{"id":27957,"date":"2018-02-07T17:46:16","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27957"},"modified":"2018-02-07T17:46:16","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T17:46:16","slug":"potus-much-must-answer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27957","title":{"rendered":"POTUS has much for which he must answer"},"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\/2018\/02\/don-jokes.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27959\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/don-jokes-300x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/don-jokes-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/don-jokes-768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/don-jokes-1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/don-jokes.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The farther along we stagger forward into the presidency of Donald Trump, the deeper the hole he digs for himself.<\/p>\n<p>I refer to the many statements he has made &#8212; as candidate and then as president &#8212; that have yet to be substantiated.<\/p>\n<p>A few of them come to mind.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>He has asserted that climate change is a &#8220;hoax,&#8221; a fantasy created by China to discredit our fossil fuel industry.<\/li>\n<li>Trump has accused &#8220;millions of illegal immigrants&#8221; of voting for Hillary Clinton in 2016, giving her the nearly 3 million popular vote margin she rolled up over the president.<\/li>\n<li>The president has fanned the flames of the phony and slanderous birther movement once again by challenging whether Barack Obama was actually born in the United States of America; he once said that the president is a U.S. citizen, but has all but walked that one back.<\/li>\n<li>Candidate Donald Trump said he would release his tax returns once the Internal Revenue Service completed its audit. That was more than two years ago. The tax returns remain a secret. The IRS cannot possibly be conducting that audit to this day.<\/li>\n<li>Trump said he wouldn&#8217;t have time for golf, that he&#8217;d be too busy making America &#8220;great again.&#8221; He, um, has broken that pledge, too.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I know I&#8217;ve missed a few. Maybe many. But I hope you get the point.<\/p>\n<p>The president has made bold pledges. He hasn&#8217;t been held to account for them. His base continues to rally behind him. They give him a pass on all of it. They ignore his hideous personal behavior in a way they never would do if the president was a member of the opposing political party.<\/p>\n<p>Others of us out here are seeking to hold this guy accountable for his lengthening list of untrue statements and promises he made.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t expect the president to listen to his critics. He doesn&#8217;t care what we think. He cares only about the slobbering support he gets from those who relish the idiotic notion that Donald Trump simply is &#8220;telling it like it is.&#8221;<\/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>The farther along we stagger forward into the presidency of Donald Trump, the deeper the hole he digs for himself. I refer to the many statements he has made &#8212; as candidate and then as president &#8212; that have yet to be substantiated. A few of them come to mind. He has asserted that climate &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=27957\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS has much for which he must answer<\/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":[74,540,1424,2139,2245,2343,3688],"class_list":["post-27957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-immigration","tag-irs","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957","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=27957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27960,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27957\/revisions\/27960"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=27957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=27957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=27957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}