{"id":31578,"date":"2018-08-06T21:40:41","date_gmt":"2018-08-06T21:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31578"},"modified":"2018-08-06T21:40:41","modified_gmt":"2018-08-06T21:40:41","slug":"trump-tweets-making-our-heads-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31578","title":{"rendered":"Trump tweets making our heads spin"},"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>I fear that I am going to lapse into a Linda Blair impersonation, the one in the film &#8220;The Exorcist&#8221; where her head spins round and round.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump&#8217;s head-spinning reversal of previous lies about a meeting with Russians who reportedly were offering dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign has my head about to spin right off my shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>The president denied the meeting was called to talk about his campaign against Hillary. He then reportedly dictated a statement that came out under Don Trump Jr.&#8217;s name; the statement said the meeting dealt with the adoption of children. That was a lie!<\/p>\n<p>Now the president say, yep, the meeting was called to talk about the Clinton campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He lied. Now he&#8217;s telling some version of the truth?<\/p>\n<p>The question now centers on what special counsel Robert Mueller is going to do with this information.<\/p>\n<p>Is the noose tightening? Is the special counsel headed into a blind alley? Have we caught the president in the lie to end all lies? Might there be a violation of the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s Emolument Clause, which prohibits presidents from accepting gifts from foreign governments?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll circle back to something I was taught when I was a youngster: Tell the truth all the time and you won&#8217;t have to worry about the lies catching up with you.<\/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>I fear that I am going to lapse into a Linda Blair impersonation, the one in the film &#8220;The Exorcist&#8221; where her head spins round and round. Donald J. Trump&#8217;s head-spinning reversal of previous lies about a meeting with Russians who reportedly were offering dirt on Hillary Clinton during the 2016 campaign has my head &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31578\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump tweets making our heads spin<\/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":[7932,10,13,14],"tags":[1424,3983,7093],"class_list":["post-31578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-media-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578","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=31578"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31579,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31578\/revisions\/31579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}