{"id":33642,"date":"2018-11-19T01:43:45","date_gmt":"2018-11-19T01:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33642"},"modified":"2018-11-19T01:44:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-19T01:44:17","slug":"the-presidential-lies-keep-piling-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33642","title":{"rendered":"The presidential lies keep piling up"},"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><em><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/90-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-33643\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/90-3-300x200.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/90-3-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/90-3-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/90-3-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/90-3.jpg 1160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p>This is what I would call a gratuitous, needless lie by the president of the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Donald J. Trump toured the site of the California wildfires and said he discussed Finnish forest management practices with Finland&#8217;s president, Sauli Niinist\u00f6.<\/p>\n<p>Except . . .<\/p>\n<p>President Niinist\u00f6 says the conversation never occurred. He did not, as Trump said, discuss a forest management policy that involves raking underbrush from forest floors to prevent wildfires.<\/p>\n<p>What is it with this president of ours? Can&#8217;t he just keep his yap shut so as to avoid saying something that can be denied, disproved or discounted with a simple question to the other party he mentions?<\/p>\n<p>The men met briefly in Paris, Niinist\u00f6 said, adding that he did tell Trump that &#8220;we take care of our forests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it, the Finnish president said. No discussion of raking underbrush.<\/p>\n<p>The pile of lies is getting mighty tall. I realize this isn&#8217;t a big deal in and of itself. Still, it does reveal something terribly flawed about a president who cannot tell the truth if the future of Planet Earth depended on it.<\/p>\n<p>Hey, come to think of it . . . maybe it does with this one.<\/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>This is what I would call a gratuitous, needless lie by the president of the United States. Donald J. Trump toured the site of the California wildfires and said he discussed Finnish forest management practices with Finland&#8217;s president, Sauli Niinist\u00f6. Except . . . President Niinist\u00f6 says the conversation never occurred. He did not, as &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=33642\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The presidential lies keep piling up<\/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":[4,5],"tags":[7939,1424,8124],"class_list":["post-33642","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environmental-news","category-international-news","tag-california-fires","tag-donald-trump","tag-finland"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33642","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=33642"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33642\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33645,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33642\/revisions\/33645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33642"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33642"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33642"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}