{"id":31114,"date":"2018-07-19T17:04:09","date_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31114"},"modified":"2018-07-19T17:04:09","modified_gmt":"2018-07-19T17:04:09","slug":"potus-wont-take-the-bait-yes-putin-lied","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31114","title":{"rendered":"POTUS won&#8217;t take the bait: Yes, Putin lied"},"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\/180411072715-01-trump-putin-file-large-169.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30734\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180411072715-01-trump-putin-file-large-169-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180411072715-01-trump-putin-file-large-169-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/180411072715-01-trump-putin-file-large-169.jpg 460w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>CBS News anchor Jeff Glor sat right in front of Donald J. Trump and asked him directly this week: Did Vladimir Putin lie when he denied the Russians meddled in our 2016 election?<\/p>\n<p>The president had just declared in his conversation with Glor that he believed &#8212; <em>finally!<\/em> &#8212; the U.S. intelligence assessment that Russia attacked our electoral process.<\/p>\n<p>So, Glor asked the obvious question about the Russian president&#8217;s veracity. Trump wouldn&#8217;t go there. He wouldn&#8217;t call Putin a liar.<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. OK, I&#8217;ll do it for him. Yes, Mr. President, Vladimir Putin <em>lied<\/em> when he denied the Russians&#8217; culpability. Indeed, he has crafted his entire career as a KGB agent and as a politician by <em>lying.<\/em> He has turned <em>lying<\/em> into an art form.<\/p>\n<p>Putin is a pro at prevarication.<\/p>\n<p>Indeed, Vladimir Putin is far better at lying than &#8212; dare I say it &#8212; <em>Donald John Trump.<\/em><\/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>CBS News anchor Jeff Glor sat right in front of Donald J. Trump and asked him directly this week: Did Vladimir Putin lie when he denied the Russians meddled in our 2016 election? The president had just declared in his conversation with Glor that he believed &#8212; finally! &#8212; the U.S. intelligence assessment that Russia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31114\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">POTUS won&#8217;t take the bait: Yes, Putin lied<\/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":[1424,3688,7162,5125],"class_list":["post-31114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus","tag-russian-meddling","tag-vladimir-putin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31114","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=31114"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31115,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31114\/revisions\/31115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}