{"id":30900,"date":"2018-07-12T20:13:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-12T20:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30900"},"modified":"2018-07-12T20:13:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-12T20:13:09","slug":"mission-accomplished-at-the-kremlin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30900","title":{"rendered":"Mission accomplished at the Kremlin"},"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>Quite clearly I am not privy to what they&#8217;re doing in the halls of power in Moscow, Russia, at this very moment.<\/p>\n<p>However, if I were a betting man I&#8217;d wager real American money that Vladimir Putin and his high command are high-fiving themselves if they&#8217;re watching the sideshow that has unfolded today in Washington, DC.<\/p>\n<p>They meddled in our 2016 election <em>intending<\/em> to disrupt our political process. They <em>intended<\/em> to sow seeds of discord. The congressional hearing with FBI agent Peter Strzok today &#8212; and the grilling he has endured by Republican members of the House &#8212; demonstrates graphically the success of the Russian meddling.<\/p>\n<p>Putin and his goons are crowing: mission accomplished!<\/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>Quite clearly I am not privy to what they&#8217;re doing in the halls of power in Moscow, Russia, at this very moment. However, if I were a betting man I&#8217;d wager real American money that Vladimir Putin and his high command are high-fiving themselves if they&#8217;re watching the sideshow that has unfolded today in Washington, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30900\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Mission accomplished at the Kremlin<\/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":[74,7162],"class_list":["post-30900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-russian-meddling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30900","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=30900"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30929,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30900\/revisions\/30929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}