{"id":32604,"date":"2018-10-03T14:20:01","date_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32604"},"modified":"2018-10-03T14:20:01","modified_gmt":"2018-10-03T14:20:01","slug":"shes-credible-then-shes-not-which-is-it-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32604","title":{"rendered":"She&#8217;s &#8216;credible&#8217;? Then she&#8217;s not? Which is it, Mr. POTUS?"},"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\/10\/181002-donald-trump-rally-ac-827p_4e50d94b01b037154f054832e57333a2.fit-560w.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-32605\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/181002-donald-trump-rally-ac-827p_4e50d94b01b037154f054832e57333a2.fit-560w-300x194.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"194\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/181002-donald-trump-rally-ac-827p_4e50d94b01b037154f054832e57333a2.fit-560w-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/181002-donald-trump-rally-ac-827p_4e50d94b01b037154f054832e57333a2.fit-560w.jpg 560w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald John Trump keeps demonstrating his astonishing ability to contradict himself. What&#8217;s more, his &#8220;base&#8221; of followers keeps demonstrating its own remarkable talent for looking past this man&#8217;s hypocrisy.<\/p>\n<p>The president as recently as a week ago said Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault is a &#8220;credible&#8221; accuser, someone who deserved a fair hearing of her grievance.<\/p>\n<p>Then in a campaign rally in Mississippi just yesterday, the president decided to mock Ford and, yes, challenge her credibility.<\/p>\n<p>He even sought to mimic the accuser&#8217;s voice, which came from someone who admitted to the Senate Judiciary Committee that she was &#8220;terrified&#8221; to be testifying before the panel <em>on national television.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbcnews.com\/politics\/politics-news\/trump-mocks-christine-blasey-ford-mississippi-campaign-rally-n916061\">Trump mocks Ford<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I only can ask rhetorically, because the president has no clue as to how he might answer it were he to see the question: Which statement &#8212; credible or the mocking tone &#8212; reflects your actual point of view, Mr. President?<\/p>\n<p>This individual, Donald Trump, is utterly, completely and categorically lacking in anything resembling a principled basis for the statements that pour out of his mouth.<\/p>\n<p>However \u2026 he &#8220;tells it like it is.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Disgraceful.<\/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>Donald John Trump keeps demonstrating his astonishing ability to contradict himself. What&#8217;s more, his &#8220;base&#8221; of followers keeps demonstrating its own remarkable talent for looking past this man&#8217;s hypocrisy. The president as recently as a week ago said Christine Blasey Ford, who has accused Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault is a &#8220;credible&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=32604\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">She&#8217;s &#8216;credible&#8217;? Then she&#8217;s not? Which is it, Mr. POTUS?<\/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":[13],"tags":[7874,8018,1424,3688],"class_list":["post-32604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-brett-kavanaugh","tag-christine-blasey-ford","tag-donald-trump","tag-potus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32604","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=32604"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32604\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32606,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32604\/revisions\/32606"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}