{"id":31932,"date":"2018-08-22T23:18:17","date_gmt":"2018-08-22T23:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31932"},"modified":"2018-08-22T23:18:17","modified_gmt":"2018-08-22T23:18:17","slug":"is-trump-believable-at-any-level-um-no","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31932","title":{"rendered":"Is Trump believable at any level? Um, no!"},"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>These online polls that show up on MSN.com really knock me out.<\/p>\n<p>The latest one asks whether Paul Manafort&#8217;s conviction this week on eight felony counts of tax fraud and money laundering make me less likely to believe Donald J. Trump.<\/p>\n<p>I was astounded to see that 48 percent of respondents said &#8220;no&#8221;; 47 percent of them said &#8220;yes.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I was among the 47 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Although the more I think about it, I don&#8217;t know how the president of the United States can be any less believable at any level.<\/p>\n<p>I do not trust him for one nanosecond. Not for an instant. A New York minute. I trust him as far as I can throw a 239-pound human being.<\/p>\n<p>Do you get my drift? Of course you do!<\/p>\n<p>Trump cannot tell the whole unvarnished truth on anything, at any level, for any reason &#8230; or so it appears to me.<\/p>\n<p>Manafort is Trump&#8217;s former 2016 campaign chairman, the guy Trump said worked for him &#8220;only a little while.&#8221; He spoke as if he barely knows the guy. Give me a break, will ya?<\/p>\n<p>Do I believe Trump? Umm, no.<\/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>These online polls that show up on MSN.com really knock me out. The latest one asks whether Paul Manafort&#8217;s conviction this week on eight felony counts of tax fraud and money laundering make me less likely to believe Donald J. Trump. I was astounded to see that 48 percent of respondents said &#8220;no&#8221;; 47 percent &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=31932\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Is Trump believable at any level? Um, no!<\/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":[74,6506],"class_list":["post-31932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-donald-trump","tag-2016-election","tag-paul-manafort"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31932","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=31932"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31932\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31933,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31932\/revisions\/31933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31932"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31932"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31932"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}