{"id":31823,"date":"2018-08-15T16:22:15","date_gmt":"2018-08-15T16:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31823"},"modified":"2018-08-15T16:22:15","modified_gmt":"2018-08-15T16:22:15","slug":"no-guarantee-so-what-is-the-problem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31823","title":{"rendered":"No &#8216;guarantee&#8217;? So, what is the problem?"},"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>I feel the need to give White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders the benefit of the doubt on her latest skirmish with the press corps\/&#8221;enemy of the people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She was pressed this week about whether she could &#8220;guarantee&#8221; that there would be no tape recordings of Donald J. Trump using the n-word in conversation.<\/p>\n<p>Sanders said she couldn&#8217;t &#8220;guarantee&#8221; such a thing. Some in the media have gone a bit catatonic in their response to what I thought was a realistic answer. They have wondered how or why she couldn&#8217;t &#8212; or <em>wouldn&#8217;t<\/em> &#8212; offer a direct answer to a direct question.<\/p>\n<p>Consider a couple of factors here.<\/p>\n<p>First, as press secretary, Sanders very well might not know every tiny detail of every little occurrence within the West Wing.<\/p>\n<p>Second, she serves in a presidential administration led by a pathological liar. Donald Trump cannot tell the truth to anyone, or so it appears, at least to chumps like me. I am quite certain Sanders didn&#8217;t intend to question the president&#8217;s veracity by making her &#8220;no guarantee&#8221; declaration.<\/p>\n<p>Sure, Trump denies ever using the n-word. He says it&#8217;s not in his vocabulary. Do you believe him? <em>I &#8230; do &#8230; not!<\/em><\/p>\n<p>However, her answer sounded <em>to my ears<\/em> to be about the most honest response she has offered while speaking for the president.<\/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 feel the need to give White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders the benefit of the doubt on her latest skirmish with the press corps\/&#8221;enemy of the people.&#8221; She was pressed this week about whether she could &#8220;guarantee&#8221; that there would be no tape recordings of Donald J. Trump using the n-word in conversation. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31823\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">No &#8216;guarantee&#8217;? So, what is the problem?<\/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],"tags":[3170,3808,7207,5248],"class_list":["post-31823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","category-media-news","tag-n-word","tag-racism","tag-sarah-huckabee-sanders","tag-white-house-press-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823","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=31823"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31824,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31823\/revisions\/31824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}