{"id":33090,"date":"2018-10-26T22:25:34","date_gmt":"2018-10-26T22:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33090"},"modified":"2018-10-26T22:25:34","modified_gmt":"2018-10-26T22:25:34","slug":"way-more-than-bomb-stuff-mr-potus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33090","title":{"rendered":"Way more than &#8216;bomb stuff,&#8217; 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\/barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton-cnn-pipe-bomb-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-33091\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton-cnn-pipe-bomb-2-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton-cnn-pipe-bomb-2-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton-cnn-pipe-bomb-2-768x448.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton-cnn-pipe-bomb-2-1024x597.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/barack-obama-and-hillary-clinton-cnn-pipe-bomb-2.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has this way of denigrating <em>everyone<\/em> and seemingly <em>every matter<\/em> of importance.<\/p>\n<p>The terrorizing of Democratic political figures with pipe bombs is pretty damn critical \u2026 don&#8217;t you think? I do.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the president put a Twitter message out this morning that referred to it as &#8220;bomb stuff&#8221; while lamenting the possible drag this crisis might have on the future of Republican politicians competing in the midterm election.<\/p>\n<p>Wow! Amazing, if you ask me.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, I was glad to hear FBI Director Christopher Wray snuff out the idiotic notion being tossed around by right-wing politicians and media that the pipe bombs were a hoax, that the crisis was the product of a shadow liberal\/progressive conspiracy to make Republicans look bad.<\/p>\n<p>Wray said in no uncertain terms that is not the case. The bombs were real. The suspect they arrested today in Florida is known to be a Donald Trump supporter. Whoever sought to terrorize the Democratic pols, including two former presidents and CNN intended to <em>terrorize<\/em> them &#8212; if not <em>harm<\/em> them outright if the devices ever exploded.<\/p>\n<p>This is a serious degradation of the political discourse. It is far worse than mere &#8220;bomb stuff.&#8221; The president should know better than to say such a thing \u2026 but he doesn&#8217;t.<\/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 Trump has this way of denigrating everyone and seemingly every matter of importance. The terrorizing of Democratic political figures with pipe bombs is pretty damn critical \u2026 don&#8217;t you think? I do. Yet the president put a Twitter message out this morning that referred to it as &#8220;bomb stuff&#8221; while lamenting the possible drag &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33090\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Way more than &#8216;bomb stuff,&#8217; 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":[1043,1424,2978,8067],"class_list":["post-33090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-cnn","tag-donald-trump","tag-media","tag-pipe-bombs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33090","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=33090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33092,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33090\/revisions\/33092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}