{"id":29891,"date":"2018-05-22T01:32:12","date_gmt":"2018-05-22T01:32:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29891"},"modified":"2018-05-22T01:32:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-22T01:32:12","slug":"why-the-lengthy-delay-on-leveling-this-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29891","title":{"rendered":"Why the lengthy delay on leveling this charge?"},"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\/05\/fbi-surveillance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29892\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fbi-surveillance-300x188.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"188\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fbi-surveillance-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/fbi-surveillance.jpg 304w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but a question has popped into my noggin that I want to ask out loud.<\/p>\n<p>If Donald J. Trump suspected <em>in real time<\/em> that the Barack Obama administration was spying on his 2016 presidential campaign, why didn&#8217;t he blow the whistle while he was campaigning for the presidency?<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t. He waited until <em>just the other day<\/em> to allege that the FBI launched a surveillance on his campaign for &#8220;political purposes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Do I believe what the president has alleged? Umm. No. I don&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>He has done this before. He has leveled accusations with zero evidence to back up what he has alleged.<\/p>\n<p>He has said: President Obama ordered wiretaps on the Trump offices in New York; millions of illegal immigrants voted for Hillary Clinton in 2016; he had proof that Barack Obama wasn&#8217;t born in Hawaii, as he has said.<\/p>\n<p>Fake news, anyone? <em>Anyone?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Trump had better be able to produce the goods on this surveillance accusation. If not, well, then we have yet another serious problem pertaining to the president&#8217;s credibility that, to my estimation, is mortally wounded as it is.<\/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>Maybe it&#8217;s just me, but a question has popped into my noggin that I want to ask out loud. If Donald J. Trump suspected in real time that the Barack Obama administration was spying on his 2016 presidential campaign, why didn&#8217;t he blow the whistle while he was campaigning for the presidency? He didn&#8217;t. He &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29891\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Why the lengthy delay on leveling this charge?<\/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":[74,540,1414,1424,1693,2139,2239],"class_list":["post-29891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-barack-obama","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-fbi","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-illegal-immigrants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29891","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=29891"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29893,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29891\/revisions\/29893"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}