{"id":28413,"date":"2018-03-02T04:35:42","date_gmt":"2018-03-02T04:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28413"},"modified":"2018-03-02T04:35:42","modified_gmt":"2018-03-02T04:35:42","slug":"telling-us-truth-just-little-white-lies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28413","title":{"rendered":"Is she telling us the truth, or just &#8216;little white lies&#8217;?"},"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>Hope Hicks spilled the beans during testimony before a Senate committee this week.<\/p>\n<p>The lame-duck White House communications director admitted to lawmakers that she occasionally has told &#8220;little white lies&#8221; on behalf of the president of the United States, Donald John Trump.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks, the former model and actress, then resigned her office. She&#8217;ll leave in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>However, that means she&#8217;ll remain on the job <em>until she&#8217;s gone.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>This all begs the question: Can we believe a single word that comes out of this person&#8217;s mouth? For that matter, I rarely take anything that flies out of Trump&#8217;s pie hole at face value.<\/p>\n<p>Hicks is the fourth communications director to work in the Trump administration. Four of them have come and gone in just a<em> little more than a single year.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fine-tuned machine&#8221; is it? Hardly. Hicks, who came into this job with no political or government experience, wasn&#8217;t cutting it.<\/p>\n<p>Plus, she told &#8220;little white lies.&#8221; Or were they actually great big lies, sort of like the type that Donald Trump so very often tells us?<\/p>\n<p>Can this man, the president, find anyone who is trustworthy? Or are they doing his bidding as the liar in chief?<\/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>Hope Hicks spilled the beans during testimony before a Senate committee this week. The lame-duck White House communications director admitted to lawmakers that she occasionally has told &#8220;little white lies&#8221; on behalf of the president of the United States, Donald John Trump. Hicks, the former model and actress, then resigned her office. She&#8217;ll leave in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28413\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is she telling us the truth, or just &#8216;little white lies&#8217;?<\/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":[1424,7622,7621],"class_list":["post-28413","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hope-hicks","tag-white-house-communications-director"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413","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=28413"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28414,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28413\/revisions\/28414"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28413"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28413"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28413"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}