{"id":31360,"date":"2018-07-28T21:23:50","date_gmt":"2018-07-28T21:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31360"},"modified":"2018-07-28T21:23:50","modified_gmt":"2018-07-28T21:23:50","slug":"no-sarah-probe-is-no-hoax-or-a-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31360","title":{"rendered":"No, Sarah, probe is no &#8216;hoax&#8217; or a &#8216;waste of time&#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><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sarah_huckabee_sanders_gi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31361\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sarah_huckabee_sanders_gi-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sarah_huckabee_sanders_gi-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sarah_huckabee_sanders_gi-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sarah_huckabee_sanders_gi-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/sarah_huckabee_sanders_gi.jpg 1842w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Huckabee Sanders needs a serious reality check.<\/p>\n<p>The White House press secretary this week called special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation into alleged collusion between 2016 Trump presidential campaign and Russian election attack squad members a &#8220;hoax&#8221; and a &#8220;waste of time.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hmm. Let me think about that.<\/p>\n<p>OK, it&#8217;s not a waste of time. Nor do I believe that multiple criminal indictments and a smattering of guilty pleas constitute a hoax.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/homenews\/administration\/398317-sarah-sanders-mueller-probe-is-a-hoax-and-a-waste-of-time\">The Hill reports<\/a> that the number of aides caught up in this mess now stands at 32. More are likely to be in the mill.<\/p>\n<p>A federal grand jury has indicted 12 Russian intelligence officers on conspiracy charges. Key campaign aides have been indicted as well, along with a former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, who&#8217;s been cooling his jets in jail waiting for the start of his trial on charges of money laundering and assorted other felonies.<\/p>\n<p>Hoax? Waste of time? Not even close.<\/p>\n<p>Proceed, Mr. Special Counsel.<\/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>Sarah Huckabee Sanders needs a serious reality check. The White House press secretary this week called special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s investigation into alleged collusion between 2016 Trump presidential campaign and Russian election attack squad members a &#8220;hoax&#8221; and a &#8220;waste of time.&#8221; Hmm. Let me think about that. OK, it&#8217;s not a waste of time. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31360\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No, Sarah, probe is no &#8216;hoax&#8217; or a &#8216;waste of time&#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":[74,1424,3983,7093,7207],"class_list":["post-31360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-sarah-huckabee-sanders"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360","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=31360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31362,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31360\/revisions\/31362"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}