aforementioned hideous examples should have derailed his ride to the White House. They didn&#8217;t. His base hung with him. He got elected.<\/p>\n<p>Trump has made an absolute mess of his high office. And oh yes, he has that &#8220;Russia thing&#8221; under investigation by a dogged, meticulous special prosecutor.<\/p>\n<p>Do not, though, think he&#8217;s a goner. At least not just yet.<\/p>\n<p>There. Now I just depressed myself. <em>Damn!<\/em><\/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>I am about to depress some readers of this blog; other readers might take heart in what I am about to say. Before we start writing Donald John Trump Sr.&#8217;s political obituary, I feel compelled to remind us all &#8212; even those of us who oppose this man&#8217;s presidency &#8212; that this guy is the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=23981\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Before we start throwing dirt on Trump &#8230;<\/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,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[1424,2546,3360,7093],"class_list":["post-23981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-mccain","tag-ny-times","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981","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=23981"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23984,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23981\/revisions\/23984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}