{"id":27664,"date":"2018-01-26T03:15:14","date_gmt":"2018-01-26T03:15:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27664"},"modified":"2018-01-26T03:15:39","modified_gmt":"2018-01-26T03:15:39","slug":"lies-keep-piling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27664","title":{"rendered":"The lies keep piling up"},"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>Where do we stand now?<\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump once told us that he never considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller. I believe he said it a couple of times.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, but here comes The New York Times with a report tonight that not only did the president consider firing Mueller, he actually <em>ordered the firing! <\/em>White House counsel Donald McGahn said in response that he would quit rather than carry out the order.<\/p>\n<p>The president backed down.<\/p>\n<p>Here we are. The president, according to the NY Times report, has been caught in perhaps the most substantial lie of his presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Trump lied to the public about his intention regarding the special counsel&#8217;s probe into collusion with Russian hackers who said they had &#8220;dirt&#8221; on Hillary Clinton, Trump&#8217;s 2016 presidential campaign opponent.<\/p>\n<p>How many more of these lies must we endure?<\/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>Where do we stand now? Donald John Trump once told us that he never considered firing special counsel Robert Mueller. I believe he said it a couple of times. Oh, but here comes The New York Times with a report tonight that not only did the president consider firing Mueller, he actually ordered the firing! &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27664\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The lies keep piling up<\/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":[74,1424,2139,3983,7093],"class_list":["post-27664","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664","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=27664"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27666,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27664\/revisions\/27666"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}