{"id":31839,"date":"2018-08-16T02:07:24","date_gmt":"2018-08-16T02:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31839"},"modified":"2018-08-16T02:07:24","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T02:07:24","slug":"trump-vs-brennan-gloves-come-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31839","title":{"rendered":"Trump vs. Brennan: Gloves come off"},"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\/brennan-and-trump.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-31840\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/brennan-and-trump-245x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/brennan-and-trump-245x300.jpg 245w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/brennan-and-trump-768x940.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/brennan-and-trump.jpg 784w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I have no idea whether this Twitter exchange had anything to do with Donald Trump revoking former CIA Director John Brennan&#8217;s security clearance &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>But I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if there is <em>some<\/em> linkage.<\/p>\n<p>The president has exhibited a shameful display of petulance and idiotic pique at a man whose expertise on vital national security matters he has just tossed into the crapper.<\/p>\n<p>And I have to ask: Why in the world would the president do this?<\/p>\n<p>Oh, I know. It&#8217;s because he is a thin-skinned narcissist with delusions of grandeur\/godhood.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan&#8217;s tweet speaks to the equally idiotic language he used to dismiss Omarosa Manigault Newman, the former White House aide who chief of staff John Kelly fired.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t misunderstand me here. I do not trust Newman, either. However, the presidency used to demand that its occupant demonstrate some level of dignity, decorum and &#8220;probity,&#8221; a term that Brennan used.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever her beef with the president &#8212; or his with her &#8212; she didn&#8217;t deserve to be talked about in that tone by the head of state of the world&#8217;s greatest nation.<\/p>\n<p>And this circles back &#8212; every single time &#8212; to the issue of whether Donald Trump is morally or intellectually fit to hold the office to which he was elected.<\/p>\n<p>He is unfit at every level imaginable.<\/p>\n<p>Brennan has been denied a security clearance. That, by itself, is a shame. The good news is that Trump&#8217;s petulance won&#8217;t silence this erudite critic.<\/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 have no idea whether this Twitter exchange had anything to do with Donald Trump revoking former CIA Director John Brennan&#8217;s security clearance &#8230; But I wouldn&#8217;t be surprised if there is some linkage. The president has exhibited a shameful display of petulance and idiotic pique at a man whose expertise on vital national security &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31839\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Trump vs. Brennan: Gloves come off<\/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],"tags":[989,6094,7470],"class_list":["post-31839","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-cia","tag-john-brennan","tag-omarosa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31839","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=31839"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31839\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31841,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31839\/revisions\/31841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}