{"id":31491,"date":"2018-08-03T02:19:39","date_gmt":"2018-08-03T02:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31491"},"modified":"2018-08-03T02:19:39","modified_gmt":"2018-08-03T02:19:39","slug":"wh-provides-phony-cover-for-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31491","title":{"rendered":"WH provides phony cover for Trump"},"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\/08\/mueller-and-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31449\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/mueller-and-trump.jpg 1100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>White House senior aides are swilling the Kool-Aid that makes them lie for the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>They keep saying that Donald J. Trump is just dying to talk to special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s team that is examining whether the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russians who attacked our democratic system in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Does anyone really believe Trump wants to talk to Mueller? Does anyone believe that he can skate through an interview with a meticulous lawyer who has been working for more than a year in search of the truth behind this matter?<\/p>\n<p>I do not believe it for a minute. Indeed, Trump has been getting plenty of armchair legal advice from Republicans to stay as far away from Mueller as possible.<\/p>\n<p>That is far closer to the truth than the fiction being tossed out there by the White House staff and by Trump&#8217;s legal team.<\/p>\n<p>Mueller appears to be closing in &#8230; on something or someone! I have no clue where he is going with this probe.<\/p>\n<p>If the president were to ask me for my advice, I likely <em>should<\/em> say: Don&#8217;t do it, Mr. President. Then again, given that I detest the president, maybe I would succumb to the mischievous angels on my shoulder and tell him: Sure thing, go for it!<\/p>\n<p>However, I am nowhere near the center of this tumult. I do believe that the Trump\/White House legal team is lying about the president&#8217;s so-called &#8220;desire&#8221; to talk to Mueller.<\/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>White House senior aides are swilling the Kool-Aid that makes them lie for the president of the United States. They keep saying that Donald J. Trump is just dying to talk to special counsel Robert Mueller&#8217;s team that is examining whether the Trump presidential campaign colluded with Russians who attacked our democratic system in 2016. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31491\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">WH provides phony cover for Trump<\/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":[74,1424,3983,7093,7100,5246],"class_list":["post-31491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-2016-election","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-special-counsel","tag-white-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31491","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=31491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31492,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31491\/revisions\/31492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}