{"id":25790,"date":"2017-11-01T14:09:41","date_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:09:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25790"},"modified":"2017-11-01T14:09:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-01T14:09:41","slug":"trump-schumer-bromance-hits-the-skids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25790","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Schumer bromance hits the skids"},"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\/11\/chuck-and-don.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-25791\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chuck-and-don-300x169.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chuck-and-don-300x169.png 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/chuck-and-don.png 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I guess Donald John Trump and Charles Schumer aren&#8217;t such good New York City pals after all.<\/p>\n<p>The president of the United States and the U.S. Senate&#8217;s Democratic leader are now exchanging barbs over Trump&#8217;s comments in the wake of the NYC tragedy that killed eight people in a terrorist attack.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take Sen. Schumer&#8217;s side in this dispute. Are you surprised? I didn&#8217;t think so.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/358167-schumer-fires-back-at-trump-i-guess-its-not-too-soon-to-politicize-a-tragedy\">Trump, Schumer trade barbs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trump went after Schumer immediately after the Uzbek immigrant was taken into custody after running into a crowd. He blamed Schumer for endorsing an immigration bill that allowed the Uzbek to enter the country on a special visa.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer responded that &#8220;I guess it&#8217;s not too early to politicize a tragedy,&#8221; blasting the president for taking the low road while the nation&#8217;s largest city deals with the grief brought by the madman.<\/p>\n<p>Schumer played a role in the enactment of the Diversity Visa Lottery Program. He was a junior member of Congress at the time. The program, incidentally, was signed into law by then-President George H.W. Bush, a <em>Republican &#8230; just like Donald Trump<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>But still &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>If only the president could simply limit his public comments in the wake of such tragedy to concern for the victims and to speak to the resolve of a nation that won&#8217;t be terrorized.<\/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 guess Donald John Trump and Charles Schumer aren&#8217;t such good New York City pals after all. The president of the United States and the U.S. Senate&#8217;s Democratic leader are now exchanging barbs over Trump&#8217;s comments in the wake of the NYC tragedy that killed eight people in a terrorist attack. I&#8217;ll take Sen. Schumer&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=25790\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump-Schumer bromance hits the skids<\/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":[985,1424,1892,7394],"class_list":["post-25790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-chuck-schumer","tag-donald-trump","tag-george-hw-bush","tag-nyc-terrorist-attack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25790","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=25790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25792,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25790\/revisions\/25792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}