{"id":30885,"date":"2018-07-10T22:31:38","date_gmt":"2018-07-10T22:31:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30885"},"modified":"2018-07-10T22:31:38","modified_gmt":"2018-07-10T22:31:38","slug":"how-will-we-know-whether-potus-challenges-putin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30885","title":{"rendered":"How will we know whether POTUS challenges Putin?"},"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>Donald J. Trump has let it be known that he intends to confront Vladimir Putin over the Russians&#8217; meddling in our 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Great, yes? Hah! Guess again.<\/p>\n<p>As I understand it the only people in the room with the two leaders will be their interpreters.<\/p>\n<p>So, here&#8217;s the question: How in the name of international diplomacy are we to know (a) whether he actually confronts Putin or (b) how Putin responds to the inquiry?<\/p>\n<p>Let me go a bit further. What will be Trump&#8217;s tone if he brings it up? Will he deliver a tongue-lashing? Will he demand a full accounting for what Putin ordered his goons to do?<\/p>\n<p>OK, so they&#8217;ll come out of the Helsinki meeting. Trump will declare that he confronted Putin. The Liar in Chief cannot be trusted to tell us the truth. I know I am not alone in remaining highly skeptical of anything that comes out of the president&#8217;s mouth.<\/p>\n<p>I fear that this meeting is going to produce nothing positive for the United States of America.<\/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>Donald J. Trump has let it be known that he intends to confront Vladimir Putin over the Russians&#8217; meddling in our 2016 presidential election. Great, yes? Hah! Guess again. As I understand it the only people in the room with the two leaders will be their interpreters. So, here&#8217;s the question: How in the name &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30885\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How will we know whether POTUS challenges Putin?<\/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":[5],"tags":[1424,5125],"class_list":["post-30885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30885","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=30885"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30885\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30886,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30885\/revisions\/30886"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}