{"id":31169,"date":"2018-07-21T01:32:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-21T01:32:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31169"},"modified":"2018-07-21T01:32:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-21T01:32:42","slug":"spicer-mueller-probe-is-no-witch-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31169","title":{"rendered":"Spicer: Mueller probe is no &#8216;witch hunt&#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>Well, there you have it.<\/p>\n<p>One of Donald John Trump&#8217;s staunchest defenders has gone on the record: Robert Mueller&#8217;s probe into possible &#8220;collusion&#8221; with Russians is &#8220;no witch hunt.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>So says former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who became famous &#8212; or <em>infamous<\/em>, depending on your point of view &#8212; during his initial press briefing in January 2017 by arguing with the media over their reporting of the size of Trump&#8217;s inaugural crowd.<\/p>\n<p>That was then. Spicer said on &#8220;Today&#8221; that the special counsel investigation is serious. However, Spicer did hedge a bit.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As of now, I see no evidence that it is,&#8221; he said on &#8220;Today.&#8221; Do you get it? As of now? He sees no evidence? He also said he sees &#8220;no evidence&#8221; of collusion with the Russians. &#8220;I think it&#8217;s very important to be clear that Russia meddled in our election and there&#8217;s no evidence of collusion,&#8221; Spicer said.<\/p>\n<p>Whoa! We don&#8217;t know what Mueller has hidden from view. There well might be something to reveal eventually.<\/p>\n<p>Yet, Spicer&#8217;s rather tepid defense of Mueller does strike me as a bit refreshing coming as it does from someone who made a name for himself during his time as press secretary as someone who&#8217;d run through a brick wall for the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take Spicer at his word that he doesn&#8217;t believe we are witnessing a witch hunt. If only he would stop pulling his punches.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the interview <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/politics\/sean-spicer-muellers-investigation-is-not-a-witch-hunt\/ar-AAAip0n?li=BBnb7Kz\">here.<\/a><\/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>Well, there you have it. One of Donald John Trump&#8217;s staunchest defenders has gone on the record: Robert Mueller&#8217;s probe into possible &#8220;collusion&#8221; with Russians is &#8220;no witch hunt.&#8221; So says former White House press secretary Sean Spicer, who became famous &#8212; or infamous, depending on your point of view &#8212; during his initial press &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31169\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Spicer: Mueller probe is no &#8216;witch hunt&#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":[13],"tags":[1424,3983,7093,7467,6796],"class_list":["post-31169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-russian-interference","tag-sean-spicer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169","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=31169"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31170,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31169\/revisions\/31170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}