{"id":28293,"date":"2018-02-23T20:07:35","date_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28293"},"modified":"2018-02-23T20:08:20","modified_gmt":"2018-02-23T20:08:20","slug":"trump-trashes-mccain-cpac-can-believe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28293","title":{"rendered":"Trump trashes McCain at CPAC &#8230; can you believe it?"},"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>So much for presidential promises.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump reportedly had pledged to Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, that he no longer would criticize his fellow Republican.<\/p>\n<p>McCain is fighting a virulent form of brain cancer. His daughter revealed only recently about a conversation she had with the president about his vow to be kinder to the stricken senator.<\/p>\n<p>Then the president stood before the Conservative Political Action Conference and tore into &#8212; that is correct &#8212; Sen. John McCain over his &#8220;no&#8221; vote on plans to repeal the Affordable Care Act.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/time.com\/5173162\/donald-trump-cpac-john-mccain-obamacare-repeal\/\">Trump said this <\/a>today to the CPAC audience: \u201cRemember \u2014 one person walked into a room when he was supposed to go this way,\u201d Trump added, giving a thumbs up sign, \u201cand he walked in and went this way [thumbs down] and everyone said, \u2018What happened? What was that all about? Who was that?\u2019 I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t know, I don\u2019t want to be controversial so I won\u2019t use his name. What a mess.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you can get past the mangled syntax and the idiotic sentence structure of the president&#8217;s remarks, then you&#8217;ll understand that the president is doing precisely what he told the senator&#8217;s daughter he <em>wouldn&#8217;t<\/em> do.<\/p>\n<p>In Trump World, a promise made is a promise to be broken.<\/p>\n<p>Liar.<\/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>So much for presidential promises. Donald Trump reportedly had pledged to Meghan McCain, daughter of Sen. John McCain, that he no longer would criticize his fellow Republican. McCain is fighting a virulent form of brain cancer. His daughter revealed only recently about a conversation she had with the president about his vow to be kinder &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28293\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump trashes McCain at CPAC &#8230; can you believe it?<\/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":[131,1176,1424,2546,7475],"class_list":["post-28293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-aca","tag-cpac","tag-donald-trump","tag-john-mccain","tag-meghan-mccain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293","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=28293"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28295,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28293\/revisions\/28295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}