{"id":30904,"date":"2018-07-11T16:18:21","date_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:18:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30904"},"modified":"2018-07-11T16:18:21","modified_gmt":"2018-07-11T16:18:21","slug":"did-he-really-say-germany-is-under-russias-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30904","title":{"rendered":"Did he really say Germany is under Russia&#8217;s &#8216;control&#8217;?"},"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>Did I hear this correctly?<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump goes to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and declares that Germany is under Russia&#8217;s &#8220;total control.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Is this man, the president of the United States, in touch with the real world? Don&#8217;t answer that. He isn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, for <em>this<\/em> president to declare that another great power is under the thumb of Russia utterly is laughable on its face. Not because he is wrong. It is because many Americans back home believe the <em>president himself<\/em> is under the control of a nation that attacked our electoral system.<\/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>Did I hear this correctly? Donald J. Trump goes to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and declares that Germany is under Russia&#8217;s &#8220;total control.&#8221; Is this man, the president of the United States, in touch with the real world? Don&#8217;t answer that. He isn&#8217;t. What&#8217;s more, for this president to declare that another great power &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=30904\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Did he really say Germany is under Russia&#8217;s &#8216;control&#8217;?<\/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":[1424,3219,7162],"class_list":["post-30904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-nato","tag-russian-meddling"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30904","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=30904"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30905,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30904\/revisions\/30905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}