{"id":28199,"date":"2018-02-19T14:45:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T14:45:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28199"},"modified":"2018-02-19T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T14:45:40","slug":"yet-another-tragedy-falls-victim-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28199","title":{"rendered":"Yet another tragedy falls victim to politics"},"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>Donald Trump&#8217;s incessant use of Twitter could enable him to use the social medium to comfort and console families suffering from unspeakable grief.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the president did offer his &#8220;thoughts and prayers&#8221; to families and other loved ones in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school massacre on Valentine&#8217;s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Then he followed up with a tweet over the weekend that reveals, in my mind, the kind of person Trump really is.<\/p>\n<p>He blamed the FBI for failing to respond to tips about the alleged shooter because the agency was &#8220;too busy&#8221; investigating the Trump presidential campaign&#8217;s alleged collusion with Russian hackers who meddled in our 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it. When the president is handed an opportunity to criticize law enforcement, by golly he <em>jumps all over it<\/em> &#8212; even when the criticism is juxtaposed with a nation&#8217;s grief over another spasm of gun violence.<\/p>\n<p>The president has drawn criticism from politicians of both parties over this response. Will it sink in? Will he heed what members of his own party are saying? <em>Hah! Hardly.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Does this man have any sense of decency? Any sense of shame? Any sense of compassion or empathy? I concluded long ago the answer is an unequivocal &#8220;no!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Sickening.<\/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&#8217;s incessant use of Twitter could enable him to use the social medium to comfort and console families suffering from unspeakable grief. Yes, the president did offer his &#8220;thoughts and prayers&#8221; to families and other loved ones in the wake of the Parkland, Fla., school massacre on Valentine&#8217;s Day. Then he followed up with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28199\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Yet another tragedy falls victim to politics<\/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":[10,13],"tags":[1424,1693,2037,7590,7093,4932],"class_list":["post-28199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-media-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-gun-violence","tag-parkland-shooting","tag-russia-probe","tag-twitter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28199","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=28199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28200,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28199\/revisions\/28200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}