{"id":29937,"date":"2018-05-24T02:28:45","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T02:28:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29937"},"modified":"2018-05-24T02:28:45","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T02:28:45","slug":"spygate-clever-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=29937","title":{"rendered":"Spygate? Clever, Mr. POTUS"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Good grief, Mr. President.<\/p>\n

You now have done what every cheap-seat pundit does when a controversy begins to rise to the level of a serious constitutional crisis, one that actually happened and toppled a sitting president of the United States.<\/p>\n

You’ve attached the “gate” suffix to something that has yet to be determined to have any legs at all.<\/p>\n

“Spygate” might go nowhere, Mr. President. In fact, it looks to me as though you have concocted something out of nothing.<\/p>\n

Mr. President, you accuse the FBI of planting a “spy” in your 2016 presidential campaign. You imply that the FBI acted on the direction of someone within the Barack Obama administration. You offer the usual “I hope it’s not the case,” but then you say that if it’s true, we have the biggest scandal in this country since Watergate.<\/p>\n

Holy crap, Mr. President! Why don’t you leave the “gate” reference out of it? Watergate stands on its own as the worst of the worst scandals. You might not recall these events, sir, but President Nixon’s coverup of the original crime — a so-called “third rate burglary” — was what did him in. I’ll accept that you weren’t all that interested in politics and public policy at that time; you were just coming out of college and preparing to parlay your father’s stake into a billion-dollar enterprise.<\/p>\n

Do I need to remind you, Mr. President, that you haven’t yet produced a shred of evidence that someone “spied” on your campaign for “political purposes.”<\/p>\n

And for crying out loud, if you’re so damn concerned about the integrity of the 2016 presidential election, why don’t you give at least a nod to the nation’s network of actual<\/em> spies and intelligence experts that the Russians attacked our electoral process?<\/p>\n

Now you’re calling it “spygate.” Give me a break.<\/p>\n\n

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Good grief, Mr. President. You now have done what every cheap-seat pundit does when a controversy begins to rise to the level of a serious constitutional crisis, one that actually happened and toppled a sitting president of the United States. You’ve attached the “gate” suffix to something that has yet to be determined to have … Continue reading Spygate? Clever, Mr. POTUS<\/span> →<\/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":[74,1424,3940,7162,4379,5206],"class_list":["post-29937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-richard-nixon","tag-russian-meddling","tag-spygate","tag-watergate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937","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=29937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29939,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29937\/revisions\/29939"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}