{"id":30088,"date":"2018-06-03T01:34:05","date_gmt":"2018-06-03T01:34:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30088"},"modified":"2018-06-03T01:34:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-03T01:34:05","slug":"how-do-you-defend-the-indefensible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30088","title":{"rendered":"How do you defend the indefensible?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Maybe it’s just me, but has anyone else noticed something odd about the tone that Donald John Trump’s “defenders” use when they respond to criticism of the president?<\/p>\n

When someone accuses Trump of being a pathological liar, do they rush to defend his veracity, integrity, his honesty?<\/p>\n

When someone speaks critically of Trump’s behavior, his crass and foul language, do his allies defend his decency and compassion for others?<\/p>\n

No on both counts. What we get from presidential “defenders” are epithets against the accusers. They’ll say that others lie, too. They give him a pass on so-called “locker room talk” and say that critics should stop being “snowflakes,” that they need to toughen up.<\/p>\n

The Trumpkins around the country go on the attack. They’re attacking the credibility of the special counsel, Robert Mueller. They say his legal team comprises too many Democrats, many of whom worked for “Crooked Hillary” Clinton. They use terms like “witch hunt,” “hoax” and “fake news” to degrade, denigrate, disparage and dismiss criticism of the president.<\/p>\n

I just find it odd and curious that their attempts to defend the indefensible end up raising more questions about the man at the center of this storm.<\/p>\n\n

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Maybe it’s just me, but has anyone else noticed something odd about the tone that Donald John Trump’s “defenders” use when they respond to criticism of the president? When someone accuses Trump of being a pathological liar, do they rush to defend his veracity, integrity, his honesty? When someone speaks critically of Trump’s behavior, his … Continue reading How do you defend the indefensible?<\/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":[1424,2139,3983],"class_list":["post-30088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-robert-mueller"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30088","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=30088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30089,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30088\/revisions\/30089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}