{"id":31613,"date":"2018-08-07T20:58:23","date_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:58:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31613"},"modified":"2018-08-07T20:58:23","modified_gmt":"2018-08-07T20:58:23","slug":"waiting-for-many-more-other-shoes-to-drop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31613","title":{"rendered":"Waiting for many more &#8216;other shoes&#8217; to drop"},"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>As I watch the Donald Trump administration continue to writhe and twist itself into something unrecognizable, I keep thinking about all the things we don&#8217;t know about the president&#8217;s campaign and some of the baggage it is lugging around.<\/p>\n<p>We have those Trump tax returns, which the then-candidate refused to release in 2016, flouting four decades of political tradition.<\/p>\n<p>Nor do we know whether there&#8217;s been any violation of the U.S. Constitution&#8217;s Emoluments Clause, the provision that prohibits presidents from taking gifts from foreign governments.<\/p>\n<p>We have all those questions about possible campaign violations regarding the payments to (a) a porn star who alleges a one-night stand with the future president and (b) a Playboy centerfold model who alleges she had a nearly yearlong affair with the same future president. Trump paid these women big money to keep quiet &#8212; about relationships that Trump said <em>never occurred<\/em>. Go figure.<\/p>\n<p>Is &#8220;collusion&#8221; with the Russians against the law or not? If not, then what about conspiracy, obstruction of justice?<\/p>\n<p>I will continue to have faith that the special counsel, Robert Mueller, will be able to figure all this out in due course.<\/p>\n<p>If he&#8217;s allowed to do the job he has been appointed to do.<\/p>\n<p>Proceed, Mr. 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>As I watch the Donald Trump administration continue to writhe and twist itself into something unrecognizable, I keep thinking about all the things we don&#8217;t know about the president&#8217;s campaign and some of the baggage it is lugging around. We have those Trump tax returns, which the then-candidate refused to release in 2016, flouting four &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31613\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Waiting for many more &#8216;other shoes&#8217; to drop<\/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":[7932,13],"tags":[3983,7093,7100],"class_list":["post-31613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-national-news","tag-robert-mueller","tag-russia-probe","tag-special-counsel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31613","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=31613"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31613\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31614,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31613\/revisions\/31614"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}