{"id":27262,"date":"2018-01-07T21:42:51","date_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:42:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27262"},"modified":"2018-01-07T21:42:51","modified_gmt":"2018-01-07T21:42:51","slug":"trump-political-genius","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27262","title":{"rendered":"Trump is a &#8216;political genius&#8217;?"},"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>Stephen Miller is a young man who believes passionately in the agenda of the man he serves.<\/p>\n<p>That man happens to be the president of the United States, Donald John Trump Sr.<\/p>\n<p>Miller took a turn this weekend on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; and argued vehemently with moderator Jake Tapper. He got in Tapper&#8217;s face about the Republican Party base&#8217;s loathing of CNN. He declined to answer direct questions about whether the president was privy to a meeting with between Don Trump Jr., Paul Manafort and Jared Kushner with a Russian lawyer who purportedly had &#8220;dirt&#8221; on Hillary Rodham Clinton.<\/p>\n<p>Miller kept referring to the president as a &#8220;political genius.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Well, I won&#8217;t belabor the point, but I will offer only this:<\/p>\n<p>A political genius wouldn&#8217;t have sent this young firebrand to meet with the media, to hurl insults, to denigrate a questioner posing legitimate inquiries about a story that has grown more legs than a centipede.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the interview. It&#8217;s a beaut.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2018\/01\/07\/white-house-adviser-stephen-miller-full-interview-sotu.cnn\">http:\/\/www.cnn.com\/videos\/politics\/2018\/01\/07\/white-house-adviser-stephen-miller-full-interview-sotu.cnn<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/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>Stephen Miller is a young man who believes passionately in the agenda of the man he serves. That man happens to be the president of the United States, Donald John Trump Sr. Miller took a turn this weekend on CNN&#8217;s &#8220;State of the Union&#8221; and argued vehemently with moderator Jake Tapper. He got in Tapper&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27262\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump is a &#8216;political genius&#8217;?<\/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":[10],"tags":[1043,1424],"class_list":["post-27262","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262","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=27262"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27263,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27262\/revisions\/27263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}