{"id":28016,"date":"2018-02-10T00:23:46","date_gmt":"2018-02-10T00:23:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28016"},"modified":"2018-02-10T00:23:46","modified_gmt":"2018-02-10T00:23:46","slug":"trump-shows-dark-side-yet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28016","title":{"rendered":"Trump shows his dark side yet again"},"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\/01\/static.politico.com_-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27648\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/static.politico.com_-3-300x162.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"162\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/static.politico.com_-3-300x162.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/static.politico.com_-3-768x416.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/static.politico.com_-3-1024x554.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/static.politico.com_-3.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has declared that his former staff secretary has denied the accusations of two former wives and a former girlfriend that he beat them up.<\/p>\n<p>The president stood behind a U.S. Senate candidate who was accused of sexual abuse by women, one of whom claimed the man abused her when she was a 14-year-old girl.<\/p>\n<p>The president also has called the 16 or so women who have accused him of sexual abuse liars.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a pattern here? If you&#8217;ve missed it, I&#8217;ll offer this: <em>Women<\/em> have accused <em>men<\/em> of sexual abuse and spousal battery but the president stands foursquare behind the <em>men<\/em>. What&#8217;s more, he has called the women liars.<\/p>\n<p>Rob Porter&#8217;s resignation as staff secretary comes after one of his former wives provided a photograph showing here with a shiner under her right eye; she says Porter did that to her.<\/p>\n<p>The many women who have accused former GOP Senate candidate Roy Moore have provided detailed allegations of what Moore supposedly did to them.<\/p>\n<p>And the women who have accused Trump himself of sexual misbehavior? They tell the same story. Furthermore, Trump has actually <em>boasted<\/em> about how he has grabbed women by their genital area.<\/p>\n<p>What in the name of all that is holy is it going to take for the president&#8217;s devoted Republican &#8220;base&#8221; to recognize who has been elected to the highest, most exalted office in the land?<\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s statement of good wishes for Rob Porter &#8212; with no mention of (a) the women who have accused him of battery or (b) the sin of spousal\/domestic abuse &#8212; reveal an astonishing lack of compassion in the man entrusted to stand as the nation&#8217;s moral authority.<\/p>\n<p>The president either doesn&#8217;t get it, or he gets it, but chooses to ignore it.<\/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>Donald Trump has declared that his former staff secretary has denied the accusations of two former wives and a former girlfriend that he beat them up. The president stood behind a U.S. Senate candidate who was accused of sexual abuse by women, one of whom claimed the man abused her when she was a 14-year-old &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28016\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump shows his dark side yet again<\/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":[13,14],"tags":[1424,7578,4037,4234,7579],"class_list":["post-28016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-rob-porter","tag-roy-moore","tag-sexual-abuse","tag-spousal-abuse"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016","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=28016"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28017,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28016\/revisions\/28017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}