{"id":31317,"date":"2018-07-29T03:21:36","date_gmt":"2018-07-29T03:21:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31317"},"modified":"2018-07-29T03:21:36","modified_gmt":"2018-07-29T03:21:36","slug":"still-wondering-why-the-constant-griping-about-mueller","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31317","title":{"rendered":"Still wondering: Why the constant griping about Mueller?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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You’ve heard it said of folks who likely are complicit in wrong doing that they “protest too much.”<\/p>\n

Donald Trump continues to protest the existence of a special counsel, Robert Mueller. He keeps calling Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion with Russians during the 2016 election a “witch hunt,” which he’s elevated to a “rigged witch hunt.”<\/p>\n

Is the president protesting too much? Is he seeking to discredit the investigator as a diversion from the evidence that well might be piling against him?<\/p>\n

A politician who is as clean as Trump says he is might just want to keep his trap shut and let the investigation reach a favorable conclusion under its own power.<\/p>\n

But that is not happening with this president. He keeps firing off Twitter message, he keeps ad-libbing at press events with statements that — at least to my ear — sound more like a guilty man than an innocent one.<\/p>\n\n

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You’ve heard it said of folks who likely are complicit in wrong doing that they “protest too much.” Donald Trump continues to protest the existence of a special counsel, Robert Mueller. He keeps calling Mueller’s investigation into possible collusion with Russians during the 2016 election a “witch hunt,” which he’s elevated to a “rigged witch … Continue reading Still wondering: Why the constant griping about Mueller?<\/span> →<\/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":[74,7131,1424,3983,7093],"class_list":["post-31317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-collusion","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31317","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=31317"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31368,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31317\/revisions\/31368"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}