{"id":25739,"date":"2017-10-30T17:22:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-30T17:22:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25739"},"modified":"2017-10-30T17:22:58","modified_gmt":"2017-10-30T17:22:58","slug":"trump-losing-streak-continues-at-full-speed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25739","title":{"rendered":"Trump &#8216;losing streak&#8217; continues at full speed"},"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\/10\/lead_large.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25155\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lead_large-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lead_large-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/lead_large.jpg 615w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s boasting of being a &#8220;winner&#8221; has taken another punch in the gut.<\/p>\n<p>Special counsel Robert Mueller has indicted the president&#8217;s former campaign boss, Paul Manafort, of money laundering in his probe of the &#8220;Russia thing&#8221; that caused Trump to fire former FBI director James Comey.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Where does this go? I intend to wait with bated breath. How about you?<\/p>\n<p>The indictment of Manafort, along with that of campaign official Rick Gates signals a new pace in this investigation, which began when the president gave Comey the boot.<\/p>\n<p>The ultimate aim appears to be determining whether the Trump campaign &#8220;colluded&#8221; with Russian hackers in an attempt to influence the 2016 presidential election outcome. The president bellows &#8220;witch hunt&#8221; and &#8220;fake news&#8221; and all kinds of other things.<\/p>\n<p>My understanding of Mueller, though, is that the special counsel is as serious, measured, thorough and meticulous a lawyer as they come. I don&#8217;t think he&#8217;s going to indict a proverbial &#8220;ham sandwich&#8221; just to score some points.<\/p>\n<p>And so &#8230; the hunt continues.<\/p>\n<p>This case is going to get even more curious as Mueller&#8217;s team continues its work.<\/p>\n<p>As Politico describes it, Meuller&#8217;s task has turned into a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2017\/10\/30\/manafort-surrender-fbi-authorities-244305\">sprawling probe.<\/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&#8217;s boasting of being a &#8220;winner&#8221; has taken another punch in the gut. Special counsel Robert Mueller has indicted the president&#8217;s former campaign boss, Paul Manafort, of money laundering in his probe of the &#8220;Russia thing&#8221; that caused Trump to fire former FBI director James Comey. Hmm. Where does this go? I intend &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25739\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump &#8216;losing streak&#8217; continues at full speed<\/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":[1424,6506,3983,7093,6755],"class_list":["post-25739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-paul-manafort","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-russian-hacking"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739","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=25739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25740,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25739\/revisions\/25740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}