{"id":33396,"date":"2018-11-09T21:18:53","date_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33396"},"modified":"2018-11-09T21:18:53","modified_gmt":"2018-11-09T21:18:53","slug":"he-said-he-said-to-himself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33396","title":{"rendered":"He said, he said &#8230; to himself"},"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>Donald J. Trump is on record telling &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; that he knows Matthew Whitaker, the nation&#8217;s newest acting attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Then the president contradicted <em>himself<\/em> by telling us he doesn&#8217;t know Whitaker. He made the latter statement after appointing him acting AG upon the president&#8217;s firing of Jeff Sessions as the nation&#8217;s top lawyer.<\/p>\n<p>So, which is it? Does he know Whitaker or doesn&#8217;t he?<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll take a guess.<\/p>\n<p>Trump knows Whitaker. He knows that the acting AG is no fan of Robert Mueller&#8217;s probe into &#8220;the Russia thing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the president <em>lied<\/em> to Americans about not knowing the acting attorney general.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine that.<\/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 J. Trump is on record telling &#8220;Fox &amp; Friends&#8221; that he knows Matthew Whitaker, the nation&#8217;s newest acting attorney general. Then the president contradicted himself by telling us he doesn&#8217;t know Whitaker. He made the latter statement after appointing him acting AG upon the president&#8217;s firing of Jeff Sessions as the nation&#8217;s top lawyer. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33396\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">He said, he said &#8230; to himself<\/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":[1414,1424,7539,2434,8091,7525],"class_list":["post-33396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","tag-doj","tag-donald-trump","tag-fox-friends","tag-jeff-sessions","tag-matthew-whitaker","tag-trumps-lies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396","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=33396"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33397,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33396\/revisions\/33397"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}