{"id":27941,"date":"2018-02-07T00:00:08","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27941"},"modified":"2018-02-07T00:11:38","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T00:11:38","slug":"trump-love-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27941","title":{"rendered":"Trump would ‘love a shutdown’?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald Trump would “love” a shutdown of the federal government.<\/p>\n

He’d love it. He said it many times today during a White House meeting on gang violence. The president, quite naturally, blames Democrats if a shutdown occurs. Democrats, he said, oppose border security; they oppose benefits for the military. Democrats are nasty. They’re “un-American” because they didn’t clap for him while he delivered “really good news” during the president’s State of the Union speech the other day.<\/p>\n

The president really should not want<\/em> a shutdown of the government, as Republican U.S. Rep. Barbara Comstock told him during the gang violence meeting. “Both sides” learned that a shutdown hurts them, and the public doesn’t like it one damn bit, she said.<\/p>\n

Ah, but the president still would “love” a shutdown.<\/p>\n

This is how you “tell it like it is,” right? Trump is the first president in my memory who has said — in effect — that he would favor a shutting down of the government he was elected to administer.<\/p>\n

To what end do we close offices and deny taxpayers the full service from the government for which they pay? To build a wall across our southern border.<\/p>\n

This is not<\/em> how you govern, Mr. President. Honest.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald Trump would “love” a shutdown of the federal government. He’d love it. He said it many times today during a White House meeting on gang violence. The president, quite naturally, blames Democrats if a shutdown occurs. Democrats, he said, oppose border security; they oppose benefits for the military. Democrats are nasty. They’re “un-American” because … Continue reading Trump would ‘love a shutdown’?<\/span> →<\/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":[849,7071,1343,1424,7312,1978,2245],"class_list":["post-27941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-capitol-hill","tag-daca","tag-democrats","tag-donald-trump","tag-dreamers","tag-government-shutdown","tag-immigration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941","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=27941"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27943,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27941\/revisions\/27943"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}