{"id":31646,"date":"2018-08-08T23:19:11","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31646"},"modified":"2018-08-08T23:19:11","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:19:11","slug":"troubles-dog-lawmaker-and-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31646","title":{"rendered":"Troubles dog lawmaker and &#8230; 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\/Rep._Chris_Collins_at_Yahoo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31647\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Rep._Chris_Collins_at_Yahoo-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Rep._Chris_Collins_at_Yahoo-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Rep._Chris_Collins_at_Yahoo-768x514.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Rep._Chris_Collins_at_Yahoo.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Chris Collins isn&#8217;t exactly your run-of-the-mill back-bench member of the U.S. House of Representatives.<\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s a Republican from upstate New York. He now is in a good bit of legal trouble, taken been into custody by the FBI on an insider trading charge. He has pleaded not guilty. Yes, Rep. Collins is entitled to mount a vigorous defense.<\/p>\n<p>However, he also is known for something else: Collins was the first member of Congress to endorse Donald J. Trump&#8217;s candidacy for the presidency of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Right there is what makes this case a good bit larger than it otherwise might be.<\/p>\n<p>Collins has been accused of calling members of his family to deliver some insider information on the purchase of drug-company stocks. It&#8217;s a serious charge to be sure. Rep. Collins also allegedly was brazen and blatant in his flouting of the law. He allegedly boasted about it.<\/p>\n<p>Then we have the political backdrop of the upcoming midterm election. Democrats think they have momentum on their side in their attempt to flip Congress back to Democratic control.<\/p>\n<p>This burgeoning difficulty regarding Rep. Collins, the pledge to &#8220;drain the swamp&#8221; and the assertions that this guy thinks he&#8217;s above the law doesn&#8217;t bode well for Republicans.<\/p>\n<p>Then we have the president &#8230;<\/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>Chris Collins isn&#8217;t exactly your run-of-the-mill back-bench member of the U.S. House of Representatives. He&#8217;s a Republican from upstate New York. He now is in a good bit of legal trouble, taken been into custody by the FBI on an insider trading charge. He has pleaded not guilty. Yes, Rep. Collins is entitled to mount &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31646\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Troubles dog lawmaker and &#8230; 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":[7932,8],"tags":[7942,1693,7941,7576],"class_list":["post-31646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-legal-news","tag-chris-collins","tag-fbi","tag-insider-trading","tag-midterm-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31646","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=31646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31648,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31646\/revisions\/31648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}