{"id":31052,"date":"2018-07-17T19:32:25","date_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:32:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31052"},"modified":"2018-07-17T19:32:25","modified_gmt":"2018-07-17T19:32:25","slug":"trump-makes-it-all-better-hardly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31052","title":{"rendered":"Trump makes it all better? Hardly"},"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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/im-18336.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31053\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/im-18336-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/im-18336-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/im-18336.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump today sought to insert a single word in a statement he made standing next to Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin.<\/p>\n<p>He said Monday that he &#8220;saw no reason to believe Russia would&#8221; meddle in the 2016 presidential election.<\/p>\n<p>Today? Donald Trump said he &#8220;saw no reason to believe Russia would <em>not&#8221;<\/em> meddle.<\/p>\n<p>There you have it. The president misspoke, he said, with an error of omission. He didn&#8217;t say &#8220;not&#8221; in Putin&#8217;s presence when he should have said it.<\/p>\n<p>Is this good enough? Does this make it all better now, that the president of the United States really and truly stands behind our intelligence experts&#8217; view that Putin and the Russians attacked our electoral system?<\/p>\n<p>Let me think for a second about that.<\/p>\n<p>Umm. No. It doesn&#8217;t make it better.<\/p>\n<p>What we need now is a statement of <em>outrage and condemnation<\/em> of Russia, of Putin, of the goons who&#8217;ve been indicted by a federal grand jury that they conspired to interfere in our election.<\/p>\n<p>Is any of that on the way?<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Probably not.<\/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 today sought to insert a single word in a statement he made standing next to Russia&#8217;s Vladimir Putin. He said Monday that he &#8220;saw no reason to believe Russia would&#8221; meddle in the 2016 presidential election. Today? Donald Trump said he &#8220;saw no reason to believe Russia would not&#8221; meddle. There you &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31052\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump makes it all better? Hardly<\/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":[1424,7162,5125],"class_list":["post-31052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-russian-meddling","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052","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=31052"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31054,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31052\/revisions\/31054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}