{"id":28780,"date":"2018-03-20T23:17:52","date_gmt":"2018-03-20T23:17:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28780"},"modified":"2018-03-20T23:17:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-20T23:17:52","slug":"mccain-speaks-truth-to-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28780","title":{"rendered":"McCain speaks truth to &#8230; fraud"},"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\/john-mccain-cancer-hero-fights-his-last-battle-perhaps.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28325\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mccain-cancer-hero-fights-his-last-battle-perhaps-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mccain-cancer-hero-fights-his-last-battle-perhaps-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mccain-cancer-hero-fights-his-last-battle-perhaps-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/john-mccain-cancer-hero-fights-his-last-battle-perhaps.jpg 789w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>U.S. Sen. John McCain remains in strong voice and for that I am grateful.<\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election as Russia&#8217;s president. The message didn&#8217;t go down well with the stricken Republican senator from Arizona, who is battling an aggressive form of brain cancer.<\/p>\n<p>McCain issued a statement that read in part, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/senate\/379339-mccain-rips-trumps-congratulatory-call-to-putin-as-insult-to-russian-people\">The Hill<\/a>: <em>In a statement, McCain called Trump&#8217;s phone call to Putin an insult to &#8220;every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country&#8217;s future.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cAn American president does not lead the Free World by congratulating dictators on winning sham elections,&#8221; McCain said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Did the president discuss with Putin the questions about Russian meddling in our 2016 presidential election? Did he mention a word to him about his support of Syrian dictator Bashar al Assad? Did he bring up the murder of journalists or the poisoning of a former Soviet spy and his daughter?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, no! He wouldn&#8217;t go there. Instead, he &#8220;congratulated&#8221; Putin, despite some serious reporting about election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>McCain said more about Trump&#8217;s call to Putin: <em>&#8220;And by doing so with Vladimir Putin, President Trump insulted every Russian citizen who was denied the right to vote in a free and fair election to determine their country&#8217;s future, including the countless Russian patriots who have risked so much to protest and resist Putin&#8217;s regime.&#8221;<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump is so very tough on American law enforcement officials, on critics here at home and even on allies abroad. Yet he soft-pedals his comments on Putin?<\/p>\n<p>Shameful.<\/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>U.S. Sen. John McCain remains in strong voice and for that I am grateful. Donald John Trump congratulated Vladimir Putin on his re-election as Russia&#8217;s president. The message didn&#8217;t go down well with the stricken Republican senator from Arizona, who is battling an aggressive form of brain cancer. McCain issued a statement that read in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=28780\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">McCain speaks truth to &#8230; fraud<\/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":[74,2546,7659,7162,5125],"class_list":["post-28780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-john-mccain","tag-russian-election","tag-russian-meddling","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780","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=28780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28781,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28780\/revisions\/28781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}