{"id":3214,"date":"2013-08-11T23:21:40","date_gmt":"2013-08-11T23:21:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/highplainsblogger.wordpress.com\/?p=3214"},"modified":"2016-02-23T23:38:05","modified_gmt":"2016-02-23T23:38:05","slug":"the-donald-is-back-in-the-political-arena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3214","title":{"rendered":"The Donald is back in the political arena"},"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>He&#8217;s baaaack.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump showed up this weekend on the ABC-TV news show &#8220;This Week,&#8221; and yep, started talking like someone who wants to run for president in 2016.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/campaign\/316533-trump-would-spend-whatever-it-takes-to-win-gop-nomination-in-2016\">http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/campaign\/316533-trump-would-spend-whatever-it-takes-to-win-gop-nomination-in-2016<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I almost cannot add to the video attached to this blog.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to understand why a serious news show would interview someone who is likely to do exactly what he did in 2012: sound like someone who wants to run for the White House but who couldn&#8217;t give up his lucrative TV gig, &#8220;The Apprentice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Donald is a lot of things: showman, successful businessman, egomaniac &#8230; to name just three.<\/p>\n<p>A serious public policy expert he is not.<\/p>\n<p>He said in the interview with ABC that the Republicans have to nominate &#8220;the right candidate&#8221; to be someone such as Hillary Rodham Clinton in 2016.<\/p>\n<p>The Donald is not &#8212; and never will be &#8212; that candidate.<\/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>He&#8217;s baaaack. Donald Trump showed up this weekend on the ABC-TV news show &#8220;This Week,&#8221; and yep, started talking like someone who wants to run for president in 2016. http:\/\/thehill.com\/video\/campaign\/316533-trump-would-spend-whatever-it-takes-to-win-gop-nomination-in-2016 I almost cannot add to the video attached to this blog. It&#8217;s hard to understand why a serious news show would interview someone who is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=3214\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Donald is back in the political arena<\/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":[1],"tags":[73,1340,1424,2139,3912,4792],"class_list":["post-3214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-2016-campaign","tag-democratic-politics","tag-donald-trump","tag-hillary-clinton","tag-republican-politics","tag-this-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214","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=3214"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13125,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3214\/revisions\/13125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}