{"id":32186,"date":"2018-09-08T01:30:06","date_gmt":"2018-09-08T01:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32186"},"modified":"2018-09-08T01:30:06","modified_gmt":"2018-09-08T01:30:06","slug":"darn-that-public-domain-where-words-gain-immortality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32186","title":{"rendered":"Darn that public domain, where words gain immortality"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald John Trump blasted Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” saying — among many other things — that he has never used the word “retard” to describe a fellow human being.<\/p>\n

Except … that he did.<\/p>\n

Woodward’s book contains a passage that references the president calling Attorney General Jeff Sessions “mentally retarded” and a “dumb Southerner.” Trump said he’s never used that word. Never. Not one time, he said.<\/p>\n

Oops! Someone dug this item out, from a 2004 appearance on Howard Stern’s radio show: \u201cI know I was criticized in one magazine where the writer was retarded, he said: \u2018Donald Trump put up $7 million, they put up $193 million and they are 50\/50 partners. Why isn\u2019t Donald Trump putting up more money?\u2019 And you know it is supposed to be because I am smart.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is the kind of thing that keeps nipping at the president’s rear end. He makes blanket assertions that can be refuted immediately.<\/p>\n

Such is the case, yet again, with the president’s “retarded” description of the attorney general. Yes, it seems to validate Woodward’s credibility as a journalist.<\/p>\n

If only the president could ever learn to speak the truth. About anything. He won’t.<\/p>\n\n

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Donald John Trump blasted Bob Woodward’s new book, “Fear,” saying — among many other things — that he has never used the word “retard” to describe a fellow human being. Except … that he did. Woodward’s book contains a passage that references the president calling Attorney General Jeff Sessions “mentally retarded” and a “dumb Southerner.” … Continue reading Darn that public domain, where words gain immortality<\/span> →<\/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":[13],"tags":[696,1414,1424,5635,2434],"class_list":["post-32186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-bob-woodward","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-fear","tag-jeff-sessions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32186","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=32186"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32188,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32186\/revisions\/32188"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}